On This Day
Wednesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
December 8 2004
Born on This Day
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Abdullah Ercan🇹🇷
Turkish association football player (born 1971) · b. 1971
Days alive
12,054
Abi Wallenstein🇩🇪
German musician · b. 1945
Days alive
21,550
Alfredo Aceves🇲🇽
film director · b. 1982
Days alive
8,036
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Andrius Kubilius🇱🇹
Lithuanian politician (born 1956) · b. 1956
Days alive
17,532
Anne-Marie Colchen🇫🇷
deceasedFrench basketball player and athletics competitor (1925-2017) · 1925–2017
Days lived
33,287
Anton Pointner🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1884–1949
Days lived
23,649
Bob Brown🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1941–2023) · 1941–2023
Days lived
29,775
Camille Claudel🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1864–1943
Days lived
28,803
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Chrisette Michele🇺🇸
American singer · b. 1982
Days alive
8,036
Dipu Moni🇧🇩
Bangladeshi politician · b. 1965
Days alive
14,245
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Dustin Brown🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1984
Days alive
7,305
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Dwight Howard🇺🇸
actor · b. 1985
Days alive
6,940
Eduard Rothauser🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1876-1956) · 1876–1956
Days lived
28,900
Ermis Lafazanovski🇷🇴
YouTube personality · b. 1961
Days alive
15,706
Ernst Moro🇩🇪
deceasedAustrian physician (1874–1951) · 1874–1951
Days lived
27,888
Felipe Gozon🇵🇭
Filipino television executive (b. 1939) · b. 1939
Days alive
23,742
Franz Breithaupt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman SS general (1880–1945) · 1880–1945
Days lived
23,517
Gudrun Okras🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1929-2009) · 1929–2009
Days lived
29,082
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Hamit Altıntop
Turkish association football player (born 1982) · b. 1982
Days alive
8,036
Hank Thompson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player; Negro League Baseball Player; 1925-1969 · 1925–1969
Days lived
16,002
Hans Dietrich Disselhoff🇩🇪
deceasedGerman anthropologist and art historian (1899-1975) · 1899–1975
Days lived
27,766
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Helmut Markwort🇩🇪
German journalist and editor · b. 1936
Days alive
24,837
Herbert Schwamborn🇩🇪
Zimbabwean musician · b. 1973
Days alive
11,323
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Hope Powell🇬🇧
football player · b. 1966
Days alive
13,880
Hyun Jae-myung🇰🇷
deceasedSouth Korean composer · 1902–1960
Days lived
21,132
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Jack Rowe🇺🇸
deceasedMajor League Baseball player (1856-1911) · 1856–1911
Days lived
19,860
James Thurber🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright (1894–1961) · 1894–1961
Days lived
24,435
Jim Morrison🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1943–1971
Days lived
10,069
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Jura Soyfer🇦🇹
deceasedjournalist · 1912–1939
Days lived
9,566
Kateryna Yushchenko🇺🇦
deceasedscientist · 1919–2001
Days lived
29,836
Kotono Mitsuishi🇯🇵
actor · b. 1967
Days alive
13,515
Lee J. Cobb
deceasedActor · 1911–1976
Days lived
23,441
Lucian Freud🇬🇧
deceasedartist · 1922–2011
Days lived
32,366
Margot Werner🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian ballet dancer, singer and actor (1937–2012) · 1937–2012
Days lived
27,234
Marian Jankowski🇵🇱
deceasedPolish sportsperson and weightlifter · 1931–2017
Days lived
31,138
Markku Slawyk🇩🇪
field hockey player · b. 1962
Days alive
15,341
Maximilian Schell
deceasedOscar Winners · 1930–2014
Days lived
30,371
Michael Naumann🇩🇪
German journalist and politician · b. 1941
Days alive
23,011
Mohamed Horani🇲🇦
Moroccan engineer · b. 1953
Days alive
18,628
Nicki Minaj
Music · b. 1982
Days alive
8,036
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Pauline Green🇬🇧
British Labour politician, MEP, DBE, President of the International Co-operative Alliance (born 1948) · b. 1948
Days alive
20,454
Reece James
association football player · b. 1999
Days alive
1,827
Richard David Precht🇩🇪
journalist · b. 1964
Days alive
14,610
Sammy Davis Jr.🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican entertainer (1925–1990) · 1925–1990
Days lived
23,535
Sébastien Chabal🇫🇷
French rugby union player · b. 1977
Days alive
9,862
Serena Ryder🇨🇦
Canadian singer and musician · b. 1982
Days alive
8,036
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Sinéad O'Connor🇮🇪
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1966–2023
Days lived
20,684
Stan Shih
Taiwanese businessman, Chairman Emeritus of Acer Incorporated (born 1944) · b. 1944
Days alive
21,915
Vernon Wells🇺🇸
American baseball player · b. 1978
Days alive
9,497
Ville Kantee🇫🇮
singer · b. 1978
Days alive
9,497
Walter Heitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1878–1944) · 1878–1944
Days lived
23,803
Yui Yokoyama🇯🇵
Japanese idol, former member of AKB48 · b. 1992
Days alive
4,383
Died on This Day
Aleksandr Konstantinovich Larev
deceasedjournalist · 1930–2015
Days lived
31,381
Alma Seidler🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1899–1977
Days lived
28,830
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Antônio Carlos Jobim🇧🇷
deceasedBrazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist (1927–1994) · 1927–1994
Days lived
24,789
