April 8 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 8, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#321 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 8 birthdays
Christian IX · King of Denmark from 1863 to 19061818
Edmund Husserl · German philosopher1859
Albert I of Belgium · King of the Belgians from 1909 to 19341875
Richard Neutra · Austrian–American architect1892
John Hicks · British economist1904
John Fante · 1909–1983; American novelist1909
Melvin Calvin · American biochemist1911
Emil Cioran · Romanian-French philosopher and essayist1911
Betty Ford · First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 19771918
Jacques Brel · Belgian singer1929
Kofi Annan · 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations1938
John Havlicek · American basketball player1940
Vivienne Westwood · British fashion designer1941
Robert Kiyosaki · American finance author and investor1947
Barbara Kingsolver · American author, poet and essayist1955
Robin Wright · American actress1966
Patricia Arquette · American actress1968
Andrej Plenković · Prime Minister of Croatia since 20161970
Katee Sackhoff · American actress1980
Igor Akinfeev · Russian association football player1986
On this day in history
1864American Civil War: Late-arriving reinforcements helped Confederate forces rout the Union Army at the Battle of Mansfield.
1904Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan was renamed Times Square after the New York Times building.
1911American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.
1942World War II: The United States Army Air Forces flew its first mission from India over the Hump (the eastern end of the Himalayas) to deliver materiel to China.
1630Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany, New York, to establish Rensselaerswyck, which became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company.
2005A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
2008On board Soyuz TMA-12, Yi So-yeon became the first Korean astronaut.
2010U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty.
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