On This Day
Tuesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
October 8 1968
Born on This Day
Anja Gräfenstein🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1981
Arthur W. Neubert🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor · 1919–1992
Days lived
26,432
Ashawna Hailey🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican computer scientist and philanthropist (1949–2011) · 1949–2011
Days lived
22,651
Astrid Benöhr🇩🇪
German triathlete · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Baldwin Spencer
Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
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Barbara Palvin🇭🇺
actor · b. 1993
Bella Thorne🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1997
Bill Hewitt🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1909-1947) · 1909–1947
Days lived
13,612
Bruno Mars
Music · b. 1985
Chevy Chase🇺🇸
American actor, comedian and writer (born 1943) · b. 1943
Days alive
9,132
Clarence Williams🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher (1893-1965) · 1893–1965
Days lived
26,326
Curt Lincoln🇫🇮
deceasedFinnish race driver and tennis player (1918–2005) · 1918–2005
Days lived
31,736
Dale Dye🇺🇸
American actor, presenter, and businessman · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
Danielle McCray🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1987
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Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig🇩🇪
German politician · b. 1941
Days alive
9,862
Enno Walther Huth🇩🇪
deceasedGerman industrialist, pioneer of the German Air Force (1875-1964) · 1875–1964
Days lived
32,377
Flavio Ambrosetti🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss jazz saxophonist (1919–2012) · 1919–2012
Days lived
33,922
Francisco Montañés🇪🇸
football player · b. 1986
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Frank Herbert🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1920–1986
Days lived
23,867
Fred Stolle🇦🇺
deceasedAustralian tennis player · 1938–2025
Days lived
31,560
Giovanni Calabria🇮🇹
deceasedItalian saint (1873–1954) · 1873–1954
Days lived
29,641
Glenn Snyder🇺🇸
deceasedjournalist · 1924–2013
Days lived
32,271
Günther Jerschke🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1921-1997) · 1921–1997
Days lived
27,604
Helmut Qualtinger🇦🇹
deceasedjournalist · 1928–1986
Days lived
21,175
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Henrich Focke🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1890–1979
Days lived
32,281
Hermann Janssen
deceasedwriter · 1888–1971
Days lived
30,128
Hugo Süchting
deceasedGerman chess player (1874-1916) · 1874–1916
Days lived
15,420
Huh Yunjin🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (LE SSERAFIM) · b. 2001
Ira Davenport🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1887–1941
Days lived
19,640
Ivan Poddubny🇬🇧
deceasedathlete · 1871–1949
Days lived
28,428
Jakob Arjouni🇩🇪
deceasedGerman author, born 1964 (1964–2013) · 1964–2013
Days lived
17,633
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Jan Dick Leurs
Dutch baseball player · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
Jean Fernandez🇫🇷
French footballer and manager · b. 1954
Days alive
5,114
Jean-Louis Touraine🇫🇷
member of the National Assembly of France · b. 1945
Days alive
8,401
Jesse Jackson🇺🇸
deceasedPolitician · 1941–2026
Days lived
30,813
John T. Walton🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican war veteran; son of Walmart founder Sam Walton (1946–2005) · 1946–2005
Days lived
21,447
Koji Murofushi🇯🇵
Japanese hammer thrower, university professor (physical education), commissioner of the Japan sports agency · b. 1974
Marie Tångeberg🇩🇪
writer · b. 1924
Days alive
16,071
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Mary Engle Pennington🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (1872-1952) · 1872–1952
Days lived
29,299
Masataka Tsuchiya🇯🇵
film director · b. 1924
Days alive
16,071
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Matt Damon🇺🇸
Film actor · b. 1970
Max Westerkamp
deceasedfield hockey player (1912–1970) · 1912–1970
Days lived
21,029
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Molly Quinn🇺🇸
actor · b. 1993
Nance O'Neil🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1874–1965
Days lived
32,994
Nguyễn Minh Triết
Sixth President of Vietnam (2006-2011) · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Nini Salerno🇮🇹
Italian actor and screenwriter · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
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Otto Heinrich Warburg🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1883–1970
Days lived
31,708
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Paul Hogan🇦🇺
Australian actor and comedian · b. 1939
Days alive
10,593
Peter Greene🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1965–2025) · 1965–2025
Days lived
21,980
Reese Hoffa🇺🇸
American shot putter · b. 1977
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Rolf Jahn🇩🇪
deceasedGerman association football player (1927-2001) · 1927–2001
Days lived
26,871
Rouben Mamoulian🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican film and theatre director (1897–1987) · 1897–1987
Days lived
32,928
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Sigourney Weaver🇺🇸
American actress (born 1949) · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Svetlana Parkhomenko🇷🇺
Soviet female tennis player, winner of the WTA Sportsmanship Award · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Terry Gou
founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Foxconn · b. 1950
Days alive
6,575
The Miz🇺🇸
actor · b. 1980
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Tim Collins🇺🇸
American businessman (1956-) · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Ursula von der Leyen🇩🇪
politician · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Walter von Reichenau
deceasedNotable Trials · 1884–1942
Days lived
20,919
Wilfried Hochholdinger🇩🇪
actor · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Zog I of Albania
deceasedpolitician · 1895–1961
Days lived
23,924
Died on This Day
Armin Schweizer🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss actor (1892-1968) · 1892–1968
Days lived
27,921
Eberhard Ferstl🇩🇪
deceasedWest German field hockey player (1933–2019) · 1933–2019
Days lived
31,676
Felix Salten🇦🇹
deceasedAustro-Hungarian author and critic in Vienna (1869–1945) · 1869–1945
Days lived
27,790
Georg Friedrich Nicolai🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physiologist (1874-1964) · 1874–1964
Days lived
33,116
George Krugers🇳🇱
deceasedFilm director · 1890–1964
Days lived
26,981
Hans Luckhardt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect (1890–1954) · 1890–1954
Days lived
23,489
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Hans Tropsch🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1889–1935
Days lived
16,801
Job🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss screenwriter and comics artist (1927–2024) · 1927–2024
Days lived
35,413
Jonathan Goforth🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian missionary in China · 1859–1936
Days lived
28,364
Larry Semon🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (1889-1928) · 1889–1928
Days lived
14,485
Leonor Michaelis🇺🇸
deceasedchemist · 1875–1949
Days lived
27,293
Marianne Golz🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian singer and opera singer (1895–1943) · 1895–1943
Days lived
17,782
Moshe Smoira🇩🇪
deceasedIsraeli judge (1888–1961) · 1888–1961
Days lived
26,645
Theodor Koch-Grunberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman ethnologist (1872-1924) · 1872–1924
Days lived
19,174
Tomás Valík
deceasedActor · 1964–2016
Days lived
18,918
Varsha Bhosle🇮🇳
deceasedJournalist · 1956–2012
Days lived
20,735
Whitey Ford🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1928–2020
Days lived
33,590
Willy Brandt🇳🇴
deceasedpolitician · 1913–1992
Days lived
28,784
Y. A. Tittle🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1926–2017) · 1926–2017
Days lived
33,222
Zośka Vieras🇱🇹
deceasedBelarusian writer and poet (1892-1991) · 1892–1991
Days lived
36,166
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
42,283
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
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
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
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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
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
Hans Kelsen🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian lawyer (1881–1973) · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,427
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
49,954
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,127
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,824
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,397
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,839
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,805
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,439
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,883
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,535
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,334
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,848
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,866
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,535
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,887
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,430
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,340
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,317
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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