July 8 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 8, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#56 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 8 birthdays
John Stith Pemberton · American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola1831
John D. Rockefeller · American industrialist and philanthropist1839
Pyotr Kapitsa · Soviet physicist1894
Igor Tamm · Soviet physicist1895
Philip Johnson · American architect1906
Nelson Rockefeller · Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 19771908
Walter Scheel · President of West Germany1919
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross · Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies1926
Anjelica Huston · American actress1951
Marianne Williamson · American political activist1952
Kevin Bacon · American actor1958
Robert Knepper · American actor1959
Billy Crudup · American actor1968
Beck · American musician1970
Milo Ventimiglia · American actor1977
Sophia Bush · American actress1982
Virgil van Dijk · Dutch association football player1991
Son Heung-min · South Korean association football player1992
Jaden Smith · American rapper and actor1998
Maya Hawke · American actress and singer-songwriter1998
On this day in history
1758French and Indian War: French forces defeated the British at Fort Carillon in the British colony of New York.
1776The United States Declaration of Independence received its first formal public reading, in Philadelphia.
2014German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known movements were widely watched on YouTube.
2021Head of a Bear sold at auction in London for a total of £8.8 million, a record for a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
1962Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic students' union building.
1966King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi was deposed in a coup d'état by his son, Prince Charles Ndizi.
1990West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against defending champions Argentina, with Andreas Brehme scoring the game's only goal.
2011Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
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