People born on May 9

J. M. Barrie

Scottish writer and playwright

Howard Carter

British egyptologist

Glenda Jackson

British actress and politician (1936–2023)

José Ortega y Gasset

Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883-1955)

János Áder

President of Hungary from 2012 to 2022

Sophie Scholl

German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)

Manfred Eigen

German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)

Billy Joel

American musician (born 1949)

Albert Finney

British actor

John Brown

American abolitionist (1800–1859)

Genki Haraguchi

Japanese association football player

Candice Bergen

American actress

Gaspard Monge

French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818)

Jupp Heynckes

German association football player and manager

Michael Levitt

Biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology