The 129th day of the year, the 130th in a leap year
Born on 9 May
Every 9 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 9 May in any year.
Which weekday 9 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 9 May falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 9 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,830 babies were born on 9 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 131st 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| J. M. Barrie | 1860–1937 | Scottish writer and playwright |
| Howard Carter | 1874–1939 | British archaeologist and Egyptologist |
| José Ortega y Gasset | 1883–1955 | Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist |
| Glenda Jackson | 1936–2023 | British actress and politician |
| Sophie Scholl | 1921–1943 | German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose |
| Meles Zenawi | 1955–2012 | Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia |
| Billy Joel | 1949– | American singer, songwriter, and pianist |
| Manfred Eigen | 1927–2019 | German biophysical chemist |
| John Brown | 1800–1859 | American abolitionist |
| Albert Finney | 1936–2019 | British actor |
| Candice Bergen | 1946– | American actress |
| Jupp Heynckes | 1945– | German football manager |
| Gaspard Monge | 1746–1818 | French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry |
| Majlinda Kelmendi | 1991– | Kosovo-Albanian judoka |
| Baldur von Schirach | 1907–1974 | German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal |
| Bulat Okudzhava | 1924–1997 | Soviet and Russian writer and singer |
| Rosario Dawson | 1979– | American actress |
| Minamoto no Yoritomo | 1147–1199 | 1st shogun of the Kamakura shogunate |
Died on 9 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Schiller | 1759–1805 | German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian |
| Albert A. Michelson | 1852–1931 | American physicist |
| Tenzing Norgay | 1914–1986 | Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer |
| Aldo Moro | 1916–1978 | Italian politician |
| Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | 1778–1850 | French chemist and physicist |
| Kenan Evren | 1917–2015 | President of Turkey |
| Julius Nepos | 430–480 | Roman emperor |
| Little Richard | 1932–2020 | American musician |
| Dieterich Buxtehude | 1637–1707 | Danish-German organist and composer |
| Ulrike Meinhof | 1934–1976 | German left-wing militant, journalist and author |
| Akhmad Kadyrov | 1951–2004 | Chechen politician and Islamic religious leader |
| Lena Horne | 1917–2010 | American singer, actress, dancer and activist |
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