Notable Birthdays for March 9
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- Explorer Amerigo Vespucci in 1454
- Leland Stanford, railroad builder and founder of California's Stanford University, in 1824
- English novelist and poet Victoria Sackville-West in 1892
- Actor Will Geer in 1902
- Composer Samuel Barber in 1910
- Detective novelist Mickey Spillane in 1918
- Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, in 1934
- Actors Joyce Van Patten in 1934 (age 79), Marty Ingels in 1936 (age 77), Raul Julia in 1940 and Trish Van Devere in 1943 (age 70)
- Country singer Mickey Gilley in 1936 (age 76)
- Rock 'n' roll singer Mark Lindsay in 1942 (age 70)
- Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1943
- Rock musician Robin Trower in 1945 (age 68)
- Actors Linda Fiorentino in 1958 (age 55), Juliette Binoche in 1964 (age 49) and Emmanuel Lewis in 1971 (age 42)
- Olympic gold medal skier Julia Mancuso in 1984 (age 29)
- And rapper/actor Bow Wow in 1987 (age 26).
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