On This Day
Thursday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
June 8 1967
Born on This Day
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Aloys Van de Vyvere🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1961
Days lived
33,008
Anja Hajduk🇩🇪
German politician · b. 1963
Days alive
1,461
Arthur Francis🇳🇿
deceasedNew Zealand rugby union footballer and coach, and rugby league footballer (1882-1957) · 1882–1957
Days lived
27,400
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Ashley Long🇬🇧
actor · b. 1979
Bernie Casey🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor, artist, and professional football player (1939–2017) · 1939–2017
Days lived
28,593
Bob Irwin🇦🇺
Naturalist, conservationist · b. 1939
Days alive
10,227
Bonnie Tyler🇬🇧
singer-songwriter · b. 1951
Days alive
5,844
Carlos Alexis Hernández🇨🇺
Cuban weightlifter · b. 1972
Claus Cornelius Fischer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer (1951–2020) · 1951–2020
Days lived
25,390
Dieter Scheiff🇩🇪
German chief executive officer · b. 1952
Days alive
5,478
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Ernst-Robert Grawitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general; Reichsarzt; facilitated medical torture and experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates (1899–1945) · 1899–1945
Days lived
16,756
Erwin Lehn🇩🇪
deceasedGerman jazz composer, bandleader and musician (1919–2010) · 1919–2010
Days lived
33,158
Frank Lloyd Wright🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1867–1959
Days lived
33,542
Friedrich Ettel🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss film actor (1890-1941) · 1890–1941
Days lived
18,539
Friedrich Raschig🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1863–1928
Days lived
23,616
Georg Konrad Morgen🇩🇪
deceasedSS judge and chief investigator, Reich Criminal Police Office (1909-1982) · 1909–1982
Days lived
26,539
Gunther Philipp🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1918–2003
Days lived
31,162
Ivo Sanader
Notable Trials · b. 1953
Days alive
5,113
Jack Sholder🇺🇸
director · b. 1945
Days alive
8,035
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Janina Hartwig🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1961
Days alive
2,191
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Jasmin Tabatabai🇩🇪
musician · b. 1967
Days alive
0
Javier Mascherano🇮🇹
Argentine association football player and manager · b. 1984
Jeļena Ostapenko
tennis player · b. 1997
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Jerry Stiller🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor and comedian (1927–2020) · 1927–2020
Days lived
33,941
Joan Rivers🇺🇸
deceasedComedian · 1933–2014
Days lived
29,673
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Joey Moe
singer · b. 1985
Julie Driscoll🇬🇧
English singer and actress · b. 1947
Days alive
7,305
Jürgen von der Lippe🇩🇪
musician · b. 1948
Days alive
6,939
Kanye West🇺🇸
rapper · b. 1977
Kanye West (Ye)
Artist & Designer · b. 1977
Karl Genzken🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physician and SS general, Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS, and convicted war criminal 81885-1957) · 1885–1957
Days lived
26,421
Kim Clijsters🇧🇪
Belgian tennis player · b. 1983
Lindsay Davenport🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1976
Luigi Comencini🇮🇹
deceasedItalian film director (1916-2007) · 1916–2007
Days lived
33,174
Margot Ebert🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1926-2009) · 1926–2009
Days lived
30,334
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Marguerite Yourcenar🇺🇸
deceasedFrench novelist and essayist (1903-1987) · 1903–1987
Days lived
30,873
Max Jacoby🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer (1919–2009) · 1919–2009
Days lived
32,788
Mick Hucknall🇬🇧
Singer · b. 1960
Days alive
2,556
Monika Feth🇩🇪
German journalist and writer · b. 1951
Days alive
5,844
Nadia Petrova🇷🇺
Russian tennis player · b. 1982
Pál Magyary🇭🇺
deceasedmodel · 1857–1937
Days lived
29,070
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Piotr Fronczewski🇵🇱
singer · b. 1946
Days alive
7,670
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Rob Pilatus🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1965–1998
Days lived
11,987
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Tim Berners-Lee🇬🇧
English computer scientist (born 1955) · b. 1955
Days alive
4,383
Tim Clancy🇮🇪
Irish footballer · b. 1984
Valy Arnheim🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1883–1950) · 1883–1950
Days lived
24,627
Zygmunt Smalcerz🇵🇱
Polish weightlifter · b. 1941
Days alive
9,496
Died on This Day
Angelo Zammarchi🇮🇹
deceasedItalian priest (1871–1958) · 1871–1958
Days lived
31,583
Anthony Bourdain🇺🇸
deceasedCook · 1956–2018
Days lived
22,628
Emiliano Tardif🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian priest (1928–1999) · 1928–1999
Days lived
25,934
Emmy Göring🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress, art collector (1893-1973) · 1893–1973
Days lived
29,295
Giorgio de Santillana🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican historian and philosopher · 1902–1974
Days lived
26,307
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Heidi Brühl🇩🇪
deceasedsinger · 1942–1991
Days lived
18,026
Heinz Lehmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player (1921-1995) · 1921–1995
Days lived
26,894
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Horst Stechbarth🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1925-2016) · 1925–2016
Days lived
33,294
Hugo Egon Kubaseck
deceasedathlete · 1881–1956
Days lived
27,551
István Dászkál🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian priest (1919-2003) · 1919–2003
Days lived
30,725
Joan of Arc
deceasedNotable Trials · 1412–1431
Days lived
7,098
Karen Wetterhahn🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican chemist (1948–1997) · 1948–1997
Days lived
17,767
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Karl Hanke
deceasedGerman general and last Reichsführer-SS (1903-1945) · 1903–1945
Days lived
15,264
Konrad Theodor Preuss
deceasedGerman ethnologist (1869–1938) · 1869–1938
Days lived
25,207
Marie Laurencin🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1883–1956
Days lived
26,518
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann🇺🇸
deceasedNicaraguan-American Catholic priest and diplomat (1933–2017) · 1933–2017
Days lived
30,804
Peter Rühmkorf🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1929–2008
Days lived
28,716
Pierre Nkurunziza
deceasedPresident of Burundi from 2005 to 2020 · 1964–2020
Days lived
20,261
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
41,795
Annette Kolb🇫🇷
deceasedGerman writer (1870-1967) · 1870–1967
Days lived
35,731
Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Eugen Fischer🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physician (1874-1967) · 1874–1967
Days lived
33,971
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Charles Mayser🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican sports coach (1876-1967) · 1876–1967
Days lived
33,277
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Edward Roberts
deceasedBritish priest · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,236
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Carl Sandburg
deceasedpoet · 1878–1967
Days lived
32,703
Richard Meinertzhagen🇬🇧
deceasedwriter · 1878–1967
Days lived
32,612
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,466
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,639
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,336
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
46,909
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,351
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,317
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
35,951
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,395
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,047
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
652,846
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,360
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,378
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,047
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,399
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
12,942
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
10,852
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
8,829
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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