09 January: today's birthdays

• Edgard Anthony Álvarez Reyes - Honduran soccer player
• Joan Baez - American singer, songwriter and activist. She had a romantic relantionship with Bob Dylan
• Michel Barnier - French Politician who is currently the EU's Chief Negotiator for Brexit negotiations
• Karel Čapek - Czech writer, playwright, and journalist 
• Kenny Clarke - American drummer
• Nicolás Andrés Córdova - Chilean soccer player
• Simone de Beauvoir - French writer and philosopher. She had a long relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. She wrote The Mandarins
• Pavel Aleksandrovič Florenskij (Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky) - Russian philosopher, mathematician and religious
• Massimiliano Fuksas - Italian architect
• Robert Michels - German-born Italian sociologist and political scientist
• Kate Middleton - Wife of Prince William of Wales, born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
• Domenico Modugno - Italian singer, songwriter, actor and film director
• Wilbur Smith - English writer born in Zambia. He wrote the novels When the Lion Feeds, The Dark of the Sun, Shout at the Devil, The Sunbird and Eagle in the Sky.