8 April
Notable Births
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
Kim Woojin
b. 1997
South Korean singer (born 1997)
Roquan Smith
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Arno Verschueren
b. 1997
Belgian footballer (born 1997)
Keira Walsh
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Forrest Frank
b. 1995
American singer, songwriter and producer (born 1995)
Cedi Osman
b. 1995
Turkish basketball player (born 1995)
Viktor Arvidsson
b. 1993
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1993)
TBJZL
b. 1993
English YouTuber (born 1993)
Jeff McNeil
b. 1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Jonghyun
b. 1990
South Korean singer-songwriter (1990–2017)
Matty Healy
b. 1989
English singer-songwriter (born 1989)
Jenni Asserholt
b. 1988
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1988)
Royston Drenthe
b. 1987
Dutch former association footballer (born 1987)
Notable Deaths
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
Jean-Claude Turcotte
d. 2015
Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (1936–2015)
Emmanuel III Delly
d. 2014
Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 2003 to 2012
Karlheinz Deschner
d. 2014
German writer and activist (1924–2014)
Ivan Mercep
d. 2014
New Zealand architect (1930–2014)
Mikhail Beketov
d. 2013
Russian journalist (1958–2013)
Annette Funicello
d. 2013
American actress and singer (1942–2013)
Sara Montiel
d. 2013
Spanish actress and singer (1928–2013)
José Luis Sampedro
d. 2013
Spanish economist and writer (1917–2013)
Margaret Thatcher
d. 2013
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
Blair Kiel
d. 2012
American football player (1961–2012)
Jack Tramiel
d. 2012
American businessman and Holocaust survivor (1928–2012)
Janusz K. Zawodny
d. 2012