On this day: 8 October
Events, births and deaths on 8 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Miguel Ángel Russo
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 Sana'a funeral air raid
100 years ago1926
- Births · Jim Elliot
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 976 · Deaths · Helen of Zadar
Events · 22
- 451(Julian date)Council of Chalcedon — synod
- 876(Julian date)Battle of Andernach — 876 Middle Ages battle
- 1573(Julian date)Siege of Alkmaar — 1573 battle of the Eighty Years' War
- 1813Treaty of Ried — 1813 treaty between Bavaria and Austria
- 1856Second Opium War — 1856–1860 war between British–French forces and China
- 1862Battle of Perryville — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1871Great Chicago Fire — 1871 conflagration in Chicago, Illinois
- 1871Peshtigo fire — forest fire
- 1879Battle of Angamos — 1879 naval encounter of the War of the Pacific
- 1895Eulmi Sabyeon — assassination of Empress Myeongseong
- 1904Edmonton — capital city of the province of Alberta, Canada
- 1912First Balkan War — war involving the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire
- 1932Indian Air Force — Aerial service branch of the Indian Armed Forces
- 1944Battle of Crucifix Hill — 1944 battle of World War II
- 1952Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash — train wreck
- 1995Operation Southern Move — 1995 final Croatian Army and Croatian Defence Council offensive of the Bosnian War
- 20012001 Linate Airport runway collision — 2001 collision of an airliner and a business jet at Milan Linate Airport
- 20052005 Kashmir earthquake — earthquake
- 20162016 Sana'a funeral air raid — 2016 airstrike in Yemen
- 20202020 Ghazanchetsots Cathedral shelling — 2020 occurrence
- 20212021 Kunduz mosque bombing — suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
- 20222022 Crimean Bridge explosion — explosion on the Crimean Bridge that occurred on 8 October 2022
Births · 60
- 1551(Julian date)Giulio Caccini — Italian composer
- 1585(Julian date)Heinrich Schütz — German composer and organist (1585–1672)
- 1789William Swainson — English naturalist and artist (1789–1855)
- 1807Harriet Taylor Mill — British philosopher (1807–1858)
- 1850Henry Louis Le Châtelier — French chemist (1850–1936)
- 1870Louis Vierne — French organist and composer (1870–1937)
- 1873Ejnar Hertzsprung — Danish astronomer and chemist
- 1883Otto Heinrich Warburg — German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
- 1884Walter von Reichenau — German field marshal (1884–1942)
- 1889Philippe Thys — Belgian cyclist; three-time champion of the Tour de France (1889–1971)
- 1890Eddie Rickenbacker — United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1890–1973)
- 1892Marina Tsvetaeva — Russian poet (1892 – 1941)
- 1895Juan Perón — president of Argentina (1946–55, 1973–74)
- 1895Zog I of Albania — Albanian prime minister, president and king (1895-1961) (r.1922-1939)
- 1896Julien Duvivier — French film director (1896–1967)
- 1897Rouben Mamoulian — American film and theatre director (1897–1987)
- 1917Rodney Robert Porter — English biochemist and Nobel laureate (1917–1985)
- 1918Jens Christian Skou — Danish chemist (1918-2018)
- 1919Kiichi Miyazawa — 78th Prime Minister of Japan (1919–2007)
- 1920Frank Herbert — American writer (1920–1986)
- 1922Nils Liedholm — Swedish footballer and manager (1922-2007)
- 1927César Milstein — Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)
- 1928Didi — Brazilian footballer (1928-2001)
- 1930Tōru Takemitsu — Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory (1930–1996)
- 1932Ray Reardon — Welsh snooker player (1932–2024)
Deaths · 60
- 976Helen of Zadar — Queen consort of Kingdom of Croatia
- 1286(Julian date)John I, Duke of Brittany — French duke
- 1317(Julian date)Fushimi — 92nd emperor of Japan (r. 1287-98)
- 1354(Julian date)Cola di Rienzo — Italian politician
- 1436(Julian date)Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut — Dutch noble (1401–1436)
- 1469(Julian date)Filippo Lippi — Italian Renaissance painter (c. 1406–1469)
- 1594Ishikawa Goemon — Japanese outlaw
- 1647Christen Sørensen Longomontanus — Danish astronomer
- 1652John Greaves — English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian
- 1656Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony — elector of Saxony
- 1735Yongzheng Emperor — emperor of Qing-dynasty China from 1722 to 1735 (1678–1735)
- 1754Henry Fielding — English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)
- 1772Jean-Joseph de Mondonville — French composer and violinist
- 1793John Hancock — American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793)
- 1821Juan O’Donojú — Spanish general and colonial governor (1762–1821)
- 1826Friedrich Krupp — German entrepreneur
- 1834François Adrien Boieldieu — French composer
- 1869Franklin Pierce — president of the United States from 1853 to 1857
- 1879Miguel Grau — Peruvian admiral (1834-1879)
- 1895Empress Myeongseong — Empress Consort of Korea (1851–1895)
- 1927Ricardo Güiraldes — Argentine writer (1886-1927)
- 1928Larry Semon — American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (1889-1928)
- 1931John Monash — Australian general (1865–1931)
- 1936Premchand — Indian writer of Hindi and Urdu fiction (1880–1936); pioneer of social realism in Hindustani literature
- 1936Ahmet Tevfik Okday — Turkish statesperson (1845–1936)
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