July 8th, 2020

Born on July 8th, 2020

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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

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

29

Khosit Phetpradab

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1994, Ratchaburi

71

Knud Arne Jürgensen

Danish music historian

*July 8th, 1952, Copenhagen

30

Zeynep Bastık

Turkish singer-songwriter, dancer and actress

*July 8th, 1993, Çanakkale

32

Febby Angguni

Indonesian badminton player

*July 8th, 1991, Bandung City

36

Hiroyuki Saeki

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1987, Kurashiki

39

Hwang Ji-man

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1984, Miryang

39

Rachel van Cutsen

Badminton player

*July 8th, 1984, Spijkenisse

42

Ang Li Peng

Malaysian badminton player

*July 8th, 1981, Banting

55

Rashid Sidek

Malaysian badminton player

*July 8th, 1968, Banting

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

103

Alejandra Soler

Spanish teacher and politician (1913-2017)

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

60

Rocky Carroll

American actor

*July 8th, 1963, Cincinnati

25

Jaden Smith

American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor

*July 8th, 1998, Malibu

78

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

German general and airship pioneer (1838–1917)

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

55

Billy Crudup

American actor (born 1968)

*July 8th, 1968, Manhasset

31

Sandi Morris

American pole vaulter

*July 8th, 1992, Downers Grove

50

Kathleen Robertson

Canadian actress

*July 8th, 1973, Hamilton

97

John D. Rockefeller

American business magnate and philanthropist (1839–1937)

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

65

Kevin Bacon

American actor (born 1958)

*July 8th, 1958, Philadelphia

22

Evelyn Walsh

Canadian pair skater

*July 8th, 2001, Stratford

62

Ute Bertram

German politician

*July 8th, 1961, Hildesheim

35

Jesse Sergent

New Zealand racing cyclist

*July 8th, 1988, Feilding

59

Harald Ebner

German politician

*July 8th, 1964, Göppingen

66

Louis Jordan

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

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

33

Kevin Trapp

German association football player

*July 8th, 1990, Merzig

60

Andrew Fletcher

English keyboardist (1961–2022)

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

38

Camila Moreno

Chilean rock and folk singer-songwriter

*July 8th, 1985, Santiago

31

Son Heung-min

South Korean association football player

*July 8th, 1992, Chuncheon

32

Virgil van Dijk

Dutch footballer (born 1991)

*July 8th, 1991, Breda

63

Susanne Nielsson

Danish swimmer

*July 8th, 1960, Aarhus

58

Corey Parker

American actor

*July 8th, 1965, New York City

28

Julia Gretarsdottir

Icelandic figure skater

*July 8th, 1995, Reykjavík

26

Maximilian Pfisterer

German ice dancer

*July 8th, 1997, Munich

29

Jordan Adams

American basketball player

*July 8th, 1994, Atlanta

36

Maya Berović

Bosnian-and-Heryegovinian pop-singer

*July 8th, 1987, Malešići, Ilijaš

29

Phil Bauhaus

German cyclist

*July 8th, 1994, Bocholt

62

Olaf Johannessen

Faroese/Danish actor

*July 8th, 1961, Tórshavn

97

Walter Scheel

President of West Germany (1974-1979)

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

41

Mikołaj Burda

Polish rower

*July 8th, 1982, Toruń

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Yes: 2020 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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