March 8 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 8, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#202 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 8 birthdays
Josephine Cochrane · American inventor1839
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · American jurist1841
Kenneth Grahame · British novelist1859
Otto Hahn · German chemist and physicist1879
Edward Calvin Kendall · American chemist1886
Claire Trevor · American actress1910
Yakov Zeldovich · Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist1914
Ralph H. Baer · German-born American inventor and engineer1922
Hebe Camargo · Brazilian recording artist, television host, actress and singer1929
Neil Postman · American writer and academic1931
Akira Kitaguchi · Japanese association football player1935
Juvénal Habyarimana · 2nd President of Rwanda1937
Anselm Kiefer · German painter and sculptor1945
Florentino Pérez · Spanish businessman, president of Real Madrid1947
Dick Schoof · Civil servant and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 2024-20261957
Mitsunori Yoshida · Japanese association football player1962
Freddie Prinze Jr. · American actor1976
James Van Der Beek · American actor1977
Marjorie Estiano · Brazilian actress and singer1982
Petra Kvitová · Czech tennis player1990
On this day in history
1963The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council for the Revolutionary Command.
1979Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter.
1983Cold War: In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. president Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
2017The Azure Window, a limestone natural arch in Gozo, Malta, collapsed during a stor
1736Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.
1910French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.
1917The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1919During the Egyptian Revolution, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul and exiled him to Malta.
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