Births on 8 February
2000s
I.N
2001
South Korean singer (born 2001)
1900s
Alessia Russo
1999
English footballer (born 1999)
Rui Hachimura
1998
Japanese basketball player (born 1998)
Kathryn Newton
1997
American actress (born 1997)
Kenedy (footballer)
1996
Brazilian footballer (born 1996)
Leighton Vander Esch
1996
American football player (born 1996)
Gabriel Deck
1995
Argentine basketball player (born 1995)
Joshua Kimmich
1995
German footballer (born 1995)
Hakan Çalhanoğlu
1994
Turkish footballer (born 1994)
Nikki Yanofsky
1994
Canadian singer (born 1994)
Bruno Martins Indi
1992
Dutch footballer (born 1992)
Nam Woo-hyun
1991
South Korean singer and actor (born 1991)
Bethany Hamilton
1990
American surfer (born 1990)
Klay Thompson
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Zac Guildford
1989
New Zealand rugby union player
JaJuan Johnson
1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Julio Jones
1989
American football player (born 1989)
Brendan Smith (ice hockey)
1989
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1989)
Courtney Vandersloot
1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Keegan Meth
1988
Zimbabwean cricketer (born 1988)
Javi GarcÃa
1987
Spanish footballer (born 1987)
Carolina Kostner
1987
Italian figure skater (born 1987)
Anderson .Paak
1986
American singer (born 1986)
Petra Cetkovská
1985
Czech tennis player
Jeremy Davis
1985
American musician (born 1985)
Félix Pie
1985
Haitian / Dominican baseball player (born 1985)
Brian Randle
1985
American basketball player and coach (born 1985)
Sean Bergenheim
1984
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1984)
Cecily Strong
1984
American actress (born 1984)
Panagiotis Vasilopoulos
1984
Greek basketball player (born 1984)
Jermaine Anderson (basketball)
1983
Canadian professional basketball player
Cory Jane
1983
New Zealand rugby union player
Steve Gohouri
1981
Ivorian footballer (1981–2015)
Myriam Montemayor Cruz
1981
Musical artist
Jim Parrack
1981
American actor
William Jackson Harper
1980
American actor (born 1980)
Aaron Cook (baseball)
1979
American baseball player (born 1979)
Ranveer Brar
1978
Indian celebrity chef (born 1978)
Mick de Brenni
1978
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Springwood
Dave Farrell
1977
American bassist
Roman Kostomarov
1977
Russian ice dancer (born 1977)
Khaled Mashud
1976
Bangladeshi cricketer
Nicolas Vouilloz
1976
French mountain biker and rally driver (born 1976)
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
1974
French musician (born 1974)
Seth Green
1974
American actor and producer (born 1974)
Joshua Morrow
1974
American actor (born 1974)
Kimbo Slice
1974
American mixed martial artist (1974–2016)
Michelle Brogan
1973
Australian basketball player (born 1973)
Big Show
1972
American professional wrestler and actor
Aidy Boothroyd
1971
English football manager (born 1971)
Gas Lipstick
1971
Swedish-Finnish drummer
Susan Misner
1971
American actress and dancer (born 1971)
Stephanie Courtney
1970
American actress and comedian (born 1970)
John Filan
1970
Australian soccer player (born 1970)
Alonzo Mourning
1970
American basketball player (born 1970)
Pauly Fuemana
1969
New Zealand singer and songwriter (1969–2010)
Mary Robinette Kowal
1969
American author and puppeteer (born 1969)
Mary McCormack
1969
American actress (born 1969)
Gary Coleman
1968
American actor (1968–2010)
Adelir Antônio de Carli
1967
Brazilian priest and balloonist (1967–2008)
Michael Ansley
1967
American basketball player (born 1967)
Kirk Muller
1966
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1966)
Hristo Stoichkov
1966
Bulgarian footballer (born 1966)
Arlie Petters
1964
Belizean-American mathematical physicist
Santosh Sivan
1964
Indian cinematographer
Trinny Woodall
1964
English fashion advisor and designer (born 1964)
Mohammad Azharuddin
1963
Indian cricketer
Vince Neil
1961
American singer (born 1961)
Benigno Aquino III
1960
President of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016
Dino Ciccarelli
1960
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1960)
Henry Czerny
1959
Canadian film, stage and television actor
Heinz Günthardt
1959
Swiss tennis player (born 1959)
Andrew Hoy
1959
Australian equestrian (born 1959)
Mauricio Macri
1959
President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
Sherri Martel
1958
American professional wrestler and manager (1958–2007)
Marina Silva
1958
Brazilian environmentalist and politician (born 1958)
Karine Chemla
1957
French historian of mathematics and sinologist (born 1957)
Marques Johnson
1956
American basketball player (born 1956)
John Grisham
1955
American writer and lawyer (born 1955)
Jim Neidhart
1955
American professional wrestler (1955–2018)
Mary Steenburgen
1953
American actress (born 1953)
Marinho Chagas
1952
Brazilian footballer
Brooke Adams (actress)
1949
American actress (born 1949)
Niels Arestrup
1949
French-Danish actor, film director and screenwriter (1949–2024)
Dan Seals
1948
American singer-songwriter (1948–2009)
Roger Lloyd-Pack
1944
English actor (1944–2014)
Sebastião Salgado
1944
