Replaying Sunday, December 9, 2012

The December 9, 2012 was a Sunday under the star sign of . It was the 343 day of the year. President of the United States was Barack Obama.

If you were born on this day, you are 13 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 176 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, December 9, 2026, in 188 days. You have lived for 4,924 days, or about 118,194 hours, or about 7,091,693 minutes, or about 425,501,580 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

  • Kirk Douglas (film director, born December 9, 1916)
  • Judi Dench (autobiographer, film actor, film director, stage actor, television actor, theatrical director, voice actor, born December 9, 1934)
  • John Malkovich (actor, fashion designer, film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, theatrical director, voice actor, born December 9, 1953)
  • McKayla Maroney (artistic gymnast, television actor, born December 9, 1995)
  • Simon Helberg (actor, comedian, film actor, film director, television actor, born December 9, 1980)
  • Felicity Huffman (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1962)
  • Stacey Abrams (lawyer, politician, voting rights activist, writer, born December 9, 1973)
  • Hikaru Nakamura (chess player, born December 9, 1987)
  • Empress Masako (aristocrat, consort, diplomat, born December 9, 1963)
  • Kurt Angle (amateur wrestler, professional wrestler, born December 9, 1968)
  • Dia Mirza (actor, beauty pageant contestant, film actor, film producer, model, born December 9, 1981)
  • Issey Takahashi (actor, child actor, seiyū, television actor, voice actor, born December 9, 1980)
  • Sonia Gandhi (politician, born December 9, 1946)
  • Jesse Metcalfe (actor, film actor, model, television actor, born December 9, 1978)
  • John Cassavetes (actor, author, character actor, film actor, film director, film editor, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, writer, born December 9, 1929)
  • John Milton (poet, born December 9, 1608)
  • Hiromitsu Ochiai (baseball player, singer, born December 9, 1953)
  • Beau Bridges (actor, film actor, film director, television actor, voice actor, born December 9, 1941)
  • Hape Kerkeling (autobiographer, cabaret artist, entertainer, film actor, film director, screenwriter, singer, television presenter, born December 9, 1964)
  • Booba (rapper, singer, singer-songwriter, born December 9, 1976)
  • MyKayla Skinner (artistic gymnast, born December 9, 1996)
  • Choi Min-ho (actor, composer, dancer, film actor, model, recording artist, singer, television actor, born December 9, 1991)
  • Kelly Oubre Jr. (basketball player, born December 9, 1995)
  • Emma Thomas (film producer, born December 9, 1971)
  • Donny Osmond (actor, film actor, film producer, musician, record producer, saxophonist, screenwriter, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1957)
  • Jakob Dylan (guitarist, musician, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, born December 9, 1969)
  • Peter Kropotkin (anarchist, autobiographer, economist, explorer, geographer, journalist, philosopher, politician, writer, zoologist, born December 9, 1842)
  • Bixente Lizarazu (association football player, radio personality, skeleton racer, sports commentator, born December 9, 1969)
  • Fritz Haber (academic, chemist, engineer, physicist, university teacher, born December 9, 1868)
  • Redd Foxx (actor, comedian, television actor, born December 9, 1922)
  • Margaret Hamilton (film actor, politician, stage actor, teacher, television actor, born December 9, 1902)
  • Grace Hopper (computer scientist, mathematician, naval officer, physicist, programmer, university teacher, born December 9, 1906)
  • Lori Greiner (entrepreneur, inventor, investor, playwright, socialite, writer, born December 9, 1969)
  • Mardy Fish (tennis player, born December 9, 1981)
  • Dalton Trumbo (actor, director, film director, film producer, novelist, screenwriter, writer, born December 9, 1905)
  • Michael Dorn (actor, aircraft pilot, film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born December 9, 1952)
  • Michael Corcoran (composer, singer-songwriter, born December 9, 1978)
  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (banker, economist, politician, born December 9, 1920)
  • Ki Tae-young (actor, film actor, television actor, born December 9, 1978)
  • Ádám Szalai (association football player, born December 9, 1987)
  • Dino Morea (actor, film actor, model, born December 9, 1975)
  • Shatrughan Sinha (actor, politician, born December 9, 1945)
