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You share your birthday with 28 famous people in our archive.
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Lil Nas X
Rapper and singer known for the hit song Old Town Road
Did you know? He initially ran a popular Nicki Minaj fan account on Twitter before launching his own music career under his stage name.
Isaac Hempstead-Wright
English actor who played Bran Stark in Game of Thrones and later trained as a neuroscientist
Did you know? He joined a drama club to get out of playing football on cold Saturday mornings.
Elle Fanning
Award-winning actress known for roles in Maleficent and The Great
Did you know? She began her acting career at age two playing the younger version of her elder sister Dakota in the film I Am Sam.
Kristen Stewart
American actress who rose to fame in the Twilight films
Did you know? She became the first American actress to win a César Award, the French equivalent of an Oscar, in 2015.
Blaise Matuidi
World Cup-winning French midfielder who played for Paris Saint-Germain
Did you know? After retiring from professional football, he co-founded a venture capital firm focused on the technology sector.
Leighton Meester
Actress and singer known for her lead role in Gossip Girl
Did you know? She was born while her mother was serving time in a federal prison, spending her first months in a halfway house.
Tomohisa Yamashita
Japanese singer and actor known as Yamapi, formerly of NEWS, who starred in the medical drama Code Blue
Did you know? He is known in Japan by the nickname Yamapi.
Jenna Jameson
Prominent adult film actress who became a successful businesswoman and author
Did you know? Before finding fame in the film industry, she spent many years training as a professional ballet dancer.
Jacques Villeneuve
Canadian racing driver and 1997 Formula One World Champion
Did you know? He is one of only a few drivers to have won the Indianapolis 500, the IndyCar title, and the Formula One championship.
Sam Harris
Author and neuroscientist known for his work on philosophy and religion
Did you know? Before finding fame as a writer, he spent several years in India and Nepal studying meditation under various Buddhist and Hindu teachers.
Dennis Quaid
American actor known for roles in The Right Stuff and Innerspace
Did you know? He is an accomplished musician and has performed for many years with his rock and soul band, the Sharks.
Jaya Bachchan
Acclaimed Indian actress and politician in the Rajya Sabha
Did you know? She made her screen debut as a teenager in a film directed by the legendary Satyajit Ray.
Victor Chernomyrdin
First Prime Minister of Russia and founder of Gazprom
Did you know? He was known for a unique speaking style that featured many unintentionally funny or confusing phrases.
Jean-Paul Belmondo
French actor of Breathless and That Man from Rio, a star of the New Wave and of popular action films
Did you know? Before starting his acting career, he was a talented amateur boxer and achieved several victories in the ring as a teenager.
1926–2017Hugh Hefner
Founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine
Did you know? He famously provided the funds to restore the Hollywood Sign on two separate occasions when it fell into disrepair.
Jørn Utzon
Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House
Did you know? He left Australia before the building was finished and never returned to see his most famous work in person.
Koichi Oita
Japanese footballer who played for the national team
Did you know? He was part of the squad that competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, participating in Japan's historic victory over Sweden.
Victor Vasarely
Artist regarded as the leader of the Op art movement
Did you know? He designed the hexagonal logo used by the car manufacturer Renault for several decades starting in the early 1970s.
Paul Robeson
American singer, actor and civil rights activist
Did you know? Before finding fame on stage, he was an elite athlete and played in the early years of the National Football League.
Léon Blum
Socialist politician who served three times as Prime Minister of France
Did you know? He was a respected literary and drama critic before entering politics and survived imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Erich Ludendorff
German general who led key victories during World War One
Did you know? After the war, he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch alongside Adolf Hitler but later became a vocal critic of the Nazi leader.
Leopold II of Belgium
King of the Belgians and founder of the Congo Free State
Did you know? He privately owned the Congo as a personal colony before it was eventually annexed by the Belgian government.
Eadweard Muybridge
Pioneering photographer who captured movement through high-speed still images
Did you know? He was once acquitted of murder after shooting his wife's lover, with the jury ruling it a case of justifiable homicide.
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🇬🇧Francis BaconEnglish philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James IView profile Photo (modified): Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger · Public domain1626Died
🇺🇸Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright SrView profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Public domain1959Died
🇬🇧Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghHusband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until…View profile Photo (modified): Allan Warren · CC BY-SA 3.02021Died
🇸🇪Christina of SwedenQueen of Sweden from 1632 until her abdication in 1654View profile Photo (modified): Sébastien Bourdon · Public domain1689Died
🇬🇧Dante Gabriel RossettiEnglish poet, illustrator, painter and translatorView profile Photo (modified): W. & D. Downey · CC01882Died
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April 9: birthdays, history and star sign
28 famous people were born on April 9, including Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Kristen Stewart. Anyone born on April 9 is a Aries, a fire sign ruled by Mars. Notable events on April 9 include Operation Weserübung (1940) and Battle of Legnica (1241).
