Famous People Born on August 9
Famous people born on August 9 include Whitney Houston (1963), Jean Piaget (1896) and Gillian Anderson (1968).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist (1896–1980)
Gillian Anderson
American actress and writer (born 1968)
Romano Prodi
Italian politician (born 1939)
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist (1776–1856)
Leonid Kuchma
President of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005
Tove Jansson
Finland-Swedish writer and illustrator (1914–2001)
Juanes
Colombian musician (born 1972)
Anna Kendrick
American actress (born 1985)
William Alfred Fowler
American nuclear physicist (1911–1995)
Audrey Tautou
French actress (born 1976)
John Key
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016
Melanie Griffith
American actress (born 1957)
Filippo Inzaghi
Italian football manager (born 1973)
Jean Tirole
French economist (born 1953)
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927–2016)
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Hermann Hesse
German writer (1877–1962)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Soviet composer and pianist (1906–1975)
Hieronymus Bosch
Dutch painter (c. 1450–1516)
Edith Stein
German nun and philosopher (1891–1942)
Mahmoud Darwish
Palestinian author and poet (1941–2008)
C. F. Powell
British physicist (1903–1969)
Pope Damasus II
Head of the Catholic Church in 1048
Valens
Roman emperor from 364 to 378
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Italian composer (1857–1919)
Irene of Athens
Byzantine empress regnant from 797 to 802
Sources
- August 9 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Whitney Houston — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths