About the day » Sunday December 9, 1917Calender converter

• Anna Maria Janssen († 1978)
• Arie Top, Barneveld († 1994)
• Adriaan Willem Vader, Arnemuiden, Walcheren, NL († 1996)
• Anésio Silveira Duarte, Bofete, São Paulo, Brasil († 2000)
• Adriana S Knoppert († 1947)
• Aeiltje Moesker, Sappemeer
• Arie Lesage, Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1989)
• Arnolda Antonia Weerepas, Oeffelt († 2013)
• aeilkje moesker, sappemeer
• Anne Johanne Håpnes, Håpnes, Namsskogan, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway († 1996)

• Barbara Locus (80), Brussel, Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Brussel, België
• Agatha Hulscher (61), Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Clementia Helena Delaruwiere (70), Vlissingen
• Adriana Boogaards (79), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Betje Spiero (60), Den Haag
• Catharine Reiff DETWEILER (73)
• Adriana Elisabeth Kuikhoven (68), Den Haag
• Adriana Margaretha Klop (8), Haaften (Gld.)
• Adriana Jansen (75), Den Hoorn, Groningen, Nederland
• Audley Elijah BATT (0), Meauwataka, Colfax, Wexford, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1915 » Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress († 2006)
• 1915 » Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author († 2000)
• 1916 » Colin McCool, Australian cricketer († 1986)
• 1916 » Jerome Beatty Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author († 2002)
• 1916 » Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer († 2020)
• 1917 » James Jesus Angleton, American CIA agent († 1987)
• 1917 » James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1918 » Joyce Redman, Irish-born British actress († 2012)
• 1919 » V. Dakshinamoorthy, Indian singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1919 » William Lipscomb, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)

• 1906 » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
• 1916 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 1924 » Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
• February 23 » First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
• May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
• October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
• November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
• December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
• December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

The temperature on December 9, 1917 was between 0.3 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.