Famous Birthdays for June 9Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Felician) 1640 - Holy Roman emperor Peter the Great 1672 - Peter I of Russia George Stephenson 1781 - Civil engineer and mechanical engineer, built the first public railway John Howard Payne 1791 - Actor, poet, playwright Carl Nielsen 1865 - Composer, conductor, violinist Meta Vaux Warrick 1877 - Artist Cole Porter (Cole Albert Porter) 1891 - Composer, songwriter Fred Waring 1900 - Musician (The Pennsylvanians), bandleader, radio-television personality Louis Kutner 1908 - Human rights activist, lawyer, helped to found Amnesty International Robert "Bob" Cummings (Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings) 1910 - Actor Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) 1915 - Musician, songwriter, inventor (solid-body electric guitar) Charles Loloma 1921 - Artist George Axelrod 1922 - Screenwriter Mona Freeman (Monica Elizabeth Freeman) 1926 - Actress Marvin L. Kalb 1930 - Journalist Joe Santos 1931 - Actor Jimmy Spruill 1934 - Musician Jackie Wilson (Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr.) 1934 - Singer, performer Diana Van Der Vlis 1935 - Actress Letty Cottin Pogrebin 1939 - Writer, journalist Dick Vitale (Richard J. "Dick" Vitale) 1940 - Basketball sportscaster Billy Hatton 1941 - Musician (The Fourmost) Jon Lord 1941 - Musician (White Snake, Deep Purple) Trevor Bolder 1950 - Musician (Spiders from Mars, Uriah Heep) Dave Parker (David Gene "The Cobra" Parker) 1951 - Baseball player Billy Knight (William R. "Billy" Knight) 1952 - Basketball player Patricia Cornwell 1956 - Mystery author Michael J. Fox 1961 - Actor ("Family Ties") Aaron Sorkin 1961 - Writer, producer ("The West Wing") Johnny Depp (John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II) 1963 - Actor, musician Wayman Tisdale 1964 - Basketball player Gloria Reuben 1965 - Singer, actress ("ER") Dean Felber 1967 - Musician (Hootie & the Blowfish) Dean Dinning 1967 - Musician (Toad the Wet Sprocket) Tedy Bruschi 1973 - Football player Natalie Portman 1981 - Actress ("Star Wars" movie series) Mae Whitman 1988 - Actress ("Arrested Development,"The DUFF") |