Famous people born on 9 August

• Whitney HoustonAmerican singer, actress, and film producer · 1963–2012
  48 yrs
• Jean PiagetSwiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic · 1896–1980
  84 yrs
• Amedeo AvogadroItalian scientist · 1776–1856
  79 yrs
• Giorgio VasariItalian painter, architect, writer and historian · 1511–1574
  62 yrs
• Tove JanssonFinnish children's writer and illustrator · 1914–2001
  86 yrs
• William Alfred FowlerAmerican nuclear physicist · 1911–1995
  83 yrs
• Marvin Minsky ↗American cognitive scientist · 1927–2016
  88 yrs
• Mário Zagallo ↗Brazilian footballer · 1931–2024
  92 yrs
• P. L. Travers ↗Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist · 1899–1996
  96 yrs
• Philip Larkin ↗English writer, jazz critic and librarian · 1922–1985
  63 yrs
• Robert Shaw ↗British actor and writer · 1927–1978
  51 yrs
• Taro Kagawa ↗Japanese association football player · 1922–1990
  67 yrs
• Mikhail Zoshchenko ↗Soviet writer · 1894–1958
  63 yrs
• Daniel Keyes ↗American author · 1927–2014
  86 yrs
• Ferdinando I de' Medici ↗Grand Duke of Tuscany · 1549–1609
  59 yrs
• Robert Aldrich ↗American film director · 1918–1983
  65 yrs
• Thomas Telford ↗Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason · 1757–1834
  77 yrs
• William T. G. Morton ↗United States dental surgeon · 1819–1868
  48 yrs
• Joop den Uyl ↗Prime Minister of the Netherlands · 1919–1987
  68 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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