Births on 8 May
2000s
Oliver Bearman
2005
British racing driver (born 2005)
Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco
2003
Crown Prince of Morocco (born 2003)
Jordyn Huitema
2001
Canadian soccer player (born 2001)
1900s
6ix9ine
1996
American rapper (born 1996)
Pat Cummins
1993
Australian cricketer (born 1993)
Olivia Culpo
1992
American model (born 1992)
Kevin Hayes
1992
American ice hockey player (born 1992)
Lane Johnson
1990
American football player (born 1990)
Iyo Sky
1990
Japanese professional wrestler (born 1990)
Kemba Walker
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Lars Eller
1989
Danish ice hockey player (born 1989)
Trisha Paytas
1988
American actress, singer, and YouTuber
Felix Jones
1987
American football player (born 1987)
Mark Noble
1987
English footballer (born 1987)
Kurt Tippett
1987
Australian rules footballer
Galen Rupp
1986
American long-distance runner (born 1986)
Tommaso Ciampa
1985
American professional wrestler
Buakaw Banchamek
1982
Thai kickboxer (born 1982)
Adrián González
1982
Mexican-American baseball player (born 1982)
Stephen Amell
1981
Canadian actor (born 1981)
Andrea Barzagli
1981
Italian footballer (born 1981)
Evgeny Lebedev
1980
Russian-British businessman (born 1980)
Michelle McManus
1980
Scottish singer-songwriter, columnist, and actress
Lúcio
1978
Brazilian footballer
Joe Bonamassa
1977
American musician (born 1977)
Bad News Brown (musician)
1977
Musical artist
Theodoros Papaloukas
1977
Greek basketball player
Martha Wainwright
1976
Canadian musician
Enrique Iglesias
1975
Spanish singer (born 1975)
Korey Stringer
1974
American football player (1974–2001)
Jesús Arellano
1973
Mexican footballer (born 1973)
Marcus Brigstocke
1973
English comedian and actor (born 1973)
Darren Hayes
1972
Australian musician and producer (born 1972)
Ray Whitney (ice hockey)
1972
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1972)
Candice Night
1971
American singer (born 1971)
Michael Bevan
1970
Australian cricketer
Naomi Klein
1970
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
Luis Enrique
1970
Spanish football manager (born 1970)
Akebono Tarō
1969
American-born Japanese sumo wrestler (1969–2024)
Viviana Durante
1967
Italian ballet dancer
Eileen Bowman
1966
American actress
Cláudio Taffarel
1966
Brazilian footballer (born 1966)
Melissa Gilbert
1964
American actress (born 1964)
Anthony Field
1963
Australian musician and actor (born 1963)
Michel Gondry
1963
French film director
Bill de Blasio
1961
Mayor of New York City from 2014 to 2021
David Winning
1961
Canadian film maker
Franco Baresi
1960
Italian footballer (born 1960)
Ronnie Lott
1959
American football player (born 1959)
Roddy Doyle
1958
Irish author and screenwriter (born 1958)
Brooks Newmark
1958
American–British politician (born 1958)
Bill Cowher
1957
American football player, coach, and analyst (born 1957)
Jeff Wincott
1956
Canadian actor (born 1956)
Pat Hanrahan
1955
American computer graphics researcher
Mladen Markač
1955
Croatian retired general (born 1955)
David Keith (actor)
1954
American actor and director (born 1954)
Alex Van Halen
1953
American drummer (born 1953)
Peter McNab
1952
Canadian-born American ice hockey player (1952–2022)
Philip Bailey
1951
American musician (born 1951)
Mike D'Antoni
1951
American-Italian basketball coach and former player (born 1951)
Chris Frantz
1951
American musician, drummer and record producer (b. 1951)
H. Robert Horvitz
1947
American biologist (born 1947)
John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan
1947
Scottish politician (born 1947)
Keith Jarrett
1945
American pianist and composer (born 1945)
Gary Glitter
1944
British musician and sex offender (born 1944)
Pat Barker
1943
English writer and novelist
Gamini Lokuge
1943
Sri Lankan politician (1943–2025)
Norman Lamont
1942
British politician (born 1942)
Terry Neill
1942
Northern Irish football player and manager (1942–2022)
Bill Lockyer
1941
American politician
James Traficant
1941
American politician (1941–2014)
Peter Benchley
1940
American author (1940–2006)
Irwin Cotler
1940
Canadian politician (born 1940)
Emilio Delgado
1940
American actor (1940–2022)
Ricky Nelson
1940
American musician and actor (1940–1985)
Toni Tennille
1940
American singer (b. 1940)
William B. Jordan
1940
American art historian (1940–2018)
Jean Giraud
1938
French comics author (1938–2012)
Mike Cuellar
1937
Cuban baseball player (1937–2010)
Thomas Pynchon
1937
American novelist (born 1937)
Jack Charlton
1935
English footballer and manager (1935–2020)
Lennie Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann
1934
British and South African judge (born 1934)
Heather Harper
1930
Northern Irish operatic soprano (1930–2019)
Doug Atkins
1930
American football player (1930–2015)
Gary Snyder
1930
American poet (born 1930)
John C. Bogle
1929
American investor and business magnate (1929–2019)
Miyoshi Umeki
1929
Japanese-American actress and singer (1929–2007)
Ted Sorensen
1928
American lawyer and presidential adviser (1928–2010)
David Attenborough
1926
English broadcaster and naturalist (born 1926)
David Hurst
1926
German actor (1926–2019)
Don Rickles
1926
American comedian and actor (1926–2017)
Ali Hassan Mwinyi
1925
Tanzanian statesman (1925–2024)
Saul Bass
1920
American graphic designer (1920–1996)
Barbara Howard (athlete)
1920
Canadian sprinter (1920–2017)
Tom of Finland
1920
Finnish artist (1920–1991)
Gordon McClymont
1920
Australian agricultural scientist
Lex Barker
1919
American actor (1919–1973)
João Havelange
1916
Brazilian businessman, athlete and football administrator (1916–2016)
Chinmayananda Saraswati
1916
Indian Hindu spiritual leader
Bob Clampett
1913
American animator (1913–1984)
Sid James
1913
South African-British actor (1913–1976)
George Woodcock
1912
Canadian writer, literary critic, philosopher, poet and theorist (1912–1995)
Gaius de Gaay Fortman
1911
Dutch politician (1911–1997)
Robert Johnson
1911
American blues musician and songwriter (1911–1938)
Mary Lou Williams
1910
American jazz pianist and composer (1910–1981)
Roberto Rossellini
1906
Italian film director (1906–1977)
Red Nichols
1905
American jazz cornetist, composer, and bandleader (1905–1965)
John Snagge
1904
British newsreader (1904–1996)
Fernandel
1903
French actor (1903-1971)
André Michel Lwoff
1902
French microbiologist (1902–1994)
Turkey Stearnes
1901
American baseball player (1901–1979)
1800s
Arthur Q. Bryan
1899
American actor (1899–1959)
Friedrich Hayek
1899
Austrian economist and philosopher (1899–1992)
Jacques Heim
1899
French fashion designer (1899–1967)
Aloysius Stepinac
1898
Croatian Latin Catholic cardinal (1898–1960)
James H. Kindelberger
1895
American businessman (1895–1962)
Fulton J. Sheen
1895
American Catholic bishop, televangelist, and venerable
Edmund Wilson
1895
American writer and literary critic (1895–1972)
Francis Ouimet
1893
American amateur golfer
Edd Roush
1893
American baseball player (1893–1988)
Teddy Wakelam
1893
British Army officer, English rugby union player & broadcaster
Adriaan Pelt
1892
Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat
Thomas B. Costain
1885
Canadian writer (1885–1965)
Harry S. Truman
1884
President of the United States from 1945 to 1953
Wesley Coe
1879
American shot putter
Ludvig Karsten
1876
Norwegian painter (1876–1926)
Margarete Böhme
1867
German writer (1867–1939)
Johan Jensen (mathematician)
1859
Danish mathematician and engineer (1859–1925)
Heinrich Berté
1858
Austria-Hungarian composer of operas and operettas
J. Meade Falkner
1858
English novelist and poet
Pedro Lascuráin
1856
President of Mexico for 45 minutes in 1913
Dan Brouthers
1853
American baseball player (1858–1932)
Ross Barnes
1850
American baseball player (1850–1915)
Oscar Hammerstein I
1846
German-American impresario (1846–1919)
Emil Christian Hansen
1842
Danish mycologist
Adolphe-Basile Routhier
1839
Canadian judge and poet (1839–1920)
Bertalan Székely
1835
Hungarian painter (1835–1910)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
1829
American composer and pianist (1829–1869)
Henry Dunant
1828
Swiss co-founder of the Red Cross (1828–1910)
Charbel Makhlouf
1828
19th-century Lebanese Maronite monk and saint (1828–1898)
George Bruce Malleson
1825
William Walker (filibuster)
1824
American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary (1824–1860)
William Henry Vanderbilt
1821
American businessman (1821–1885)
Samuel Leonard Tilley
1818
Canadian Father of Confederation (1818–1896)
Edward Tompkins
1815
American lawyer
Before 1800
John Vianney
1786
French Catholic priest and saint (1786–1859)
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
1753
Mexican Catholic preacher (1753–1811)
Carl Stamitz
1745
German composer (1745–1801)
Edward Gibbon
1737
British essayist, historian and politician (1737–1794)
Nathaniel Dance-Holland
1735
British painter and politician (1735–1811)
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
1720
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1756 to 1757
Henry Baker (naturalist)
1698
British naturalist
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
1670
British Duke (1670–1726)
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, 1st Duke of Villars
1653
Marshal General of France
Nicolaes Witsen
1641
Dutch statesman (1641–1717)
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
1639
Italian painter (1639–1709)
Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming
1632
Saxon-Brandenburger army leader, field marshal and Governor of Berlin
Niels Juel
1629
Danish naval officer (1629–1697)
Angelo Italia
1628
Italian Jesuit and Baroque architect (1628–1700)
Claes Rålamb
1622
Swedish statesman (1622–1698)
Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy
1587
Duke of Savoy from 1630 to 1637
Thomas Drury (1551–1603)
1551
British government informer, messenger and swindler
Peter Canisius
1521
Dutch Jesuit Catholic priest (1521–1597)
Charles Wriothesley
1508
16th-century officer of arms at College of Arms
Andrea Alciato
1492
Italian jurist and writer (1492–1550)
Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
1460
Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester
1427
English nobleman (1427–1470)
Joan I, Countess of Auvergne
1326
Queen of France (1350–1360), Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne (r. 1332–1360)