July 8
July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, painter (d. 1651)
- 1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, fablist
- 1819 - Francis Leopold McClintock, naval officer and explorer
- 1836 - Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
- 1838 - Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, inventor of rigid dirigibles (d. 1917)
- 1839 - John D. Rockefeller, capitalist, founder of Standard Oil (d. 1937)
- 1851 - Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
- 1867 - Käthe Kollwitz, painter and graphic artist (d. 1945)
- 1882 - Percy Grainger, composer (d. 1961)
- 1885 - Ernst Bloch, philosopher (d. 1977)
- 1908 - Louis Jordan, singer, saxophonist ("Is You or Is You Ain't My Baby,"), actor (Fuzzy Wuzzy, Five Guys Named Moe) (d. 1975)
- 1908 - Nelson A. Rockefeller, United States vice president during Gerald Ford's presidency (d. 1979)
- 1918 - Craig Stevens, actor (d. 2000)
- 1919 - Walter Scheel, politician
- 1923 - Harrison Dillard, American athlete
- 1932 - Barbara Loden, actress (Splendor in the Grass)
- 1933 - Marty Feldman, comedian, actor (Young Frankenstein)
- 1935 - Steve Lawrence, entertainer, singer
- 1935 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
- 1940 - Robert Denis Jackson amateur radio operator, guitar, dobro, dulcimer picker, dad, husband, piddler
- 1941 - Dario Gradi, football manager
- 1945 - Micheline Calmy-Rey, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1951 - Anjelica Huston, actress (Prizzi's Honor, The Addams Family)
- 1958 - Kevin Bacon, actor (Apollo 13, Wild Things)
- 1961 - Andy Fletcher, musician (Depeche Mode)
- 1961 - Toby Keith, country music singer
- 1968 - Billy Crudup, actor
- 1970 - Beck, rock and roll singer
- 1975 - Kathleen Robertson, actress (Beverly Hills 90210, Scary Movie 2)
- 1977 - Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
- 1981 - Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
Deaths
- 975 - King Edgar of England
- 1153 - Pope Eugene III
- 1623 - Pope Gregory XV
- 1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist
- 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet
- 1826 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, only a few days after both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died. (The two died on July 4, 1826.)
- 1850 - Prince Adolphus of the United Kingdom, 1st Duke of Cambridge
- 1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden-Norway
- 1917 - Thomas John 'Tom' Thomson, painter
- 1933 - Anthony Hope, author ("The Prisoner of Zenda")
- 1943 - Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance in WW II
- 1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist
- 1959 - Major Dale R. Buis, US Army, first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam.
- 1986 - Skeeter Webb, Professional baseball Player (b. 1909)
- 1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete
- 1990 - Howard Duff, actor
- 1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader
- 2003 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian twins died after an unsuccessful separation operation
- 2004 - Paula Danziger, author
Holidays and observances
July 7 - July 9 - June 8 - August 8 -- listing of all days
