More Notable Birthdays on August 9: 1968 - Gillian Anderson, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, X-Files 1963 - Whitney Houston, born in Newark, New Jersey, singer, One Moment in Time, Bodyguard 1927 - Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist, MIT 1896 - Jean Piaget, born in Switzerland, pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist