On this day: 8 April
Events, births and deaths on 8 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · Jet Set nightclub roof collapse
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Jürgen Moltmann
- Births · Henry N. Cobb
- Births · Shecky Greene
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 956 · Deaths · Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy
- 967 · Deaths · Mu'izz al-Dawla
- 944 · Deaths · Wang Yanxi
Events · 17
- 876(Julian date)Battle of Dayr al-Aqul — battle
- 1232Siege of Kaifeng (1232) — capture of Kaifeng, the capital of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, by the Mongol Empire
- 1864Battle of Mansfield — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1904Entente Cordiale — series of agreements between the United Kingdom and France about colonies in Africa, Siam (Thailand), Newfoundland, and New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
- 1913National Assembly (Beiyang government) — parliament of the Beiyang government
- 1933Western Australian secession referendum, 1933 — referendum on secession of Western Australia from Commonwealth of Australia
- 1954South African Airways Flight 201 — 1954 aviation accident
- 1968BOAC Flight 712 — Aviation accident – engine failure and fire on take-off, 8 April 1968
- 1970Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing — aerial attack by Israel on Egypt during the War of Attrition
- 1973Progress Party — right-wing political party in Norway
- 19901990 Greek legislative election — election
- 2005solar eclipse of April 8, 2005 — solar eclipse
- 2010New START — 2010 nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation
- 2022Warner Bros. Discovery — American mass media and entertainment conglomerate
- 2024solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 — total solar eclipse passing over North America
- 2025Jet Set nightclub roof collapse — 2025 structural failure in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- 20268 April 2026 Israeli attacks on Lebanon — Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling
Births · 60
- 1320Peter I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1357 to 1367
- 1336(Julian date)Timur — the founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)
- 1605Philip IV of Spain — King of Spain and Portugal (1605-1665)
- 1692Giuseppe Tartini — Italian composer and violinist (1692-1770)
- 1798Dionysios Solomos — Greek poet (1798–1857)
- 1818Christian IX of Denmark — King of Denmark from 1863 to 1906
- 1818August Wilhelm von Hofmann — German chemist (1818–1892)
- 1859Edmund Husserl — German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)
- 1869Harvey Williams Cushing — American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)
- 1875Albert I of Belgium — King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1875–1934)
- 1892Mary Pickford — Canadian actress and producer (1892–1979)
- 1892Richard Neutra — Austrian–American architect (1892-1970)
- 1904John Richard Hicks — British economist (1904-1989)
- 1909John Fante — 1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent
- 1911Emil Cioran — Romanian-French philosopher and essayist (1911–1995)
- 1911Melvin Calvin — American biochemist (1911–1997)
- 1912Sonja Henie — Norwegian figure skater and actress (1912–1969)
- 1912Alois Brunner — Austrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1912–2010)
- 1918Betty Ford — First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
- 1919Ian Douglas Smith — Prime Minister of Rhodesia (1919–2007)
- 1921Franco Corelli — Italian operatic tenor (1921-2003)
- 1926Jürgen Moltmann — German Reformed theologian (1926–2024)
- 1929Jacques Brel — Belgian singer (1929–1978)
- 1931John Gavin — American film actor and former Ambassador to Mexico (1931–2018)
- 1937Seymour Hersh — American investigative journalist (born 1937)
Deaths · 60
- 217(Julian date)Caracalla — Roman emperor from 198 to 217
- 622(Julian date)Prince Shōtoku — semi-legendary Japanese prince (574–622)
- 632Charibert II — Frankish king
- 956(Julian date)Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy — Frankish noble
- 967(Julian date)Mu'izz al-Dawla — 1st Buyid emir of Iraq from 945 to 967
- 1143(Julian date)John II Komnenos — Byzantine Emperor from 1118 to 1144
- 1150(Julian date)Gertrude of Bohemia — Duchess consort of Bohemia from 1140 to 1150
- 1364(Julian date)John II of France — monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1350 until his death
- 1461(Julian date)Georg von Peuerbach — Austrian mathematician and astronomer (1423-1461)
- 1492(Julian date)Lorenzo de' Medici — Italian politician, literary man and humanist
- 1551(Julian date)Oda Nobuhide — a warlord and magistrate of lower Owari Province during the Sengoku period of Japan
- 1586
- 1612Anne Catherine of Brandenburg — Queen consort of Norway and Denmark
- 1735Francis II Rákóczi — leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in 1703–1711
- 1835Wilhelm von Humboldt — Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
- 1848Gaetano Donizetti — Italian opera composer (1797–1848)
- 1860István Széchenyi — Hungarian nobleman, writer, politician and national revivalist (1791–1860)
- 1861Elisha Otis — Founder of Otis Elevator Co.
- 1870Charles Auguste de Bériot — Belgian composer and violinist (1802–1870)
- 1881Empress Dowager Ci'an — Dowager empress of China (1837-1881)
- 1893Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz — Polish painter (1854–1893)
- 1894Bankim Chandra Chatterjee — Bengali writer, poet and journalist (1838-1894)
- 1919Loránd Eötvös — Hungarian physicist (1848–1919)
- 1920Charles Tomlinson Griffes — American composer (1884-1920)
- 1931Erik Axel Karlfeldt — Swedish poet (1864–1931)
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