Famous Personalities Born In October - 09
Thursday, 03 July 2025
1201 On this day in history birth of robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris
1221 On October - 09 birth of salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
1261 On this day in history birth of dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)
1328 King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369) was born on October - 09.
1581 Claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist was born on this day in history.
1586 Jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn was born on this day in history.
1586 On October - 09 birth of archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
1626 John Ferrabosco, composer was born on October - 09.
1663 On October - 09 birth of gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)
1704 Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) was born on October - 09.
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 On this day in history birth of pierre Gaveaux, composer
1766 On this day in history birth of bedrich Divis Weber, composer
1771 Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15) was born on this day in history.
1782 On this day in history birth of lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich)
1796 Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878) was born on October - 09.
1813 John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63) was born on this day in history.
1819 Samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 was born on October - 09.
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 On October - 09 birth of harriet Hosmer, sculptor
1835 Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921) was born on this day in history.
1840 On October - 09 birth of simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1847 On this day in history birth of andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg's coal basin)
1847 Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond) was born on October - 09.
1852 On this day in history birth of hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1858 On this day in history birth of gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)
1859 On October - 09 birth of alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair)
1863 On this day in history birth of alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1869 Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer was born on this day in history.
1871 On October - 09 birth of gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)
1871 George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940) was born on October - 09.
1871 On October - 09 birth of didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.