October 9 is the birthday of 53 notable people we've found so far, including authors, historical figures, entrepreneurs and creators, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Share of the 53 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors26% (14 people)
Entrepreneurs23% (12 people)
Creators21% (11 people)
Scientists17% (9 people)
Actors15% (8 people)
Musicians15% (8 people)
Politicians15% (8 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States9 (9 people)
France6 (6 people)
Japan5 (5 people)
Brazil4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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~24Norberto OdebrechtFounded Novonor (1944)
~19Mark VidukaJoined Australia men's national soccer team (1994)
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician, songwriter and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.
Tony Barnard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism, and horror, often blending the genres, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque.
1892–1975 · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals."
Franz Schmelhaus, Zürich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms.
https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/29/85/3104172da6b66ab0d72a53a71f82.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.o, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Peter Mansfield was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.
William Byron Lee is an American businessman and politician who has served since 2019 as the 50th governor of Tennessee. A member of the Republican Party, Lee was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Lee Company, a business operated by his family, from 1992 to 2016.
Virginia Office of the Governor, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hui Ka Yan is a Chinese convicted criminal and former businessman. Founder of Evergrande Group, he was a high-profile tycoon whose ventures extended from real estate into sports, entertainment, and beverages, until his arrest in 2023 amid the Chinese real estate crisis.
China News Service, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Luiza Helena Trajano Inácio Rodrigues is a Brazilian businessperson. She is chair of the retailer Magazine Luiza and associated companies. In July 2020, Forbes noted that she was Brazil's wealthiest woman.
Magazine Luiza - Magalu, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for a significant portion of his artistic life.
Ottavio Leoni, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sean Tarō Ono Lennon is a British and American musician. He is the son of the musical artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono and half-brother of Julian Lennon and Kyoko Cox.
Flickr user glaurent, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 30 million albums in the United States.
The Blue Peacock Company (management)/Asylum Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote, a work considered to be the first modern novel.
Attributed to Juan de Jáuregui, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Brandon Routh is an American actor. His portrayal of Superman in the 2006 film Superman Returns garnered him international fame. In 2011, he played the title character of the film Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. He also had a recurring role in the NBC series Chuck, as Daniel Shaw.
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Polly Jean Harvey is an English singer and songwriter. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments.
Sir Steve Rodney McQueen is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter and video artist. Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matter, he has received several awards including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal statesman and politician, opposition leader and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy.
Peter Hans Docter is an American filmmaker and animator. He has served as chief creative officer (CCO) of Pixar since 2018. He has directed the company's animated films Monsters, Inc. (2001), Up (2009), Inside Out (2015), and Soul (2020).
nicolas genin from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé and pop singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", representing Luxembourg.
Radiocorriere TV / RAI, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacques Tati was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for portraying the character Monsieur Hulot in his films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Playtime (1967), and Trafic (1971).
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese politician, cultural theorist and poet who served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980.
Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F011981-0003,_Frankfurt-Main,_Staatspräsident_von_Senegal.jpg: Steiner, Egon derivative work: Ro, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacopo Robusti, best known as Tintoretto, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticised the speed with which he painted and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork.
Jacopo Tintoretto, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jorge Luis Burruchaga, nicknamed Burru, is an Argentine association football coach and former professional football player. He played both as an attacking midfielder and forward and scored the winning goal in the final of the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Richard Pilger was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker. From 1962, he was based mainly in Britain. He was also a visiting professor at Cornell University in New York.
SCU Media Students, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
B. Traven was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, known for his novels on injustice and exploitation around the world, and especially in Mexico. His name, nationality, date and place of birth have been subject to dispute.
British Authorities (London, 1923), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yelizaveta Nikolaevna Kedrova, known as Lila Kedrova, was a Russian-French actress of the screen and stage. For her portrayal of Madame Hortense in Zorba the Greek (1964), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Mustafa Rahmi Koç is a Turkish businessman. In 2016, Forbes ranked him No. 906 richest person in the world with a net worth of US$2.6 billion. In 2013, Koç was the single highest taxpayer in Turkey, totalling 37.5 million lira.
Jody Williams is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights, and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today's world.
Justin Hoch photographing for Hudson Union Society: cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:42, 16 June 2017 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Oliver Simon D'Arcy Hart is a British-American economist, currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. Together with Bengt R. Holmström, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016.
Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetry, Paulicéia Desvairada, published in 1922.
Mario_de_andrade_1928.png: Michelle Rizzo (1869-1929) derivative work: Materialscientist (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ryoichi Maeda is a Japanese football coach and former player who played as a forward. He was the J.League Top Scorer and J.League Best XI in 2009 and 2010.
yoppy from Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tadeusz Różewicz was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of foreign partitions. He was born in Radomsko, near Łódź, in 1921.
This page lists 53 people born on October 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 August 2021. 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 October 9. Read the full methodology.
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