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2008-08-09
Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-08-20
Births
1201-08-09 - Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
1593-08-09 - Izaak Walton, English angler (d. 1683)
1631-08-09 - John Dryden, English Poet Laureate (d. 1700)
1648-08-09 - Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
1653-08-09 - John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
1674-08-09 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
1722-08-09 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (d. 1758)
1726-08-09 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
1757-08-09 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
1776-08-09 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
1797-08-09 - Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855)
1805-08-09 - Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
1809-08-09 - William Barret Travis, commander at Battle of the Alamo
1845-08-09 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
1871-08-09 - Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (d. 1919)
1872-08-09 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
1874-08-09 - Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
1896-08-09 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
1896-08-09 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist (d. 1934)
1896-08-09 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
1899-08-09 - P. L. Travers, Australian author (d. 1996)
1901-08-09 - Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
1902-08-09 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
1909-08-09 - Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat opposing the Nazi regime (executed) (d. 1944)
1911-08-09 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1996)
1914-08-09 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author, the creator of the Moomins (d. 2001)
1914-08-09 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
1919-08-09 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
1919-08-09 - Ralph Houk, baseball player and manager
1920-08-09 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer
1921-08-09 - J. James Exon, American politician, 36th Governor of Nebraska & United States Senator from Nebraska
1922-08-09 - Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
1925-08-09 - David A. Huffman, creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
1927-08-09 - Daniel Keyes, American author
1927-08-09 - Robert Shaw, English actor (d. 1978)
1928-08-09 - Bob Cousy, American basketball player
1931-08-09 - Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football coach and player
1931-08-09 - Chuck Essegian, baseball player
1933-08-09 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
1936-08-09 - Julián Javier, baseball player
1938-08-09 - Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
1938-08-09 - Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
1939-08-09 - Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
1939-08-09 - Brito, Brazilian footballer
1940-08-09 - Beverlee McKinsey, American actress
1942-08-09 - Tommie Agee, baseball player (d. 2001)
1943-08-09 - Ken Norton, American boxer
1944-08-09 - Sam Elliott, American actor
1945-08-09 - Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
1946-08-09 - Jim Kiick, American football player
1948-08-09 - Bill Campbell, baseball player
1949-08-09 - Jonathan Kellerman, American writer
1952-08-09 - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
1957-08-09 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
1959-08-09 - Kurtis Blow, American rapper
1959-08-09 - Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
1961-08-09 - Amy Stiller, American actress
1962-08-09 - Kevin Mack, American football player
1962-08-09 - Louis Lipps, American football player
1963-08-09 - Whitney Houston, American singer and actress
1964-08-09 - Brett Hull, Canadian-born hockey player
1967-08-09 - Deion Sanders, American football player
1968-08-09 - Gillian Anderson, American actress
1968-08-09 - Eric Bana, Australian actor
1968-08-09 - Karyn Parsons, American actress
1969-08-09 - Troy Percival, baseball player
1970-08-09 - Rod Brind'Amour, hockey player
1970-08-09 - Arion Salazar, American musician (Third Eye Blind)
1971-08-09 - Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist
1971-08-09 - Mack 10, American rapper
1971-08-09 - James Kim, technology reporter (d. 2006)
1972-08-09 - Juanes, Colombian singer
1972-08-09 - A-Mei, Taiwanese singer
1973-08-09 - Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
1973-08-09 - Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1974-08-09 - Mahesh Babu, Indian film actor
1974-08-09 - Matt Morris, baseball player
1976-08-09 - Jessica Capshaw, American actress
1976-08-09 - Rhona Mitra, English actress
1977-08-09 - Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
1977-08-09 - Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
1978-08-09 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
1980-08-09 - Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor
1983-08-09 - Ashley Johnson, American actress
1985-08-09 - Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
1985-08-09 - Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
1985-08-09 - JaMarcus Russell, American football player
1994-08-09 - Forrest Landis, American actor
1982-08-09 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
Bizarre
2006-08-09 - Book Lover Day
2007-08-09 - Book Lover Day
Deaths
1107-08-09 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
1173-08-09 - Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin
1250-08-09 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
1534-08-09 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
1601-08-09 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
1634-08-09 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
1720-08-09 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
