People born on October 9

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)

John Lennon

British musician (1940–1980)

David Cameron

British politician (born 1966)

Ivo Andrić

Yugoslav novelist (1892-1975)

Max von Laue

German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi

Emil Fischer

German chemist (1852-1919)

Heinz Fischer

Austrian politician (SPÖ), 8th president of Austria (born 1938)

Boris Nemtsov

Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician (1959-2015)

Léopold Sédar Senghor

First president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)

Jacopo Tintoretto

Renaissance painter (1518/1519-1594)

Charles X of France

King of France from 1824 to 1830

Camille Saint-Saëns

French composer, organist, conductor and pianist

Jody Williams

American teacher and aid worker

Guillermo del Toro

Mexican filmmaker and author (born 1964)

Alfred Dreyfus

French artillery officer (1859–1935)