People who died on November 09 (various years)
- 2006 – Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director
- 2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist
- 2005 – K. R. Narayanan, President of India
- 2004 – Iris Chang, American author
- 2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
- 2003 – Gordon Onslow Ford, English painter
- 2003 – Art Carney, American actor
- 2002 – Merlin Santana, American actor
- 2002 – William Schutz, American psychologist
- 2001 – Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and museum curator
- 2000 – Hugh Paddick, British actor
- 1998 – Ursula Reit, German actress
- 1997 – Helenio Herrera, French football player and coach
- 1991 – Yves Montand, French actor
- 1988 – John N. Mitchell, United States Attorney General
- 1988 – Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Victor Sen Yung, American actor
- 1977 – Fred Haney, American baseball player
- 1971 – Maude Fealy, American actor
- 1970 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France
- 1957 – Peter O’Connor, Irish athlete
- 1953 – Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia
- 1953 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author
- 1952 – Philip Murray, 1st president of the United Steelworkers and longest-serving president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations
- 1952 – Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel
- 1951 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer
- 1944 – Frank Marshall, American chess player
- 1942 – Edna May Oliver, American actress
- 1940 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1940 – Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate
- 1938 – Vasily Blyukher, Soviet military commander (b.1889)
- 1937 – Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator
- 1919 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1918 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet
- 1911 – Howard Pyle, American author
- 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly, last known Jack the Ripper victim.
- 1881 – Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.
- 1848 – Robert Blum, German politician
- 1809 – Paul Sandby, English cartographer
- 1778 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist
- 1770 – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
- 1766 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer
- 1699 – Hortense Mancini, mistress of Charles II, King of England
- 1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, Governor of the Netherlands and Bishop of Toledo
- 1623 – William Camden, English historian
- 1504 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon
- 1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon
- 1187 – Emperor Gaozong of China
- 959 – Constantine VII, Byzantine Emperor (b. 905)
A Far Country 
Well, Happy Birthday to you. Yours is one week before mine.