April 8th, 1969

Born on April 8th, 1969

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 20,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 732 days, exactly on October 6th, 2026, people who were born on April 8th, 1969 will be 21,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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, 1969

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

55

Dulce Pontes

Portuguese songwriter and singer

*April 8th, 1969, Montijo

55

Yared Dibaba

German actor, television presenter and radio host

*April 8th, 1969

55

Lyane Leigh

German singer

*April 8th, 1969, Hattingen

55

Kelvin Atkinson

Nevada State Senator

*April 8th, 1969, Chicago

55

Will Sandin

American actor

*April 8th, 1969, California

55

Martin Bulíř

Czech archer

*April 8th, 1969, Liberec

55

Andrea Ladányi

Hungarian gymnast

*April 8th, 1969, Budapest

55

Erber Burgos

Salvadoran footballer

*April 8th, 1969, Antiguo Cuscatlán

55

Arturo Ernesto Reyes Montero

Colombia U-23 National Team Manager

*April 8th, 1969, Santa Marta

55

Sorato

Brazilian association football player

*April 8th, 1969, Araras

55

Pavel Blažek

Czech minister of justice of the CR, member of Czech Parliament (2013–2017), attorney, local politician and lawyer

*April 8th, 1969, Brno

55

Tham Simpson

Canadian Paralympic athlete

*April 8th, 1969, Vietnam

55

Vladimir Solodukhin

Russian association football player

*April 8th, 1969, Bryansk

55

Sajid Afridi

Pakistani cricketer

*April 8th, 1969, Charsadda

55

Kirk Dressendorfer

American baseball player

*April 8th, 1969, Houston

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

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

49

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

56

Patricia Arquette

American actress (born 1968)

*April 8th, 1968, Chicago

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

44

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

48

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

54

Will Bond

American politician

*April 8th, 1970, Jacksonville

54

Catherine Chidgey

New Zealand writer

*April 8th, 1970, Auckland

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

61

Dean Norris

American actor

*April 8th, 1963, South Bend

54

Andrej Plenković

Prime Minister of Croatia since 2016

*April 8th, 1970, Zagreb

80

Kofi Annan

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

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

58

Robin Wright

American actress

*April 8th, 1966, Dallas

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

59

Michael Jones

Former New Zealand rugby player

*April 8th, 1965, Auckland

20

Liu Shengshu

Chinese badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

54

Care Santos

Spanish writer

*April 8th, 1970, Mataró

27

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

65

Michael Hübner

East German road bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1959, Chemnitz

Same year
Born in 1969

55

Brian Krause

American actor

*February 1st, 1969, Lake Forest

55

Lucero

Mexican singer and actress

*August 29th, 1969, Mexico City

55

Justine Frischmann

English musician

*September 16th, 1969, Kensington

55

Søren Rasted

Danish musician

*June 13th, 1969, Blovstrød

55

Thomas Vinterberg

Danish film director

*May 19th, 1969, Copenhagen

54

Magnus Samuelsson

Swedish strongman

*December 21st, 1969, Kisa

55

Michael Schumacher

German racing driver

*January 3rd, 1969, Hürth

54

Jens Eriksen

Danish badminton player

*December 30th, 1969, Copenhagen

55

Ansgar Brinkmann

German footballer

*July 5th, 1969, Vechta

55

Catrine Bengtsson

Badminton player

*September 21st, 1969, Gothenburg

55

Brad Beven

Triathlete

*September 18th, 1969, Mirriwinni

55

Jyri Aalto

Finnish badminton player

*July 11th, 1969, Helsinki

55

Markus Gisdol

German association football player and manager

*August 17th, 1969, Geislingen an der Steige

55

Jintara Poonlarp

Thai female singer

*March 6th, 1969, Kaset Wisai

55

Andreas Reinke

German association football player and manager (born 1969)

*January 10th, 1969, Krakow am See

55

Jennifer Lopez

American singer and actress

*July 24th, 1969, The Bronx

54

Linus Torvalds

Finnish-American software engineer

*December 28th, 1969, Helsinki

55

Maj Helen Sorkmo

Norwegian cross-country skier

*August 14th, 1969, Os Municipality

54

Matthew Perry

American-Canadian actor (1969–2023)

*August 19th, 1969, Williamstown †October 28th, 2023, Los Angeles

55

Bettina Stucky

Swiss actress

*January 1st, 1969, Bern

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on April 8th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on April 8th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on April 8th, 1969
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1969 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
April 1969