Farhan Akhtar, an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, playback singer, producer, and television personality who works in Hindi cinema, was born on January 9, 1974. He grew up in Mumbai, the son of screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, and was influenced by the Hindi film business. He began his Bollywood career as an assistant director on the films Lamhe and Himalay Putra.

Swara Bhasker (born April 9, 1988) is an Indian actress who works primarily in Hindi films. She is best known for her supporting roles in mainstream productions and starring roles in independent films, for which she has won two Screen Awards and been nominated for three Filmfare Awards. Bhasker made her film debut in the 2009 drama Madholal Keep Walking, which was a commercial flop. She gained wider acclaim for her supporting role in the commercially successful 2011 romantic comedy Tanu Weds Manu. Her performance in the film was praised by critics, and she was nominated for a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Anita Ekberg, 83, died on January 11, 2015, in the facility San Raffaele in Rocca di Papa, Roman Castles, after consequences from chronic diseases. After being pushed down by one of her pet Great Danes, which shattered her hip, the actress had been in a wheelchair for several years. Ekberg's funeral was conducted on January 14, 2015, in the Lutheran-Evangelical Christuskirche in Rome, after which her body was cremated and her ashes were buried in the graveyard at Skanör Church in Sweden.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, was born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton on January 9, 1982, and is a British royal. Catherine is a likely future queen consort because her husband, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, is second in line to the British throne.

Shastriji died on January 11, 1966, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (then the Soviet Union), one day after signing a peace accord ending the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War. Many of Shastri's fans and close relatives refused to believe the circumstances of his death at the time, and have refused to believe them afterwards. Within hours of his death, conspiracy theories arose, and they have remained ever then. He was hailed as a national hero, and the Vijay Ghat memorial was named for him. Following Shastri's death, Gulzarilal Nanda was re-elected as Acting Prime Minister until Indira Gandhi was voted over Morarji Desai by the Congress Parliamentary Party to officially succeed him.

Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues, an American former basketball player, was born on January 9, 1965. Bogues, who was the shortest player in NBA history at 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m), played point guard for four different clubs during the course of his 14-year career. Bogues played for the Washington Bullets, Golden State Warriors, and Toronto Raptors in addition to the Charlotte Hornets for ten seasons. He was the head coach of the now-defunct Charlotte Sting of the WNBA after his NBA career.

On January 9, 2007, Jobs introduced the world to a new sort of phone, one that would do to cellphones what the Macintosh had done to personal computers in 1984 – revolutionise how we used them while making them significantly easier to use. Of fact, the iPhone, like the Macintosh in 1984, was not a flawless technology. It was not without defects. But, like the Macintosh in 1984, the iPhone triumphed above its flaws due to its intrinsic merits.

Elvis Presley was an American singer and actor who was born on January 8, 1935. He is known as the "King of Rock and Roll" and is considered one of the most important cultural symbols of the twentieth century. His energising interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, along with a uniquely potent blend of inspirations spanning colour lines during a pivotal period in racial relations, led to both immense success and initial controversy.

Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, known simply as Galileo, was an astronomer, physicist, and engineer from Pisa, modern-day Italy, who was frequently referred to as a polymath. Galileo is credited with founding observational astronomy, modern physics, the scientific method, and modern science. On January 8, 1642, he died.

On March 11, 1795, the Maratha Empire and the Nizam of Hyderabad fought the Battle of Kharda. The Marathas triumphed by a landslide. The fight would have far-reaching consequences since the British would take Maratha domination seriously. The Marathas and the Nizam of Hyderabad had joined forces, if briefly, in their struggle against Tipu Sultan of Mysore. In January 1795, the Nizam's army marched forward from Bidar. The combat took place near the Fort of Kharda. The Nizam was defeated and forced to flee to the Kharda Fort. The Marathas besieged the fort, and the Nizam surrendered after a 17-day siege.

Hillary fell on April 22, 2007, while on a vacation to Kathmandu, and was hospitalised after returning to New Zealand. He died of heart failure on January 11, 2008, at Auckland City Hospital. Flags were flown at half-mast on New Zealand public buildings and at Scott Base in Antarctica, and Prime Minister Helen Clark described Hillary's death as a "heartbreaking loss to New Zealand." Sir Edmund Hillary, the mountain-climbing New Zealand beekeeper who became a mid-century hero as the first person to reach Mt. Everest's peak, died at the age of 88.

Stephen William Hawking, born on January 8, 1942, was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the time of his death. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1979 to 2009.