Famous Personalities Born In October - 09
Sunday, 17 August 2025
1201 Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris was born on this day in history.
1221 On October - 09 birth of salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
1261 On October - 09 birth of dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)
1328 King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369) was born on this day in history.
1581 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist was born on October - 09.
1586 On October - 09 birth of jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn
1586 Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632) was born on October - 09.
1626 John Ferrabosco, composer was born on October - 09.
1663 On October - 09 birth of gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)
1704 On this day in history birth of ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
1727 On October - 09 birth of johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
1757 Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed was born on October - 09.
1760 Pierre Gaveaux, composer was born on October - 09.
1766 On this day in history birth of bedrich Divis Weber, composer
1771 Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15) was born on October - 09.
1782 Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich) was born on October - 09.
1796 Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878) was born on this day in history.
1813 John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63) was born on October - 09.
1819 Samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 was born on this day in history.
1822 On October - 09 birth of george Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
1823 Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers was born on this day in history.
1830 Harriet Hosmer, sculptor was born on October - 09.
1835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921) was born on October - 09.
1840 On this day in history birth of simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1847 On October - 09 birth of andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg's coal basin)
1847 On October - 09 birth of stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond)
1852 On October - 09 birth of hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1858 On October - 09 birth of gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
1859 Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair) was born on October - 09.
1863 On October - 09 birth of alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1869 On this day in history birth of harry Lawrence Freeman, composer
1871 Gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-) was born on October - 09.
1871 George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940) was born on this day in history.
1871 On this day in history birth of didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.