Births on 8 July
1900s
İpek Öz
1999
Turkish tennis player (born 1999)
Maya Hawke
1998
American actress and singer (born 1998)
Jaden Smith
1998
American rapper and actor (born 1998)
Bryce Love
1997
American football player (born 1997)
Marlon Humphrey
1996
American football player (born 1996)
David Corenswet
1993
American actor (born 1993)
Ariel Camacho
1992
Mexican musician (1992–2015)
Son Heung-min
1992
South Korean footballer (born 1992)
Virgil van Dijk
1991
Dutch footballer (born 1991)
Kevin Trapp
1990
German footballer (born 1990)
Yarden Gerbi
1989
Israeli judoka (born 1989)
Tor Marius Gromstad
1989
Norwegian footballer (1989–2012)
Miki Roqué
1988
Spanish footballer (1988–2012)
Jesse Sergent
1988
New Zealand racing cyclist
Josh Harrison
1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Renata Costa
1986
Brazilian footballer
John Bowker (baseball)
1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Rich Peverley
1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)
Shonette Azore-Bruce
1982
Barbadian netball player
Sophia Bush
1982
American actress (born 1982)
Hakim Warrick
1982
American basketball player (born 1982)
Wolfram Müller
1981
German middle-distance runner
Anastasia Myskina
1981
Russian tennis player
Eric Chouinard
1980
American-Canadian ice hockey player (born 1980)
Robbie Keane
1980
Irish association football player and football manager (born 1980)
Mat McBriar
1979
Australian gridiron football player (born 1979)
Ben Jelen
1979
Musical artist
Urmas Rooba
1978
Estonian footballer (born 1978)
Christian Abbiati
1977
Italian footballer (born 1977)
Paolo Tiralongo
1977
Italian road bicycle racer
Milo Ventimiglia
1977
American actor (born 1977)
Wang Zhizhi
1977
Chinese basketball player (born 1977)
Talal El Karkouri
1976
Moroccan footballer (born 1976)
Ellen MacArthur
1976
English yachtswoman (born 1976)
Hu Liang
1974
Chinese field hockey player
Kathleen Robertson
1973
Canadian actress (born 1973)
Karl Dykhuis
1972
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1972)
Sourav Ganguly
1972
Indian cricket administrator and former cricketer
Shōsuke Tanihara
1972
Japanese actor (born 1972)
Neil Jenkins
1971
Wales and British Lions international rugby union player and coach
Beck
1970
American musician (born 1970)
Mark Butler
1970
Australian politician (born 1970)
Sylvain Gaudreault
1970
Canadian politician
Todd Martin
1970
American tennis player
Sugizo
1969
Japanese musician (born 1969)
Billy Crudup
1968
American actor (born 1968)
Shane Howarth
1968
NZ & Wales international rugby union & league player
Jordan Chan
1967
Hong Kong actor and singer
Charlie Cardona
1967
Colombian singer
Ralf Altmeyer
1966
German virologist
Shadlog Bernicke
1966
Nauruan politician (born 1966)
Dan Levinson
1965
American musician
Alexei Gusarov
1964
Russian ice hockey player (born 1964)
Mark Christopher
1963
American film director
Joan Osborne
1962
American musician (born 1962)
Ces Drilon
1961
Filipino television journalist
Andy Fletcher (musician)
1961
English keyboardist (1961–2022)
Toby Keith
1961
American singer (1961–2024)
Karl Seglem
1961
Norwegian jazz musician and composer
Mal Meninga
1960
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1960)
Pauline Quirke
1959
English actress (born 1959)
Kevin Bacon
1958
American actor (born 1958)
Andreas Carlgren
1958
Swedish politician (born 1958)
Tzipi Livni
1958
Israeli politician (born 1958)
Carlos Cavazo
1957
American guitarist (born 1957)
Aleksandr Gurnov
1957
Russian TV persona (born 1957)
Terry Puhl
1956
Canadian baseball player
Larry Garner
1952
American songwriter (born 1952)
Jack Lambert (American football)
1952
American football player (born 1952)
Marianne Williamson
1952
American author and politician (born 1952)
Alan Ashby
1951
American baseball player (born 1951)
Anjelica Huston
1951
American actress (born 1951)
Wolfgang Puck
1949
Austrian-American chef and restaurateur (born 1949)
Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
1949
Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, India
Raffi
1948
Canadian singer-songwriter and children's advocate (born 1948)
Ruby Sales
1948
African-American social justice activist, scholar, and theologian
Kim Darby
1947
American actress
Jenny Diski
1947
English writer
Luis Fernando Figari
1947
Peruvian religious leader
Micheline Calmy-Rey
1945
Swiss Federal Councillor from 2003 to 2011
Jaimoe
1944
American drummer and percussionist
Jeffrey Tambor
1944
American actor (born 1944)
Phil Gramm
1942
American economist and politician (born 1942)
Dario Gradi
1941
Footballer and football manager (born 1941)
Joe B. Mauldin
1940
American rock and roll musician and songwriter (1940–2015)
Ed Lumley
1939
Canadian politician (1939–2025)
Diane Clare
1938
British actress (1938–2013)
John David Crow
1935
American football player, coach, and administrator (1935–2015)
Steve Lawrence
1935
American singer and actor (1935–2019)
Vitaly Sevastyanov
1935
Soviet engineer, cosmonaut, chess federation head and presenter (1935–2010)
Raquel Correa
1934
Chilean journalist
Edward D. DiPrete
1934
American politician (1934–2025)
Marty Feldman
1934
British actor and comedian (1934–1982)
Antonio Lamer
1933
Chief Justice of Canada from 1990 to 2000
Jerry Vale
1930
American traditional pop singer (1930–2014)
Balakh Sher Mazari
1928
Pakistani politician (1928–2022)
Maurice Hayes
1927
Irish public servant and later politician (1927–2017)
Khensur Lungri Namgyel
1927
Tibetan Buddhist leader (1929–2025)
Bob Beckham
1927
American country music publisher and singer (1927–2013)
David Malet Armstrong
1926
Australian philosopher (1926–2014)
John Dingell
1926
American politician (1926–2019)
Martin Riesen
1926
Swiss ice hockey player
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
1926
Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926–2004)
Marco Cé
1925
Cardinal of the Romanic Catholic Church
Arthur Imperatore Sr.
