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.
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
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| John Lennon | 1940–1980 | British musician |
| David Cameron | 1966– | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016 |
| Ivo Andrić | 1892–1975 | Yugoslav novelist |
| Max von Laue | 1879–1960 | German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi |
| Léopold Sédar Senghor | 1906–2001 | Senegalese poet, President of Senegal from 1960 to 1980 |
| Emil Fischer | 1852–1919 | German chemist |
| Boris Nemtsov | 1959–2015 | Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician |
| Heinz Fischer | 1938– | Austrian politician, President of Austria from 2004 to 2016 |
| Charles X of France | 1757–1836 | King of France and Navarre from 1824 to 1830 |
| Jody Williams | 1950– | American teacher and aid worker |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | 1835–1921 | French composer, organist, conductor and pianist |
| Nikolai Bukharin | 1888–1938 | Russian revolutionary and politician |
| Guillermo del Toro | 1964– | Mexican filmmaker and author |
| Alfred Dreyfus | 1859–1935 | French artillery officer |
| Nicholas Roerich | 1874–1947 | Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher |
| France Gall | 1947–2018 | French singer |
| Bella Hadid | 1996– | American model |
| Peter Mansfield | 1933–2017 | English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging |
Died on 9 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Che Guevara | 1928–1967 | Argentine Marxist revolutionary |
| Pope Pius XII | 1876–1958 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958 |
| Pieter Zeeman | 1865–1943 | Dutch physicist |
| Jacques Derrida | 1930–2004 | French philosopher |
| Oskar Schindler | 1908–1974 | German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer |
| Jacques Brel | 1929–1978 | Belgian singer |
| Andrzej Wajda | 1926–2016 | Polish film director |
| André Maurois | 1885–1967 | French author |
| Alec Douglas-Home | 1903–1995 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964 |
| Pope Clement II | died 1047 | Head of the Catholic Church from 1046 to 1047 |
| Maurice Allais | 1911–2010 | French economist |
| Cyril N. Hinshelwood | 1897–1967 | English physical chemist |
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