January 9

Shorts

 * 1937 - Don Donald

Television

 * 1991 - The TaleSpin episode "Waiders of the Wost Tweasure" premieres.
 * 1999 - The Bear in the Big Blue House episode "That Healing Feeling/The Tutter Family Reunion" premieres on Playhouse Disney.

Video Games

 * 2010 - Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep is released in Japan

Theme Parks

 * 1999 - Horizons closes at Epcot

Births

 * 1916 - Card Walker
 * 1941 - Joan Baez (singer, songwriter, musician)
 * 1949 - Mary Roos (singer and actress)
 * 1951 - Crystal Gayle (singer)
 * 1955 - J. K. Simmons (actor and voice actor)
 * 1956 - Imelda Staunton (actress)
 * 1965 - Joely Richardson (actress)
 * 1966 - Candi Milo (voice actress)
 * 1980 - Wong Cho-lam (actor and voice actor)
 * 1993 - Ashley Argota (Filipino-American actress, singer, and student)

Deaths

 * 1947 - Herman Bing (actor and voice actor)
 * 1992 - Claude Coats (Imagineer)
 * 2016 - Angrus Scrimm (actor)