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| July 8th, 2006 (July 08 2006) | Death | June Allyson, American actress (born in 1917) | |
| July 8th, 2006 (July 08 2006) | Death | Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (born in 1924) | |
| July 8th, 2004 (July 08 2004) | Death | Paula Danziger, American author (born in 1944) | |
| July 8th, 2004 (July 08 2004) | Death | Jean Lefebvre, French actor (born in 1922) | |
| July 8th, 2003 (July 08 2003) | Event | Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 116 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a two-year-old boy who subsequently dies as a result of his injuries. | |
| July 8th, 2002 (July 08 2002) | Death | Ward Kimball, American animator (born in 1914) | |
| July 8th, 2001 (July 08 2001) | Death | John O Shea, New Zealand film director (born in 1920) | |
| July 8th, 1999 (July 08 1999) | Event | Allen Lee Davis is executed by electrocution by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida. | Allen Tate Quotes |
| July 8th, 1999 (July 08 1999) | Death | Pete Conrad, American astronaut (born in 1930) | |
| July 8th, 1998 (July 08 1998) | Birth | Jaden Smith, American actor | |
| July 8th, 1997 (July 08 1997) | Event | NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999. | |
| July 8th, 1994 (July 08 1994) | Death | Christian-Jaque, French film director and screenwriter (born in 1904) | |
| July 8th, 1994 (July 08 1994) | Death | Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (born in 1912) | |
| July 8th, 1994 (July 08 1994) | Death | Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (born in 1927) | |
| July 8th, 1994 (July 08 1994) | Death | Dick Sargent, American actor (born in 1930) | |
| July 8th, 1992 (July 08 1992) | Event | Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities. | |
| July 8th, 1992 (July 08 1992) | Birth | Benjamin Grosvenor, British pianist | |
| July 8th, 1991 (July 08 1991) | Death | James Franciscus, American actor (born in 1934) | |
| July 8th, 1990 (July 08 1990) | Death | Howard Duff, American actor (born in 1913) | |
| July 8th, 1988 (July 08 1988) | Death | Ray Barbuti, American athlete (born in 1905) | |
| July 8th, 1987 (July 08 1987) | Birth | Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model | |
| July 8th, 1987 (July 08 1987) | Death | Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (born in 1896) | |
| July 8th, 1987 (July 08 1987) | Death | Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (born in 1903) | |
| July 8th, 1986 (July 08 1986) | Birth | Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer | |
| July 8th, 1986 (July 08 1986) | Death | Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (born in 1909) | |
| July 8th, 1985 (July 08 1985) | Birth | Jamie Cook, British musician (Arctic Monkeys) | |
| July 8th, 1984 (July 08 1984) | Birth | Alexis Dziena, American actress | |
| July 8th, 1983 (July 08 1983) | Birth | Jaroslav Janis, Czech racing car driver | |
| July 8th, 1983 (July 08 1983) | Birth | Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress | |
| July 8th, 1983 (July 08 1983) | Birth | John Bowker, American baseball player | |
| July 8th, 1982 (July 08 1982) | Event | Assassination attempt against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| July 8th, 1982 (July 08 1982) | Event | Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized. | |
| July 8th, 1982 (July 08 1982) | Birth | Hakim Warrick, American basketball player | |
| July 8th, 1982 (July 08 1982) | Birth | Joshua Alba, American actor | |
| July 8th, 1982 (July 08 1982) | Birth | Sophia Bush, American actress | |
| July 8th, 1981 (July 08 1981) | Birth | Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player | |
| July 8th, 1981 (July 08 1981) | Death | Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (born in 1902) | |
| July 8th, 1980 (July 08 1980) | Event | The first Rugby League State of Origin match between the Queensland Maroons and New South Wales Blues is played at Lang Park, Brisbane. | |
| July 8th, 1980 (July 08 1980) | Birth | Robbie Keane, Irish footballer | |
| July 8th, 1979 (July 08 1979) | Death | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1906) | |
| July 8th, 1979 (July 08 1979) | Death | Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1917) | |
| July 8th, 1979 (July 08 1979) | Death | Michael Wilding, English actor (born in 1912) | |
| July 8th, 1977 (July 08 1977) | Event | The ashes of Ahn Eak-tai, a Korean conductor and the composer of the national anthem Aegukga, are transferred from the island of Majorca to the Korean National Cemetery. | |
| July 8th, 1977 (July 08 1977) | Birth | Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player | An Wang Quotes |
| July 8th, 1977 (July 08 1977) | Birth | Milo Ventimiglia, American actor | |
| July 8th, 1976 (July 08 1976) | Birth | Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer | |
| July 8th, 1976 (July 08 1976) | Birth | David Kennedy, American guitarist (Angels & Airwaves) | |
| July 8th, 1975 (July 08 1975) | Birth | Elias Viljanen, Finnish Guitarist | |
| July 8th, 1974 (July 08 1974) | Birth | Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer | |
| July 8th, 1974 (July 08 1974) | Birth | Tami Erin, American actress and model | |
| July 8th, 1973 (July 08 1973) | Birth | Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress | |
| July 8th, 1973 (July 08 1973) | Death | Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (born in 1877) | |
| July 8th, 1972 (July 08 1972) | Birth | Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer | |
| July 8th, 1972 (July 08 1972) | Birth | Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| July 8th, 1972 (July 08 1972) | Birth | Shosuke Tanihara, Japanese actor | |
| July 8th, 1971 (July 08 1971) | Birth | Amanda Peterson, American actress | |
| July 8th, 1971 (July 08 1971) | Death | Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (born in 1920) | |
| July 8th, 1970 (July 08 1970) | Birth | Beck, American singer | |
| July 8th, 1969 (July 08 1969) | Event | IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer. | |
| July 8th, 1969 (July 08 1969) | Birth | Sugizo Japanese guitarist and singer | |
| July 8th, 1968 (July 08 1968) | Birth | Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu | |
| July 8th, 1968 (July 08 1968) | Birth | Billy Crudup, American actor | |
| July 8th, 1968 (July 08 1968) | Birth | Michael Weatherly, American actor | |
| July 8th, 1967 (July 08 1967) | Birth | Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer | |
| July 8th, 1967 (July 08 1967) | Death | Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (born in 1893) | |
| July 8th, 1967 (July 08 1967) | Death | Vivien Leigh, English actress (born in 1913) | |
| July 8th, 1966 (July 08 1966) | Event | King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. | |
| July 8th, 1965 (July 08 1965) | Birth | Lee Tergesen, American actor | |
| July 8th, 1964 (July 08 1964) | Birth | Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and host | |
| July 8th, 1964 (July 08 1964) | Birth | Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player | |
| July 8th, 1962 (July 08 1962) | Event | Ne Win seiged and dynamited the Ragoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement. | |
| July 8th, 1962 (July 08 1962) | Birth | Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter | |
| July 8th, 1962 (July 08 1962) | Death | Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (born in 1897) | Philo Quotes |
| July 8th, 1961 (July 08 1961) | Birth | Toby Keith, American singer | |
| July 8th, 1961 (July 08 1961) | Birth | Andrew Fletcher, English musician (Depeche Mode) | Andrew Fletcher Quotes |
| July 8th, 1960 (July 08 1960) | Event | Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. | |
| July 8th, 1960 (July 08 1960) | Birth | Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league footballer | |
| July 8th, 1959 (July 08 1959) | Birth | Robert Knepper, American actor | |
| July 8th, 1958 (July 08 1958) | Birth | Kevin Bacon, American actor | |
| July 8th, 1958 (July 08 1958) | Birth | Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician | |
| July 8th, 1958 (July 08 1958) | Birth | Neetu Singh, Indian Actress | |
| July 8th, 1958 (July 08 1958) | Birth | Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician | |
| July 8th, 1957 (July 08 1957) | Birth | Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian television personality | |
| July 8th, 1957 (July 08 1957) | Birth | Carlos Cavazo, American musician (Quiet Riot) | |
| July 8th, 1957 (July 08 1957) | Death | Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (born in 1879) | |
| July 8th, 1956 (July 08 1956) | Birth | Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player | |
| July 8th, 1956 (July 08 1956) | Death | Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (born in 1881) | |
| July 8th, 1955 (July 08 1955) | Birth | Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress | |
| July 8th, 1952 (July 08 1952) | Birth | Jack Lambert, American football player | |
| July 8th, 1952 (July 08 1952) | Birth | Anna Quindlen, American columnist | |
| July 8th, 1951 (July 08 1951) | Birth | Anjelica Huston, American actress | |
| July 8th, 1950 (July 08 1950) | Death | Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (born in 1878) | Philo Quotes |
| July 8th, 1949 (July 08 1949) | Birth | Frank Delima, American comedian | |
| July 8th, 1949 (July 08 1949) | Birth | Dale Hoganson, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| July 8th, 1949 (July 08 1949) | Birth | Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef | |
| July 8th, 1948 (July 08 1948) | Birth | Raffi, Canadian children s entertainer | |
| July 8th, 1947 (July 08 1947) | Event | Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crashed landed in Roswell, New Mexico. | |
| July 8th, 1947 (July 08 1947) | Birth | Kim Darby, American actress | |
| July 8th, 1947 (July 08 1947) | Birth | Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae | |
| July 8th, 1945 (July 08 1945) | Birth | Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician | |
| July 8th, 1944 (July 08 1944) | Birth | Jai Johanny Johanson, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band) | |
| July 8th, 1944 (July 08 1944) | Birth | Jeffrey Tambor, American actor | |
| July 8th, 1943 (July 08 1943) | Death | Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (born in 1899) | |
| July 8th, 1942 (July 08 1942) | Birth | Phil Gramm, American politician | |
| July 8th, 1941 (July 08 1941) | Birth | Dario Gradi, Italian-born football manager | |
| July 8th, 1941 (July 08 1941) | Death | Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (born in 1874) | |
| July 8th, 1939 (July 08 1939) | Death | Havelock Ellis, British physician (born in 1859) | |
| July 8th, 1935 (July 08 1935) | Birth | Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer | |
| July 8th, 1935 (July 08 1935) | Birth | Vitali Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut | |
| July 8th, 1934 (July 08 1934) | Birth | Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician | |
| July 8th, 1934 (July 08 1934) | Death | Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (born in 1848) | |
| July 8th, 1933 (July 08 1933) | Birth | Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (died in 1982) | Marty Feldman Quotes |
| July 8th, 1933 (July 08 1933) | Birth | Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice | |
| July 8th, 1933 (July 08 1933) | Death | Anthony Hope, British author (born in 1863) | |
| July 8th, 1932 (July 08 1932) | Event | The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22. | |
| July 8th, 1932 (July 08 1932) | Birth | Jerry Vale, American singer | |
| July 8th, 1930 (July 08 1930) | Death | Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born in 1856) | |
| July 8th, 1927 (July 08 1927) | Birth | Maurice Hayes, Irish politician | |
| July 8th, 1926 (July 08 1926) | Birth | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (died in 2004) | |
| July 8th, 1924 (July 08 1924) | Birth | Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (died in 2005) | |
| July 8th, 1923 (July 08 1923) | Birth | Harrison Dillard, American athlete | |
| July 8th, 1920 (July 08 1920) | Birth | Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (died in 1995) | |
| July 8th, 1919 (July 08 1919) | Birth | Walter Scheel, German politician | |
| July 8th, 1918 (July 08 1918) | Birth | Craig Stevens, American actor (died in 2000) | |
| July 8th, 1917 (July 08 1917) | Birth | Faye Emerson, American actress (died in 1983) | |
| July 8th, 1917 (July 08 1917) | Death | Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (born in 1877) | |
| July 8th, 1914 (July 08 1914) | Birth | Jyoti Basu, Indian politician | |
| July 8th, 1914 (July 08 1914) | Birth | Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (died in 1993) | |
| July 8th, 1913 (July 08 1913) | Death | Louis Hemon, French-born writer (born in 1880) | |
| July 8th, 1908 (July 08 1908) | Birth | Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (died in 1975) | |
| July 8th, 1908 (July 08 1908) | Birth | Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (died in 1979) | |
| July 8th, 1907 (July 08 1907) | Birth | George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (died in 1995) | |
| July 8th, 1906 (July 08 1906) | Birth | Philip Johnson, American architect (died in 2005) | Philip Johnson Quotes |
| July 8th, 1905 (July 08 1905) | Birth | Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (died in 1997) | |
| July 8th, 1905 (July 08 1905) | Death | Walter Kittredge, American musician (born in 1834) | |
| July 8th, 1904 (July 08 1904) | Birth | Henri Cartan, French mathematician | |
| July 8th, 1898 (July 08 1898) | Event | The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip. | |
| July 8th, 1898 (July 08 1898) | Birth | Melville Ruick, American actor (died in 1972) | |
| July 8th, 1898 (July 08 1898) | Death | Soapy Smith, American con artist (born in 1860) | |
| July 8th, 1896 (July 08 1896) | Event | William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. | William Jennings Bryan Quotes |
| July 8th, 1895 (July 08 1895) | Birth | Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1971) | |
| July 8th, 1895 (July 08 1895) | Death | Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (born in 1821) | |
| July 8th, 1892 (July 08 1892) | Event | St. John s, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. | |
| July 8th, 1892 (July 08 1892) | Birth | Richard Aldington, English poet (died in 1962) | |
| July 8th, 1892 (July 08 1892) | Birth | Pavel Korin, Russian painter (died in 1967) | |
| July 8th, 1889 (July 08 1889) | Event | The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published. | |
| July 8th, 1885 (July 08 1885) | Birth | Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (died in 1977) | Philo Quotes |
| July 8th, 1882 (July 08 1882) | Birth | Percy Grainger, Australian composer (died in 1961) | |
| July 8th, 1878 (July 08 1878) | Birth | Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (died in 1945) | |
| July 8th, 1876 (July 08 1876) | Event | White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC. | |
| July 8th, 1874 (July 08 1874) | Event | The Mounties begin their March West. | |
| July 8th, 1867 (July 08 1867) | Birth | Kathe Kollwitz, German artist (died in 1945) | Kathe Kollwitz Quotes |
| July 8th, 1864 (July 08 1864) | Event | The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi s planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya. This event is known as Ikedaya Jiken. | |
| July 8th, 1859 (July 08 1859) | Event | King Charles XV/Carl IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. | |
