8 August
Notable Births
Alysa Liu
b. 2005
American figure skater (born 2005)
Félix Auger-Aliassime
b. 2000
Canadian tennis player (born 2000)
Xiaojun
b. 1999
Chinese singer and actor
Ryan Garcia
b. 1998
American boxer (born 1998)
Shawn Mendes
b. 1998
Canadian singer (born 1998)
Panipak Wongpattanakit
b. 1997
Thai taekwondo practitioner (born 1997)
A'ja Wilson
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
S.Coups
b. 1995
South Korean rapper (born 1995)
Cameron Payne
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Emilie Mehl
b. 1993
Norwegian politician (born 1993)
Josip Drmić
b. 1992
Swiss footballer (born 1992)
Casey Cott
b. 1992
American actor (born 1992)
Yandy Díaz
b. 1991
Cuban baseball player (born 1991)
Nélson Oliveira
b. 1991
Portuguese footballer
Tyrone Peachey
b. 1991
Australian rugby league footballer
Joël Matip
b. 1991
Cameroon international footballer (born 1991)
Vladimír Darida
b. 1990
Czech footballer
Parker Kligerman
b. 1990
American racing driver (born 1990)
Aleksandra Szwed
b. 1990
Polish actress and singer (born 1990)
Esther Williams
b. 1921
American swimmer and actress (1921–2013)
Notable Deaths
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)
Steve Symms
d. 2024
American politician and lobbyist (1938–2024)
Sixto Rodriguez
d. 2023
American musician (1942–2023)
Olivia Newton-John
d. 2022
British and Australian singer and actress (1948–2022)
Bill Davis
d. 2021
18th premier of Ontario (1929–2021)
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe
d. 2020
Colombian footballer and manager (1929–2020)
Alfredo Lim
d. 2020
Filipino politician (1929–2020)
Nicholas Bett
d. 2018
Kenyan hurdler (1990–2018)
Glen Campbell
d. 2017
American musician (1936–2017)
Sean Price
d. 2015
American rapper (1972–2015)
Gus Mortson
d. 2015
Ice hockey player
Menahem Golan
d. 2014
Israeli film director and producer (1929–2014)
Leonardo Legaspi
d. 2014
Filipino archbishop
Peter Sculthorpe
d. 2014
Australian composer (1929–2014)
Red Wilson (baseball)
d. 2014
American baseball and football player (1929–2014)
Karen Black
d. 2013
American actress, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter (1939–2013)
Johannes Bluyssen
d. 2013
20th and 21st-century Dutch Catholic bishop
Fernando Castro Pacheco
d. 2013
Mexican artist (1918–2013)
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
2009
A Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil and Piper PA-32R collide over the Hudson River, killing nine people.
Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil
2008
A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
EuroCity
2008
The 29th modern summer Olympic Games took place in Beijing, China until August 24.
2008 Summer Olympics
2007
An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
2007 Brooklyn tornado
2007
Space Shuttle program: STS-118 Mission: Endeavour takes off on a mission to the International Space Station.
STS-118
2004
A tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumps approximately 800 pounds of human waste onto a boat full of passengers.
Dave Matthews Band
2001
Albanian rebels ambush a convoy of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia near Tetovo, killing 10 soldiers.
Karpalak ambush
2000
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
H. L. Hunley
1998
Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist.
Mazar-i-Sharif
1993
The 7.8 Mw Guam earthquake shakes the island with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing around $250 million in damage and injuring up to 71 people.
1993 Guam earthquake
1991
The Warsaw radio mast, then the tallest construction ever built, collapses.
Warsaw radio mast
1990
Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
Iraq