| 78001 | July 9 | Birth | 1927 – Ed Ames, American singer and actor (Ames Brothers) |
| 78002 | July 9 | Birth | 1927 – Susan Cabot, American actress (d. 1986) |
| 78003 | July 9 | Birth | 1927 – Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician |
| 78004 | July 9 | Birth | 1928 – Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist |
| 78005 | July 9 | Birth | 1928 – Vince Edwards, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1996) |
| 78006 | July 9 | Birth | 1929 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2007) |
| 78007 | July 9 | Birth | 1929 – Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolin player (Jim & Jesse) |
| 78008 | July 9 | Birth | 1929 – Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999) |
| 78009 | July 9 | Birth | 1930 – K. Balachander, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014) |
| 78010 | July 9 | Birth | 1930 – Buddy Bregman, American composer and conductor |
| 78011 | July 9 | Birth | 1930 – Janice Lourie, American computer scientist and graphic artist |
| 78012 | July 9 | Birth | 1930 – Roy McLean, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 2007) |
| 78013 | July 9 | Birth | 1931 – Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (d. 2013) |
| 78014 | July 9 | Birth | 1932 – Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense |
| 78015 | July 9 | Birth | 1932 – Amitzur Shapira, Israeli sprinter and long jumper (d. 1972) |
| 78016 | July 9 | Birth | 1933 – Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (d. 2015) |
| 78017 | July 9 | Birth | 1934 – Michael Graves, American architect, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (d. 2015) |
| 78018 | July 9 | Birth | 1935 – Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Finance (d. 2005) |
| 78019 | July 9 | Birth | 1935 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer and activist (d. 2009) |
| 78020 | July 9 | Birth | 1935 – Michael Williams, English actor (d. 2001) |
| 78021 | July 9 | Birth | 1936 – June Jordan, American poet and educator (d. 2002) |
| 78022 | July 9 | Birth | 1936 – Richard Wilson, Scottish actor and director |
| 78023 | July 9 | Birth | 1936 – David Zinman, American violinist and conductor |
| 78024 | July 9 | Birth | 1937 – David Hockney, English painter and photographer |
| 78025 | July 9 | Birth | 1938 – Brian Dennehy, American actor, director, and producer |
| 78026 | July 9 | Birth | 1938 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1985) |
| 78027 | July 9 | Birth | 1940 – David B. Frohnmayer, American lawyer and politician, 12th Oregon Attorney General (d. 2015) |
| 78028 | July 9 | Birth | 1940 – Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and theorist (d. 2010) |
| 78029 | July 9 | Birth | 1941 – Mac MacLeod, English musician |
| 78030 | July 9 | Birth | 1942 – David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey, English engineer and politician |