Anniversaries 8 September

Birth

Ali al-Hadi24

imam 829–868

Richard I of England3

English king 1157–1199

Ludovico Ariosto97

Italian poet 1474–1533

Gregory St. Vincent1

Jesuit, mathematician 1584–1667

Pierre Polinière1

French physicist 1671–1734

John Martin4

(1812-1875) Irish nationalist activist 1812–1875

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain7

Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient 1828–1914

Joaquin Miller43

American judge 1837–1913

Antonín Dvořák4

Czech composer 1841–1904

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse24

British sociologist 1864–1929

Alfred Jarry7

French writer 1873–1907

David O. McKay10

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1873–1970

Siegfried Sassoon23

English poet, diarist and memoirist 1886–1967

Swami Sivananda41

Indian philosopher 1887–1963

Robert A. Taft2

politician from the United States, son of 27th US President… 1889–1953

Sara García6

Mexican actress 1895–1980

Hendrik Verwoerd22

Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassin… 1901–1966

Denis de Rougemont1

Swiss writer 1906–1985

James Harvey Young2

American historian 1915–2006

Derek Barton1

English organic chemist 1918–1998

Harry Secombe4

British entertainer 1921–2001

Lyndon LaRouche8

American political activist and founder of the LaRouche mov… 1922–2019

Peter Sellers16

British film actor, comedian and singer 1925–1980

Jean Miotte1

French painter 1926–2016

Patsy Cline5

American country music singer 1932–1963

Michael Frayn5

British writer 1933

Archie Goodwin1

writer 1937–1998

Sam Nunn1

American lawyer and politician 1938

Jack Prelutsky1

American writer 1940

Bernie Sanders123

American politician, senator for Vermont 1941

Michael Lai1

Taiwanese virologist (born 1942) 1942

Ann Beattie3

Short story writer, novelist, professor 1947

Rémi Brague2

French historian 1947

Philip Naameh2

Ghanaian Catholic archbishop 1948

Lynn Abbey1

American writer 1948

James Mattis24

26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United… 1950

John McDonnell13

British politician (born 1951) 1951

David R. Ellis1

American film director and actor 1952–2013

Michael Shermer10

American science writer 1954

Terry Tempest Williams30

American writer 1955

Valery Gerasimov2

chief of the General Staff of the armed forces of the Russi… 1955

Stefano Casiraghi1

Italian businessman 1960–1990

Aimee Mann40

American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960) 1960

Corrado Maria Daclon2

Italian journalist and scientist 1963

Michael Johns9

American businessman 1964

Chad Zielinski1

Catholic bishop in the United States 1964

Eerik-Niiles Kross3

Estonian politician 1967

Félicien Ntambue Kasembe1

roman-catholic clergyman 1970

Vico C1

American rapper and singer of Puerto Rican descent 1971

Pink (singer)28

American singer-songwriter 1979

Wiz Khalifa3

American rapper and actor 1987

Tyler Eifert1

American football player, tight end 1990

Park So-dam4

South Korean actress 1991

Death

Sari al-Saqati10

Iraqi sufi 772–867

Robert Fludd6

British mathematician and astrologer 1574–1637

Joseph Hall10

British bishop 1574–1656

Francisco de Quevedo1

Spanish writer 1584–1645

Francis Quarles23

English poet 1592–1644

Ann Lee13

English Shaker leader 1736–1784

Джордж Вашингтон Бернап1

1802–1859

Hermann von Helmholtz12

physicist and physiologist 1821–1894

George C. Lorimer8

American minister 1838–1904

Christian von Ehrenfels6

Austrian philosopher 1859–1932

Richard Strauss31

German composer and orchestra director 1864–1949

Alexandra David-Néel5

French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist and writ… 1868–1969

André Derain7

French painter and engraver 1880–1954

Fred M. Vinson2

American politician and Supreme Court justice 1890–1953

Nisargadatta Maharaj138

Indian guru 1897–1981

Leni Riefenstahl3

German film director, photographer, actress and dancer 1902–2003

Julius Fučík (journalist)2

Czech journalist and revolutionary 1903–1943

William Barrett (philosopher)25

American academic 1913–1992

Zero Mostel1

American actor 1915–1977

Herbert Stein1

American economist 1916–1999

Thomas Szasz70

Hungarian psychiatrist 1920–2012

Eileen Chang3

Chinese writer and screenwriter 1920–1995

Aage Niels Bohr1

Danish physicist 1922–2009

Isabel II do Reino Unido21

queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and he… 1926–2022

Jerry Pournelle10

American science fiction writer and journalist 1933–2017