Famous birthdays for Feb. 9: Peggy Whitson, Carole King

Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius.

They include:

-- William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, in 1773

-- Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk in 1909

-- Actor Carmen Miranda in 1909

-- Country singer Ernest Tubb in 1914

-- Baseball entrepreneur Bill Veeck in 1914

-- Actor Kathryn Grayson in 1922

-- Irish playwright Brendan Behan in 1923

-- Television journalist Roger Mudd in 1928 (age 92)

-- South African author J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate, in 1940 (age 80)

-- Singer/songwriter Carole King in 1942 (age 78)

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-- Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in 1943 (age 77)

-- Actor Joe Pesci in 1943 (age 77)

-- Author Alice Walker in 1944 (age 76)

-- Actor Mia Farrow in 1945 (age 75)

-- Actor Judith Light in 1949 (age 71)

-- Actor Ciaran Hinds in 1953 (age 67)

-- Actor Charles Shaughnessy in 1955 (age 65)

-- American astronaut Peggy Whitson in 1960 (age 60)

-- Country singer Travis Tritt in 1963 (age 57)

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-- Actor Charlie Day in 1976 (age 44)

-- Russian Olympic figure skater Irina Slutskaya in 1979 (age 41)

-- Actor Zhang Ziyi in 1979 (age 42)

-- Actor Tom Hiddleston in 1981 (age 39)

-- American Taliban John Walker Lindh in 1981 (age 39)

-- Actor Michael B. Jordan in 1987 (age 33)

-- Actor Rose Leslie in 1987 (age 33)

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