09 March: today's birthdays

• Samuel Osborne Barber - American composer
• Juliette Binoche - French actress. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1997
• Daley Blind - Dutch professional footballer 
• André Courrèges - French fashion designer
• Bobby Fischer - American chess champion
• Yurij Gagarin (Yuri Gagarin) - Russian astronaut
• Algirdas Julien Greimas - Lithuanian-born French linguist and semiologist
• Ludwig Gumplowicz - Polish sociologist
• Oscar Isaac - Guatemalan-born American actor and singer
• ​Emiliano Mondonico - Italia football manager and former professional football player 
• Ornella Muti - Italian actress
• Mátyás Rákosi - Hungarian politician
• ​Umberto Saba - Italian poet and writer, born Umberto Poli
• Vita Sackville-West - English writer and poet. She had a passionate affair with British author Virginia Woolf
• Stefano Sturaro - Italian professional footballer
• Amerigo Vespucci - Italian explorer and navigator
• Thierry Vigneron - French athlete