Births on 9 January
2000s
Sarah Toscano
2006
Italian singer-songwriter (born 2006)
Souhardya De
2004
Indian author and columnist
Sangiovanni
2003
Italian singer-songwriter (born 2003)
Eric García (footballer, born 2001)
2001
Spanish footballer (born 2001)
Peter Mamouzelos
2001
Greece international rugby league footballer
Zeke Nnaji
2001
American basketball player (born 2001)
Luka Šamanić
2000
Croatian basketball player (born 2000)
1900s
Kerris Dorsey
1998
American actress (born 1998)
Brent Rivera
1998
American YouTuber and actor (born 1998)
Vítek Vaněček
1996
Czech ice hockey player (born 1996)
Braden Hamlin-Uele
1995
NZ & Samoa international rugby league footballer
Dominik Livaković
1995
Croatian goalkeeper (born 1995)
Nicola Peltz
1995
American actress (born 1995)
Radek Faksa
1994
Czech ice hockey player (born 1994)
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
1993
British heptathlete (born 1993)
Marcus Peters
1993
American football player (born 1993)
Jack Campbell (ice hockey)
1992
American ice hockey player (born 1992)
Terrence Jones
1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Joseph Parker
1992
New Zealand boxer (born 1992)
Ruby Soho (wrestler)
1991
American professional wrestler (born 1991)
Álvaro Soler
1991
Spanish pop singer (born 1991)
Michael Beasley
1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Nina Dobrev
1989
Canadian actress (born 1989)
Yana Maksimava
1989
Belarusian heptathlete
Samardo Samuels
1989
Jamaican basketball player (born 1989)
Chris Sandow
1989
Australian professional rugby league footballer
Haris Sohail
1989
Pakistani cricketer
Lee Yeon-hee
1988
South Korean actress (born 1988)
Lucas Leiva
1987
Brazilian footballer (born 1987)
Paolo Nutini
1987
Scottish singer, songwriter and musician (born 1987)
Jami Puustinen
1987
Finnish footballer (born 1987)
Raphael Diaz
1986
Swiss ice hockey player (born 1986)
Jéferson (footballer, born 1986)
1986
Brazilian footballer
Amanda Mynhardt
1986
South African netball player (born 1986)
Juanfran (footballer, born 1985)
1985
Spanish footballer
Catherine, Princess of Wales
1982
Member of the British royal family (born 1982)
Sharrod Ford
1982
American basketball player (born 1982)
Ebi Smolarek
1981
Polish footballer
Édgar Álvarez
1980
Honduran footballer (born 1980)
Sergio García
1980
Spanish professional golfer (born 1980)
Shaun Hill
1980
American football player (born 1980)
Luke Patten
1980
Australian rugby league footballer
Francisco Pavón
1980
Spanish association football player
Mathieu Garon
1978
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1978)
Gennaro Gattuso
1978
Italian football manager and former player (born 1978)
Chad Johnson
1978
American gridiron football player (born 1978)
AJ McLean
1978
American singer, member of Backstreet Boys (born 1978)
Radek Bonk
1976
Czech ice hockey player (born 1976)
James Beckford (athlete)
1975
Jamaican athlete (born 1975)
Omari Hardwick
1974
American actor (born 1974)
Angela Bettis
1973
American actress (born 1973)
Sean Paul
1973
Jamaican rapper (born 1973)
Angie Martinez
1971
American radio host and rapper (born 1971)
Lara Fabian
1970
Belgian-Italian and Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1970)
Jimmy Adams
1968
West Indian cricketer
Joey Lauren Adams
1968
American actress (born 1968)
George Theofanous
1968
Greek Cypriot composer and producer (born 1996)
Matt Bevin
1967
Governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019
Claudio Caniggia
1967
Argentine footballer
David Costabile
1967
American actor (born 1967)
Steve Harwell
1967
American musician (1967–2023)
Dave Matthews
