December 9 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers
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December 9 is a Sagittarius birthday in the second decan of Sagittarius with birthday number 9 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; John Milton (1608), Kirk Douglas (1916) and Judi Dench (1934) were born on December 9 too.
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December 9 zodiac sign: Sagittarius
- Sun sign
- Sagittarius
- Sun at noon UTC
- 16.5° to 17.9° Sagittarius
- Decan
- Second of Sagittarius, 10° to 20°
- Element and mode
- Fire, mutable
- Ruling planet
- Jupiter
In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9, in every time zone on Earth, between 16.5° and 17.9° of the sign at noon UTC, so a December 9 birthday is a Sagittarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.
At noon UTC on December 9 the Sun is in the second decan of Sagittarius, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to the Moon in the Chaldean order and is read through Aries, ruled by Mars, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from December 2 to December 11, and December 9 is its eighth day.
In most years December 9 is the 18th day of the Sun’s season in Sagittarius, which runs from November 22 to December 21 counted at noon UTC, with twelve days of it still to come. December 9 is the 343rd day of a common year and the 344th of a leap year, with 22 days of the year still to come after it.
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Famous December 9 birthdays
The earliest born of the twelve is Gustavus Adolphus, in 1594, and the most recent Hikaru Nakamura, in 1987; two of them were born after 1949.
Born since 1950
- John Malkovich (born 1953), American actor
- Hikaru Nakamura (born 1987), American chess player
Born from 1900 to 1949
- Kirk Douglas (1916–2020), American actor
- Judi Dench (born 1934), English actress
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
- Henry Way Kendall (1926–1999), American particle physicist
- James Rainwater (1917–1986), American physicist
Born in the 1800s
- Fritz Haber (1868–1934), German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize
- Dolores Ibárruri (1895–1989), Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War
Born before 1800
- John Milton (1608–1674), English poet and civil servant
- Gustavus Adolphus (1594–1632), Swedish king
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen
Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 74 people the Almanac’s table keeps for December 9, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.
December 9 birthday personality
The Moon takes the middle decan of Sagittarius in the Chaldean order and Aries lends Mars’s dash by triplicity, so tradition reads a restless, warm-hearted optimism here, quick to set out and quick to forgive. The reflection is whether leaving has become easier than staying.
The 9th is the 9 itself, the last of the single numbers, which numerology reads as completion, compassion and the wide view. A birthday on it is said to know how to finish a thing and let it go. Fire gives the 9’s compassion a cause, so the tradition reads someone moved to act for people they may never meet.
A question to carry from December 9: what would your hope let go of, so that something new has room to begin?
The Sun in Sagittarius and the number 9 are only part of the story: your Moon, your rising sign and the rest of your chart have as much to say, and the tradition offers all this as a mirror, never a verdict.
Birthday number 9
Born on the 9th, your birthday number is simply 9, the day itself: a 9 vibration supports completion, compassion, release, wisdom, and humanitarian energy, with compassion and wise completion as its gift and martyrdom, heavy endings, or emotional overextension as its strain.
Your 2027 numbers
For a birthday on December 9 the house method reduces the birth month and the day on their own and adds the Universal Year of 2027, 11 (2 + 0 + 2 + 7 = 11, a master number kept whole), as it stands: December, the 12th month, reduces to 3, the 9th gives 9, and 3 + 9 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.
Numerology reads a Personal Year 5 as a lively year of change, movement and new experience. Under the Universal Year 11 the reading favours the changes that follow an honest sense of direction.
Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 5: Jan 6 Feb 7 Mar 8 Apr 9 May 1 Jun 11 Jul 3 Aug 4 Sep 5 Oct 6 Nov 7 Dec 8
In 2027 December 9 falls on a Thursday, the day the old reckoning gives to Jupiter, and is a Personal Day 8 (8 + 9 = 17, then 8) in a Personal Month 8 (5 + 12 = 17, then 8), while June is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.
December birthstone and birth flower
- Birthstones
- Turquoise, tanzanite and zircon
- Birth flowers
- Narcissus, and holly as the second flower
December’s turquoise, tanzanite and zircon come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its narcissus and holly from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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Common questions
What zodiac sign is December 9?
Sagittarius: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Sagittarius for the whole of December 9 in every year and every time zone, 16.5° to 17.9° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.
Is December 9 a cusp birthday?
No: the Sun stays in Sagittarius all day on December 9 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is December 21, twelve days later.
Who was born on December 9?
Among the best known people born on December 9 are John Milton (1608–1674), Kirk Douglas (1916–2020) and Judi Dench (born 1934), with Fritz Haber, Grace Hopper and Gustavus Adolphus and six more named on this page.
What is the birthday number for December 9?
9. Born on the 9th, your birthday number is simply 9, the day itself: a 9 vibration supports completion, compassion, release, wisdom, and humanitarian energy, with compassion and wise completion as its gift and martyrdom, heavy endings, or emotional overextension as its strain.
What is the 2027 Personal Year for a December 9 birthday?
5. For a birthday on December 9 the house method reduces the birth month and the day on their own and adds the Universal Year of 2027, 11 (2 + 0 + 2 + 7 = 11, a master number kept whole), as it stands: December, the 12th month, reduces to 3, the 9th gives 9, and 3 + 9 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.
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