On This Day
Thursday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
February 8 1968
Born on This Day
Adam F🇬🇧
artist/producer · b. 1972
Aidy Boothroyd🇬🇧
football player · b. 1971
Alfons Walde🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian painter and architect (1891-1958) · 1891–1958
Days lived
24,777
Benigno Aquino III🇵🇭
deceasedpolitician · 1960–2021
Days lived
22,417
Bettie Ballhaus🇩🇪
German photo model, performance artist and television presenter in the field of adult entertainment · b. 1978
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Birte Wentzek🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1983
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Bruce Smith🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1920-1967) · 1920–1967
Days lived
17,368
Buddy Blattner🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1920–2009) · 1920–2009
Days lived
32,715
Carl Jenkinson🇬🇧
football player · b. 1992
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Dave Farrell🇺🇸
musician · b. 1977
David Willoughby
deceasedAnglican Archdeacon · 1913–1998
Days lived
31,175
Dito Shanidze
deceasedathlete · 1937–2010
Days lived
26,946
Eben Samuel Johnson
deceasedAmerican bishop (1866-1939) · 1866–1939
Days lived
26,663
Eva Strittmatter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman poet (1930-2011) · 1930–2011
Days lived
29,549
Fabian Baier🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1983
Franz Marc
deceasedGerman artist (1880–1916) · 1880–1916
Days lived
13,173
Fritz Darges🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1913–2009
Days lived
35,323
Gary Coleman🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1968–2010) · 1968–2010
Days lived
15,450
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Georg Karl Tänzler🇺🇸
deceased(1877-1952) German-born American radiology technologist and erotomaniac · 1877–1952
Days lived
27,538
Gunnar Lindström🇸🇪
deceasedchief executive officer · 1918–1990
Days lived
26,350
Gunther Plüschow🇩🇪
deceasedGerman explorer (1886-1931) · 1886–1931
Days lived
16,424
Gustav Körte🇩🇪
deceasedGerman archaeologist (1852-1917) · 1852–1917
Days lived
23,929
Hildegard Plievier🇵🇱
deceasedGerman actress and writer (1900–1970) · 1900–1970
Days lived
25,641
I.N (Yang Jeong-in)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (Stray Kids) · b. 2001
Jack Lemmon
deceasedOscar Winners · 1925–2001
Days lived
27,898
James Dean🇺🇸
deceasedFilm actor · 1931–1955
Days lived
9,000
Jim Verraros🇺🇸
American singer · b. 1983
José María Movilla🇪🇸
football player · b. 1975
Joseph Schumpeter🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian political economist (1883–1950) · 1883–1950
Days lived
24,440
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Joshua Morrow🇺🇸
American actor · b. 1974
Julius Neubronner🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1852–1932
Days lived
29,288
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Kathryn Newton
television actor · b. 1997
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King Vidor🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican film director, film producer, and screenwriter (1894-1982) · 1894–1982
Days lived
32,407
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Klay Thompson🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1990
Ko Young-min🇰🇷
film director · b. 1984
Léon Bakst🇫🇷
deceasedRussian artist (1866–1924) · 1866–1924
Days lived
21,506
Lionel Cappone🇫🇷
French footballer · b. 1979
Lucie Englisch🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1902–1965
Days lived
23,257
Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman racial theorist and anthropologist (1892–1974) · 1892–1974
Days lived
29,924
Luigi Bartolini🇮🇹
deceasedartist · 1892–1963
Days lived
26,029
Manfred Krug🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1937–2016
Days lived
29,110
Mauricio Macri
businessperson · b. 1959
Days alive
3,287
Mika Karppinen🇫🇮
musician · b. 1971
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Nick Waterhouse🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1986
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Otto Glöckel🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian politician (1874-1935) · 1874–1935
Days lived
22,444
Paul Otto🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1878–1943
Days lived
24,030
Paul Wight🇺🇸
actor · b. 1972
Paula Modersohn-Becker🇩🇪
deceasedartist · 1876–1907
Days lived
11,607
Peter Berglar🇩🇪
deceasedGerman historian (1919–1989) · 1919–1989
Days lived
25,843
Phyllis Curott🇺🇸
American Wiccan priestess · b. 1954
Days alive
5,113
Reinhold Victor Walther Graef
deceasedGerman judge and politician (1873-1937) · 1873–1937
Days lived
23,565
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Robert Cailliau🇧🇪
Belgian engineer and computer scientist (1947) · b. 1947
Days alive
7,670
Shivon Zilis🌍
Ice hockey player · b. 1986
Siegfried Kracauer🇫🇷
deceasedGerman writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist (1889-1966) · 1889–1966
Days lived
28,414
Sonja Ziemann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1926–2020) · 1926–2020
Days lived
34,342
Theodor Lessing🇩🇪
deceasedjournalist · 1872–1933
Days lived
22,483
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Ursula Wyss🇨🇭
Swiss politician and economist · b. 1973
Wahbi Khazri🇫🇷
football player · b. 1991
Wilhelm Koppers🇩🇪
deceasedAustrian anthropologist (1886–1961) · 1886–1961
Days lived
27,377
Yanet Cruz🇨🇺
film director · b. 1988
Died on This Day
Alice Treff🇩🇪
deceasedactress (1906-2003) · 1906–2003
Days lived
35,313
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Anna Nicole Smith🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1967–2007
Days lived
14,317
Burt Bacharach🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1928–2023
Days lived
34,605
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Charlotte Froese Fischer🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian-American applied mathematician and computer scientist · 1929–2024
Days lived
34,473
Dan Casey🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1862–1943
Days lived
29,299
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Elisabeth Mann Borgese🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian German-born expert in maritime law, ecologist · 1918–2002
Days lived
30,606
Eugen Deutsch🇩🇪
deceasedGerman weightlifter (1907–1945) · 1907–1945
Days lived
13,606
Felix Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1868–1946
Days lived
28,507
Ferenc Levente Hervay🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian historian, librarian (1919-2016) · 1919–2016
Days lived
35,461
Fritz Todt🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1891–1942
Days lived
18,419
Gerhard Roth🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian writer and screenwriter (1942-2022) · 1942–2022
Days lived
29,084
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Götz Werner🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1944–2022
Days lived
28,493
Iris Murdoch🇮🇪
deceasedIrish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999) · 1919–1999
Days lived
29,063
Jackie Robinson🇺🇸
deceasedBasketball player · 1927–2022
Days lived
34,622
John Murtha🇺🇸
deceasedPolitician · 1932–2010
Days lived
28,360
John von Neumann🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957) · 1903–1957
Days lived
19,401
Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1884–1965
Days lived
29,274
Leopold von Schroeder🇩🇪
deceasedGerman indologist (1851–1920) · 1851–1920
Days lived
24,882
Peter Betz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman SS-member · 1913–1974
Days lived
22,034
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Pierre Johanns
deceasedindologist, missionary, priest (1881–1955) · 1881–1955
Days lived
26,975
Rahel Sanzara🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer (1894–1936) · 1894–1936
Days lived
15,338
Robert Robinson🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish chemist (1886-1975) · 1886–1975
Days lived
32,289
Theodor Curtius🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1857–1928
Days lived
25,823
Vernon Andrade🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz band leader (1902-1966) · 1892–1966
Days lived
27,066
Volker Spengler🇩🇪
deceasedactor · 1939–2020
Days lived
29,577
Walther Bothe🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1891–1957
Days lived
24,137
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
42,040
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
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
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
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
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
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
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
49,711
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
47,884
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,581
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,154
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,596
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,562
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,196
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,640
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,292
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,091
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,605
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,623
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,292
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,644
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,187
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,097
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,074
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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