On This Day — December 8
3933 noted people were born and 2043 died on December 8 in our archive, including Herbert Giles, Jacques Hadamard and Jean Dalibard.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 8
Herbert Giles
1845 – 1935
Jacques Hadamard
1865 – 1963
Jean Dalibard
b. 1958
Johann Hedwig
1730 – 1799
Julia Hall Bowman Robinson
1919 – 1985
Kristin Lauter
b. 1969
Robert Sternberg
b. 1949
Aivars Endziņš
1940 – 2023
Alexander Cassatt
1839 – 1906
Augustus Meineke
1790 – 1870
Bill Bryson
b. 1951
Chaiyapruk Didyasarin
b. 1958
Christian Forestier
1944 – 2025
Fiske Kimball
1888 – 1955
Francisco Tomás y Valiente
1932 – 1996
Gan Kim Yong
b. 1952
Gita Gopinath
b. 1971
Harold Hongju Koh
b. 1954
Helga Schmid
b. 1960
Jan van Houwelingen
1939 – 2013
Jim Yong Kim
b. 1959
John B. Taylor
b. 1946
John Winthrop
1714 – 1779
Juan Mascaró
1897 – 1987
Julian Rachlin
b. 1974
Lee Jae Myung
b. 1963
Lucio Colletti
1924 – 2001
Mark Pesce
b. 1962
Mark Ratner
1942 – 2026
Michelle Schatzman
1949 – 2010
Niklas Luhmann
1927 – 1998
Peng Shige
b. 1947
Pierre Émile Levasseur
1828 – 1911
Sharmila Tagore
b. 1944
Teruhisa Komatsu
1888 – 1970
Thomas Cech
b. 1947
Ubiratàn D'Ambrosio
1932 – 2021
Vitaly Mutko
b. 1958
Yūsuke Nakamura
b. 1952
Akihiro Kagoshima
b. 1988
Alan Stewart
1917 – 2004
Albert Jäger
1801 – 1891
Alexandru Oleinic
b. 1959
Andries van Dam
b. 1938
Andrius Kubilius
b. 1956
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz
1854 – 1893
Antonio Manganelli
1950 – 2013
Ants Oras
1900 – 1982
Archibald Weigall
1874 – 1952
Arnaldo Forlani
1925 – 2023
Arthur Vanetsyan
b. 1979
Artur Nepokoychitsky
1813 – 1881
Auguste Mercier
1833 – 1921
Ayşe Işıl Karakaş
1958 – 2024
Ben Goertzel
b. 1966
Benny Morris
b. 1948
Bernd Hüttemann
b. 1970
Berthold K. P. Horn
b. 1943
Bohuslav Martinů
1890 – 1959
Boris Fausto
1930 – 2023
Brian L. Strom
b. 1949
Carlo Cadorna
1809 – 1891
Carlos Blacker
1895 – 1975
Cesar Conde
b. 1973
Charles George Herbermann
1840 – 1916
Charles Hanbury Williams
1708 – 1759
Charles Lincoln Edwards
1863 – 1937
Christine Mitchell
b. 1951
Clément-Emile Roques
1880 – 1964
Dharmendra
1935 – 2025
Dino Alfieri
1886 – 1966
Duke Cunningham
1941 – 2025
Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1857 – 1920
Edith Durham
1863 – 1944
Elia
b. 1961
Ernst Hermann Meyer
1905 – 1988
Ernst Moro
1874 – 1951
Evgeniy Steblov
b. 1945
Ferdinand Wolf
1796 – 1866
Fernando de los Ríos Urruti
1879 – 1949
Francis Huster
b. 1947
François de La Rochefoucauld
1558 – 1645
Gemma Frisius
1508 – 1555
Georgi Efremov
1932 – 2011
Godtfred Rump
1816 – 1880
Golineh Atai
b. 1974
Graham Farquhar
b. 1947
Gérard Holtz
b. 1946
Hamish Hay
1927 – 2008
Heinrich Füger
1751 – 1818
Hsieh Shou-shing
b. 1950
Ian Wrigglesworth
b. 1939
Ihn Yo-han
b. 1959
Ilya Sutskever
b. 1986
Irek Faizullin
b. 1962
Jacob Georg Agardh
1813 – 1901
Jacques François Gallay
1795 – 1864
James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster
1907 – 1983
James MacArthur
1937 – 2010
James Tate
1943 – 2015
Jan Ingenhousz
1730 – 1799
Jean Garrigue
1914 – 1972
Jean Sibelius
1865 – 1957
Jean-Baptiste Humbert
b. 1940
Jesse Shera
1903 – 1982
Joachim Fest
1926 – 2006
Johannes Aavik
1880 – 1973
John Anthony Volpe
1908 – 1994
John Kufuor
b. 1938
John Sewell
b. 1940
Jonathan Mane-Wheoki
1943 – 2014
Jonathan Parker
b. 1937
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.
