List of Famous people born on April 9th

Michael Steward Heath is an American former competition swimmer who specialized in freestyle events. He is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and a former world record-holder in two relay swimming events. A native of Texas, he won two national collegiate championship competing for the University of Florida. During his elite swimming career, Heath won ten medals in major international championships, including seven golds, two silvers and a bronze, spanning the Olympic Games, FINA World Championships, and Pan Pacific Championships.

Jaak Aab is an Estonian politician of the Centre Party who has been serving as the Minister of Education and Research since 2020. He previously served twice as the Minister of Public Administration from 2017 to 2018 and 2019 to 2020 and as the Minister of Social Affairs (Estonia) from 2005 to 2007.

SS-Oberscharführer Franz Wolf was a German Nazi senior squad leader serving with the Action T4 forced euthanasia program, and later, at the Sobibór extermination camp in occupied Poland during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, codenamed Operation Reinhard. Leading a normal life in West Germany for the next twenty years, along with thousands of war criminals protected by Konrad Adenauer, Wolf was arrested in 1964, and indicted during the Sobibór trial with participating in the murder of 115,000 Jews. On 20 December 1966, the court in Hagen sentenced him to eight years in prison for taking part in the mass murder of "at least 39,000 Jews".

Elena Anatolyevna Lashmanova is a Russian race walker. She was the 2012 Olympic Champion in the 20 km walk. She received a two-year ban for a doping violation along with a similar penalty for the majority of her training partners shortly thereafter. Her Olympic gold was not affected, though. It is claimed by Russian whistleblower Rodchenkov that her positive sample was in fact one from her 2012 olympics mistakenly substituted for a further positive test result by the state run doping programme. He claims that she had at least 2 positive findings that went unreported and that this one was reported only because it was witnessed by non Russian experts.

Wolfram Kuschke is a politician. He is a member of the parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia for SPD.

Dominique Perrault is a French architect and urban planner. He became world known for the design of the French National Library, distinguished with the Silver medal for town planning in 1992 and the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996. In 2010 he was awarded the gold medal by the French Academy of Architecture for all his work. He was named as the 2015 Praemium Imperiale Laureate for Architecture.