Famous People Born on July 8
Famous people born on July 8 include John D. Rockefeller (1839), Jean de La Fontaine (1621) and Pyotr Kapitsa (1894).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Jean de La Fontaine
French fabulist and poet (1621–1695)
Pyotr Kapitsa
Russian and Soviet physicist (1894–1984)
Igor Tamm
Soviet physicist (1895–1971)
Son Heung-min
South Korean footballer (born 1992)
Artemisia Gentileschi
Italian painter (born 1593)
Nelson Rockefeller
Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Virgil van Dijk
Dutch footballer (born 1991)
Walter Scheel
President of Germany from 1974 to 1979
Kevin Bacon
American actor (born 1958)
Anjelica Huston
American actress (born 1951)
Philip Johnson
American architect (1906–2005)
Tzipi Livni
Israeli politician (born 1958)
Robbie Keane
Irish footballer and manager (born 1980)
Ernst Bloch
German Marxist philosopher (1885–1977)
Sophia Bush
American actress (born 1982)
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister of Japan (2006–2007; 2012–2020)
Kim Il Sung
Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet (1792–1822)
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician and physicist (1629–1695)
Vivien Leigh
British actress (1913–1967)
Pope Gregory XV
Head of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623
Ernest Borgnine
American actor (1917–2012)
Pope Eugene III
Head of the Catholic Church from 1145 to 1153
Betty Ford
First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Bonnie Tyler
Welsh singer (1951–2026)
Sources
- July 8 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- John D. Rockefeller — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths