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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of February 0421 | EVENT | Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. |
| 8th of February 1238 | EVENT | The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. |
| 8th of February 1250 | EVENT | Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah. |
| 8th of February 1575 | EVENT | Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis. |
| 8th of February 1587 | EVENT | Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. |
| 8th of February 1601 | EVENT | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I : the revolt is quickly crushed. |
| 8th of February 1693 | EVENT | The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II. |
| 8th of February 1726 | EVENT | The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia. |
| 8th of February 1807 | EVENT | Battle of Eylau : Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen. |
| 8th of February 1817 | EVENT | Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martin and liberate Chile from Spain. |
| 8th of February 1837 | EVENT | Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate. |
| 8th of February 1855 | EVENT | The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon. |
| 8th of February 1856 | EVENT | Barbu Dimitrie Stirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia. |
| 8th of February 1865 | EVENT | In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.) |
| 8th of February 1879 | EVENT | Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute. |
| 8th of February 1879 | EVENT | The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney. |
| 8th of February 1887 | EVENT | The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. |
| 8th of February 1904 | EVENT | Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War. |
| 8th of February 1910 | EVENT | The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. |
| 8th of February 1915 | EVENT | D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles. |
| 8th of February 1922 | EVENT | President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House. |
| 8th of February 1924 | EVENT | Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada. |
| 8th of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japan invades Singapore. |
| 8th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine. |
| 8th of February 1946 | EVENT | The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published. |
| 8th of February 1948 | EVENT | The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced. |
| 8th of February 1949 | EVENT | Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason. |
| 8th of February 1952 | EVENT | Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom. |
| 8th of February 1955 | EVENT | The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km?) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants. |
| 8th of February 1960 | EVENT | The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
| 8th of February 1960 | EVENT | Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor". |
| 8th of February 1962 | EVENT | Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police. |
| 8th of February 1963 | EVENT | The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party. |
| 8th of February 1963 | EVENT | Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration. |
| 8th of February 1965 | EVENT | After taking evasive maneuvers to avoid a mid-air collision immediately after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard. |
| 8th of February 1968 | EVENT | American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina. |
| 8th of February 1969 | EVENT | Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico. |
| 8th of February 1971 | EVENT | The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time. |
| 8th of February 1971 | EVENT | South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try and cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration. |
| 8th of February 1974 | EVENT | After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth. |
| 8th of February 1974 | EVENT | Military coup in Upper Volta. |
| 8th of February 1978 | EVENT | Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time. |
| 8th of February 1979 | EVENT | Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time. |
| 8th of February 1981 | EVENT | Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC. |
| 8th of February 1983 | EVENT | The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night. |
| 8th of February 1989 | EVENT | An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in the Azores, killing 144. |
| 8th of February 1993 | EVENT | General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day. |
| 8th of February 1996 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act. |
| 8th of February 1996 | EVENT | The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place. |
| 8th of February 2010 | EVENT | A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travellers. |
| 8th of February 0120 | BIRTHDAY | Vettius Valens, Greek astrologer (d. 175) |
| 8th of February 0412 | BIRTHDAY | Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 487) |
| 8th of February 1191 | BIRTHDAY | Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246) |
| 8th of February 1291 | BIRTHDAY | King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357) |
| 8th of February 1405 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1453) |
| 8th of February 1487 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrich, Duke of Wurttemberg (d. 1550) |
| 8th of February 1552 | BIRTHDAY | Agrippa d'Aubigne, French poet and soldier (d. 1630) |
| 8th of February 1577 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Burton, English cleric and writer (d. 1640) |
| 8th of February 1586 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Praetorius, German composer (d. 1651) |
| 8th of February 1612 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Butler, English poet (d. 1680) |
| 8th of February 1649 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728) |
| 8th of February 1677 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756) |
| 8th of February 1685 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Jean-Francois Henault, French historian (d. 1770) |
| 8th of February 1700 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782) |
| 8th of February 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750) |
| 8th of February 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Caroline Augusta of Bavaria of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873) |
| 8th of February 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Russian Grand Duke (d. 1849) |
| 8th of February 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834) |
| 8th of February 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889) |
| 8th of February 1819 | BIRTHDAY | John Ruskin, English author (d. 1900) |
| 8th of February 1820 | BIRTHDAY | William Tecumseh Sherman, American Union general (d. 1891) |
| 8th of February 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (d. 1894) |
| 8th of February 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Walter Bates, English naturalist and explorer (d. 1892) |
| 8th of February 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905) |
| 8th of February 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907) |
| 8th of February 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902) |
| 8th of February 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904) |
| 8th of February 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Moses Gomberg, Russian-born American chemist (d. 1947) |
| 8th of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Buber, Austrian-born Israeli philosopher (d. 1965) |
| 8th of February 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Marc, German painter (d. 1916) |
| 8th of February 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Etholen Selfridge, American military officer and airplane crash victim (d. 1908) |
| 8th of February 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950) |
| 8th of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953) |
| 8th of February 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970) |
| 8th of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976) |
| 8th of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Claro M. Recto, Filipino nationalist (d. 1960) |
| 8th of February 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977) |
| 8th of February 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Marcuse, German author and philosopher (d. 1971) |
| 8th of February 1894 | BIRTHDAY | King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982) |
| 8th of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987) |
| 8th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966) |
| 8th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (d. 1942) |
| 8th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977) |
| 8th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1968) |
| 8th of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979) |
| 8th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Field, American actress (d. 1973) |
| 8th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Finger, American comic book writer (d. 1974) |
| 8th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) |
| 8th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Siegert, German football manager |
| 8th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995) |
| 8th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 8th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001) |
| 8th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968) |
| 8th of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Lees, Canadian biographer and lyricist (d. 2010) |
| 8th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (d. 1987) |
| 8th of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000) |
| 8th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | James Dean, American actor (d. 1955) |
| 8th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | John Williams, American composer and conductor |
| 8th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Allison, British racing driver (d. 2005) |
| 8th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano |
| 8th of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Larson, American actor |
| 8th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Verne, American singer |
| 8th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Krug, German actor |
| 8th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Raposo, American composer (d. 1989) |
| 8th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria Sison, Filipino communist |
| 8th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Iman, American football player (d. 2010) |
| 8th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Koppel, American journalist |
| 8th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Rush, American singer and songwriter |
| 8th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Nolte, American actor |
| 8th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Klein, American comedian |
| 8th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (d. 2004) |
| 8th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Munden, American shooting competitor |
| 8th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Creed Bratton, American actor and musician |
| 8th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic |
| 8th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor |
| 8th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastiao Salgado, Brazilian documentary photographer |
| 8th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (d. 2002) |
| 8th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Seals, American singer (d. 2009) |
| 8th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Tyson, American singer (The Temptations) |
| 8th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Adams, American actress |
| 8th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Cristina Ferrare, American former supermodel and actress |
| 8th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Z'EV, American text/sound artist |
| 8th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Clavet, Quebecois politician |
