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A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14.
Famous Birthdays on March 9
1943 — Bobby Fischer
American chess player and author (died 2008)
March 9 has 177 recorded notable births across history, from 1454 to 2003. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on March 9
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- 1978 President Soeharto inaugurates Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java. Source
- 1960 Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis. Source
- 1842 The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush. Source
- 1841 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally. Source
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Suga's first solo mixtape, Agust D, was released in 2016 and re-released in 2018 to digital download and streaming platforms, reaching number three on Billboard's World Albums Chart.
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Lee was a part of the "Golden Girls" that won gold at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Samuel Osmond Barber II was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century.
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Ornette Coleman is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.
More major people born on March 9
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1993
Suga
South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer
Min Yoon-gi, known professionally by his stage names Suga and Agust D, is a South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer.
2003
Sunisa Lee
American gymnast
Sunisa Phabsomphou Lee is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalist.
1910
Samuel Barber
American pianist and composer (died 1981)
Samuel Osmond Barber II was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century.
1930
Ornette Coleman
American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (died 2015)
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer.
1763
William Cobbett
English journalist and author (died 1835)
William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey.
1927
Jackie Jensen
American baseball player (died 1982)
Jack Eugene Jensen was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for three American League (AL) teams from 1950 to 1961, most notably the Boston Red Sox.
1982
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
Croatian tennis player
Mirjana Lučić-Baroni is a Croatian former professional tennis player. She enjoyed a meteoric rise on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set various "youngest-ever" records.
1697
Friederike Caroline Neuber
German actress (died 1760)
Friederike Caroline Neuber, was a German actress and theatre director.
1987
Daniel Hudson
American baseball player
Daniel Claiborne Hudson is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 16 seasons of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2009 to 2024.
1737
Josef Mysliveček
Czech violinist and composer (died 1781)
Josef Mysliveček was a Czech composer. He contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music.
1978
Chris Phillips
Canadian ice hockey player and businessman
Chris Phillips is a Canadian businessman and former professional ice hockey player.
1923
Walter Kohn
Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
Walter Kohn was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.
1970
Shannon Leto
American musician and songwriter
Shannon Leto is an American musician best known as the drummer of rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. He co-founded the group in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, with his younger brother Jared.
1975
Adonal Foyle
Vincentian-American basketball player
Adonal David Foyle is a Vincentian-American former professional basketball center. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors with the eighth overall selection of the 1997 NBA draft.
1985
Brent Burns
Canadian ice hockey player
Brent Burns is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1987
Bow Wow
American rapper and actor
Shad Gregory Moss, better known by his stage name Bow Wow, is an American rapper and actor.
1965
Brian Bosworth
American football player and actor
Brian Keith Bosworth is an American actor and former professional football linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons with the Seattle Seahawks.
1979
Oscar Isaac
Guatemalan-American actor
Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada is an American actor. Recognized for his versatility, he has been credited with breaking stereotypes about Latino characters in Hollywood.
1983
Clint Dempsey
American soccer player
Clinton Drew Dempsey is an American former professional soccer player who is a sports analyst on the television program Soccer on CBS Sports.