The 221st day of the year, the 222nd in a leap year
Born on 9 August
Every 9 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 9 August in any year.
Which weekday 9 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 9 August falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 9 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,852 babies were born on 9 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 85th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 9 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Whitney Houston | 1963–2012 | American singer, actress, and film producer |
| Jean Piaget | 1896–1980 | Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic |
| Gillian Anderson | 1968– | American actress |
| Romano Prodi | 1939– | Italian politician and economist |
| Amedeo Avogadro | 1776–1856 | Italian scientist |
| Leonid Kuchma | 1938– | Ukrainian businessman and politician, second President of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005 |
| Tove Jansson | 1914–2001 | Finnish children's writer and illustrator |
| Juanes | 1972– | Colombian musician |
| Anna Kendrick | 1985– | American actress |
| William Alfred Fowler | 1911–1995 | American nuclear physicist |
| John Key | 1961– | Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016 |
| Melanie Griffith | 1957– | American actress |
| Audrey Tautou | 1976– | French actress |
| Filippo Inzaghi | 1973– | Italian footballer and manager |
| Marvin Minsky | 1927–2016 | American cognitive scientist |
| Jean Tirole | 1953– | French economist |
| Mário Zagallo | 1931–2024 | Brazilian footballer |
| Eric Bana | 1968– | Australian actor |
Died on 9 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Hermann Hesse | 1877–1962 | Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | 1906–1975 | Soviet composer and pianist |
| Hieronymus Bosch | 1450–1516 | Dutch painter |
| Edith Stein | 1891–1942 | Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher |
| Mahmoud Darwish | 1941–2008 | Palestinian poet and author |
| C. F. Powell | 1903–1969 | British physicist |
| Pope Damasus II | 1000–1048 | pope |
| Valens | 328–378 | Roman emperor from 364 to 378 |
| Ruggero Leoncavallo | 1857–1919 | Italian composer |
| Irene of Athens | 752–803 | empress of Byzantine Empire |
| Edward Thorndike | 1874–1949 | American psychologist |
| Bernie Mac | 1957–2008 | American actor |
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