On This Day — August 8
4361 noted people were born and 1967 died on August 8 in our archive, including Nikolai Bogolyubov, Paul Dirac and Roger Penrose.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 8
Nikolai Bogolyubov
1909 – 1992
Paul Dirac
1902 – 1984
Roger Penrose
b. 1931
Svyatoslav Fyodorov
1927 – 2000
Aleksandr Sokolov
b. 1949
Alfons Nossol
b. 1932
Alfred Mathieu Giard
1846 – 1908
Andrzej Kremer
1961 – 2010
Arthur Goldberg
1908 – 1990
Dariusz Rosati
b. 1946
Edwin Spanier
1921 – 1996
Ernest Lawrence
1901 – 1958
Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch
1839 – 1917
Giuseppe Conte
b. 1964
Henri Cordier
1849 – 1925
Henry Fairfield Osborn
1857 – 1935
Issa Kostoyev
b. 1942
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
1748 – 1804
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
1797 – 1890
Latifa al-Zayyat
1923 – 1996
Lee Unkrich
b. 1967
Lloyd J. Austin III
b. 1953
Léon Gautier
1832 – 1897
Mamoru Oshii
b. 1951
Manjul Bhargava
b. 1974
Martine Aubry
b. 1950
Masahiro Hara
b. 1957
Mohamed Morsi
1951 – 2019
Ng Chee Meng
b. 1968
Nikita Ivanov
b. 1974
Robert Haab
1865 – 1939
Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin
b. 1944
Ron Klain
b. 1961
Ryszard Knosala
b. 1949
Shahid Jameel
b. 1957
Svetlana Savitskaya
b. 1948
Viktor Pugachev
b. 1948
Vladimir Legoyda
b. 1973
Václav Benda
1946 – 1999
William Bateson
1861 – 1926
Adolf Holm
1830 – 1900
Ahmad Sahroni
b. 1977
Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield
1874 – 1948
Alberto Granado
1922 – 2011
Alex Chalk
b. 1976
Alexander Nudelman
1912 – 1996
Alexandr Podrabinek
b. 1953
Alexei Komech
1936 – 2007
Alexei Mirtov
1886 – 1966
Alfred Gibbs Bourne
1859 – 1940
Alfred Richard Barclay
1859 – 1912
Alicia Amatriain
b. 1980
Alija Izetbegović
1925 – 2003
Alphons Kannanthanam
b. 1953
Alurista
b. 1947
Alyaksiey Kushnarenka
b. 1975
Ambrogio Donini
1903 – 1991
Anastasia Stanko
b. 1986
Andrey Savelyev
b. 1962
Andrzej Siemieniewski
b. 1957
André Jolivet
1905 – 1974
Anna Belousovová
b. 1959
Anne-Marie Jolly-Desodt
b. 1952
Antonin Galipeault
1880 – 1971
Arifur Rahman
b. 1984
Ben G. Davis
b. 1970
Benjamin Silliman Sr.
1779 – 1864
Benny Carter
1907 – 2003
Bernard Mills
1920 – 2011
Bernard Vonnegut, Sr.
1855 – 1908
Brian Stonehouse
1918 – 1998
C. K. Prahalad
1941 – 2010
Charles Bulfinch
1763 – 1844
Charles C. Pixley
1923 – 2005
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham
1909 – 1977
Chiaki Hayashi
b. 1971
Ciriaco Morón Arroyo
b. 1935
Claude-Marius Vaïsse
1799 – 1864
Connie Stevens
b. 1938
David M. Friedman
b. 1958
Dawn Flythe Moore
b. 1975
Debra Lee
b. 1955
Dimitrije Bužarovski
b. 1952
Dominique Meyer
b. 1955
Donald P. Bellisario
b. 1935
Duncan McNabb
b. 1952
Earle Page
1880 – 1961
Emilio Pérez Touriño
b. 1948
Frans Weisglas
b. 1946
François Piétri
1882 – 1966
François Valentin
1909 – 1961
Friedrich Georg Weitsch
1758 – 1828
General Nelson A. Miles
1839 – 1925
Gennady Raykov
1939 – 2023
Georg I of Saxony
1832 – 1904
George Gerbner
1919 – 2005
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
1786 – 1861
George-Cristian Tuță
b. 1984
Gilles Verdez
b. 1964
Giovanni Battista Monteggia
1762 – 1815
Godfrey Kneller
1646 – 1723
Hayato Suzuki
b. 1977
Henry Jenner
1848 – 1934
Henry Lemonnier
1842 – 1936
Herbert Weir Smyth
1857 – 1937
Hisaichi Terauchi
1879 – 1946
Hjalmar Procopé
1889 – 1954
Héctor Illueca Ballester
b. 1975
Ilka Agricola
b. 1973
Isabelle Thomas
b. 1956
Ivan Herasymov
1921 – 2008
J Alexander
1938 – 2022
Jack Renshaw
1909 – 1987
Jane Dee Hull
1935 – 2020
Jean Fréour
1919 – 2010
Jean-Michel Coron
b. 1956
Joan Mondale
1930 – 2014
John F. McCarthy Jr.
