On This Day = January 9
Bithdays + Events + Holidays + Observances
BIRTHDAYS
1590 = Simon Vouet = French painter
1870 = Joseph Strauss = American engineer and Golden Gate Bridge co-designer
1875 = Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney = American art collector and Whitney Museum founder
1823 = William Johnson Cory = English classical scholar and poet 🌈
1886 = Lloyd Loar = American sound engineer and instrument designer
1908 = Simone De Beauvoir = French philosopher and writer 🌈
1912 = Basil Langton = English actor, director, photographer, and teacher
1913 = Richard Nixon = American lawyer, and politician, and 37th POTUS
1914 = Kenny Clarke = American jazz drummer and bandleader
1915 = Fernando Lamas = Argentinian-American actor, singer, and director
1935 = Bob Denver = American actor
1941 = Joan Baez = American singer-songwriter and activist
1943 = Scott Walker = American singer-songwriter and producer
1944 = Jimmy Page = English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1945 = John Doman = American actor
1951 = Crystal Gayle = American singer-songwriter
1955 = J. K. Simmons = American actor
1956 – Imelda Staunton = English actor and singer
1963 = Eric Erlandson = American musician and songwriter
1965 = Joely Richardson = English actor
1967 = Dave Matthews = South African-American singer-songwriter
1968 = Joey Lauren Adams = American actor
1978 = AJ McLean = American singer, dancer, and actor
1982 = Catherine, Princess of Wales = British royal
EVENTS
1788 = Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1793 = Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
1839 = Louis Daguerre privately demonstrates the daguerreotype photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.
1959 = Rawhide with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS.
1978 = Sir John Gielgud, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and 26 other international celebrities take out a full-page ad in Time magazine to protest the recent series of political backlashes against gays in the US.
1989 = Inside Edition premieres in first-run syndication.
1995 = The Late Late Show premieres on CBS with Tom Snyder hosting.
2007 = Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone.