Stan Rice (November 7, 1942 – December 9, 2002), was a Professor of English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. In 1977 he received the Academy of American Poets' Edgar Allan Poe Award for Whiteboy, and in subsequent years was also the recipient of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award as well as a writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.Rice retired after 22 years as Chairman of the Creative Writing program as well as Assistant Director of the Poetry Center in 1989.  It was the death of he and his wife, Anne Rice's daughter Michele (1966–1972), at age six of leukemia, which sparked Stan Rice's becoming a published author. His first book of poems, based on his daughter's illness and death, was titled Some Lamb, and was published in 1975. He encouraged his wife to quit her work as a waitress, cook and theater usher in order to devote herself full-time to her writing, who both eventually encouraged their son, novelist Christopher Rice, to become a published author as well. Rice, Anne, and son Christopher moved to Garden District, New Orleans in 1988, where he eventually opened the Stan Rice Gallery.

Amédé Ardoin (March 11, 1898 – November 3, 1942) with fiddle player Dennis McGee, was one of the first artists to record Cajun music on December 9, 1929 for Columbia Records in New Orleans.

During World War I, the use of electicity in New Orleans was limited.  On December 9, 1919 Charles T. Bevan, Local Fuel Administrator and John S. Bleecker, General manager of the New Orleans Railway and Light Company announced that federal restrcitions had been dropped and that  New Orleanians would once again recieve unlimited electrical energy.  The electrical facility had just recently been converted from a coal-burning to an oil-burning plant.

Willie Pastrano died n New Orleans on December 9, 1997 at the age of 62.