  • Joe Lando (actor, film actor, film producer, television actor, born December 9, 1961)
  • Yekaterina Varnava (KVN actor, actor, choreographer, comedian, humorist, presenter, television presenter, born December 9, 1984)
  • Dick Van Patten (actor, businessperson, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1928)
  • Jean-Claude Juncker (lawyer, politician, born December 9, 1954)
  • Eric Bledsoe (basketball player, born December 9, 1989)
  • Kirsten Gillibrand (lawyer, politician, born December 9, 1966)
  • Anatoly Wasserman (engineer, journalist, member of the State Duma, mind gamer, opinion journalist, presenter, programmer, television presenter, born December 9, 1952)
  • Juan Sebastián Thepickle (explorer, sailor, seafarer, born November 30, 1476)
  • Jane Fallon (novelist, television producer, born December 9, 1960)
  • Srirasmi Suwadee (lady-in-waiting, military officer, social worker, born December 9, 1971)
  • Gideon Sa'ar (advocate, journalist, lawyer, politician, born December 9, 1966)
  • Joan Armatrading (composer, guitarist, music arranger, record producer, recording artist, singer-songwriter, born December 9, 1950)
  • Giorgos Giakoumakis (association football player, born December 9, 1994)
  • Tré Cool (drummer, born December 9, 1972)
  • Dolores Ibárruri (activist, journalist, politician, born December 9, 1895)
  • Satoshi Ishii (judoka, mixed martial arts fighter, born December 9, 1986)
  • Yuichi Fukunaga (jockey, born December 9, 1976)
  • Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (actor, film actor, film producer, military officer, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1909)
  • Michael Nouri (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1945)
  • Imogen Heap (music artist, musician, record producer, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, born December 9, 1977)
  • Paul Landers (composer, guitarist, lyricist, musician, born December 9, 1964)
  • Toby Huss (actor, film actor, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born December 9, 1966)
  • Ruth Williams Khama (politician, born December 9, 1923)
  • Nando Parrado (businessperson, motivational speaker, rugby union player, writer, born December 9, 1949)
  • LaFee (actor, singer, born December 9, 1990)
  • Kwadwo Asamoah (association football player, born December 9, 1988)
  • Tip O'Neill (politician, born December 9, 1912)
  • Dick Butkus (American football player, actor, film actor, radio personality, television actor, television presenter, born December 9, 1942)
  • Alejandro Nones (film actor, model, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1975)
  • Michael Müller (politician, printer, born December 9, 1964)
  • Aron Baynes (basketball player, born December 9, 1986)
  • Bob Hawke (politician, trade unionist, union organizer, born December 9, 1929)
  • Mia Julia Brückner (glamour model, model, pornographic actor, singer, born December 9, 1986)
  • Tatyana Kravchenko (actor, born December 9, 1953)
  • Reiko Aylesworth (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1972)
  • Broderick Crawford (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1911)
  • Baruch Goldstein (physician, politician, born December 9, 1956)
  • Morton Downey Jr. (actor, radio personality, born December 9, 1933)
  • Ragini Khanna (actor, film actor, television actor, born December 9, 1988)
  • Tom Daschle (military officer, politician, born December 9, 1947)
  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann (archaeologist, art historian, historian, librarian, writer, born December 9, 1717)
  • Joseph Pilates (coach, born December 9, 1883)
  • Shōta Shunpūtei (comedian, rakugoka, television presenter, born December 9, 1959)
  • Maria Luisa of Parma (politician, born December 9, 1751)
  • Andrea Doria (admiral) (condottiero, born November 30, 1466)
  • Mario Cantone (actor, film actor, television actor, born December 9, 1959)
  • Columba (missionary, monk, born December 7, 521)
  • Bae Soo-bin (actor, film actor, model, television actor, born December 9, 1976)
  • Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (animator, character designer, film director, illustrator, mangaka, novelist, screenwriter, born December 9, 1947)
  • Ichikawa En'ō II (actor, impresario, kabuki actor, born December 9, 1939)
  • Issa (child actor, born December 9, 1978)
  • Priya Gill (actor, born December 9, 1975)
  • Camille Cerf (beauty pageant contestant, model, born December 9, 1994)
  • Joshua Bell (music pedagogue, musician, violinist, born December 9, 1967)
  • Jolene Purdy (actor, film actor, television actor, born December 9, 1983)
