The 99th day of the year, the 100th in a leap year

Born on 9 April

Every 9 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.

Star sign
AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
Birthstone
DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
Most common weekdays
Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 9 April. The marked arc is every position it has held on 9 April, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 9 April in any year.

Which weekday 9 April falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 9 April falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.

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How common a birthday 9 April is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,766 babies were born on 9 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 324th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.

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Born on 9 April

18 people born on 9 April, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Charles Baudelaire1821–1867French poet and critic
Jean-Paul Belmondo1933–2021French actor
Kristen Stewart1990–American actress
Leopold II of Belgium1835–1909King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909
Hugh Hefner1926–2017American businessman and magazine publisher
Elias Lönnrot1802–1884Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry
Léon Blum1872–1950French politician
Jenna Jameson1974–American pornographic actress
Viktor Chernomyrdin1938–2010Russian diplomat and politician
Erich Ludendorff1865–1937German general and politician
Sam Harris1967–American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Elle Fanning1998–American actress
Dennis Quaid1954–American actor
Jacques Villeneuve1971–Canadian racecar driver
Victor Vasarely1906–1997French-Hungarian painter and printmaker
Jaya Bachchan1948–Indian politician and actress
Eadweard Muybridge1830–1904English-American photographer
Leighton Meester1986–American actress and singer

Died on 9 April

11 people who died on 9 April, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Francis Bacon1561–1626English philosopher and statesman
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959American architect
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1921–2021consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021
Dante Gabriel Rossetti1828–1882English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident
Isabella II1830–1904Queen of Spain from 1833 to 1868
Edward IV1442–1483King of England from 1461 to 1470 and 1471 to 1483
Pope Benedict VIII980–1024pope
Sidney Lumet1924–2011American director, producer and screenwriter
Pope Constantinedied 715pope
Zeno425–491Byzantine Emperor

Names are the titles of the English Wikipedia articles; years and the short descriptions are from Wikidata, which publishes under CC0, checked and corrected by hand where they needed it, and nothing is said about anybody beyond that. Ask for a removal.

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