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August 9 is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years) ... 1962 – Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
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August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples; National Women's Day in South Africa First Smokey Bear poster 1821 – The statue of A'a from Rurutu was presented to members of the London Missionary Society on the south Pacific island of Ra'iatea .
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Whitney Houston (August 9, 1963 –February 11, 2012), American actress, singer, model, and producer, would have turned 61 this year.
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images ; Lionsgate Films Real talk, August 26 should be a national holiday — or at least a day of observance — due to how many hot movie stars were born on that date.
Born: Benjamin Barnes, English film actor who portrayed Prince Caspian in two Narnia films; in London Died: Michael Devine , 27, the tenth and last casualty of the Maze Prison hunger strikers. Owen Carron , running for the IRA the same day in the by-election for the Fermanagh/South Tyrone constituency that had been held by Bobby Sands, won a ...
In the years after having her collection go the Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, she was named as an honorary dame by the Queen of England.