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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 9th of January 0475 | EVENT | Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. |
| 9th of January 1127 | EVENT | Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty. |
| 9th of January 1349 | EVENT | The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. |
| 9th of January 1431 | EVENT | Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government. |
| 9th of January 1760 | EVENT | Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. |
| 9th of January 1768 | EVENT | In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus. |
| 9th of January 1788 | EVENT | Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States. |
| 9th of January 1793 | EVENT | Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. |
| 9th of January 1806 | EVENT | Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. |
| 9th of January 1816 | EVENT | Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. |
| 9th of January 1822 | EVENT | The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king Joao VI, starting the Brazilian independence process. |
| 9th of January 1839 | EVENT | The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. |
| 9th of January 1857 | EVENT | The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9. |
| 9th of January 1858 | EVENT | Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. |
| 9th of January 1861 | EVENT | Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. |
| 9th of January 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War". |
| 9th of January 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman begins in Arkansas. |
| 9th of January 1878 | EVENT | Umberto I becomes King of Italy. |
| 9th of January 1880 | EVENT | The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow. |
| 9th of January 1894 | EVENT | New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. |
| 9th of January 1903 | EVENT | Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. |
| 9th of January 1905 | EVENT | According to the Julian Calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905. |
| 9th of January 1909 | EVENT | Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time. |
| 9th of January 1914 | EVENT | Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded. |
| 9th of January 1916 | EVENT | World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula. |
| 9th of January 1917 | EVENT | World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine. |
| 9th of January 1918 | EVENT | Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. |
| 9th of January 1921 | EVENT | Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of Inonu, the first battle of the war, began near Eskisehir in Anatolia. |
| 9th of January 1923 | EVENT | Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. |
| 9th of January 1923 | EVENT | Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. |
| 9th of January 1927 | EVENT | A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, kills 78 children. |
| 9th of January 1941 | EVENT | World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster. |
| 9th of January 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. |
| 9th of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines. |
| 9th of January 1947 | EVENT | Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive. |
| 9th of January 1960 | EVENT | President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. |
| 9th of January 1964 | EVENT | Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians. |
| 9th of January 1991 | EVENT | Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try and find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. |
| 9th of January 1992 | EVENT | The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia. |
| 9th of January 1996 | EVENT | First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighbouring Republic of Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. |
| 9th of January 2005 | EVENT | Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh. |
| 9th of January 1475 | BIRTHDAY | Crinitus, Florentine humanist (d. 1507) |
| 9th of January 1554 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623) |
| 9th of January 1571 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621) |
| 9th of January 1589 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638) |
| 9th of January 1624 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Meisho (d. 1696) |
| 9th of January 1685 | BIRTHDAY | Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766) |
| 9th of January 1728 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790) |
| 9th of January 1735 | BIRTHDAY | John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet |
| 9th of January 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819) |
| 9th of January 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845) |
| 9th of January 1790 | BIRTHDAY | Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855) |
| 9th of January 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, English writer (d. 1856) |
| 9th of January 1819 | BIRTHDAY | James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884) |
| 9th of January 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908) |
| 9th of January 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871) |
| 9th of January 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857) |
| 9th of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Felix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900) |
| 9th of January 1839 | BIRTHDAY | John Knowles Paine, U.S. composer (d. 1906) |
| 9th of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926) |
| 9th of January 1849 | BIRTHDAY | John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935) |
| 9th of January 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921) |
| 9th of January 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Askerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912) |
| 9th of January 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947) |
| 9th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926) |
| 9th of January 1868 | BIRTHDAY | S. P. L. S?rensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939) |
| 9th of January 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938) |
| 9th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934) |
| 9th of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942) |
| 9th of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958) |
| 9th of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Beaupre, horse lifter (d. 1904) |
| 9th of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956) |
| 9th of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938) |
| 9th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Loar, Acoustical engineer and inventor of the Gibson F-5 mandolin (d. 1943) |
| 9th of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist (d. 1935) |
| 9th of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Capek, Czech writer (d. 1938) |
| 9th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985) |
| 9th of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971) |
| 9th of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Lowith, German philosopher (d. 1973) |
| 9th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Gracie Fields, English music hall performer (d. 1979) |
| 9th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Vilma Banky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991) |
| 9th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009) |
| 9th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939) |
| 9th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961) |
| 9th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973) |
| 9th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997) |
| 9th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Josemaria Escriva, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975) |
| 9th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969) |
| 9th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986) |
| 9th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994) |
| 9th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | John Richard Simplot, American entrepreneur (d. 2008) |
| 9th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Peyton, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1992) |
| 9th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Mamo, Malta's 1st President (d. 2008) |
| 9th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996) |
| 9th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994) |
| 9th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 1985) |
| 9th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Louise, U.S. actress (d. 1970) |
| 9th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982) |
| 9th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004) |
| 9th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (d. 2009) |
| 9th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Alma Ziegler, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (d. 2005) |
| 9th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999) |
| 9th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar (d. 1998) |
| 9th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Dunn, British actor |
| 9th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006) |
| 9th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate |
| 9th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed Sekou Toure, President of Guinea (d. 1984) |
| 9th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990) |
| 9th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 9th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Cote, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002) |
| 9th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Krantz, American author |
| 9th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994) |
| 9th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995) |
| 9th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Friel, Irish dramatist |
| 9th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea Puente, American serial killer |
| 9th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Algis Budrys, American author (d. 2008) |
| 9th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Garcia, American politician |
| 9th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist |
| 9th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bart Starr, American football player |
| 9th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 9th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Enberg, American sportscaster |
| 9th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American publisher |
| 9th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator |
| 9th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer |
| 9th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011) |
| 9th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer (d. 2009) |
| 9th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993) |
| 9th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician |
| 9th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005) |
| 9th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician |
| 9th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Baez, American singer and activist |
| 9th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | K Callan, American actress |
| 9th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung |
| 9th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Malloy, American hypertext fiction pioneer and artist |
| 9th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007) |
| 9th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer |
| 9th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Walker, American singer |
| 9th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Drewe, Australian author |
| 9th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002) |
| 9th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin) |
| 9th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Doman, American actor |
| 9th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Landfield, American artist |
| 9th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Cassie Gaines, backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977) |
| 9th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006) |
| 9th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996) |
| 9th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David Johansen, American singer |
| 9th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach |
| 9th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Crystal Gayle, American singer |
| 9th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Bayley, British politician |
| 9th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Capuano, American politician, United States Congressman from Massachusetts |
| 9th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist. |
| 9th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author |
| 9th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic |
| 9th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | J. K. Simmons, American actor |
| 9th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly Beck, American actress |
| 9th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Imelda Staunton, British actress |
| 9th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Walczewski, American public address announcer at Madison Square Garden |
| 9th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Lewis, American singer (L.A. Guns) |
| 9th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bibie, Ghanaian singer |
| 9th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mehmet Ali Agca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II |
| 9th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Neale, British philosopher |
| 9th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Martin, American race car driver |
| 9th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
| 9th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Nixon, American baseball player |
| 9th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician |
| 9th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter |
| 9th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode |
| 9th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Bennett, Australian-born American football player |
| 9th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player |
| 9th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Erlandson, American musician |
| 9th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Iain Dowie, English football manager |
| 9th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Joely Richardson, British actress |
| 9th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Haddaway, Trinidadian singer |
| 9th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Johansen, Swedish singer |
| 9th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Bell, American musician |
| 9th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer |
| 9th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player |
| 9th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician |
| 9th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth) |
| 9th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer |
| 9th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Lauren Adams, American actress |
| 9th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.) |
| 9th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress |
| 9th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire) |
| 9th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lara Fabian, Belgian singer |
| 9th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mia X, American rapper |
| 9th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist |
| 9th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Angie Martinez, American rapper and radio talk host |
| 9th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 9th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director |
| 9th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author |
| 9th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Beeny, British TV personality |
| 9th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Powell, baseball player |
| 9th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mat Hoffman, Professional BMX Rider |
| 9th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Bettis, American actress |
| 9th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Paul, Jamaican ragga and hip hop musician |
| 9th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood director, actor, producer, singer. |
| 9th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 9th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Mathers, Eminem's Ex Wife |
| 9th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Gosejohann, German comedian |
| 9th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer |
| 9th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player |
| 9th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Beth Troutman, American production assistant |
| 9th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Ochocinco, American football player |
| 9th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 9th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer |
| 9th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys) |
| 9th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist |
| 9th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Athanassios Prittas, Greek footballer |
| 9th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tomiko Van, Japanese singer |
| 9th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Garcia, Spanish golfer |
| 9th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer |
| 9th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Timmy Bowers, American basketball player |
| 9th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge |
| 9th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sharad Malhotra, Indian television actor |
| 9th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Danso, German rugby player |
| 9th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jeferson, Brazilian footballer |
| 9th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Mao Inoue, Japanese actress |
| 9th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Bird, English racing driver |
| 9th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter |
| 9th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006) |
| 9th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian footballer |
| 9th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian actress |
| 9th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Beasley, American basketball player |
| 9th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player |
| 9th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Sandow, Australian Rugby League player |
| 9th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Ricks, Filipina actress |
| 9th of January 1150 | DEATH | Emperor Xizong of Jin is murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'etat. (Born 1119) |
| 9th of January 1282 | DEATH | Abu 'Uthman Sa'id ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (Born 1204) |
| 9th of January 1283 | DEATH | Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (Born 1236) |
| 9th of January 1499 | DEATH | Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (Born 1455) |
| 9th of January 1514 | DEATH | Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (Born 1477) |
| 9th of January 1543 | DEATH | Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (Born 1491) |
| 9th of January 1562 | DEATH | Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (Born 1514) |