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Carl Watzinger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman classical archaeologist (1877-1948) · 1877–1948
Days lived
26,114
Claude Cahun🇫🇷
deceasedartist · 1894–1954
Days lived
21,958
Edith Jacobson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican German-born MD & psychoanalyst · 1897–1978
Days lived
29,673
Evelyn Berezin🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican computer scientist (1925–2018) · 1925–2018
Days lived
34,208
Fritz Arndt🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1885–1969
Days lived
30,835
Germán Riesco🇨🇱
deceasedpolitician · 1854–1916
Days lived
22,839
Jack Cohn
deceasedActor · 1889–1956
Days lived
24,513
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John Lennon🇬🇧
deceasedactor · 1940–1980
Days lived
14,670
Juice WRLD
deceasedrapper · 1998–2019
Days lived
7,676
Kenneth Moore🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian ice hockey player · 1910–1981
Days lived
26,227
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Masato Harada🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese film director, critic, and actor · 1949–2025
Days lived
27,917
Mattiwilda Dobbs🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican coloratura soprano singer · 1925–2015
Days lived
33,022
Max Grundig🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1908–1989
Days lived
29,800
Paul Ferdinand Schilder🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian neurologist and pychiatrist (1886–1940) · 1886–1940
Days lived
20,019
Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1883–1942
Days lived
21,703
Sayed Yusuf🇮🇳
deceasedIndian field hockey player (1895–1979) · 1895–1979
Days lived
31,021
Walter Haeussermann🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1914–2010
Days lived
35,345
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William Dieterle🇺🇸
deceasedGerman/American actor, film director and art collector (1893–1972) · 1893–1972
Days lived
29,000
Willy Reichert🇩🇪
deceasedGerman comic and actor (1896–1973) · 1896–1973
Days lived
28,223
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
55,493
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
44,171
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
41,519
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
41,182
Silas Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican baseball player (1895–2006) · 1895–2006
Days lived
40,557
George Polley🇺🇸
American urban climber · b. 1898
Days alive
39,057
David Segal🇺🇸
newspaper columnist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Fee Plumley🇬🇧
artist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Giovanny Ramos🇻🇪
Venezuelan athlete · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Rebecca W. Keller🇺🇸
scientist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Eduardo Hernández Martínez🇸🇻
Salvadoran footballer · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Diane Pozefsky🇺🇸
American computer scientist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Miguel Pérez de los Mozos🇪🇸
Ceo, economist · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Clifford Swann🇦🇺
Australian Paralympic lawn bowls player · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Keith Padgett🇬🇧
Falkland Islands politician · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Shaherose Charania🇨🇦
entrepreneur · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
Shrikrishna Raut
Marathi poet · b. 1901
Days alive
37,962
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Alice Herz-Sommer🇮🇱
deceasedmusician · 1903–2014
Days lived
40,267
Johannes Heesters🇦🇹
deceasedDutch actor, singer and entertainer (1903–2011) · 1903–2011
Days lived
39,466
Pete Briggs🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1904
Days alive
36,867
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
63,164
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Koko🇺🇸
deceasedWestern lowland gorilla · 1971–2018
Days lived
17,152
Alex🇺🇸
deceasedAfrican grey parrot · 1976–2007
Days lived
11,433
Kanzi🇺🇸
Bonobo · b. 1980
Days alive
8,807
Tilikum🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1981–2017
Days lived
12,796
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
61,337
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
61,034
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
60,607
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
51,049
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
50,015
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
49,649
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
47,093
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
45,745
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
666,544
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
146,058
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
70,076
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
50,745
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
29,097
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
26,640
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
24,550
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
22,527
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
23,987
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
17,409
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
11,947
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
10,764
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
10,059
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
9,372
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
9,329
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
9,108