On this day: 8 July
Events, births and deaths on 8 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Paulette Jiles
- Deaths · Edward D. DiPrete
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Abdul Sattar Edhi
100 years ago1926
- Births · Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Births · John David Dingell Jr.
- Births · David Malet Armstrong
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 975 · Deaths · Edgar of England
Events · 21
- 1167(Julian date)Battle of Sirmium — 1167 battle
- 1283(Julian date)Battle of Malta — 1283 battle between Aragonese and Angevins, part of the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- 1709Battle of Poltava — decisive battle in the Great Northern War between Tsardom Russia and the Swedish Empire in 1709
- 1716Battle of Dynekilen — 1716 battle of the Great Northern War
- 1758Battle of Carillon — 1758 battle
- 1760Battle of Restigouche — 1760 naval battle
- 1864Ikedaya Incident — 1864 conflict in Japan
- 1889The Wall Street Journal — American business-focused daily newspaper
- 1914Chinese Revolutionary Party — Political party of the Republic of China
- 1937Treaty of Saadabad — 1937 treaty between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan
- 1965Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 — 1965 aviation accident
- 1966July 1966 Burundian coup d'état — July 1966 coup d'état in Burundi
- 1980Aeroflot Flight 4225 — aviation accident
- 1982Dujail Massacre — Iraqi massacre
- 1988Peruman railway accident — 1988 public transit disaster in Kollam, Kerala, India
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup Final — championship match of the 1990 FIFA World Cup
- 2003Sudan Airways Flight 139 — aviation accident
- 20142014 Gaza War — war fought between the Israel Defense Forces and the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip during 2014
- 2014Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup) — 2014 FIFA World Cup match
- 2014disappearance of Lars Mittank — disappearance
- 2022assassination of Shinzō Abe — 2022 killing of former Japanese prime minister
Births · 60
- 1478(Julian date)Gian Giorgio Trissino — Italian Renaissance humanist
- 1528(Julian date)Emanuele Filiberto I, Duke of Savoy — Duke of Savoy from 1553 to 1580 (1528-1580)
- 1545(Julian date)Carlos, Prince of Asturias — Prince of Asturias; eldest child of Philip II of Spain
- 1593Artemisia Gentileschi — Italian Baroque painter (1593-1651)
- 1621Jean de La Fontaine — French poet, fabulist and writer (1621–1695)
- 1766Dominique Jean Larrey — French surgeon in Napoleon's army and an important innovator in battlefield medicine (1766-1842)
- 1792Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen — Queen consort of Bavaria
- 1808George Robert Gray — English ornithologist, author and museum curator (1808–1872)
- 1830Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg — wife of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich of Russia (1830-1911)
- 1831John Pemberton — American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola (1831-1888)
- 1836Joseph Chamberlain — British politician (1836-1914)
- 1838Ferdinand von Zeppelin — German general and airship pioneer (1838–1917)
- 1839John D. Rockefeller — American industrialist and philanthropist (1839–1937)
- 1851Arthur Evans — British archaeologist and scholar (1851–1941)
- 1857Alfred Binet — French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test (1857–1911)
- 1867Käthe Kollwitz — German printmaker and sculptor (1867–1945)
- 1882Percy Grainger — Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist (1882–1961)
- 1885Ernst Bloch — German philosopher (1885–1977)
- 1885Hugo Boss — German fashion designer (1885–1948)
- 1892Richard Aldington — English writer and poet (1892–1962)
- 1895Igor Tamm — Soviet physicist (1895–1971)
- 1900George Antheil — American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor (1900–1959)
- 1904Henri Cartan — French mathematician (1904–2008)
- 1906Philip Johnson — American architect (1906–2005)
- 1908Nelson Rockefeller — Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Deaths · 60
- 810(Julian date)Pepin of Italy — son of Charlemagne and King of the Lombards
- 975(Julian date)Edgar of England — King of the English (r. 959–975)
- 1153(Julian date)Eugene III — pope of the Catholic Church from 1145 to 1153
- 1253(Julian date)Theobald I of Navarre — King of Navarre from 1234 to 1253
- 1390(Julian date)Albertus de Saxonia — German theologian and philosopher (c.1320-1390)
- 1538(Julian date)Diego de Almagro — Spanish conquistador
- 1597Luís Fróis — Portuguese missionary (1532–1597)
- 1623Gregory XV — pope of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623 (1554–1623)
- 1695Christiaan Huygens — Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
- 1721Elihu Yale — Welsh merchant, slave trader and philanthropist (1649–1721)
- 1784Torbern Bergman — Swedish chemist (1735-1784)
- 1822Percy Bysshe Shelley — British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
- 1823Henry Raeburn — British portrait painter (1756-1823)
- 1850Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge — British and Hanoverian Royal (1774-1850), Duke of Cambridge from 1786
- 1859Oscar I of Sweden — King of Sweden and Norway between 1844–1859 (1799–1859)
- 1873Franz Xaver Winterhalter — German painter and lithographer (1805–1873)
- 1895Johann Josef Loschmidt — Austrian chemist and physicist (1821–1895)
- 1913Louis Hémon — French writer (1880–1913)
- 1917Tom Thomson — Canadian artist (1877-1917)
- 1933Anthony Hope — English novelist (1863–1933)
- 1934Benjamin Baillaud — French astronomer (1848-1934)
- 1939Havelock Ellis — British physician, writer, and social reformer (1859-1939)
- 1942
- 1942Refik Saydam — Prime Minister of Turkey (1881–1942)
- 1943Jean Moulin — French resistance fighter and civil servant (1899-1943)
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