| 90241 | August 9 | Death | 1957 – Konrad Tom, Polish actor, writer, singer, and director (b. 1887) |
| 90242 | August 9 | Death | 1962 – Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) |
| 90243 | August 9 | Death | 1963 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1963) |
| 90244 | August 9 | Death | 1967 – Joe Orton, English author and playwright (b. 1933) |
| 90245 | August 9 | Death | 1969 – Wojciech Frykowski, Polish-American actor and author (b. 1936) |
| 90246 | August 9 | Death | 1969 – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (b. 1933) |
| 90247 | August 9 | Death | 1969 – Sharon Tate, American model and actress (b. 1943) |
| 90248 | August 9 | Death | 1969 – Steven Parent, American student (b. 1951) |
| 90249 | August 9 | Death | 1969 – C. F. Powell, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) |
| 90250 | August 9 | Death | 1972 – Sıddık Sami Onar, Turkish lawyer and academic (b. 1897) |
| 90251 | August 9 | Death | 1974 – Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (Chase) (b. 1934) |
| 90252 | August 9 | Death | 1975 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1906) |
| 90253 | August 9 | Death | 1978 – James Gould Cozzens, American soldier and author (b. 1903) |
| 90254 | August 9 | Death | 1979 – Walter O'Malley, American businessman (b. 1903) |
| 90255 | August 9 | Death | 1979 – Raymond Washington, American gang leader, founded the Crips (b. 1953) |
| 90256 | August 9 | Death | 1980 – Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906) |
| 90257 | August 9 | Death | 1985 – Clive Churchill, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1927) |
| 90258 | August 9 | Death | 1988 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet (b. 1905) |
| 90259 | August 9 | Death | 1988 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923) |
| 90260 | August 9 | Death | 1990 – Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (b. 1914) |
| 90261 | August 9 | Death | 1992 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer and actor (b. 1938) |
| 90262 | August 9 | Death | 1995 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Legion of Mary, and Old and in the Way) (b. 1942) |
| 90263 | August 9 | Death | 1996 – Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907) |
| 90264 | August 9 | Death | 1999 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian journalist and politician (b. 1910) |
| 90265 | August 9 | Death | 2000 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) |
| 90266 | August 9 | Death | 2000 – Nicholas Markowitz, American murder victim (b. 1984) |
| 90267 | August 9 | Death | 2002 – Paul Samson, English guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953) |
| 90268 | August 9 | Death | 2003 – Jacques Deray, French director and screenwriter (b. 1929) |
| 90269 | August 9 | Death | 2003 – Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945) |
| 90270 | August 9 | Death | 2003 – Gregory Hines, American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1946) |