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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of August 1220 | EVENT | Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula. |
| 8th of August 1503 | EVENT | King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 8th of August 1509 | EVENT | The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire. |
| 8th of August 1576 | EVENT | The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven. |
| 8th of August 1585 | EVENT | John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage. |
| 8th of August 1588 | EVENT | Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines : The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England. |
| 8th of August 1605 | EVENT | The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden. |
| 8th of August 1647 | EVENT | The Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Dungans Hill : English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces. |
| 8th of August 1709 | EVENT | Bartolomeu de Gusmao demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon |
| 8th of August 1786 | EVENT | Mont Blanc on the French : Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr Michel-Gabriel Paccard. |
| 8th of August 1793 | EVENT | The insurrection of Lyon occurs during the French Revolution. |
| 8th of August 1794 | EVENT | Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska. |
| 8th of August 1839 | EVENT | Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio. |
| 8th of August 1844 | EVENT | The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). |
| 8th of August 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt). |
| 8th of August 1870 | EVENT | The Republic of Ploiesti, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania. |
| 8th of August 1876 | EVENT | Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph. |
| 8th of August 1908 | EVENT | Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight. |
| 8th of August 1910 | EVENT | The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer. |
| 8th of August 1911 | EVENT | Public Law 62-5 sets the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law would come into effect in 1913. |
| 8th of August 1911 | EVENT | The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire. |
| 8th of August 1918 | EVENT | World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive). |
| 8th of August 1929 | EVENT | The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight. |
| 8th of August 1931 | EVENT | Workers go on strike at the Hoover dam. |
| 8th of August 1938 | EVENT | The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins. |
| 8th of August 1940 | EVENT | The "Aufbau Ost" directive is signed by Wilhelm Keitel. |
| 8th of August 1942 | EVENT | Walt Disney's animated film, Bambi is released in United Kingdom |
| 8th of August 1945 | EVENT | World War II: the Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation. |
| 8th of August 1945 | EVENT | The United Nations Charter is signed by the United States, which becomes the third nation to join. |
| 8th of August 1946 | EVENT | First flight of the Convair B-36. |
| 8th of August 1949 | EVENT | Bhutan becomes independent. |
| 8th of August 1960 | EVENT | South Kasai secedes from the Congo. |
| 8th of August 1963 | EVENT | Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes. |
| 8th of August 1967 | EVENT | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. |
| 8th of August 1968 | EVENT | Juro Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant. |
| 8th of August 1973 | EVENT | U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew appears on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks while governor of Maryland. |
| 8th of August 1973 | EVENT | Kim Dae-Jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped. |
| 8th of August 1974 | EVENT | Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day. |
| 8th of August 1976 | EVENT | As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded. |
| 8th of August 1980 | EVENT | The Central Hotel Fire, Bundoran occurs in Ireland. |
| 8th of August 1988 | EVENT | The lights are turned on at Wrigley Field for the first time, making it the last major league stadium to host night games. (The game, against the Philadelphia Phillies, is rained out after three-and-a-half innings.) |
| 8th of August 1988 | EVENT | The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma. |
| 8th of August 1989 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission : Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. |
| 8th of August 1990 | EVENT | Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. |
| 8th of August 1991 | EVENT | The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses. |
| 8th of August 2000 | EVENT | Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler. |
| 8th of August 2007 | EVENT | An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. |
| 8th of August 2009 | EVENT | Typhoon Morakot makes landfall in Taiwan, and almost the entire southern region of Taiwan is flooded by record-breaking rainfall. |
| 8th of August 1079 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107) |
| 8th of August 1518 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) |
| 8th of August 1605 | BIRTHDAY | Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675) |
| 8th of August 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723) |
| 8th of August 1673 | BIRTHDAY | John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726) |
| 8th of August 1693 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762) |
| 8th of August 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746) |
| 8th of August 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796) |
| 8th of August 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974) |
| 8th of August 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Emilie Flygare-Carlen, Swedish novelist (d. 1892) |
| 8th of August 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Esther Morris, American jurist (d. 1902) |
| 8th of August 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse), Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880) |
| 8th of August 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Miles, American general (d. 1925) |
| 8th of August 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Cecile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944) |
| 8th of August 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955) |
| 8th of August 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919) |
| 8th of August 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950) |
| 8th of August 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Earle Page, Australian politician (d. 1961) |
| 8th of August 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954) |
| 8th of August 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Ladislas Starevich, Polish animator (d. 1965) |
