Famous People Born on August 9

• Anderson, Gillian (1968)

  Alien-hunting Dana Scully on The X-Files

• Avogadro, Amedeo (1776)

  The guy they named Avogadro's Number after

• Bana, Eric (1968)

  Star of The Hulk and Munich

• Griffith, Melanie (1957)

  The star of the film Working Girl

• Houston, Whitney (1963)

  The troubled pop singer of "Saving All My Love For You"

• Kendrick, Anna (1985)

  The younger woman in the movie Up in the Air

• Keyes, Daniel (1927)

  The author of Flowers for Algernon

• Levy, Dan (1983)

  The creator and star of 'Schitt's Creek'

• Piaget, Jean (1896)

  Swiss psychologist who studied childhood cognition

• Tautou, Audrey (1978)

  Star of the movie Amélie

• Thwaites, Brenton (1989)

  Jonas in the film version of The Giver

• Travers, P.L. (1899)

  The author of the Mary Poppins novels

See also: Died on August 9