| Year |
Month & Date |
Day |
Name |
|---|
| 1079 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Emperor Horikawa of Japan |
(d. 1107) |
| 1518 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Conrad Lycosthenes |
French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) |
| 1605 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Cecilius Calvert‚ 2nd Baron Baltimore |
British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675) |
| 1646 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Godfrey Kneller |
German-born painter (d. 1723) |
| 1673 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
John Ker |
Scottish spy (d. 1726) |
| 1693 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Laurent Belissen |
French composer (d. 1762) |
| 1694 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Francis Hutcheson |
Irish philosopher (d. 1746) |
| 1720 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Carl Fredrik Pechlin |
Swedish politician (d. 1796) |
| 1807 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Emilie Flygare-Carlen |
Swedish novelist (d. 1892) |
| 1814 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Esther Morris |
American jurist (d. 1902) |
| 1824 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Maria Alexandrovna |
Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880) |
| 1839 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Nelson Miles |
American general (d. 1925) |
| 1857 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Cecile Chaminade |
French pianist and composer (d. 1944) |
| 1875 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Artur da Silva Bernardes |
President of Brazil (d. 1955) |
| 1879 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Bob Smith |
American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950) |
| 1879 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Emiliano Zapata |
Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919) |
| 1880 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Earle Page |
Australian politician (d. 1961) |
| 1881 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist |
German field marshal (d. 1954) |
| 1882 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Ladislas Starevich |
Polish animator (d. 1965) |
| 1884 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Sara Teasdale |
American poet (d. 1933) |
| 1889 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Jack Ryder |
Australian cricketer (d. 1977) |
| 1891 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Adolf Busch |
German violinist (d. 1952) |
| 1892 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Rafael Moreno Aranzadi |
Spanish footballer (d. 1922) |
| 1896 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
American author (d. 1953) |
| 1898 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Alexis Minotis |
Greek actor (d. 1990) |
| 1901 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Ernest O. Lawrence |
American physicist‚ Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 1902 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Paul Dirac |
English physicist‚ Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) |
| 1904 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Achille Varzi |
Italian race car driver (d. 1948) |
| 1905 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Andre Jolivet |
French composer (d. 1974) |
| 1907 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Benny Carter |
American musician (d. 2003) |
| 1908 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Arthur Goldberg |
U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1980) |
| 1909 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Bill Voce |
England cricketer (d. 1984) |
| 1910 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Sylvia Sidney |
American actress (d. 1999) |
| 1911 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Rosetta LeNoire |
American actress (d. 2002) |
| 1915 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Jumbo Elliott |
American track coach (d. 1981) |
| 1919 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Dino De Laurentiis |
Italian film producer |
| 1920 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Leo Chiosso |
Italian lyricist (d. 2006) |
| 1920 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Carol Lambrino |
son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (d. 2006) |
| 1920 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Jimmy Witherspoon |
American singer (d. 1997) |
| 1921 |
August 8 |
Monday |
William Asher |
American film producer |
| 1921 |
August 8 |
Monday |
John Herbert Chapman |
British physicist (d. 1979) |
| 1921 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Webb Pierce |
American singer (d. 1991) |
| 1921 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Vulimiri Ramalingaswami |
Indian medical scientist (d. 2001) |
| 1921 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Esther Williams |
American actress and swimmer |
| 1922 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Rory Calhoun |
American actor (d. 1999) |
| 1922 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Rudi Gernreich |
Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985) |
| 1922 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Gertrude Himmelfarb |
American historian |
| 1925 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Alija Izetbegovi? |
Bosniak politician (d. 2003) |
| 1926 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Richard Anderson |
American actor |
| 1927 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Johnny Temple |
American baseball player (d. 1994) |
| 1928 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Don Burrows |
Australian musician |
| 1929 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Ronald Biggs |
British criminal |
| 1929 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Larisa Bogoraz |
Soviet dissident (d. 2004) |
| 1930 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Terry Nation |
Welsh novelist and screenwriter (d. 1997) |
| 1931 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Sir Roger Penrose |
British physicist |
| 1932 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Luis Garcia Meza Tejada |
Bolivian dictator |
| 1932 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Mel Tillis |
American singer |
