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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of November 1519 | EVENT | Hernan Cortes enters Tenochtitlan and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. |
| 8th of November 1520 | EVENT | Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people. |
| 8th of November 1576 | EVENT | Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent : The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation. |
| 8th of November 1602 | EVENT | The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public. |
| 8th of November 1620 | EVENT | The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours. |
| 8th of November 1745 | EVENT | Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden. |
| 8th of November 1793 | EVENT | In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum. |
| 8th of November 1837 | EVENT | Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College. |
| 8th of November 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: The "Trent Affair" : The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. |
| 8th of November 1889 | EVENT | Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state. |
| 8th of November 1892 | EVENT | The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time. |
| 8th of November 1895 | EVENT | While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Rontgen discovers the X-ray. |
| 8th of November 1901 | EVENT | Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. |
| 8th of November 1917 | EVENT | The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin. |
| 8th of November 1923 | EVENT | Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. |
| 8th of November 1933 | EVENT | Great Depression: New Deal : US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed. |
| 8th of November 1935 | EVENT | A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism. |
| 8th of November 1937 | EVENT | The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich. |
| 8th of November 1939 | EVENT | Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. |
| 8th of November 1939 | EVENT | In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. |
| 8th of November 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Torch : United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa. |
| 8th of November 1942 | EVENT | World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers. |
| 8th of November 1950 | EVENT | Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. |
| 8th of November 1957 | EVENT | Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. |
| 8th of November 1960 | EVENT | John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States. |
| 8th of November 1965 | EVENT | The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. |
| 8th of November 1965 | EVENT | The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom. |
| 8th of November 1965 | EVENT | The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Vietcong at the Battle of Gang Toi. |
| 8th of November 1966 | EVENT | Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction. |
| 8th of November 1966 | EVENT | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. |
| 8th of November 1973 | EVENT | The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD. |
| 8th of November 1976 | EVENT | A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated. |
| 8th of November 1977 | EVENT | Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. |
| 8th of November 1987 | EVENT | Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded. |
| 8th of November 2002 | EVENT | Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 : The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". |
| 8th of November 2004 | EVENT | War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. |
| 8th of November 0030 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98) |
| 8th of November 1342 | BIRTHDAY | Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416) |
| 8th of November 1491 | BIRTHDAY | Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544) |
| 8th of November 1622 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660) |
| 8th of November 1656 | BIRTHDAY | Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742) |
| 8th of November 1706 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772) |
| 8th of November 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768) |
| 8th of November 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797) |
| 8th of November 1723 | BIRTHDAY | John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786) |
| 8th of November 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840) |
| 8th of November 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Desiree Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860) |
| 8th of November 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911) |
| 8th of November 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912) |
| 8th of November 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907) |
| 8th of November 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925) |
| 8th of November 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919) |
| 8th of November 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941) |
| 8th of November 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942) |
| 8th of November 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (d. 1945) |
| 8th of November 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953) |
| 8th of November 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922) |
| 8th of November 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951) |
| 8th of November 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946) |
| 8th of November 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966) |
| 8th of November 1888 | BIRTHDAY | David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (d. 1974) |
| 8th of November 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Williams, American pianist and composer (d. 1965) |
| 8th of November 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941) |
| 8th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965) |
| 8th of November 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977) |
| 8th of November 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Day, social activist (d. 1980) |
| 8th of November 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937) |
| 8th of November 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949) |
| 8th of November 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943) |
| 8th of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990) |
| 8th of November 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Ivy Bean, English internet celebrity (d. 2010) |
| 8th of November 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998) |
| 8th of November 1912 | BIRTHDAY | June Havoc, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 8th of November 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Zapf, German designer |
| 8th of November 1919 | BIRTHDAY | P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000) |
| 8th of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998) |
| 8th of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Eugenio de Araujo Sales, Brazilian cardinal |
| 8th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996) |
| 8th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001) |
| 8th of November 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005) |
| 8th of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974) |
| 8th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Dodd, English comedian |
| 8th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam |
| 8th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Lal Krishna Advani, Indian politician |
| 8th of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Patti Page, American singer |
| 8th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Bowden, American football coach |
| 8th of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher |
| 8th of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Darla Hood, American actress (d. 1979) |
| 8th of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Morley Safer, American journalist |
| 8th of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Audran, French actress |
| 8th of November 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Arundell, British racing driver |
| 8th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Delon, French actor |
| 8th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop (d. 2008) |
| 8th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007) |
| 8th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey |
| 8th of November 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Peters, English footballer |
| 8th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends) |
| 8th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Guus Hiddink, Dutch football coach |
| 8th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard) |
| 8th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979) |
| 8th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bonnie Raitt, American singer |
| 8th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association. |
| 8th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Hart, American television personality |
| 8th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general |
| 8th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Suber, American academic |
| 8th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (d. 1977) |
| 8th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist |
| 8th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises |
| 8th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator |
| 8th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Denny, American baseball player |
| 8th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Alfre Woodard, American actress |
| 8th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Musker, American animation director |
| 8th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster |
| 8th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director |
| 8th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Rickie Lee Jones, American singer |
| 8th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuo Ishiguro, British author |
| 8th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk) |
| 8th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Thanasis Pafilis, Greek politician |
| 8th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Miller, American record producer |
| 8th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Curtis, British screenwriter |
| 8th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure) |
| 8th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Curbishley, English football manager |
| 8th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Lamberton, American writer, former teacher, and convicted sex offender |
| 8th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Curtis, New Zealand-born British screenwriter |
| 8th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Don Byron, American clarinetist |
| 8th of November 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Chi Chi LaRue, American pornographic producer |
| 8th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor |
| 8th of November 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor |
| 8th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Micky Adams, English football manager |
| 8th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Leif Garrett, American singer |
| 8th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Blauser, American baseball player |
| 8th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter |
| 8th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Urmas Valbe, Estonian cross-country skier |
| 8th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Toralf Arndt, German footballer |
| 8th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality |
| 8th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress |
| 8th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kamar de los Reyes, American actor |
| 8th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Rodriguez, Dominican Republic baseball player |
| 8th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Parker Posey, American actress |
| 8th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Zara Whites, Dutch actress |
| 8th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Jones, Canadian hockey player |
| 8th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Offerman, Dominican baseball player |
| 8th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer |
| 8th of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Roxana Zal, American actress |
| 8th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace |
| 8th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer |
| 8th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Diana King, Jamaican singer |
| 8th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director |
| 8th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE), American rapper |
| 8th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Gretchen Mol, American actress |
| 8th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor |
| 8th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author |
| 8th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author |
| 8th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Penny Heyns, South African swimmer |
| 8th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Brevin Knight, American basketball player |
| 8th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Pinto, Spanish footballer |
| 8th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tara Reid, American actress |
| 8th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Lee, Australian cricketer |
| 8th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Strause, American director |
| 8th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bucky Covington, American entertainer |
| 8th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer |
| 8th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Punto, American baseball player |
| 8th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Sergio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer |
| 8th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer |
| 8th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer |
| 8th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Evans, American basketball player |
| 8th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shyne (Moses Michael Leviy), Belizean born rapper |
| 8th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player |
| 8th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer |
| 8th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress |
| 8th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Gabel, American punk rock musician (Against Me!) |
| 8th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer |
| 8th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist |
| 8th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Cole, English footballer |
| 8th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Azura Skye, American actress |
| 8th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Yann Kermorgant, French footballer |
| 8th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ethan Ruan, Taiwanese Model and Actor |
