Famous birthdays
Famous people born on October 9
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 9 include John Lennon (1940), David Cameron (1966), Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906) and Emil Fischer (1852). Our list below has 94 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 9 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1586 (Leopold V, Archduke of Austria) and the most recent is 1998 (Patson Daka). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.
Who was born on October 9?
- John Lennon 1940 British musician
- David Cameron 1966 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016
- Léopold Sédar Senghor 1906 First president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist
- Emil Fischer 1852 German chemist
- Boris Nemtsov 1959 Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician
- Heinz Fischer 1938 Austrian politician (SPÖ), 8th president of Austria
- Charles X of France 1757 King of France and Navarre from 1824 to 1830
- Jody Williams 1950 American teacher and aid worker
- Camille Saint-Saëns 1835 French composer, organist, conductor and pianist
- Nikolai Bukharin 1888 Russian revolutionary and politician
- Guillermo del Toro 1964 Mexican filmmaker and author
- Alfred Dreyfus 1859 French artillery officer
- France Gall 1947 French singer
- Bella Hadid 1996 American model
- Peter Mansfield 1933 English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging
- Jacques Tati 1907 French filmmaker
- Karl Schwarzschild 1873 German physicist, astronomer and mathematician
- Ryoichi Maeda 1981 Japanese association football player
- Tony Shalhoub 1953 American actor
- Oliver Hart 1948 British-born American economist
- PJ Harvey 1969 English singer-songwriter
- Steve McQueen 1969 British film director and video artist
- Jackson Browne 1948 American singer-songwriter
- Yusuke Minagawa 1991 Japanese association football player
- Mark Viduka 1975 Australian association football player
- Jorge Burruchaga 1962 Argentine footballer and manager
- Takehiko Kawanishi 1938 Japanese association football player
- Horst Wessel 1907 SA officer
- Sean Lennon 1975 American composer and musician, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
- John Pilger 1939 Australian journalist
- Annika Sörenstam 1970 Swedish American golfer
- Lila Kedrova 1909 Actress
- Brandon Routh 1979 American actor
- Tadeusz Różewicz 1921 Polish poet, dramatist and writer
- Mário de Andrade 1893 Brazilian writer, musicologist and photographer
- Prince Edward, Duke of Kent 1935 Paternal first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; grandson of King George V and Queen Mary…
- John Entwistle 1944 English musician; bassist for The Who
- Scott Bakula 1954 American actor
- Pete Docter 1968 American animator and film director
- Eddie Guerrero 1967 American wrestler
- Nicky Byrne 1978 Irish singer-songwriter, radio and TV presenter, dancer, and footballer
- Wesley So 1993 Filipino-American chess player
- Marie Kondō 1984 Japanese organizing consultant, author and television show host
- Gheorghe Popescu 1967 Romanian footballer
- Patson Daka 1998 Zambian association football player
- Sharon Osbourne 1952 British-American television personality
- Gaël Givet 1981 French footballer
- Niccolò Tommaseo 1802 Italian linguist
- Asisat Oshoala 1994 Nigerian association football player
- Robin Quaison 1993 Swedish association football player
- Fatma Aliye Topuz 1862 Turkish writer and self-described feminist
- Djamel Mesbah 1984 Algerian association football player
- Brian Blessed 1936 British actor
- Jodelle Ferland 1994 Canadian actress
- Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1735 Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Chuba Akpom 1995 English association football player
- Einojuhani Rautavaara 1928 Finnish composer
- Victor Klemperer 1881 German philologist
- Jonny Williams 1993 Welsh association footballer
- Giuseppe Saracco 1821 Italian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy
- Kenny Tete 1995 Dutch association football player
- Ferdinand Verbiest 1623 Flemish Jesuit missionary in Qing dynasty China
- Werner von Haeften 1908 German resistance fighter
- Blessing Okagbare 1988 Nigerian track and field athlete
- Steve Jablonsky 1970 American composer
- Lauren Davis 1993 American tennis player
- Leopold V, Archduke of Austria 1586 Archduke of Austria-Tirol, Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg until 1625
- Tawfiq al-Hakim 1898 Egyptian writer
- Laure Manaudou 1986 French swimmer
- Carlos Pavón 1973 Honduran footballer
- Rafał Murawski 1981 Polish footballer
- Jung Hong-won 1944 South Korean politician
- Trent Lott 1941 United States Senator from Mississippi
- Irving Cummings 1888 Actor, film director
- Yusef Lateef 1920 American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and spokesman for the…
- Joe Rosenthal 1911 American photographer
- Lewis Cass 1782 American politician
- Sophie Calle 1953 French artist
- Chris O'Dowd 1979 Irish actor and comedian
- Tatyana Lysenko 1983 Russian hammer thrower
- Abdullah Ibrahim 1934 South African pianist and composer
- David López Silva 1989 Spanish associiation football player
- Michael Paré 1958 American actor
- Modeste Mbami 1982 Cameroonian and French footballer
- Ivan Šunjić 1996 Croatian association football player
- Bebo Valdés 1918 Cuban musician
- Thomas Frank 1973 Danish association football manager
- Steve Ovett 1955 Former middle distance runner
- Jean-Baptiste Regnault 1754 French painter
- Ottavia Piccolo 1949 Italian actress
- Holger Drachmann 1846 Poet and painter
- Nick Swardson 1976 American comedian
- Julia Simon 1996 French biathlete
- Khasan Khalmurzaev 1993 Russian judoka
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 9 share the 9th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.