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What happened in history on this day: August 9?
On August 9 in ...
- 2004 - Disney's Donald Duck cartoon character receives a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Births on August 9
- 1901 - Birth of Charles Farrell in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Vern - My Little Margie).
- 1905 - Birth of Leo Genn; actor (Affair in Monte Carlo).
- 1911 - Birth of Robert McCormick in Danville, Kentucky, USA; NBC newscaster (Current Opinion).
- 1927 - Birth of Robert Shaw in England; actor (Deep, Jaws, The Sting, Black Sunday, From Russia with Love, Man for All Seasons).
- 1938 - Birth of Dick Anthony Williams in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Our Family Honor).
- 1940 - Birth of Beverlee McKinsey in Oklahoma, USA; actress (Another World, Guiding Light).
- 1944 - Birth of Sam Elliot in California, USA; actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty).
- 1957 - Birth of Melanie Griffith in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Something Wild, Working Girl).
- 1958 - Birth of Amanda Bearse; actress (Marcy Rhoodes - Married With Children).
- 1963 - Birth of Lonnie Quinn in Cheshire Connecticut, USA; actor (Will Cooley - All My Children).
- 1966 - Birth of Pat Petersen in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Michael - Knots Landing).
- 1972 - Birth of Elizabeth Vassey in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; actress (Emily Martin - All My Children).
Deaths on August 9
- 1969 - Death of Sharon Tate, actress, killed by Charles Manson's gang.
- 1972 - Bill Berns, commentator (Television Screen Magazine), dies at age 53.
- 1979 - Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at age 64.
- 1989 - Death of Kathleen Maguire at age 63; actress (One Life to Live).
- 2002 - Death of Peter Matz of lung cancer at age 73; orchestra leader, musical director (Carol Burnett Show TV show, Hullabaloo).
- 2004 - Death of Tony Mottola at age 86 after a stroke and double pneumonia; guitarist (studio musician, CBS studio orchestra, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, arranger for Perry Como's TV variety show).
- 2008 - American actor/comedian Bernie Mac (The Bernie Mac Show, Ocean's Eleven, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Transformers) dies in a Chicago hospital from complications due to pneumonia, at age 50.
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