List of Famous people born on July 9th

Wilhelm Stoph was an East German politician. He served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic from 1964 to 1973, and again from 1976 until 1989. He also served as chairman of the State Council from 1973 to 1976.

Tyler Portis Hicks is a photojournalist who works as a staff photographer for The New York Times. Based in Kenya, he covers foreign news for the newspaper with an emphasis on conflict and war.

Zinaida Mikhailovna Kiriyenko was a Russian actress and singer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1977). She was known for her roles in the films And Quiet Flows the Don, Fate of a Man, and Chronicle of Flaming Years.

James Barney Pollack was an American astrophysicist who worked for NASA's Ames Research Center.

Thomas Linton "Cowboy" Anderson was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 8 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings and the New York/Brooklyn Americans. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and raised in Drumheller, Alberta and spent his final years in Sylvan Lake, Alberta. He was one of three children of Alexander Robert Thomas Anderson and Margaret Jane Anderson.

Marina Ried was a Russian-born German stage and film actress. The niece of the film star Olga Chekhova, she was born in Moscow but moved to Germany as a child. She was married to the actor Rudolf Platte between 1942 and 1953.

Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, violinist, and teacher who was one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, and chamber music, and include transcriptions of pieces from Italian composers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries and works of Bach and Rachmaninoff. Among his best known and most performed works are his three Roman tone poems, which brought him international fame: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928). All three demonstrate Respighi's use of rich orchestral colours.