Born on Thursday, 9th October – Famous Birthdays
On this day, 221 notable people were born on 9th October — spanning from 1201 to 2002. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
Thursday, 9th October 2025 marks a significant date in the calendar of notable births spanning several centuries. Among those born on this day, Laure Manaudou, the French swimmer, was born in 1986 and went on to become one of the most decorated athletes in European swimming history. Another European figure born on this date was David Cameron, who was born in 1966 and later served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2016. The diversity of professions among those born on 9th October reflects the breadth of human achievement, from contemporary athletes and entertainers to historical figures who shaped their respective fields.
The date continues to be associated with births across a wide range of disciplines. In more recent times, notable individuals born on this day include Marie Kondo, the Japanese author and television presenter born in 1984, who revolutionised approaches to organisation and decluttering through her internationally recognised methodology. The list encompasses musicians, actors, sportspeople and academics, demonstrating how 9th October has consistently produced individuals who would leave their mark on entertainment, athletics and public service.
On this date in 2025, the weather conditions will influence the day’s character, whilst the sky above will be in a particular phase of its lunar cycle, and those born will fall under a specific zodiac sign. These astronomical and meteorological factors have traditionally held cultural significance for many, though the achievements of those born on this day ultimately rest on their individual talents and determination rather than celestial alignments.
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09/10/2002
Ben Shelton, American tennis player
Benjamin Todd Shelton is an American professional tennis player. He has been ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) as high as world No. 5 in singles, which he achieved on November 10, 2025, and No. 68 in doubles, attained on May 20, 2024. He is the current No. 1 American player in men's singles.
09/10/2001
Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer
Kyla Anne Leibel is a Canadian butterfly and freestyle swimmer.
09/10/2000
Penei Sewell, American football player
Penei Elama Sewell is an American Samoan professional football offensive tackle for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks, winning the Outland and Morris trophies in 2019. Sewell was selected with the seventh overall pick by the Lions in the first round in the 2021 NFL draft. He earned four Pro Bowl selections from 2022 to 2025, and was a first-team All-Pro in 2023, 2024, and 2025. He is the brother of Nephi and Noah Sewell, who both have also played professional football.
09/10/1997
Jharrel Jerome, American actor
Jharrel Jerome is an American actor. He made his film debut in Barry Jenkins's drama film Moonlight (2016), and gained prominence for his portrayal of Korey Wise in Ava DuVernay's Netflix miniseries When They See Us (2019), which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Jerome has since starred as a 13 foot tall boy in Boots Riley's miniseries I'm a Virgo (2023) and as wrestler Anthony Robles in the sports biopic film Unstoppable (2024).
Megan Moroney, American singer-songwriter.
Megan Ann Moroney is an American country music singer and songwriter from Douglasville, Georgia, west of Atlanta. Moroney first gained attention from her single "Hair Salon", which was included on her debut EP Pistol Made of Roses. "Tennessee Orange", the second single from her debut album, peaked at number 10 on the US Hot Country Songs chart and helped boost Moroney's career. Her first full-length album Lucky was released in May 2023, reaching the top 40 of the Billboard 200. She released her second album, Am I Okay?, in July 2024. The singles "Am I Okay?" and "No Caller ID" peaked at number 34 and number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album itself debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200. In February 2026, her album Cloud 9 entered the Billboard 200 at number one.
09/10/1996
Jacob Batalon, Filipino-American actor
Jacob Andres Batalon is an American actor. Batalon achieved international recognition playing Ned Leeds in five Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero films, beginning with a supporting role in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), cameos in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), and further supporting roles in Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), as well as appearing in the web series The Daily Bugle (2019–2021). He also played Keon in the Netflix film Let It Snow (2019), and the titular character in the Syfy television series Reginald the Vampire (2022–2024).
Bella Hadid, American model
Isabella Khair Hadid is an American model. Hadid has made 35 appearances on international Vogue covers. In 2022, she was named Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world on its annual list in 2023.
09/10/1994
Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress
Jodelle Micah Ferland is a Canadian actress. She received a Daytime Emmy nomination for the drama film Mermaid (2000) at the age of six, making her the youngest nominee in Emmy history. She then portrayed a young Carrie White in the horror film Carrie (2002) and starred in the television series Kingdom Hospital (2004).
09/10/1993
Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player
Ani Amiraghyan is an Armenian tennis player.
Lauren Davis, American tennis player
Lauren Davis is an American former professional tennis player. Known for her aggressive backhand, speed, and clay-court strength, she has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour and reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26, in May 2017. She has also won eight singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player
Jayden Hodges is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who is the captain of the Mackay Cutters in the Queensland Cup. He primarily plays as a hooker.
George Kittle, American football player
George Krieger Kittle is an American professional football tight end for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes and was selected by the 49ers in the fifth round of the 2017 NFL draft. Kittle is a seven-time Pro Bowler and was a first-team All-Pro in 2019 and 2023.
Scotty McCreery, American singer and songwriter
Scott Cooke McCreery is an American country singer. He rose to fame after winning the tenth season of American Idol in May 2011.
Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster
Wesley Barbossa So is a Filipino and American chess grandmaster, a three-time U.S. Chess Champion, and the first World Fischer Random Chess Champion. He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, making him the fifth-highest-rated player in history.
09/10/1992
Jerian Grant, American basketball player
Holdyn Jerian Grant is an American professional basketball player for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basketball League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball with the University of Notre Dame and was considered one of the top college players in the nation for the 2014–15 season. After being selected with the 19th overall pick by the Washington Wizards in the 2015 NBA draft, his rights were sent to the Atlanta Hawks and then moved to the New York Knicks on draft night. Grant is widely considered as one of the best defenders in the EuroLeague.
Sam Mewis, American soccer player
Samantha June Mewis is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. Mewis is the editor-in-chief and podcast host of The Women's Game from Men in Blazers.
Tyler James Williams, American actor
Tyler James Williams is an American actor and rapper. He began his career as a child actor, making several appearances on Saturday Night Live, Little Bill, and Sesame Street. Williams later rose to prominence for playing the role of Chris Rock on the UPN/CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009). Following this, he starred as songwriter Cyrus DeBarge in the Disney Channel film Let It Shine (2012), and Noah on the AMC horror drama television series The Walking Dead (2014–15).
09/10/1990
Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer
Kevin Kampl is a retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Germany, he represented the Slovenia national team at international level.
Jake Lamb, American baseball player
Jacob Ryan Lamb is an American former professional baseball infielder. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2014, and was an All-Star in 2017. He also played in MLB for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners, and Los Angeles Angels.
09/10/1989
Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player
Russell Packer is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop for the Wests Tigers, St. George Illawarra Dragons and the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL, and the New Zealand Māori and New Zealand at international level.
09/10/1988
Starling Marte, Dominican baseball player
Starling Javier Marte is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, Oakland Athletics, and New York Mets. He made his MLB debut in 2012 with the Pirates. Marte is a two-time MLB All-Star and a two-time Gold Glove Award winner. In 2021, he led the major leagues with 47 stolen bases. He is the active leader in stolen bases and triples with 361 and 55, respectively.