| 1933 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Joe Tex |
American singer (d. 1982) |
| 1933 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Serena Wilson |
American belly dancer (d. 2007) |
| 1935 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Donald P. Bellisario |
American television producer |
| 1935 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
John Laws |
Australia radio personality |
| 1936 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Keith Barron |
English actor |
| 1936 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Frank Howard |
American baseball player |
| 1937 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Dustin Hoffman |
American actor |
| 1938 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Jacques Hetu |
French Canadian composer |
| 1938 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Connie Stevens |
American singer and actress |
| 1939 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Alexander Watson |
American ambassador and diplomat |
| 1940 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Dennis Tito |
American businessman and space tourist |
| 1940 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Dilip Sardesai |
Indian cricketer (d. 2007) |
| 1944 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Brooke Bundy |
American actress |
| 1944 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
John Holmes |
American pornographic actor (d. 1988) |
| 1944 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
John Renbourn |
English musician |
| 1946 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
James W. Lewis |
American convicted extortionist |
| 1947 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Jose Cruz |
Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 1947 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Ken Dryden |
Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian |
| 1947 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Larry Wilcox |
American actor |
| 1947 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Terangi Adam |
Nauruan politician |
| 1948 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Svetlana Savitskaya |
Russian cosmonaut |
| 1949 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Keith Carradine |
American actor |
| 1949 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Ricardo Londono |
Colombian racing driver |
| 1950 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Ken Kutaragi |
Founder of PlayStation |
| 1950 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Willie Hall |
American drummer |
| 1951 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Mamoru Oshii |
Japanese film director |
| 1951 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Randy Shilts |
American journalist and author (d. 1994) |
| 1951 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Phil Carlson |
Australian cricketer |
| 1952 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Jostein Gaarder |
Norwegian author |
| 1952 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Robin Quivers |
American radio personality |
| 1952 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Sudhakar Rao |
Indian cricketer |
| 1952 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Anton Fig |
South African Drummer (David Letterman Band‚ ex-Frehley's Comet) |
| 1953 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Nigel Mansell |
English race car driver |
| 1953 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Don Most |
American actor |
| 1953 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Mark Lazarowicz |
British Politician |
| 1955 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Diddu |
Icelandic soprano and songwriter |
| 1955 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Herbert Prohaska |
Austrian footballer |
| 1956 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
David Grant |
English singer and vocal coach |
| 1956 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Branscombe Richmond |
American actor |
| 1956 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Chris Foreman |
English guitarist (Madness) |
| 1956 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Cecilia Roth |
Argentine actress |
| 1958 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Deborah Norville |
American television host |
| 1960 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Ulrich Maly |
German politician |
| 1961 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
The Edge |
Irish guitarist (U2) |
| 1961 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Daniel House |
American music executive |
| 1961 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Bruce Matthews |
American football player |
| 1961 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Rikki Rockett |
American drummer (Poison) |
| 1962 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Mike Zanier |
Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1962 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Kool Moe Dee |
American rapper |
| 1963 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Jon Turteltaub |
American director |
| 1963 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Stephen Walkom |
Canadian ice hockey official and executive |
| 1964 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Anastasia Ashman |
American writer |
| 1964 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Paul Taylor |
England cricketer |
| 1965 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Kate Langbroek |
Australian media personality |
| 1965 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Aaron Abeyta |
American musician |
| 1965 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Angus Fraser |
England cricketer |
| 1966 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Chris Eubank |
English boxer |
| 1966 |
August 8 |
Monday |
John Hudek |
American baseball player |
| 1967 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Eric Angle |
American wrestler |
| 1967 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Marcelo Balboa |
American soccer player |
| 1967 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Rena Mero |
American wrestler |
| 1967 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Jessica Moore |
Italian actress |
| 1967 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Lee Unkrich |
