Famous people born on 9 March

• Yuri GagarinSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space · 1934–1968
  34 yrs
• Taras ShevchenkoUkrainian poet and artist · 1814–1861
  47 yrs
• Bobby FischerAmerican chess player · 1943–2008
  64 yrs
• Vyacheslav MolotovSoviet politician, statesman and diplomat · 1890–1986
  96 yrs
• Paul IIIPope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549 · 1468–1549
  81 yrs
• Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de MirabeauFrench writer, orator and statesman · 1749–1791
  42 yrs
• Mátyás Rákosi ↗Former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party · 1892–1971
  78 yrs
• Walter Kohn ↗American physicist · 1923–2016
  93 yrs
• Ornette Coleman ↗American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer · 1930–2015
  85 yrs
• Zillur Rahman ↗19th President of Bangladesh · 1929–2013
  84 yrs
• Peter Altenberg ↗Austrian writer and poet · 1859–1919
  59 yrs
• Samuel Barber ↗American composer · 1910–1981
  70 yrs
• Bobby Sands ↗Activist of the Provisional Irish Republican Army · 1954–1981
  27 yrs
• Luis Barragán ↗Mexican architect · 1902–1988
  86 yrs
• Raul Julia ↗Puerto Rican actor · 1940–1994
  54 yrs
• José Paciano Laurel ↗President of the Philippines from 1943 to 1945 · 1891–1959
  68 yrs
• Leland Stanford ↗American politician and railroad tycoon · 1824–1893
  69 yrs
• Zakir Hussain ↗Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor, and composer · 1951–2024
  73 yrs
• Ernest Bevin ↗British labour leader, politician, and statesman · 1881–1951
  70 yrs
• Umberto Saba ↗Italian poet and novelist · 1883–1957
  74 yrs
• Vita Sackville-West ↗English writer, poet, and gardener · 1892–1962
  70 yrs
• Bettino Ricasoli ↗Italian politician · 1809–1880
  71 yrs
• Bernd Hölzenbein ↗German footballer · 1946–2024
  78 yrs
• Emil Abderhalden ↗Swiss biochemist and physiologist · 1877–1950
  73 yrs
• Mickey Spillane ↗American crime novelist · 1918–2006
  88 yrs
• Franz Joseph Gall ↗Neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain · 1758–1828
  70 yrs
• George Lincoln Rockwell ↗American founder of the American Nazi Party · 1918–1967
  49 yrs
• Jean Baptiste Kléber ↗French general, and architect · 1753–1800
  47 yrs
• Joanna la Beltraneja ↗Castillian infanta and queen, queen consort of Portugal · 1462–1530
  68 yrs
• León Febres-Cordero ↗President of Ecuador · 1931–2008
  77 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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