Births on 9 May
2000s
Trey Lance
2000
American football player (born 2000)
1900s
Noah Centineo
1996
American actor (born 1996)
Tommy Edman
1995
American baseball player (born 1995)
Beth Mead
1995
English footballer (born 1995)
Shaboozey
1995
American musician (born 1995)
Dan Burn
1992
English footballer (born 1992)
Majlinda Kelmendi
1991
Kosovo-Albanian judoka (born 1991)
Ellen White (footballer)
1989
English footballer (born 1988)
C418
1989
German musician (born 1989)
J. R. Fitzpatrick
1988
Canadian stock car racing driver
Kevin Gameiro
1987
French footballer (born 1987)
Jake Long
1985
American football player (born 1985)
Prince Fielder
1984
American baseball player (born 1984)
Gilles Müller
1983
Luxembourgish tennis player
Grant Hackett
1980
Australian swimmer (born 1980)
Rosario Dawson
1979
American actress (born 1979)
Brandon Webb
1979
American baseball player (born 1979)
Averno (wrestler)
1977
Mexican professional wrestler (born 1977)
Marek Jankulovski
1977
Czech footballer (born 1977)
Svein Tuft
1977
Canadian cyclist
Tamia
1975
Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1975)
Brian Deegan
1975
American motorcycle racer (b. 1974)
Tegla Loroupe
1973
Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1973)
Doug Christie
1970
American basketball player and coach (born 1970)
Hao Haidong
1970
Chinese footballer (born 1970)
Ghostface Killah
1970
American rapper (born 1970)
Graham Harman
1968
American philosopher (born 1968)
Ruth Kelly
1968
British Labour politician (born 1968)
Marie-José Pérec
1968
French sprinter (born 1968)
Steve Yzerman
1965
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1965)
Dave Gahan
1962
English singer (born 1962)
Paul Heaton
1962
British musician (born 1962)
John Corbett
1961
American actor and country music singer (born 1961)
Tony Gwynn
1960
American baseball player (1960–2014)
Wendy Crewson
1956
Canadian actress (born 1956)
Meles Zenawi
1955
Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 1995 to 2012
Anne Sofie von Otter
1955
Swedish mezzo-soprano (born 1955)
Alley Mills
1951
American actress
Joy Harjo
1951
American poet laureate (born 1951)
Billy Joel
1949
American singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1949)
Calvin Murphy
1948
American basketball player (born 1948)
Yukiya Amano
1947
Japanese diplomat (1947–2019)
Candice Bergen
1946
American actress (born 1946)
Jupp Heynckes
1945
German football player and manager
Vince Cable
1943
British politician (born 1943)
Colin Pillinger
1943
English planetary scientist
John Ashcroft
1942
American lawyer and politician (born 1942)
David Gergen
1942
American political consultant (1942–2025)
Dorothy Hyman
1941
English sprinter (born 1941)
James L. Brooks
1940
American filmmaker (born 1940)
Ion Èširiac
1939
Romanian tennis player (born 1939)
Carroll Cole
1938
American serial killer (1938–1985)
Charles Simic
1938
Serbian-born American poet (1938–2023)
Dave Prater
1937
American singer (1937–1988)
Albert Finney
1936
English actor (1936–2019)
Glenda Jackson
1936
English actress and politician (1936–2023)
Nokie Edwards
1935
American musician (1935–2018)
Alan Bennett
1934
English actor and playwright (born 1934)
Geraldine McEwan
1932
English actress (1932–2015)
Vance D. Brand
1931
American naval officer, aviator, aeronautical engineer and astronaut (born 1931)
Joan Sims
1930
English actress (1930–2001)
Pancho Gonzales
1928
American tennis player (1928–1995)
Barbara Ann Scott
1928
Canadian figure skater (1928–2012)
Manfred Eigen
1927
German biophysical chemist (1927–2019)
Bulat Okudzhava
1924
Soviet-Russian singer (1924–1997)
Daniel Berrigan
1921
American Catholic priest and activist (1921–2016)
Sophie Scholl
1921
German anti-Nazi student activist (1921–1943)
Mike Wallace
1918
American journalist (1918–2012)
Carlo Maria Giulini
1914
Italian conductor (1914–2005)
J. Merrill Knapp
1914
American musicologist and academic
Hank Snow
1914
Canadian musician (1914–1999)
Pedro Armendáriz
1912
Mexican actor (1912–1963)
Gordon Bunshaft
1909
American architect (1909–90)
Billy Jurges
1908
American baseball player and manager (1908–1997)
Jackie Grant
1907
West Indian cricketer
Baldur von Schirach
1907
German Nazi politician (1907–1974)
Maria Malicka (actress)
1900
Polish actress (1898–1992)
1800s
Richard Day (art director)
1896
Canadian art director
Richard Barthelmess
1895
American actor (1895–1963)
Lucian Blaga
1895
Romanian philosopher and writer (1895–1961)
Frank Foss (athlete)
1895
American pole vaulter (1895–1989)
Benjamin Graham
1894
American financial analyst, investor, and professor (1894–1976)
William Moulton Marston
1893
American psychologist and writer
Zita of Bourbon-Parma
1892
Empress-queen of Austria-Hungary from 1916 to 1918
Francesco Baracca
1888
Italian World War I flying ace
Rolf de Maré
1888
Swedish art collector
Gianni Vella
1885
Former Maltese artist
Valdemar Psilander
1884
Danish actor (1884–1917)
José Ortega y Gasset
1883
Spanish philosopher and essayist (1883–1955)
George Barker (painter)
1882
American painter
Henry J. Kaiser
1882
American industrialist (1882–1967)
Howard Carter
1874
British archaeologist and Egyptologist (1874–1939)
Anton Cermak
1873
American politician (1873–1933)
Harry Vardon
1870
Jersey professional golfer (1870–1937)
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1866
Indian political leader and social reformer (1866–1915)
J. M. Barrie
1860
Scottish novelist and playwright (1860–1937)
Julius Röntgen
1855
German-Dutch composer
Edward Weston (chemist)
1850
American chemist
Gustaf de Laval
1845
Swedish engineer and inventor (1845–1913)
Adam Opel
1837
Founder of Opel and manufacturer of bicycles and sewing machines
Ferdinand Monoyer
1836
French ophthalmologist
James Collinson
1825
English painter
Jacob ben Moses Bachrach
1824
Frederick Weld
1823
New Zealand politician and colonial administrator (1823–1891)
John Brougham
1814
Irish-American actor and dramatist (1814–1880)
Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood
1801
English politician
John Brown (abolitionist)
1800
American abolitionist (1800–1859)
Before 1800
János Batsányi
1763
Hungarian poet
Gaspard Monge
1746
French mathematician (1746–1818)
Giovanni Paisiello
1740
Italian Classical era composer (1740–1816)
Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege
1617
Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg
1594
Jerónima de la Asunción
1555
Spanish nun and Servant of God
Maharana Pratap
1540
Maharana of Mewar from 1572 to 1597
Al-Adid
1151
Last Fatimid caliph (1160–1171) and imam
Minamoto no Yoritomo
1147
Japanese Samurai, Daimyo and Military ruler of Japan from 1192 to 1199