Famous Birthdays on March 9

Q: Who was born on March 9?

Famous people born on March 9 include: Amerigo Vespucci, Joseph of Anchieta, David Fabricius, Aloysius Gonzaga, Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot.

2003 — Sunisa Lee

American gymnast

March 9 has seen 177 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 1454 – 2003. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · March 9 — Wikipedia

Famous Birthdays 177 people 1454 – 2003

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Lee was a part of the "Golden Girls" that won gold at the 2024 Summer Olympics

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She was also a member of the teams that won gold at the 2019 World Championships and silver at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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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

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She was the 2019 World Championship silver medalist on the floor and bronze medalist on uneven bars

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Sunisa Phabsomphou Lee is an American artistic gymnast

Amerigo Vespucci

Italian cartographer and explorer, namesake of the Americas (died 1512)

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italo-Spaniard explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom America is named.

1454

Joseph of Anchieta

Spanish Jesuit saint and missionary (died 1597)

José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, SJ was a Spanish missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first century after its…

1534

David Fabricius

German theologian, cartographer and astronomer (died 1617)

David Fabricius was a Frisian pastor who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius (1587–1615).

1564

Aloysius Gonzaga

Italian saint, namesake of Gonzaga University (died 1591)

Aloysius de Gonzaga, SJ was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of a serious epidemic. He was…

1568

Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot

French-Canadian missionary (died 1693)

Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot was a French priest and Jesuit missionary who learned and documented the language of the Wendat people, also known as the Huron. A series of anonymous manuscript dictionaries of French and…

1611

Franz Anton von Sporck

German noble (died 1738)

Count Franz Anton von Sporck was a German Bohemian literatus and patron of the arts. He was one of the most notable cultural and intellectual figures in central Europe in the early 18th century.

1662

Friederike Caroline Neuber

German actress (died 1760)

Friederike Caroline Neuber, was a German actress and theatre director. She is considered one of the most famous actresses and actor-managers in the history of the German theatre, "influential in the development of…

1697

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. Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant compositional models…

1737

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti

comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (died 1791)

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau was a French writer, orator, and statesman, and a prominent figure of the early stages of the French Revolution.

1749

Jean-Baptiste Kléber

French general (died 1800)

Divisional-General Jean-Baptiste Kléber was a French army officer and architect who served in the War of the Bavarian Succession and French Revolutionary Wars. After serving for one year in the French Royal Army, he…

1753

Franz Joseph Gall

German neuroanatomist and physiologist (died 1828)

Franz Joseph Gall or Franz Josef Gall was a German neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain.

1758

William Cobbett

English journalist and author (died 1835)

William Cobbett was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign…

1763

Edwin Forrest

American actor and philanthropist (died 1872)

Edwin Forrest was a nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849.

1806

Taras Shevchenko

Ukrainian poet and playwright (died 1861)

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer. His literary heritage, in particular the poetry collection Kobzar, is regarded to be the…

1814

David Davis

American jurist and politician (died 1886)

David Davis was an American politician and jurist who was a U.S. senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860…

1815

Samuel Blatchford

American lawyer and jurist (died 1893)

Samuel M. Blatchford was an American attorney and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from April 3, 1882, until his death in 1893.

1820

Amasa Leland Stanford

American businessman and politician, founded Stanford University (died 1893)

Amasa Leland Stanford was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from Watervliet, New York. He served as the eighth governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented…

1824

Martin Pierre Marsick

Belgian violinist, composer, and educator (died 1924)

Martin Pierre Marsick (1847–1924), was a Belgian violinist, organist, singer, composer and teacher. Marsick was the owner of the Marsick Stradivarius.

1847

Hamo Thornycroft

English sculptor and academic (died 1925)

Sir William Hamo Thornycroft was an English sculptor, responsible for some of London's best-known statues, including the statue of Oliver Cromwell outside the Palace of Westminster. He was a keen student of classical…

1850

Eddie Foy

Sr., American actor and dancer (died 1928)

Edwin Fitzgerald, known professionally as Eddie Foy and Eddie Foy Sr., was an American actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian.

1856

Mary Harris Armor

American suffragist (died 1950)

Mary Elizabeth Harris Armor was an American temperance leader. She was the Georgia state president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and is often credited for the passing of prohibition legislature in…

1863

Fritz Lenz

German geneticist and physician, influential eugenicist within the Nazi party (died 1976)

Fritz Gottlieb Karl Lenz was a German geneticist, member of the Nazi Party, and influential specialist in eugenics in Nazi Germany.

1887

Rupert Balfe

Australian footballer and lieutenant (died 1915)

Joseph Rupert Balfe was an Australian rules footballer and soldier who was killed during the landing at Anzac Cove.

1890

Vyacheslav Molotov

Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1986)

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies and one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government during his rule. In…

1890

José P. Laurel

Filipino lawyer, politician and President of the Philippines (died 1959)

José Paciano Laurel y García was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and judge, who served as the president of the Second Philippine Republic from 1943 to 1945, which was a Japanese ally during World War II.

1891

Mátyás Rákosi

Hungarian politician (died 1971)

Mátyás Rákosi was a Hungarian communist politician who was the de facto leader of Hungary from 1948 to 1956. He served first as General Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party from 1945 to 1948 and then as General…

1892

Vita Sackville-West

English author, poet, and gardener (died 1962)

Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.

1892

Will Geer

American actor (died 1978)

Will Geer was an American actor, musician, and social activist who was active in labor organizing and communist movements in New York City and Southern California in the 1930s and 1940s. In California, he befriended…

1902

Paul Wilbur Klipsch

American soldier and engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (died 2002)

Paul Wilbur Klipsch was an American engineer and high fidelity audio pioneer, known for developing a high-efficiency folded horn loudspeaker. Unsatisfied with the sound quality of phonographs and early speaker systems,…

1904

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. Principally influenced by nine years' composition…

1910

Clara Rockmore

American classical violin prodigy and theremin player (died 1998)

Clara Reisenberg Rockmore was a Litvak classical violin prodigy and a virtuoso performer of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument. She was the sister of pianist Nadia Reisenberg.

1911

Johnnie Johnson

English air marshal and pilot (died 2001)

Air Vice Marshal James Edgar Johnson, nicknamed "Johnnie", was an English Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and flying ace who flew and fought during the Second World War.

1915

George Lincoln Rockwell

American sailor and politician, founded the American Nazi Party (died 1967)

George Lincoln Rockwell was an American neo-Nazi activist and politician who founded the American Nazi Party (ANP) and became one of the most notorious white supremacists in the United States until his assassination in…

1918

Mickey Spillane

American crime novelist (died 2006)

Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction". He was best known for stories featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer.

1918

Franjo Mihalić

Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (died 2015)

Franjo Mihalić was a Yugoslav and Croatian long-distance runner best known for his 1958 win at the Boston Marathon and his marathon silver medal in the 1956 Summer Olympics. Mihalić competed mostly in marathons, road…

1920

Carl Betz

American actor (died 1978)

Carl Lawrence Betz was an American stage, film, and television actor. He appeared in a variety of television series, including the CBS soap opera Love of Life; he is best remembered for playing Donna Reed's television…

1921

Ian Turbott

New Zealand-Australian former diplomat and university administrator (died 2016)

Sir Ian Graham Turbott was a New Zealand-Australian diplomat and university administrator.

1922

James L. Buckley

American lawyer, judge, and politician (died 2023)

James Lane Buckley was an American politician, jurist, diplomat, and author. Buckley served in the United States Senate as a member of the Conservative Party of New York State, held multiple positions within the Reagan…

1923

André Courrèges

French fashion designer (died 2016)

André Courrèges was a French fashion designer. He was particularly known for his streamlined 1960s designs influenced by modernism and futurism, exploiting modern technology and new fabrics. Courrèges defined the go-go…

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. The award recognized their contributions to understanding the…

1923

Joe Franklin

American radio and television host (died 2015)

Joe Franklin, born Joseph Fortgang, was an American radio and television host personality, author and actor from New York City. Franklin is noted for having the first talk show and inventing the format. His television…

1926

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. He was named the AL's Most Valuable Player…

1927

Gerald Bull

Canadian-American engineer and academic (died 1990)

Gerald Vincent Bull was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. Bull moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed…

1928

Keely Smith

American singer and actress (died 2017)

Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, professionally known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with her then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the…

1928

Desmond Hoyte

Guyanese lawyer, politician and President of Guyana (died 2002)

Hugh Desmond Hoyte was a Guyanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Guyana from 1984 to 1985 and President of Guyana from 1985 until 1992.

1929

Zillur Rahman

Bangladeshi politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (died 2013)

Mohammed Zillur Rahman was a Bangladeshi politician who served as President of Bangladesh from 2009 until his death in 2013. He was also a senior presidium member of the Awami League. He is the third president of…

1929

Ornette Coleman

American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (died 2015)

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A…

1930

Jackie Healy-Rae

Irish politician (died 2014)

John Patrick Healy, known as Jackie Healy-Rae, was an Irish independent politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1997 to 2011.

1931

Qayyum Chowdhury

Bangladeshi painter and academic (died 2014)

Qayyum Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi painter. Along with Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan and Safiuddin Ahmed, he is considered as a first generation artist of Bangladesh. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 1984 and the…

1932

Walter Mercado

Puerto Rican astrologer and actor (died 2019)

Walter Mercado Salinas, also known by his stage name Shanti Ananda, was a Puerto Rican astrologer, actor, dancer, and writer, best known as a television personality for his shows as an astrologer. His astrological…

1932

Lloyd Price

American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2021)

Lloyd Price was an American R&B and rock and roll singer known as "Mr. Personality" after his 1959 million-selling hit, "Personality". His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", was a hit for Specialty Records in 1952.…

1933

David Weatherall

English physician, geneticist, and academic (died 2018)

Sir David John Weatherall was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine.

1933

Artt Frank

American jazz drummer and biographer (died 2024)

Artt Frank was an American jazz drummer specializing in the bebop, hard bop, and cool jazz styles. He is best known for having toured with trumpet player Chet Baker during much of his career.

1933

Yuri Gagarin

Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut, first human in space (died 1968)

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to journey into outer space during the first successful crewed spaceflight. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of…

1934

Joyce Van Patten

American actress

Joyce Van Patten is an American film and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in films like The Bad News Bears (1976), St. Elmo's Fire (1985), and as Gloria Noonan in Grown Ups (2010).

1934

Andrew Viterbi

American engineer and businessman, co-founded Qualcomm Inc.

Andrew James Viterbi is an American electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm. He is the Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University…

1935

Mickey Gilley

American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2022)

Mickey Leroy Gilley was an American country music singer, businessman, actor, and musician.

1936

Marty Ingels

American actor and comedian (died 2015)

Martin Ingerman, known professionally as Marty Ingels, was an American actor, comedian, comedy sketch writer, and theatrical agent, who is best known as the co-star of the 1960s television series I'm Dickens, He's…

1936

Bernard Landry

Canadian lawyer, politician and Premier of Quebec (died 2018)

Bernard Landry was a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he led the party from 2001 to 2005, also serving as the leader of the Opposition…

1937

Harry Neale

Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster

Harold Watson Neale is a Canadian retired NCAA, NHL and WHA coach and general manager, and ice hockey broadcaster.

1937

Brian Redman

English race car driver

Brian Herman Thomas Redman is a British retired racing driver.

1937

Malcolm Bricklin

American businessman, founded Bricklin and Yugo

Malcolm N. Bricklin is an American businessman, widely known for an unorthodox career spanning more than six decades with numerous prominent failures and successes — primarily manufacturing or importing automobiles to…

1939

Raul Julia

Puerto Rican actor (died 1994)

Raúl Rafael Carlos Juliá y Arcelay was a Puerto Rican actor and humanitarian. He was best known for his intense and varied roles on stage and screen. He started his career in the Public Theater before transitioning to…

1940

Jim Colbert

American golfer (died 2026)

James Joseph Colbert was an American professional golfer.

1941

Ernesto Miranda

American criminal (died 1976)

Ernesto Arturo Miranda was an American laborer whose criminal conviction was set aside in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona, which ruled that criminal suspects must be informed of their right…

1941

Trish Van Devere

American actress

Trish Van Devere is a retired American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the film One Is a Lonely Number (1972), and won a Genie Award for the film The Changeling (1980). She is the widow of actor…

1941

Malcolm Smith

Canadian-American motorcycle racer (died 2024)

Malcolm Smith was a Canadian-American off-road racer. He was born on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada, and died in Riverside, California.

1941

John Cale

Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer

John Davies Cale is a Welsh singer, musician, composer, record producer and arranger. He is a founding member of the influential American rock band the Velvet Underground, with whom he recorded two studio albums. Over…

1942

Ion Caramitru

Romanian actor and artistic director (died 2021)

Ion Horia Leonida Caramitru was a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, and political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) cabinets of Victor…

1942

Mark Lindsay

American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer

Mark Lindsay is an American musician, best known as the lead singer of the rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders.

1942

Bobby Fischer

American chess player and author (died 2008)

Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score,…

1943

Charles Gibson

American journalist

Charles deWolf Gibson is an American broadcast television anchor, journalist, and podcaster. Gibson was a host of Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2006, and the anchor of ABC World News from…

1943

Lee Irvine

South African cricketer

Brian Lee Irvine is a former cricketer who played four Tests for South Africa in 1969–70 in the last Test series played by South Africa before official sporting links were broken over the apartheid policy.

1944

Robert Calvert

English singer-songwriter and playwright (died 1988)

Robert Newton Calvert was a South African-British writer, poet, and musician. He is principally known for his role as lyricist, performance poet and lead vocalist of the space rock band Hawkwind.

1945

Dennis Rader

American serial killer

Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by his pseudonym BTK, is an American serial killer and mass murderer who killed at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally…

1945

Robin Trower

English guitarist and vocalist

Robin Leonard Trower is an English rock guitarist and producer who achieved success with Procol Harum from 1967 until 1971 and as the bandleader of his own power trio known as the Robin Trower Band.

1945

Alexandra Bastedo

English actress (died 2014)

Alexandra Lendon Bastedo was a British actress, best known for her role as the secret agent Sharron Macready in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction adventure series The Champions. Bastedo was a vegetarian and…

1946

Bernd Hölzenbein

German footballer and scout (died 2024)

Bernd Hölzenbein was a German professional footballer who played as a striker or winger. He played for Eintracht Frankfurt from 1967 to 1981 and is the club's all-time Bundesliga top scorer, having tallied 160 goals in…

1946

Warren Skaaren

American screenwriter and producer (died 1990)

Warren Skaaren was an American screenwriter and film producer.

1946

Keri Hulme

New Zealand author and poet (died 2021)

Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985; she was the first New Zealander to win…

1947

Emma Bonino

Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Emma Bonino is an Italian politician. She was a senator for Rome between 2008 and 2013, and again between 2018 and 2022. She also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2014. Previously, she was a Member of…

1948

Eric Fischl

American painter and sculptor

Eric Fischl is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator. He is known for his paintings depicting American suburbia from the 1970s and 1980s.

1948

Jeffrey Osborne

American singer and drummer

Jeffrey Linton Osborne is an American singer-songwriter, musician and lyricist. He is the former drummer and lead singer of the American R&B/soul group L.T.D., with whom he began his musical career in 1970. In 2024,…

1948

Neil Hamilton

Welsh lawyer and politician

Mostyn Neil Hamilton is a British politician and former barrister who was leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2020 to 2024. He was the Conservative member of parliament (MP) for Tatton from 1983 to 1997 and…

1949

Tapani Kansa

Finnish singer (died 2025)

Aarne Tapani Kansa was a Finnish singer.

1949

Doug Ault

American baseball player and manager (died 2004)

Douglas Reagan Ault was an American professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter who played for the Texas Rangers (1976) and Toronto Blue Jays. He is best known for hitting the first two home runs in Blue…

1950

Andy North

American golfer

Andrew Stewart North is an American professional golfer who had three wins on the PGA Tour, including the U.S. Open twice. Since 1992, he has served as a golf analyst for ESPN.

1950

Howard Shelley

English pianist and conductor

Howard Gordon Shelley is a British pianist and conductor. He was educated at Highgate School and the Royal College of Music. He was married to fellow pianist Hilary Macnamara with whom he performed and recorded in a…

1950

Helen Zille

South African journalist, politician and Premier of the Western Cape

Otta Helene Zille, known as Helen Zille, is a South African politician. She served as the Chairperson of the Federal Council of the Democratic Alliance from October 2019 to April 2026. From 2009 until 2019, she was the…

1951

Bill Beaumont

English rugby player and manager

Sir William Blackledge Beaumont is an English former rugby union player, and was captain of the England national team, earning 34 caps. His greatest moment as captain was the unexpected 1980 Grand Slam win. He played as…

1952

Carlos Ghosn

Brazilian-Lebanese-French business executive

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1954

Bobby Sands

PIRA volunteer, Irish republican politician, and hunger striker (died 1981)

Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company…

1954

Jock Taylor

Scottish motorcycle racer (died 1982)

John Robert "Jock" Taylor was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.

1954

Teo Fabi

Italian race car driver

Teodorico "Teo" Fabi is an Italian former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1982 to 1987. In sportscar racing, Fabi won the World Sportscar Championship in 1991 with Jaguar.

1955

Józef Pinior

Polish academic and politician

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1955

Mark Dantonio

American football player and coach

Mark Justin Dantonio is an American college football coach and former player. His most recent head coaching position was at Michigan State University, a position he had held from 2007 to 2019.

1956

Shashi Tharoor

Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs

Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, author, public intellectual, and diplomat. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has represented Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2009. He was formerly an…

1956

David Willetts

English academic and politician

David Lindsay Willetts, Baron Willetts is a British politician and life peer. From 1992 to 2015, he was the Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Havant in Hampshire. He served as Minister of State for…

1956

Linda Fiorentino

American actress

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1958

Paul MacLean

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Paul A. MacLean is a French-born Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. He is the former assistant coach of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, and former head coach of the NHL's Ottawa Senators, winning…

1958

Tom Amandes

American actor

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1959

Takaaki Kajita

Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

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1959

Lonny Price

American actor, director, and screenwriter

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1959

Finn Carter

American actress

Elizabeth Fearn "Finn" Carter is an American former actress. She is best known for her role in the 1990 film Tremors.

1960

Željko Obradović

Serbian basketball player and coach

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1960

Rick Steiner

American wrestler

Robert Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler and politician, better known by the ring name Rick Steiner.

1961

Darrell Walker

American basketball player and coach

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1961

Jan Furtok

Polish football player and manager (died 2024)

Jan Furtok was a Polish professional footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as the greatest player in GKS Katowice's history, he is the club's all-time best goalscorer.

1962

Ivan Henjak

Croatian-Australian rugby league player and coach

Ivan Henjak is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. A New South Wales Country representative half back, Henjak played his club football in the NSWRL premiership, with the St. George…

1963

Terry Mulholland

American baseball player

Terence John Mulholland is an American former professional baseball pitcher. His Major League Baseball (MLB) career spanned 20 seasons, 1986 and 1988 to 2006. He threw left-handed and batted right-handed.

1963

Jean-Marc Vallée

Canadian director and screenwriter (died 2021)

Jean-Marc Vallée was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université de Montréal, Vallée went on to make a number of critically acclaimed short films, including Stéréotypes…

1963

Juliette Binoche

French actress

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1964

Phil Housley

American ice hockey player and coach

Phillip Francis Housley is an American professional ice hockey coach and former defenseman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He most recently was an assistant coach for the New York Rangers. He played 21 seasons in…

1964

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. Nicknamed "the Boz", he played college…

1965

Benito Santiago

Puerto Rican baseball player

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1965

Brendan Canty

American drummer and songwriter

Brendan John Canty is an American musician, composer, producer and filmmaker, best known as the drummer for the band Fugazi.

1966

Tony Lockett

Australian footballer

Anthony Howard Lockett is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL). Nicknamed "Plugger", he played as a full-forward and…

1966

Youri Djorkaeff

French footballer

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1968

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

American basketball player

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for nine years with the Denver Nuggets, Sacramento Kings and Vancouver Grizzlies.

1969

Kimberly Guilfoyle

American lawyer and journalist

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1969

Naveen Jindal

Indian businessman and politician

Naveen Jindal is an Indian industrialist, politician, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Jindal Steel and the founding chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global University. He represents the Kurukshetra constituency in…

1970

Martin Johnson

English rugby player and coach

Martin Osborne Johnson CBE is an English retired rugby union player and coach. He played for and captained England, the British Lions and Leicester in a career spanning 16 seasons. He captained England to victory in the…

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. Their debut album, 30…

1970

Emmanuel Lewis

American actor

Emmanuel Lewis is a retired American actor, best known for playing the title character in the sitcom Webster. He was one of American television's biggest stars in the mid-1980s.

1971

Jodey Arrington

American politician

Jodey Cook Arrington is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 19th congressional district since 2017. The district includes a large slice of West Texas, centered around Lubbock and…

1972

Jean Louisa Kelly

American actress and singer

Jean Louisa Kelly is an American actress. After making her film debut as Tia Russell in Uncle Buck (1989) alongside John Candy, she appeared in a wide range of other films including The Fantasticks (2000) and Mr.…

1972

Kerr Smith

American actor

Kerr Smith is an American actor. He began his career with a recurring role as Ryder Hughes on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns (1996–1997). Smith had his breakout with a main role as Jack McPhee on the WB teen…

1972

Aaron Boone

American baseball player and manager

Aaron John Boone is an American professional baseball manager and former infielder who is the manager of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for 13 seasons from 1997 to 2009.…

1973

Liam Griffin

English race car driver

Liam Griffin is a British racing driver and businessman. He is the son of John Griffin and was CEO of minicab company Addison Lee for ten years before carrying out a management buyout with the private equity firm…

1973

Mark Harrity

Australian cricketer

Mark Andrew Harrity is an Australian former cricketer. He was born in Semaphore, a suburb of Adelaide. He was a very fast bowler but saw his career repeatedly interrupted by injury.

1974

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. Foyle played ten seasons with the…

1975

Juan Sebastián Verón

Argentine footballer

Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentine former professional footballer and current chairman of Estudiantes de La Plata, where he had served as Director of Sports. In 2004, Verón was included in the FIFA 100 list of the 125…

1975

Radek Dvořák

Czech ice hockey player

Radek Dvořák is a Czech former professional ice hockey right winger. Dvořák was drafted in the first round of the 1995 NHL entry draft, tenth overall, by the Florida Panthers. A veteran of 1,260 NHL games, Radek has…

1977

Mark Tookey

Australian rugby league player

Mark Tookey is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990 and 2000s. He played as a prop in Australia for the South Queensland Crushers and the Parramatta Eels as well as the New…

1977

Chris Phillips

Canadian ice hockey player and businessman

Chris Phillips is a Canadian businessman and former professional ice hockey player. Phillips was a member of the Ottawa Senators for his entire NHL career, which began with the 1997–98 season and ended with the 2015–16…

1978

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. He was named the best actor of his generation by…

1979

Jordan Klepper

American comedian

Jordan Klepper is an American comedian. He began his career as a member of The Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade. From 2014 to 2017, he was a correspondent on The Daily Show. He started his own satirical program,…

1979

Matt Barnes

American basketball player

Matt Kelly Barnes is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted in the second round of the 2002 NBA draft by the Memphis…

1980

Chingy

American rapper

Howard Earl Bailey Jr., better known by his stage name Chingy, is an American rapper. He toured as an opening act with fellow St. Louis rapper Nelly in 2002, and signed with Georgia-based rapper Ludacris' record label,…

1980

Matthew Gray Gubler

American actor

Matthew Gray Gubler is an American actor, best known for his role as criminal profiler Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show Criminal Minds, for which he also directed several episodes. Gubler has appeared in The…

1980

Antonio Bryant

American football player

Antonio Bryant is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers, earning consensus All-American…

1981

Chad Gilbert

American musician, songwriter, and producer

Chad Everett Gilbert is an American guitarist, record producer, and songwriter. He is a founding member of the punk rock band New Found Glory, for whom he plays lead guitar and sings backing vocals. He was also the lead…

1981

Clay Rapada

American baseball player

Clayton Anthony Rapada is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, New York…

1981

Ryan Bayley

Australian cyclist

Ryan Neville Bayley OAM is an Australian professional track cyclist and double Olympic gold medallist.

1982

Érika de Souza

Brazilian basketball player

Érika Cristina de Souza is a Brazilian professional basketball player for BC Castors Braine of the EuroLeague.

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. She captured the women's doubles…

1982

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. He played as a forward and midfielder for Premier League clubs Fulham and…

1983

Wayne Simien

American basketball player

Wayne Anthony Simien Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He was a member of the Miami Heat when they won the 2006 NBA championship. Simien played in college at the University of Kansas, where he…

1983

Abdoulay Konko

French footballer

Abdoulay Konko is a French football coach and former player who played as a right-back. He is a youth coach at Genoa.

1984

Julia Mancuso

American skier

Julia Marie Mancuso is an American retired World Cup alpine ski racer. She won the gold medal in giant slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and was the silver medalist in both downhill and combined in 2010, and the…

1984

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). Drafted as a right wing at the 2003 NHL entry draft by the Minnesota Wild, he…

1985

Jesse Litsch

American baseball player

Jesse Allen Litsch is an American former professional baseball pitcher. After working as a batboy for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, he was drafted in the 24th round by the Toronto Blue Jays in 2004, and played from 2007 to…

1985

Pastor Maldonado

Venezuelan race car driver

Pastor Rafael Maldonado Motta is a Venezuelan former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 2011 to 2015. Maldonado won the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix with Williams.

1985

Parthiv Patel

Indian cricketer

Parthiv Ajay Patel is a former Indian professional cricketer, wicketkeeper-batsman, who played for the Indian national cricket team. He is a left-handed batsman and played for Gujarat in domestic cricket. Having lost a…

1985

Bryan Bickell

Canadian ice hockey player

Bryan Bickell is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played for the Chicago Blackhawks and the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks…

1986

Damien Brunner

Swiss ice hockey player

Damien Brunner is a Swiss former professional ice hockey forward who last played for EHC Biel of the National League (NL). He has also played in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings and the New Jersey…

1986

Colin Greening

Canadian ice hockey player

Colin Peter Greening is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He played for the Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was originally drafted by the Senators…

1986

Brittany Snow

American actress and producer

Brittany Anne Snow is an American actress, singer and director. She gained recognition for her role in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light (1998–2001), for which she won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress and was…

1986

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. Hudson was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the fifth round of the…

1987

Bow Wow

American rapper and actor

Shad Gregory Moss, better known by his stage name Bow Wow, is an American rapper and actor. His career began upon being discovered by rapper Snoop Dogg in 1993 at the age of six; five years later, he signed with record…

1987

Taeyeon

South Korean singer

Kim Tae-yeon, known mononymously as Taeyeon, is a South Korean singer. She debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and…

1989

Daley Blind

Dutch footballer

Daley Blind is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for La Liga club Girona. A versatile player, he has been deployed as a left-back, centre-back, and defensive midfielder. He is the son of former Ajax defender and…

1990

American rapper

Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson, better known by his stage name, YG, is an American rapper. He released his debut mixtape 4Fingaz in 2008, and its follow-up, The Real 4Fingaz, the following year. The latter gained recognition…

1990

Jooyoung

South Korean singer-songwriter

Kim Joo-young, better known as Jooyoung, is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He debuted in 2010 and has released several singles and two extended plays, From Me To You (2012) and Fountain (2018).

1991

George Baldock

Greek footballer (died 2024)

George Henry Ivor Baldock was an English-Greek professional footballer who played as a right-back or right wing-back. Born in England, he represented Greece at the international level.

1993

Miikka Salomäki

Finnish ice hockey player

Miikka Salomäki is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward currently playing with SaiPa of the Finnish Liiga.

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. He debuted as a member of the South Korean boy band BTS in June 2013 under Big Hit…

1993

Morgan Rielly

Canadian ice hockey player

Morgan Frederick Rielly is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Maple Leafs in the…

1994

Cierra Ramirez

American actress and singer

Cierra Alexa Ramirez is an American actress and singer. She is best known for playing Mariana Adams Foster in the Freeform television series The Fosters and reprising her role in the spin-off series Good Trouble, which…

1995

Nadeo Argawinata

Indonesian footballer

Nadeo Argawinata, also known as Nadeo Winata, is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Super League club Borneo Samarinda and the Indonesia national team.

1997

Chika

American rapper

Jane Chika Oranika, known mononymously as Chika, is an American rapper. She first garnered attention on social media before signing to Warner Records in 2019. The following year, she was included in XXL's 2020 Freshman…

1997

Najee Harris

American football running back

Najee Mzee Harris is an American professional football running back. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft. Harris…

1998

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Finnish ice hockey player

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, known colloquially as UPL, is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the second round, 54th…

1999

Khaby Lame

Senegalese-Italian social media personality

Khabane Serigne "Khaby" Lame is a Senegalese-born Italian influencer and media personality. He is known for his TikTok videos, in which he silently mocks overly complicated "life hack" and other situational videos. As…

2000

Jeon Somi

South Korean-Canadian singer

Ennik Somi Douma, known professionally by her Korean name Jeon Somi (전소미), is a South Korean and Canadian singer. Born in Canada to a South Korean mother and a Dutch-Canadian father, she moved to South Korea as an…

2001

Usman Garuba

Spanish basketball player

Destiny Usman Garuba Alari is a Spanish professional basketball player for Real Madrid of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Listed at 2.03 m, he plays at both the power forward and center positions.

2002

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Battle of the Ironclads - March 9, 1862

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A shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight. Wikipedia →

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Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy, announces in a televised address and signs the decree imposing the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in the world. Wikipedia →

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Two Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopters collide in mid-air over Villa Castelli, Argentina, killing all 10 people on board both aircraft, including French athletes Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine, as well as producers and guests for the French TV show Dropped. Wikipedia →

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