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# August 9

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## [edit] Births

- 1593 - Izaak Walton, angler (d. 1683)
- 1757 - Thomas Telford, 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, child psychologist (d. 1980)
- 1899 - P. L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins (d. 1996)
- 1902 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
- 1914 - Tove Jansson, author of the Moomin books (d. 2001)
- 1919 - Joop den Uyl, Dutch prime minister (d. 1987)
- 1919 - Ralph Houk, professional baseball player and manager (MLB)
- 1922 - Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
- 1927 - Daniel Keyes, author
- 1927 - Robert Shaw, actor (d. 1978)
- 1928 - Bob Cousy, professional basketball player (NBA)
- 1933 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi - Japanese television personality, children's author.
- 1938 - Rod Laver, tennis player
- 1944 - Sam Elliott, actor
- 1945 - Ken Norton, boxing champion
- 1945 - Posy Simmonds, cartoonist
- 1949 - Jonathan Kellerman, mystery writer
- 1957 - Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, The Bonfire of the Vanities)
- 1962 - Kevin Mack, American football player
- 1963 - Whitney Houston, singer and actress
- 1964 - Brett Hull, professional hockey player (NHL)
- 1967 - Deion Sanders, American football player
- 1968 - Gillian Anderson, actress
- 1968 - Eric Bana, actor
- 1969 - Troy Percival, Major League Baseball All-Star
- 1976 - Jessica Capshaw, actress (The Practice)
- 1976 - Rhona Mitra, actress (The Practice)
- 1977 - Chamique Holdsclaw, professional basketball player (WNBA)
- 1977 - Mikael Silvestre, football player
- 1978 - Audrey Tautou, actress
- 1982 - Karol Bancerz, polish journalism
- 1994 - Forrest Landis, American actor

## [edit] Deaths

- 117 - Trajan, Roman emperor
- 378 - Valens, Roman emperor (killed in battle)
- 803 - Byzantine Empress Irene
- 1048 - Pope Damasus II
- 1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark
- 1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer
- 1942 - Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) at Auschwitz
- 1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete
- 1962 - Hermann Hesse, German author (b. 1877)
- 1967 - Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1933)
- 1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered)
- 1969 - Jay Sebring, Hollywood hair stylist
- 1969 - Abigail Folger, Coffee heiress
- 1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer
- 1969 - Steven Parent, student
- 1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer
- 1995 - Jerry Garcia, guitarist (Grateful Dead)
- 2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist and peace activist
- 2003 - Ray Harford, football manager
- 2003 - Gregory Hines, actor and dancer (b. 1946)

## [edit] Events

- 1969- Members of Charles Manson's gang, murder Sharon Tate, her unborn son, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent.
- 1965 - Singapore gains independence from Malaysia.

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