Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 8
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[edit] Births
- 1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
- 1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
- 1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
- 1881 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
- 1902 - Paul Dirac, English physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
- 1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
- 1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
- 1940 - Dennis Tito, first space tourist
- 1948 - Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut
- 1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
[edit] Deaths
- 1827 - George Canning, (pictured) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
- 1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
- 1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)
- 2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