| 8th of August 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933) |
| 8th of August 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer (d. 1977) |
| 8th of August 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952) |
| 8th of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922) |
| 8th of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953) |
| 8th of August 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Minotis, Greek actor (d. 1990) |
| 8th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 8th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) |
| 8th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948) |
| 8th of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974) |
| 8th of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003) |
| 8th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1990) |
| 8th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Voce, England cricketer (d. 1984) |
| 8th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 8th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002) |
| 8th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Jumbo Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981) |
| 8th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (d. 2010) |
| 8th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006) |
| 8th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (d. 2006) |
| 8th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997) |
| 8th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979) |
| 8th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991) |
| 8th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist (d. 2001) |
| 8th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer |
| 8th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | William Asher, American film producer |
| 8th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 8th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian |
| 8th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985) |
| 8th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Alija Izetbegovic, Bosniak politician (d. 2003) |
| 8th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Anderson, American actor |
| 8th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994) |
| 8th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Don Burrows, Australian musician |
| 8th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Biggs, British criminal |
| 8th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004) |
| 8th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Nation, Welsh novelist and screenwriter (d. 1997) |
| 8th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach |
| 8th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist |
| 8th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Garcia Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator |
| 8th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Tillis, American singer |
| 8th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982) |
| 8th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Serena Wilson, American belly dancer (d. 2007) |
| 8th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer |
| 8th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | John Laws, Australia radio personality |
| 8th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Barron, English actor |
| 8th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Howard, American baseball player |
| 8th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish musician (d. 1987) |
| 8th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin Hoffman, American actor |
| 8th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Hetu, French Canadian composer |
| 8th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Stevens, American singer and actress |
| 8th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat |
| 8th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Tito, American businessman and space tourist |
| 8th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dilip Sardesai, Indian cricketer (d. 2007) |
| 8th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Bundy, American actress |
| 8th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Renbourn, English musician |
| 8th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Holmes, American pornographic actor (d. 1988) |
| 8th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | James W. Lewis, American convicted extortionist |
| 8th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Cruz, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 8th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Wilcox, American actor |
| 8th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Dryden, Canadian ice hockey player and parliamentarian |
| 8th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Terangi Adam, Nauruan politician |
| 8th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut |
| 8th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Londono, Colombian racing driver |
| 8th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Carradine, American actor |
| 8th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Hall, American drummer |
| 8th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Kutaragi, Founder of PlayStation |
| 8th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director |
| 8th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Carlson, Australian cricketer |
| 8th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994) |
| 8th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author |
| 8th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Quivers, American radio personality |
| 8th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Fig, South African musician |
| 8th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Sudhakar Rao, Indian cricketer |
| 8th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lazarowicz, British Politician |
| 8th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Don Most, American actor |
| 8th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Mansell, English race car driver |
| 8th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Diddu, Icelandic soprano and songwriter |
| 8th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer |
| 8th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | David Grant, English singer and vocal coach |
| 8th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Branscombe Richmond, American actor |
| 8th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Foreman, English guitarist (Madness) |
| 8th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress |
| 8th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Norville, American television host |
| 8th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrich Maly, German politician |
| 8th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison) |
