On this day: 8 June
Events, births and deaths on 8 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Anthony Reid
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1921 · Births · Suharto
- 1916 · Births · Francis Crick
- 1933 · Births · Joan Rivers
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1042 · Deaths · Harthacanute
Events · 18
- 218(Julian date)Battle of Antioch — 218 battle between rivals for the Roman throne
- 1663Battle of Ameixial — 1663 battle of the Portuguese Restoration War
- 1776Battle of Trois-Rivières — 1776 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1826Types Riot — riot in 19th century Upper Canada
- 1862Battle of Cross Keys — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1906
- 1941Syria–Lebanon campaign — 1941 Allied invasion of Vichy French-controlled Syria and Lebanon
- 1967USS Liberty incident — 1967 Israeli attack on American navy ship
- 1972The Terror of War — photograph attributed to Nick Ut (1972)
- 1982VASP Flight 168 — 1982 aviation accident
- 1982Bluff Cove Air Attacks — 1982 Argentine Air Force strike during the Falklands War
- 1983Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 — 1983 aviation incident
- 1995PHP — scripting language focused on web development
- 2001Osaka school massacre — school stabbing in Ikeda, Japan
- 2004transit of Venus, 2004 — transit of Venus across the Sun visible from Earth on 8 June 2004
- 2008Akihabara massacre — 2008 mass murder in Japan
- 2011World IPv6 Day and World IPv6 Launch Day — two events on 8 June 2011 and 6 June 2012 promoting IPv6, respectively
- 2023federal prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling of classified documents — prosecution of a former US president for mishandling of classified documents
Births · 60
- 1593George I Rákóczi — Hungarian prince of Transylvania
- 1625Giovanni Domenico Cassini — Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
- 1671Tomaso Albinoni — Italian composer and violinist (1671–1751)
- 1724John Smeaton — English engineer (1724-1792)
- 1745Caspar Wessel — Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer (1745–1818)
- 1810Robert Schumann — German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)
- 1829John Everett Millais — British painter and illustrator (1829–1896)
- 1851Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval — French physicist and physician (1851–1940)
- 1867Frank Lloyd Wright — American architect (1867-1959)
- 1895Santiago Bernabéu Yeste — Spanish footballer (1895-1978)
- 1899Ernst-Robert Grawitz — German general; Reichsarzt; facilitated medical torture and experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates (1899–1945)
- 1903Marguerite Yourcenar — French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)
- 1908Inah Canabarro Lucas — Brazilian nun and supercentenarian (1908–2025)
- 1910John W. Campbell — American science fiction writer (1910–1971)
- 1916Francis Crick — British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (1916–2004)
- 1916Luigi Comencini — Italian film director (1916–2007)
- 1918Robert Preston — American actor and singer (1918–1987)
- 1921Suharto — 2nd President of Indonesia (1968—1998) and Acting President of Indonesia (1967—1968)
- 1921Alexis Smith — Canadian-born American actress and singer (1921-1993)
- 1924Kenneth Waltz — American political scientist and international relations theoretician (1924-2013)
- 1925Barbara Bush — First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993 (1925–2018)
- 1927Jerry Stiller — American actor and comedian (1927–2020)
- 1928Gustavo Gutiérrez — Peruvian theologian (1928–2024)
- 1930Robert Aumann — Israeli-American mathematician
- 1931Dana Wynter — German-British actress (1931–2011)
Deaths · 60
- 632(Julian date)Muhammad — Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam (c. 570–632)
- 697(Julian date)Chlodulf — French bishop and saint
- 1042(Julian date)Harthacanute — King of England from 1040 to 1042, King of Denmark from 1035 à 1042
- 1155(Julian date)Fujiwara no Akisuke — Japanese poet
- 1376(Julian date)Edward, the Black Prince — Prince of Wales (1330–1376)
- 1384(Julian date)Kanami — Japanese actor (1333–1384)
- 1492(Julian date)Elizabeth Woodville — Queen consort of England
- 1505(Julian date)Hongzhi Emperor — 10th emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1470–1505)
- 1600Edward Fortunatus of Baden-Baden — German nobleman (1565-1600)
- 1611Jean Bertaut — French Roman Catholic bishop and poet
- 1612Hans Leo Hassler — German composer and organist (1564-1612)
- 1628Rudolph Goclenius — German philosopher (1547-1628)
- 1651Tokugawa Iemitsu — The third shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1604–1651)
- 1714Sophia of Hanover — Princess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701
- 1716Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine — German nobleman (1658–1716)
- 1727August Hermann Francke — German Lutheran clergyman, philanthropist and Biblical scholar (1663-1727)
- 1768Johann Joachim Winckelmann — German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library (1717–1768)
- 1795Louis XVII of France — heir of the French throne
- 1809Thomas Paine — American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
- 1831Sarah Siddons — Welsh actress (1755-1831)
- 1835Gian Domenico Romagnosi — Italian philosopher, economist and jurist (1761-1835)
- 1845Andrew Jackson — president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
- 1846Rodolphe Töpffer — Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist (1799-1846)
- 1857Douglas William Jerrold — English dramatist and writer (1803-1857)
- 1874Cochise — American indian chief, civic leader, indigenous leader, indian interpreter
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