1967
American singer-songwriter (born 1967)
Muggsy Bogues
1965
American basketball player (born 1965)
Haddaway
1965
Trinidadian-German singer (born 1965)
Joely Richardson
1965
British actress (born 1965)
Eric Erlandson
1963
American musician, guitarist, and writer
Irwin McLean
1963
Emeritus Professor of Genetic Medicine
Ray Houghton
1962
Irish footballer
Didier Camberabero
1961
French rugby union player (born 1961)
Lisa Walters
1960
Canadian professional golfer
Rigoberta Menchú
1959
K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist (born 1959)
Rob McClanahan
1958
American ice hockey player (born 1958)
Mehmet Ali Ağca
1958
Turkish assassin (born 1958)
Phil Lewis (musician)
1957
British singer
Waltraud Meier
1956
German opera singer
Imelda Staunton
1956
English actress and singer (born 1956)
Bruce Boudreau
1955
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1955)
J. K. Simmons
1955
American actor (born 1955)
Philippa Gregory
1954
English historical novelist (born 1954)
Kaushik Basu
1952
Indian economist and academic (born 1952)
M. L. Carr
1951
American basketball player and coach (born 1951)
Crystal Gayle
1951
American country music singer (born 1951)
Alec Jeffreys
1950
British geneticist (born 1950)
David Johansen
1950
American singer (1950–2025)
Bill Cowsill
1948
American singer (1948–2006)
Jan Tomaszewski
1948
Polish footballer (born 1948)
Mohammad Ishaq Khan
1946
Kashmiri academic
Mogens Lykketoft
1946
Danish politician (born 1946)
John Doman
1945
American actor
Levon Ter-Petrosyan
1945
President of Armenia from 1991 to 1998
Harun Farocki
1944
German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film (1944–2014)
Jimmy Page
1944
English guitarist (born 1944)
Michalis Violaris
1944
Musical artist
Robert Drewe
1943
Australian author
Elmer MacFadyen
1943
Canadian politician
Scott Walker (singer)
1943
British-American singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (1943–2019)
Joan Baez
1941
American contemporary folk musician (born 1941)
Barbara Buczek
1940
Polish composer (1940–1993)
Ruth Dreifuss
1940
Swiss politician
Susannah York
1939
English film, stage and television actress (1939–2011)
Claudette Boyer
1938
Canadian politician
K Callan
1936
American actress
Marko Veselica
1936
Croatian disident and economist (1936–2017)
Bob Denver
1935
American actor (1935–2005)
Dick Enberg
1935
American sportscaster (1935–2017)
John Graham (rugby union)
1935
New Zealand educator (1935–2017)
Brian Harradine
1935
Australian politician (1935–2014)
Bart Starr
1934
American football player, coach, and executive (1934–2019)
Roy Dwight
1933
English footballer (1933–2002)
Wilbur Smith
1933
South African novelist (1933–2021)
Algis Budrys
1931
Lithuanian-American author, editor, and critic (1931–2008)
Brian Friel
1929
Irish dramatist, author and theatre director (1929–2015)
Heiner Müller
1929
German writer, poet, and theatre director (1929–1995)
Judith Krantz
1928
American writer (1928–2019)
Domenico Modugno
1928
Italian singer, actor and politician (1928–1994)
Jean-Pierre Côté
1926
Canadian politician
Len Quested
1925
English footballer (1925–2012)
Lee Van Cleef
1925
American actor (1925–1989)
Sergei Parajanov
1924
Soviet filmmaker (1924–1990)
Har Gobind Khorana
1922
Indian-American molecular biologist (1922–2011)
Ahmed Sékou Touré
1922
President of Guinea from 1958 to 1984
Ágnes Keleti
1921
Hungarian-Israeli artistic gymnast (1921–2025)
Clive Dunn
1920
English actor (1920–2012)
Hakeem Muhammad Saeed
1920
Pakistani medical researcher, scholar, philanthropist and governor of Sindh Province
William Morris Meredith Jr.