1925 – 1986
John G. Linvill
1919 – 2011
John Laws
1935 – 2025
John Quelch
b. 1951
John William Willis-Bund
1843 – 1928
John Yudkin
1910 – 1995
Jules Lagneau
1851 – 1894
Ken Dryden
1947 – 2025
Kengo Kuma
b. 1954
Kim Bridgford
1959 – 2020
Kim Chi
b. 1987
Kyriakos Pierrakakis
b. 1983
Laura Kuenssberg
b. 1976
Leon Eisenberg
1922 – 2009
Lia van Leer
1924 – 2015
Lucien-Anatole Prévost-Paradol
1829 – 1870
M. Amin Arnaout
b. 1949
Maria Joseph Anton von Brassier de Saint Simon-Vallade
1798 – 1872
Maria Otero
b. 1950
Marina Karaseva
b. 1958
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1896 – 1953
Martin Knapp
b. 1952
Matthew Knisely
b. 1974
Matthias W. Day
1853 – 1927
Mauro Maur
b. 1958
Mei Fong
b. 1972
Michał Walicki
1904 – 1966
Monique Jérôme-Forget
b. 1940
Moza bint Nasser Al Missned
b. 1959
Myriam Sarachik
1933 – 2021
Nagai Nagayoshi
1844 – 1929
Natalia Dudinskaya
1912 – 2003
Nobuyuki Fukushima
b. 1970
Paloma Martín Martín
b. 1970
Patrick Mignola
b. 1971
Paul Ledoux
1914 – 1988
Paula Forteza
b. 1986
Pelham D. Glassford
1883 – 1959
Peter Hermes
1922 – 2015
Philip Bohlman
b. 1952
Piers Nash
b. 1969
Presbitero Velasco, Jr.
b. 1948
Princess Beatrice of York
b. 1988
Ralph Gonsalves
b. 1946
Ritsuo Hosokawa
b. 1943
Robert M. Douglas
b. 1936
Rudi Gernreich
1922 – 1985
Rui Moreira
b. 1956
Sadao Nakajima
1934 – 2023
Sadeq Khalilian
b. 1959
Sandra Lee-Vercoe
b. 1952
Simon Eine
1936 – 2020
Sky Dayton
b. 1971
Stanislav Sadalsky
b. 1951
Thomas Matthews
1849 – 1930
Théodore Roustan
1833 – 1906
Tsvetko Boboshevski
1884 – 1952
Ulrich Maly
b. 1960
Vicky Pryce
b. 1952
Viktor Rozov
1913 – 2004
Waciny Laredj
b. 1954
Walter Bauer
1877 – 1960
William Meeks
1947 – 2026
Yen Hsi-shan
1883 – 1960
Yuli Gusman
b. 1943
Zsolt Semjén
b. 1962
"Shotgun" Tom Kelly
b. 1949
A'ja Wilson
b. 1996
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour
b. 1955
Abdellah Taïa
b. 1973
Abiel Foster
1735 – 1806
Abu Asim Azmi
b. 1955
Adolf Busch
1891 – 1952
Adrian Delia
b. 1969
Agnar Mykle
1915 – 1994
Alajos Károlyi
1825 – 1889
Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemon
1784 – 1850
Albert Rösti
b. 1967
Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
1877 – 1945
Aleksandr Tatischev
1763 – 1833
Alex Robinson
b. 1969
Alexa Moreno
b. 1994
Alexander Nadson
1926 – 2015
… and 4,161 more
Died on August 8
Konrad Steffen
1952 – 2020
Rem Khokhlov
1926 – 1977
Alexey Favorsky
1860 – 1945
Alfred Mathieu Giard
1846 – 1908
Anna J. Harrison
1912 – 1998
Antin Angelovych
1757 – 1814
Antonio Valero Vicente
1925 – 2001
Barnett Rosenberg
1926 – 2009
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
1923 – 2017
Christopher Heath
1835 – 1905
Fabrizio Saccomanni
1942 – 2019
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
1926 – 2012
Franz Eckert
1852 – 1916
George Canning
1770 – 1827
George Trumbull Ladd
1842 – 1921
Jaan Kaplinski
1941 – 2021
Jean Dorst
1924 – 2001
Jozef Tomko
1924 – 2022
Julius Wess
1934 – 2007
Kunio Yanagita
1875 – 1962
Nevill Francis Mott
1905 – 1996
Samuel Linde
1771 – 1847
Viktor Meyer
1848 – 1897
William H. Webster
1924 – 2025
Yuliya Borisova
1925 – 2023
Zofia Posmysz
1923 – 2022
Émile Achard
1860 – 1944
Alan McIntosh
1942 – 2016
Alfredo De Marsico
1888 – 1985
Alfredo Lim
1929 – 2020
Allan MacNab
1798 – 1862
Andrei Stackenschneider
1802 – 1865
Andrew Jenike
1914 – 2003
Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill
1936 – 2020
Anton Denikin
1872 – 1947
Antoni Kukliński
1927 – 2015
Baldur von Schirach
1907 – 1974
Benedetto Cairoli
1825 – 1889
Bengt Lönnbom
1933 – 2024
Bill Davis
1929 – 2021
Buruji Kashamu
1958 – 2020
Carl Peter Thunberg
1743 – 1828
Charles Poletti
1903 – 2002
Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
1748 – 1831
Christopher Bushell
1887 – 1918
Denis Johnston
1901 – 1984
Eduard Magnus
1799 – 1872
Eileen Power
1889 – 1940
Elizabeth A. R. Brown
1932 – 2024
Erik Molnár
1894 – 1966
Estanislao Esteban Karlic
1926 – 2025
Eugène Caillaux
1822 – 1896
Eva Frommer
1927 – 2004
Friedrich August Wolf
1759 – 1824
Hiroshi Okuda
1932 – 2026
Ian G. Macdonald
1928 – 2023
Ilya Darevsky
1924 – 2009
Issa Hayatou
1946 – 2024
Ivan Kozhedub
1920 – 1991
James Irwin
1930 – 1991
James McLamore
1926 – 1996
James Tissot
1836 – 1902
John Crowley
1942 – 2026
John Rankine
1846 – 1922
John Schuyler Crosby
1839 – 1914
Joseph Aquilina
1911 – 1997
Judy Bailey
1935 – 2025
Jørgen Roed
1808 – 1888
Jānis Balodis
1881 – 1965
Katie Geneva Cannon
1950 – 2018
Kim Hong-il
1898 – 1980
Klaus Weber
1936 – 2016
Laurence Dudley Stamp
1898 – 1966
Leonid Leonov
1899 – 1994
Lionel Cooper
1915 – 1979
Manfred Max-Neef
1932 – 2019
Mark Jefferson
1863 – 1949
Martha Chase
1927 – 2003
Matthew Leishman
1794 – 1874
Menahem Golan
1929 – 2014
Miroslav Tyrš
1832 – 1884
Mordecai Seter
1916 – 1994
Najma Chowdhury
1942 – 2021
Nathan Philemon Bryan
1872 – 1935
Nikolai Myaskovsky
1881 – 1950
Patricia Neal
1926 – 2010
Patrick D. Wall (scientist)
1925 – 2001
Phil Ferguson
1903 – 1978
Sam S. Walker
1925 – 2015
Shamnad Basheer
1976 – 2019
Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet
1751 – 1805
Stanisław Konturek
1931 – 2019
Takeshi Onaga
1950 – 2018
Thomas J. McIntyre
1915 – 1992
Théodore Roustan
1833 – 1906
Uma Pemmaraju
1958 – 2022
Virginia Allan
1916 – 1999
Walter Armstrong
1850 – 1918
Wilhelm Studemund
1843 – 1889
Élise Paré-Tousignant
1937 – 2018
A. V. Williams Jackson
1862 – 1937
Abner Shimony
1928 – 2015
Abraham Golik
1934 – 2025
Adam Johan Frederik Poulsen Trampe
1798 – 1876
Adolph Alexander Weinman
1870 – 1952
Adolph Henke
1775 – 1843
Aino Ackté
1876 – 1944
Aino Thauvón-Suits
1884 – 1969
Alan Ameche
1933 – 1988
Albert E. Carter
1881 – 1964
Albéric Boivin
1919 – 1991
Aleksandr Bokovikov
1956 – 2010
Alexander William Doniphan
1808 – 1887
Alfonso Calderón
1930 – 2009
Alfred Leroy
1837 – 1901
Altmann of Passau
1015 – 1091
Anatoliy Romashin
