09 September: today's birthdays

• Kwadwo Asamoah - Ghanaian football player
• Brassaï - Pseudonym adopted by Hungarian-born French photographer, sculptor, illustrator, and writer Gyula Halász
• Gottfried Dienst - Swiss soccer referee
• Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior - Brazilian footballer, better known as Oscar
• Armand-Jean du Plessis de Richelieu - French nobleman, politician and clergyman
• Luigi Galvani - Italian physician and physicist
• Hugh Grant - English actor. He starred in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, and About a Boy
• Melanie Griffith - American actress. She starred as Tess McGill in the film Working Girl
• Svend Grundtvig - Danish philologist
• Gyula Halász - Hungarian-born French photographer, sculptor, illustrator, and writer, best known as Brassaï
• Vincent Laban - French soccer player
• Kurt Lewin - German psychologist
• Sol LeWitt - American artist, born Solomon LeWitt
• Max Reinhardt - Austrian theatre director
• Adam Sandler - American actor and comedian
• Davide Scabin - Italian chef
  
• Gylfi Sigurðsson - Icelandic professional footballer 
• Lev Nikolaevič Tolstòj (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy) - Russian writer. He wrote War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
• Michelle Williams - American actress, born Michelle Ingrid Williams