Famous Birthdays on June 9

Mae Whitman

1988 — Mae Whitman

American actress

June 9 has 231 recorded notable births across history, from 1016 to 2001. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.

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Famous Birthdays 231 source records 1016 – 2001 Gemini

Major events on June 9

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1999 Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty. Source
1959 The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. Source
1885 Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France. Source
1965 Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war. Source

Did you know

Mae Whitman began her career as a child actor, starring in the films When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), One Fine Day (1996), Independence Day (1996), and Hope Floats (1998), and the television series Chicago Hope (1996–1999) and JAG (1998–2001).

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Haslem is one of only three players in NBA history to play at least 20 years with one team.

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However, Sickert is not considered a serious suspect by most who study the case, and strong evidence shows he spent most of 1888 outside the UK, and was in France at the time of most of the Ripper murders.

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Robert Cummings received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955.

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Stojaković won an NBA championship with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011.

More major people born on June 9

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1980

Udonis Haslem

American basketball player

Udonis Johneal Haslem is an American professional basketball executive and former player.

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1956

Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell

American journalist and author

Patricia Cornwell is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in Richmond, Virginia,…

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1910

Robert Cummings

Robert Cummings

American actor, singer, and director (died 1990)

Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), and in dramatic films,…

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1977

Peja Stojaković

Peja Stojaković

Serbian basketball player

Predrag Stojaković, known by his nickname Peja, is a Serbian former professional basketball player and basketball executive. Stojaković played for five teams in an NBA career that spanned from 1998 to 2011.

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1954

George Pérez

American author and illustrator (died 2022)

George Pérez was an American comic book artist and writer, who worked primarily as a penciller. He came to prominence in the 1970s penciling Fantastic Four and The Avengers for Marvel Comics.

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1943

Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman

American sci-fi author

Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author and former college professor.

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1983

Josh Cribbs

American football player

Joshua Cribbs is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL).

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1424

Blanche II of Navarre (died 1464)

Blanche II of Navarre (died 1464)

Blanche II was a Navarrese princess and claimant to the throne of Navarre. She was the daughter of John II of Navarre and Blanche I of Navarre, and was recognized early in life as an heir in the line of succession.

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1974

Randy Winn

American baseball player

Dwight Randolph Winn is an American former professional baseball player and is currently the vice president of player development for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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1837

Michele Rua

Italian Catholic priest and saint (died 1910)

Michele Rua was an Italian Catholic priest and professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

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1927

Jim Nolan

Jim Nolan

American basketball player (died 1983)

James S. Nolan was an American professional basketball player. Nolan was selected in the second round of the 1949 BAA draft by the Philadelphia Warriors.

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1812

Johann Gottfried Galle

Johann Gottfried Galle

German astronomer and academic (died 1910)

Johann Gottfried Galle was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view and identify…

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1961

Michael J. Fox

Canadian-American actor, producer, and author

Michael Andrew Fox, known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian and American actor and activist. Beginning his career as a child actor in the 1970s, he rose to prominence portraying Alex P.

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1982

Christina Stürmer

Christina Stürmer

Austrian singer-songwriter

Christina Stürmer is an Austrian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Linz, she rose to fame as the runner-up of the inaugural season of the ORF eins television talent series Starmania.

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1946

Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata

Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata

Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata is an Italian diplomat and politician.

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1977

Olin Kreutz

American football player

Olin George Kreutz is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons.

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1837

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

English author (died 1919)

Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, was an English writer, whose several novels were appreciated in their time and made her a central figure on the late Victorian literary scene.

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1916

Robert McNamara

Robert McNamara

American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (died 2009)

Robert Strange McNamara, also known by his initials RSM, was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F.

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1929

Johnny Ace

Johnny Ace

American singer and pianist (died 1954)

John Marshall Alexander Jr., known by the stage name Johnny Ace, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer. He had a string of hit singles in the mid-1950s.

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