On this day: 8 August
Events, births and deaths on 8 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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10 years ago2016
- Events · August 2016 Quetta attacks
100 years ago1926
- Births · Richard Anderson
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1079 · Births · Emperor Horikawa
- 998 · Deaths · Sŏ Hŭi
Events · 35
- 870(Julian date)Treaty of Meerssen — treaty
- 1164(Julian date)Qiyāma — eschatological teaching in Nizārī Ismāʿīlīsm
- 1220(Julian date)Battle of Lihula — 1220 battle of the Northern Crusades
- 1870Republic of Ploiești — 1870 revolt against the Romanian monarchy in Ploiești
- 1897assassination of Cánovas del Castillo — 1897 murder of the Spanish Primer Minister
- 1914Expedition Endurance — British Antarctic expedition from 1914 to 1917
- 1918Hundred Days Offensive — 1918 military campaign during World War I
- 1918Battle of Amiens — 1918 World War I battle
- 1919Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 — peace treaty of the 1919 Anglo-Afghan War
- 1942Quit India speech — Speech by Mahatma Gandhi during Quit India movement
- 1944Defense of Hengyang — 1944 battle in mainland China
- 1956Marcinelle disaster — Bois du Cazier mining site disaster
- 1963Great Train Robbery — robbery of a Royal Mail train heading between Glasgow and London
- 1963Zimbabwe African National Union — militant organisation that fought against militant British minority rule in Rhodesia
- 1967ASEAN — international organisation of Southeast Asian countries
- 1967ASEAN Declaration — Signing of ASEAN in 1967 in Bangkok to accelerate economic growth as its prime objective
- 1973
- 1974Richard Nixon's resignation speech — address given by the President of the United States in 1974
- 19751975 Banqiao Dam failure — Catastrophic series of floods due to failure of multiple dams in Henan, China
- 1988Tropical Storm Beryl — Atlantic tropical storm in 1988
- 19931993 Guam earthquake — significant earthquake in 1993 in Guam
- 19981998 Iranian diplomats murder in Afghanistan — siege of the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif and execution of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan
- 2004Dave Matthews Band incident — 2004 environmental incident in the Chicago River
- 20082008 Summer Olympics — Games of the XXIX Olympiad, in Beijing, China
- 20082008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony — ceremony held at the Beijing National Stadium
- 20082008 Studénka train accident — train crash in the Czech Republic
- 20092009 Hudson River mid-air collision — 2009 aviation incident
- 20102010 Gansu mudslide — 2010 Mudslide affecting Zhouqu, China
- 2012General National Congress — de facto legislative authority of Libya from 2012 to 2014
- 20138 August 2013 Quetta bombing — 2013 suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
- 2016August 2016 Quetta attacks — 2016 terror attack in Quetta, Pakistan
- 2019nuclear accident in Russia in August 2019 — nuclear explosion in Nionoksa
- 2022FBI search of Mar-a-Lago — 2022 FBI search of Donald Trump's home
- 20222022 Central Korean floods — natural disaster in South Korea
- 2024Yunus ministry — interim government of Bangladesh (2024-2026
Births · 60
- 1646Godfrey Kneller — German-born British painter (1646–1723)
- 1694Francis Hutcheson — Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)
- 1824Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Marie of Hesse) — Empress consort of Russia (1855-1880)
- 1857Henry Fairfield Osborn — American geologist (1857–1935)
- 1857Cécile Chaminade — French composer and pianist (1857-1944)
- 1861William Bateson — British geneticist and biologist (1861-1926)
- 1875Artur Bernardes — Brazilian politician (1875–1955)
- 1879Emiliano Zapata — Mexican revolutionary (1879–1919)
- 1880Earle Page — Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (1880-1961)
- 1881Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist — German field marshal (1881–1954)
- 1882Ladislas Starevich — Polish-Russian stop-motion animator
- 1884Sara Teasdale — American writer and poet (1884–1933)
- 1901Ernest Lawrence — American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
- 1902Paul Dirac — British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
- 1907Benny Carter — American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader (1907-2003)
- 1910Sylvia Sidney — American actress (1910–1999)
- 1919Dino De Laurentiis — Italian film producer (1919–2010)
- 1921Esther Williams — American swimmer, actress and singer (1921–2013)
- 1924Gene Deitch — American illustrator, animator and film director (1924-2020)
- 1925Alija Izetbegović — Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author (1925–2003)
- 1931Roger Penrose — English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
- 1937
- 1940Dennis Tito — American businessman
- 1940Just Jaeckin — French film director (1940–2022)
- 1944John Holmes — American pornographic actor
Deaths · 60
- 117(Julian date)Trajan — 13th Roman Emperor (98–117)
- 869(Julian date)Lothair II of Lotharingia — King of Lotharingia from 855 to 869
- 1551(Julian date)Tomás de Berlanga — Prelate, bishop of Panama
- 1555(Julian date)Oronce Finé — French mathematician and cartographer (*1494 – †1555)
- 1588Alonso Sánchez Coello — Spanish artist (1531-1588)
- 1616Cornelis Ketel — painter from the Northern Netherlands (1548-1616)
- 1746Francis Hutcheson — Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)
- 1759Carl Heinrich Graun — German composer and singer
- 1809Ueda Akinari — Japanese writer (1734–1809)
- 1827George Canning — British Prime Minister, statesman, and politician (1770-1827)
- 1828Carl Peter Thunberg — Swedish naturalist (1743-1828)
- 1879Immanuel Hermann Fichte — German philosopher (1796–1879)
- 1897Jacob Burckhardt — Swiss historian (1818–1897)
- 1898Eugène Louis Boudin — French painter (1824-1898)
- 1902James Tissot — French painter and illustrator (1836–1902)
- 1902John Henry Twachtman — American painter (1853-1902)
- 1909Mary MacKillop — Australian religious sister and saint (1842–1909)
- 1921Juhani Aho — Finnish author and journalist (1861–1921)
- 1928Stjepan Radić — Croatian politician (1871-1928)
- 1930Launceston Elliot — Scottish weightlifter (1874–1930)
- 1940Johnny Dodds — American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist (1892–1940)
- 1944Erwin von Witzleben — German field marshal (1881–1944)
- 1944Michael Wittmann — German Waffen-SS tank commander
- 1945Le Pétomane — French entertainer (1857-1945)
- 1959Albert Namatjira — Australian painter (1902-1959)
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