Showing posts with label who was born on August 9th. Show all posts
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Monday

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even when they wish they were. Today's Trivia



I may not be perfect but at least I am not a fake, quote, BrianMc
I may not be perfect


"Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even when they wish they were" is my saying for August the 9th!

Quote of the day: "If you want to talk to somebody who's not busy, call the Vice President. I get plenty of time to talk to anybody about anything." by Walter Mondale

Word of the day: plumcot - noun: a hybrid tree produced by crossing the plum and the apricot

Here some trivia about August the 9th, who was born, who died and what happened on August 9th!

August 9 is the 221st day of the year (222nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 144 days remaining until the end of the year.

If you were born on August 9th (like me) or know anyone that as born on this day, the
following people were also born on the same day.

Izaac Walton (1593); Robert Shaw (1927 d. 1978); Bob Cousy (1928); Jacques Parizeau (1930); Chuck Essegian (1931); Mário Zagallo (1931); John Gomery (1932); Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933); Beverlee McKinsey (1935 d.2008); Julián Javier (1936); Patrick Tse Yin (1936); Leonid Kuchma (1938); Rod Laver (1938); Otto Rehhagel (1938 );Brito (1939); Romano Prodi (1939); Way Bandy (1941 d. 1986); Tommie Agee (1942 d.2001); David Steinberg (1942); Ken Norton (1943); Sam Elliott (1944); Posy Simmonds
(1945); Jim Kiick (1946); Roy Hodgson (1947); Barbara Mason (1947); Bill Campbell (1948);Jonathan Kellerman (1949); Prateep Ungsongtham Hata (1952); Ray Jennings (1954); Peter Schmuck (1955); John E. Sweeney (1955); Melanie Griffith (1957);
Amanda Bearse (1958); Kurtis Blow (1959); Stuart Hughes (1959); Brad Gilbert (1961); John Key (1961); Amy Stiller (1961); Kevin Mack (1962); Louis Lipps (1962); John "Hot Rod" Williams (1962); Whitney Houston (1963); Brett Hull (1964); Hoda Kotb (1964); Vinny Del Negro (1966); Deion Sanders (1967); Gillian Anderson (1968); Eric Bana (1968); Sam Fogarino (1968); Joseph McGinty Nichol (1968); Divine Brown (1969); Smaragda Karydi (1969); Troy Percival (1969); Rod Brind'Amour (1970); Chris
Cuomo (1970); Thomas Lennon (1970); Arion Salazar (1970); James Kim (1971); Davide Rebellin (1971); Mack 10 (1971); Juanes (1972); A-Mei (1972); Kevin McKidd (1973); Filippo Inzaghi (1973); Mahesh Babu (1974); Derek Fisher (1974); Matt Morris (1974); Kirill Reznik (1974); Nicola Stapleton (1974); Stephen Fung (1974); Mike Lamb (1975); Robbie Middleby (1975); Jessica Capshaw (1976); Aled Jones (1976);
Rhona Mitra (1976); Mark Priestley (1976 d. 2008); Jason Frasor (1977); Chamique Holdsclaw (1977); Adewale Ogunleye (1977); Mikaël Silvestre (1977); Audrey Tautou (1978); Ryu Seung-beom (1980); Dominic Tabuna (1980); Jarvis Hayes (1981); Li Jiawei (1981); Tyson Gay (1982); Kanstantsin Siutsou (1982); Ashley
Johnson (1983); Shane O'Brien (1983); Paul Gallagher (1984); Saori Horii (1984); Luca Filippi (1985); Anna Kendrick (1985); Hayley Peirsol (1985); JaMarcus Russell (1985); Daniel Preussner (1986); Stefano Okaka Chuka (1989); Jason Heyward (1989); Adelaide Kane (1990); Candela Vetrano (1991); Hansika Motwani (1991) Laura McNeil (1991)

