People born on February 9

William Henry Harrison

President of the United States in 1841

Thomas Paine

American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)

J. M. Coetzee

South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

Joseph E. Stiglitz

American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Tom Hiddleston

English actor (born 1981)

Ali Bongo Ondimba

President of Gabon (2009–2023)

Jacques Monod

French biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate (1910-1976)

Mia Farrow

American actress

Joe Pesci

American actor, comedian and musician

Natsume Sōseki

Japanese novelist

Ōsumi Yoshinori

Japanese molecular biologist (1945 - )

Zhang Ziyi

Chinese actress and model

Vasily Zhukovsky

Russian poet (1783-1852)

Wataru Endō

Japanese association football player