Famous People Born on August 9
♌ Leo
Joop den Uyl
(1919) — Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 to 1977
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
(1933) — Japanese actress (born 1933)
Philip Larkin
(1922) — English poet, novelist and librarian (1922–1985)
Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein
(1696) — Prince of Liechtenstein (r. 1712–1718, 1748–1772)
Bob Cousy
(1928) — American basketball player and coach (born 1928)
Melanie Griffith
(1957) — American actress (born 1957)
Deion Sanders
(1967) — American football coach and former player (born 1967)
Amedeo Avogadro
(1776) — Italian scientist (1776–1856)
Gene Luen Yang
(1973) — American graphic novelist (born 1973)
Patricia McKissack
(1944) — American writer (1944–2017)
Gillian Anderson
(1968) — American actress (born 1968)
Ralph Houk
(1919) — American baseball player and coach (1919-2010)
Posy Simmonds
(1945) — British cartoonist, writer and illustrator
Brett Hull
(1964) — Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1964)
Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo
(1847) — Queen consort of Spain from 1870 to 1873
David Steinberg
(1942) — Canadian comedian, actor, director, and writer (born 1942)
Thomas Telford
(1757) — Scottish civil engineer (1757–1834)
Kliff Kingsbury
(1979) — American football player and coach (born 1979)
Nitin Chandrakant Desai
(1965) — Indian art director (1965–2023)
Hansika Motwani
(1991) — Indian actress (born 1991)
Dolores Wilson
(1928) — American actress
Whitney Houston
(1963) — American singer and actress (1963–2012)
Chuck Essegian
(1931) — American baseball player (born 1931)
George Armstrong (footballer)
(1944) — English footballer and manager
Bill Skarsgård
(1990) — Swedish actor and model (born 1990)
Tove Jansson
(1914) — Finland-Swedish writer and illustrator (1914–2001)
Adam von Trott zu Solz
(1909) — German noble and diplomat (1909–1944)
Sarah McBride
(1990) — American politician and activist (born 1990)
William Alfred Fowler
(1911) — American nuclear physicist (1911–1995)
Aidan Hutchinson
(2000) — American football player (born 2000)