| 8th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel House, American music executive |
| 8th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Matthews, American football player |
| 8th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2) |
| 8th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kool Moe Dee, American rapper |
| 8th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official and executive |
| 8th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Turteltaub, American director |
| 8th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasia Ashman, American writer |
| 8th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Taylor, England cricketer |
| 8th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Abeyta, American musician |
| 8th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Langbroek, Australian media personality |
| 8th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Angus Fraser, England cricketer |
| 8th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Eubank, English boxer |
| 8th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | John Hudek, American baseball player |
| 8th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Angle, American wrestler |
| 8th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player |
| 8th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rena Mero, American wrestler |
| 8th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Moore, Italian actress |
| 8th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Unkrich, American director and film editor |
| 8th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Abey Kuruvilla, Indian cricketer |
| 8th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Huey Morgan, American singer / guitarist (Fun Lovin' Criminals) |
| 8th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Togo, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 8th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress |
| 8th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Yvie Burnett, British television vocal coach |
| 8th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Trev Alberts, American football player |
| 8th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor |
| 8th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joely Collins, Canadian actress |
| 8th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach |
| 8th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Axel Merckx, Belgian bicycle racer |
| 8th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lupus Thunder, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang) |
| 8th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Allen, Australian singer (Human Nature) |
| 8th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Lee, Australian cricketer |
| 8th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed) |
| 8th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Senta Moses, American actress |
| 8th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Scott D'Amore, Canadian professional wrestler and manager |
| 8th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Priaulx, British racing driver |
| 8th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Harvey, English singer |
| 8th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | JC Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC) |
| 8th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tawny Cypress, American actress |
| 8th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Seung-Yeop Lee, Korean baseball player |
| 8th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Lachey, American singer |
| 8th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Simmons, American race car driver |
| 8th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer |
| 8th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Sloane, American actress |
| 8th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Szilard Nemeth, Slovak footballer |
| 8th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer |
| 8th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Vogondy, French cyclist |
| 8th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Maybury, Irish footballer |
| 8th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Saha, French footballer |
| 8th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Miho Shiraishi, Japanese actress |
| 8th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Countess Vaughn, American actress and singer |
| 8th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Paris Latsis, Greek shipping heir |
| 8th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Harwood, British cellist |
| 8th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rashard Lewis, American basketball player |
| 8th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gu?jon Valur Sigur?sson, Icelandic handball player |
| 8th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Smith, English musician (Noisettes) |
| 8th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Hindert, American musician |
| 8th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Noonan, American footballer |
| 8th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player |
| 8th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Urie, American actor and director |
| 8th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Denisse Guerrero, Mexican Singer (Belanova) |
| 8th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter |
| 8th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player |
| 8th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Meagan Good, American actress |
| 8th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bradley McIntosh, British pop singer |
| 8th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Harel Skaat, Israeli singer |
| 8th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress |
| 8th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Burnet, British actor |
| 8th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer |
| 8th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Martrez Milner, American football player |
| 8th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Devon McTavish, American footballer |
| 8th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Brayan Ruiz, Costa Rican footballer |
| 8th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Flood, English Rugby Union player |
| 8th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Ratliff, American football player |
| 8th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Garcon, American football player |
| 8th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Peyton List, American actress |
| 8th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Pressley, American football player |
| 8th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Leung, Scottish actress |
| 8th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Boulanger, French actor |
