Famous People Born on February 8
Famous people born on February 8 include Jules Verne (1828), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834) and James Dean (1931).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Dmitri Mendeleev
Created the periodic table of elements
James Dean
Rebel Without a Cause, died at 24
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
John Ruskin
English polymath (1819–1900)
Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700–1782)
Mauricio Macri
President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
Jack Lemmon
American actor (1925–2001)
Martin Buber
Austrian-Israeli philosopher (1878–1965)
John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)
Constantine XI Palaiologos
Last Byzantine Emperor from 1449 to 1453
Franz Marc
German artist (1880–1916)
Benigno Aquino III
President of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016
John Grisham
American writer and lawyer (born 1955)
Joseph Schumpeter
Austrian-American economist (1883–1950)
Nick Nolte
American actor (born 1941)
Hristo Stoichkov
Bulgarian footballer (born 1966)
Joshua Kimmich
German footballer (born 1995)
William Tecumseh Sherman
United States Army general (1820–1891)
DIED ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Peter Kropotkin
Russian anarchist (1842–1921)
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic author (1902–1998)
Dennis Gabor
Hungarian-British physicist (1900–1979)
France Prešeren
Slovene poet (1800-1849)
Walther Bothe
German physicist (1891–1957)
Iris Murdoch
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
Alexis of Russia
Tsar of Russia from 1645 to 1676
Anna Nicole Smith
American model and television personality (1967–2007)
Ivan V of Russia
Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696
Sources
- February 8 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Jules Verne — Wikipedia
- Dmitri Mendeleev — Wikipedia
- James Dean — Wikipedia
- Peter the Great — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths