People born on July 9

Tom Hanks

American actor and film producer (born 1956)

Victor Yanukovych

Ukrainian politician and the 4th President of Ukraine, ousted from office during the Revolution of Dignity in 2014

Donald Rumsfeld

American politician and businessman, twice U.S. Secretary of Defense

Courtney Love

American rock musician and actress (born 1964)

Edward Heath

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974

Amélie Nothomb

Belgian Francophone writer

Charles VIII of France

King of France (1483-1498)

Ashley Young

English association football player

Franz Boas

German-American anthropologist

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor from 1619 to 1637

Hassan II

King of Morocco from 1961 to 1999

Jan Neruda

Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist, journalist and writer (1834-1891)

Ben Roy Mottelson

Danish nuclear physicist

Ivan Vazov

Bulgarian writer and poet (1850-1921)

John Archibald Wheeler

American physicist