What happened on September 9 ?

384 - Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (d. 423)

1349 - Duke Albert III of Austria (d. 1395)

1427 - Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, English politician (d. 1464)

1466 - Ashikaga Yoshitane, Japanese shogun (d. 1523)

1558 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (d. 1602)

1585 - Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (d. 1642)

1629 - Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1691)

1711 - Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (d. 1780)

1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)

1754 - William Bligh, British naval officer (d. 1817)

1755 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (d. 1808)

1828 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (d. 1910)

1834 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (d. 1903)

1855 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil exploration pioneer (d. 1921)

1868 - Mary Hunter Austin, American writer (d. 1934)

1873 - Max Reinhardt, German film director and actor (d. 1943)

1878 - Adelaide Crapsey, American poet (d. 1914)

1887 - Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)

1890 - Colonel Harland Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1980)

1892 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)

1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)

1894 - Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)

1898 - Frankie Frisch, baseball player (d. 1973)

1899 - Waite Hoyt, baseball player (d. 1984)

1903 - Phyllis Whitney, American writer

1904 - Feroze Khan, Pakistani field hockey player (d. 2005)

1908 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (d. 1950)

1911 - John Gorton, nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002)

1918 - Jimmy Snyder, American bookmaker and sports commentator (d. 1996)

1920 - Robert Wood Johnson III, American philanthropist (d. 1970)

1922 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1923 - Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1924 - Jane Greer, American actress (d. 2001)

1924 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (d. 2003)

1925 - Cliff Robertson, American actor

1928 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American musician (d. 1975)

1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)

1930 - Aleksandr Vinogradov, Russian writer

1935 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor

1939 - Ron McDole, American football player

1939 - Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rican boxer

1941 - Peter Bonetti, British footballer

1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)

1941 - Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist

1943 - Roger Waters, British musician (Pink Floyd)

1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)

1946 - Billy Preston, American musician

1949 - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, 6th President of Indonesia

1949 - Joe Theismann, American football player and commentator

1951 - Alexander Downer, Australian politician

1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer

1951 - Michael Keaton, American actor

1952 - David A. Stewart, English musician (Eurythmics)

1954 - Jeffrey Combs, American actor

1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist

1960 - Hugh Grant, British actor

1960 - Mario Batali, American chef and restauranteur

1966 - Georg Hackl, German luger

1966 - Adam Sandler American actor and comedian

1967 - Anna Malle, Adult film star

1969 - Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress

1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)

1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian pop jazz singer and actor

1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter