Who was born on December 9?
– 439 – Ming-di (or Liu Yu; 472) – 7th emperor of the Southern Chinese Sun Empire (466-472).
– 1608 – John Milton (1674) – English poet, thinker.
– 1742 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1786) – Swedish chemist, discoverer of oxygen.
– 1748 – Claude Louis Bertolle (1822) – French chemist.
– 1842 – Peter Kropotkin (1921) – Russian anarchist, geographer, historian.
– 1868 – Fritz Haber (1934) – German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1918).
– 1889 – Hannes Kolekhmäinen (1966) – Finnish athlete, multiple Olympic champion
– 1895 – Dolores Ibarruri (1989) – Spanish and international communist activist.
– 1933 – Mubinjon Baratov (2005) – philosopher, scientist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.
– 1936 – Alexander Ivanov (1996) – Soviet poet, publicist, parodist, satirist and TV presenter.
– 1938 – Kamolova Qamara – film director, Honored Artist of Uzbekistan (1982).
– 1953 – John Malkovich – American actor, producer and director.
– 1978 – Komila Khojayeva – singer of the group “Setora”.
– 1991 – Johannes Rietze – German wrestler, two-time Olympic champion, multiple world champion.
– 2004 – Ismoilkhodja Akhmedkhodjayev – Uzbek professional racer.
