October 9 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 9, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#148 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 9 birthdays
Camille Saint-Saëns · French composer, organist, conductor and pianist1835
Emil Fischer · German chemist1852
Alfred Dreyfus · French artillery officer1859
Nikolai Bukharin · Russian revolutionary and politician1888
Léopold Sédar Senghor · First president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist1906
Peter Mansfield · English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging1933
Heinz Fischer · Austrian politician, 8th president of Austria1938
John Lennon · British musician1940
France Gall · French singer1947
Oliver Hart · British-born American economist1948
Jackson Browne · American singer-songwriter1948
Jody Williams · American teacher and aid worker1950
Tony Shalhoub · American actor1953
Boris Nemtsov · Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician1959
Guillermo del Toro · Mexican filmmaker and author1964
David Cameron · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 20161966
Annika Sörenstam · Swedish American golfer1970
Sean Lennon · American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono1975
Brandon Routh · American actor1979
Bella Hadid · American model1996
On this day in history
1888The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., at the time the world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public.
1912Following a reduction in pay, textile workers in Little Falls, New York, walked out of their mill, starting a three-month strike.
1942World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, reversing the Japanese victory a couple of weeks earlier.
2019Syrian civil war: Turkish forces began an offensive into north-eastern Syria following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the region.
1962Nick Holonyak, an engineer for General Electric, gave the first public demonstration of a light-emitting diode.
1981President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.
1986The Phantom of the Opera, a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and currently the longest-running Broadway show in history, opened in London's West End.
2009First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
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