What happened on August 8 ?

1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)

1602 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)

1605 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)

1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)

1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)

1693 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)

1694 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)

1720 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)

1814 - Esther Morris, suffragist and the first U. S. woman judge (d. 1902)

1839 - Nelson Miles, U.S. general (d. 1925)

1866 - Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)

1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)

1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)

1880 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)

1881 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)

1881 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)

1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)

1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)

1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)

1901 - Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

1902 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)

1904 - Achille Varzi, Italian racecar driver (d. 1948)

1905 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)

1907 - Benny Carter, American musician and arranger (d. 2003)

1908 - Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)

1910 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)

1911 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)

1915 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)

1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer

1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist

1921 - William Asher, American film producer

1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist

1921 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)

1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist

1921 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer

1922 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)

1922 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)

1925 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)

1927 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (d. 1994)

1928 - Don Burrows, Australian jazz musician

1929 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)

1929 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal

1931 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist

1932 - Mel Tillis, American singer

1935 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer

1935 - John Laws, Australia radio personality

1936 - Keith Barron, English actor

1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor

1938 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress

1939 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat

1944 - Uli Derickson, Czech-born flight attendant (d. 2005)

1944 - Brooke Bundy, American actress

1947 - Ken Dryden, Canadian hockey player and politician

1949 - Keith Carradine, American actor

1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director

1952 - Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author

1952 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality

1953 - Don Most, American actor

1954 - Nigel Mansell, English race car driver

1955 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer

1956 - Branscombe Richmond, American actor

1958 - Deborah Norville, American reporter and television host

1960 - Ulrich Maly, German politician and Mayor of Nuremberg

1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)

1961 - Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)

1966 - Chris Eubank, English boxer

1972 - Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)

1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)

1974 - Ulises De la Cruz, Ecuadoran footballer

1976 - J.C. Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)

1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer

1978 - Louis Saha, French footballer

1978 - Alan Maybury, Irish footballer

1979 - Richard Harwood, British cellist

1980 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player

1980 - Pat Noonan, American soccer player

1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter

1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player

1988 - Princess Beatrice of York

1989 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player

1989 - Lachlan Holland, Australian Entrepreneur