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Who died on 9 August?
Celebrities who died on 9 August
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Jerry Garcia
American musician and member of the Grateful Dead

Sharon Tate
actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers

Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer and pianist

Kamala
American professional wrestler

Mahmoud Darwish
Palestinian writer

Raymond Briggs
English cartoonist, illustrator, and writer

Frank Gifford
American football player, television sportscaster

Bernie Mac
American actor

Pat Hitchcock
British actress

Sergei Kovalev
Russian politician

Cameron Burrell
American athletics competitor

Franca Valeri
Italian actress

Viktor Likhonosov
Soviet, Russian author

Nouria Kazdarli
Algerian actress

Henry Dewar
New Zealander rugby union player

Anna Maria Bottini
Italian actress

Paul Findley
American politician

Alauddin Ali
Bangladeshi music composer

Takis
Greek sculptor

Ragaa Hussein
Egyptian actress

Alex Cord
American actor

Rudi Koertzen
cricket umpire

Hank Majeski
American baseball player and coach

Olivia Podmore
New Zealand cyclist

Lester Bird
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda

Miles Warren
New Zealand architect

Ed Nelson
American actor, AMPAs member; mayor

Billy Rogell
American baseball player

Brendan Halligan
Irish politician

Duff Cooley
American baseball player

Martin Birch
British record producer and audio engineer

Nicholas Evans
British journalist, producer and writer

David Nobbs
British author and scriptwriter

Carroll Hardy
American baseball player

Pyotr Fomenko
Soviet film director

Jim Mahady
professional baseball player

Donald Machholz
American astronomer

Guido Gozzano
Italian writer

Fahrudin Jusufi
Serbian footballer

Tootie Perry
American football player

Mick Jones
English footballer and football manager

William Tasker
Australian rugby union player

Harry Lord
American baseball player

Al Freeman
American actor, director and acting teacher

Anton Walbrook
Austrian actor

Kenneth Bernard
American writer

John McEwan
American football player and coach

Oscar Malbernat
Argentine football player and coach