October 9: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is October 9th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on October 9th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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October 9th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

October 9th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Polish watercolor painter Maksymilian Gierymski (Apple-Tree over the Stream, Charge of Russian Horse Artillery, Prayer of Jews on Sabbath, Rifle Range in a Grove, Skirmish with Tatars and Two Riders) was born on October 9, 1846. His brother, Aleksander Gierymski, is also a painter.

Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro Gomez (Blade II, The Devil's Backbone, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and The Spirit of the Beehive) was born on October 9, 1964.

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, American sculptor (Beatrice Cenci, Daphne, Medusa, Oenone, Puck, Sleeping Faun, Waking Faun and Zenobia: Queen of Palmyra in Chains), was born on October 9, 1830.

French operatic and symphonic composer Charles-Camille Saint-Saens (Danse Macabre, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Le Rouet d'Omphale and Samson et Dalila) was born on October 9, 1835.

Jacques Tati Tatischeff, film director (Forza Bastia, Jour de Fete, Mon Oncle, Parade, Playtime and Trafic) and Academy Award winner (1958), was born on October 9, 1908.

William (Bill) Edward Tidy, British cartoonist (The Cloggies and The Fosdyke Saga), was born on October 9, 1933.

Italian operatic composer Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi (Aida and La Traviata), was born on October 9, 1813.

October 9th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Arlene Boxhall, Zimbabwean field hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1980), was born on October 9, 1961.

Klaes Karppinen, Finnish relay runner and Olympic gold medalist (1936), was born on October 9, 1907.

Kusuo Kitamura, Japanese swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1932), was born on October 9, 1917.

Steve Ovett, British runner and Olympic gold medalist (1980), was born on October 9, 1955.

Brandon Pollard, American soccer player and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on October 9, 1973.

Mike Singletary, American professional football player (Chicago Bears), was born on October 9, 1959.

October 9th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Bruce Catton, American Civil War historian, author (The Centennial History of the Civil War, Glory Road, Grant Moves South, Grant Takes Command, This Hallowed Ground, Mr. Lincoln's Army, Prefaces to History, A Stillness at Appomattox and The War Lords of Washington) and Pulitzer Prize winner (1954), was born on October 9, 1899.

American theater critic (Conde Nast Traveler, Stagebill, The Times and Vogue) and author Martin Gottfried (All His Jazz - The Life and Death of Bob Fosse, Balancing Act - The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury, Broadway Musicals, Dreamgirls - The Movie Musical, More Broadway Musicals, Opening Nights and A Theater Divided) was born on October 9, 1933.

Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, radio preacher and author (Give Me My Own God, The Second Coming of Christ, The Service of the King, The Story of My Life and This is That), was born on October 9, 1890. Aimee Semple McPherson founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.

Jody Williams, American humanitarian, author (After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring Legacy of Landmine) and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1997), was born on October 9, 1950. She established the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and assembled a U.S. hospital network to provide medical care for war-wounded children in El Salvador.

October 9th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips, Dutch engineer and industrialist (Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. or Philips), was born on October 9, 1858. Gerard Philips was a cousin to Karl Marx (The Communist Manifesto).

American confectioner Otto Schnering (Curtiss Candy Company) was born on October 9, 1891. Known as "The Candy King," Schnering produced Baby Ruths, Butterfingers and other popular candy bars.

Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of Le Sorbonne de Paris, was born on October 9, 1201.

Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American pharmacist and retailer (Walgreen's Drug Stores), was born on October 9, 1873.

October 9th Birthdays: Famous Performers

Edward Andrews, American actor (Advice and Consent, Broadside, Elmer Gantry, The Glass Bottom Boat, Sixteen Candles, Supertrain and Tea and Sympathy), was born on October 9, 1914.

American actor Scott Bakula (American Beauty, Color of Night, Eisenhower & Lutz, Enterprise, Gung Ho, The Invaders, Life As a House, Lord of Illusions, Murphy Brown, Necessary Roughness and Quantum Leap) was born on October 9, 1954.

Carling Kathryn Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player, model and actress (Spring Fever), was born on October 9, 1967.

British actor Brian Blessed (As You Like It, The Avengers, The Black Adder, Flash Gordon, Hamlet, Henry V, High Road to China, I Claudius, King Arthur, Much Ado About Nothing, My Family and Other Animals, War and Remembrance and Z Cars) was born on October 9, 1937.

Linwood Boomer, Canadian screenwriter, television producer (3rd Rock From the Sun, The Boys Are Back, Family Business, Flying Blind, Night Court and Townies) and actor (Little House on the Prairie), was born on October 9, 1955. He created the popular television series, Malcolm in the Middle.

American comedian, vaudevillian and actor Wally Brown (The Absent-Minded Professor, Adventures of a Rookie, Cimarron City, Daniel Boone, Girl Rush, I Married Joan, Rookies in Burma and Zombies on Broadway) was born on October 9, 1904.

American rock guitarist, pianist and singer Clyde Jackson Browne ("Doctor My Eyes," "Lawyers in Love," "The Pretender," "Rock Me on the Water," "Running on Empty," "Somebody's Baby," "Stay" and "These Days") was born in Germany on October 9, 1948.

Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor (Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter, Held for Ransom and Home Improvement), was born on October 9, 1981.

American actor Steve Burns (Blue's Clues) was born on October 9, 1973.

Richard John Chaves, American actor (Cease Fire, Predator and War of the Worlds), was born on October 9, 1951.

Dutch-British actor (The Cloak of Love, Floortje, Go Further, Help - Help Doctor Verzuipt, Hoffman's Hunger, The Lion of Flanders, Moth, Peppi and Kokki in the Navy, Three Sisters and Village Doctor) and voice-over artist (Antz, Jungle Book, Robin Hood and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) Julien (Jules) Gustav Croiset was born on October 9, 1935. In 1987, Jules Croiset allegedy staged his own kidnapping, issuing ransom notes purportedly from neo-Nazis.

Irving Cummings Camisky, American actor (Curly Top and The Saphead) and director (Grand Canary and In Old Arizona), was born on October 9, 1888.

John Alec Entwistle, British rock bass guitarist and singer (The Who), was born on October 9, 1944.

British rocker James Fearnley (Cranky George, Culture Club, The Giants, The Low and Sweet Orchestra, The Mixers, The Nips and The Pogues) was born on October 9, 1954. Fearnley plays the accordion, drums and guitar.

Philip (Fyvush) Finkel, American actor (Boston Public, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Crew, Evergreen, Fantasy Island, Kojak, Middle Ages, Monticello Here We Come, Nixon, Off Beat, Picket Fences, Q & A and Seize the Day), was born on October 9, 1922.

American actor Gary Frank (Deadly Weapon, Enemy Territory, Family and Remington Steele) was born on October 9, 1950.

Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist, was born on October 9, 1960. He has played with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard and many others.

Gabrielle (Daniele Delorme) Girard, French actress (Belle, Les Miserables, Madame le Proviseur, Marie Soleil, Pardon My Affair and Touch Me Not), was born on October 9, 1926.

British rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Polly Jean (P.J.) Harvey ("C'mon Billy," "Down by the Water," "Dress," "Good Fortune," "Shame," "Sheela Na Gig" and "That Was My Veil") was born on October 9, 1969.

American R&B singer Nona Hendrix (Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles), was born on October 9, 1944.

John Winston Lennon, British rocker (The Beatles and The Plastic Ono Band), was born on October 9, 1940. His son, rock musician Sean Ono Lennon, was born on October 9, 1975.

Jamaican Reggae musician Winston (Peter Tosh) McIntosh was born on October 9, 1944. Peter Tosh played with Reggae star Bob Marley.

American rock guitarist and singer Kurt Neumann (The BoDeans) was born on October 9, 1861.

John O'Hurley, American actor (Seinfeld) and television personality (Family Feud and To Tell the Truth), was born on October 9, 1954.

Sharon Rachel Levy Osbourne, British television personality (America's Got Talent, The Osbornes and The X-Factor), was born on October 9, 1952. Her husband is rocker Ozzy Osborne.

