Famous people born on 9 December

• John MiltonEnglish poet and civil servant · 1608–1674
  65 yrs
• Peter KropotkinRussian revolutionary socialist and philosopher · 1842–1921
  78 yrs
• Kirk DouglasAmerican actor · 1916–2020
  103 yrs
• Fritz HaberGerman chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize · 1868–1934
  65 yrs
• Grace HopperAmerican computer scientist and United States Navy officer · 1906–1992
  85 yrs
• Carl Wilhelm ScheeleSwedish German chemist who discovered oxygen · 1742–1786
  43 yrs
• Carlo Azeglio CiampiPresident of Italy from 1999 to 2006 · 1920–2016
  95 yrs
• Dolores IbárruriSpanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician · 1895–1989
  93 yrs
• Henry Way Kendall ↗American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics · 1926–1999
  72 yrs
• James Rainwater ↗American physicist · 1917–1986
  68 yrs
• Juan Sebastián Elcano ↗Castillian Basque sailor, explorer, and circumnavigator with the Magellan Expedition · 1486–1526
  39 yrs
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann ↗German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library · 1717–1768
  50 yrs
• William Lipscomb ↗Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist · 1919–2011
  91 yrs
• Bob Hawke ↗Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia · 1929–2019
  89 yrs
• Columba ↗6th‑century Gaelic Irish missionary monk, Christian saint, pioneer of Celtic Christianity in Scotland and “Apostle of the Picts” · AD 521–597
  75 yrs
• Broderick Crawford ↗American actor · 1911–1986
  74 yrs
• John Cassavetes ↗Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter · 1929–1989
  59 yrs
• Claude Louis Berthollet ↗French chemist · 1748–1822
  73 yrs
• Dalton Trumbo ↗American screenwriter · 1905–1976
  70 yrs
• Ödön von Horváth ↗Austro-Hungarian writer · 1901–1938
  36 yrs
• Aden Abdullah Osman Daar ↗Somali politician · 1908–2007
  98 yrs
• Maria Luisa of Parma ↗Queen consort of Spain · 1751–1819
  67 yrs
• Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain ↗Bengali feminist writer and social reformer · 1880–1932
  52 yrs
• Elisabeth Schwarzkopf ↗German opera soprano · 1915–2006
  90 yrs
• Ernest Gellner ↗Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist · 1925–1995
  69 yrs
• Zurab Zhvania ↗Prime Minister of Georgia · 1963–2005
  41 yrs
• Joseph Needham ↗British biochemist, historian and sinologist · 1900–1995
  94 yrs
• Andrea Doria ↗Admiral of the Republic of Genoa · 1466–1560
  93 yrs
• Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ↗American actor and United States naval officer · 1909–2000
  90 yrs
• Hannes Kolehmainen ↗Finnish long-distance runner · 1889–1966
  76 yrs
• Billy Bremner ↗Scottish association football player and manager · 1942–1997
  54 yrs
• Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans ↗Queen consort of Spain · 1709–1742
  32 yrs
• Maksim Bahdanovič ↗Belarusian writer · 1891–1917
  25 yrs
• A. B. Yehoshua ↗Israeli writer · 1936–2022
  85 yrs
• Lancelot Hogben ↗British zoologist, statistician, science writer · 1895–1975
  79 yrs
• Margaret Hamilton ↗American film character actress · 1902–1985
  82 yrs

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