July 8th, 1857

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Born on July 8th, 1857 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on July 8th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on July 8th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (July 1857)

Born on July 8th, 1857

Weekday

Wednesday

July 8th, 1857 was a Wednesday.

Age

166

People born on July 8th, 1857 will turn 167 this year (2024), in exactly 72 days .

Zodiac

♋

Cancer (The Crab)

June 22nd, 1857 - July 22nd, 1857

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 60,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 76 days, exactly on July 12th, 2024, people who were born on July 8th, 1857 will be 61,000 days old!

60,924 Days

8,703 Weeks

2,001 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on July 8th?

July 8th, 2021

Head of a Bear (pictured) sold at auction in London for a total of £8.8 million, a record for a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.

July 8th, 2014

German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known movements have been widely watched on YouTube.

July 8th, 2003

Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.

July 8th, 1994

Upon the death of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il (pictured) became the supreme leader of North Korea.

July 8th, 1980

Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan) killing all 166 people on board.

July 8th, 1966

King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.

July 8th, 1965

Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 is destroyed by a bomb near 100 Mile House, Canada, killing 52.

July 8th, 1962

Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic students' union building.

July 8th, 1950

Korean War: American troops withdrew from Cheonan, in modern-day South Korea, after suffering heavy casualties from a North Korean attack.

July 8th, 1947

Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.

July 8th, 1874

The Mounties begin their March West, their first journey to the Canadian Prairies.

July 8th, 1776

The United States Declaration of Independence received its first formal public reading, in Philadelphia.

July 8th, 1758

French and Indian War: French forces defeated the British at Fort Carillon on the shore of Lake Champlain in the British colony of New York.

July 8th, 1709

Great Northern War: Swedish forces under Charles XII were defeated by Russian troops led by Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava.

July 8th, 1663

Charles II of England granted the Rhode Island Royal Charter, described as the "grandest instrument of human liberty ever constructed", to the Baptist minister John Clarke.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 8th

Born on July 8th, 1857

Alfred Binet

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

*July 8th, 1857, Nice †October 18th, 1911, Paris

Rudolf Dellinger

German composer

*July 8th, 1857, Kraslice †September 24th, 1910, Dresden

Same Day
Who's birthday is on July 8th?

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

German general and airship pioneer (1838–1917)

*July 8th, 1838, Constance †March 8th, 1917, Berlin

John D. Rockefeller

American business magnate and philanthropist (1839–1937)

*July 8th, 1839, Richford †May 23rd, 1937, Ormond Beach

Khosit Phetpradab

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1994, Ratchaburi

Knud Arne Jürgensen

Danish music historian

*July 8th, 1952, Copenhagen

100

Jean Rouverol

American actress and screenwriter

*July 8th, 1916, St. Louis †March 24th, 2017, Dover

103

Alejandra Soler

Spanish teacher and politician (1913-2017)

*July 8th, 1913, Valencia †March 1st, 2017, Valencia

Louis Jordan

American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908–1975)

*July 8th, 1908, Arkansas †February 4th, 1975, Los Angeles

Rashid Sidek

Malaysian badminton player

*July 8th, 1968, Banting

Arthur Evans

British archaeologist and scholar (1851–1941)

*July 8th, 1851, Nash Mills †July 11th, 1941, Youlbury House

Hwang Ji-man

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1984, Miryang

Hiroyuki Saeki

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1987, Kurashiki

Febby Angguni

Indonesian badminton player

*July 8th, 1991, Bandung City

Käthe Kollwitz

German printmaker and sculptor (1867—1945)

*July 8th, 1867, Königsberg †April 22nd, 1945, Moritzburg

Zeynep Bastık

Turkish singer-songwriter, dancer and actress

*July 8th, 1993, Çanakkale

Virginie Delvingt

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1971, Strasbourg

Rachel van Cutsen

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1984, Spijkenisse

Ang Li Peng

Malaysian badminton player

*July 8th, 1981, Banting

William Vaughn Moody

United States dramatist and poet (1869-1910)

*July 8th, 1869, Spencer †October 17th, 1910, Colorado Springs

Rocky Carroll

American actor

*July 8th, 1963, Cincinnati

Walter Scheel

President of West Germany (1974-1979)

*July 8th, 1919, Solingen †August 24th, 2016, Bad Krozingen

Same year
Born in 1857

Ernst Fabricius

German historian, archaeologist and scholar (1857–1942)

*September 6th, 1857, Darmstadt †March 22nd, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau

William Howard Taft

President of the United States from 1909 to 1913

*September 15th, 1857, Cincinnati †March 8th, 1930, Washington metropolitan area

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist (1857-1913)

*November 26th, 1857, Geneva †February 22nd, 1913, Vufflens-le-Château

Friedrich August Emil Heuer

*December 27th, 1857, Rammenau †March 29th, 1934, Dresden

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

*February 22nd, 1857, Hamburg †January 1st, 1894, Bonn

Joseph Conrad

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

*December 3rd, 1857, Terekhove †August 3rd, 1924, Bishopsbourne

Pius XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

*May 31st, 1857, Desio †February 10th, 1939, Vatican City

Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer, Nobel Laureate

*July 24th, 1857, Fredericia †August 21st, 1943, Copenhagen

Ronald Ross

British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857 – 1932)

*May 13th, 1857, Almora †September 16th, 1932, London

Otto Sidow

German politician (SPD)

*May 1st, 1857, Friesack †September 6th, 1927, Brandenburg an der Havel

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)

*February 22nd, 1857, Paddington †January 8th, 1941, Nyeri

Eugène Regnault

French diplomat (1857-1941)

*December 28th, 1857, Boulogne-sur-Mer †September 25th, 1941, Gorre

Mario Méndez Bejarano

Spanish author

*December 5th, 1857, Seville †January 16th, 1931, Madrid

Julien Tiersot

French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936)

*July 5th, 1857, Bourg-en-Bresse †August 10th, 1936, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Margaret Deland

American writer and poet (1857–1945)

*February 23rd, 1857, Allegheny †January 13th, 1945, Boston

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Italian composer

*April 23rd, 1857, Naples †August 9th, 1919, Montecatini Terme

Edward Elgar

English composer (1857-1934)

*June 2nd, 1857, Lower Broadheath †February 23rd, 1934, Worcester

Charles Scott Sherrington

English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

*November 27th, 1857, Islington †March 4th, 1952, Eastbourne

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist

*March 7th, 1857, Wels †September 27th, 1940, Vienna

Theo Van Gogh

Dutch art dealer (1857–1891)

*May 1st, 1857, Zundert †January 25th, 1891, Utrecht

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on July 8th

Fixed holidays (Christian Feast Day) which are celebrated on July 8th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

VIII.VII.MDCCCLVII

8.7.1857

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1857 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
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July 8th, 1857

Born on July 8th, 1857

Weekday

Wednesday

Age

Zodiac

♋

Cancer (The Crab)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 60,000 days old!

60,924 Days

8,703 Weeks

2,001 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on July 8th?

Head of a Bear (pictured) sold at auction in London for a total of £8.8 million, a record for a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.

German citizen Lars Mittank disappeared from Varna Airport, Bulgaria; his last known movements have been widely watched on YouTube.

Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.

Upon the death of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il (pictured) became the supreme leader of North Korea.

Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day Kazakhstan) killing all 166 people on board.

King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.

Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 21 is destroyed by a bomb near 100 Mile House, Canada, killing 52.

Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic students' union building.

Korean War: American troops withdrew from Cheonan, in modern-day South Korea, after suffering heavy casualties from a North Korean attack.

Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.

The Mounties begin their March West, their first journey to the Canadian Prairies.

The United States Declaration of Independence received its first formal public reading, in Philadelphia.

French and Indian War: French forces defeated the British at Fort Carillon on the shore of Lake Champlain in the British colony of New York.

Great Northern War: Swedish forces under Charles XII were defeated by Russian troops led by Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava.

Charles II of England granted the Rhode Island Royal Charter, described as the "grandest instrument of human liberty ever constructed", to the Baptist minister John Clarke.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 8th

Born on July 8th, 1857

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

German composer

Same Day Who's birthday is on July 8th?

Same year Born in 1857

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on July 8th

Abda and Sabas

Auspicius of Trier

Grimbald

Kilian and Totnan

Saints Peter and Fevronia Day (Russian Orthodox)

Procopius of Scythopolis

Sunniva and companions

Theobald of Marly

July 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Air Force and Air Defense Forces Day (Ukraine)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

8.7.1857

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Age in days, weeks and months
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Birthdays
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Calendar
July 1857

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