Brazilian photographer (1944–2025)
Creed Bratton
1943
American actor and musician (born 1943)
Valerie Thomas
1943
American data scientist and inventor
Robert Klein
1942
American stand-up comedian (b. 1942)
Terry Melcher
1942
American record producer (1942–2004)
Nick Nolte
1941
American actor (born 1941)
Tom Rush
1941
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Jagjit Singh
1941
Indian singer (1941–2011)
Sophie Kanza
1940
Congolese politician (1940–1999)
Ted Koppel
1940
American television journalist (born 1940)
Jose Maria Sison
1939
Filipino Maoist leader (1939–2022)
Joe Raposo
1937
American composer (1937–1989)
Harry Wu
1937
Chinese-American human rights activist (1937–2016)
Elly Ameling
1933
Dutch soprano
Cliff Allison
1932
British racing driver (1932–2005)
John Williams
1932
American composer and conductor (born 1932)
James Dean
1931
American actor (1931–1955)
Shadia
1931
Egyptian actress/singer (1931–2017)
Alejandro Rey
1930
American actor and television director (1930–1987)
Neal Cassady
1926
American writer (1926–1968)
Birgitte Reimer
1926
Danish actress (1926–2021)
Jack Lemmon
1925
American actor (1925–2001)
Audrey Meadows
1922
American actress (1922–1996)
Barney Danson
1921
Canadian politician
Nexhmije Hoxha
1921
Albanian politician (1921–2020)
Balram Singh Rai
1921
Guyanese politician (1921–2022)
Lana Turner
1921
American actress (1921–1995)
Freddie Blassie
1918
American professional wrestler and manager (1918–2003)
Georges Guétary
1915
French singer and actor (1915 – 1997)
Bill Finger
1914
American comics writer (1914–1974)
Betty Field
1913
American actress (1916–1973)
Danai Stratigopoulou
1913
Musical artist
Elizabeth Bishop
1911
American poet and short-story writer (1911–1979)
Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)
1909
Australian philanthropist (1909–2012)
Chester Carlson
1906
American physicist and inventor (1906–1968)
Greta Keller
1903
Austrian-American cabaret singer and actress (1903–1977)
Tunku Abdul Rahman
1903
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1957 to 1970
Demchugdongrub
1902
Chinese Mongol prince (1902–1966)
1800s
Lonnie Johnson (musician)
1899
American blues and jazz musician (1899–1970)
Zakir Husain
1897
President of India from 1967 to 1969
Khorloogiin Choibalsan
1895
Leader of Mongolia from 1939 to 1952
King Vidor
1894
American writer and director (1894–1982)
Ba Maw
1893
Burmese leader and independence activist (1893–1977)
Claro M. Recto
1890
Filipino politician (1890–1960)
Edith Evans
1888
English actress (1888–1976)
Charlie Ruggles
1886
American actor (1886–1970)
Snowy Baker
1884
Australian athlete, sports promoter, and actor
Isak Penttala
1883
Finnish politician (1883–1955)
Joseph Schumpeter
1883
Austrian political economist (1883–1950)
Thomas Selfridge
1882
First person to die in an airplane crash (1908)
Franz Marc
1880
German artist (1880–1916)
Viktor Schwanneke
1880
German actor
Martin Buber
1878
German-Israeli philosopher (1878–1965)
Paula Modersohn-Becker
1876
German expressionist painter and draftswoman (1876–1907)
Moses Gomberg
1866
American chemist (1866–1947)
Adella Brown Bailey
1860
American politician and suffragist
Kate Chopin
1850
American author (1850–1904)
Dmitri Mendeleev
1834
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Vital-Justin Grandin
1829
Catholic bishop
Jules Verne
1828
French writer (1828–1905)
Henry Walter Bates
1825
English naturalist and explorer
Maxime Du Camp
1822
French writer and photographer (1822–1894)
William Tecumseh Sherman
1820
United States Army general (1820–1891)
John Ruskin
1819
English polymath (1819–1900)
Richard S. Ewell
1817
United States Army officer and Confederate general (1817-1872)
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
1807
English sculptor and natural history artist (1807–1894)
Before 1800
Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia
1798
Russian grand duke (1798–1849)
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria
1792
Empress of Austria from 1816 to 1835
Joseph Leopold Eybler
1764
Austrian composer
Gia Long
1762
Founding emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty (r. 1802–04)
André Grétry
1741
Composer from present-day Belgium (1741–1813)
Emperor Sakuramachi
1720
Emperor of Japan from 1735 to 1747
Daniel Bernoulli
1700
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700–1782)
Charles-Jean-François Hénault
1685
French writer and historian (1685–1770)
Guercino
1591
Italian Baroque artist (1591–1666)
Robert Burton
1577
English scholar and author (1577–1640)
Agrippa d'Aubigné
1552
French poet (1552–1630)
Daniele Barbaro
1514
Italian cleric and diplomat
Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg
1487
Duke of Württemberg
Constantine XI Palaiologos
1405
Last Byzantine Emperor from 1449 to 1453
Afonso IV of Portugal
1291
King of Portugal from 1325 to 1357
Yaroslav II of Vladimir
1191
Grand Prince of Vladimir (r. 1238–1246)
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid
882
Ruler of Egypt and the Levant from 935 to 946
Proclus
412
5th-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
AD 120
120
Calendar year