  • Elle Evans (Playboy Playmate, actor, model, television actor, born December 9, 1989)
  • Bianca Berlinguer (journalist, born December 9, 1959)
  • Leah Lewis (actor, television actor, born December 9, 1996)
  • Buck Henry (film actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, born December 9, 1930)
  • James Jesus Angleton (autobiographer, spy, born December 9, 1917)
  • Takeshi Masu (actor, television actor, writer, born December 9, 1955)
  • Hiroyuki Watanabe (actor, drummer, born December 9, 1955)
  • Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (science fiction writer, social reformer, writer, born December 9, 1880)
  • Johannes B. Kerner (journalist, television presenter, writer, born December 9, 1964)
  • Joshua Sasse (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1987)
  • Shigeyuki Goto (politician, born December 9, 1955)
  • Carl Wilhelm Scheele (chemist, pharmacist, pharmacologist, born December 9, 1742)
  • Shigeyoshi Inoue (military officer, military personnel, teacher, born December 9, 1889)
  • José Luis Ábalos Meco (politician, school teacher, born December 9, 1959)
  • Djalminha (association football player, journalist, born December 9, 1970)
  • Billy Bremner (association football manager, association football player, born December 9, 1942)
  • Ödön von Horváth (author, playwright, writer, born December 9, 1901)
  • Nicole Randall Johnson (actor, film actor, television actor, born December 9, 1973)
  • Pippa Bacca (artist, peace activist, performance artist, born December 9, 1974)
  • David Anthony Higgins (film actor, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, born December 9, 1961)
  • Masanari Nihei (actor, television actor, born December 9, 1940)
  • Antony Alda (actor, film director, screenwriter, television actor, born December 9, 1956)
  • Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (monarch, born December 5, 852)
  • Meryll Soriano (comedian, born December 9, 1982)
  • Ryūzō Sejima (businessperson, military personnel, born December 9, 1911)
  • Jonathan Sumption (barrister, historian, judge, writer, born December 9, 1948)
  • Keiji Sada (actor, born December 9, 1926)
  • Jermaine Beckford (association football player, born December 9, 1983)
  • Henk ten Cate (association football manager, association football player, born December 9, 1954)
  • Aya Okamoto (actor, seiyū, born December 9, 1982)
  • Neslihan Demir (beach volleyball player, volleyball player, born December 9, 1983)
  • Max Manus (SOE agent, autobiographer, businessperson, resistance fighter, writer, born December 9, 1914)
  • Alan Sorrenti (composer, guitarist, recording artist, singer, singer-songwriter, songwriter, born December 9, 1950)
  • Irena Santor (singer-songwriter, born December 9, 1934)
  • Santiago Silva (association football player, born December 9, 1980)
  • José Luis Gil (dub actor, dubbing director, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born December 9, 1957)
  • Brian Bell (composer, guitarist, musician, born December 9, 1968)
  • Irma Serrano (actor, businessperson, film actor, politician, singer, stage actor, television actor, vedette, writer, born December 9, 1933)
  • Breaker Morant (writer, born December 9, 1864)
  • Maksim Bahdanovič (historian, linguist, literary critic, opinion journalist, poet, translator, writer, born December 9, 1891)
  • Kara DioGuardi (manufacturer, musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, born December 9, 1970)
  • Anna Gavalda (children's writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, translator, writer, born December 9, 1970)
  • Yelena Mizulina (jurist, member of the State Duma, politician, statesperson, born December 9, 1954)
  • Richard Brooks (film actor, film director, musician, singer, stage actor, television actor, born December 9, 1962)
  • Raja Gosnell (film director, film editor, born December 9, 1958)
  • Donald Byrd (composer, jazz musician, jazz trumpeter, music pedagogue, recording artist, born December 9, 1932)
  • Ana Pastor García (journalist, television presenter, born December 9, 1977)
  • Fabrice Santoro (tennis coach, tennis player, born December 9, 1972)
  • Kim Tae-yong (film director, screenwriter, born December 9, 1969)
  • Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (Queen Consort of Spain, born December 9, 1709)
  • Aiko Uemura (freestyle skier, born December 9, 1979)
  • Marcus Goldman (bank, banker, entrepreneur, financier, born December 9, 1821)
  • John Paragon (actor, film director, screenwriter, television actor, television director, born December 9, 1954)