1744-08-09 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
1837-08-09 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
1886-08-09 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
1919-08-09 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
1945-08-09 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
1945-08-09 - Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
1962-08-09 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
1967-08-09 - Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
1969-08-09 - Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
1969-08-09 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
1969-08-09 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
1969-08-09 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
1969-08-09 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
1969-08-09 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
1975-08-09 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
1979-08-09 - Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b. 1903)
1985-08-09 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player (b. 1927)
1988-08-09 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
1995-08-09 - Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
1996-08-09 - Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
1999-08-09 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politican (b. 1910)
2000-08-09 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
2002-08-09 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
2002-08-09 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
2003-08-09 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2003-08-09 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
2005-08-09 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
2005-08-09 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
2006-08-09 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
2006-08-09 - Philip E. High, Science fiction author (b. 1914)
1991-08-09 - Count Baldwin II of Flanders (b. 865)
2025-08-09 - Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage
Declared
2007-08-09 - National Women's Day in South Africa
2007-08-09 - Feast day of the great martyr Saint Panteleimon in Russian Orthodox Church
Events
1999-08-09 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
1999-08-09 - The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem.
2000-08-09 - A Piper Navajo and a Piper Seminole collide in mid-air over a housing development in Burlington, New Jersey, killing 11
2001-08-09 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
2001-08-09 - In Jerusalem, 15 people die and 130 are wounded in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing.
2005-08-09 - A chemical plant explosion happened at the EQ Recovery Plant in Romulus, Michigan, forcing residence within 1 to 1⅓ mile radius from the plant to evacuate.
2006-08-09 - Mexican fishermen get rescued near the Marshall Islands after being lost nine months in the sea, eating raw fish and birds.
1048-08-09 - Pope Damasus II dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days.
1173-08-09 - Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
1483-08-09 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel
1842-08-09 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
1862-08-09 - American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain - At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
1877-08-09 - Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole - A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
1892-08-09 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1902-08-09 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
1930-08-09 - Betty Boop premiered in her first cartoon, Dizzy Dishes.
1936-08-09 - Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympic Games.
1942-08-09 - Indian leader, Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
1942-08-09 - World War II: Battle of Savo Island - Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
1944-08-09 - The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
1945-08-09 - World War II: An atomic bomb, codenamed Fat Man, is dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan killing an estimated 70,000-90,000 people.
1965-08-09 - Singapore seceded from Malaysia.
1965-08-09 - Space disasters: A fire at a Titan missile base near Little Rock, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
1969-08-09 - Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring, and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los
1969-08-09 - Popular attraction The Haunted Mansion opens in Disneyland.
1974-08-09 - As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
1983-08-09 - Peter Jennings hosts his first broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight as sole anchor.
1986-08-09 - The Headington Shark is erected in Oxford.
1986-08-09 - Knebworth Park, Stevenage, UK sees the final live performance of rock band Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury.
1987-08-09 - 9 people are shot dead and 17 more injured as 19-year old Julian Knight opens fire at random in the Hoddle Street Massacre in Clifton Hill
1988-08-09 - Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial transactions in hockey history.
1988-08-09 - Baseball's all-day-game era officially came to an end when the Cubs beat the Mets 6-4 in Wrigley Field's first night game.
1989-08-09 - Kaifu Toshiki becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
1993-08-09 - The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
1993-08-09 - King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office.
1994-08-09 - Dilbert is drawn with his necktie down, signifying that he "lost his innocence" with Liz.
1995-08-09 - Netscape launches IPO.
2060-08-09 - Saint Boniface IV becomes Pope.
2066-08-09 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
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2008-08-20
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