09 June: today's birthdays

• Patricia Cornwell - American crime writer, born Patricia Daniels
• Johnny Depp - American actor. He starred in Edward Scissorhands and in the film series  Pirates of the Caribbean
• Michael J. Fox - Canadian-born American actor. He starred in Back to the Future trilogy 
• Johann Gottfried Galle - German astronomer
• Ulf Hannerz - Swedish anthropologist
• Eric Hobsbawm - Egyptian-born English historian and sociologist of Austrian descent
• Curzio Malaparte - Pseudonym of Italian writer, journalist and diplomat Kurt Erich Suckert
• Bart Moeyaert - Belgian writer
• Nedo Nadi - Italian fencer and sports manager
• Françoise Nyssen - French publisher and politician
• Les Paul - Stage name of Lester William Polfuss, American inventor and musician
• Cole Porter - American composer and singer-songwriter
• Jordi Pujol i Soley - Catalan politician and nationalist
• Gloria Reuben - Canadian actress and singer
• Wesley Sneijder - Dutch soccer player
• Aaron Sorkin -  American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright, born Aaron Benjamin Sorkin.
• Chaïm Soutine - Russian-born French painter, born Chaim Solomonovič Sutin. He became friends with Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani
• George Stephenson - English engineer who was a pioneer of rail transport