August 8
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August 8 is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 145 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
- 1518 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist (d. 1561)
- 1605 - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
- 1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
- 1694 – Francis Hutcheson, Scottish-Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
- 1720 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
- 1748 - Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German physician and naturalist (d. 1804)
- 1754 - Hipolito Ruiz Lopez, Spanish botanist (d. 1815)
- 1790 - Ferenc Kolcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (d. 1838)
- 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
- 1832 - George, King of Saxony (d. 1904)
- 1849 - Vera Zasulich, Russian writer and revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1857 - Cecile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (d. 1944)
- 1861 - William Bateson, British geneticist (d. 1925)
- 1875 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
- 1876 - Varghese Payapilly Palakkapilly, Indian Syrian Catholic priest (d. 1929)
- 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1879 - Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
- 1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
- 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (d. 1953)
- 1900 - Victor Young, American violinist, composer and bandleader (d. 1956)
- 1901 - Nina Berberova, Russian writer (d. 1993)
- 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist (d. 1958)
- 1902 – Paul Dirac, British physicist (d. 1984)
- 1907 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, US Supreme Court Justice (d. 1990)
- 1914 - Unity Mitford, British fascist sympathiser (d. 1948)
- 1919 – Dino de Laurentiis, Italian film producer (d. 2010)
- 1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
- 1920 - Carol Lambrino, Romanian royal (d. 2006)
- 1920 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
- 1921 – Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress
- 1921 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
- 1922 – Alberto Granado, Argentine-Cuban biochemist, author and travel companion of Che Guevara (d. 2011)
- 1925 – Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian politician (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1929 – Ronald Biggs, British train robber
- 1929 - Leoncio Evita Enoy, Equatorial Guinean writer (d. 1996)
- 1931 - Roger Penrose, British physicist
- 1932 - Luis Garcia Meza Tejada, Bolivian leader
- 1933 - Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982)
- 1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor
- 1939 - Phil Balsley, baritone singer
- 1940 – Dennis Tito, American businessman and space tourist
- 1942 - Dennis Canavan, Scottish politician
- 1943 - Denis Payton, British saxophonist
- 1948 – Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1949 - Keith Carradine, American actor and singer
- 1950 – Martine Aubry, French politician
- 1950 – Ken Kutaragi, founder of PlayStation
- 1951 – Louis van Gaal, Dutch football manager
- 1952 – Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian writer
- 1953 – Nigel Mansell, British racing driver
- 1955 – Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
- 1956 - David Grant, British singer and vocal coach
- 1961 – The Edge, Irish musician (U2)
- 1961 – Rikki Rockett, American drummer
- 1964 – Klaus Ebner, Austrian writer
- 1966 – Chris Eubank, British boxer
- 1968 – Huey Morgan, American singer and guitarist
- 1972 - Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach
- 1976 – JC Chasez, American singer
- 1977 – Szilard Nemeth, Slovakian footballer
- 1977 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
- 1978 – Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (d. 2010)
- 1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer
- 1979 - Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson, Icelandic handball player
- 1981 – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
- 1984 – Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer
- 1985 - Toby Flood, English rugby player
- 1987 – Katie Leung, Scottish actress
- 1987 - Pierre Boulanger, French actor
- 1988 – Princess Beatrice of York, member of the British Royal family
- 1989 - Hannah Miley, British swimmer
- 1991 - Nelson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
- 1995 – Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
Deaths [change]
- 117 – Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
- 869 – Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
- 1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
- 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
- 1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
- 1719 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
- 1746 – Francis Hutcheson, Scottish-Irish philosopher (b. 1694)
- 1747 - Madeleine de Vercheres, New France heroine (b. 1678)
- 1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
- 1824 - Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist (b. 1759)
- 1827 – George Canning, shortest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
- 1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
- 1854 - Zenaide Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte (b. 1801)
- 1876 - Adolph Tidemand, Norwegian painter (b. 1814)
- 1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
- 1887 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
- 1897 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
- 1898 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
- 1902 – James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
- 1909 - Mary MacKillop, Scottish-born Australian Catholic nun and Saint (b. 1842)
- 1911 – William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
- 1918 - Michel Zevaco, French writer (b. 1860)
- 1928 - Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
- 1940 – Johnny Dodds, jazz musician (b. 1892)
- 1944 – Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
- 1961 - Mei Lanfang, Chinese author (b. 1916)
- 1965 – Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1919)
- 1972 – Andrea Feldman, actor (b. 1948)
- 1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
- 1973 - Nikos Zachariades, Greek Communist politician (b. 1893)
- 1974 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi Youth leader (b. 1907)
- 1975 – Cannonball Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
- 1977 – Edgar Douglas Adrian, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1889)
- 1985 – Louise Brooks, silent film actress (b. 1906)
- 1987 – Danilo Blanusa, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1991 – James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
- 1991 - Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
- 1996 - Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (b. 1905)
- 1997 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)
- 2004 – Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
- 2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
- 2009 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
- 2010 – Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (b. 1978)
- 2010 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
Events [change]
- 117 – Roman Emperor Trajan dies, and is succeeded by Hadrian.
- 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor.
- 1588 – The Spanish Armada is beaten by the English at the battle of Gravelines.
- 1605 – The city of Oulu in Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
- 1786 – Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time, by an expedition led by Jacques Bilmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
- 1789 – Australia's first police force begins in Sydney, called Nightwatch.
- 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte sails to St. Helena to spend the rest of his life in exile.
- 1844 – The Twelve Apostles, led by Brigham Young become the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- 1900 – The first Davis Cup tennis match begins in Brookline, Massachusetts.
- 1963 – The Great Train Robbery occurs in England. Thieves steal 2.6 million pounds.
- 1967 – ASEAN is founded by Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia.
- 1974 – Richard Nixon announces his resignation as President of the United States, due to the Watergate scandal.
- 1988 – The 8888 Uprising against Burma's military regime occurs.
- 1991 – In Poland, the world-famous Warsaw Radio Mast collapses.
- 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin visits Jordan for the first time.
- 2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman divorce.
- 2008 – The Summer Olympics begin in Beijing, China, at exactly 8:08:08pm local time.
Observances [change]
- Father's Day (Taiwan)
