On This Day
Friday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
December 8 2023
Events on This Day
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Attends 'Together at Christmas' carol service
Catherine, Princess of Wales
Born on This Day
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Abdullah Ercan🇹🇷
Turkish association football player (born 1971) · b. 1971
Days alive
18,993
Abi Wallenstein🇩🇪
German musician · b. 1945
Days alive
28,489
Alfredo Aceves🇲🇽
film director · b. 1982
Days alive
14,975
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Andrius Kubilius🇱🇹
Lithuanian politician (born 1956) · b. 1956
Days alive
24,471
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
14,975
Dipu Moni🇧🇩
Bangladeshi politician · b. 1965
Days alive
21,184
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Dustin Brown🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1984
Days alive
14,244
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Dwight Howard🇺🇸
actor · b. 1985
Days alive
13,879
Eduard Rothauser🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1876-1956) · 1876–1956
Days lived
28,900
Ermis Lafazanovski🇷🇴
YouTube personality · b. 1961
Days alive
22,645
Ernst Moro🇩🇪
deceasedAustrian physician (1874–1951) · 1874–1951
Days lived
27,888
Felipe Gozon🇵🇭
Filipino television executive (b. 1939) · b. 1939
Days alive
30,681
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
14,975
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
31,776
Herbert Schwamborn🇩🇪
Zimbabwean musician · b. 1973
Days alive
18,262
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Hope Powell🇬🇧
football player · b. 1966
Days alive
20,819
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
20,454
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
22,280
Maximilian Schell
deceasedOscar Winners · 1930–2014
Days lived
30,371
Michael Naumann🇩🇪
German journalist and politician · b. 1941
Days alive
29,950
Mohamed Horani🇲🇦
Moroccan engineer · b. 1953
Days alive
25,567
Nicki Minaj
Music · b. 1982
Days alive
14,975
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Pauline Green🇬🇧
British Labour politician, MEP, DBE, President of the International Co-operative Alliance (born 1948) · b. 1948
Days alive
27,393
Reece James
association football player · b. 1999
Days alive
8,766
Richard David Precht🇩🇪
journalist · b. 1964
Days alive
21,549
Sammy Davis Jr.🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican entertainer (1925–1990) · 1925–1990
Days lived
23,535
Sébastien Chabal🇫🇷
French rugby union player · b. 1977
Days alive
16,801
Serena Ryder🇨🇦
Canadian singer and musician · b. 1982
Days alive
14,975
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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
28,854
Vernon Wells🇺🇸
American baseball player · b. 1978
Days alive
16,436
Ville Kantee🇫🇮
singer · b. 1978
Days alive
16,436
Walter Heitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1878–1944) · 1878–1944
Days lived
23,803
Yui Yokoyama🇯🇵
Japanese idol, former member of AKB48 · b. 1992
Days alive
11,322
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
62,432
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Horst von der Goltz
German spy and actor · b. 1884
Days alive
51,110
Frank J. Skinner🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1891
Days alive
48,458
Lajos Perley
athlete · b. 1892
Days alive
48,121
George Polley🇺🇸
American urban climber · b. 1898
Days alive
45,996
Miguel Pérez de los Mozos🇪🇸
Ceo, economist · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Clifford Swann🇦🇺
Australian Paralympic lawn bowls player · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Rebecca W. Keller🇺🇸
scientist · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Diane Pozefsky🇺🇸
American computer scientist · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Shaherose Charania🇨🇦
entrepreneur · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Keith Padgett🇬🇧
Falkland Islands politician · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
David Segal🇺🇸
newspaper columnist · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Giovanny Ramos🇻🇪
Venezuelan athlete · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Shrikrishna Raut
Marathi poet · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Fee Plumley🇬🇧
artist · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Eduardo Hernández Martínez🇸🇻
Salvadoran footballer · b. 1901
Days alive
44,901
Pete Briggs🇺🇸
American musician · b. 1904
Days alive
43,806
Henk Vissers🇳🇱
Dutch baseball player · b. 1911
Days alive
40,966
Magdolna Tóth🇭🇺
athlete · b. 1914
Days alive
40,153
Andor András Balázs🇭🇺
athlete · b. 1918
Days alive
38,430
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
68,276
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
67,973
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
67,546
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
57,988
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
56,954
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
56,588
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
54,032
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
52,684
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
673,483
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
152,997
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
77,015
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
57,684
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
36,036
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
33,579
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
31,489
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
29,466
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
Wuthering Heights
Drama film · b. 1939
Days since release
30,926
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12 Angry Men🇺🇸
Drama/Crime Film · b. 1957
Days since release
24,348
The Godfather🇺🇸
Crime/Drama Film · b. 1972
Days since release
18,886
Jaws🇺🇸
Thriller/Adventure Film · b. 1975
Days since release
17,703
Star Wars: A New Hope🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film · b. 1977
Days since release
16,998
Mad Max
Film · b. 1979
Days since release
16,311
Alien🇺🇸
Sci-Fi/Horror Film · b. 1979
Days since release
16,268
The Shining
Film · b. 1980
Days since release
16,047