Anniversaries 8 November

Birth

Musa al-Kadhim15

Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a ren… 745–799

Julian of Norwich372

English theologian and anchoress 1342–1416

Sarah Fielding1

British writer 1710–1768

John Dickinson10

American politician 1732–1808

Richard Cecil (clergyman)29

British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer 1748–1810

Pierre Bosquet1

Marshal of France 1810–1861

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton14

English statesman and poet 1831–1891

Bram Stoker84

Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for… 1847–1912

Gottlob Frege22

mathematician, logician, philosopher 1848–1925

A.C. Cuza11

Romanian politician 1857–1947

Joseph Franklin Rutherford6

American judge 1869–1942

Charles Demuth1

American painter 1883–1935

Tomoyuki Yamashita5

general in the Imperial Japanese Army 1885–1946

Dorothy Day55

Social activist 1897–1980

Hans Ji Maharaj4

Indian guru 1900–1966

Margaret Mitchell98

American author and journalist 1900–1949

Martha Gellhorn8

journalist from the United States 1908–1998

George Dantzig9

American mathematician 1914–2005

Peter Weiss23

Swedish-German playwright and author 1916–1982

Hermann Zapf1

German type-designer, calligrapher, author and artist 1918–2015

P. L. Deshpande7

Marathi writer, humourist, actor, dramatist 1919–2000

Jürg Niehans5

Swiss economist 1919–2007

Christiaan Barnard4

South-African physician 1922–2001

Jack Kilby1

American electrical engineer 1923–2005

Dmitry Yazov3

Soviet minister of defence 1924–2020

Nguyen Khanh20

South Vietnamese soldier 1927–2013

L. K. Advani4

politician 1927

Ken Dodd10

English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor 1927–2018

Jona Senilagakali2

Prime Minister of Fiji 1929–2011

George Maciunas1

Lithuanian artist 1931–1978

Ben Bova4

American science fiction and science writer 1932

Huang Kun-huei1

Taiwanese politician 1936

Nancy Kopell2

American mathematician 1942

Alice Notley1

American poet 1945

Lou Leon Guerrero1

Guamanian politician 1950

Alfre Woodard3

American film, stage, and television actress 1952

Rickie Lee Jones1

American musician and songwriter 1954

Timothy Egan6

American writer 1954

Kazuo Ishiguro76

Japanese-born British author 1954

Gerolf Annemans1

Flemish politician 1958

Caroline Knapp7

American writer 1959–2002

Gordon Ramsay16

British chef, writer and TV presenter 1966

Joshua Ferris6

American author 1974

Masashi Kishimoto82

Japanese manga artist 1974

Brandon Mull84

American fiction writer 1974

Tara Reid1

American actress 1975

Jack Osbourne30

Son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne 1985

Chika Ike3

Nigerian actress 1985

Aaron Swartz16

computer programmer and internet-political activist 1986–2013

Nia DaCosta1

film director 1989

Massin Akandouch5

Amazigh activist 2001

Death

Duns Scotus3

Scottish Franciscan friar, philosopher and Catholic blessed 1265–1308

John Milton190

English epic poet 1608–1674

Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière2

French revolutionary 1754–1793

Edward Dorr Griffin2

American academic administrator 1770–1837

George Peacock9

Scottish mathematician 1791–1858

César Franck1

Belgian-French composer, organist and music teacher 1822–1890

Francis Parkman28

American historian 1823–1893

Anton Rubinstein1

Russian pianist, composer and conductor 1829–1894

Abraham Kuyper1

Dutch politician 1837–1920

Napoleon Hill104

American author 1883–1970

Vyacheslav Molotov18

Soviet politician and diplomat 1890–1986

Milutin Bojić1

Serbian playwright and poet (1892-1917) 1892–1917

Norman Rockwell6

Armatian 1894–1978

Harold Innis22

Canadian professor of political economy 1894–1952

Eli Siegel19

Latvian-American poet, philosopher 1902–1978

Anya Seton4

American writer 1904–1990

Rumer Godden3

English writer 1907–1998

Peter Laslett1

English historian 1915–2001

Jack Levine2

American artist 1915–2010

Vitaly Ginzburg2

Russian Physicist 1916–2009

Kingman Brewster, Jr.16

American diplomat 1919–1988

Emilio Massera2

Argentine military officer 1925–2010

Umberto Veronesi6

Italian oncologist and politician 1925–2016

Barbara Marciniak8

1928–2012

Michael O'Donoghue3

American actor and writer 1940–1994