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August 9

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Event anniversary

2020 Belarusian presidential election

6 years ago

Born this day

1963

Whitney Houston

Would be 63

Oldest record

130th

Jean Piaget

birth anniversary

Famous births8

1896 · 130 yrs

Jean Piaget

Jean William Fritz Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called genetic epistemology.

ScienceWould be 130

Photo: Unidentified (Ensian published by University of Michigan) · Public domain

1914 · 112 yrs

Tove Jansson

Tove Marika Jansson (Finland Swedish:; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Finland-Swedish author, novelist and comic strip author, painter and illustrator.

LiteratureWould be 112

Photo: Per Olov Jansson · CC BY 3.0

1938 · 88 yrs

Leonid Kuchma

Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Ukrainian: Леонід Данилович Кучма, IPA:; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005.

PoliticsAge 88

Photo: R. D. Ward · Public domain

1939 · 87 yrs

Romano Prodi

Romano Prodi (Italian:; born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 and twice as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1996 to 1998, and again from 2006 to 2008.

PoliticsAge 87

Photo: Niccolò Caranti · CC BY-SA 4.0

1963 · 63 yrs

Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, film producer, and record producer. Commonly referred to as "the Voice", Houston is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales of more than 220 million records worldwide.

MusicWould be 63

Photo: PH2 Mark Kettenhofen · Public domain

1968 · 58 yrs

Gillian Anderson

Gillian Leigh Anderson ( JIL-ee-ən; born August 9, 1968) is an American actress and writer. She received international fame for starring as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the Fox science fiction mystery series The X-Files (1993–2002; 2016–2018), winning a Primetime Emmy Award for the role.

FilmAge 58

Photo: Gabriel Hutchinson · CC BY-SA 4.0

1972 · 54 yrs

Juanes

Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez (born 9 August 1972), known professionally as Juanes (Spanish:), is a Colombian musician and singer, a former member of the rock band Ekhymosis.

MusicAge 54

Photo: Junta de Andalucía · CC BY-SA 2.0

1985 · 41 yrs

Anna Kendrick

Anna Cooke Kendrick (born August 9, 1985) is an American actress, singer, and film director. Known for playing upbeat and endearing characters in comedies and musicals, her accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award.

FilmAge 41

Photo: Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0

Famous deaths4

1919 · 107 yrs

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German:; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.

ScienceWould be 192

Photo: Unknown author · Public domain

1942 · 84 yrs

Edith Stein

Edith Stein (German:; religious name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942) was a German philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun.

ReligionWould be 134

Photo: Unknown author · Public domain

1962 · 64 yrs

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Karl Hesse (German:; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped shape his literary work.

LiteratureWould be 149

Photo: Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0 nl

1975 · 51 yrs

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.

MusicWould be 120

Photo: Fotothek_df_roe-neg_0002792_002_Portrait_Dmitri_Dmitrijewitsch_Schostakowitchs_im_Publikum_der_Bachfeier.jpg : Roger &am · CC BY-SA 3.0 de

Events1

2020 · 6 yrs

2020 Belarusian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Belarus on Sunday, 9 August 2020. Early voting began on 4 August and ran until 8 August.

Politics

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