People born on March 9

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space (1934–1968)

Bobby Fischer

American chess player (1943–2008)

Vyacheslav Molotov

Soviet politician, statesman and diplomat (1890–1986)

Paul III

Leader of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

Juliette Binoche

French actress, artist and dancer (born 1964)

Takaaki Kajita

Japanese physicist and astronomer (1959-)

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

French writer, orator and statesman (1749-1791)

Mircea Eliade

Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago

Ornella Muti

Italian actress

Matteo Salvini

Italian politician

Mátyás Rákosi

Former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party (1892-1971)

Walter Kohn

American physicist (1923–2016)

Oscar Isaac

American actor (born 1979)

Juan Sebastián Verón

Argentine footballer