What happened on March 8 ?

1286 - John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)

1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)

1545 - Yi Sun Sin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)

1560 - Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)

1659 - Isaac de Beausobre, French protestant pastor (d. 1738)

1712 - John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)

1714 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788)

1726 - Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)

1746 - André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)

1748 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic

1799 - Simon Cameron, U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889)

1814 - Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)

1822 - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)

1827 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)

1830 - João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)

1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1935)

1856 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)

1856 - Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)

1859 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932)

1865 - Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)

1872 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (d. 1918)

1879 - Otto Hahn, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

1886 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1972)

1902 - Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)

1907 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)

1909 - Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)

1911 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000)

1912 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)

1914 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)

1915 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)

1916 - John Seybold, American economist and computer typesetting pioneer (d. 2004)

1918 - Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)

1921 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer

1922 - Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and mangaka

1925 - Warren Bennis, American educator and author

1927 - Dick Hyman, American pianist, conductor, and composer

1928 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (d. 1990)

1931 - John McPhee, American writer and professor

1931 - Neil Postman, American cultural critic

1936 - Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982)

1937 - Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994)

1938 - Pete Dawkins, American football player

1939 - Jim Bouton, baseball player, author, and entrepreneur

1939 - Lidia Skoblikova, Russian skater

1939 - Robert Tear, Welsh tenor

1940 - Susan Clark, Canadian actress

1943 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress

1944 - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer

1944 - Pepé Romero, Spanish guitarist

1945 - Jim Chapman, American politician

1945 - Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees)

1945 - Anselm Kiefer, German painter

1946 - Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)

1946 - Linda Kelliher Samets, American entrepreneur

1947 - Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night)

1947 - Carole Bayer Sager, American composer

1952 - George Felix Allen, U.S. Senator from Virginia

1954 - Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz)

1954 - David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer

1956 - John Kapelos, Canadian actor

1957 - Cynthia Rothrock, American actress and martial artist

1958 - Gary Numan, British singer

1959 - Aidan Quinn, American actor

1961 - Camryn Manheim, American actress

1961 - Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player

1963 - Kathy Ireland, American model and actress

1963 - Lorelei, American fetish model, photographer

1965 - Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer

1968 - Michael Bartels, German race car driver

1968 - Shawn Mullins, American musician

1969 - Andrea Parker, American actress, ballet dancer

1970 - Jason Elam, American football player

1972 - Angie Hart, Australian pop singer

1972 - Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player

1973 - Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model

1976 - Hines Ward, American football player

1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor

1976 - Juan Encarnacion, baseball player

1977 - James Van Der Beek, American actor

1979 - Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)

1983 - Charles Coventry, Zimbabwean cricketer

1991 - Devon Werkheiser, American actor