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June 8 in recent years

June 8 is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 206 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

1601–1900

1901–present

Births

Pre-1600

  • 862 – Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
  • 1508 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
  • 1593 – George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania (d. 1648)

1601–1900

1901–present

  • 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, American lawyer and politician (d. 1996)
  • 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1987)
  • 1910 – John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (d. 1971)
  • 1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter (d. 2003)
  • 1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
  • 1912Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter (d. 2004)
  • 1912 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
  • 1912 – Harry Holtzman, American painter (d. 1987)
  • 1915Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 2015)
  • 1916Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
  • 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
  • 1916 – Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (d. 1992)
  • 1917Byron White, American football player, lawyer and judge (d. 2002)
  • 1918George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
  • 1918 – Robert Preston, American actor and singer (d. 1987)
  • 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (d. 2016)
  • 1919 – John R. Deane, Jr., American general (d. 2013)
  • 1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (d. 1995)
  • 1921 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
  • 1921 – Olga Nardone, American actress (d. 2010)
  • 1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter (d. 2012)
  • 1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (d. 1993)
  • 1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
  • 1924 – Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2013)
  • 1924 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (d. 2013)
  • 1925Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)
  • 1927Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer (d. 2020)
  • 1928 – Mimi Mariani, Indonesian actress, model, and singer (d. 1971)
  • 1929 – Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (d. 2013)
  • 1930Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1930 – Marcel Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
  • 1931Dana Wynter, British actress (d. 2011)
  • 1932 – Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2021)
  • 1932 – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (d. 2017)
  • 1933Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)
  • 1934 – Millicent Martin, English actress and singer
  • 1935 – Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
  • 1936James Darren, American actor
  • 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
  • 1937Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet and playwright
  • 1938 – Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
  • 1939Herb Adderley, American football player (d. 2020)
  • 1940Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
  • 1941 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician and activist (d. 1981)
  • 1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal (d. 2023)
  • 1942 – Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician, Greek Minister of the Interior
  • 1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player (d. 2021)
  • 1943Colin Baker, English actor
  • 1943 – William Calley, American military officer
  • 1943 – Willie Davenport, American hurdler (d. 2002)
  • 1943 – Peter Eggert, German footballer and manager
  • 1943 – Pierre-André Fournier, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2015)
  • 1944Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1945Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (d. 2014)
  • 1945 – Derek Underwood, English cricketer
  • 1946Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
  • 1947 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter
  • 1947 – Sara Paretsky, American author
  • 1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1949Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
  • 1949 – Hildegard Falck, German runner
  • 1950Kathy Baker, American actress
  • 1950 – Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress and producer
  • 1951Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter
  • 1953 – Sandy Nairne, English historian and curator
  • 1953 – Ivo Sanader, Croatian historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia
  • 1953 – Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
  • 1954 – Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (d. 2013)
  • 1954 – Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician
  • 1955Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web
  • 1955 – José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer and manager
  • 1955 – Griffin Dunne, American actor, director, and producer
  • 1956 – Jonathan Potter, English psychologist, sociolinguist, and academic
  • 1957Scott Adams, American author and illustrator
  • 1957 – Don Robinson, American baseball player and politician
  • 1957 – Sonja Vectomov, Czech/Finnish sculptor
  • 1958 – Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic
  • 1959 – Mohsen Kadivar, Iranian philosopher
  • 1960 – Neil Baker, Australian rugby league player
  • 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter
  • 1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
  • 1961Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist
  • 1963 – Karen Kingsbury, American journalist and author
  • 1964Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach
  • 1965 – Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
  • 1967Russell E. Morris, Welsh chemist and academic
  • 1967 – Julianna Margulies, American actress
  • 1968Sharon Shannon, Irish traditional musician
  • 1969 – David Barnhill, Australian rugby league player
  • 1970Steve Renouf, Australian rugby league player
  • 1974 – Lauren Burns, Australian taekwondo practitioner
  • 1975 – Mark Ricciuto, Australian footballer and sportcaster
  • 1976Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
  • 1977Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
  • 1978Maria Menounos, American television personality, professional wrestler, author, and actress
  • 1981Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author (d. 2019)
  • 1982Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
  • 1983Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.
  • 1984Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
  • 1986 – Keith Gill, American financial analyst and investor
  • 1989Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
  • 1994 – Liv Morgan, American professional wrestler
  • 1997 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player

Deaths

Pre-1600

1601–1900

1901–present

  • 1913Emily Davison, English suffragette (b. 1872)
  • 1919 – Cora Agnes Benneson, American attorney (b. 1851)
  • 1924British Mount Everest expedition:
  • 1945 – Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)
  • 1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
  • 1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
  • 1956Marie Laurencin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1883)
  • 1959 – Leslie Johnson, English racing driver (b. 1912)
  • 1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
  • 1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)
  • 1968Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
  • 1968 – Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian racing driver (b. 1933)
  • 1969Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
  • 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
  • 1970Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
  • 1971 – J. I. Rodale, American author and playwright (b. 1898)
  • 1976 – Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (b. 1894)
  • 1982Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
  • 1984Gordon Jacob, English composer and academic (b. 1895)
  • 1987 – Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (b. 1907)
  • 1997 – George Turner, Australian author and critic (b. 1916)
  • 1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (b. 1948)
  • 1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
  • 1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
  • 2000Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • 2001 – Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (b. 1935)
  • 2004 – Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1930)
  • 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
  • 2006 – Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded Rip Off Press (b. 1941)
  • 2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk, theologian, and author (b. 1919)
  • 2009Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
  • 2012 – Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1940)
  • 2012 – Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1926)
  • 2013Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
  • 2013 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (b. 1930)
  • 2013 – Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (b. 1942)
  • 2014Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (b. 1903)
  • 2014 – Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (b. 1948)
  • 2015Chea Sim, Cambodian commander and politician (b. 1932)
  • 2017Sam Panopoulos, Greek cook (b. 1934)
  • 2018Anthony Bourdain, American chef and travel documentarian (b. 1956)
  • 2019 – Andre Matos, Brazilian heavy metal musician (b. 1971)
  • 2022 – Paula Rego, Portuguese-British visual artist (b. 1935)
  • 2023Pat Robertson, American televangelist (b. 1930)

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