1919
American poet
Alma Ziegler
1918
Baseball player
Fernando Lamas
1915
Argentine-American actor (1915–1982)
Anita Louise
1915
American actress (1915–1970)
Kenny Clarke
1914
American jazz drummer (1914–1985)
Richard Nixon
1913
President of the United States from 1969 to 1974
Basil Langton
1912
English actor
Ralph Tubbs
1912
Anthony Mamo
1909
President of Malta from 1974 to 1976
Patrick Peyton
1909
Irish Catholic priest
Simone de Beauvoir
1908
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Rudolf Bing
1902
Austrian-American opera impresario (1902–1997)
Josemaría Escrivá
1902
Spanish Catholic priest and saint (1902–1975)
Vilma Bánky
1901
Hungarian-American film actress
Richard Halliburton
1900
American travel writer and adventurer (1900–1939)
1800s
Harald Tammer
1899
Estonian weightlifter
Gracie Fields
1898
British actress, singer and comedian (1898–1979)
Karl Löwith
1897
German philosopher (1897–1973)
Halyna Kuzmenko
1897
Ukrainian anarchist (1897–1978)
Warwick Braithwaite
1896
Musical artist
Edwin Baker (CNIB)
1893
Canadian blindness activist
Eva Bowring
1892
American politician (1892–1985)
Karel Čapek
1890
Czech science fiction writer and playwright (1890–1938)
Kurt Tucholsky
1890
German journalist, satirist and writer
Vrindavan Lal Verma
1889
Lloyd Loar
1886
Mandolin designer and luthier
Charles Bacon
1885
American athlete (1885–1968)
Lascelles Abercrombie
1881
British poet (1881–1938)
Giovanni Papini
1881
Italian writer (1881–1956)
John B. Watson
1879
American psychologist (1878–1958)
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1875
American sculptor, art patron and collector (1875–1942)
Hayim Nahman Bialik
1873
Hebrew poet, author, and editor (1873–1934)
Thomas Curtis (athlete)
1873
American athlete
John Flanagan (hammer thrower)
1873
American hammer thrower
Joseph Strauss (engineer)
1870
American structural engineer (1870–1938)
S. P. L. Sørensen
1868
Danish chemist (1868–1939)
Vladimir Steklov (mathematician)
1864
Russian mathematician (1864–1926)
Carrie Chapman Catt
1859
American social reformer and suffragist (1859–1947)
Anton Aškerc
1856
Slovenian poet and Roman Catholic priest
Lady Randolph Churchill
1854
American-born British socialite (1854–1921)
John Hartley (tennis)
1849
English clergyman and tennis player
Princess Frederica of Hanover
1848
Hanoverian princess (1848–1926)
John Knowles Paine
1839
American composer (1839–1906)
Félix-Gabriel Marchand
1832
Premier of Quebec from 1897 to 1900
T. W. Robertson
1829
English dramatist and stage director
Adolf Schlagintweit
1829
German botanist and explorer (1829–1857)
Friedrich von Esmarch
1823
German academic (1823–1908)
Carol Benesch
1822
Silesian architect
James Francis (politician)
1819
Australian politician (1819–1884)
Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon
1818
French sculptor and photographer (1818–1881)
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
1811
English barrister and humorist (1811–1856)
Before 1800
Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi
1778
Ottoman classical composer
Cassandra Austen
1773
British artist (1773–1845)
Luísa Todi
1753
Portuguese opera singer (1753–1833)
Caleb Strong
1745
American Founding Father and politician (1745–1819)
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
1735
Royal Navy officer and politician (1735–1823)
Thomas Warton
1728
18th-century English literary historian, critic, and poet
Tiberius Hemsterhuis
1685
18th-century Dutch philologist
Reinhard Keiser
1674
German opera composer (1674–1739)
Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet
1645
English politician
Empress Meishō
1624
Emperor of Japan from 1629 to 1643
William Dugard
1606
17th-century English printer
Simon Vouet
1590
French painter (1590–1649)
Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy
1571
17th-century Low Countries nobleman and military commander
Pope Gregory XV
1554
Head of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623
John Ramon III, Count of Cardona
1418
Catalan nobleman
Hōjō Takatoki
1304
Tokusō and ruling Shikken (regent) of Japan's Kamakura shogunate (1304–1333)
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