People born on December 9

John Milton

English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

Peter Kropotkin

Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)

Kirk Douglas

American stage and film actor (1916–2020)

Jean-Claude Juncker

Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1995-2013) and President of the European Commission (2014-2019)

Judi Dench

English actress (born 1934)

Fritz Haber

German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize

Sonia Gandhi

Indian politician

Grace Hopper

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

President of Italy from 1999 to 2006

John Malkovich

American actor

Dolores Ibárruri

Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989)

James Rainwater

American physicist

Juan Sebastián Elcano

Castillian Basque sailor, explorer, and circumnavigator with the Magellan Expedition

William Lipscomb

Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist

Henry Way Kendall

American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics