April 9 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 9, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#283 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 9 birthdays
Elias Lönnrot · Finnish physician1802
Charles Baudelaire · French poet and critic1821
Eadweard Muybridge · English-American photographer1830
Leopold II of Belgium · King of the Belgians from 1865 to 19091835
Léon Blum · French politician1872
Paul Robeson · American singer, actor, and political activist1898
Mary Jackson · American mathematician and aerospace engineer1921
Hugh Hefner · American businessman and magazine publisher1926
Jean-Paul Belmondo · French actor1933
Valerie Solanas · American radical feminist and author1936
Dennis Quaid · American actor1954
Cynthia Nixon · American actress and politician1966
Sam Harris · American author, philosopher and neuroscientist1967
Jenna Jameson · American pornographic actress1974
Gerard Way · American singer1977
Leighton Meester · American actress and singer1986
Jesse McCartney · American singer and actor1987
Kristen Stewart · American actress1990
Elle Fanning · American actress1998
Lil Nas X · American rapper, singer and songwriter1999
On this day in history
1947Sixteen white and black men began a two-week journey in the American South, acting in defiance of local laws that enforced segregated seating on public buses.
1959NASA announced the selection of the Mercury Seven, the first astronauts in Project Mercury.
2003Invasion of Iraq: Coalition forces captured Baghdad and the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square was toppled.
2005Charles, Prince of Wales, married Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at the Windsor Guildhall.
1940World War II: During the German invasion of Norway, Vidkun Quisling attempted to seize power in the first coup to be broadcast over radio.
1945The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
1967The Boeing 737 took its maiden flight, eventually becoming the most produced commercial passenger jet airliner in the world.
1992A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
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