July 8
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July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births [change]
- 1545 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568)
- 1621 – Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695).
- 1792 – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
- 1831 – John Pemberton, American inventor, of Coca Cola (d. 1888)
- 1836 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914).
- 1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917).
- 1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937)
- 1885 – Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
- 1895 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist (d. 1971)
- 1904 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008)
- 1905 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
- 1908 – Louis Jordan, American jazz and blues musician (d. 1975)
- 1908 – Nelson A. Rockefeller, American politician (d. 1979)
- 1914 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Walter Scheel, former President of Germany
- 1920 – Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman (Lego group) (d. 1995)
- 1934 – Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982)
- 1935 – Vitali Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2010)
- 1945 – Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss Federal Councillor.
- 1948 – Raffi, Canadian children's entertainer
- 1949 – Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef
- 1951 – Anjelica Huston, American actress
- 1952 – Ahmad Nazif, former Prime Minister of Egypt
- 1955 – Monty Don, English gardener and television presenter
- 1958 – Kevin Bacon, American actor
- 1958 – Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician
- 1959 – Pauline Quirke, English actress
- 1970 – Beck, American singer
- 1977 – Christian Abbiati, Italian footballer
- 1980 – Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
- 1981 – Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
- 1982 – Sophia Bush, American actress
- 1992 – Benjamin Grosvenor, British pianist
- 1998 – Jaden Smith, American actor
Deaths [change]
- 1623 – Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
- 1695 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer and scientist (b. 1629).
- 1721 – Elihu Yale, American University benefactor (b. 1649).
- 1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792).
- 1855 – William Edward Parry, English arctic explorer (b. 1790).
- 1859 – King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799).
- 1898 – Soapy Smith, American outlaw (b. 1860).
- 1930 – Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856).
- 1943 – Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899).
- 1957 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879).
- 1962 – Georges Pataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897).
- 1967 – Fatimah Jinnah, Pakistani Mother of the Nation (b. 1893).
- 1979 – Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist (b. 1906).
- 1979 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist (b. 1917).
- 1988 – Ray Barbuti, American sportsman (b. 1905).
- 1994 – Kim Il-Sung, President of North Korea (b. 1912).
- 2002 – Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914).
- 2004 – Paula Danziger, American writer (b. 1944).
- 2006 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917).
- 2011 – Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918).
- 2012 - Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917).
Events [change]
- 1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail for his first voyage to India.
- 1776 – The Declaration of Independence is read out for the first time, in Philadelphia.
- 1889 – The Wall Street Journal is first published.
- 1898 – Crime boss Soapy Smith is killed in Skagway, Alaska.
- 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO landed in Roswell, New Mexico.
- 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
- 1990 – Germany wins the FIFA World Cup, defeating Argentina 1-0.
- 1994 – Kim Il-Sung dies. His son Kim Jong-Il takes over the role of supreme leader.
- 1997 – NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to join.
- 2004 – Heinz Fischer becomes President of Austria, two days after the death of his predecessor, Thomas Klestil.
- 2005 – The G-8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, concludes, with promises of aid to developing countries.
- 2007 – Roger Federer wins his fifth consecutive Wimbledon Men's Singles tennis title, defeating Rafael Nadal in five sets.
- 2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches in the last launch of the Space Shuttle programme.
