Anniversaries 8 April

Birth

Gautama Buddha121

philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563–-483 BC

Joseph Alleine18

Pastor, author 1634–1668

David Rittenhouse3

American astronomer 1732–1796

Alfred Bunn4

British businessman, librettist 1796–1860

Dionysios Solomos3

Greek poet 1798–1857

Alfred von Waldersee37

Prussian Field Marshal 1832–1904

Frederick Brotherton Meyer6

English Baptist pastor and evangelist 1847–1929

Edmund Husserl7

German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology 1859–1938

Sergei Zubatov1

Russian politician 1864–1917

Arthur Streeton1

Australian artist 1867–1943

Albert I of Belgium2

third King of the Belgians 1875–1934

Hope Mirrlees4

British translator, poet and novelist 1887–1978

Mary Pickford7

Canadian-American actress 1892–1979

Yip Harburg32

American song lyricist 1896–1981

Yves Congar1

Dominican priest and cardinal 1904–1995

John Hicks14

British economist 1904–1989

John Fante113

1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screen… 1909–1983

Emil M. Cioran531

Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

Ian Smith24

Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1919–2007

Jürgen Moltmann6

German Reformed theologian 1926

Jacques Brel7

Belgian singer-songwriter 1929–1978

Michael Szenberg10

American economist 1934

Oscar Zeta Acosta21

American attorney, politician, novelist and activist 1935–1974

Kofi Annan60

7th Secretary-General of the United Nations 1938–2018

Lim Keng Yaik1

Minister of Energy, Water and Member of ParliamentCommunica… 1939–2012

Vivienne Westwood1

English fashion designer and businesswoman 1941–2022

Tony Banks16

British politician 1942–2006

Tom DeLay24

American Republican politician 1947

Robert T. Kiyosaki151

American finance author , investor 1947

Eva Heller2

German writer (1948-2008) 1948–2008

Theresa Sparks5

American activist 1949

Kaori Momoi1

Japanese actress 1952

David Wu1

American politician 1955

Barbara Kingsolver119

American author, poet and essayist 1955

Kane Hodder2

Horror film actor 1955

Larry Baer5

MLB Executive 1957

Greg Iles2

Novelist 1960

Andrej Plenković2

Prime Minister of Croatia 1970

Bryan Caplan8

American political scientist 1971

Sara Shepard65

Author 1973

Emma Caulfield1

actress 1973

Nnedi Okorafor3

Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction 1974

Ezra Koenig9

American rock musician 1984

Death

Wilhelm Von Humboldt35

German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, dipl… 1767–1835

William Augustus Muhlenberg4

United States Anglican Episcopal clergyman 1796–1877

Susanna Moodie1

Canadian writer 1803–1885

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay5

Bengali writer 1838–1894

Helena Modjeska1

Polish-American actress 1840–1909

Langdon Smith20

American journalist 1858–1908

Erik Axel Karlfeldt1

Swedish poet 1864–1931

Pablo Picasso128

Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag… 1881–1973

George Jean Nathan12

American drama critic and magazine editor 1882–1958

Vaslav Nijinsky1

Russian ballet dancer and choreographer 1889–1950

Omar Bradley26

United States Army field commander during World War II 1893–1981

David Noel Freedman1

American biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist (1… 1922–2008

Valentine Telegdi3

American physicist 1922–2006

Antony Flew8

British analytic and evidentialist philosopher 1923–2010

Karlheinz Deschner17

German writer and activist 1924–2014

Margaret Thatcher348

British stateswoman and politician 1925–2013

Sol LeWitt9

American artist 1928–2007

Alexander Dalgarno1

British physicist 1928–2015

Jay R. Galbraith9

American business theorist 1939–2014

Laura Nyro14

American musician and songwriter 1947–1997

Breece D'J Pancake1

American writer 1952–1979

Ben Johnson (sprinter)1

Canadian sprinter 1961–1996

Adrianne Wadewitz34

academic and Wikipedian 1977–2014