The 252nd day of the year, the 253rd in a leap year
Born on 9 September
Every 9 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 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 September in any year.
Which weekday 9 September falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 9 September falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 9 September is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,878 babies were born on 9 September in each year of the twenty, making it the 35th 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 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828–1910 | Russian author |
| Luka Modrić | 1985– | Croatian footballer |
| Cardinal Richelieu | 1585–1642 | French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman |
| Dennis Ritchie | 1941–2011 | American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language |
| Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono | 1949– | 6th President of Indonesia (2004—2014) |
| Adam Sandler | 1966– | American actor and comedian |
| Hugh Grant | 1960– | British actor |
| Akshay Kumar | 1967– | Indian actor |
| Luigi Galvani | 1737–1798 | Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher |
| Cesare Pavese | 1908–1950 | Italian writer, literary critic, and translator |
| Honorius | 384–423 | 4th and 5th-century Roman emperor |
| Michelle Williams | 1980– | American actress |
| Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | 1918–2012 | 9th President of Italy |
| Hans Georg Dehmelt | 1922–2017 | German physicist |
| Michael Bublé | 1975– | Canadian singer, songwriter and actor |
| Oscar | 1991– | Brazilian association football player |
| Otis Redding | 1941–1967 | American singer and songwriter |
| Goran Višnjić | 1972– | Croatian actor |
Died on 9 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mao Zedong | 1893–1976 | Chinese communist revolutionary and founder of the People's Republic of China |
| William the Conqueror | 1028–1087 | King of England from 1066 to 1087, Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087 |
| Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | 1864–1901 | French painter and illustrator |
| Pieter Bruegel the Elder | 1525–1569 | Flemish painter |
| Stéphane Mallarmé | 1842–1898 | French Symbolist poet |
| Edward Teller | 1908–2003 | Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer |
| Jacques Lacan | 1901–1981 | French psychoanalyst and writer |
| Ahmad Shah Massoud | 1953–2001 | Afghan military leader and politician |
| Burgess Meredith | 1907–1997 | American actor |
| James Earl Jones | 1931–2024 | American actor |
| James IV | 1473–1513 | King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513 |
| Paul Flory | 1910–1985 | American chemist |
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