Today in History
8 August
261 births · 104 deaths · 61 events recorded
Notable Births
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Alysa Liu
b. 2005
American figure skater (born 2005)
Félix Auger-Aliassime
b. 2000
Canadian tennis player (born 2000)
Princess Beatrice
b. 1988
British princess (born 1988)
Tatjana Maria
b. 1987
German tennis player (born 1987)
Dennis Drew
b. 1957
Musical artist (b. 1957)
David Grant (singer)
b. 1956
Jamaican-English singer and vocal coach
Esther Williams
b. 1921
American swimmer and actress (1921–2013)
Jack Renshaw
b. 1909
Australian politician (1909–1987)
Notable Deaths
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Issa Hayatou
d. 2024
Cameroonian basketball player and football executive (1946–2024)
Mitzi McCall
d. 2024
American actress (1930–2024)
Chi-Chi Rodríguez
d. 2024
Puerto Rican professional golfer (1935–2024)
Fernando Castro Pacheco
d. 2013
Mexican artist (1918–2013)
John H. Johnson
d. 2005
American businessman and publisher (1918–2005)
Danilo Blanuša
d. 1987
Croatian Serb mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1903–1987)
Eugène Boudin
d. 1898
French painter
Madeleine de Verchères
d. 1747
Canadian battle hero
On This Day in History
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2024
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as Chief Adviser to form an interim government in Bangladesh.
Muhammad Yunus
2023
Hawaii wildfires: Seventeen thousand acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
2023 Hawaii wildfires
2022
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executes a search warrant at former president Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
2019
An explosion at the State Central Navy Testing Range in Nyonoksa, Russia, kills five people.
Nyonoksa radiation accident
2016
Terrorists attack a government hospital in Quetta, Pakistan with a suicide blast and shooting, killing between 70 and 94 people, and injuring around 130 others.
August 2016 Quetta attacks
2015
Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
2015 Harris County shooting
2013
A suicide bombing at a funeral in the Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 31 people.
August 2013 Quetta bombing
2010
China Floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
2010 China floods