09 November: today's birthdays

• Anthony Asquith - English film director. Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) are his major works
• Erich Auerbach - German philologist, comparative scholar and literary critic. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature is his major work
• Marco Bellocchio - Italian film director, screenwriter and producer
• Velimir Chlebnikov - Russian poet, born Viktor Vladimirovič Chlebnikov
• Eric Dane - American actor. He is Dr. Mark Sloan in Grey's Anatomy medical drama television series
• Jean-Marie Floch - French semiologist. He wrote Sémiotique, marketing et communication : sous les signes, les stratégies
• Imre Kertész - Hungarian writer, a concentration camp survivor. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002. He wrote Fatelessness and Kaddish for an Unborn Child
• Imre Lakatos - Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, and epistemologist. Born Imre Lipschitz
• Hedy Lamarr - Pseudonym of Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, Austrian-born American actress and inventor
• Fernando Meirelles - Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed the film The Constant Gardener
• Giovanna Mezzogiorno - Italian stage and film actress
• Aureliano Pertile - Italian tenor
• Carl Sagan - American astronomer, author and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences
  
• Scarface - Stage name of American rapper Brad Terrence Jordan
• Ivan Sergeevič Turgenev (Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev) - Russian author, short story writer, and playwright. Fathers and Sons is his most famous novel