Notable Birthdays for February 9
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, in 1773
- Actor Ronald Colman in 1891
- Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and actor Carmen Miranda, both in 1909
- Country singer Ernest Tubb and baseball entrepreneur Bill Veeck, both in 1914
- Actor Kathryn Grayson in 1922
- Irish playwright Brendan Behan in 1923
- Television journalist Roger Mudd in 1928 (age 86)
- Evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong in 1930
- South African author J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate, in 1940 (age 74)
- Singer/songwriter Carole King in 1942 (age 72)
- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in 1943 (age 71)
- Author Alice Walker in 1944 (age 70)
- Actors Joe Pesci in 1943 (age 71), Mia Farrow in 1945 (age 69), Judith Light in 1949 (age 65) Ciaran Hinds in 1953 (age 61) and Charles Shaughnessy in 1955 (age 59)
- Country singer Travis Tritt in 1963 (age 51)
- And actor Tom Hiddleston in 1981 (age 33).
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