Tom Hanks and O.J. Simpson? 7 most famous people born today

By Daniel Johnson-Kim

Did you just Google if someone famous has your birthday?

Well look no further if you were born on July 9 ... you have arrived at the destination you seek.

Here are the seven most famous people born on July 9:

1. Tom Hanks

How hard is it to pick a favorite Tom Hanks (July 9, 1956) movie? The two-time Oscar winner turns 70 today.

He has been the face or voice of so many classics, like "Forrest Gump," "Apollo 13," "Toy Story," "Saving Private Ryan."

Away from the screen, Hanks is the father to four children — Colin and E.A. Hanks from his first marriage to the late Samantha Lewes, and Chet and Truman with Rita Wilson, his wife of 38 years.

Happy Birthday, Tom!

2. O.J. Simpson

Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1956 - April 10, 2024) was a Heisman Trophy winner, Pro Football Hall of Famer and the defendant in the most-watched murder trial in American history.

On June 12, 1994, the former football and television star's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and her friend Ron Goldman, 25, were found stabbed to death outside her Los Angeles home.

Simpson was charged with both murders. He led police on a two-hour chase through Southern California in a white Ford Bronco that an estimated 95 million Americans watched on television before surrendering.

It even interrupted the NBA finals.

His 1995 criminal trial became known as the "trial of the century," which eventually resulted in the jury acquitting him of both murders. The trial and story its characters was famously portrayed in Ryan Murphy's "The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story."

The acquittal was not the end of it.

In 1997, a separate California civil jury found Simpson liable for the two deaths and ordered him to pay the Brown and Goldman families $33.5 million — a sum that went largely unpaid.

In September 2007, Simpson and a group of armed men forced their way into a Las Vegas hotel room to seize sports memorabilia that "The Juice" claimed was his.

He was convicted in 2008 of armed robbery and kidnapping. This convinction fell 13 years to the day after his murder acquittal. He was sentenced to 33 years in prison and served nine at Nevada's Lovelock Correctional Center before being paroled in 2017.

Simpson was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2024 and he died April 10, 2024, at his Las Vegas home at 76.

3. Jack White

Ever gotten "Seven Nation Army" in your head? Who hasn't heard that iconic riff that fills stadiums across the world? You can thank Jack White (July 9, 1975), for that. He turns 51 today.

The White Stripes frontman defined the 2000s garage rock revival, won multiple Grammys and kept going with the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather and a string of solo albums.

And this rock God is not slowing down. His new album, "Frozen Charlotte," arrives tomorrow via his own Third Man Records.

A gift for the rock fans the day after his birthday?

Hope your birthday rocks, Jack.

4. Courtney Love

Grunge's most controversial survivor?

Courtney Love (July 9, 1964), turns 62 today.

The Hole frontwoman led the band through acclaimed albums including "Live Through This" and "Celebrity Skin," and as an actress earned a Golden Globe nomination for "The People vs. Larry Flynt."

But Love is perhaps best known to the wider world for her marriage to Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana frontman she wed in February 1992 and with whom she had her only child, daughter Frances Bean Cobain, born later that year.

Cobain died by suicide at the couple's Seattle home in April 1994 at age 27. His body was discovered just four days before Hole released "Live Through This," the album that became the band's commercial breakthrough and one of the most acclaimed records of the decade.

Her four-decade career has also been marked by highly publicized struggles with addiction and legal battles, which she has spoken about openly.

No matter what life throws at Courtney, she seems to keep rockin' on.

5. David Hockney

David Hockney (July 9, 1937 - June 11, 2026) was an English painter, photographer and stage designer that some consider one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Born in Bradford, England, Hockney studied at the Royal College of Art in London before relocating to Los Angeles in the 1960s, where the light and lifestyle of California shaped his best-known work.

A key contributor to the pop art movement, he became famous for vivid, sun-drenched depictions of everyday life, above all, his swimming pool paintings.

In 2018, his "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sold at auction for $90.3 million, briefly the most expensive work by a living artist ever sold.

He worked into his final years, embracing iPad drawing in the last decades of his career, and died at his London home at 88, one month short of his 89th birthday.

6. Bon Scott

Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott (July 9, 1946 - Feb. 19, 1980) was the lead singer and lyricist of AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980.

He fronted the band on "Highway to Hell," "T.N.T." and "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)."

Born in Forfar, Scotland, and raised in nearby Kirriemuir, Scott emigrated to Australia with his family at age 6, where schoolmates riffing on "Bonnie Scotland" gave him his nickname.

He drummed and sang in several Australian bands before replacing AC/DC's original vocalist in 1974, and he helped build the group into one of the biggest rock acts in the world.

Scott died in London at 33 of acute alcohol poisoning, a death officially ruled a misadventure, months after "Highway to Hell" made AC/DC international stars.

The album the band recorded in tribute, "Back in Black," became one of the best-selling albums of all time, and in 2004, Classic Rock magazine ranked Scott the greatest frontman in rock history.

7. Fred Savage

Frederick Aaron Savage (July 9, 1976) is an American actor and director but you probably best know him as Kevin Arnold on "The Wonder Years,"

At 13, he became the youngest actor ever nominated for a lead-acting Primetime Emmy, and he also played the grandson in "The Princess Bride" before building a long second career directing television comedy.

In May 2022, Savage was fired as executive producer and director of "The Wonder Years" reboot after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate conduct, following complaints from multiple crew members.

Savage said some of the claims were untrue while acknowledging he would work to change any behavior perceived negatively. The show ran from 1988 to 1993.

Savage married his childhood friend Jennifer Lynn Stone in 2004, and the couple has three children. His younger brother is "Boy Meets World" star Ben Savage.

Today the man who was once America's most famous boy turns 50.

Just missed the cut: Jimmy Smits (1955), Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021), "Shaft" star Richard Roundtree (1942-2023), Brian Dennehy (1938-2020), Chris Cooper (1951), Kelly McGillis (1957), Sen. Lindsey Graham (1955), Ed Ames (1927-2023), WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash (1959) and Scott Grimes (1971).