1925
American businessman (1925–2020)
Bill Mackrides
1925
American gridiron football player (1925–2019)
Dominique Nohain
1925
French actor, dramatist, screenwriter and theatre director
Johnnie Johnson (musician)
1924
American jazz, blues, and rock and roll pianist (1924–2005)
Charles C. Droz
1924
American politician (1924–2025)
Harrison Dillard
1923
American athlete (1923–2019)
Val Bettin
1923
American actor (1923–2021)
John Money
1921
New Zealand psychologist and sexologist (1921–2006)
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen
1920
Danish businessperson and second generation owner of The Lego Group
Walter Scheel
1919
President of Germany from 1974 to 1979
Paul B. Fay
1918
American politician
Irwin Hasen
1918
American cartoonist (1918–2015)
Oluf Reed-Olsen
1918
Norwegian resistance member and pilot (1918–2002)
Julia Pirie
1918
British Cold War spy
Edward B. Giller
1918
United States Air Force general
Craig Stevens (actor)
1918
American actor (1918–2000)
Pamela Brown (actress)
1917
British actress (1917–1975)
Faye Emerson
1917
American actress (1917–1983)
J. F. Powers
1917
American writer (1917–1999)
Jean Rouverol
1916
American actress and screenwriter (1916–2017)
Neil D. Van Sickle
1915
United States Air Force general (1915–2019)
Lowell E. English
1915
U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Jyoti Basu
1914
Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000
Billy Eckstine
1914
American jazz singer and bandleader (1914–1993)
Alejandra Soler
1913
Spanish teacher and politician (1913–2017)
Ken Farnes
1911
English cricketer (1911–1941)
65th Infantry Regiment (United States)
1910
Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army
Alan Brown (British Army officer)
1909
British Army officer (1909–1971)
Ike Petersen
1909
American football player (1909–1995)
Louis Jordan
1908
American musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908–1975)
Nelson Rockefeller
1908
Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
V. K. R. V. Rao
1908
Indian Economist and Founder of D-School, University of Delhi
George W. Romney
1907
American businessman and politician (1907–1995)
Philip Johnson
1906
American architect (1906–2005)
Leonid Amalrik
1905
Soviet animator and animation director
Henri Cartan
1904
French mathematician (1904–2008)
George Antheil
1900
American composer and inventor (1900–1959)
1800s
Melville Ruick
1898
American actor (1898–1972)
Igor Tamm
1895
Soviet physicist (1895–1971)
Pyotr Kapitsa
1894
Soviet physicist and Nobel Laureate (1894–1984)
R. Carlyle Buley
1893
American historian
Richard Aldington
1892
English writer and poet (1892–1962)
Pavel Korin
1892
Russian painter (1892–1967)
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
1890
American artist
Ernst Bloch
1885
German Marxist philosopher (1885–1977)
Hugo Boss (businessman)
1885
German businessman (1885–1948)
Percy Grainger
1882
Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist (1882–1961)
Alexandros Papanastasiou
1876
Early 20th-century Greek lawyer and politician; Prime Minister in 1924 and 1932
Käthe Kollwitz
1867
German artist (1867–1945)
Alfred Binet
1857
French psychologist, IQ test developer (1857–1911)
Arthur Evans
1851
British archaeologist and scholar (1851–1941)
John Murray (Victorian politician)
1851
Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria
John D. Rockefeller
1839
American business magnate (1839–1937)
Eli Lilly
1838
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist (1838–1898)
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
1838
German general and airship pioneer (1838–1917)
Joseph Chamberlain
1836
British politician (1836–1914)
John Stith Pemberton
1831
American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola (1831–1888)
Frederick W. Seward
1830
American politician (1830–1915)
Leopold McClintock
1819
Irish Royal Navy Admiral and explorer (1819–1907)
Before 1800
Giorgio Pullicino
1779
Maltese painter, architect, and professor of drawing and architecture
Dominique Jean Larrey
1766
French surgeon and soldier (1766–1842)
Christian Kramp
1760
French mathematician
Jean de La Fontaine
1621
French fabulist and poet (1621–1695)
Artemisia Gentileschi
1593
Italian painter (born 1593)
Carlos, Prince of Asturias
1545
Heir apparent to Philip II of Spain (1545–1568)
Alberto Bolognetti
1538
Italian academic, bishop, and diplomat (1538–1585)
Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
1528
Duke of Savoy from 1553 to 1580
Gian Giorgio Trissino
1478
Venetian humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat, linguist and philosopher (1478–1550)