March 8
March 8 is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 1126 – Urraca of Leon (b. 1082)
- 1144 – Pope Celestine II
- 1550 – John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (b. 1495)
- 1641 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
- 1702 – William III of England (b. 1650)
- 1757 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
- 1771 - Louis August le Clerc, French-Danish sculptor (b. 1688)
- 1819 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and politician (b. 1739)
- 1844 – King Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
- 1869 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
- 1874 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
- 1876 - Louise Colet, French poet (b. 1810)
- 1887 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
- 1887 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
- 1889 – John Ericsson, Swedish engineer and inventor (b. 1803)
1901 – 2000
- 1906 - Suzanne Manet, French pianist and wife of the painter Edouard Manet (b. 1829)
- 1907 - Marynos Antypas, Greek lawyer and journalist (b. 1872)
- 1917 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (b. 1838)
- 1921 – Eduardo Dato, Spanish Premier
- 1921 - Andrew Watson, Scottish footballer (b. 1856)
- 1923 – Krisjanis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1837)
- 1923 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist (b. 1837)
- 1925 - Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866)
- 1930 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
- 1935 - Ruan Lingyu, Chinese actress (b. 1910)
- 1935 – Hachiko, Japanese Akita dog known for its loyalty (b. 1923)
- 1941 – Sherwood Anderson, American writer (b. 1876)
- 1942 – José Raul Capablanca, Cuban chess player and diplomat (b. 1888)
- 1961 – Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
- 1971 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)
- 1972 - Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (b. 1899)
- 1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (b. 1945)
- 1975 - Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1887)
- 1975 - Georg Faehlmann, Estonian sailor (b. 1895)
- 1975 - George Stevens, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1904)
- 1982 - Rab Butler, British politician (b. 1902)
- 1983 - Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
- 1983 - Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English politician (b. 1904)
- 1983 - William Walton, English politician (b. 1902)
- 1985 - Kim Yong-Sik, Korean footballer (b. 1910)
- 1988 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
- 1993 - Billy Eckstine, American singer (b. 1914)
- 1999 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
- 1999 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
- 1999 - William Wrigley III, American businessman (b. 1933)
From 2001
- 2003 – Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
- 2004 – Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (b. 1948)
- 2005 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen politician (b. 1951)
- 2007 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
- 2007 - John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (b. 1947)
- 2011 – Mike Starr, American musician (b. 1966)
- 2013 - Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German army officer and publisher (b. 1922)
- 2014 - Victor Shem-Tov, Bulgarian-Israeli politician (b. 1915)
- 2014 - William Guarnere, American sergeant (b. 1923)
- 2014 - Park Eun-ji, South Korean politician (b. 1979)
- 2014 - Wendy Hughes, Australian actress (b. 1952)
- 2014 - Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor (b. 1921)
- 2015 - Sam Simon, American producer and writer (b. 1955)
- 2015 - Gerardo Sofovich, Argentine actor, director and television presenter (b. 1937)
- 2015 - Lew Soloff, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1944)
- 2015 - Inezita Barroso, Brazilian folk singer (b. 1925)
- 2016 - Richard Davalos, American actor (b. 1930)
- 2016 - Aldo Ferrer, Argentine economist (b. 1927)
- 2016 - David S. Johnson, American computer scientist (b. 1945)
- 2016 - George Martin, English musician, composer, sound engineer and producer (b. 1926)
- 2016 - Alfred E. Senn, American historian and academic (b. 1932)
- 2017 - Li Yuan-tsu, Vice President of Taiwan (b. 1923)
- 2017 - George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Dave Valentin, American jazz flutist (b. 1952)
- 2018 - Ron Franklin, American jockey (b. 1959)
- 2018 - Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer (b. 1921)
- 2018 - Milko Kelemen, Croatian composer (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Peter Temple, Australian writer (b. 1946)
- 2018 - Togo D. West, Jr., American politician (b. 1942)
- 2018 - Kate Wilhelm, American writer (b. 1928)
- 2019 - Kelly Catlin, American cyclist (b. 1995)
- 2019 - Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor (b. 1927)
- 2019 - Cedrick Hardman, American football player (b. 1948)
- 2019 - Ian Lawrence, Australian-New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington (b. 1937)
Births
1901 – 1925
- 1902 – Jennings Randolph, American politician (d. 1998)
- 1907 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
- 1911 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)
- 1912 – Preston Smith, American politician and 40th Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
- 1912 - Meldrim Thomson, Jr., American politician and 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (d. 2001)
- 1914 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
- 1915 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete (d. 1979)
- 1916 – John W. Seybold, American businessman (d. 2004)
- 1917 - Leslie Fiedler, American literary critic (d. 2003)
- 1917 - Ernst von Glasersfeld, German-born American philosopher (d. 2010)
- 1918 - Jacques Baratier, French director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1921 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
- 1921 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