1931 – 2000
Antoine Arnauld
1612 – 1694
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
1828 – 1897
Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman
1883 – 1973
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis
1696 – 1788
Arne Meidell
1894 – 1963
Arthur Pougin
1834 – 1921
Arthur Smith
1890 – 1977
Barbara Bel Geddes
1922 – 2005
Bernard Chidzero
1927 – 2002
Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken
1901 – 1958
Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas
1596 – 1656
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
1944 – 2024
Calvin C. Chaffee
1811 – 1896
Cannonball Adderley
1928 – 1975
Carl Heinrich Graun
1704 – 1759
Carl Schmidt
1866 – 1945
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
1701 – 1750
Charles Letrosne
1868 – 1939
Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax
1800 – 1885
Choi Seung-hee
1911 – 1969
Christian P. Mathiesen
1870 – 1953
Christopher Loeak
1952 – 2025
Claud Ashton Jones
1885 – 1948
Constancio Bernardo
1913 – 2003
Custodio García Rovira
1780 – 1816
David Mercer
1928 – 1980
David Robertson
1841 – 1912
E. A. Gilroy
1879 – 1942
Eddie Rosner
1910 – 1976
Edgar Dewdney
1835 – 1916
Eduard Bøckmann
1849 – 1927
Eduard Roschmann
1908 – 1977
Edward Waddington
1670 – 1731
Emil Škoda
1839 – 1900
Erling Wicklund
1944 – 2019
Ettore Casati
1873 – 1945
Eulogius Georgiyevsky
1868 – 1946
Fahey Flynn
1916 – 1983
Fay Wray
1907 – 2004
Filippo Spinola, 2nd Marquis of the Balbases
1594 – 1659
Francis Hutcheson
1694 – 1746
Francis Ronalds
1788 – 1873
Francisco Amoros
1770 – 1848
Franz Alexander von Kleist
1769 – 1797
François-Alphonse Forel
1841 – 1912
Frederick George Novy
1864 – 1957
George Charles Champion
1851 – 1927
George F. Richards
1861 – 1950
George Mann
1917 – 2001
George Wiley
1931 – 1973
Gilmore David Clarke
1892 – 1982
Goodall Edward Gondwe
1936 – 2023
Gouverneur Kemble Warren
1830 – 1882
Gyan Singh Sohanpal
1925 – 2017
Hans Kroll
1898 – 1967
Harry D. Thiers
1919 – 2000
Harry Hillel Wellington
1926 – 2011
Henning Hansen
1880 – 1945
Henry St. George Tucker
1874 – 1959
Herbert Marchant
1906 – 1990
Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais
1864 – 1915
Horst Fischer
1912 – 1966
Howell Edmunds Jackson
1832 – 1895
Hsiao-Chien Chang
1897 – 1987
Hsien Wu
1893 – 1959
Ilarion Ruvarac
1832 – 1905
Ilse Werner
1921 – 2005
Immanuel Hermann Fichte
1796 – 1879
Ivan Buresh
1885 – 1980
Jacob Burckhardt
1818 – 1897
James F. Burke
1867 – 1932
James Hume Cook
1866 – 1942
James Wilson
1825 – 1867
Jean Alfred Gagné
1842 – 1910
Jean-Louis Flandrin
1931 – 2001
Jean-Pierre Mocky
1929 – 2019
Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland
1866 – 1926
Jiřina Švorcová
1928 – 2011
Johannes Rudbeckius
1581 – 1646
John Dunmore Lang
1799 – 1878
John E. McCall
1859 – 1920
John H. Johnson
1918 – 2005
John L. Sullivan
1899 – 1982
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