List of Famous people born on July 9th

Reverend Canon Arthur Townshend Boscawen was a British Rector of Ludgvan in Cornwall, England, and a recreational and commercial horticulturalist who introduced the anemone as a commercial crop to Cornwall.

Georges Blondeaux, known as Gébé, was a French cartoonist.

Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.

Ben Roy Mottelson is a Danish nuclear physicist. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of atomic nuclei.

James Joseph Paxson is an American former professional basketball player. A first round selection of the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1979 NBA draft, Paxson played for Portland and the Boston Celtics of the NBA from 1979–1990 and was twice an All-Star. Paxson served as general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers for six years and now works as a consultant with the Chicago Bulls where his brother John Paxson is an executive.

Mia Dillon is an American actress.

Santiago Llorente Fernández was a Spanish athlete.

Wilhelm His Sr. was a Swiss anatomist and professor who invented the microtome. By treating animal flesh with acids and salts to harden it and then slicing it very thinly with the microtome, scientists were able to further research the organization and function of tissues and cells in a microscope.