Share of the 51 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors35% (18 people)
Politicians22% (11 people)
Creators20% (10 people)
Actors18% (9 people)
Athletes18% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs16% (8 people)
Musicians14% (7 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States20 (20 people)
United Kingdom8 (8 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Sweden2 (2 people)
Argentina1 (1 people)
Life timeline
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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon.
Eva Rinaldi from Abbotsford, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Orenthal James Simpson, nicknamed "the Juice", was an American football player, actor, and media personality. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons—nine with the Buffalo Bills—and is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time.
Gerald Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Courtney Michelle Love is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actress. A figure in the alternative and grunge scenes of the 1990s, Love has had a career spanning four decades.
Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jordan Ross Belfort is an American former stockbroker and businessman who pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock-market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny-stock scam in 1999.
Pamela Adlon is an American actress, writer, and director. She is known for voicing Bobby Hill in the animated comedy series King of the Hill, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award.
Donald Henry Rumsfeld was an American politician, businessman, naval officer, and diplomat who served as the 13th United States secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and again as the 21st secretary of defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W.
Scott Davis, U.S. Army, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hassan II was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. Before his accession, he served as Crown Prince of Morocco from 1957 to 1961 and held key positions including commander-in-chief of the Royal Armed Forces and deputy prime minister.
Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chris Anderson is an English-American author and entrepreneur. He was with The Economist for seven years before joining Wired magazine in 2001, where he was the editor-in-chief until 2012.
Campus Party Brasil, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Māris Gailis is a Latvian businessman and former politician. He is the former prime minister of Latvia, an office he held from September 1994 to December 1995.
State Chancellery of Latvia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Křetínský is a Czech billionaire businessman and lawyer. He is chairman and controlling shareholder of EP Group, a European conglomerate built around the energy company Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH).
Donald Joyce Hall was an American billionaire businessman from Kansas City, Missouri. He was chairman and president of Hallmark Cards, the world's largest greeting card manufacturer. In 2015, Forbes estimated his family's net worth to be $2.8 billion.
David Hockney was a British painter, stage designer and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
United Press International, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott was an Australian singer who was the second lead vocalist and lyricist of the hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980.
Christopher Walton Cooper is an American actor. Having debuted as a stage actor, his television breakthrough was as Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed Western television miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989).
Sir Edward Richard George Heath was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001.
Moshe Milner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ashley Simon Young is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger and full-back. Young joined Sky Sports as a guest pundit for the Premier League since the 2025–26 season.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jan Hus, sometimes anglicized as John Goose or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hus or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspiration of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism, and a seminal figure in the Bohemian Reformation.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Georgina Helen Henley is an English actress. She began acting as a child, and became known for starring as Lucy Pevensie in the fantasy film series The Chronicles of Narnia (2005–2010), which grossed over US$1.5 billion worldwide and won her several accolades.
Khedara Ariyaratne, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gianluca Vialli was an Italian football player and manager who played as a striker. Vialli started his club career at his hometown club Cremonese in 1980, where he made 105 league appearances and scored 23 goals.
Haydée Marta Mercedes Sosa Girón was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and many countries outside the region. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of the nuevo cancionero movement.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author. His novels are billed as suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire.
Paolo Di Canio is an Italian former professional footballer and manager. During his playing career he made over 500 league appearances and scored over one hundred goals as a forward.
Rafael Pereira da Silva, commonly known as simply Rafael or Rafael da Silva, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who last played for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Botafogo. He normally played as a right-back, but he has also been deployed as a midfielder.
Andrea Sartorati, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was an English writer and socialite who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland is one of the best-selling authors worldwide of the 20th century.
Franz Uri Boas was a German-American anthropologist and ethnomusicologist. He was a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology". His work is associated with the movements known as historical particularism and cultural relativism.
https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/barbeau/mb0588be.html, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Fabio Pereira da Silva, known as Fabio, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who last played as a full-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Grêmio.
Jon Candy from Cardiff, Wales, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ann Radcliffe was an English novelist and poet who pioneered the Gothic novel. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, was published in 1794. She is also remembered for her third novel, The Romance of the Forest (1791) and her fifth novel, The Italian (1797).
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Percy LaBaron Spencer was an American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor of the microwave oven. As a boy he was twice orphaned and began work at a young age, never finishing grammar school.
George Johann Carl Antheil was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century.
Berenice Abbott, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Matthew Gregory Lewis was an English novelist and dramatist, whose writings are often classified as "Gothic horror". He was frequently referred to as "Monk" Lewis, because of the success of his 1796 Gothic novel The Monk.
Henry William Pickersgill, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist, and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the "May School".
Jan Vilímek (1860–1938), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kōji Nakata is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a defender and midfielder. At international level, he represented the Japan national team at both the 2002, and the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
This page lists 51 people born on July 9, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of February 2023. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on July 9. Read the full methodology.
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