November 09

Dylan Marlais Thomas Welsh poet died

November 9, 1949

Ramsay MacDonald, first UK Labour Prime Minister, died aboard Reina del Pacifico

November 9, 1937

Birth in Dublin of Hugh Leonard, pseudonym of John Keyes Byrne, playwright

November 9, 1926

Sir Hugh Lane, art collector and critic, is born in Ballybrack, Co. Cork

November 9, 1875

Sir James Young Simpson helps delivers first child to be born with the aid of anesthesia

November 9, 1847

King Edward VII, was born

November 9, 1841

James Napper Tandy convenes the first meeting of Dublins United Irishmen

November 9, 1791