What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every December birthday · battle December 9 against another date · all rankings
Who shares December 9
Share of the 52 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1934 · United Kingdom
Dame Judith Olivia Dench is an English actress. Widely considered one of Britain's greatest actresses, she is noted for her versatile roles on stage and screen.
Caroline Bonarde Ucci at https://www.flickr.com/photos/caroline_bonarde/, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1916–2020 · United States
Kirk Douglas was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1953 · United States
John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, two Actor Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Founder · Syncopy Inc. · entertainment
1971 · United Kingdom
Dame Emma Thomas, is a British film producer. She has produced all of the feature films directed by her husband Christopher Nolan, which have grossed more than $7 billion worldwide and are regarded as some of the greatest films of their respective decades.
PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1868–1934 · Kingdom of Prussia
Fritz Jakob Haber was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1926–1999 · United States
Henry Way Kendall was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E.
Tom Frost, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1973 · United States
Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1928–2015 · United States
Richard Vincent Van Patten was an American actor, comedian, businessman, and animal welfare advocate whose career spanned seven decades of television. He was best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television series Eight Is Enough.
Angela George at https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Goldman Sachs · finance
1821–1904 · United States
Marcus Goldman was a German-American investment banker, businessman, and financier. He was one of the founders of Goldman Sachs, which has since become one of the world's largest investment banks.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1805–1886 · Uruguay
Tomás Villalba y Albin was a Uruguayan politician who served as interim President for five days, at the end of the Uruguayan War, which had begun on 10 August 1864.
proekt-wms.narod.ru, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1886–1956 · United States
Clarence Birdseye was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, who is widely considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. He developed methods for quick-freezing food products that led to the commercial success of frozen foods in the United States.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1976 · France
Élie Thitia Yaffa, better known under his stage name Booba, is a French rapper, singer and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the best and most influential French rappers of all time.
BorisAhonon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
December 9 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Actor
1962 · United States
Felicity Kendall Huffman is an American actress. She is known for her role as Lynette Scavo in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives and her role as Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne, a transgender woman, in the film Transamerica (2005).
Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1929–1989 · United States
John Nicholas Cassavetes was an American filmmaker and actor. He began as an actor in film and television before helping to pioneer modern American independent cinema as a writer and director, often self-financing, producing, and distributing his own films.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1968 · United States
Kurt Steven Angle is an American retired professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler. He is a sports analyst for Real American Freestyle.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1608–1674 · Kingdom of England
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
anonymous, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1980 · United States
Simon Maxwell Helberg is an American actor and comedian. From 2007 to 2019, he played Howard Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory and won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the role.
Xuthoria, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1941 · United States
Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy, two-time Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner, as well as a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Mikelle'D. Smith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1922–1991 · United States
John Elroy Sanford, better known by his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Foxx gained success with his raunchy nightclub act before and during the civil rights movement.
Coast Artists Inc. (management); photographer: John E. Reed, Hollywood., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1981 · India
Dia Mirza Rekhi is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. She won the title of Miss Asia Pacific International in 2000 after being crowned Femina Miss India Asia Pacific 2000. Mirza made her acting debut with the Hindi film Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (2001).
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1906–1992 · United States
Grace Brewster Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming.
James S. Davis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1842–1921 · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1972 · United States
Frank Edwin Wright III, better known by his stage name Tré Cool, is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the long-time drummer for the rock band Green Day. He replaced the band's former drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1990.
Sven-Sebastian Sajak (Sven0705), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1905–1976 · United States
James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Roman Holiday (1953), Spartacus (1960), and Exodus (1960).
Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1963 · Japan
Masako is Empress of Japan as the wife of Emperor Naruhito.
TICAD7 Photographs, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1911–1986 · United States
William Broderick Crawford was an American actor.
CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1969 · France
Bixente Jean Michel Lizarazu is a French former professional footballer who played as a left-back.
Oscar Alonso Algote, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1981 · United States
Mardy Simpson Fish is an American former professional tennis player. He was a hardcourt specialist. He is one of several American tennis players who rose to prominence in the early 2000s.
Michele Sandberg, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Explorer
1486–1526 · Spain
Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the Spice Islands.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1717–1768 · Kingdom of Prussia
Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art.
Ferdinand Hartmann / After Angelica Kauffmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1895–1989 · Spain
Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, also known as Pasionaria, was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and a communist. She is renowned for her slogan ¡No Pasarán!, which she issued during the Battle for Madrid in November 1936.
Nemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1920–2016 · Italy
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was an Italian politician, statesman and banker who was the president of Italy from 1999 to 2006 and prime minister of Italy from 1993 to 1994.
Athlete
1970 · Brazil
Djalma Feitosa Dias, commonly known as Djalminha, is a Brazilian football pundit and former professional player who played as an attacking midfielder.
Romean2, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1988 · Ghana
Kwadwo Asamoah is a Ghanaian former professional footballer. Mainly a left midfielder or left-back, he was also occasionally deployed as a central midfielder.
Original: Muhammad Ashiq from Singapore, Singapore / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1900–1995 · United Kingdom
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume Science and Civilisation in China.
Kognos, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1915–2006 · Austria
Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, was a German-born Austro-British lyric soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss.
Author
1925–1995 · United Kingdom
Ernest André Gellner was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist. Central themes in his social thought included modernisation theory and nationalism, the latter of which he developed into a leading theory.
Entrepreneur
1914–1996 · Norway
Maximo Guillermo Manus DSO, MC & Bar was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II, specialising in sabotage in occupied Norway. After the war he wrote several books about his adventures and started the successful office supply company Max Manus AS.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1831–1896 · France
Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth, commonly known as Maurice de Hirsch, was a German Jewish financier and philanthropist who set up charitable foundations to promote Jewish education and improve the lot of oppressed European Jewry.
The original uploader was Justelipse at French Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1901–1938 · Hungary
Edmund Josef von Horváth was an Austro-Hungarian playwright and novelist who wrote in German, and went by the nom de plume Ödön von Horváth. He was one of the most critically admired writers of his generation prior to his untimely death.
AnonymousUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1970 · France
Anna Gavalda is a French novelist.
Dmitry Rozhkov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1919–2011 · United States
William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. was a Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry.
Jslipscomb James S. Lipscomb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 52 people born on December 9, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on December 9. Read the full methodology.
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