April 8th, 1944

Born on April 8th, 1944

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What happened on April 8th?

April 8th, 1968

BOAC Flight 712 experienced an engine fire shortly after take-off from London Heathrow, leading to the deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Jane Harrison, who was posthumously awarded a George Cross for heroism.

April 8th, 1959

A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the creation of a common business-oriented programming language, which became COBOL.

April 8th, 1943

Otto and Elise Hampel were executed in Berlin for performing acts of resistance against Nazism.

April 8th, 1942

World War II: The United States Army Air Forces flew its first mission from India over the Hump (the eastern end of the Himalayas) to deliver materiel to China.

April 8th, 1933

The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be unsuccessful.

April 8th, 1911

American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.

April 8th, 1904

France and the United Kingdom signed the Entente Cordiale, agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent conflict.

April 8th, 1864

American Civil War: Late-arriving reinforcements helped Confederate forces rout the Union Army at the Battle of Mansfield.

April 8th, 1630

Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany, New York, to establish Rensselaerswyck, which became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company.

April 8th, 1271

Crusades: The Knights Hospitaller surrendered the Krak des Chevaliers, a castle in present-day Syria, to the army of the Mamluk sultan Baybars.

April 8th, 0876

Abbasid forces decisively defeated the Saffarid emir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing the latter to halt his advance into Iraq.

April 8th, 0217

Roman emperor Caracalla (pictured) was assassinated near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.

April 8th, 1820

The Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue of a woman with its arms missing, was discovered on the island of Milos.

April 8th, 1960

The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.

April 8th, 1959

The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank.

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

Born on April 8th, 1944

80

Tariana Turia

New Zealand politician

*April 8th, 1944, New Zealand

73

Hywel Bennett

Welsh actor (1944-2017)

*April 8th, 1944, Garnant †July 25th, 2017, Cardiff

80

Odd Nerdrum

Norwegian painter

*April 8th, 1944, Helsingborg

80

Christoph Hein

German author and translator

*April 8th, 1944, Jasienica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

80

Michael Aschbacher

American mathematician

*April 8th, 1944, Little Rock

79

Burny Bos

Dutch television presenter, writer, film producer and presenter

*April 8th, 1944, Haarlem †December 1st, 2023, Amsterdam

80

Stanisław Fryźlewicz

Polish sportsperson and ice hockey player

*April 8th, 1944, Nowy Targ

80

Hans Pretterebner

Austrian journalist

*April 8th, 1944, Haselsdorf-Tobelbad

80

Masanobu Izumi

Japanese association football player

*April 8th, 1944, Hiroshima

80

Jean Benguigui

French actor

*April 8th, 1944, Oran

80

Joey D. Vieira

American actor

*April 8th, 1944, Los Angeles

80

Julissa

Mexican actress

*April 8th, 1944, Mexico City

67

Keef Hartley

English drummer and bandleader

*April 8th, 1944, Preston †November 26th, 2011, Royal Preston Hospital

73

Jiří Datel Novotný

Czech actor

*April 8th, 1944, Tábor †August 27th, 2017, Motol University Hospital

80

Stéphane Joinau

French hockey player

*April 8th, 1944, Bordeaux

80

Gramen Prinov

Bulgarian volleyball player

*April 8th, 1944, Kozloduy

80

Anders Refn

Danish film editor and director (born 1944)

*April 8th, 1944, Copenhagen

80

Jerry Abbott

Songwriter

*April 8th, 1944, Abilene

80

Joseph Yegba Maya

Camaeroonian footballer

*April 8th, 1944, Otélé

80

Lionel Williamson

Australian rugby league footballer

*April 8th, 1944, Innisfail

80

Giedrius Kuprevičius

Lithuanian composer

*April 8th, 1944, Kaunas

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Who's birthday is on April 8th?

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

80

Kofi Annan

7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)

*April 8th, 1938, Kumasi †August 18th, 2018, Bern

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

44

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

44

Michael Bennett

American choreographer (1943-1987)

*April 8th, 1943, Buffalo †July 2nd, 1987, Tucson

77

Bernard Cerquiglini

French linguist

*April 8th, 1947, 6th arrondissement of Lyon

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

81

Vivienne Westwood

British fashion designer (1941–2022)

*April 8th, 1941, Tintwistle †December 29th, 2022, Clapham

49

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

48

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

61

Dean Norris

American actor

*April 8th, 1963, South Bend

76

Walter Planckaert

Road bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1948, Nevele

27

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

68

Jim Piddock

British actor

*April 8th, 1956, Rochester

81

Barbara Göbel

East German swimmer

*April 8th, 1943, Jena

20

Liu Shengshu

Chinese badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

65

Michael Hübner

East German road bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1959, Chemnitz

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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