November 9th, 1944

Born on November 9th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 978 days, exactly on December 29th, 2026, people who were born on November 9th, 1944 will be 30,000 days old!

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What happened on November 9th?

November 9th, 2019

Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Kartarpur Corridor, a visa-free border crossing connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib to the Indian border.

November 9th, 2016

A tram derailment in Croydon, London, killed seven people.

November 9th, 1993

Bosnian War: Croatian Defence Council forces destroyed the Stari Most, a 16th-century bridge crossing the river Neretva in the city of Mostar (rebuilt bridge pictured).

November 9th, 1989

East German official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced the immediate opening of the inner German border, resulting in the fall of the Berlin Wall that night.

November 9th, 1967

The first issue of Rolling Stone, an American magazine focusing on music, politics and popular culture, was published.

November 9th, 1939

World War II: A covert Sicherheitsdienst operation captured two British Secret Intelligence Service agents near Venlo in the Netherlands.

November 9th, 1938

Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of 30,000 men to concentration camps.

November 9th, 1918

The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag (pictured) that remains in use today with slight modifications by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.

November 9th, 1914

World War I: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the Indian Ocean.

November 9th, 1913

A severe blizzard reached its maximum intensity in the Great Lakes Basin of North America, destroying 19 ships and 68,300 tons of cargo, and killing more than 250 people.

November 9th, 1888

Mary Jane Kelly, widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, was murdered in London.

November 9th, 1822

USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.

November 9th, 1971

American banker John List murdered his wife, mother, and three children with a pair of handguns.

November 9th, 1970

Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

November 9th, 1967

Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on November 9th

Born on November 9th, 1944

75

Phil May

British singer (1944-2020)

*November 9th, 1944, Dartford †May 15th, 2020, King's Lynn

70

Chitresh Das

Indian dancer (1944-2015)

*November 9th, 1944, Kolkata †January 4th, 2015

73

Bill Hendon

American politician (1944-2018)

*November 9th, 1944, Asheville †June 20th, 2018, Forest City

79

Herbert Wimmer

German footballer (born 1944)

*November 9th, 1944, Eupen

79

James Talley

American country blues and electric blues singer-songwriter

*November 9th, 1944, Tulsa

73

Michael Gurdus

Israeli journalist (1944-2017)

*November 9th, 1944, Tel Aviv †November 28th, 2017, Yehud

Same Day
Who's birthday is on November 9th?

85

Barbara Henniger

German author

*November 9th, 1938, Dresden

62

Carl Sagan

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)

*November 9th, 1934, Brooklyn †December 20th, 1996, Seattle

39

French Montana

Moroccan rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

39

Andrej Ashmarin

Badminton player

*November 9th, 1984, Moscow

63

Andreas Brehme

German footballer (1960–2024)

*November 9th, 1960, Hamburg †February 20th, 2024, Munich

71

Andreas Aigmüller

German musician

*November 9th, 1952, Magdeburg

86

Imre Kertész

Hungarian author

*November 9th, 1929, Budapest †March 31st, 2016, Budapest

91

Alistair Horne

British writer and historian (1925-2017)

*November 9th, 1925, London †May 25th, 2017, Oxfordshire

84

Björn Engholm

German politician

*November 9th, 1939, Lübeck

80

Michael Kunze

German writer and lyricist

*November 9th, 1943, Prague

49

Alessandro Del Piero

Italian association football player

*November 9th, 1974, Conegliano

94

Robert Frank

Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker (1924-2019)

*November 9th, 1924, Zürich †September 9th, 2019, Inverness

55

Mikhail Tal

Soviet-Latvian chess player

*November 9th, 1936, Riga †June 27th, 1992, Moscow

85

Hedy Lamarr

Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)

*November 9th, 1914, Vienna †January 19th, 2000, Casselberry

80

Lutz Ulbricht

German rower

*November 9th, 1942, Berlin †December 23rd, 2022

86

Roger McGough

British writer and poet

*November 9th, 1937, Litherland

90

Robert Gillespie

British actor

*November 9th, 1933, Lille

71

Sherrod Brown

American politician and educator (born 1952)

*November 9th, 1952, Mansfield

56

Daphne Guinness

British and Irish artist and personality

*November 9th, 1967, London

42

Scottie Thompson

American actress

*November 9th, 1981, Richmond

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Gernot Erler

German politician

*May 3rd, 1944, Meissen

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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