b. 1955
Joseph Naudet
1786 – 1878
Kateryna Yushchenko
1919 – 2001
Libby Lane
b. 1966
Lionel Gilbert
1924 – 2015
Lorenzo Olarte Cullén
1932 – 2024
Louis S. Warren
b. 1962
Lucian Freud
1922 – 2011
Ludwig Berwald
1883 – 1942
Luis Caffarelli
b. 1948
Lyubov Yablochnik
1928 – 2013
Margaret Geller
b. 1947
Margaret Stefana Drower
1911 – 2012
Mary Catherine Bateson
1939 – 2021
Mary Gordon
b. 1949
Matthew Drutt
b. 1962
Max Neuburger
1868 – 1955
Michael Naumann
b. 1941
Michael R. Sherwin
b. 1971
Mikhail Kasianov
b. 1957
Miksa Fenyő
1877 – 1972
Moshe Levy
1927 – 2015
Mustapha Ben Jafar
b. 1940
Padraic Colum
1881 – 1972
Parkash Singh Badal
1927 – 2023
Pauli Kiuru
b. 1962
Pauline Green
b. 1948
Pavlo Kachur
b. 1953
Peder Anker
1749 – 1824
Peter Lauritzen
b. 1959
Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken
b. 1941
Pierre Pincemaille
1956 – 2018
Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi
1897 – 1938
Raymond G. H. Seitz
b. 1940
Revas Chkheidze
1926 – 2015
Richard David Precht
b. 1964
Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle
1868 – 1920
Robert A. Daly
b. 1936
Robert Mood
b. 1958
Rochus von Liliencron
1820 – 1912
Roger James Elliott
1928 – 2018
Sherwin B. Nuland
1930 – 2014
Shinkun Haku
b. 1958
Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet
1801 – 1894
Sjaak Neefjes
b. 1959
Sophien Kamoun
b. 1965
St. George Littledale
1851 – 1931
Stan Shih
b. 1944
Stanislao Lista
1824 – 1908
Stanislav Kozlovskiy
b. 1976
Steve Spangler
b. 1966
Steven Karl Pifer
b. 1953
Stevo Žigon
1926 – 2005
Susan Hauptman
1947 – 2015
Sylvain Waserman
b. 1967
Teresa Weatherspoon
b. 1965
Teri Hatcher
b. 1964
Thomas C. Chalmers
1917 – 1995
Thomas Edward Thorpe
1845 – 1925
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey
1781 – 1859
Timo Kivinen
b. 1959
Tofig Bakikhanov
1930 – 2026
Tony Aubin
1907 – 1981
Umaru Shehu
1930 – 2023
V. Y. Mudimbe
1941 – 2025
Valery Popov
b. 1939
Victor Nosach
1929 – 2011
Vincenzo Tangorra
1866 – 1922
Vladimir Shatalov
1927 – 2021
Yone Noguchi
1875 – 1947
Zenon Kliszko
1908 – 1989
Adolf Fischhof
1816 – 1893
Adolf Jossifowitsch Charlemagne
1826 – 1901
Adolph Kolping
1813 – 1865
Adolph von Menzel
1815 – 1905
Agron Shehaj
b. 1977
Ahmed Laaouej
b. 1969
Albert von Memerty
1814 – 1896
Aleksander Meysztowicz
1864 – 1943
Alex Cabagnot
b. 1982
Alexander Krauß
b. 1975
Alexander Rankine
1881 – 1956
Alexandre Vassiliev
b. 1958
Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar
1865 – 1938
Alfredo Sirkis
1950 – 2020
Alina Zotea-Durnea
b. 1986
Alisa Freindlich
b. 1934
Amir Khan
b. 1986
… and 3,733 more
Died on December 8
Vladimir Chelomey
1914 – 1984
Abraham Alikhanov
1904 – 1970
Alain Fuchs
1953 – 2024
Anders Franzén
1918 – 1993
Arthur Matthew Weld Downing
1850 – 1917
Betty Holberton
1917 – 2001
Ernst Engel
1821 – 1897
Francesco Severi
1879 – 1961
Frank K. Edmondson
1912 – 2008
Georg Sverdrup
1770 – 1850
George Cunningham
1888 – 1963
Georges Lacour-Gayet
1856 – 1935
Hermann Weyl
1885 – 1955
Hjalmar August Schiøtz
1850 – 1927
John Cornforth
1917 – 2013
John Glenn
1921 – 2016
John Joly
1857 – 1933
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
1927 – 2018
Léon Poliakov
1910 – 1997
Martha Hildebrandt
1925 – 2022
Ralph K. Winter, Jr.
1935 – 2020
Raphael Georges Lévy
1853 – 1933
Tetsuji Morohashi
1883 – 1982
Tony Robert-Fleury
1837 – 1912
Wojciech Rychlewicz
1903 – 1964
Zelman Cowen
1919 – 2011
Zeng Zhaolun
1899 – 1967
Alexander Nikolsky
1858 – 1942
Alexandre Bertrand
1820 – 1902
Alfred Butt
1878 – 1962
Alonzo Garcelon
1813 – 1906
André Zysberg
1947 – 2024
Anthony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick
1929 – 2024
Arthur Paget
1851 – 1928
Atsutoshi Nishida
1943 – 2017
Benjamin Vaughan
1751 – 1835
Bill Ratliff
1936 – 2025
Bipin Rawat
1958 – 2021
Charles Fisher
1808 – 1880
Charles Rosen
1917 – 2002
Christian Heinrich Bünger
1782 – 1842
David Weatherall
1933 – 2018
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
1932 – 2022
Digby Raeburn
1915 – 2001
Douglas Tompkins
1943 – 2015
Elsie Tu
1913 – 2015
Erwin Nypels
1933 – 2024
Eugeniusz Rybka
1898 – 1988
Eyre Chatterton
1863 – 1950
Ferruccio Parri
1890 – 1981
George Doherty Johnston
1832 – 1910
Golda Meir
1898 – 1978
Griffith C. Evans
1887 – 1973
Gustaf Wathier Hamilton
1783 – 1835
Harry Herbert Trusted
1888 – 1985
Harry McCalmont
1861 – 1902
Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
1742 – 1797
Jackson Mac Low
1922 – 2004
Jacob Algera
1902 – 1966
James R. Lowery
1884 – 1956
John Hansen Sørbrøden
1775 – 1857
John Noble Wilford
1933 – 2025
Jolanta Szczypińska
1957 – 2018
José María Martín de Herrera y de la Iglesia
1835 – 1922
Khan Sarwar Murshid
1924 – 2012
Knut Nystedt
1915 – 2014
Kuno Areng
1929 – 2017
Leo Scheffczyk
1920 – 2005
Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman
1911 – 2004
Li Mi
1902 – 1973
Lillard Hill
1922 – 2009
Lionginas Šepetys
1927 – 2017
Marin Sorescu
1936 – 1996
Mattiwilda Dobbs
1925 – 2015
Mikhail Pogodin
1800 – 1875
Muriel Powell
1914 – 1978
Mykola Livytskyi
1907 – 1989
Neil Staebler
1905 – 2000
Nicolae Petrescu-Comnen
1881 – 1958
Nikolay Emanuel
1915 – 1984
Nikolay Krasnov
1864 – 1939
Nina Herasymova-Persydska
1927 – 2020
Oscar II of Sweden
1829 – 1907
Paul Volcker
1927 – 2019
Pavel Florensky
1882 – 1937
Pentti Tiusanen
1949 – 2018
Piotr Drzewiecki
1865 – 1943
Plácido Fernández Viagas
1924 – 1982
Richard S. Williamson
1949 – 2013
Robert Peele
1858 – 1942
Rostam Qasemi
1964 – 2022
Sarit Thanarat
1908 – 1963
Sheila Quinn
1920 – 2016
Solange Lamblin
1900 – 1984
Susana Higuchi
1950 – 2021
Sándor Szokolay
1931 – 2013
Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué
1815 – 1895
Vasily Perovsky
1795 – 1857
Walter Haeussermann
1914 – 2010
Wang Yupu
1956 – 2020
William Dameron Guthrie
1859 – 1935
William Henry Phelps
1875 – 1965
William Prescott, Jr.
1762 – 1844
William Woodville Rockhill
1854 – 1914
Władysław Puślecki
1933 – 2008
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe
1852 – 1933
Yevgeny Shaposhnikov
1942 – 2020
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
1932 – 2009
Yoshishige Yoshida
1933 – 2022
Alan Urwick
1930 – 2016
Albert Borschette
1920 – 1976
Albert Taylor Bledsoe
1809 – 1877
Alexander Siloti
1863 – 1945
Allen Trovillion
1926 – 2020
Allison Dysart
1880 – 1962
Alphonse Legros
1837 – 1911
Amintore Galli
1845 – 1919
Andrei Famintsyn
1835 – 1918
Andrey Ershov
1931 – 1988
André Fontainas
1865 – 1948
Antonio Bernocchi
1859 – 1930
Antonio Monestiroli
1940 – 2019
Arthur Birch
1915 – 1995
Arthur Byron Coble
1878 – 1966
Arthur E. Popham
1889 – 1970
Arthur Karney
1874 – 1963
Arthur Konrad
1934 – 2025
Arthur S. Moreau, Jr.
1931 – 1986
Barthélemy d'Herbelot
1625 – 1695
Bartlett Tripp
1839 – 1911
Benjamin Constant
1767 – 1830
Benno Gut
1897 – 1970
Bobby Joe Hill
1943 – 2002
Boniface Wimmer
1809 – 1887
Boris Kochno
1904 – 1990
Bruce Arden
1927 – 2021
Buck Clayton
1911 – 1991
Carlos Fanta
1890 – 1964
Carlos María de la Torre y Nava Cerrada
1809 – 1879
Carlos Rafael Rodríguez
1913 – 1997
Caroll Spinney
1933 – 2019
Chaim Laskov
1919 – 1982
Charles Henry Muir
1860 – 1933
Charles Lightoller
1874 – 1952
Charles R. Brown
1899 – 1983
Charles William Bigge
1773 – 1849
Christoph Hoffmann
1815 – 1885
Christopher Kelk Ingold
1893 – 1970
Clara Lynch
1882 – 1985
Colin Figures
1925 – 2006
Cyrus Woods
1861 – 1938
David J. A. Clines
1938 – 2022
David S. Saxon
1920 – 2005
Deane C. Davis
1900 – 1990
Digby Johns McLaren
1919 – 2004
Diogo de Gouveia
1471 – 1557
Dominik von Königsegg-Rothenfels
1673 – 1751
Donald Cook
1934 – 1967
Ed Edmondson
1919 – 1990
Edgar Bainton
1880 – 1956
Edmund Henderson
1821 – 1896
Enrico Crispolti
1933 – 2018
Enrique Líster
1907 – 1994
Ernest Schelling
1876 – 1939
Ernst Biberstein
1899 – 1986
Ernst Krenkel
1903 – 1971
Evelyn Berezin
1925 – 2018
Ferdo Kozak
1894 – 1957
Finn Lambrechts
1900 – 1956
Flerida Ruth Pineda-Romero
1929 – 2017
Forrest Silas Petersen
1922 – 1990
František Koláček
1851 – 1913
Fred Sheffield
1923 – 2009
Friedrich Adolph Lampe
1683 – 1729
Fyodor Keller
1857 – 1918
George A. Shuford
1895 – 1962
George Fraser Kerr
1895 – 1929
George W. Collins
1925 – 1972
Georgiy Zhzhonov
1915 – 2005
Germán Riesco
1854 – 1916
Gordon Goodwin
1954 – 2025
H. Henry Powers
1835 – 1913
Hamilton H. Howze
1908 – 1998
Hans Molisch
1856 – 1937
Harvey Jewell
1820 – 1881
Henri Bléhaut
1889 – 1962
Henri de Solages
1786 – 1832
Henry D. Flood
1865 – 1921
Henry Thorne Morton
1888 – 1966
Herbert Pundik
1927 – 2019
Horace Butterworth
1868 – 1939
Hugh L. Lamb
1890 – 1959
Hugo Grove Vallejo
1890 – 1966
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
1942 – 2025
Infanta Maria Josefa of Spain
1744 – 1801
Ioan Fiscuteanu
1937 – 2007
Ionatana Ionatana
1938 – 2000
Iqbal Hussain Qureshi
1937 – 2012
Isola Florence Thompson
1861 – 1915
Itziar Castro
1977 – 2023
… and 1,843 more