9th of December 2012 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 9, 2012

Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising Industry

Date: 10 December 2012

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

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A New Twist on a Hanukkah Staple

Date: 10 December 2012

By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN

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Letters Show Miller’s Desire to Be Taken Seriously

Date: 10 December 2012

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Collection of papers from Marvin Miller, who led the baseball players union from 1966 to ’83, chronicles his leadership path; offers private glimpses at serious, purposeful trade unionist who led the union into the era of free agency and who demanded that he, and the players, be taken seriously by baseball’s leaders.

Full Article

Homeless Rates in U.S. Held Level Amid Recession, Study Says, but Big Gains Are Elusive

Date: 10 December 2012

By ANNIE LOWREY

Housing and Urban Development Dept report states federal government is unlikely to end homelessness for at-risk populations and veterans by 2015; notes number of homeless people did not rise with recession in 2008, but poverty rates went up and have stayed high.

Full Article

Corrections: December 10, 2012

Date: 10 December 2012

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Poor Schools Struggling to Meet State Standards, Years After Critical Ruling

Date: 10 December 2012

By VIVIAN YEE

Researchers affiliated with Teachers College at Columbia University report that many schools in poor districts of New York State, including three in New York City, lack basic resources, and some do not even meet minimum state standards in certain areas, despite 2006 landmark court ruling requiring state to increase spending in public education.

Full Article

Major Renter to Students to Pay Millions for Civil Fraud

Date: 10 December 2012

By SAM DOLNICK

George Scott, founder of Educational Housing Services, New York City's largest provider of student housing other than colleges themselves, agrees to pay $5.5 million to settle civil fraud case; state investigators found that Scott and his wife Yun Suk Scott siphoned millions of dollars from the agency through a shell company for personal use.

Full Article

Big Plays on Defense, but Still Room for Improvement

Date: 10 December 2012

By TOM PEDULLA

New York Giants defense has four key turnovers and two red zone stops in victory against New Orleans Saints, but still shows room for improvement.

Full Article

Anthony Helps Knicks Stay Perfect at Home

Date: 10 December 2012

By ZACH SCHONBRUN

New York Knicks, buoyed by return of Carmelo Anthony after two games with hand injury, rally from fourth-quarter deficit to defeat Denver Nuggets, 112-106.

Full Article

'Garlands and Mud' for New Nobel Laureate from China

Date: 09 December 2012

By MARK MCDONALD

The novelist Mo Yan was due to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature on Monday, a selection acidly assailed by fellow writers and poets in China. And while some applauded the award, Herta Müller, the 2009 Nobel laureate, called Mr. Mo's selection "a catastrophe" because of his failure to condemn state censorship in China.

Full Article

Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising Industry

Date: 10 December 2012

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Full Article

A New Twist on a Hanukkah Staple

Date: 10 December 2012

By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN

Martha SHULMAN

Full Article

Letters Show Miller’s Desire to Be Taken Seriously

Date: 10 December 2012

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Richard SANDOMIR

Collection of papers from Marvin Miller, who led the baseball players union from 1966 to ’83, chronicles his leadership path; offers private glimpses at serious, purposeful trade unionist who led the union into the era of free agency and who demanded that he, and the players, be taken seriously by baseball’s leaders.

Full Article

Homeless Rates in U.S. Held Level Amid Recession, Study Says, but Big Gains Are Elusive

Date: 10 December 2012

By ANNIE LOWREY

Annie LOWREY

Housing and Urban Development Dept report states federal government is unlikely to end homelessness for at-risk populations and veterans by 2015; notes number of homeless people did not rise with recession in 2008, but poverty rates went up and have stayed high.

Full Article

Corrections: December 10, 2012

Date: 10 December 2012

Full Article

Poor Schools Struggling to Meet State Standards, Years After Critical Ruling

Date: 10 December 2012

By VIVIAN YEE

Vivian YEE

Researchers affiliated with Teachers College at Columbia University report that many schools in poor districts of New York State, including three in New York City, lack basic resources, and some do not even meet minimum state standards in certain areas, despite 2006 landmark court ruling requiring state to increase spending in public education.

Full Article

Major Renter to Students to Pay Millions for Civil Fraud

Date: 10 December 2012

By SAM DOLNICK

Sam DOLNICK

George Scott, founder of Educational Housing Services, New York City's largest provider of student housing other than colleges themselves, agrees to pay $5.5 million to settle civil fraud case; state investigators found that Scott and his wife Yun Suk Scott siphoned millions of dollars from the agency through a shell company for personal use.

Full Article

Big Plays on Defense, but Still Room for Improvement

Date: 10 December 2012

By TOM PEDULLA

Tom PEDULLA

New York Giants defense has four key turnovers and two red zone stops in victory against New Orleans Saints, but still shows room for improvement.

Full Article

Anthony Helps Knicks Stay Perfect at Home

Date: 10 December 2012

By ZACH SCHONBRUN

Zach SCHONBRUN

New York Knicks, buoyed by return of Carmelo Anthony after two games with hand injury, rally from fourth-quarter deficit to defeat Denver Nuggets, 112-106.

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Date:

Full Article

'Garlands and Mud' for New Nobel Laureate from China

Date: 09 December 2012

By MARK MCDONALD

Mark MCDONALD

The novelist Mo Yan was due to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature on Monday, a selection acidly assailed by fellow writers and poets in China. And while some applauded the award, Herta Müller, the 2009 Nobel laureate, called Mr. Mo's selection "a catastrophe" because of his failure to condemn state censorship in China.

Full Article