Anniversaries 9 August
Birth
![Izaak Walton photo]()
English author and biographer
1593–1683
![John Dryden photo]()
English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
1631–1700
![John Oldham (poet) photo]()
English satirical poet and translator
1653–1683
![André Bessette photo]()
Canadian Catholic brother and saint
1845–1937
![Roman Dmowski photo]()
Polish politician
1864–1939
![Jean Piaget photo]()
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & acad…
1896–1980
![Erich Hückel photo]()
German physical chemist known for the Debye-Hückel Theory a…
1896–1980
![Lauretta Bender photo]()
American neuropsychiatrist
1897–1987
![P. L. Travers photo]()
Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
1899–1996
![William Alfred Fowler photo]()
American nuclear physicist
1911–1995
![Tove Jansson photo]()
Finnish children's writer and illustrator
1914–2001
![Philip Larkin photo]()
English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
1922–1985
![Marvin Minsky photo]()
American cognitive scientist
1927–2016
![Daniel Keyes photo]()
American author
1927–2014
![Jacques Parizeau photo]()
Canadian politician
1930–2015
![Tam Dalyell photo]()
Scottish politician
1932–2017
![Leonid Kuchma photo]()
Second president of Ukraine
1938
![John Varley photo]()
American science fiction author
1947
![Jonathan Kellerman photo]()
novelist, psychologist
1949
![Lis Wiehl photo]()
American legal scholar
1961
![Whitney Houston photo]()
American singer, actress, model, and record producer
1963–2012
![Happy Rhodes photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1965
![Deion Sanders photo]()
All-American college football player, professional football…
1967
![Gillian Anderson photo]()
American-British film, television and theatre actress, acti…
1968
![Gene Luen Yang photo]()
Chinese American graphic novelist
1973
![Ben Eisenkop photo]()
American biologist and redditor
1986
Death
![Metrophanes III of Constantinople photo]()
Patriarch of Constantinople
1520–1580
![Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld photo]()
Jesuit, author of Cautio Criminalis
1591–1635
![Godfrey Higgins photo]()
British archaeologist
1772–1833
![Lincoln Steffens photo]()
American journalist (1866-1936)
1866–1936
![Marion Bauer photo]()
American composer
1882–1955
![Tobias Dantzig photo]()
American mathematician
1884–1956
![Edith Stein photo]()
Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher
1891–1942
![James Gould Cozzens photo]()
American novelist
1903–1978
![Dmitri Shostakovich photo]()
Russian composer and pianist
1906–1975
![Franz Jägerstätter photo]()
martyr, conscientious objector
1907–1943
![James Van Allen photo]()
American nuclear physicist
1914–2006
![John Harsanyi photo]()
hungarian economist
1920–2000
![John H. Holland photo]()
US university professor
1929–2015
![Joe Orton photo]()
English playwright and author
1933–1967
![David Nobbs photo]()
British author and scriptwriter
1935–2015
![Mahmoud Darwich photo]()
Palestinian writer
1941–2008
![Jerry Garcia photo]()
American musician and member of the Grateful Dead
1942–1995
![Sharon Tate photo]()
actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers
1943–1969
![Richard Templar photo]()
selfhelp author
1950–2006
