August 8 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 8, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#8 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 8 birthdays
Emiliano Zapata · Mexican revolutionary1879
Sara Teasdale · American writer and poet1884
Shmuel Yosef Agnon · Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature1887
Ernest Lawrence · American nuclear physicist1901
Paul Dirac · British theoretical physicist1902
Sylvia Sidney · American actress1910
Esther Williams · American swimmer, actress and singer1921
Alija Izetbegović · Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author1925
Roger Penrose · English mathematical physicist1931
Dustin Hoffman · American actor1937
Dennis Tito · American businessman1940
Svetlana Savitskaya · Soviet cosmonaut1948
Louis van Gaal · Dutch footbal player and manager1951
Jostein Gaarder · Norwegian author1952
Lloyd Austin · United States 28th Secretary of Defense1953
Giuseppe Conte · Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 to 20211964
Klaus Ebner · Austrian writer1964
Roger Federer · Swiss tennis player1981
Shawn Mendes · Canadian singer1998
Alysa Liu · American figure skater2005
On this day in history
1695The foundation for what is now known as the Wren Building, the oldest surviving college building in the United States, was laid in a ceremony at Middle Plantation, Virginia.
1991Hudson Volcano in Chile began to erupt, depositing volcanic ash over 150,000 square kilometres (58,000 sq mi).
2007An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2014The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola epidemic, which began in December 2013, to be a public health emergency of international concern.
1945The London Charter is signed by France, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, establishing the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg trials.
1969At a zebra crossing on Abbey Road in London, Iain Macmillan took the photograph that was used for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
1974President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1988Tropical Storm Beryl formed over southeastern Louisiana, making it one of the few tropical cyclones to form over land.
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