American actor Michael Pare (Dragonfight, Eddie and the Cruisers, The Greatest American Hero, Houston Knights, Into the Sun, Killing Streets, The Philadelphia Experience, Point of Impact, Raging Angels, Solar Force, Space Rage, Streets of Fire, Village of the Damned and Women's Club) was born on October 9, 1959.

Hank Patterson, American actor (Green Acres and Gunsmoke), was born on October 9, 1888.

American country singer Jeannie C. Riley ("Harper Valley PTA" and Hee Haw) was born on October 9, 1945.

American actor Brandon Routh (Gilmore Girls, Karla, Odd Man Out, One Life to Live and Superman Returns) was born on October 9, 1979.

Jean and Liz Sagal, American twin actresses (Double Trouble), were born on October 9, 1961. The Sagal twins have appeared in television advertisements for Doublemint Gum.

American vibraphonist and marimba player Dave Samuels (Spyro Gyra) was born on October 9, 1948.

Lebanese-American actor Tony Shalhoub (Big Night, Galaxy Quest, Made-Up, The Man Who Wasn't There, Men in Black, Monk and Wings) was born on October 9, 1953.

Alastair Sims, Scottish actor (The Belles of St. Trinian's, Blue Murder at St. Trinian's, The Case of Gabriel Perry, Folly to be Wise, Green for Danger, The Happiest Days of Your Life, An Inspector Calls, Inspector Hornleigh, Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It, Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday, Laughter in Paradise, London Belongs to Me, Misleading Cases, Scrooge, Stage Fright and Waterloo Road) and Academy Award winner (1971), was born on October 9, 1900.

British actor Donald Sinden (The Captain's Table, The Children, Doctor at Large, Doctor in the House, Mogambo and Simba) was born on October 9, 1923.

Randall (Randy) Gene Spelling, American actor (Malibu Shores, Sons of Hollywood and Sunset Beach), was born on October 9, 1978. Randy Spelling is the son of Hollywood producer Aaron Spelling and brother to actress Tori Spelling.

American actor Howard St. John (Born Yesterday, Hank, I Died a Thousand Times, The Investigator, Li'l Abner, Lover Come Back and The Tender Trap) was born on October 9, 1905.

Tommy Shane Steiner, American country singer ("Tell Me Where It Hurts," "What If She's an Angel" and "What We're Gonna Do About It"), was born on October 9, 1973.

Robert Warwick, American actor (Alias Jimmy Valentine, Anna Karenina, Broken Arrow, Drifting, Falcon's Adventure, A Girl's Folly, Miss Prince, Sullivan's Travels, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Little Colonel and Two Women), was born on October 9, 1878.

American actor Tyler James Williams (Everybody Hates Chris, Hijinks, Little Bill, Sesame Street and Unaccompanied Minors) was born on October 9, 1992.

American actor Robert Wuhl (Batman, The Bodyguard, Bull Durham, Cobb, Flashdance, Good Morning Vietnam and A Kiss Goodnight) was born on October 9, 1951.

Overton Vertis (O.V.) Wright, American soul singer ("The Ace of Spades," "A Nickel and a Nail" and "That's How Strong My Love Is"), was born on October 9, 1939.

October 9th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Claude Gaspard Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician (Les Elements Arithmetiques and Problemes Plaisants) was born on October 9, 1581.

Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (The Schwarzschild Metric), was born on October 9, 1873. His son was astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild.

October 9th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

Charles X (Charles-Philippe Comte d'Artois), King of France, was born on October 9, 1757. Last of the House of Bourbon line of kings, Charles X was exiled after the Fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.

Dionysius, King of Portugal, 1279-1325 was born on October 9, 1261. Dionysius was known as "The Farmer King."

Alfred Dreyfus, French artillery captain, was born on October 9, 1859. He was tried and convicted on charges of treason in 1894, in a case known as The Dreyfus Affair. Dreyfus received a life sentence in solitary confinement in French Guiana. By 1906, based on new evidence, Dreyfus was released from his sentence and reinstated in the French military.

Everette (E.) Howard Hunt, American public official and convicted Watergate conspirator, was born on October 9, 1918. In 1972, E. Howard Hunt was convicted of burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate hotel complex near Washington, DC.

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Happy Birthday, October 9th.

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