August 9
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August 9 is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 144 days remaining after August 9 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
- 1776 – Amedeo Avogadro, chemist (d. 1856)
- 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer who discovered Malden Island (d. 1855)
- 1805 – Joseph Locke, railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
- 1875 – Reynaldo Hahn, composer (d. 1947)
- 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss child psychologist (d. 1980)
- 1899 – P. L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins (d. 1996)
- 1902 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
- 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author of the Moomin books (d. 2001)
- 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
- 1919 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch prime minister (d. 1987)
- 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
- 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author
- 1927 – Robert Shaw, actor (d. 1978)
- 1928 – Bob Cousy, professional basketball player (NBA)
- 1931 – Mario Zagallo, Brazilian footballer
- 1933 – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality, children's author.
- 1938 – Leonid Kuchma, former President of Ukraine
- 1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
- 1938 – Otto Rehhagel, German football manager
- 1939 – Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy
- 1939 – Hercules Brito Ruas, Brazilian footballer
- 1944 – Sam Elliott, American actor
- 1945 – Ken Norton, boxing champion
- 1945 – Posy Simmonds, cartoonist
- 1947 – Roy Hodgson, English football manager
- 1949 – Jonathan Kellerman, mystery writer
- 1957 – Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, The Bonfire of the Vanities)
- 1961 – John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1962 – Kevin Mack, American football player
- 1963 – Whitney Houston, American singer and actress
- 1964 – Brett Hull, professional hockey player (NHL)
- 1967 – Deion Sanders, American football player
- 1968 – Gillian Anderson, American actress
- 1968 – Eric Bana, Australian actor
- 1969 – Troy Percival, Major League Baseball All-Star
- 1972 – Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez, Colombian singer ad songwriter
- 1973 – Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
- 1976 – Jessica Capshaw, actress (The Practice)
- 1976 – Rhona Mitra, actress (The Practice)
- 1977 – Chamique Holdsclaw, professional basketball player (WNBA)
- 1977 – Mikael Silvestre, French football player
- 1978 – Audrey Tautou, actress
- 1982 – Tyson Gay, American runner
- 1985 – Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
- 1994 – Forrest Landis, American actor
[change] Deaths
- 117 – Trajan, Roman emperor (b. 53)
- 378 – Valens, Roman emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
- 803 – Byzantine Empress Irene (b. 752)
- 1250 – King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
- 1919 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
- 1942 – Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) at Auschwitz (b. 1891)
- 1945 – Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
- 1962 – Hermann Hesse, German author (b. 1877)
- 1967 – Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1933)
- 1969 – Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist (b. 1903)
- 1969 – Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
- 1969 – Jay Sebring, Hollywood hair stylist (b. 1933)
- 1969 – Abigail Folger, Coffee heiress (b. 1943)
- 1969 – Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (b. 1936)
- 1969 – Steven Parent, student (b. 1951)
- 1975 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
- 1990 – Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Jerry Garcia, guitarist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
- 1996 – Frank Whittle, British engineer and inventor (b. 1907)
- 2000 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist (b. 1920)
- 2003 – Ray Harford, English football manager (b. 1945)
- 2003 – Gregory Hines, actor and dancer (b. 1946)
- 2006 – James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
- 2008 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (b. 1941)
- 2008 – Bernie Mac, American comedian and actor (b. 1957)
- 2010 – Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923)
[change] Events
- 1173 – Construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa begins.
- 1483 – The Sistine Chapel opens.
- 1902 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom is crowned king.
- 1936 – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal of the 1936 Summer Olympics.
- 1945 – The United States drops an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
- 1965 – Singapore gains independence from Malaysia.
- 1969 – Members of Charles Manson's gang, murder Sharon Tate, her unborn son, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent.
- 1974 – Gerald Ford becomes President of the United States after the resignation of Richard Nixon.
- 2005 – The Space Shuttle Discovery lands safely back on Earth, after a two-week space mission.