| 8th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Beatrice of York, British royal |
| 8th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player |
| 8th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player |
| 8th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Miley, British swimmer |
| 8th of August 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer |
| 8th of August 0869 | DEATH | Lothair II of Lotharingia (Born 825) |
| 8th of August 1445 | DEATH | Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer |
| 8th of August 1553 | DEATH | Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (Born 1478) |
| 8th of August 1555 | DEATH | Oronce Fine, French mathematician (Born 1494) |
| 8th of August 1588 | DEATH | Alonso Sanchez Coello, Spanish painter |
| 8th of August 1604 | DEATH | Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (Born 1578) |
| 8th of August 1631 | DEATH | Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (Born 1579) |
| 8th of August 1684 | DEATH | George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (Born 1622) |
| 8th of August 1747 | DEATH | Madeleine de Vercheres, New France heroine (Born 1678) |
| 8th of August 1759 | DEATH | Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (Born 1704) |
| 8th of August 1827 | DEATH | George Canning, British statesman (Born 1770) |
| 8th of August 1828 | DEATH | Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (Born 1743) |
| 8th of August 1863 | DEATH | Angus MacAskill, British circus performer (Born 1825) |
| 8th of August 1879 | DEATH | Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (Born 1797) |
| 8th of August 1887 | DEATH | Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (Born 1808) |
| 8th of August 1897 | DEATH | Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (Born 1818) |
| 8th of August 1898 | DEATH | Eugene Boudin, French painter (Born 1824) |
| 8th of August 1902 | DEATH | James Tissot, French artist (Born 1836) |
| 8th of August 1909 | DEATH | Mary MacKillop, Australian Roman Catholic nun (Born 1842) |
| 8th of August 1911 | DEATH | William P. Frye, American politician (Born 1830) |
| 8th of August 1928 | DEATH | Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (Born 1871) |
| 8th of August 1933 | DEATH | Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (Born 1870) |
| 8th of August 1934 | DEATH | Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player (Born 1863) |
| 8th of August 1940 | DEATH | Johnny Dodds, American musician (Born 1892) |
| 8th of August 1944 | DEATH | Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (Born 1894) |
| 8th of August 1944 | DEATH | Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (Born 1881) |
| 8th of August 1944 | DEATH | Michael Wittmann, German WWII tank commander (Born 1914) |
| 8th of August 1947 | DEATH | Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (Born 1872) |
| 8th of August 1950 | DEATH | Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (Born 1879) |
| 8th of August 1961 | DEATH | Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera performer (Born 1894) |
| 8th of August 1965 | DEATH | Shirley Jackson, American author (Born 1916) |
| 8th of August 1969 | DEATH | Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (Born 1896) |
| 8th of August 1971 | DEATH | Freddie Spencer Chapman, British army officer (Born 1907) |
| 8th of August 1972 | DEATH | Andrea Feldman, American actor (Born 1948) |
| 8th of August 1973 | DEATH | Dean Corll, American serial killer (Born 1939) |
| 8th of August 1973 | DEATH | Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (Born 1898) |
| 8th of August 1973 | DEATH | Nikos Zachariadis, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (Born 1903) |
| 8th of August 1974 | DEATH | Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader (Born 1907) |
| 8th of August 1975 | DEATH | Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (Born 1928) |
| 8th of August 1977 | DEATH | Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, British electrophysiologist; Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1889) |
| 8th of August 1979 | DEATH | Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (Born 1910) |
| 8th of August 1980 | DEATH | Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (Born 1910) |
| 8th of August 1982 | DEATH | Eric Brandon, British racing driver (Born 1920) |
| 8th of August 1984 | DEATH | Ellen Raskin, American author (Born 1928) |
| 8th of August 1985 | DEATH | Louise Brooks, American actress (Born 1906) |
| 8th of August 1987 | DEATH | Danilo Blanusa, Croatian mathematician (Born 1903) |
| 8th of August 1988 | DEATH | Alan Napier, English actor (Born 1903) |
| 8th of August 1988 | DEATH | Felix Leclerc, Quebec singer and songwriter (Born 1914) |
| 8th of August 1988 | DEATH | Ramon Valdes, Mexican actor (Born 1923) |
| 8th of August 1991 | DEATH | James Irwin, astronaut (Born 1930) |
| 8th of August 1991 | DEATH | Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (Born 1972) |
| 8th of August 1992 | DEATH | Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious figure (Born 1899) |
| 8th of August 1992 | DEATH | John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1965) |
| 8th of August 1995 | DEATH | John Adams, American football player (Born 1937) |
| 8th of August 1996 | DEATH | Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist; Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1905) |
| 8th of August 1998 | DEATH | Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist |
| 8th of August 2004 | DEATH | Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (Born 1934) |
| 8th of August 2004 | DEATH | Fay Wray, American actress (Born 1907) |
| 8th of August 2005 | DEATH | Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (Born 1922) |
| 8th of August 2005 | DEATH | Gene Mauch, American baseball player (Born 1925) |
| 8th of August 2005 | DEATH | John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (Born 1918) |
| 8th of August 2005 | DEATH | Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (Born 1918) |
| 8th of August 2005 | DEATH | Monica Sjoo, Swedish artist (Born 1938) |
| 8th of August 2005 | DEATH | Ilse Werner, German actress (Born 1921) |
| 8th of August 2005 | DEATH | Dean Rockwell, American wrestling and football coach (Born 1912) |
| 8th of August 2007 | DEATH | Joybubbles, A notable phone phreak. (Born 1949) |
| 8th of August 2007 | DEATH | Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (Born 1917) |
| 8th of August 2007 | DEATH | Ma Lik, Chinese politician (Born 1952) |
| 8th of August 2008 | DEATH | Orville Moody, American golfer (Born 1933) |
| 8th of August 2008 | DEATH | Leonard Pagliero, British stationer (Born 1913) |
| 8th of August 2009 | DEATH | Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (Born 1983) |
| 8th of August 2010 | DEATH | Patricia Neal, American actress (Born 1926) |