April 9

Events
 * 1860 - Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville records the worlds first sound recording

Births


 * 1794 – Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
 * 1889 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (d. 1985)
 * 1898 – Paul Robeson, American singer and activist (d. 1976)
 * 1906 – Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
 * 1932 – Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
 * 1932 – Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)
 * 1941 – Kaye Adams, American country singer
 * 1943 – Terry Knight, American music promoter (d. 2004)
 * 1945 – Steve Gadd, American session drummer
 * 1953 – Hal Ketchum, American musician
 * 1964 – Soyo Oka, Japanese musician
 * 1978 – Rachel Stevens, English singer (S Club)
 * 1978 – Vesna Pisarović, Croatian singer
 * 1979 – Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist (The Strokes)
 * 1986 – Brian Larsen, American musician and record producer
 * 1987 – Craig Mabbitt, American singer of Escape the Fate
 * 1987 – Jazmine Sullivan, American R&B Singer