September 9 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 9, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#13 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 9 birthdays
Leo Tolstoy · Russian author1828
Kurt Lewin · German-American psychologist1890
Colonel Sanders · American entrepreneur who founded KFC1890
Cesare Pavese · Italian writer, literary critic, and translator1908
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro · 9th President of Italy1918
Hans Georg Dehmelt · German physicist1922
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek · American medical researcher1923
Cliff Robertson · American actor1923
Reuven Rivlin · 10th President of Israel1939
Dennis Ritchie · American computer scientist1941
Otis Redding · American singer and songwriter1941
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono · 6th President of Indonesia1949
Hugh Grant · British actor1960
Adam Sandler · American actor and comedian1966
Akshay Kumar · Actor1967
Lila Downs · Mexican-American singer-songwriter1968
Michael Bublé · Canadian singer, songwriter and actor1975
Michelle Williams · American actress1980
Zoe Kazan · American actress1983
Luka Modrić · Croatian footballer1985
On this day in history
1791The commissioners overseeing the construction of the United States' new capital city named it Washington, in honor of the first president.
1892At the Lick Observatory in California, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter and the last natural satellite to be discovered by visual observation.
1957U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights bill since Reconstruction.
2015Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.
1965The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1966The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1971Imagine, the second solo album by John Lennon, was released.
1999The first banknotes of the Portrait Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissioners of Currency.
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