American director and film editor |
| 1968 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Abey Kuruvilla |
Indian cricketer |
| 1968 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Huey Morgan |
American singer / guitarist (Fun Lovin' Criminals) |
| 1969 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Faye Wong |
Hong Kong singer and actress |
| 1969 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Dick Togo |
Japanese professional wrestler |
| 1969 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Yvie Burnett |
British television vocal coach |
| 1970 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Trev Alberts |
American football player |
| 1970 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Pascal Duquenne |
Belgian actor |
| 1972 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Joely Collins |
Canadian actress |
| 1972 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Andrea de Rossi |
Italian rugby player and coach |
| 1972 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Axel Merckx |
Belgian bicycle racer |
| 1972 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Lps Thnder |
American musician (The Bloodhound Gang) |
| 1973 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Toby Allen |
Australian singer (Human Nature) |
| 1973 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Shane Lee |
Australian cricketer |
| 1973 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Senta Moses |
American actress |
| 1973 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Scott Stapp |
American singer (Creed) |
| 1974 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Scott D'Amore |
Canadian professional wrestler and manager |
| 1974 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Brian Harvey |
English singer |
| 1974 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Andy Priaulx |
British racing driver |
| 1976 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
JC Chasez |
American singer (*NSYNC) |
| 1976 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Tawny Cypress |
American actress |
| 1976 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Drew Lachey |
American singer |
| 1976 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Seung-Yeop Lee |
Korean baseball player |
| 1976 |
August 8 |
Sunday |
Jeff Simmons |
American race car driver |
| 1977 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Kurt Bernard |
Costa Rican footballer |
| 1977 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Szilard Nemeth |
Slovak footballer |
| 1977 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Lindsay Sloane |
American actress |
| 1977 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Rocky Thompson |
Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1977 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Mohammad Wasim |
Pakistani cricketer |
| 1977 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Nicolas Vogondy |
French cyclist |
| 1978 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Alan Maybury |
Irish footballer |
| 1978 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Louis Saha |
French footballer |
| 1978 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Miho Shiraishi |
Japanese actress |
| 1978 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Countess Vaughn |
American actress and singer |
| 1979 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Richard Harwood |
British cellist |
| 1979 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Gu?jn Valur Sigur?sson |
Icelandic handball player |
| 1979 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Paris Latsis |
Greek shipping heir |
| 1979 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Rashard Lewis |
American basketball player |
| 1979 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Sam Totman |
English musician (Dragonforce) |
| 1979 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Dan Smith |
English musician (Noisettes) |
| 1980 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Mike Hindert |
American musician |
| 1980 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Sabine Klaschka |
German tennis player |
| 1980 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Pat Noonan |
American footballer |
| 1980 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Michael Urie |
American actor and director |
| 1980 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Denisse Guerrero |
Mexican Singer (Belanova) |
| 1981 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Vanessa Amorosi |
Australian singer and songwriter |
| 1981 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Roger Federer |
Swiss tennis player |
| 1981 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Meagan Good |
American actress |
| 1981 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Kaori Iida |
Japanese singer and actress |
| 1981 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Bradley McIntosh |
British pop singer |
| 1981 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Harel Skaat |
Israeli singer |
| 1983 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Guy Burnet |
British actor |
| 1984 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Kirk Broadfoot |
Scottish footballer |
| 1984 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Martrez Milner |
American football player |
| 1984 |
August 8 |
Wednesday |
Devon McTavish |
American footballer |
| 1985 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Brett Ratliff |
American football player |
| 1985 |
August 8 |
Thursday |
Brayan Ruiz |
Costa Rican football player |
| 1986 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Peyton List |
American actress |
| 1986 |
August 8 |
Friday |
Chris Pressley |
American football player |
| 1987 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Katie Leung |
Scottish actress |
| 1987 |
August 8 |
Saturday |
Pierre Boulanger |
French actor |
| 1988 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Princess Beatrice of York |
Princess of York and British princess |
| 1988 |
August 8 |
Monday |
Danilo Gallinari |
Italian basketball player |
| 1989 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Sesil Karatantcheva |
Bulgarian tennis player |
| 1989 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Hannah Miley |
British swimmer |
| 1995 |
August 8 |
Tuesday |
Malin Reitan |
Norwegian singer |