Famous people born on April 9
- 1998Elle Fanning · American actress
- 1990Kristen Stewart · American actress and filmmaker
- 1987Blaise Matuidi · French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder
- 1986Leighton Meester · American actress, singer, and model
- 1974Jenna Jameson · American businesswoman, writer, television personality, and former pornographic film actress
- 1971Jacques Villeneuve · Canadian former racing driver who competed in IndyCar from 1994 to 1995, and Formula One from 1996 to 2006
- 1967Sam Harris · American neuroscientist, philosopher, author, and podcast host
- 1954Dennis Quaid · American actor
- 1948Jaya Bachchan · Indian actress and politician
- 1938Victor Chernomyrdin · Soviet and Russian politician and businessman
- 1933Jean-Paul Belmondo · French actor, producer and distributor
- 1926Hugh Hefner · American magazine publisher and businessman
- 1906Victor Vasarely · Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement
- 1872Léon Blum · French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France
- 1865Erich Ludendorff · Prussian-born German general and politician
- 1835Leopold II of Belgium · Second king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908
- 1830Eadweard Muybridge · English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture…
- 1821Charles Baudelaire · French poet, essayist, translator and art critic
- 1806Isambard Kingdom Brunel · English civil and marine engineer considered "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution", "perhaps the…
- 1802Elias Lönnrot · Finnish medical doctor, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional…
On April 9 in history
- 1940Operation Weserübung · Operation Weserübung (Unternehmen Weserübung, was the invasion of Denmark and Norway by Nazi Germany during World War II. Taking place from 9 April – 10 June…
- 1241Battle of Legnica · The Battle of Legnica, also known as the Battle of Liegnitz or Battle of Wahlstatt, was fought between the Mongol Empire and combined European forces at the…
- 1989April 9 tragedy · Massacre of Tbilisi refers to the events in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, on April 9, 1989, when an anti-Soviet, pro-independence and…
- 1948Deir Yassin massacre · The Deir Yassin massacre took place on 9 April 1948, when Zionist paramilitaries attacked the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, then part of Mandatory…
- 1942Bataan Death March · The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of around 72,000 to 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from the…
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Aries · Fire · ruled by Mars · Courageous, Energetic, Pioneering, Impulsive
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Giuseppe Verdi
Italian opera composer of Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida, whose music became a symbol of Italian unification
Did you know? He left much of his fortune to establish a retirement home for elderly musicians in Milan which is still open today.
Kofi Annan
Ghanaian diplomat who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006 and shared the Nobel Peace Prize
Did you know? He was a joint recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in creating a more organised and peaceful world.
Timur
Turco-Mongol conqueror, also called Tamerlane, who built a vast empire across Central and Western Asia from his capital Samarkand
Did you know? His name means iron, and he was often referred to as Tamerlane due to a leg injury that left him with a limp.
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist of Lolita and Pale Fire, a master stylist in two languages and a keen butterfly collector
Did you know? He was a respected expert on butterflies and discovered several new species during his travels across North America.
Steven Seagal
American aikido master and action star of Under Siege and Above the Law, later granted Russian citizenship
Did you know? He holds a high-ranking black belt in aikido and was the first foreigner to ever operate a dojo in Japan.
Edmund Husserl
Philosopher who established the school of phenomenology
Did you know? He was originally a mathematician and only turned to philosophy after attending lectures by Franz Brentano in Vienna.
Mary Pickford
Silent film star and co-founder of the United Artists studio
Did you know? She was the first performer to have her name appear on a cinema marquee and was a founding member of the Academy.
Hugo Grotius
Dutch scholar who established the foundations of international law
Did you know? He famously escaped a life sentence in prison by smuggling himself out of a castle inside a wooden chest meant for books.
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- Who was born on April 9?
- Famous people born on April 9 include Charles Baudelaire (1821), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Kristen Stewart (1990), Leopold II of Belgium (1835) and Hugh Hefner (1926). In total, 28 famous people in our archive were born on April 9.
- Which celebrities share a April 9 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a April 9 birthday include Kristen Stewart, Jenna Jameson, Elle Fanning and Sam Harris.
- What star sign is someone born on April 9?
- People born on April 9 are Aries, a fire sign ruled by Mars. Aries runs from March 21 to April 19.
- What happened on April 9 in history?
- Notable events on April 9 include Operation Weserübung (1940), Battle of Legnica (1241) and April 9 tragedy (1989).
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- April 9 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on April 9, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous birthday match: Charles BaudelaireOf the 28 famous people who share your birthday, Charles Baudelaire is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Aries zodiac signAs a Aries you're known for being courageous, energetic and pioneering, just like Charles Baudelaire. Meet others who share your star sign.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in AprilSee the best-known people born on every day of April, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
- The 100 ClubWill you make it to 100? Meet the famous people who celebrated their 100th birthday, and the stars who are next in line.Centenarians
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