Today in History
8 April
242 births · 102 deaths recorded
Notable Births
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A.J. & Big Justice
b. 2013
American father-and-son social media duo
Zaccharie Risacher
b. 2005
French basketball player (born 2005)
Jamie Drysdale
b. 2002
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2002)
Viktória Forster
b. 2002
Slovak athlete (born 2002)
Skai Jackson
b. 2002
American actress (born 2002)
CeeDee Lamb
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Lavinia Valbonesi
b. 1998
First Lady of Ecuador since 2023
John Havlicek
b. 1940
American basketball player (1940–2019)
Notable Deaths
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Nelsy Cruz
d. 2025
Dominican Republic politician (1982–2025)
Peter Higgs
d. 2024
British theoretical physicist (1929–2024)
Ralph Puckett
d. 2024
U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient (1926–2024)
Mimi Reinhardt
d. 2022
Austrian secretary (1915–2022)
Rick May
d. 2020
Canadian-American voice and theatre actor (1940–2020)
Abdul Momin Imambari
d. 2020
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1930–2020)
Jayakanthan
d. 2015
Indian writer, journalist, filmmaker
Rayson Huang
d. 2015
Hong Kong chemist