| 8th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib |
| 8th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer |
| 8th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor |
| 8th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ted DiBiase Jr., Professional wrestler in WWE |
| 8th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer |
| 8th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Blanka Vlasic, Croatian high jumper |
| 8th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Katharina Molitor, German javelin thrower |
| 8th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Osbourne, English television star |
| 8th of November 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress (known for Caprica) |
| 8th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Roberts, Welsh and British & Irish Lions rugby player |
| 8th of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Bradford, American football player and winner of the 2008 Heisman Trophy |
| 8th of November 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress |
| 8th of November 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Clark Russell, Croatian High Jumper |
| 8th of November 2003 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Louise Windsor, British royal |
| 8th of November 0911 | DEATH | Louis the Child of the East Franks (Born 893) |
| 8th of November 0955 | DEATH | Pope Agapetus II |
| 8th of November 1115 | DEATH | Godfrey of Amiens (Born 1066) |
| 8th of November 1171 | DEATH | Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (Born 1108) |
| 8th of November 1195 | DEATH | Conrad of Hohenstaufen |
| 8th of November 1226 | DEATH | King Louis VIII of France (Born 1187) |
| 8th of November 1246 | DEATH | Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (Born 1180) |
| 8th of November 1308 | DEATH | Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher |
| 8th of November 1517 | DEATH | Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman and cardinal (Born 1436) |
| 8th of November 1527 | DEATH | Jerome Emser, German theologian (Born 1477) |
| 8th of November 1599 | DEATH | Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (Born 1528) |
| 8th of November 1600 | DEATH | Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (Born 1562) |
| 8th of November 1605 | DEATH | Robert Catesby, English conspirator (Born 1573) |
| 8th of November 1658 | DEATH | Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (Born 1599) |
| 8th of November 1674 | DEATH | John Milton, English poet (Born 1608) |
| 8th of November 1719 | DEATH | Michel Rolle, French mathematician (Born 1652) |
| 8th of November 1817 | DEATH | Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (Born 1754) |
| 8th of November 1830 | DEATH | King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (Born 1777) |
| 8th of November 1873 | DEATH | Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (Born 1796) |
| 8th of November 1887 | DEATH | Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (Born 1851) |
| 8th of November 1890 | DEATH | Cesar Franck, Belgian composer and organist (Born 1822) |
| 8th of November 1895 | DEATH | Robert Battey, American surgeon (Born 1828) |
| 8th of November 1905 | DEATH | Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (Born 1870) |
| 8th of November 1917 | DEATH | Colin Blythe, English cricketer (Born 1879) |
| 8th of November 1921 | DEATH | Pavol Orszagh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (Born 1849) |
| 8th of November 1924 | DEATH | Michele Merlo, American mafia figure (Born 1880) |
| 8th of November 1934 | DEATH | Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (Born 1879) |
| 8th of November 1944 | DEATH | Walter Nowotny, Austrian-born German fighter pilot (Born 1920) |
| 8th of November 1945 | DEATH | August von Mackensen, German field marshal (Born 1849) |
| 8th of November 1949 | DEATH | Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman (Born 1874) |
| 8th of November 1953 | DEATH | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1870) |
| 8th of November 1953 | DEATH | John van Melle, South African author (Born 1887) |
| 8th of November 1959 | DEATH | Frank Sherman Land, American Freemason (Born 1890) |
| 8th of November 1965 | DEATH | Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (Born 1913) |
| 8th of November 1966 | DEATH | Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist (Born 1891) |
| 8th of November 1968 | DEATH | Wendell Corey, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 8th of November 1970 | DEATH | Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (Born 1892) |
| 8th of November 1974 | DEATH | Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (Born 1914) |
| 8th of November 1977 | DEATH | Bucky Harris, American baseball player (Born 1896) |
| 8th of November 1978 | DEATH | Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (Born 1894) |
| 8th of November 1979 | DEATH | Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (Born 1900) |
| 8th of November 1983 | DEATH | Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-born American rabbi and educator (Born 1881) |
| 8th of November 1983 | DEATH | James Booker, American jazz singer (Born 1939) |
| 8th of November 1983 | DEATH | James Hayden, American actor (Born 1953) |
| 8th of November 1985 | DEATH | Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (Born 1899) |
| 8th of November 1985 | DEATH | Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-born American painter and book illustrator (Born 1915) |
| 8th of November 1986 | DEATH | Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (Born 1890) |
| 8th of November 1992 | DEATH | Larry Levan, American DJ (Born 1954) |
| 8th of November 1993 | DEATH | Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (Born 1906) |
| 8th of November 1994 | DEATH | Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (Born 1940) |
| 8th of November 1998 | DEATH | John Hunt, Baron Hunt, British mountaineer (Born 1910) |
| 8th of November 1998 | DEATH | Jean Marais, French actor (Born 1913) |
| 8th of November 1998 | DEATH | Rumer Godden, British writer (Born 1907) |
| 8th of November 1999 | DEATH | Leon Stukelj, Slovenian gymnast (Born 1898) |
| 8th of November 1999 | DEATH | Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (Born 1941) |
| 8th of November 2002 | DEATH | Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (Born 1931) |
| 8th of November 2003 | DEATH | C. Z. Guest, American socialite (Born 1920) |
| 8th of November 2003 | DEATH | Bob Grant, English actor (Born 1932) |
| 8th of November 2003 | DEATH | Guy Speranza, American singer (Riot) (Born 1956) |
| 8th of November 2004 | DEATH | Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (Born 1931) |
| 8th of November 2005 | DEATH | David Westheimer, American novelist (Born 1917) |
| 8th of November 2005 | DEATH | Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (Born 1928) |
| 8th of November 2006 | DEATH | Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (Born 1945) |
| 8th of November 2006 | DEATH | Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist (Born 1941) |
| 8th of November 2007 | DEATH | Chad Varah, English humanitarian (Born 1911) |
| 8th of November 2007 | DEATH | Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary (Born 1943) |
| 8th of November 2009 | DEATH | Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (Born 1916) |
| 8th of November 2010 | DEATH | Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (Born 1925) |
| 8th of November 2010 | DEATH | Jack Levine, American painter (Born 1915) |
| 8th of November 2010 | DEATH | Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (Born 1961) |
| 8th of November 2010 | DEATH | Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (Born 1950) |