- 1922 - Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and movie director (d. 2003)
- 1922 – Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese manga artist (d. 2015)
- 1923 - Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer (d. 2014)
- 1923 - Walter Jens, German writer and philologist (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Anthony Caro, British abstract sculptor (d. 2013)
- 1924 – Georges Charpak, Polish-born French physicist (d. 2010)
- 1925 - Warren Bennis, American scholar and writer (d. 2014)
1926 – 1950
- 1926 - Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001)
- 1927 - Dick Hyman, American jazz pianist
- 1927 - Irene Tinker, American economist
- 1929 - Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress, singer and television presenter (d. 2012)
- 1930 - Yuri Rytkheu, Russian writer (d. 2008)
- 1930 - Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian long-distance runner
- 1930 - Douglas Hurd, English politician
- 1931 - Neil Adcock, South African cricketer (d. 2013)
- 1931 - Heinz Mack, German artist
- 1931 - John McPhee, American writer and professor
- 1931 - Gerald Potterton, British-Canadian director, producer and animator
- 1933 – Luca Ronconi, Italian theatre and opera director (d. 2015)
- 1933 - Evelyn Ay Sempier, American model (d. 2008)
- 1935 - Akira Kitaguchi, Japanese footballer
- 1935 - George Coleman, American jazz musician
- 1936 - Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz guitarist (d. 1982)
- 1936 - Sue Ane Langdon, American actress and singer
- 1937 – Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
- 1938 - Giorgio Puia, Italian footballer
- 1939 - Peter Nicholls, Australian writer (d. 2018)
- 1939 - Paride Tumburus, Italian footballer (d. 2015)
- 1939 – Robert Tear, Welsh operatic tenor (d. 2011)
- 1939 - Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed skater and coach
- 1940 - Susan Clark, Canadian actress
- 1941 - Alexei Mishin, Russian figure skater
- 1941 - Wilfrid Napier, South African cardinal
- 1941 - Norman Stone, British historian and educator
- 1942 – Jan Vyčítal, Czech musician
- 1942 - Ann Packer, British athlete
- 1943 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (d. 2010)
- 1943 - Michael Grade, British television executive
- 1944 – Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
- 1944 - Pepe Romero, Spanish classical guitarist
- 1945 – Anselm Kiefer, German painter
- 1945 – Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)
- 1946 - José Manuel Lara Bosch, Spanish businessman (d. 2015)
- 1946 – Randy Meisner, American musician
- 1947 – Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
- 1947 - Florentino Pérez, Spanish businessman, President of Real Madrid C.F.
- 1948 – Peggy March, American singer
- 1948 - Gyles Brandreth, British broadcaster and former politician
- 1948 - Mel Galley, British rock musician (d. 2008)
- 1948 - Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Nations
- 1948 - Sam Lacey, American basketball player (d. 2014)
- 1949 - Natalia Kruchinskaya, Soviet-Russian gymnast
- 1949 - Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1949 – Teófilo Cubillas, Peruvian footballer
- 1949 - Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman (d. 2019)
1951 – 1975
- 1952 - George Felix Allen, 67th Governor of Virginia
- 1954 - David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer
- 1954 – Cheryl Baker, British singer
- 1955 - Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989)
- 1957 – Clive Burr, British musician (d. 2013)
- 1957 - Zé Sérgio, Brazilian footballer
- 1958 – Gary Numan, British singer and musician
- 1959 – Aidan Quinn, American actor
- 1959 - Brian McGee, Scottish musician
- 1961 - Camryn Manheim, American actress
- 1961 - Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 - Mitsunori Yoshida, Japanese footballer
- 1963 – Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 - Julio Cesar Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1963 - Sasha Waltz, German choreographer, dancer and opera director
- 1964 - Yasuharu Sorimachi, Japanese footballer
- 1964 – Peter Gill, British musician
- 1964 - Kate Betts, American fashion editor
- 1964 - Thomas Bezucha, American screenwriter and movie director
- 1964 - Mark Oaten, British politician
- 1965 - Satoru Akahori, Japanese writer
- 1966 - Cheryl James, American singer and rapper
- 1966 - Anne McLaughlin, Scottish politician
- 1968 – Michael Bartels, German racing driver
- 1970 - Andrea Parker, American actress
- 1972 – Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player
- 1973 – Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player
From 1976
- 1976 – Freddie Prinze, Jr., American actor
- 1977 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
- 1977 – Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
- 1979 – Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
- 1979 - Andy Ross, American guitarist
- 1981 – Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
- 1981 - Timo Boll, German tennis player
- 1981 - Laura Main, Scottish actress
- 1982 - Kat Von D, American tattoo artist
- 1982 - Marjorie Estiano, Brazilian actress and singer
- 1983 – Andre Santos, Brazilian footballer
- 1984 – György Garics, Austrian footballer
- 1984 - Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer
- 1984 - Sasha Vujacic, Slovenian basketball player
- 1985 - Maria Ohisalo, Finnish politician and researcher
- 1986 - Lassad Nouioui, French-Tunisian footballer
- 1986 – Princess Tsuguko of Takamado of Japan
- 1987 - Devon Graye, American actor
- 1988 - Laura Unsworth, British field hockey player
- 1989 - Robbie Hummel, American basketball player
- 1990 – Petra Kvitova, Czech tennis player
- 1990 - Kristinia DeBarge, American singer-songwriter, dancer and actress
- 1991 - Miriam Bryant, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1991 - Devon Werkheiser, American actor and singer
- 1991 - Alan Pulido, Mexican footballer
- 1992 - Charlie Ray, American actress
- 1994 - Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (d. 2014)
- 1997 - Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer (AKB48)