April 8th, 1983

Born on April 8th, 1983

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 14,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 13 days, exactly on May 2nd, 2024, people who were born on April 8th, 1983 will be 15,000 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 that 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 found the Manor of 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 Baibars.

April 8th, 0876

Abbasid forces decisively defeated those of 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

A Greek peasant discovered a statue of a woman with its arms missing—the Venus de Milo—on the Aegean 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, 1983

41

Edson Braafheid

Dutch association football player

*April 8th, 1983, Paramaribo

41

Jérémie Galland

French road cyclist

*April 8th, 1983, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges

41

Josh Widdicombe

English stand-up comedian and radio host

*April 8th, 1983, Hammersmith

41

Cauê Macris

Brazilian politician

*April 8th, 1983, Americana

41

Ovince St. Preux

American mixed martial artist

*April 8th, 1983, Miami

41

Jeremy Shepherd

Canadian soccer player

*April 8th, 1983, Brampton

41

Danny Tickle

English rugby league footballer

*April 8th, 1983, Golborne

41

Signe Søes

Danish orienteer

*April 8th, 1983, Aarhus

41

Dragan Paljić

German footballer

*April 8th, 1983, Starnberg

41

Eric Patterson

American baseball player

*April 8th, 1983, Tallahassee

41

Chris Iannetta

American baseball player

*April 8th, 1983, Providence

41

Hakan Söyler

Turkish footballer

*April 8th, 1983, Ankara

41

Musawengosi Mguni

Zimbabwean footballer

*April 8th, 1983, Bulawayo

41

Tatyana Arkhipova

Russian long-distance runner

*April 8th, 1983, Urmarsky District

41

Pablo Portillo

Mexican singer

*April 8th, 1983, Mexico City

41

Anastasiya Yermakova

Russian synchronised swimmer

*April 8th, 1983, Moscow

41

Katja Abel

Artistic gymnast

*April 8th, 1983, East Berlin

41

Tez Ilyas

English actor and comedian

*April 8th, 1983, Blackburn

41

Fumiaki Kobayashi

Japanese politician

*April 8th, 1983, Fukuyama

41

Shivgopal Krishna

Film director

*April 8th, 1983, Agra

41

Bruno Vale

Portuguese footballer (1983-)

*April 8th, 1983, Mafamude

41

Roland Števko

Slovak soccer player

*April 8th, 1983, Levice

41

Youri Moltchan

Fencer

*April 8th, 1983, Tiraspol

41

José Luis Grant

Honduran footballer

*April 8th, 1983, La Ceiba

41

Gayathri Raguram

Indian politician, Actress

*April 8th, 1983, Chennai

41

Ben Czislowski

Australian rugby league footballer

*April 8th, 1983, Townsville

41

Natalie Hurst

Basketball player

*April 8th, 1983, Canberra

41

Takuma Hidaka

Japanese association football player

*April 8th, 1983, Fukuyama

41

Tsuyoshi Kaneko

Japanese association football player

*April 8th, 1983, Utsunomiya

41

Lasith Fernando

Sri Lankan cricketer

*April 8th, 1983, Colombo

41

Theodore Jantjies

South African actor

*April 8th, 1983, Heidelberg

41

Oleg Platov

Ukrainian boxer

*April 8th, 1983, Dnipro

41

Serena Reeder

Actress

*April 8th, 1983, Washington, D.C.

41

Rasmus Lind

Danish handball player

*April 8th, 1983, Struer

41

Levy Tran

American actress and model

*April 8th, 1983, San Jose

38

Diogo Correa de Oliveira

Brazilian association football player

*April 8th, 1983, São Bernardo do Campo †June 9th, 2021, Maringá

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Who's birthday is on April 8th?

44

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

48

Maja Pohar

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Ljubljana

49

Keiko Yoshitomi

Japanese badminton player

*April 8th, 1975, Fukuoka Prefecture

63

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

27

Face

Russian rapper

*April 8th, 1997, Ufa

42

Aleksejs Saramotins

Latvian racing cyclist

*April 8th, 1982, Riga

43

Lito Sheppard

American football player, cornerback

*April 8th, 1981, Jacksonville

20

Liu Shengshu

Chinese badminton player

*April 8th, 2004, Liaoning

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

38

Igor Akinfeev

Russian association football player

*April 8th, 1986, Vidnoye

80

Kofi Annan

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

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

42

Allu Arjun

Indian actor

*April 8th, 1982, Chennai

43

Wouter Van Mechelen

Belgian bicycle racer

*April 8th, 1981, Antwerp

45

Marzena Sowa

Comic author

*April 8th, 1979, Stalowa Wola

61

Dean Norris

American actor

*April 8th, 1963, South Bend

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

39

Marie Marchand-Arvier

French alpine skier

*April 8th, 1985, Laxou

Same year
Born in 1983

40

Kamilla Rytter Juhl

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1983, Skagen

40

Loreen

Moroccan and Swedish singer and songwriter

*October 16th, 1983, Danderyd

40

Katrina Kaif

British-Indian actress (born 1983)

*July 16th, 1983, Hong Kong

41

John Lundvik

Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter

*January 27th, 1983, London

41

Kaisa Mäkäräinen

Finnish biathlete

*January 11th, 1983, Ristijärvi

40

Carsten Mogensen

Danish badminton player

*July 24th, 1983, Roskilde

41

Lee Jae-jin

South Korean badminton player

*January 26th, 1983, Miryang

41

Bao Chunlai

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1983, Changsha

41

Summer Cem

German rapper

*April 11th, 1983, Mönchengladbach

40

Liisi Koikson

Estonian singer

*June 4th, 1983, Kilingi-Nõmme

40

Philipp Lahm

German association football player

*November 11th, 1983, Munich

41

Laura de Boer

Dutch actress

*February 26th, 1983, Amsterdam

40

Lin Dan

Chinese badminton player

*October 14th, 1983, Longyan

40

Petya Nedelcheva

Bulgarian badminton player

*July 30th, 1983, Stara Zagora

41

Vitaa

French singer-songwriter

*March 14th, 1983, Mulhouse

41

Michelle Butler-Emmett

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1983, Durban

40

Shama Aboobakar

Mauritian badminton player

*June 7th, 1983, Beau Bassin-Rose Hill

40

Mila Kunis

Ukrainian-American actress

*August 14th, 1983, Chernivtsi

40

Chris Dednam

Badminton player

*August 8th, 1983, Bloemfontein

40

Anastasia Russkikh

Russian badminton player

*May 20th, 1983, Gatchina

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1983 is a normal year and no leap year.

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