Famous Birthdays on August 9

Melanie Griffith

1957 — Melanie Griffith

American actress and producer

August 9 has 225 recorded notable births across history, from 1201 to 2005. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.

By · — Wikipedia

Famous Birthdays 225 source records 1201 – 2005 Leo

Major events on August 9

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1810 Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire. Source
  2. 1944 World War II: Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war. Source
  3. 1610 The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia. Source
  4. 1974 As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first president of the United States to resign from office. Vice President Gerald Ford becomes president. Source

Did you know

Griffith's subsequent performance in the comedy Something Wild (1986) attracted critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's Working Girl, which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe.

Did you know

Deion Sanders won two Super Bowl titles and made one World Series appearance in 1992, making him the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.

Did you know

A 13-time NBA All-Star and 1957 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), Cousy was a core piece during the early half of the Celtics dynasty, winning six NBA championships during his 13-year tenure with the Celtics.

Did you know

Philip Larkin's first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947).

Did you know

Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, and Phoenix Coyotes between 1986 and 2005.

More major people born on August 9

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

1967 Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders
American football and baseball player and coach
Deion Luwynn Sanders Sr. is an American football coach and former player who is the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Wikipedia source
1928 Bob Cousy
Bob Cousy
American basketball player and coach
Robert Joseph Cousy is an American former professional basketball player. He played point guard for the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963, and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals during the 1969–70 season.
Wikipedia source
1922 Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
English poet and novelist (died 1985)
Philip Arthur Larkin was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947).
Wikipedia source
1964 Brett Hull
Brett Hull
Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
Brett Andrew Hull is a Canadian–American former ice hockey player and general manager, and currently an executive vice president of the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Wikipedia source
1776 Amedeo Avogadro
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian physicist and chemist (died 1856)
Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto (, also, Italian: [ameˈdɛːo avoˈɡaːdro]; 9 August 1776 – 9 July 1856) was an Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now…
Wikipedia source
1933 Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Japanese actress, talk show host, and author
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi is a Japanese actress, television personality, World Wide Fund for Nature advisor, and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.
Wikipedia source
1919 Ralph Houk
Ralph Houk
American baseball player and manager (died 2010)
Ralph George Houk, nicknamed "the Major", was an American catcher, coach, manager, and front office executive in Major League Baseball.
Wikipedia source
1919 Joop den Uyl
Joop den Uyl
Dutch journalist, economist, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1987)
Johannes Marten den Uijl, better known as Joop den Uyl, was a Dutch politician and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 to 1977. He was a member of the Labour Party (PvdA).
Wikipedia source
1696 Joseph Wenzel I
Joseph Wenzel I
Prince of Liechtenstein (died 1772)
Josef Wenzel I, often referred to as just Wenzel, was the Prince of Liechtenstein between 1712 and 1718, and 1748 and 1772, as well as regent of Liechtenstein between 1732 and 1745.
Wikipedia source
1861 Dorothea Klumpke
Dorothea Klumpke
American astronomer and academic (died 1942)
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts was an American astronomer. In 1893, she became the first woman to earn a doctorate degree at the Sorbonne University.
Wikipedia source
1944 Patricia McKissack
Patricia McKissack
American soldier, engineer, and author (died 2017)
Patricia C. McKissack was a prolific African-American children's writer.
Wikipedia source
1973 Gene Luen Yang
Gene Luen Yang
American author and illustrator
Gene Luen Yang is an American cartoonist and author. He is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of graphic novels and comics, at comic book conventions and universities, schools, and libraries.
Wikipedia source
1847 Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo
Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo
Queen Consort of King Amadeo I of Spain (died 1876)
Maria Vittoria Carlotta Enrichetta Giovanna dal Pozzo, 6th Princess of Cisterna d'Asti and of Belriguardo, was an Italian noblewoman who was Queen of Spain from 16 November 1870 until 11 February 1873 as the wife of…
Wikipedia source
1970 Rod Brind'Amour
Rod Brind'Amour
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Roderic Jean Brind'Amour is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Rod the Bod" and "Mr.
Wikipedia source
1757 Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford
Scottish architect and engineer, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (died 1834)
Thomas Telford was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours…
Wikipedia source
1944 George Armstrong
George Armstrong
English footballer (died 2000)
George "Geordie" Armstrong was an English football player and coach, who was mostly associated with Arsenal.
Wikipedia source
1979 Kliff Kingsbury
Kliff Kingsbury
American football coach
Kliff Timothy Kingsbury is an American professional football coach and former quarterback who is the assistant head coach for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL).
Wikipedia source
1928 Dolores Wilson
Dolores Wilson
American soprano and actress (died 2010)
Dolores Mae Wilson was an American coloratura soprano who had an active international opera career from the late 1940s through the early 1960s.
Wikipedia source
1968 Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson
American-British actress, activist and writer
Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress. She received international fame for starring as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the Fox science fiction mystery series The X-Files, winning a Golden Globe Award for the…
Wikipedia source

History runs on facts, and this project runs on coffee!

Your support is incredibly helpful and genuinely appreciated.

Support with a coffee ☕