| July 8th, 1859 (July 08 1859) | Death | King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (born in 1799) | |
| July 8th, 1857 (July 08 1857) | Birth | Alfred Binet, French psychologist (died in 1911) | |
| July 8th, 1855 (July 08 1855) | Death | Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (born in 1790) | |
| July 8th, 1853 (July 08 1853) | Event | Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay. | |
| July 8th, 1851 (July 08 1851) | Birth | Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (died in 1941) | Evans Quotes |
| July 8th, 1850 (July 08 1850) | Death | Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (born in 1774) | |
| July 8th, 1839 (July 08 1839) | Birth | John D. Rockefeller, American businessman (died in 1937) | John D. Rockefeller Quotes |
| July 8th, 1838 (July 08 1838) | Birth | Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, German inventor (died in 1917) | |
| July 8th, 1836 (July 08 1836) | Birth | Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (died in 1914) | Joseph Chamberlain Quotes |
| July 8th, 1830 (July 08 1830) | Birth | Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (died in 1915) | |
| July 8th, 1830 (July 08 1830) | Birth | Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg (died in 1911) | |
| July 8th, 1826 (July 08 1826) | Death | Luther Martin, American statesman (born in 1748) | Martin Luther Quotes |
| July 8th, 1822 (July 08 1822) | Event | Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. | |
| July 8th, 1822 (July 08 1822) | Death | Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (born in 1792) | Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes |
| July 8th, 1819 (July 08 1819) | Birth | Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (died in 1907) | |
| July 8th, 1792 (July 08 1792) | Birth | Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, queen of Bavaria (died in 1854) | |
| July 8th, 1784 (July 08 1784) | Death | Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (born in 1735) | |
| July 8th, 1776 (July 08 1776) | Event | The Declaration of Independence is read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Liberty Bell was famously rung. | |
| July 8th, 1775 (July 08 1775) | Event | The Olive Branch Petition is adopted by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies. | |
| July 8th, 1766 (July 08 1766) | Birth | Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (died in 1842) | |
| July 8th, 1760 (July 08 1760) | Event | French and Indian War: Battle of RestigoucheBritish defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France. | |
| July 8th, 1760 (July 08 1760) | Birth | Christian Kramp, French mathematician (died in 1826) | |
| July 8th, 1758 (July 08 1758) | Event | French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York. | |
| July 8th, 1726 (July 08 1726) | Death | John Ker, Scottish spy (born in 1673) | John Scott Quotes |
| July 8th, 1721 (July 08 1721) | Death | Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (born in 1649) | |
| July 8th, 1716 (July 08 1716) | Event | Great Northern War: Battle of Dynekilen | |
| July 8th, 1716 (July 08 1716) | Death | Robert South, English churchman (born in 1634) | Robert South Quotes |
| July 8th, 1709 (July 08 1709) | Event | Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava: Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden s role as a major power in Europe. | |
| July 8th, 1695 (July 08 1695) | Death | Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (born in 1629) | |
| July 8th, 1689 (July 08 1689) | Death | Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (born in 1622) | |
| July 8th, 1680 (July 08 1680) | Event | The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| July 8th, 1663 (July 08 1663) | Event | Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island. | John Hart Quotes |
| July 8th, 1623 (July 08 1623) | Death | Pope Gregory XV (born in 1554) | |
| July 8th, 1621 (July 08 1621) | Birth | Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (died in 1695) | |
| July 8th, 1593 (July 08 1593) | Birth | Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (died in 1653) | |
| July 8th, 1579 (July 08 1579) | Event | Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan. | |
| July 8th, 1545 (July 08 1545) | Birth | Don Carlos of Spain (died in 1568) | |
| July 8th, 1538 (July 08 1538) | Death | Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (born in 1475) | |
| July 8th, 1528 (July 08 1528) | Birth | Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (died in 1580) | |
| July 8th, 1497 (July 08 1497) | Event | Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India. | |
| July 8th, 1283 (July 08 1283) | Event | War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta | |
| July 8th, 1153 (July 08 1153) | Death | Pope Eugene III | |
| July 8th, 1099 (July 08 1099) | Event | First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on. | |
| July 8th, 0975 (July 08 0975) | Death | King Edgar of England | |
| July 8th, 0939 (July 08 0939) | Event | The Major Occultation, or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi | |
| July 8th, 0810 (July 08 0810) | Death | Pepin, King of Italy (born in 773) | |