David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player
David Tyrrell is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. Tyrrell played his entire career for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL, primarily as a prop.
09/10/1987
Craig Brackins, American basketball player
Craig Lee Brackins is an American former professional basketball player.
Samantha Murray Sharan, British tennis player
Samantha Dawn Murray Sharan is a British tennis player who specializes in doubles. On 22 August 2022, she reached her best doubles ranking of world No. 76.
Henry Walker, American basketball player
William Henry Walker is an American professional basketball player for Gladiadores de Anzoátegui of the Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto (SPB). Previously known as Bill Walker, the 6-foot-6-inch-tall player was selected out of Kansas State University by the Washington Wizards with the 47th overall pick in the second round of the 2008 NBA draft and traded shortly thereafter to the Boston Celtics in exchange for cash considerations.
09/10/1986
Derek Holland, American baseball player
Derek Lane Holland, nicknamed "Dutch Oven", is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Detroit Tigers.
Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
Laure Manaudou is a retired French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She has held the world record in freestyle events between 200 and 1500 meter. Her younger brother Florent Manaudou is also an Olympic gold medalist swimmer.
David Phelps, American baseball player
David Edward Phelps is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Miami Marlins, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers, and Philadelphia Phillies. Phelps played college baseball at the University of Notre Dame.
Jan Christian Vestre, Norwegian businessman and politician
Jan Christian Vestre is a Norwegian jurist, businessperson in the furniture industry, and politician for the Labour Party. He has served as Minister of Health and Care Services since 2024, and Minister of Trade and Industry between 2021 and 2024. Furthermore, he has been a deputy leader of the party since 2023.
Stephane Zubar, French footballer
Stéphane Zubar is a Guadeloupean former professional footballer who played as a defender. He is the younger brother of Ronald Zubar and cousin of Claude Dielna, both of whom are footballers.
09/10/1985
David Plummer, American swimmer
David Edward Plummer is a retired American competition swimmer who specialized in backstroke events. He won bronze and gold medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
09/10/1984
Marie Kondo, Japanese author and television presenter
Marie Kondo , also known as Konmari (こんまり), is a Japanese organizing consultant, author, and TV presenter.
09/10/1983
Farhaan Behardien, South African cricketer
Farhaan Behardien is a South African former international cricketer who played ODIs and T20Is. On 10 January 2017, Behardien was appointed as the T20I captain for the Sri Lanka tour.
Trevor Daley, Canadian ice hockey player
Trevor Daley is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman, currently serving as a Special Assistant to the President of Hockey Operations for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played sixteen seasons in the NHL for the Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks, Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings. He won the Stanley Cup twice, both with the Penguins, in 2016 and 2017.
Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
Stephen Michael Gionta is an American former professional ice hockey centre. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New Jersey Devils and New York Islanders. Gionta is the younger brother of Brian Gionta, who played for the Devils from 2001 to 2009.
Spencer Grammer, American actress
Spencer Karen Grammer is an American actress best known for her roles as the voice of Summer Smith in the Adult Swim animated science-fiction series Rick and Morty and as Casey Cartwright in the ABC Family college comedy-drama series Greek.
Jang Mi-ran, South Korean weightlifter
Jang Mi-ran is a South Korean Olympic weightlifter. She is currently based in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, competing for the Goyang City Government Sports Club.
Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
Andreas "Andi" Zuber is a former motor racing driver. An Austrian by birth, he is based in Dubai and once raced under a licence issued by the United Arab Emirates.
09/10/1981
Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
Zachery Tyler Bryan is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement. He also appeared in the films First Kid and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Darius Miles, American basketball player
Darius LaVar Miles is an American former professional basketball player.
09/10/1980
Lucy Akello, Ugandan social worker and politician
Lucy Akello is a Ugandan social worker and politician, who served as the member of parliament for the Amuru District Women's Constituency in the 10th Parliament. She was elected back to the eleventh Parliament representing Amuru District under FDC political party. She is a member of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), and she serves as the shadow minister for labour, gender and social development.
Filip Bobek, Polish actor
Filip Andrzej Bobek is a Polish actor, best known for his role of the main love interest in BrzydUla.
Sarah Lovell, Australian politician
Sarah Elizabeth Lovell is an Australian politician. She has been the Labor member for Rumney in the Tasmanian Legislative Council since the 2017 periodic elections.
Thami Tsolekile, South African cricketer
Thami Lungisa Tsolekile is a South African former cricketer who played three Test matches for the national team as a wicketkeeper in 2004–05. He was educated in Cape Town at Pinelands High School.
Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
Henrik Zetterberg is a Swedish former professional ice hockey forward. He played his entire National Hockey League career, from 2002 to 2018, with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.
09/10/1979
Vernon Fox, American football player and coach
Vernon Lee Fox, III is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Fresno State Bulldogs and was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent after the 2002 NFL Draft. Fox is currently an ordained minister and is an associate pastor in Las Vegas. He is a lead pastor at Salt Church International in Las Vegas, Nevada. In February 2013, he was hired to be head football coach and admissions counselor at Faith Lutheran Middle School and High School in Las Vegas.
Alex Greenwald, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
Alexander Greenwald is an American musician and actor. Prior to his music career, he began his professional career as a teen actor with both live-action and animated roles in films like The Halloween Tree (1993) and No Dessert, Dad, till You Mow the Lawn (1994), before primarily transitioning to a music career shortly after, and has been the frontman and rhythm guitarist of the California rock band Phantom Planet since their inception in 1994. Greenwald has also been a member of Blackblack and the indie pop supergroup Phases and is a frequent collaborator of the British musician, DJ and producer Mark Ronson. Greenwald released a solo album, Yo, in 2014 and played a minor role in then-fianceé Brie Larson's 2017 film Unicorn Store.
Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
Todd Evan Kelly is a retired Australian professional racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He is the older brother of fellow Supercars driver and former Bathurst 1000 winner, Rick Kelly. He drove for the Holden Racing Team from 2003 until 2007, and Perkins Engineering in 2008. Since 2009, he has been with his family team Kelly Racing. He is the youngest driver to have reached 100 starts in the series.
Lecrae, American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor
Lecrae Devaughn Moore is an American Christian rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, and recording producer and executive. Since having begun his career in 2004, he has released ten studio albums and four mixtapes as a solo artist, as well as recording with the hip-hop collective 116, which he co-founded.
Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor, producer, and screenwriter
Christopher O'Dowd is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as Roy Trenneman, one of the lead characters in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, which ran for four seasons from 2006 to 2010. He has starred in films including Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009), Gulliver's Travels (2010), Bridesmaids, Friends with Kids, The Sapphires (2012) for which he won an AACTA Award, Cuban Fury (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018). He created and starred in the Sky 1 television series Moone Boy, which aired from 2012 to 2015 and brought him Irish Film and Television Award nominations for acting, writing and directing.
Brandon Routh, American model and actor
Brandon Routh is an American actor. His portrayal of Superman in the 2006 film Superman Returns garnered him international fame. In 2011, he played the title character of the film Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. He also had a recurring role in the NBC series Chuck, as Daniel Shaw. Routh also played a supporting role in the film Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), and played Todd Ingram in the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), reprising the role in the animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023).
Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
Gonzalo Sorondo Amaro is a Uruguayan former footballer who last played for Defensor.
09/10/1978
Nicky Byrne, Irish singer-songwriter
Nicholas Bernard James Adam Byrne Jr. is an Irish pop singer, songwriter and radio and television presenter. He is best known for being a member of the pop group Westlife; Westlife has since released twelve albums, embarked on thirteen world tours, and won some awards, becoming one of the most successful Irish boybands of all time.
Juan Dixon, American basketball player and coach
Juan Max Dixon is an American former professional basketball player and former head coach for Coppin State University in Baltimore. Dixon led the Maryland Terrapins to their first NCAA championship in 2002 and earned Most Outstanding Player honors at the 2002 Final Four.
09/10/1977
Emanuele Belardi, Italian footballer
Emanuele Belardi is a retired Italian footballer who was a goalkeeper.
Brian Roberts, American baseball player
Brian Michael Roberts is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Baltimore Orioles in 2001 and played for the team until 2013. He played his final season for the New York Yankees in 2014. He made it in the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 2018.
09/10/1976
William Alexander, American author and educator
William Joseph Alexander is an American writer and academic.
Stephen Neal, American football player
Stephen Matthew Neal is an American former professional football player who spent his entire career as a guard for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He is a former world champion in freestyle wrestling and two-time NCAA national champion wrestler at Cal State-Bakersfield. He was signed by the Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2001, and won three Super Bowl rings with the team. He is one of a handful of NFL players who did not play college football.
Lee Peacock, Scottish footballer and coach
Lee Anthony Peacock is a Scottish former professional footballer and current Assistant Manager at Plymouth Parkway F.C.
Özlem Türköne, Turkish journalist and politician
Özlem Piltanoğlu is a Turkish columnist and politician of the Justice and Development Party. She was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) between 2007 and 2011. She has been a columnist for Zaman and Today's Zaman.
Nick Swardson, American actor and comedian
Nicholas Roger Swardson is an American actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his recurring role as Terry Bernadino in the comedy series Reno 911! (2003–2009), for his work with Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, and for his own personal sketch comedy series Nick Swardson's Pretend Time (2010–2011).
09/10/1975
Haylie Ecker, Australian violinist
Bond is an Australian/British string quartet that specialises in classical crossover and synth-pop music. The quartet has sold five million albums.
Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
Sean Tarō Ono Lennon is a British and American musician. He is the son of musical artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother of Julian Lennon and Kyoko Cox. Over the course of his career, Lennon has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the Claypool Lennon Delirium and his parents' group Plastic Ono Band. Lennon has released three solo albums: Into the Sun (1998), Friendly Fire (2006), and Asterisms (2024). He has produced numerous albums for various artists, including Black Lips and the Plastic Ono Band. Lennon served as executive producer and music producer for One to One: John & Yoko (2024). The film centers on the only full-length post-Beatles concert John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed, the "One to One" benefit show in 1972.
Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
Mark Antony Viduka is an Australian former soccer player who played as a centre forward. Regarded as one of the best Australian players of all time, he captained the Australia national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, reaching the Round of 16, which remains their joint-best performance to date.
09/10/1974
Keith Booth, American basketball player and coach
Keith Eugene Booth is an American basketball coach and former National Basketball Association (NBA) player. Booth played college basketball at the University of Maryland from 1993 to 1997. He was an assistant coach at his alma mater under Gary Williams from 2004 to 2011. He was also an assistant coach for G. G. Smith with the Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team.
Shmuel Herzfeld, American rabbi
Shmuel Herzfeld is an American Orthodox rabbi. He is the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Yeshivas Elimelech. He previously served as Senior Rabbi of Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue in Washington, D.C., and before that as Associate Rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. He is a teacher, lecturer, activist, and author.
09/10/1973
Steve Burns, American actor, television host and musician
Steven Michael Burns is an American actor, musician, and television host. He portrayed a fictional version of himself as the host of the children's television series Blue's Clues from 1996 until 2002, for which he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2001. He has also done extensive voice-over work for advertising, including the "Snickers satisfies" advertising campaign.
Fabio Lione, Italian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
Fabio Tordiglione, known professionally as Fabio Lione, is an Italian singer who has worked with many bands in the heavy metal genre. He was known for being the singer of Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire for 21 years. He later formed his own band Turilli / Lione Rhapsody with former Rhapsody of Fire guitarist Luca Turilli. He is also the current lead vocalist of Angra, and was the original singer of Labyrinth and Vision Divine.
09/10/1971
Wayne Bartrim, Australian rugby league player and coach
Wayne Bartrim, is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He was selected to represent Australia and Queensland during his career, which he spent playing for the Gold Coast Seagulls, St. George Dragons and the St. George Illawarra Dragons in Australia and the Castleford Tigers in England. Bartrim primarily played his club career as a lock, but played his representative career as a hooker.
Sian Evans, Welsh singer
Sian Evans is a Welsh singer. She is front woman and singer-songwriter of the band Kosheen, a trip-hop/drum and bass group that had their first two albums rise into the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart between 2001 and 2003. She has also joined a list of Welsh artists to have topped the UK Singles Chart with collaboration on the track "Louder" with DJ Fresh. Kosheen went on hiatus in 2016 and started touring again in 2019.
09/10/1970
Kenny Anderson, American basketball player and coach
Kenneth Anderson is an American former professional basketball player. After a college career at Georgia Tech, he played point guard professionally from 1991 to 2006, mostly in the National Basketball Association.
Steve Jablonsky, American composer
Steve Jablonsky is an American composer for film, television, and video games, best known for his musical scores in the Transformers film series, Desperate Housewives, and The Sims 3. Some of his frequent collaboration partners include film directors Michael Bay and Peter Berg, and fellow composer Hans Zimmer.
Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer and architect
Annika Charlotta Sörenstam is a Swedish and American professional golfer regarded as one of the best female golfers in history. Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she had won 96 international professional tournaments, making her the female golfer with the most wins to her name. She has won 72 official LPGA tournaments including ten majors and 24 other tournaments internationally.
09/10/1969
Darren Britt, Australian rugby league player
Darren Britt is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played as a prop in the 1990s and 2000s.
Simon Fairweather, Australian archer
Simon John Fairweather, OAM is an archer born in Adelaide, South Australia.
PJ Harvey, English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer
Polly Jean Harvey is an English singer and songwriter. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments.
Christine Hough, Canadian figure skater and coach
Christine "Tuffy" Hough is a Canadian former pair skater. With Doug Ladret, she is the 1988 Canadian national champion and finished in the top ten at two Winter Olympics, in 1988 and 1992.
Giles Martin, English songwriter and producer
Giles Martin is an English record producer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. His studio recordings, stage shows, TV and film works have been critically acclaimed and commercially successful around the world. He is the son of Beatles producer George Martin and half-brother of actor Gregory Paul Martin.
Steve McQueen, English director, producer, and screenwriter
Sir Steve Rodney McQueen is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matter, he has received several awards including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He was honoured with the BFI Fellowship in 2016 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 for services to art and film. In 2014, he was included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the "most influential people in the world".
09/10/1968
Guto Bebb, Welsh businessman and politician
Guto ap Owain Bebb is a Welsh politician and former business consultant who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberconwy from 2010 to 2019, having previously lost elections to the Welsh Assembly and the House of Commons. He served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office in 2016–2018 and as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement at the Ministry of Defence from January 2018 until he resigned in July 2018. First elected as a Conservative, Bebb had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and served his remaining months as an independent.
Anbumani Ramadoss, Indian politician
Anbumani Ramadoss is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India and was the Minister of Health and Family Welfare in the First Manmohan Singh ministry from (2004–2009) as a part of the UPA government. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu. He is the president of Pattali Makkal Katchi, a political party in Tamil Nadu.
09/10/1967
Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canadian tennis player
Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso is a Canadian former professional tennis player, fashion model and actress. Bassett is the daughter of John F. Bassett and Susan Carling, and the granddaughter of media baron John W. H. Bassett and politician and brewery executive John Carling. She was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
Eddie Guerrero, American wrestler (died 2005)
Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes was an American professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) / World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), along with his appearances in Mexico and Japan. A prominent member of the Guerrero wrestling family, being the son of first-generation wrestler Gory Guerrero, and brother of Chavo Guerrero Sr., Mando Guerrero, Héctor Guerrero and father of Shaul Guerrero. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential professional wrestlers of all time.
Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
Gheorghe "Gică" Popescu is a Romanian former professional football player who played as a defender, currently he is the owner and the president of Liga I club Farul Constanța.
09/10/1966
David Cameron, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the first coalition government in the UK since 1945 and resigned after a referendum supported the country's leaving the European Union. After his premiership, he served as Foreign Secretary in the government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from 2023 to 2024. Cameron was Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016 and served as Leader of the Opposition from 2005 to 2010. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016, and has been a member of the House of Lords since November 2023. Cameron identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically and socially liberal policies.
Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher, founded Plaza Magazine
Christopher Östlund is the publisher of Plaza Magazine International, a magazine in the field of fashion, interior and design.
09/10/1964
Guillermo del Toro, Mexican-American director, producer, and screenwriter
Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism and horror, often blending the genres, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and for his use of insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting.
Martín Jaite, Argentine tennis player
Martín Jaite is a former top-10 professional tennis player from Argentina.
09/10/1963
Andy Platt, English rugby league player
Andrew Platt is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop and second-row forward in the 1980s and 1990s.
09/10/1962
Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer and manager
Jorge Luis Burruchaga, nicknamed Burru, is an Argentine association football coach and former professional football player. He played both as an attacking midfielder and forward and scored the winning goal in the final of the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Paul Radisich, New Zealand racing driver
Paul Francis Wade Radisich is a retired New Zealand racing driver and businessman of Croat origin. He has competed in saloon cars for many years — both European-style tourers and the V8 Supercars of Australia and New Zealand.
Ōnokuni Yasushi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna
Ōnokuni Yasushi is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō. Making his professional debut in 1978, he reached the top division in 1983. In 1987 he won his first yūshō or tournament championship with a perfect record and became the sport's 62nd yokozuna. However, he was only able to win one more championship before his retirement in 1991. He has remained in sumo as a coach and in 1999 became the head of Shibatayama stable. He was elected to the Japan Sumo Association's board of directors in 2018.
09/10/1961
Julian Bailey, English racing driver and sportscaster
Julian Terence Bailey is a British former Formula One driver from England, who raced for the Tyrrell and Lotus teams.
Kurt Neumann, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Kurt Robert Neumann is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He is a co-founder of the roots-rock band BoDeans.
09/10/1960
Kenny Garrett, American saxophonist and composer
Kenny Garrett is an American post-bop jazz musician and composer who gained recognition in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and for his time with Miles Davis's band. Garrett's primary instruments are alto and soprano saxophone and flute. Since 1985, he has pursued a solo career.
09/10/1959
Boris Nemtsov, Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (died 2015)
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal statesman and politician, opposition leader and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the Russian post-Soviet economy. In the 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin, he was the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1991–1997). Later he worked in the government of Russia as Minister of Fuel and Energy (1997), Vice Premier of Russia and Security Council member from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he founded the Young Russia movement. In 1998, he co-founded the coalition group Right Cause and in 1999, he co-formed Union of Right Forces, an electoral bloc and subsequently a political party. Nemtsov was also a member of the Congress of People's Deputies (1990), Federation Council (1993–97) and State Duma (1999–2003).
09/10/1958
Al Jourgensen, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and producer
Alain David Jourgensen is a Cuban-American singer, musician and music producer. Closely related with the independent record label Wax Trax! Records, his musical career spans five decades. He is the frontman and lyricist of the industrial metal band Ministry, which he founded in 1981 and of which he remains the only constant member. He was the primary musician of several Ministry-related projects, such as Revolting Cocks, Lard, and Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters. Jourgensen is a prominent figure in industrial music, influencing numerous other groups and musicians, both in alternative and industrial-associated acts.
Michael Paré, American actor
Michael Kevin Paré is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), Streets of Fire (1984), and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), and on the series Houston Knights (1987–1988).
Mike Singletary, American football player and coach
Michael Singletary, nicknamed "Samurai Mike", is an American former professional football player and coach. He played as a linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the Baylor Bears, Singletary was selected by the Bears in the second round of the 1981 NFL draft and was known as "the Heart of the Defense" for their Monsters of the Midway defense in the mid-1980s. He was part of their Super Bowl XX championship team that beat the New England Patriots. Singletary was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1995 and into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1998.
09/10/1957
Ini Kamoze, Jamaican singer-songwriter
Ini Kamoze is a Jamaican reggae singer who began his career in the early 1980s and rose to prominence in 1994 with the signature song "Here Comes the Hotstepper". The single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 as well as charts in Denmark and New Zealand, reaching No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.
09/10/1955
Linwood Boomer, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
Linwood M. Boomer is a Canadian-born American film and television producer, writer, and actor. He is known for playing the role of Adam Kendall on the drama Little House on the Prairie, and for creating the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000-2006).
Steve Ovett, English runner and sportscaster
Stephen Michael James Ovett, is a retired British track athlete. A middle-distance runner, he was the gold medalist in the 800 metres at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Ovett set five world records for 1500 metres and the mile run, and a world best at two miles. He won 45 consecutive 1500 and mile races from 1977 to 1980.
09/10/1954
Scott Bakula, American actor
Scott Stewart Bakula is an American actor. He played Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap – for which he was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards – and Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise. From 2014 to 2021, he portrayed Special Agent Dwayne Cassius "King" Pride on NCIS: New Orleans.
James Fearnley, English musician
James Fearnley is an English musician. He plays accordion in the Pogues.
Rubén Magnano, Argentine-Italian basketball coach
Rubén Pablo Magnano is an Argentine-Italian professional basketball coach.
John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
John George O'Hurley Jr. is an American actor, comedian, and game show host. He played J. Peterman on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, provided the voice for King Neptune on SpongeBob SquarePants, and hosted the game show Family Feud from 2006 to 2010. O'Hurley also hosted To Tell the Truth from 2000 to 2002 in syndication.
09/10/1953
Sally Burgess, South African-English soprano and educator
Sally Burgess FRCM is a South African-born British operatic lyric mezzo-soprano, opera director, and educator. She has been a Fellow and Professor of Vocal Studies at the Royal College of Music since 2004, as well as teaching stagecraft. She has also taught at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.
Hank Pfister, American tennis player
Hank Pfister is a former tennis player from the United States, who won two singles titles during his professional career. The right-hander reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on May 2, 1983, when he became world No. 19.
Tony Shalhoub, American actor and producer
Anthony Marc Shalhoub is an American actor. He is known for a variety of roles ranging from comedic to dramatic on stage and screen. He has received several accolades including five Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, six Actor Awards and a Tony Award as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.
09/10/1952
Sharon Osbourne, English television host and manager
Sharon Rachel Osbourne is an English and American television personality, businesswoman and author. She came to prominence while appearing on The Osbournes (2002–2005), a reality television show that aired on MTV, which followed her family's daily life. Osbourne later became a judge on television talent competition shows, including The X Factor and America's Got Talent (2007–2012).
Dennis Stratton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Dennis Stratton is an English guitarist best known as a member of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from December 1979 to October 1980. He was also the lead guitarist and occasional lead vocalist of Praying Mantis from 1990 to 2006, recording six studio albums with the band.
09/10/1951
Robert Wuhl, American actor, comedian, and writer
Robert Wuhl is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known as the creator and star of the television comedy series Arliss (1996–2002) and for his portrayal of newspaper reporter Alexander Knox in Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and Larry in Bull Durham (1988).
09/10/1950
Yoshiyuki Konishi, Japanese fashion designer
Masanori Konishi , better known as Yoshiyuki Konishi is a Japanese fashion designer who is represented by the talent agency Someday. He is nicknamed Don Konishi . He was divorced and is now single.
Reichi Nakaido, Japanese singer and guitarist
Hideaki Katō , known professionally as Reichi Nakaido and nicknamed Chabo, is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as one of the guitarists and vocalists of the rock band RC Succession. Nakaido was voted the third greatest Japanese guitarist in a 2019 poll held by goo.
Jody Williams, American academic and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
Jody Williams is an American political activist known for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights, and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today's world. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work toward the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
09/10/1949
Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (died 2016)
Rodney Lynn Temperton was an English musician, songwriter, and record producer.
09/10/1948
Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 30 million albums in the United States.
09/10/1947
France Gall, French singer (died 2018)
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé and pop singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", representing Luxembourg. Later in her career, she worked with singer-songwriter Michel Berger, whom she married in 1976. Her most successful singles include "Il jouait du piano debout", "Ella, elle l'a" and "Évidemment".
09/10/1945
Amjad Ali Khan, Indian classical Sarod player
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans. Khan was born into a classical musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honor Padma Vibhushan in 2001, India's third highest civilian honor Padma Bhushan in 1991 and Padma Shree in 1975.
Taiguara, Uruguayan-Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 1996)
Taiguara Chalar da Silva, whose stage name was Taiguara, was a Brazilian singer and songwriter.
09/10/1944
Rita Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy, English academic and politician
Rita Margaret Donaghy, Baroness Donaghy, CBE, FRSA is a British university administrator, trade unionist and Labour life peer in the House of Lords.
John Entwistle, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 2002)
John Alec Entwistle was an English singer, songwriter, musician, composer and record producer, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band the Who. Entwistle's music career spanned over four decades. Nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers", he was the band's only member with formal musical training and also provided backing and occasional lead vocals. Entwistle was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990.
Nona Hendryx, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Nona Bernis Hendryx is an American vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, and author. Hendryx is known for her work as a solo artist as well as for being one-third of the trio Labelle, who had a hit with "Lady Marmalade". In 1977, Hendryx released her self-titled debut solo album, a commercial failure that resulted in Hendryx being released from her recording contract. In the early 1980s, Hendryx sang with experimental funk group Material, achieving the hit "Busting Out".
09/10/1943
Douglas Kirby, American psychologist and author (died 2012)
Douglas Bernard Kirby was senior research scientist for ETR Associates in Scotts Valley, California, and one of the world’s leading experts on the effectiveness of school and community programs in the reduction of adolescent sexual risk-taking behaviors. In recent years he had also undertaken research and analysis on the impact of HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Uganda under the auspices of the World Health Organization, USAID, and other organizations.
Mike Peters, American cartoonist
Michael Bartley Peters is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm.
09/10/1941
Brian Lamb, American broadcaster, founded C-SPAN
Brian Patrick Lamb is an American journalist. He is the founder, executive chairman, and the now-retired CEO of C-SPAN, an American cable network that provides coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate as well as other public affairs events. In 2007, Lamb was awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush and received the National Humanities Medal the following year.
Trent Lott, American lawyer and politician
Chester Trent Lott Sr. is an American lobbyist, lawyer, author, and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Senate from 1989 to 2007. Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both chambers of Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. Later in his career, he served twice as Senate Majority Leader, and also, alternately, Senate Minority Leader. In 2003, he stepped down from the position after controversy due to his praising of Senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid.
Omali Yeshitela, political activist and founder of the Uhuru Movement
Omali Yeshitela is an American far-left political activist and author. Ideologically a Pan-Africanist and African socialist, he is a co-founder and current chairman of the African People's Socialist Party. Yeshitela has advocated for reparations for African Americans due to the slavery of Black people, which lasted from 1619 to 1865 in the United States and Jim Crow laws, which lasted from 1877 to 1965.
09/10/1940
John Lennon, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1980)
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Lennon's songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.
09/10/1939
Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect and academic (died 2025)
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw was an English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall. He was president of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011. He was chairman of Grimshaw Architects from its foundation to 2019, when he was succeeded by Andrew Whalley. He was a recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal.
John Pilger, Australian-English journalist, director, and producer (died 2023)
John Richard Pilger was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker. From 1962, he was based mainly in Britain. He was also a visiting professor at Cornell University in New York.
09/10/1938
Heinz Fischer, Austrian academic and politician, 11th President of Austria
Heinz Fischer is an Austrian politician who served as the president of Austria from 2004 to 2016. Fischer previously served as minister for science from 1983 to 1987 and as president of the National Council of Austria from 1990 to 2002. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) until 2004, he suspended his party membership as he became president.
09/10/1936
Brian Blessed, English actor
Brian Blessed is an English actor. He is known for his distinctive bushy beard, loud booming voice, and exuberant personality and performances. He portrayed PC "Fancy" Smith in Z-Cars; Augustus in the 1976 BBC television production of I, Claudius; Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon; Bustopher Jones and Old Deuteronomy in the 1981 original London production of Cats at the New London Theatre; King Richard IV in the first series of Blackadder; Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, in Henry V; Boss Nass in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace; and the voice of Clayton and the Tarzan yell in Disney's Tarzan.
Mick Young, Australian politician (died 1996)
Michael Jerome Young was an Australian politician. He rose through the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to become its National Secretary, before serving as a Labor member of the House of Representatives from the 1974 election to 1988. He was a senior minister in the Hawke government, and was a prominent political figure during the 1970s and 1980s. Young was also President of the Australian Labor Party from 1986 to 1988.
09/10/1935
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, is a member of the British royal family. The elder son of Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, he is a grandson of George V, nephew of Edward VIII and George VI, and first cousin of Elizabeth II. Edward's mother was also a first cousin of Prince Philip, Elizabeth's husband, making him both a second cousin and first cousin once removed to Charles III. He is 42nd in the line of succession to the British throne. In 2025, following the death of his wife, Katharine, Duchess of Kent, Edward became the oldest living member of the British royal family.
Don McCullin, English photographer and journalist
Sir Donald McCullin is a British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and impoverished.
09/10/1934
Jill Ker Conway, Australian historian and author (died 2018)
Jill Ker Conway was an Australian-American scholar and author. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain, she also was Smith College's first woman president (1975–1985) and most recently served as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2004 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project. She was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal.
Abdullah Ibrahim, South African pianist and composer
Abdullah Ibrahim, previously known as Dollar Brand, is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and Ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Ibrahim is considered the leading figure in the subgenre of Cape jazz. Within jazz, his music particularly reflects the influence of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington. He is known especially for "Mannenberg", a jazz piece that became a notable anti-apartheid anthem.
09/10/1933
Peter Mansfield, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
Sir Peter Mansfield was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.
Melvin Sokolsky, American fashion photographer (died 2022)
Melvin Sokolsky was an American photographer and film director.
Bill Tidy, English soldier and cartoonist (died 2023)
William Edward Tidy, MBE was a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips. He was noted for his charitable work, particularly for the Lord's Taverners, which he supported for over 30 years. Deeply proud of his working-class roots in Northern England, his most abiding cartoon strips, such as The Cloggies and The Fosdyke Saga, were set in an exaggerated version of that environment.
09/10/1931
Tony Booth, English actor (died 2017)
Anthony George Booth was an English actor, often known for his role as Mike Rawlins in the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part. He was the father-in-law of former prime minister Tony Blair and the widower of Coronation Street star Pat Phoenix, having married her a few days before her death in 1986.
09/10/1928
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer and educator (died 2016)
Einojuhani Rautavaara was a Finnish composer of classical music. Among the most notable Finnish composers since Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Rautavaara wrote a great number of works spanning various styles. These include eight symphonies, nine operas and fifteen concertos, as well as numerous vocal and chamber works. Having written early works using 12-tone serial techniques, his later music may be described as neo-romantic and mystical. His major works include his first piano concerto (1969), Cantus Arcticus (1972) and his seventh symphony, Angel of Light (1994).
09/10/1927
John Margetson, English scholar and diplomat, British Ambassador to the Netherlands (died 2020)
Sir John William Denys Margetson was a British diplomat who served as ambassador to Vietnam, the United Nations, and the Netherlands.
09/10/1926
Danièle Delorme, French actress and producer (died 2015)
Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard, known by her stage name Danièle Delorme, was a French actress and film producer, famous for her roles in films directed by Marc Allégret, Julien Duvivier and Yves Robert.
09/10/1924
Immanuvel Devendrar, Indian soldier (died 1957)
Immanuvel Devendrar, who later took the name Immanuel Sekaran, was a civil rights activist, former soldier and a party worker for the Indian National Congress in Tamil Nadu, India.
Arnie Risen, American basketball player (died 2012)
Arnold Denny "Stilts" Risen was an American professional basketball player.
09/10/1923
Donald Sinden, English actor (died 2014)
Sir Donald Alfred Sinden was an English actor.
09/10/1922
Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist and academic (died 1997)
Léon Dion was a Canadian political scientist.
Fyvush Finkel, American actor (died 2016)
Philip "Fyvush" Finkel was an American actor and director known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences, for which he earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1994. He is also known for his portrayal of Harvey Lipschultz, a crotchety history teacher, on the television series Boston Public.
Olga Guillot, Cuban-American singer (died 2010)
Olga Guillot was a Cuban singer who was known as the "Queen of Bolero". She was a native of Santiago de Cuba.
09/10/1921
Michel Boisrond, French director and screenwriter (died 2002)
Michel Jacques Boisrond was a French film director and screenwriter.
Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (died 2014)
Tadeusz Różewicz was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of foreign partitions. He was born in Radomsko, near Łódź, in 1921. He first published his poetry in 1938. During World War II, he served in the Polish underground Home Army. His elder brother, Janusz, also a poet, was executed by the Gestapo in 1944 for serving in the Polish resistance movement. His younger brother, Stanisław, became a noted film director and screenwriter.
09/10/1920
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author and educator (died 1976)
Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a Waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society and Western civilization as a whole. He led a turbulent life and his uncompromising opinions cost him both an obscenity conviction as well as long periods of heavy drinking and bouts of depression, which in the end led to his suicide.
Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (died 2013)
Yusef Abdul Lateef was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in the United States.
Jason Wingreen, American actor and screenwriter (died 2015)
Jason Wingreen was an American actor. He portrayed bartender Harry Snowden on the CBS sitcom All in the Family (1976–1979), a role he reprised on the continuation series Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983). He was also the original voice of Star Wars character Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
09/10/1918
E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer and author (died 2007)
Everette Howard Hunt Jr. was an American intelligence officer and author. From 1949 to 1970, Hunt served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where he was a central figure in U.S. regime change in Latin America including the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état and the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Frank Sturgis, and others, Hunt was one of the Nixon administration's so-called White House Plumbers, a team of operatives charged with identifying government leaks to outside parties.
Charles Read, Australian air marshal (died 2014)
Air Marshal Sir Charles Frederick Read, KBE, CB, DFC, AFC was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). He served as Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) from 1972 to 1975. Born in Sydney, Read joined the RAAF in 1937, and began his career flying biplane fighters. As a Beaufighter pilot, he led No. 31 Squadron and No. 77 Wing in the South West Pacific during World War II. His achievements earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross and a mention in despatches, and he finished the war an acting group captain.
Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 2013)
Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro, better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, especially due to his big band arrangements and compositions of mambo, chachachá and batanga, a genre he created in 1952.
09/10/1915
Clifford M. Hardin, American academic and politician, 17th United States Secretary of Agriculture (died 2010)
Clifford Morris Hardin was an American politician who served as the first president of the University of Nebraska. He served as the United States secretary of agriculture from 1969 to 1971 under President Richard Nixon.
Belva Plain, American author (died 2010)
Belva Plain, née Offenberg, was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction.
09/10/1914
Edward Andrews, American actor (died 1985)
Edward Bryan Andrews Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. Andrews was one of the most recognizable character actors on television and in films from the 1950s through the 1980s. Over time his stark white hair, imposing build and horn-rimmed glasses influenced the roles he received, as he was often cast as an ornery boss, a cagey businessman or other officious types.
