Anniversaries 8 July

Birth

Jean De La Fontaine47

French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621–1695

Lucy Mack Smith11

American religious leader 1775–1856

Fitz-Greene Halleck9

American writer 1790–1867

Joseph Chamberlain44

British businessman, politician, and statesman 1836–1914

John D. Rockefeller29

American business magnate and philanthropist 1839–1937

Alfred Binet21

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intell… 1857–1911

Daniel Salamanca19

President of Bolivia (1863-1935) 1863–1935

Käthe Kollwitz14

German artist 1867–1945

William Vaughn Moody5

United States dramatist and poet 1869–1910

Percy Grainger2

Australian composer, arranger and pianist 1882–1961

Ernst Bloch16

German philosopher 1885–1977

Hanns Johst1

German general 1890–1978

Stanton Macdonald-Wright1

American artist 1890–1973

Richard Aldington5

English writer and poet 1892–1962

Anirvan3

Indian Hindu philosopher 1896–1978

Austin Bradford Hill1

English epidemiologist and statistician 1897–1991

Alec Waugh2

British novelist 1898–1981

George Antheil9

American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor 1900–1959

Philip Johnson2

American architect 1906–2005

Albert Caraco14

French-Uruguayan philosopher 1919–1971

John Money1

psychologist, sexologist and author 1921–2006

Myles Rudge5

English songwriter and scriptwriter 1926–2007

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross26

American psychiatrist 1926–2004

John Dingell4

American politician 1926–2019

Frank Slay1

American record producer 1930–2017

Kurien Kunnumpuram33

Indian theologian 1931–2018

Marty Feldman9

British actor and comedian 1934–1982

Girija Vyas1

Indian politician 1946

Jenny Diski1

British writer 1947–2016

Anna Quindlen34

journalist, Novelist 1952

A. Whitney Brown3

American stand-up comedian 1952

Marianne Williamson94

American writer 1952

Jack Lambert2

American football player 1952

Aberjhani43

author 1957

Tzipi Livni2

Israeli politician 1958

Isabelo Caiban Abarquez1

Filipino Roman Catholic priest 1959

Alison McGhee4

American novelist 1960

Andrew Fletcher1

English musician, member of Depeche Mode 1961–2022

Toby Keith30

American country music singer and actor 1961

Thomas Hardiman3

American judge 1965

KatieJane Garside11

English singer 1968

George Fisher (musician)2

vocalist for Cannibal Corpse 1970

Beck20

American Musician (b.1970) 1970

Milo Ventimiglia2

American actor 1977

Pendleton Ward4

American animator 1982

TotalBiscuit60

British game commentator 1984–2018

Death

Christiaan Huygens16

Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher 1629–1695

Robert South8

English theologian 1634–1716

Gavrila Derzhavin3

Russian poet 1743–1816

Percy Bysshe Shelley246

English Romantic poet 1792–1822

H. Havelock Ellis31

British physician, writer, and social reformer 1859–1939

Генри Хэвлок Эллис1

British physician, writer, and social reformer 1859–1939

Anthony Hope1

English novelist and playwright 1863–1933

Роземонд Жерар1

1871–1953

Louis Hémon5

French writer 1880–1913

Hyman George Rickover52

United States admiral 1900–1986

Simon Kuznets11

economist 1901–1985

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga2

Japanese physicist 1906–1979

Flower A. Newhouse14

American mystic 1909–1994

Kim Il-sung20

President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1912–1994

John Marks Templeton22

stock investor, businessman and philanthropist 1912–2008

Robert Burns Woodward1

American chemist 1917–1979

William H. McNeill43

Canadian historian 1917–2016

Howard Raiffa21

American academic 1924–2016

Chandra Shekhar16

Indian politician 1927–2007

Abdul Sattar Edhi10

Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and huma… 1928–2016

Jack B. Sowards1

American screenwriter 1929–2007

FM-20302

author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and co… 1930–2000

Paula Danziger3

American children's writer 1945–2004

Vanna Bonta205

Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art… 1958–2014

Pope Eugene III1

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