What happened on October 9 ?

1201 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)

1221 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler

1261 - King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)

1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)

1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)

1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)

1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)

1757 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836)

1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)

1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)

1840 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)

1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)

1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)

1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)

1873 - Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)

1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)

1874 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)

1877 - Allama Iqbal, The National Poet of Pakistan (d. 1938)

1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)

1886 - Rube Marquard, baseball player (d. 1980)

1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)

1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)

1892 - Ivo Andri?, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)

1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)

1893 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)

1900 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)

1907 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)

1908 - Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)

1909 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)

1911 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer

1915 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture

1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)

1923 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor

1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer

1933 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1936 - Brian Blessed, English actor

1938 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician

1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)

1941 - Trent Lott, American politician

1941 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician

1944 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)

1944 - Nona Hendryx, American singer (LaBelle)

1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician (d. 1987)

1946 - Tansu ÿiller, Prime Minister of Turkey

1947 - France Gall, French singer

1948 - Jackson Browne, American musician

1950 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1952 - Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne

1953 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor

1954 - Scott Bakula, American actor

1957 - Don Garber, American sports commissioner

1958 - Michael Pare, American actor

1962 - Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer

1964 - Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restauranteur

1966 - David Cameron, British politician

1967 - Eddie Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 2005)

1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician

1970 - Kenny Anderson, American basketball player

1970 - Savannah, American actress (d. 1994)

1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer

1971 - Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)

1971 - Michael Manna, American professional wrestler

1973 - Steven Burns, American actor and musician

1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)

1975 - Sean Lennon, English musician

1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)

1978 - Juan Dixon, American basketball player

1979 - Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer

1980 - Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player

1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor

1981 - Darius Miles, American basketball player

1986 - Laure Manaudou, French swimmer

1994 - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian child actress