August 8
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.
Events
Up to 1900
- 117 – Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
- 869 – Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
- 1303 - Henry of Castile the Senator (b. 1230)
- 1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
- 1533 - Lucas van Leyden, Dutch painter (b. 1494)
- 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
- 1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
- 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)
- 1882 - Gouverneur Kimble Warren, American general (b. 1830)
- 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)
- 1899 - William Yates Atkinson, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1854)
1901 – 2000
- 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)
- 1930 - Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter (b. 1874)
- 1940 – Johnny Dodds, jazz musician (b. 1892)
- 1944 – Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
- 1950 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (Qantas) (b. 1879)
- 1959 - Albert Namatjira, Australian artist (b. 1902)
- 1961 - Mei Lanfang, Chinese writer (b. 1916)
- 1962 - Kunio Yanagita, Japanese writer and ethnologist (b. 1875)
- 1965 – Shirley Jackson, American writer (b. 1919)
- 1972 – Andrea Feldman, actor (b. 1948)
- 1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish writer 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 movie actress (b. 1906)
- 1987 – Danilo Blanusa, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1988 - Alan Napier, English-American actor (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)
From 2001
- 2004 – Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
- 2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
- 2009 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
- 2010 – Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (b. 1978)
- 2010 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
- 2012 - Sancho Gracia, Spanish entertainer (b. 1936)
- 2013 - Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (b. 1985)
- 2013 - Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
- 2013 - Barbara Mertz, American writer (b. 1927)
- 2013 - Jack Clement, American record and music producer, singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
- 2014 - Danny Murphy, American actor (b. 1955)
- 2014 - Menahem Golan, Israeli director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- 2014 - Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
- 2014 - J. J. Murphy, Northern Irish actor (b. 1928)
- 2015 - Sean Price, American rapper (b. 1972)
- 2015 - Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian independence activist (b. 1915)
- 2015 - Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
- 2016 - Edward Daly, Irish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1933)
- 2017 - Glen Campbell, American singer (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Barbara Cook, American singer and actress (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Dick MacPherson, American football player (b. 1930)
- 2017 - Gonzague Saint Bris, French novelist and biographer (b. 1948)
- 2017 - Janet Seidel, Australian jazz singer (b. 1955)
- 2017 - Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (b. 1923)
- 2017 - Blanche Blackwell, Jamaican socialite (b. 1912)
- 2017 - Eugene Burger, American magician and philosopher (b. 1939)
- 2017 - Rius, Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer (b. 1934)
- 2017 - Ken Roberts, English rugby league player
- 2018 - Nicholas Bett, Kenyan athlete (b. 1990)
- 2018 - Jarrod Lyle, Australian golfer (b. 1981)
- 2018 - Takeshi Onaga, Japanese politician and governor of Okinawa Prefecture (b. 1950)
- 2018 - Mikhail Shakhov, Ukrainian wrestler (b. 1931)
- 2019 - Ernie Colón, American comic artist (b. 1931)
- 2019 - Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (b. 1932)
- 2019 - Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1929)
- 2019 - Dave Parks, American football player (b. 1941)
- 2019 - Fabrizio Saccomanni, Italian politician and economist (b. 1942)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – Nina Berberova, Russian writer (d. 1993)
- 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist (d. 1958)
- 1902 – Paul Dirac, British physicist (d. 1984)
- 1904 – Ciriaco Errasti, Spanish footballer (d. 1984)
- 1904 – Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver (d. 1948)
- 1907 – Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
- 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, US Supreme Court Justice (d. 1990)
- 1909 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1977)
- 1909 – Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales (d. 1987)
- 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1913 – Boris Afanasiev, Russian ice hockey player, coach and footballer (d. 1983)
- 1914 – Unity Mitford, British fascist sympathiser (d. 1948)
- 1915 – James Elliott, American runner and coach (d. 1981)
- 1919 – Dino de Laurentiis, Italian movie producer (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (d. 2016)
- 1919 – Samuel Pearson Goddard, American politician, 12th Governor of Arizona (d. 2006)
- 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 (d. 2013)
- 1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
- 1922 – Alberto Granado, Argentine-Cuban biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1922 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer (d. 1985)
- 1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian
- 1923 – Antonio Qarracino, Argentine cardinal (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues and jazz singer (d. 1997)
- 1925 – Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian politician (d. 2003)
- 1926 – Richard Anderson, American actor (d. 2017)
- 1927 – Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
- 1928 – Simon Diaz, Venezuelan musician, singer and composer (d. 2014)
- 1929 – Ronald Biggs, British train robber (d. 2013)
- 1929 – Leoncio Evita Enoy, Equatorial Guinean writer (d. 1996)
- 1930 – Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball player (d. 2015)
- 1930 – Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bengali Mother of the Nation (d. 1975)
- 1930 – Joan Mondale, American wife of former US Vice President Walter Mondale (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Terry Nation, Welsh writer and screenwriter (d. 1997)
- 1931 – Roger Penrose, British physicist
- 1932 – Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian leader (d. 2018)
- 1932 – Zito, Brazilian footballer (d. 2015)
- 1933 – Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982)
- 1934 – Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director and movie producer (d. 2014)
- 1935 – Donald P. Bellisario, American screenwriter and producer
- 1936 - Erol Büyükburç, Turkish singer, composer and actor (d. 2015)
- 1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor
- 1937 – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish composer and poet (d. 1987)
- 1938 – Connie Stevens, American actress, singer, director and producer
- 1939 – Phil Balsley, baritone singer
- 1940 – Dennis Tito, American businessman and space tourist
- 1941 – George Tiller, American physician and abortion rights activist (d. 2009)
- 1942 – Dennis Canavan, Scottish politician
- 1943 – Denis Payton, British saxophonist
- 1943 – Alan Boswell, English footballer (d. 2017)
- 1944 – John Renbourn, British guitarist and songwriter (d. 2015)
- 1946 – Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- 1947 – Miguel Blesa, Spanish banker (d. 2017)
- 1947 – Philip Nitschke, Australian humanist and found of Exit International
- 1948 - Akira Matsunaga, Japanese footballer
- 1948 – Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut
- 1949 – Keith Carradine, American actor and singer
- 1950 – Martine Aubry, French politician
- 1950 – Lucjan Lis, Polish cyclist (d. 2015)
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Louis van Gaal, Dutch football manager
- 1951 - Mohamed Morsi, former President of Egypt (d. 2019)
- 1952 – Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian writer
- 1953 – Nigel Mansell, British racing driver
- 1955 – Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
- 1956 - Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress
- 1956 - David Grant, British singer and vocal coach
- 1956 - Chris Foreman, British guitarist and songwriter (Madness)
- 1957 - Dennis Drew, American keyboardist
- 1958 - Akihiro Nishimura, Japanese footballer
- 1960 - Ulrich Maly, German politician, 16th Mayor of Nuremberg
- 1961 – The Edge, Irish musician (U2)
- 1961 – Rikki Rockett, American drummer
- 1962 - Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 - Hur Jin-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter
- 1963 - Jordan K. Hubbard, American computer scientist
- 1964 - Giuseppe Conte, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy
- 1964 – Klaus Ebner, Austrian writer
- 1964 - Scott Sandelin, American ice hockey player and coach
- 1966 – Chris Eubank, British boxer
- 1967 - Eric Angle, American wrestler
- 1967 - Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
- 1968 – Huey Morgan, American singer and guitarist
- 1969 - Faye Wong, Chinese singer and actress
- 1970 - Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor and Paralympic sportsman
- 1970 - Chester Williams, South African rugby union player (d. 2019)
- 1972 - Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach
- 1972 - Axel Merckx, Belgian cyclist
- 1972 - Steven Tweed, Scottish footballer
- 1974 - Brian Harvey, English singer (East 17)
- 1975 - Makoto Tanaka, Japanese footballer
From 1976
- 1976 – JC Chasez, American singer
- 1976 - Laura Kuenssberg, Scottish journalist, BBC News Political Editor
- 1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer and actor
- 1976 - Lee Seung-Yeop, South Korean baseball player
- 1977 – Szilárd Németh, Slovakian footballer
- 1977 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
- 1977 - Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 - Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
- 1978 – Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (d. 2010)
- 1978 – Louis Saha, French footballer
- 1979 - Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson, Icelandic handball player
- 1980 - Michael Urie, American actor
- 1981 – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
- 1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter
- 1981 - Bradley McIntosh, British singer (S Club)
- 1982 - Brandon Gay, American basketball player
- 1982 - David Florence, Scottish canoe racer
- 1984 – Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer
- 1984 - Owen Jones, English journalist and writer
- 1985 - Toby Flood, English rugby player
- 1986 - Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
- 1986 - Peyton List, American actress
- 1987 – Katie Leung, Scottish actress
- 1987 - Pierre Boulanger, French actor
- 1988 – Princess Beatrice of York, member of the British Royal family
- 1988 - Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
- 1988 - Flavia Bujor, Romanian-French novelist
- 1989 - Hannah Miley, British swimmer
- 1990 - Oti Mabuse, South African professional dancer
- 1991 - Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
- 1991 - Joel Matip, German footballer
- 1995 – Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
- 1998 - Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist