November 8

2024 Calendar

November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 53 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

397 - Saint Martin of Tours
618 - Pope Adeodatus I
955 - Pope Agapetus II
1115 - Godfrey of Amiens, French bishop (b. 1066)
1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 - Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine (b. 1135)
1226 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
1246 - Berengaria of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
1517 - Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman and cardinal (b. 1436)
1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1605 - Robert Catesby, English Gunpowder Plot conspirator (b. 1573)
1627 - Jahangir, Mughal Emperor (b. 1569)
1658 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch captain (b. 1599)
1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1817 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1858 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, United States Attorney General (b. 1795)
1873 - Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796)
1887 – Doc Holliday, American Western figure (b. 1851)
1890 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)

1901 – 2000

1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1917 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1879)
1933 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (b. 1883)
1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1944 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (b. 1874)
1953 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer (b. 1870)
1959 - Frank S. Land, American activist (b. 1890)
1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American actress and television presenter (b. 1913)
1968 - Peter Mohr Dam, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1898)
1976 - Giorgio Ferrini, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
1978 – Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, First Lady of France (b. 1900)
1983 - James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)
1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1899)
1985 - Masten Gregory, American racing driver (b. 1932)
1986 – Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890)
1998 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, English mountaineer (b. 1910)
1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Leon Stukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)

From 2001

2007 - Stephen Fumio Hamao, Japanese cardinal (b. 1930)
2007 – Chad Varah, English humanitarian (b. 1911)
2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer (b. 1925)
2011 – Hal Bruno, American journalist (b. 1928)
2011 – Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer (b. 1934)
2011 – Heavy D, American rapper (b. 1967)
2012 - Lucille Bliss, American actress (b. 1916)
2014 - Phil Crane, American politician (b. 1930)
2014 - Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player (b. 1928)
2014 - Otto Ziege, German cyclist (b. 1926)
2015 - Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist (b. 1930)
2017 - Antonio Carluccio, Italian chef (b. 1937)
2017 - Roger Grenier, French writer and journalist (b. 1919)
2017 - Wood Moy, Chinese-American actor (b. 1918)
2018 - Harold Basch, American-born Israeli chemist (b. 1940)
2018 - Bartolomé Bennassar, French historian (b. 1929)
2018 - François N. Macerola, Canadian lawyer and film executive (b. 1942)
2018 - Wallace Triplett, American football player (b. 1926)
2018 - Marvin Zuckerman, American psychologist and writer (b. 1928)
2019 - Fred Bongusto, Italian singer-songwriter and composer (b. 1935)
2019 - Lucette Destouches, French ballet dancer and instructor (b. 1912)
2019 - Jackie Moore, American singer (b. 1946)

Births

1901 – 1950

1903 - Luigi Allemandi, Italian footballer (d. 1978)
1910 - Elfriede Brüning, German journalist and novelist (d. 2014)
1912 - Stylianos Pattakos, Greek military officer (d. 2016)
1912 – June Havoc, Canadian-American actress (d. 2010)
1914 - Norman Lloyd, American director, producer and actor (d. 2021)
1914 - George Dantzig, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1916 - Peter Weiss, German-born Swedish writer, painter and experimental movie maker (d. 1982)
1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer (d. 2015)
1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
1923 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer (d. 2005)
1925 - Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (d. 2019)
1927 - L. K. Advani, Indian politician
1927 - Patti Page, American singer (d. 2013)
1927 – Ken Dodd, English comedian (d. 2018)
1927 – Nguyen Khanh, South Vietnamese Prime Minister (d. 2013)
1929 – Jona Senilagakali, Fijian physician, diplomat and 7th Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2011)
1931 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist (d. 2016)
1931 - Dorla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
1932 - Simo Salminen, Finnish comic actor (d. 2015)
1933 - Peter Arundell, British racing driver (d. 2009)
1935 - Alain Delon, French movie actor
1936 - Edward Wilson, American astronaut
1936 - Virna Lisi, Italian actress (d. 2014)
1938 - Richard Stoker, English composer and writer
1938 - Murtala Mohammed, President of Nigeria (d. 1976)
1939 - Elizabeth Dawn, English actress (d. 2017)
1940 - Charles T. Kowal, American astronomer (d. 2011)
1941 - Nerys Hughes, Welsh actress
1942 - Sandro Mazzola, Italian footballer
1943 – Martin Peters, English footballer
1945 - Arduino Cantafora, Italian-Swiss architect and writer
1945 - Vincent Nichols, English cardinal and Archbishop of Westminster
1946 – Guus Hiddink, Dutch football manager
1946 - Roy Wood, British musician
1947 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
1947 - Margaret Rhea Seddon, American physician and astronaut
1948 - Dale Gardner, American astronaut (d. 2014)
1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American rock musician
1949 - Wayne LaPierre, American Executive President of the National Rifle Association of America
1950 - Mary Hart, American television host

1951 – 1975

1952 - Christie Hefner, former CEO of Playboy Enterprises
1952 - Alfre Woodard, American actress
1953 - John Musker, American animation director
1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese-British writer
1954 - Bill Joy, American computer scientist
1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, American singer-songwriter
1955 - Patricia Barber, American singer, songwriter, pianist and bandleader
1956 - Mari Boine, Norwegian musician
1956 – Richard Curtis, English screenwriter
1957 – Alan Curbishley, English football manager
1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1958 - Don Byron, American jazz musician
1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
1960 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor (d. 2017)
1961 - Leif Garrett, American singer-songwriter
1965 - Robert Tappan Morris, American computer scientist
1966 – Gordon Ramsay, Scottish chef and television personality
1967 - José Luis Caminero, Spanish footballer
1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
1968 - Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
1968 – Parker Posey, American actress
1969 - Roxana Zal, American actress
1970 – Tom Anderson, co-founder of Myspace
1970 - José Porras, Costa Rican footballer
1972 - Aksel V. Johannesen, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1972 – Gretchen Mol, American actress
1974 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga writer
1974 - Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga writer
1974 – Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
1975 - Tara Reid, American actress and producer

From 1976

1976 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
1978 – Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
1978 - Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
1979 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
1979 - Paul Sackey, English rugby player
1980 – Luís Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Joe Cole, English footballer
1982 – Sam Sparro, Australian singer, performer and producer
1982 - Mika Kallio, Finnish motorcycle racer
1982 - Ted DiBiase, Jr., American professional wrestler
1982 - Lynndie England, former United States Army reservist
1983 - Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor
1983 - Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer
1983 - Blanka Vlasic, Croatian high jumper
1985 - Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
1985 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
1986 – Aaron Swartz, American activist and computer programmer (Twitter) (d. 2013)
1986 - Jamie Roberts, Welsh rugby player
1987 - Kazuchika Okada, Japanese professional wrestler
1987 - Samantha Droke, American actress
1987 - Eduardo Gurbindo, Spanish handball player
1988 - Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress
1989 - Morgan Schneiderlin, French footballer
1991 - Riker Lynch, American singer, actor and musician
1994 - Lauren Alaina, American country music singer
2000 - Jasmine Thompson, British pianist, dancer, singer and actress
2001 - Matilda Ramsay, British chef and television personality
2003 – Lady Louise Windsor, British royal

Deaths

Observances

World Urbanism Day
World Radiography Day