| 8th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Steenburgen, American actress |
| 8th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | John Grisham, American writer |
| 8th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer |
| 8th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Meros, American bassist (Spock's Beard) |
| 8th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (d. 2007) |
| 8th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Damir Maricic, Croatian footballer |
| 8th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Hamm, American bassist (Joe Satriani, Steve Vai) |
| 8th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Benigno Aquino III, Philippine President |
| 8th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Timm, TV Producer (DC Animated Universe) |
| 8th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Neil, American singer (Motley Crue) |
| 8th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer |
| 8th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Kadison, American pianist and songwriter |
| 8th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Trinny Woodall, British fashion guru |
| 8th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Nebrensky, Czech actor and musician |
| 8th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dicky Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer |
| 8th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Labbadia, German footballer |
| 8th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Muller, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer |
| 8th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger, German author |
| 8th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Coleman, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 8th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Claudette Pace, Maltese singer |
| 8th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Nasos Thanopoulos, Greek businessman |
| 8th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Shiva Rose, American actress |
| 8th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mary McCormack, American actress |
| 8th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John Filan, Australian footballer |
| 8th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player |
| 8th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Karppinen, Finnish drummer (HIM) |
| 8th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier |
| 8th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Wight, American professional wrestler |
| 8th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Keith McDonald, American baseball player |
| 8th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk) |
| 8th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Green, American actor |
| 8th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ulises de la Cruz, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 8th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kimbo Slice, American mixed martial artist |
| 8th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Abi Titmuss, English glamour model |
| 8th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 8th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Piatt, American baseball player |
| 8th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Vouilloz, French rally driver |
| 8th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bridgette Kerkove, American actress |
| 8th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist |
| 8th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Hall, Australian footballer |
| 8th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mathieu Turcotte, Canadian short-track speed skater |
| 8th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Cook, American baseball player |
| 8th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Keaton, American actor and singer |
| 8th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ralf Little, English actor and comedian |
| 8th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Muncey, Australian guitarist (Jet) |
| 8th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Wright, English footballer |
| 8th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer |
| 8th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Satomi Korogi, Japanese voice actress |
| 8th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor |
| 8th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Tamberelli, American actor |
| 8th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Verraros, American singer |
| 8th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player |
| 8th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player |
| 8th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater |
| 8th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 8th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Rucha Hasabnis, Indian television actress |
| 8th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Pinkston, American actor |
| 8th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Dani Harmer, English actress |
| 8th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | JaJuan Johnson, American basketball player |
| 8th of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Zac Guildford, New Zealand rugby player |
| 8th of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Bethany Hamilton, American surfer and shark attack survivor |
| 8th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Abdisalam Ibrahim, Somali/Norwegian footballer |
| 8th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Soriano, Italian footballer |
| 8th of February 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian artist and singer |
| 8th of February 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Sarlote Lenmane, Latvian singer |
| 8th of February 1204 | DEATH | Alexius IV Angelus, deposed Eastern Roman Emperor (Born c. 1182) |
| 8th of February 1250 | DEATH | Sir William II Longespee (Born 1212) |
| 8th of February 1250 | DEATH | Robert I of Artois, French crusader (Born 1216) |
| 8th of February 1265 | DEATH | Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (Born 1217) |
| 8th of February 1296 | DEATH | King Przemys? II of Poland (Born 1257) |
| 8th of February 1587 | DEATH | Mary, Queen of Scots (Born 1542) |
| 8th of February 1599 | DEATH | Robert Rollock, Scottish educator (Born 1555) |
| 8th of February 1623 | DEATH | Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (Born 1546) |
| 8th of February 1696 | DEATH | Tsar Ivan V of Russia (Born 1666) |
| 8th of February 1709 | DEATH | Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (Born 1658) |
| 8th of February 1725 | DEATH | Tsar Peter I of Russia (Born 1672) |
| 8th of February 1749 | DEATH | Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (Born 1682) |
| 8th of February 1750 | DEATH | Aaron Hill, English writer (Born 1685) |
| 8th of February 1768 | DEATH | George Dance the Elder, English architect (Born 1695) |
| 8th of February 1772 | DEATH | Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (Born 1719) |
| 8th of February 1847 | DEATH | Theodor Valentin Volkmar, German politician (Born 1781) |
| 8th of February 1849 | DEATH | France Preseren, Slovenian poet (Born 1800) |
| 8th of February 1849 | DEATH | Francois Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (Born 1781) |
| 8th of February 1856 | DEATH | Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (Born 1773) |
| 8th of February 1907 | DEATH | Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (Born 1854) |
| 8th of February 1910 | DEATH | Hans Jaeger, Norwegian writer and political activist (Born 1854) |
| 8th of February 1921 | DEATH | George Formby, Sr., English entertainer (Born 1876) |
| 8th of February 1921 | DEATH | Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (Born 1842) |
| 8th of February 1921 | DEATH | Barrett Wendell, American academic and author (Born 1855) |
| 8th of February 1924 | DEATH | Gee Jon, First man in U.S. to be executed by lethal gas. (Born 1895) |
| 8th of February 1929 | DEATH | Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (Born 1858) |
| 8th of February 1932 | DEATH | Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, New York City gangster from County Donegal in Ireland (Born 1908) |
| 8th of February 1936 | DEATH | Charles Curtis, 1st American-Indian Vice-President of the USA (Born 1860) |
| 8th of February 1956 | DEATH | Connie Mack, American baseball manager and executive (Born 1862) |
| 8th of February 1957 | DEATH | John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (Born 1903) |
| 8th of February 1957 | DEATH | Walther Bothe, German physicist and inventor, Nobel laureate (Born 1891) |
| 8th of February 1960 | DEATH | John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher, (Born 1911) |
| 8th of February 1960 | DEATH | Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (Born 1880) |
| 8th of February 1963 | DEATH | George Dolenz, American actor, father of Micky Dolenz (Born 1908) |
| 8th of February 1964 | DEATH | Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (Born 1888) |
| 8th of February 1972 | DEATH | Markos Vamvakaris, Greek musician and songwriter (Born 1905) |
| 8th of February 1975 | DEATH | Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1886) |
| 8th of February 1977 | DEATH | Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (Born 1901) |
| 8th of February 1980 | DEATH | Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (Born 1936) |
| 8th of February 1982 | DEATH | John Hay Whitney, American financier (Born 1904) |
| 8th of February 1984 | DEATH | Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (Born 1903) |
| 8th of February 1985 | DEATH | William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer (Born 1901) |
| 8th of February 1987 | DEATH | Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (Born 1905) |
| 8th of February 1990 | DEATH | Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (Born 1934) |
| 8th of February 1992 | DEATH | Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist (Born 1924) |
| 8th of February 1993 | DEATH | N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader (Born 1920) |
| 8th of February 1994 | DEATH | Raymond Scott, American composer (Born 1908) |
| 8th of February 1996 | DEATH | Del Ennis, American baseball player (Born 1925) |
| 8th of February 1998 | DEATH | Halldor Laxness, Icelandic author, Nobel laureate (Born 1902) |
| 8th of February 1998 | DEATH | Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (Born 1932) |
| 8th of February 1998 | DEATH | Enoch Powell, British politician (Born 1912) |
| 8th of February 1999 | DEATH | Iris Murdoch, Irish author (Born 1919) |
| 8th of February 2000 | DEATH | Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1918) |
| 8th of February 2000 | DEATH | Bob Collins, American radio broadcaster (Born 1942) |
| 8th of February 2000 | DEATH | Derrick Thomas, American football player (Born 1967) |
| 8th of February 2001 | DEATH | Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (Born 1920) |
| 8th of February 2002 | DEATH | Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (Born 1930) |
| 8th of February 2002 | DEATH | Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (Born 1936) |
| 8th of February 2004 | DEATH | Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (Born 1915) |
| 8th of February 2005 | DEATH | Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (Born 1925) |
| 8th of February 2005 | DEATH | Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (Born 1948) |
| 8th of February 2006 | DEATH | Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (Born 1945) |
| 8th of February 2006 | DEATH | Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (Born 1914) |
| 8th of February 2007 | DEATH | Anna Nicole Smith, American model, actress, and entertainer (Born 1967) |
| 8th of February 2007 | DEATH | Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American professor and reincarnation researcher (Born 1918) |
| 8th of February 2008 | DEATH | Frank J. Dixon, American immunologist (Born 1920) |
| 8th of February 2008 | DEATH | Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (Born 1947) |
| 8th of February 2009 | DEATH | Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (Born 1982) |
| 8th of February 2010 | DEATH | John Murtha, American politician (Born 1932) |
| 8th of February 2011 | DEATH | Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (Born 1909) |