What happened on May 9 ?

1147 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (d. 1199)

1439 - Pope Pius III (d. 1503)

1741 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (d. 1816)

1800 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)

1837 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1895)

1860 - J. M. Barrie, Scottish author (d. 1937)

1873 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)

1874 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (d. 1939)

1882 - George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)

1882 - Henry J. Kaiser, American ship-builder (d. 1967)

1883 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)

1892 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)

1893 - William Moulton Marston, American psychologist, writer (co-creator, Wonder Woman)

1895 - Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)

1895 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)

1907 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)

1907 - Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)

1912 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)

1912 - Per Imerslund, "The aryan idol" (d. 1943)

1914 - Hank Snow, Canadian-born musician (d. 1999)

1918 - Mike Wallace, American journalist

1918 - Orville L. Freeman, American politician (d. 2003)

1920 - Richard Adams, English author

1920 - William Tenn, American author

1921 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter in Nazi Germany (d. 1943)

1921 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)

1924 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (d. 1997)

1927 - Manfred Eigen, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1928 - Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer (d. 1982)

1928 - Pancho Gonzalez, American tennis player (d. 1995)

1928 - Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater

1930 - Joan Sims, British actress (d. 2001)

1934 - Alan Bennett, British author

1936 - Albert Finney, British actor

1936 - Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician

1937 - José Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect

1939 - Ralph Boston, American athlete

1939 - Ion ?iriac, Romanian tennis player and businessman

1940 - James L. Brooks, American film producer and writer

1942 - John Ashcroft, United States Attorney General

1944 - Richie Furay, American musician (Poco and Buffalo Springfield)

1946 - Candice Bergen, American actress

1949 - Billy Joel, American musician

1955 - Anne-Sofie von Otter, Swedish mezzo-soprano

1960 - Tony Gwynn, Hall of Fame Baseball Player

1962 - David Gahan, English singer (Depeche Mode)

1963 - Sanja Dole?al, Croatian singer (Novi Fosili)

1964 - Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey

1965 - Steve Yzerman, Canadian hockey player

1968 - Marie-José Perec, French athlete

1970 - Ghostface Killah, American rapper

1972 - Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist

1972 - Daniela Siliva?, Romanian gymnast

1975 - George Boateng, Dutch footballer

1978 - Leandro Damián Cufré, Argentine football player

1979 - Rosario Dawson, American actress

1979 - Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)

1979 - Andrew W.K., American Musician

1982 - Rachel Boston, American actress