The 282nd day of the year, the 283rd in a leap year

Born on 9 October

Every 9 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.

Star sign
LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
Birthstone
Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
Most common weekdays
Sunday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 9 October. The marked arc is every position it has held on 9 October, 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 October in any year.

Which weekday 9 October falls on

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

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How common a birthday 9 October is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,886 babies were born on 9 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 29th 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 October

18 people born on 9 October, 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
John Lennon1940–1980British musician
David Cameron1966–Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016
Ivo Andrić1892–1975Yugoslav novelist
Max von Laue1879–1960German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi
Léopold Sédar Senghor1906–2001Senegalese poet, President of Senegal from 1960 to 1980
Emil Fischer1852–1919German chemist
Boris Nemtsov1959–2015Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician
Heinz Fischer1938–Austrian politician, President of Austria from 2004 to 2016
Charles X of France1757–1836King of France and Navarre from 1824 to 1830
Jody Williams1950–American teacher and aid worker
Camille Saint-Saëns1835–1921French composer, organist, conductor and pianist
Nikolai Bukharin1888–1938Russian revolutionary and politician
Guillermo del Toro1964–Mexican filmmaker and author
Alfred Dreyfus1859–1935French artillery officer
Nicholas Roerich1874–1947Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher
France Gall1947–2018French singer
Bella Hadid1996–American model
Peter Mansfield1933–2017English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging

Died on 9 October

12 people who died on 9 October, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Che Guevara1928–1967Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Pope Pius XII1876–1958pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
Pieter Zeeman1865–1943Dutch physicist
Jacques Derrida1930–2004French philosopher
Oskar Schindler1908–1974German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer
Jacques Brel1929–1978Belgian singer
Andrzej Wajda1926–2016Polish film director
André Maurois1885–1967French author
Alec Douglas-Home1903–1995Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964
Pope Clement IIdied 1047Head of the Catholic Church from 1046 to 1047
Maurice Allais1911–2010French economist
Cyril N. Hinshelwood1897–1967English physical chemist

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