Anniversaries 8 August
Birth
![Godfrey Kneller photo]()
painter from Germany active in the United Kingdom
1646–1723
![Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) photo]()
Irish philosopher
1694–1746
![William Henry Sleeman photo]()
British colonial administrator
1788–1856
![George Edward Ellis photo]()
American Unitarian clergyman and historian (1814-1894)
1814–1894
![Henry Jenner photo]()
British Celticist
1848–1934
![F. Anstey photo]()
English novelist and journalist
1856–1934
![Henry Fairfield Osborn photo]()
American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenist
1857–1935
![William Bateson photo]()
British geneticist and biologist
1861–1926
![Charles Hamilton (writer) photo]()
English writer of school stories
1876–1961
![Emiliano Zapata photo]()
Mexican Revolutionary
1879–1919
![Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist photo]()
German general during World War II
1881–1954
![Sara Teasdale photo]()
American writer and poet
1884–1933
![Donald Davidson photo]()
American poet, essayist, critic and author
1893–1968
![Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings photo]()
American novelist
1896–1953
![Paul Dirac photo]()
theoretical physicist
1902–1984
![Jesse Stuart photo]()
American writer
1907–1984
![Ralph P. Boas Jr. photo]()
American mathematician
1912–1992
![J. F. Powers photo]()
American writer
1917–1999
![George Gerbner photo]()
American writer, freelancer and sociologist
1919–2005
![Esther Williams photo]()
competitive American swimmer and actor
1921–2013
![Ernst Badian photo]()
Austrian classical scholar
1925–2011
![Alija Izetbegović photo]()
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1925–2003
![Roger Penrose photo]()
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician …
1931
![C.K. Prahalad photo]()
Indian academic
1941–2010
![Ralph Gonsalves photo]()
Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1946
![Alexander Rosenberg photo]()
American philosopher
1946
![Kapil Sibal photo]()
Indian lawyer and politician
1948
![Ken Kutaragi photo]()
Japanese businessman
1950
![Sarah Dunant photo]()
English writer, broadcaster and critic
1950
![Mohamed Morsi photo]()
5th President of Egypt
1951–2019
![Randy Shilts photo]()
American journalist
1951–1994
![Louis van Gaal photo]()
Dutch footballer and manager
1951
![Lloyd Austin photo]()
American military officer and 28th US Secretary of Defense
1953
![Kengo Kuma photo]()
Japanese architect (b.1954)
1954
![Iain Pears photo]()
British writer and art historian
1955
![Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned photo]()
wife of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
1958
![The Edge photo]()
Irish rock musician, guitar player of U2
1961
![Chris Eubank photo]()
British former professional boxer
1966
![Arifur Rahman photo]()
Award-winning Cartoonist, Animator, Illustrator
1984
![Nitin Pujari photo]()
Indian spiritual leader , Pujari at Salasar Bala ji Rajasth…
1990
![Kane Williamson photo]()
New Zealand cricketer
1990
![Shawn Mendes photo]()
Canadian singer-songwriter and model
1998
Death
![Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) photo]()
Irish philosopher
1694–1746
![George Canning photo]()
British statesman and politician
1770–1827
![Luigi Ferrarese photo]()
Italian physician
1795–1855
![George Trumbull Ladd photo]()
American psychologist, educator and philosopher
1842–1921
![Juhani Aho photo]()
Finnish author and journalist
1861–1921
![Bhagawan Nityananda photo]()
Hindu guru and saint
1897–1961
![Louise Brooks photo]()
American dancer and actress
1906–1985
![Baldur von Schirach photo]()
German Nazi leader convicted of crimes against humanity in …
1907–1974
![Shirley Jackson photo]()
novelist, short story writer
1916–1965
![Ivan Kozhedub photo]()
Soviet aviator, thrice hero of the Soviet Union
1920–1991
![Paul Hellyer photo]()
engineer, politician, writer
1923–2021
![Max DePree photo]()
American businessman and writer
1924–2017
![Elizabeth Peters photo]()
American author and egyptologist
1927–2013
![Cannonball Adderley photo]()
American jazz alto saxophonist
1928–1975
![James Irwin photo]()
American astronaut
1930–1991