| 9th of January 1571 | DEATH | Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (Born 1510) |
| 9th of January 1598 | DEATH | Jasper Heywood, English translator (Born 1553) |
| 9th of January 1677 | DEATH | Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (Born 1603) |
| 9th of January 1757 | DEATH | Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (Born 1657) |
| 9th of January 1757 | DEATH | Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (Born 1688) |
| 9th of January 1766 | DEATH | Thomas Birch, British historian (Born 1705) |
| 9th of January 1799 | DEATH | Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (Born 1718) |
| 9th of January 1800 | DEATH | Jean Etienne Championnet, French general (Born 1762) |
| 9th of January 1805 | DEATH | Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (Born 1723) |
| 9th of January 1843 | DEATH | William Hedley, British industrial engineer (Born 1773) |
| 9th of January 1848 | DEATH | Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (Born 1750) |
| 9th of January 1858 | DEATH | Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (Born 1798) |
| 9th of January 1873 | DEATH | Emperor Napoleon III of France (Born 1808) |
| 9th of January 1876 | DEATH | Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (Born 1801) |
| 9th of January 1877 | DEATH | Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (Born 1799) |
| 9th of January 1878 | DEATH | King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (Born 1820) |
| 9th of January 1895 | DEATH | Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (Born 1812) |
| 9th of January 1901 | DEATH | Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (Born 1830) |
| 9th of January 1908 | DEATH | Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (Born 1840) |
| 9th of January 1908 | DEATH | Wilhelm Busch, German painter (Born 1832) |
| 9th of January 1911 | DEATH | Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (Born 1886) |
| 9th of January 1911 | DEATH | Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (Born 1853) |
| 9th of January 1918 | DEATH | Emile Reynaud, French scientist (Born 1844) |
| 9th of January 1923 | DEATH | Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (Born 1888) |
| 9th of January 1927 | DEATH | Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (Born 1855) |
| 9th of January 1931 | DEATH | Wayne Munn, wrestler (Born 1896) |
| 9th of January 1936 | DEATH | John Gilbert, American actor (Born 1899) |
| 9th of January 1939 | DEATH | Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (Born 1866) |
| 9th of January 1945 | DEATH | Juri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (Born 1890) |
| 9th of January 1946 | DEATH | Countee Cullen, American poet (Born 1903) |
| 9th of January 1946 | DEATH | Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (Born 1874) |
| 9th of January 1947 | DEATH | Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (Born 1893) |
| 9th of January 1960 | DEATH | Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (Born 1880) |
| 9th of January 1961 | DEATH | Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Born 1867) |
| 9th of January 1971 | DEATH | Elmer Flick, baseball player (Born 1876) |
| 9th of January 1972 | DEATH | Ted Shawn, American dancer (Born 1891) |
| 9th of January 1975 | DEATH | Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (Born 1901) |
| 9th of January 1975 | DEATH | Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Born 1897) |
| 9th of January 1979 | DEATH | Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (Born 1891) |
| 9th of January 1981 | DEATH | Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (Born 1922) |
| 9th of January 1984 | DEATH | Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Born 1906) |
| 9th of January 1985 | DEATH | Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (Born 1879) |
| 9th of January 1987 | DEATH | Arthur Lake, American actor (Born 1905) |
| 9th of January 1989 | DEATH | Bill Terry, baseball player (Born 1898) |
| 9th of January 1990 | DEATH | Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (Born 1892) |
| 9th of January 1990 | DEATH | Spud Chandler, baseball player (Born 1907) |
| 9th of January 1992 | DEATH | Bill Naughton, British playwright (Born 1910) |
| 9th of January 1992 | DEATH | Steve Brodie, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 9th of January 1993 | DEATH | Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (Born 1905) |
| 9th of January 1994 | DEATH | Johnny Temple, baseball player (Born 1927) |
| 9th of January 1995 | DEATH | Souphanouvong, President of Laos (Born 1909) |
| 9th of January 1995 | DEATH | Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (Born 1937) |
| 9th of January 1997 | DEATH | Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (Born 1909) |
| 9th of January 1997 | DEATH | Jesse White, American actor (Born 1917) |
| 9th of January 1998 | DEATH | Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (Born 1918) |
| 9th of January 1998 | DEATH | Charito Solis, Filipino actress (Born 1935) |
| 9th of January 2000 | DEATH | Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (Born 1909) |
| 9th of January 2000 | DEATH | Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (Born 1908) |
| 9th of January 2001 | DEATH | Maurice Prather, American photographer (Born 1926) |
| 9th of January 2003 | DEATH | Will McDonough, American sports journalist (Born 1935) |
| 9th of January 2004 | DEATH | Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (Born 1909) |
| 9th of January 2005 | DEATH | Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (Born 1925) |
| 9th of January 2006 | DEATH | Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (Born 1964) |
| 9th of January 2006 | DEATH | Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (Born 1937) |
| 9th of January 2007 | DEATH | Jean-Pierre Vernant, French structuralist historian and anthropologist (Born 1914) |
| 9th of January 2007 | DEATH | Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (Born 1977) |
| 9th of January 2008 | DEATH | Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (Born 1977) |
| 9th of January 2008 | DEATH | Liam Quinn, Provisional IRA member (Born 1949) |
| 9th of January 2008 | DEATH | Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (Born 1923) |
| 9th of January 2008 | DEATH | Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (Born 1924). |
| 9th of January 2009 | DEATH | T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (Born 1915) |
| 9th of January 2009 | DEATH | Rob Gauntlett, English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker (Born 1987) |
| 9th of January 2010 | DEATH | Vimcy, Sports writer (Born 1925) |