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Who died on August 9th:
Trajan, Roman Emperor (117 b. 53)
Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (378 b. 328)
Byzantine Empress Irene (803 b. 752)
Pope Damasus II (1048)
Emperor Horikawa of Japan (1107 b. 1079)
Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin (1173)
King Eric IV of Denmark (1250 b. 1216)
Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian ( 1534 b. 1470)
Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (1601 b. 1558)
William Noy, English jurist (1634 b. 1577)
Simon Ockley, English orientalist (1720 b. 1678)
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (1744 b. 1673)
Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (1816 b. 1771)
Xavier Sigalon, French painter (1837 b. 1787)
Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (1886 b. 1810)
Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist (1910)
Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (1919 b. 1857)
Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (1942 b. 1891)
Harry Hillman, American athlete (1945 b. 1881)
Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (1945 b. 1917)
Bert Vogler, Former South African cricketer (1946 b. 1876)
Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (1949 b. 1874)
Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (1957 b. 1898)
Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (1962 b. 1877)
Joe Orton, English writer (1967 b. 1933)
Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (1969 b. 1903)
Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (1969 b. 1943)
Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (1969 b. 1936)
Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (1969 b. 1933)
Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (1969 b. 1943)
Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (1969 b. 1951)
Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (1974 b. 1934)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (1975 b. 1906)
Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (1979 b. 1903)
Raymond Washington, founder of Los Angeles, California gang, the Crips (1979)
Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (1980 b. 1906)
Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (1985 b. 1927)
Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (1988 b. 1905)
Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor, played Don Ramón, in the TV Series El Chavo (1988)
Joe Mercer, English footballer (1990 b. 1914)
Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian Singer (1992 b. 1938)
Jerry Garcia, American musician (Grateful Dead) (1995 b. 1942)
Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (1996 b. 1907)
Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (1999 b. 1910)
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (2000 b. 1920)
Nicholas Markowitz-kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood (2000 b. 1984)
Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (2002 b. 1953)
Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist (2002)
Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (2003 b. 1945)
Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (2003 b. 1946)
Jacques Deray, French film director (2003b. 1929)
Chester Ludgin, American baritone (2003 b. 1925)
Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (2004 b.1908)
Tony Mottola,American guitarist (2004 b. 1918)
David Raksin, American film director (2004 b. 1912)
Matthew McGrory, American actor (2005 b. 1973)
Judith Rossner, American novelist (2005 b. 1935)
James van Allen, American physicist (2006 b. 1914)
Philip E. High, science fiction author (2006 b. 1914)
Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (2007 b.1922)
Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor (2008 b. 1957)
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose ( 2008 b. 1941)

What happened on August 9th in history-

In 1930 Betty Boop took her opening bow in the “Dizzy Dishes” cartoon.
In 1974 Richard Nixon took his final bow as he resigned the Presidency!
In 1969 Sharon Tate Found Murdered
In 1902 Edward VII, was crowned as the new King Of England.
In 1936 Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin.
In 1945 Atom Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki Japan
In 1974 Gerald Ford becomes the 38th president of the United States
In 1994 (U.S.A.) O.J. Simpson Double Murder Trial

Holidays and Observances (Special Days)

  1. Christian Feast Day are Edith Stein, Firmus and Rusticus, Herman of Alaska (Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations),Jean Vianney, Nath Í of Achonry, Romanus Ostiarius and Secundian, Marcellian and Verian
  2. Day of Remembrance for Radbod (Ásatrú)
  3. Frank Zappa Day (Baltimore)
  4. International Day of the World's Indigenous People (International)
  5. National Day, celebrates the separation from Malaysia in 1965. (Singapore)
  6. National Peacekeepers' Day (Canada)
  7. National Women's Day (South Africa)


The Christian Saint for today is Saint Oswald, martyred king of Northumbria (d.642)

And of course since my star sign is "Leo", to get some attention,Happy Birthday to me! lol

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updated by BrianMc