August 8
The 220th day of the year
Olympic 2008 Starts today!!
Lankan's First Mobile game released today!!
Birth days today!!
1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1518 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
1605 - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British 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)
1807 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
1814 - Esther Morris, American jurist (d. 1902)
1824 - Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
1839 - Nelson Miles, American general (d. 1925)
1857 - Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944)
1866 - Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
1879 - Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1880 - Earle Page, Australian politician (d. 1961)
1881 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
1881 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1882 - Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator (d. 1965)
1884 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
1898 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990)
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 race car driver (d. 1948)
1905 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
1907 - Benny Carter, American musician (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 - Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
1920 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (d. 2006)
1920 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
1921 - William Asher, American film producer
1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
1921 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
1921 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
1922 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
1922 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
1922 - Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian
1925 - Alija Izetbegovic, Bosniak politician (d. 2003)
1926 - Richard Anderson, American actor
1927 - Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
1928 - Don Burrows, Australian musician
1929 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
1929 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
1931 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
1932 - Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator
1932 - Mel Tillis, American singer
1933 - Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982)
1933 - Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (d. 2007)
1935 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
1935 - John Laws, Australia radio personality
1936 - Keith Barron, English actor
1936 - Frank Howard, American baseball player
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1938 - Jacques Hétu, French Canadian composer
1938 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
1939 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
1940 - Dennis Tito, American businessman and space tourist
1944 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
1944 - John Renbourn, English musician
1946 - James W. Lewis, American convicted extortionist
1947 - José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player
1947 - Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian
1947 - Larry Wilcox, American actor
1948 - Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1949 - Keith Carradine, American actor
1949 - Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver
1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
1951 - Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
1952 - Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
1952 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality
1953 - Nigel Mansell, English race car driver
1953 - Don Most, American actor
1955 - Diddú, Icelandic soprano and songwriter
1955 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
1956 - David Grant, English singer and vocal coach
1956 - Branscombe Richmond, American actor
1956 - Chris Foreman, English guitarist (Madness)
1958 - Deborah Norville, American television host
1958 - Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress
1960 - Ulrich Maly, German politician
1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
1961 - Daniel House, American music executive
1961 - Bruce Matthews, American football player
1961 - Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)
1962 - Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Jon Turteltaub, American director
1963 - Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive
1964 - Anastasia Ashman, American writer
1965 - Kate Langbroek, Australian media personality
1965 - Aaron Abeyta, American musician
1966 - Chris Eubank, English boxer
1966 - John Hudek, American baseball player
1967 - Eric Angle, American wrestler
1967 - Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
1967 - Rena Mero, American wrestler
1967 - Jessica Moore, Italian actress
1967 - Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor
1969 - Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
1970 - Trev Alberts, American football player
1970 - Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
1972 - Axel Merckx, Belgian bicycle racer
1972 - Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1973 - Toby Allen, Australian singer (Human Nature)
1973 - Shane Lee, Australian cricketer
1973 - Senta Moses, American actress
1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
1974 - Scott D'Amore, Canadian professional wrestler and manager
1974 - Brian Harvey, English singer
1974 - Andy Priaulx, British race car driver
1976 - JC Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)
1976 - Tawny Cypress, American actress
1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer
1976 - Seung-Yeop Lee, Korean baseball player
1976 - Jeff Simmons, American race car driver
1977 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
1977 - Szilard Nemeth, Slovak footballer
1977 - Lindsay Sloane, American actress
1977 - Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Alan Maybury, Irish footballer
1978 - Louis Saha, French footballer
1978 - Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress
1978 - Countess Vaughn, American actress and singer
1979 - Richard Harwood, British cellist
1979 - Paris Latsis, Greek shipping heir
1979 - Rashard Lewis, American basketball player
1979 - Sam Totman, English musician (Dragonforce)
1980 - Mike Hindert, American musician
1980 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
1980 - Pat Noonan, American soccer player
1980 - Michael Urie, American actor and director
1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
1981 - Meagan Good, American actress
1981 - Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress
1981 - Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer
1983 - Guy Burnet, British actor
1984 - Martrez Milner, American football player
1984 - Devon McTavish, Midfielder for the Major League Soccer's DC United
1985 - Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican soccer player
1986 - Peyton List, American actress
1987 - Katie Leung, Scottish actress
1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
1988 - Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
1989 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
1995 - Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
Elakirians!!
Uthmaxer is 20 today
janithdude is 18 today!!
Same 08-08-08 before 100 years!!
1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight and the French public goes wild.
The 220th day of the year
Olympic 2008 Starts today!!
Lankan's First Mobile game released today!!
Birth days today!!
1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
1518 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
1605 - Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British 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)
1807 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
1814 - Esther Morris, American jurist (d. 1902)
1824 - Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
1839 - Nelson Miles, American general (d. 1925)
1857 - Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944)
1866 - Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
1879 - Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
1880 - Earle Page, Australian politician (d. 1961)
1881 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
1881 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
1882 - Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator (d. 1965)
1884 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
1898 - Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990)
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 race car driver (d. 1948)
1905 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
1907 - Benny Carter, American musician (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 - Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
1920 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (d. 2006)
1920 - Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
1921 - William Asher, American film producer
1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
1921 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001)
1921 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
1922 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
1922 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
1922 - Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian
1925 - Alija Izetbegovic, Bosniak politician (d. 2003)
1926 - Richard Anderson, American actor
1927 - Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
1928 - Don Burrows, Australian musician
1929 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
1929 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
1931 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
1932 - Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator
1932 - Mel Tillis, American singer
1933 - Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982)
1933 - Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (d. 2007)
1935 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
1935 - John Laws, Australia radio personality
1936 - Keith Barron, English actor
1936 - Frank Howard, American baseball player
1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
1938 - Jacques Hétu, French Canadian composer
1938 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
1939 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
1940 - Dennis Tito, American businessman and space tourist
1944 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
1944 - John Renbourn, English musician
1946 - James W. Lewis, American convicted extortionist
1947 - José Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player
1947 - Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian
1947 - Larry Wilcox, American actor
1948 - Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1949 - Keith Carradine, American actor
1949 - Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver
1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
1951 - Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
1952 - Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
1952 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality
1953 - Nigel Mansell, English race car driver
1953 - Don Most, American actor
1955 - Diddú, Icelandic soprano and songwriter
1955 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
1956 - David Grant, English singer and vocal coach
1956 - Branscombe Richmond, American actor
1956 - Chris Foreman, English guitarist (Madness)
1958 - Deborah Norville, American television host
1958 - Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress
1960 - Ulrich Maly, German politician
1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
1961 - Daniel House, American music executive
1961 - Bruce Matthews, American football player
1961 - Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison)
1962 - Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - Jon Turteltaub, American director
1963 - Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive
1964 - Anastasia Ashman, American writer
1965 - Kate Langbroek, Australian media personality
1965 - Aaron Abeyta, American musician
1966 - Chris Eubank, English boxer
1966 - John Hudek, American baseball player
1967 - Eric Angle, American wrestler
1967 - Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
1967 - Rena Mero, American wrestler
1967 - Jessica Moore, Italian actress
1967 - Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor
1969 - Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
1970 - Trev Alberts, American football player
1970 - Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor
1972 - Axel Merckx, Belgian bicycle racer
1972 - Lüpüs Thünder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1973 - Toby Allen, Australian singer (Human Nature)
1973 - Shane Lee, Australian cricketer
1973 - Senta Moses, American actress
1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
1974 - Scott D'Amore, Canadian professional wrestler and manager
1974 - Brian Harvey, English singer
1974 - Andy Priaulx, British race car driver
1976 - JC Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)
1976 - Tawny Cypress, American actress
1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer
1976 - Seung-Yeop Lee, Korean baseball player
1976 - Jeff Simmons, American race car driver
1977 - Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
1977 - Szilard Nemeth, Slovak footballer
1977 - Lindsay Sloane, American actress
1977 - Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 - Alan Maybury, Irish footballer
1978 - Louis Saha, French footballer
1978 - Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress
1978 - Countess Vaughn, American actress and singer
1979 - Richard Harwood, British cellist
1979 - Paris Latsis, Greek shipping heir
1979 - Rashard Lewis, American basketball player
1979 - Sam Totman, English musician (Dragonforce)
1980 - Mike Hindert, American musician
1980 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
1980 - Pat Noonan, American soccer player
1980 - Michael Urie, American actor and director
1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
1981 - Meagan Good, American actress
1981 - Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress
1981 - Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer
1983 - Guy Burnet, British actor
1984 - Martrez Milner, American football player
1984 - Devon McTavish, Midfielder for the Major League Soccer's DC United
1985 - Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican soccer player
1986 - Peyton List, American actress
1987 - Katie Leung, Scottish actress
1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
1988 - Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
1989 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
1995 - Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
Elakirians!!
Uthmaxer is 20 today
janithdude is 18 today!!
Same 08-08-08 before 100 years!!
1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It's the Wright Brothers' first public flight and the French public goes wild.
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