July 8th, 1953

Born on July 8th, 1953

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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, 1953

70

Henri Gillet

American mathematician

*July 8th, 1953, Tangier

70

Ferenc Kocsis

Hungarian wrestler

*July 8th, 1953, Budapest

70

Brad Lackey

American motorcycle racer

*July 8th, 1953, Berkeley

70

Sakari Kukko

Finnish musician

*July 8th, 1953, Kajaani

70

Zhou Long

Chinese-American composer

*July 8th, 1953, Beijing

70

Olufemi Lanlehin

Nigerian politician

*July 8th, 1953, Ibadan

70

Eberhard Bosslet

German artist

*July 8th, 1953, Speyer

70

Zachi Noy

Israeli actor

*July 8th, 1953, Haifa

70

Ignacio Berroa

Cuban musician

*July 8th, 1953, Havana

70

Terje Nyberget

Norwegian politician

*July 8th, 1953, Østre Toten Municipality

62

Gudrun Hauer

Austrian historian of modern age

*July 8th, 1953, Linz †November 4th, 2015, Vienna

67

Mitch Hoopes

American football player (1953-2020)

*July 8th, 1953, Bisbee †August 11th, 2020

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

71

Knud Arne Jürgensen

Danish music historian

*July 8th, 1952, Copenhagen

29

Khosit Phetpradab

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1994, Ratchaburi

55

Rashid Sidek

Malaysian badminton player

*July 8th, 1968, Banting

69

David Aaronovitch

English journalist, television presenter and author

*July 8th, 1954, London

65

Kevin Bacon

American actor (born 1958)

*July 8th, 1958, Philadelphia

60

Rocky Carroll

American actor

*July 8th, 1963, Cincinnati

67

Jean-René Bernaudeau

French road racing cyclist and directeur sportif

*July 8th, 1956, Saint-Maurice-le-Girard

72

Anjelica Huston

American actress

*July 8th, 1951, Santa Monica

52

Virginie Delvingt

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1971, Strasbourg

100

Jean Rouverol

American actress and screenwriter

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

62

Ute Bertram

German politician

*July 8th, 1961, Hildesheim

39

Hwang Ji-man

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1984, Miryang

103

Alejandra Soler

Spanish teacher and politician (1913-2017)

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

71

Marianne Williamson

American author and politician

*July 8th, 1952, Houston

60

Andrew Fletcher

English keyboardist (1961–2022)

*July 8th, 1961, Nottingham †May 26th, 2022, London

42

Ang Li Peng

Malaysian badminton player

*July 8th, 1981, Banting

36

Hiroyuki Saeki

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1987, Kurashiki

63

Susanne Nielsson

Danish swimmer

*July 8th, 1960, Aarhus

39

Rachel van Cutsen

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1984, Spijkenisse

32

Febby Angguni

Indonesian badminton player

*July 8th, 1991, Bandung City

Same year
Born in 1953

71

Harald Jähner

German journalist and writer

*January 1st, 1953, Duisburg

70

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor, director and musician

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

70

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

70

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, President of China since 2013

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

70

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

70

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

70

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

71

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

70

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

70

Michael Wittenborn

German actor

*May 31st, 1953, Bielefeld

64

Stephen Paddock

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

*April 9th, 1953, Clinton †October 1st, 2017, Mandalay Bay

71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

34

Erland van Lidth

American sport wrestler and actor

*June 3rd, 1953, Hilversum †September 23rd, 1987, New York City

71

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

70

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

70

Dominique de Villepin

95th Prime Minister of France

*November 14th, 1953, Khemisset

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

70

Tom Barrett

Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1953–)

*December 8th, 1953, Milwaukee

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No: With 365 days 1953 is a normal year and no leap year.

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