09/10/1911
Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (died 2006)
Joseph John Rosenthal was an American photographer who received the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war, and was replicated as the United States Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington County, Virginia.
09/10/1909
Donald Coggan, English archbishop (died 2000)
Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan, was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980. As Archbishop of Canterbury, he "revived morale within the Church of England, opened a dialogue with Rome and supported women's ordination". He had previously been successively the Bishop of Bradford and the Archbishop of York.
09/10/1908
Harry Hooton, Australian poet and critic (died 1961)
Henry (Harry) Arthur Hooton was an Australian poet and social commentator whose writing spanned the years 1930s–1961. He was described by a biographer as ahead of his time, or rather "of his time while the majority of progressive artists and thinkers in Australia lagged far behind". Initially a socialist and "wobbly", he later professed anarchism and became an associate of the Sydney Push during the 1940s, with connections to many other Australian writers, film makers and artists. Hooton's constant attitude and literary style was extravagant, provocative and explicitly outrageous.
Werner von Haeften, German lieutenant (died 1944)
Werner Karl Otto Theodor von Haeften was an Oberleutnant in the Wehrmacht who took part in the military-based conspiracy against Adolf Hitler known as the 20 July plot.
09/10/1907
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (died 2001)
Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone, was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He was known as the 2nd Viscount Hailsham between 1950 and 1963, at which point he disclaimed his hereditary peerage.
Jacques Tati, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1982)
Jacques Tati was a French mime, filmmaker, actor and screenwriter. In an Entertainment Weekly poll of the Greatest Movie Directors he was voted 46th, though he had directed only six feature-length films.
Horst Wessel, German SA officer (died 1930)
Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.
09/10/1906
J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (died 1985)
J. R. Wharton Eyerman was an American photographer and photojournalist.
Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (died 2001)
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese politician, cultural theorist and poet who served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980.
09/10/1903
Walter O'Malley, American lawyer and businessman (died 1979)
Walter Francis O'Malley was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979. In 1958, as owner of the Dodgers, he brought major league baseball to the West Coast, moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles despite the Dodgers being the second most profitable team in baseball from 1946 to 1956, and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Kansas City, Missouri. In 2008, O'Malley was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for his contributions to and influence on the game of baseball.
09/10/1902
Freddie Young, English cinematographer (died 1998)
Frederick A. Young OBE, BSC was an English cinematographer. Sometimes credited as F. A. Young, his career in motion picture photography spanned more than 130 films across 65 years, between 1919 and 1984. He was best known for the sweeping, lush widescreen color photography he displayed through his collaborations with director David Lean. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography three times – for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970) – all directed by Lean.
09/10/1901
Alice Lee Jemison, Seneca political activist and journalist (died 1964)
Alice Mae Lee Jemison was a Seneca political activist and journalist. She was a major critic of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the New Deal policies of its commissioner John Collier. She lobbied in support of California, Cherokee, and Sioux peoples during her career, supported by the Seneca Tribal Council. The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration condemned her work, and critics described her harshly in press conferences and before Congressional committees. For a time, she was put under FBI surveillance.
09/10/1900
Joseph Friedman, American inventor (died 1982)
Joseph B. Friedman was an independent American inventor with a broad range of interests and ideas. Friedman was a first generation American and the fifth of eight children of Jewish-American immigrants.
Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor and academic (died 1976)
Alastair George Bell Sim was a Scottish actor. He began his theatrical career at the age of thirty and quickly became established as a popular West End performer, remaining so until his death in 1976. Starting in 1935, he also appeared in more than fifty British films, including an iconic adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol, released in 1951 as Scrooge in Great Britain and as A Christmas Carol in the United States. Though an accomplished dramatic actor, he is often remembered for his comically sinister performances.
Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (died 1990)
Joseph Zubin was a Lithuanian-born American educational psychologist and an authority on schizophrenia who is commemorated by the Joseph Zubin Awards. He was the founder of the Biometrics Research Department of New York State Psychiatric Institute.
09/10/1899
Bruce Catton, American historian and author (died 1978)
Charles Bruce Catton was an American historian and journalist who wrote books concerning the American Civil War. As a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history, featuring interesting characters and historical vignettes, in addition to the basic facts, dates, and analyses. His books were well researched and included footnotes. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1954 for his book A Stillness at Appomattox (1953), a study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia and third book in his Army of the Potomac trilogy.
09/10/1898
Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright (died 1987)
Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim was an Egyptian writer. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. The triumphs and failures that are represented by the reception of his enormous output of plays are emblematic of the issues that have confronted the Egyptian drama genre as it has endeavored to adapt its complex modes of communication to Egyptian society.
Joe Sewell, American baseball player (died 1990)
Joseph Wheeler Sewell was an American professional baseball infielder who played in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees from 1920 to 1933. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977.
09/10/1897
M. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras State (died 1987)
Minjur Bhakthavatsalam was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the chief minister of Madras State from 2 October 1963 to 6 March 1967. He was the last Congress chief minister of Tamil Nadu and the last to have taken part in the Indian independence movement.
09/10/1895
Eugene Bullard, American pilot (died 1961)
Eugene Jacques Bullard was one of the first African-American military pilots, although Bullard flew for France, not the United States. Bullard was one of the few black combat pilots during World War I, along with Pierre Réjon from France, William Robinson Clarke, a Jamaican who flew for the Royal Flying Corps, Domenico Mondelli from Italy, and Ahmet Ali Çelikten of the Ottoman Empire. Also a boxer and a jazz musician, he was called "L'Hirondelle noire" in French.
09/10/1893
Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer (died 1945)
Mário Raul de Morais Andrade was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetry, Paulicéia Desvairada, published in 1922. He has had considerable influence on modern Brazilian literature, and as a scholar and essayist—he was a pioneer of the field of ethnomusicology—his influence has reached far beyond Brazil.
09/10/1892
Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
09/10/1890
Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (died 1944)
Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and '30s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both religious services and appeals for donations, using radio to draw both audience and revenue with the growing appeal of popular entertainment and incorporating stage techniques into her weekly sermons at Angelus Temple, an early megachurch.
09/10/1888
Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (died 1938)
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A prominent Bolshevik described by Vladimir Lenin as a "most valuable and major theorist" of the Communist Party, Bukharin was active in the Soviet government from 1917 until his purge in 1937.
Irving Cummings, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1959)
Irving Cummings was an American film director and actor.
09/10/1886
Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager (died 1980)
Richard William "Rube" Marquard was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball in the 1910s and early 1920s. He achieved his greatest success with the New York Giants. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.
09/10/1883
Maria Filotti, Greek-Romanian actress (died 1956)
Maria Filotti was a Romanian actress. She was described as one of the "prestigious actors of the great realistic school" and the "directress" of a theater "that made an important contribution to transmitting the experience from one generation to the next."
