Famous Birthdays on June 9

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.

Mae Whitman

1988 — Mae Whitman

American actress

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Famous Birthdays 231 source records 1016 – 2001 Gemini

Major events on June 9

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  1. 1999 Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty. Source
  2. 1959 The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. Source

Did you know about Mae Whitman

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).

Did you know about Patricia Cornwell

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.

Did you know about Robert Cummings

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

Did you know about Peja Stojaković

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

Did you know about Udonis Haslem

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

More major people born on June 9

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

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, where most of the stories are set. The plots are notable for their emphasis on forensic science, which has influenced later TV treatments of police work. Cornwell has also accused Walter Sickert of carrying out the Jack the Ripper killings. 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. Her books have sold more than 120 million copies.
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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, especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954). He received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. On February 8, 1960, he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries, at 6816 Hollywood Boulevard and 1718 Vine Street. He used the stage name Robert Cummings from mid-1935 until the end of 1954 and was credited as Bob Cummings from 1955 until his death.
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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. Standing at 6 ft 10 in, he played mostly as a small forward. Stojaković starred for the Sacramento Kings in the 2000s and was named an NBA All-Star three times during his Kings tenure. He is regarded as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history, having made 1,760 three-point field goals in his career; this total ranked fourth all-time upon his retirement from the NBA. Stojaković won an NBA championship with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011.
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1980 Udonis Haslem

Udonis Haslem

American basketball player
Udonis Johneal Haslem is an American professional basketball executive and former player. He is the vice president of basketball development for the Miami Heat, where he spent his entire 20-year playing career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Haslem is one of only three players in NBA history to play at least 20 years with one team. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators, where he was a key member of four NCAA tournament teams. Haslem began his professional career in France with Chalon-sur-Saône and then signed with his hometown team, the Miami Heat, in 2003, leaving as the longest-tenured player in franchise history when he retired 20 years later. Haslem won three NBA championships in 2006, 2012 and 2013.
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1954 George Pérez

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. In the 1980s, he penciled The New Teen Titans, which became one of DC Comics' top-selling series. He penciled DC's landmark limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, followed by relaunching Wonder Woman as both writer and penciller. In the meantime, he worked on other comics published by Marvel, DC, and other companies into the 2010s. He was known for his detailed and realistic rendering, and his facility with complex crowd scenes.
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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. He is best known for his novel The Forever War (1974), which was inspired by his experiences as a combat soldier in the Vietnam War. That novel and other works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won science fiction awards, including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. He received the SFWA Grand Master for career achievements. In 2012, he was inducted as a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. From 1983 to 2014, he was a professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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1983 Josh Cribbs

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). He played college football for the Kent State Golden Flashes and was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent after the 2005 NFL draft. Cribbs is tied for the second-most NFL career record with eight kickoff returns for touchdowns, and also the NFL record with two kickoffs of 100 yards or more returned for touchdowns in a single game. He has also played for the New York Jets, the Oakland Raiders and the Indianapolis Colts. He was most recently a special teams coaching intern for the Cleveland Browns.
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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. Her marriage to Henry IV of Castile, arranged to secure peace between Navarre and Castile, ended in annulment. After returning to Navarre, she supported her brother Charles, Prince of Viana in his dispute with their father over the crown. Following her brother's death, she became a rival claimant but was detained and later transferred to France, where she died under uncertain circumstances.
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1974 Randy Winn

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). He played all or parts of 13 seasons in MLB, primarily as an outfielder. Winn was a switch hitter, and threw right-handed. He made his major league debut in 1998 with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, then went on to play for the Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals. He played in the 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Following his playing career, Winn worked as an analyst for Giants broadcasts on NBC Sports Bay Area from 2013 to 2024, leaving to accept his current position with the Giants.
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1837 Michele Rua

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. Rua was a student under Don Bosco and was also the latter's first collaborator in the order's founding as well as one of his closest friends. He served as the first Rector Major of the Salesians following Bosco's death in 1888. He was responsible for the expansion of the Salesians and the order had grown to a significant degree around the world at the time he died. Rua served as a noted spiritual director and leader for the Salesians known for his austerities and rigid adherence to the rule. It was for this reason that he was nicknamed "the living rule".
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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. He played for the Warriors for five games in the 1949–50 NBA season and recorded totals of eight points and four assists. He played college basketball and football at Georgia Institute of Technology. He later returned to Georgia and started a coaching career leading the Tech Freshman Basketball team from 1955 to 1957, then became the Lanier football coach in the early 1960s. He is a member of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame.
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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 the planet Neptune. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify. Galle found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics, and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th-century science.
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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. Following her participation, she signed with Universal Music and released her debut single "Ich lebe" which spent nine weeks atop the Austrian Singles Chart. It was followed by the release of her first two albums, Freier Fall (2003) and Soll das wirklich alles sein (2004), both of which debuted atop the Austrian Albums Chart and produced eight top ten hits, including the number-one singles "Mama " and "Vorbei".
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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. He was Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs in Mario Monti's government from November 2011 until March 2013, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in New York between 2008 and 2009 and Ambassador of Italy to the United States between 2009 and 2011. He is currently a Senator of the Republic of Italy and the President of the 4th Permanent Senate Commission of EU Affairs elected from the Lombardy constituency as a part of Brothers of Italy. He is also the President of the India-Italy Parliamentary Friendship group.
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1977 Olin Kreutz

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. He played college football for University of Washington, and earned consensus All-American honors. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1998 NFL draft and spent 13 seasons with Chicago where he was selected to six Pro Bowls. He also played four games for the New Orleans Saints in 2011. Kreutz was a semi-finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2020 after being named to the 2000s All-Decade Team.
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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. She is noted especially as the custodian of her father's literary legacy, and for short fiction that places fairy tale narratives in a Victorian milieu. Her 1885 novel Mrs. Dymond introduced into English the proverb, "If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn."
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1939 Ileana Cotrubaș

Ileana Cotrubaș

Romanian soprano
Ileana Cotrubaș was a Romanian operatic soprano. After winning the 1966 ARD International Music Competition in Munich, she made an international career at the major opera houses, a member of the Vienna State Opera from 1970. She made an international breakthrough on 7 January 1975, stepping in for Mirella Freni at La Scala in Milan as Mimì in Puccini's La bohème. Regarded by many as the best Mimi and Traviata of her time, she retired from public singing in 1990. She gave master classes from the late 1970s, and in retirement focused on coaching promising young singers.
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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. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years. He played a major role in promoting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.
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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. He emerged as a prominent figure in postwar R&B and gained fame with hits such as "My Song", "Cross My Heart", and "Pledging My Love". Ace's smooth vocal style and romantic ballads made him a popular artist, particularly on R&B radio stations and jukeboxes. At the height of his career, he toured extensively and was regarded as one of the most promising young stars in the genre.
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