09/10/1880
Charlie Faust, American baseball player (died 1915)
Charles Victor "Victory" Faust was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. Regarded as a good-luck charm, Faust helped the New York Giants win the 1911 National League championship.
09/10/1879
Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1960)
Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 "for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals."
09/10/1877
Gopabandhu Das, Indian journalist, poet, and activist (died 1928)
Gopabandhu Das (1877–1928), popularly known as Pandit Utkalamani Gopabandhu Das, was a social worker, reformer, political activist, journalist, poet and essayist.
09/10/1874
Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist and painter (died 1947)
Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh, better known as Nicholas Roerich, was a Russian polymath, painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure. He is best known for his prolific body of artwork, which spans over 7,000 paintings, and his contributions to a wide array of cultural, political, intellectual, and artistic movements and causes.
09/10/1873
Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (died 1944)
Carl Flesch was a Hungarian classical violinist and teacher. Flesch’s compendium Scale System is a staple of violin pedagogy.
Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (died 1916)
Karl Schwarzschild was a German physicist and astronomer.
Charles Rudolph Walgreen, American pharmacist and businessman, founded Walgreens (died 1939)
Charles Rudolph Walgreen was an American businessman and the founder of Walgreens.
09/10/1871
Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop (died 1940)
Georges Gauthier was a French Canadian archbishop of Montreal and the first rector of the Université de Montréal.
09/10/1864
Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (died 1927)
Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, was a British military officer in the Bengal Army and later the newly constituted British Indian Army. His military career began in the regular British Army, but he soon transferred to the presidency armies of India.
09/10/1863
Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author (died 1930)
Edward William Bok was a Dutch-born American editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He was editor of the Ladies' Home Journal for 30 years (1889–1919). He also distributed popular homebuilding plans and created Bok Tower Gardens in central Florida.
09/10/1859
Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel (died 1935)
Alfred Dreyfus was a French Army officer best known for his central role in the Dreyfus affair. In 1894, Dreyfus fell victim to a judicial conspiracy that eventually sparked a major political crisis in the French Third Republic when he was wrongfully accused and convicted of being a German spy due to antisemitism. Dreyfus was arrested, cashiered from the French army and imprisoned on Devil's Island in French Guiana. Eventually, evidence emerged showing that Dreyfus was innocent and the true culprit was fellow officer Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy.
09/10/1858
Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (died 1935)
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, also known as Michael Pupin, was a Serbian-American electrical engineer, physicist and inventor.
09/10/1852
Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms. He also hypothesized lock and key mechanism of enzyme action. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his life simply as Emil Fischer.
09/10/1850
Hermann von Ihering, German-Brazilian zoologist (died 1930)
Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering was a German Brazilian doctor, professor and ornithologist. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.
09/10/1845
Carl Gustav Thulin, Swedish shipowner (died 1918)
Carl Gustav Thulin was a Swedish shipowner. He co-owned and later became the sole owner of the shipping company Nordström & Thulin.
09/10/1840
Simeon Solomon, English painter (died 1905)
Simeon Solomon was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who was noted for his depictions of Jewish life and same-sex desire. His career was cut short as a result of public scandal following his arrests and convictions for attempted sodomy in 1873 and 1874.
09/10/1837
Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (died 1902)
Francis Wayland Parker was a pioneer of the progressive school movement in the United States. He believed that education should include the complete development of an individual — mental, physical, and moral. John Dewey called him the "father of progressive education." He worked to create curriculum that centered on the whole child and a strong language background. He was against standardization, isolated drill and rote learning. He helped to show that education was not just about cramming information into students' minds, but about teaching students to think for themselves and become independent people.
09/10/1835
Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer and conductor (died 1921)
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886).
09/10/1826
Agathon Meurman, Finnish politician and journalist (died 1909)
Agathon Meurman was a Finnish politician and journalist. He was one of the key persons of the Fennoman movement and since 1863 the leader of the Finnish Party together with Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen.
09/10/1823
Mary Ann Shadd, American-Canadian abolitionist (died 1893)
Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada. She was also the second black woman to attend law school in the United States. Mary Shadd established the newspaper Provincial Freeman in 1853, which was published weekly in southern Ontario. It advocated equality, integration, and self-education for black people in Canada and the United States.
09/10/1796
Joseph Bonomi the Younger, British Egyptologist and sculptor (died 1878)
Joseph Bonomi the Younger was an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator.
09/10/1757
Charles X of France (died 1836)
Charles X was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother of reigning kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile. After the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Charles became the leader of the ultra-royalists, a radical monarchist faction within the French court that affirmed absolute monarchy by divine right and opposed the constitutional monarchy concessions towards liberals and the guarantees of civil liberties granted by the Charter of 1814. Charles gained influence within the French court after the assassination of his son Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, in 1820 and succeeded his brother Louis XVIII in 1824.
09/10/1704
Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician (died 1777)
Johann Andreas von Segner was a Hungarian scientist of German descent. He was born in the Kingdom of Hungary, in the former Hungarian capital city of Pozsony, or Pressburg.
09/10/1623
Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (died 1688)
Ferdinand Verbiest, was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tielt in the County of Flanders. He is known as Nan Huairen in Chinese.
09/10/1609
Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland, English noble (died 1688)
Thomas Weston, 4th Earl of Portland was a younger son of the 1st Earl of Portland, by his second wife Frances Walgrave. He was born at Nayland in Suffolk, England.
09/10/1593
Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (died 1674)
Nicolaes Tulp was a Dutch physician and mayor of Amsterdam. Tulp was well known for his upstanding moral character and as the subject of Rembrandt's famous painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.
09/10/1586
Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (died 1632)
Leopold V, Archduke of Further Austria was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria, and the younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand II, father of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria. He was Prince-Bishop of Passau and of Strasbourg, until he resigned to get married, and Archduke of Further Austria including Tyrol.
09/10/1581
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician, poet, and scholar (died 1638)
Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy. He wrote Problèmes plaisans et délectables qui se font par les nombres, Les éléments arithmétiques, and a Latin translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus. He also discovered means of solving indeterminate equations using continued fractions, a method of constructing magic squares, and a proof of Bézout's identity.
09/10/1328
Peter I of Cyprus (died 1369)
Peter I was King of Cyprus and titular King of Jerusalem from his father's abdication on 24 November 1358 until his death in 1369. He was invested as titular Count of Tripoli in 1346. As King of Cyprus, he had some military successes, but he was unable to complete many of his plans due to internal disputes that culminated in his assassination at the hands of three of his knights.
09/10/1261
Denis of Portugal (died 1325)
Denis, called the Farmer King and the Poet King, was King of Portugal from 1279 until his death in 1325.
09/10/1221
Salimbene di Adam, Italian historian and scholar (died 1290)
Salimbene di Adam was an Italian Franciscan friar, theologian, and chronicler. Salimbene was one of the most celebrated Franciscan chroniclers of the High Middle Ages. His Cronica is a fundamental source for Italian history of the 13th century.
09/10/1201
Robert de Sorbon, French minister and theologian, founded the Collège de Sorbonne (died 1274)
Robert de Sorbon was a French theologian, the chaplain of Louis IX of France, and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris.