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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of September 0070 | EVENT | Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. |
| 8th of September 1264 | EVENT | The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Boleslaus the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland. |
| 8th of September 1331 | EVENT | Stephen Uros IV Dusan declares himself king of Serbia |
| 8th of September 1380 | EVENT | Battle of Kulikovo : Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance. |
| 8th of September 1449 | EVENT | Battle of Tumu Fortress : Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor. |
| 8th of September 1504 | EVENT | Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence. |
| 8th of September 1514 | EVENT | Battle of Orsha : in one of the biggest battles of the century, Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army. |
| 8th of September 1551 | EVENT | The foundation day in Vitoria, Brazil |
| 8th of September 1565 | EVENT | The Knights of Malta lift the Turkish siege of Malta that began on May 18. |
| 8th of September 1565 | EVENT | Pedro Menendez de Aviles settles St. Augustine, Florida. |
| 8th of September 1727 | EVENT | A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children. |
| 8th of September 1755 | EVENT | French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George. |
| 8th of September 1756 | EVENT | French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition. |
| 8th of September 1761 | EVENT | Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. |
| 8th of September 1793 | EVENT | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote. |
| 8th of September 1796 | EVENT | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano : French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa. |
| 8th of September 1810 | EVENT | The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon. |
| 8th of September 1831 | EVENT | William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 8th of September 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass : on the Texas-Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas. |
| 8th of September 1888 | EVENT | In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found. |
| 8th of September 1888 | EVENT | In England the first six Football League matches are played. |
| 8th of September 1892 | EVENT | The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited. |
| 8th of September 1900 | EVENT | Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people. |
| 8th of September 1914 | EVENT | World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war. |
| 8th of September 1921 | EVENT | 16-year-old Margaret Gorman wins the Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America. |
| 8th of September 1923 | EVENT | Honda Point Disaster: nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed. |
| 8th of September 1926 | EVENT | Germany is admitted to the League of Nations. |
| 8th of September 1930 | EVENT | 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape. |
| 8th of September 1934 | EVENT | Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people. |
| 8th of September 1935 | EVENT | US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building. |
| 8th of September 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. |
| 8th of September 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF. |
| 8th of September 1943 | EVENT | World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy. |
| 8th of September 1944 | EVENT | World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time. |
| 8th of September 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany. |
| 8th of September 1945 | EVENT | Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier. |
| 8th of September 1951 | EVENT | Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War. |
| 8th of September 1954 | EVENT | The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established. |
| 8th of September 1959 | EVENT | The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established. |
| 8th of September 1960 | EVENT | In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1). |
| 8th of September 1962 | EVENT | Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star. |
| 8th of September 1962 | EVENT | Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a Constitution. |
| 8th of September 1966 | EVENT | The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 8th of September 1966 | EVENT | The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC. |
| 8th of September 1967 | EVENT | The formal end of steam traction in the North East of England by British Railways. |
| 8th of September 1968 | EVENT | The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit "Hey Jude". |
| 8th of September 1970 | EVENT | Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to Jordan by Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as Black September |
| 8th of September 1971 | EVENT | In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. |
| 8th of September 1974 | EVENT | Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. |
| 8th of September 1975 | EVENT | Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I Am A Homosexual". He is later given a general discharge. |
| 8th of September 1991 | EVENT | The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent. |
| 8th of September 1994 | EVENT | USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, suddenly crashes in clear weather killing all 132 aboard; resulting in the most extensive aviation investigation in world history and altering manufacturing practices in the industry. |
| 8th of September 2004 | EVENT | NASA's unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open. |
| 8th of September 2005 | EVENT | Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America. |
| 8th of September 0801 | BIRTHDAY | Ansgar, German Christian archbishop (d. 865) |
| 8th of September 0828 | BIRTHDAY | Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868) |
| 8th of September 1157 | BIRTHDAY | King Richard I of England (d. 1199) |
| 8th of September 1207 | BIRTHDAY | King Sancho II of Portugal (d. 1248) |
| 8th of September 1271 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Martel of Anjou, son of Charles II of Naples (d. 1295) |
| 8th of September 1380 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444) |
| 8th of September 1474 | BIRTHDAY | Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (d. 1533) |
| 8th of September 1515 | BIRTHDAY | Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (d. 1585) |
| 8th of September 1588 | BIRTHDAY | Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (d. 1648) |
| 8th of September 1611 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671) |
| 8th of September 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, French general (d. 1686) |
| 8th of September 1633 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654) |
| 8th of September 1672 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703) |
| 8th of September 1742 | BIRTHDAY | Ozias Humphrey, English artist (d. 1810) |
| 8th of September 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (d. 1793) |
| 8th of September 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Louise, princesse de Lamballe, Italian-born French aristocrat (d. 1792) |
| 8th of September 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Jamapese sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna (d. 1795) |
| 8th of September 1767 | BIRTHDAY | August von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1845) |
| 8th of September 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842) |
| 8th of September 1783 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (d. 1872) |
| 8th of September 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Morike, German poet (d. 1875) |
| 8th of September 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (d. 1874) |
| 8th of September 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Nuno, Spanish composer (d. 1908) |
| 8th of September 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, American Civil War soldier (d. 1914) |
| 8th of September 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Cook, American writer and art critic (d. 1900) |
| 8th of September 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914) |
| 8th of September 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (d. 1904) |
| 8th of September 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of James A. Garfield (d. 1882) |
| 8th of September 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Catchick Paul Chater, Hong Kong businessman(d. May 27, 1926) |
| 8th of September 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919) |
| 8th of September 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936) |
| 8th of September 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Jarry, French playwright (d. 1907) |
| 8th of September 1873 | BIRTHDAY | David O. McKay, ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1970) |
| 8th of September 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Hillman, American athlete (d. 1945) |
| 8th of September 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Pilette, Belgian racing driver (d. 1921) |
| 8th of September 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (d. 1967) |
| 8th of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | George, Crown Prince of Serbia (d. 1972) |
| 8th of September 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Alphonso Taft, American politician (d. 1953) |
| 8th of September 1894 | BIRTHDAY | John Samuel Bourque, Quebec politician (d. 1974) |
| 8th of September 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Garcia, Mexican actress (d. 1980) |
| 8th of September 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983) |
| 8th of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmie Rodgers, American singer and composer (d. 1933) |
| 8th of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, South African politician (d. 1966) |
| 8th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (d. 1994) |
| 8th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (d. 2001) |
| 8th of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Cady, American actor |
| 8th of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (d. 1992) |
| 8th of September 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) |
| 8th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Gianni Brera, Italian journalist and writer (d. 1992) |
| 8th of September 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer (d. 2001) |
| 8th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Caesar, American comedian |
| 8th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Lyndon LaRouche, American politician |
| 8th of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Claire Kirkland, Quebec politician |
| 8th of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Mimi Parent, Canadian painter (d. 2005) |
| 8th of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Paul Cloutier, Quebec politician |
| 8th of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Metalious, American novelist (d. 1964) |
| 8th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sellers, English actor (d. 1980) |
| 8th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline Ceballos, American feminist and activist |
| 8th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002) |
| 8th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor |
| 8th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Byrne, English footballer (d. 1958) |
| 8th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Adorf, Swiss-born German actor |
| 8th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Robert W. Firestone, American clinical psychologist, author of a number of books about psychological defenses, and visual artist. |
| 8th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Nguyen Cao Ky, South Vietnamese politician |
| 8th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | John Garrett, British politician (d. 2007) |
| 8th of September 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963) |
| 8th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Paul M. Fleiss, American pediatrician; father of Heidi Fleiss |
| 8th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Asha Bhosle, Indian singer |
| 8th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Frayn, British playwright |
| 8th of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Salzman, American composer |
| 8th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer |
| 8th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Rodrigue Biron, Canadian politician |
| 8th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Frum, Canadian news anchor (d. 1992) |
| 8th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Virna Lisi, Italian actress |
| 8th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Nunn, American politician |
| 8th of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Kenichi Horie, Japanese adventurer |
| 8th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Carsten Keller, German field hockey player |
| 8th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Guitar Shorty, American musician |
| 8th of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Quentin L. Cook, LDS apostle |
| 8th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Sanders, American politician |
| 8th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Cole, American musician (The Association) (d. 1972) |
| 8th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Adelaide C. Eckardt, American politician |
| 8th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer |
| 8th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Pigpen McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (d. 1973) |
| 8th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Rogie Vachon, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | L. C. Greenwood, American football player |
| 8th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Beattie, American writer |
| 8th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist |
| 8th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Halldor Asgrimsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland |
| 8th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (d. 2000) |
| 8th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Monsere, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971) |
| 8th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Great Kabuki, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 8th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Zachary Richard, American singer and songwriter |
| 8th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Simpson, American politician |
| 8th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer |
| 8th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Greggory, French actor |
| 8th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Shermer, American science writer |
| 8th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lindsay Chapman, English film and television actor |
| 8th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Diamond, English television presenter |
| 8th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Toussas, Greek politician |
| 8th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Foley, American politician |
| 8th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Tempest Williams, American author and environmentalist |
| 8th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Richings, English-born Canadian actor |
| 8th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Brown, American drummer (Dokken) |
| 8th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Tovey, British musician (d. 2002) |
| 8th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Cheeks, American basketball player and coach |
| 8th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Thomas, American actress |
| 8th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mitsuru Miyamoto, Japanese voice actor |
| 8th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Lardie, American musician |
| 8th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Campagne, Canadian singer and children's entertainer |
| 8th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor |
| 8th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman; husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (d. 1990) |
| 8th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Aguri Suzuki, Japanese racing driver |
| 8th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Aimee Mann, American musician |
| 8th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | David Steele, English musician |
| 8th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Zanetti, Australian political cartoonist |
| 8th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Casal, Spanish tennis player |
| 8th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Kretschmann, German actor |
| 8th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Ziskrout, American punk bassist ex-Bad Religion |
| 8th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Klim, American novelist |
| 8th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Li Ning, Chinese gymnast |
| 8th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Silberling, American television and film director |
| 8th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japanese comedian |
| 8th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Johns, American business executive |
| 8th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Levy, American professional wrestler |
| 8th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian musician (d. 2000) |
| 8th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Darlene Zschech, Australian Christian Singer |
| 8th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Furler, Australian musician (Newsboys) |
| 8th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Carola, Swedish singer |
| 8th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly Peirce, American film director |
| 8th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Oswaldo Ibarra, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 8th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Speed, Welsh footballer |
| 8th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Bohinen, Norwegian footballer |
| 8th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Powell, English footballer |
| 8th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Neko Case, American musician |
| 8th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Paul DiPietro, Canadian-born Swiss ice hockey player |
| 8th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player |
| 8th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Yuji Nishizawa, Japanese hijacker |
| 8th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Cain, American professional wrestler |
| 8th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Ward, Irish rugby player |
| 8th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Petrov, Bulgarian boxer |
| 8th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Burke, American model |
| 8th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | David Arquette, American actor |
| 8th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Freeman, English actor |
| 8th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Sevigny, French-Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin O'Halloran, American pianist and composer |
| 8th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Os du Randt, South African rugby player |
| 8th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Babbel, German footballer |
| 8th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Frezza, Italian actor |
| 8th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Kennedy, American television personality |
| 8th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Laak, Irish-born American professional poker player |
| 8th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor |
| 8th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi Arabian footballer |
| 8th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Sanders, American bassist and frontman of Mastodon |
| 8th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Braulio Luna, Mexican footballer |
| 8th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tanaz Eshaghian, Iranian-born American documentarian |
| 8th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Larenz Tate, American actor |
| 8th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hughes, English musician (Keane) |
| 8th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player |
| 8th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Eul-Yong, South Korean footballer |
| 8th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Latham, Australian rugby player |
| 8th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player |
| 8th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Kucserka, American screenwriter |
| 8th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Kelly, American musician (The Lawrence Arms) |
| 8th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Drummond and Jervis Drummond, Costa Rican footballers |
| 8th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jay McKee, Canadian hockey player |
| 8th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Autet, Spanish footballer |
| 8th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuele Ferraro, Italian footballer |
| 8th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Meche, American baseball player |
| 8th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Rawlings, Canadian-American author and performer |
| 8th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pink, American singer |
| 8th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Slim Thug, American rapper |
| 8th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Teruyuki Moniwa, Japanese footballer |
| 8th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American actor |
| 8th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Morten Gamst Pedersen, Norwegian footballer |
| 8th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Wali Lundy, American football player |
| 8th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Benaglio, Swiss footballer |
| 8th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Will Blalock, American basketball player |
| 8th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Judd, Australian rules footballer |
| 8th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Roberts-Thompson, Australian rules footballer |
| 8th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Parnell, American baseball player |
| 8th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Vitaly Petrov, Russian racing driver |
| 8th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tiago Treichel, Brazilian footballer |
| 8th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Whittingham, English footballer |
| 8th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Yendi Phillips, Jamaican beauty pageant contestant |
| 8th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Moutinho, Portuguese footballer |
| 8th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Grothe, American football player |
| 8th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Wiz Khalifa, American hip-hop artist |
| 8th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier |
| 8th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Arrelious Benn, American football player |
| 8th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Caitlin Hill, Australian internet personality |
| 8th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Schafer, German drummer (Tokio Hotel) |
| 8th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Chantal Jones, American fashion model |
| 8th of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Gylfi Sigurdsson, Icelandic footballer |
| 8th of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Barkley, American football player |
| 8th of September 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Krystal Reyes, Filipina actress |
| 8th of September 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberlea Berg, English actress |
| 8th of September 0701 | DEATH | Pope Sergius I |
| 8th of September 0780 | DEATH | Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor (Born 750) |
| 8th of September 1397 | DEATH | Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (Born 1355) |
| 8th of September 1425 | DEATH | King Charles III of Navarre (Born 1361) |
| 8th of September 1539 | DEATH | John Stokesley, English churchman |
| 8th of September 1560 | DEATH | Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (Born 1532) |
| 8th of September 1601 | DEATH | John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare (Born 1530) |
| 8th of September 1603 | DEATH | George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (Born 1547) |
| 8th of September 1613 | DEATH | Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (Born 1566) |
| 8th of September 1637 | DEATH | Robert Fludd, English mystic (Born 1574) |
| 8th of September 1644 | DEATH | Francis Quarles, English poet (Born 1592) |
| 8th of September 1644 | DEATH | John Coke, English politician (Born 1563) |
| 8th of September 1645 | DEATH | Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (Born 1580) |
| 8th of September 1656 | DEATH | Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (Born 1574) |
| 8th of September 1675 | DEATH | Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels (Born 1602) |
| 8th of September 1682 | DEATH | Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (Born 1606) |
| 8th of September 1721 | DEATH | Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (Born 1686) |
| 8th of September 1739 | DEATH | Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (Born 1668) |
| 8th of September 1755 | DEATH | Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (Born 1715) |
| 8th of September 1761 | DEATH | Bernard Forest de Belidor, French engineer (Born 1698) |
| 8th of September 1780 | DEATH | Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (Born 1736) |
| 8th of September 1784 | DEATH | Ann Lee, American religious leader (Born 1736) |
| 8th of September 1811 | DEATH | Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (Born 1741) |
| 8th of September 1831 | DEATH | John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (Born 1745) |
| 8th of September 1853 | DEATH | Frederic Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (Born 1813) |
| 8th of September 1882 | DEATH | Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (Born 1809) |
| 8th of September 1888 | DEATH | Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (Born 1841) |
| 8th of September 1894 | DEATH | Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (Born 1821) |
| 8th of September 1916 | DEATH | Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (Born 1836) |
| 8th of September 1933 | DEATH | King Faysal I of Iraq (Born 1883) |
| 8th of September 1943 | DEATH | Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed) (Born 1903) |
| 8th of September 1944 | DEATH | Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (Born1881) |
| 8th of September 1948 | DEATH | Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (Born 1876) |
| 8th of September 1949 | DEATH | Richard Strauss, German composer (Born 1864) |
| 8th of September 1965 | DEATH | Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (Born 1922) |
| 8th of September 1965 | DEATH | Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1881) |
| 8th of September 1969 | DEATH | Bud Collyer, American television game show host (Born 1908) |
| 8th of September 1969 | DEATH | Alexandra David-Neel, French explorer and writer (Born 1868) |
| 8th of September 1970 | DEATH | Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (Born 1894) |
| 8th of September 1977 | DEATH | Zero Mostel, American actor (Born 1915) |
| 8th of September 1979 | DEATH | Jean Seberg, American actress (Born 1938) |
| 8th of September 1980 | DEATH | Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1908) |
| 8th of September 1981 | DEATH | Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (Born 1901) |
| 8th of September 1981 | DEATH | Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1907) |
| 8th of September 1983 | DEATH | Antonin Magne, French cyclist (Born 1904) |
| 8th of September 1985 | DEATH | John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1887) |
| 8th of September 1991 | DEATH | Alex North, American composer (Born 1910) |
| 8th of September 1999 | DEATH | Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (Born 1916) |
| 8th of September 2001 | DEATH | Bill Ricker, Canadian founder of fisheries science (Born 1908) |
| 8th of September 2002 | DEATH | Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (Born 1968) |
| 8th of September 2003 | DEATH | Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (Born 1986) |
| 8th of September 2003 | DEATH | Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (Born 1902) |
| 8th of September 2004 | DEATH | Frank Thomas, American animator (Born 1913) |
| 8th of September 2005 | DEATH | Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (Born 1932) |
| 8th of September 2006 | DEATH | Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (Born 1915) |
| 8th of September 2006 | DEATH | Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (Born 1945) |
| 8th of September 2006 | DEATH | Frank Middlemass, actor (Born 1919) |
| 8th of September 2006 | DEATH | Erk Russell, American football coach (Born 1923) |
| 8th of September 2007 | DEATH | Ramon Cardemil, Chilean huaso (Born 1917) |
| 8th of September 2008 | DEATH | Evan Tanner, UFC Champion (Born 1971) |
| 8th of September 2008 | DEATH | Ahn Jae-hwan, South Korean actor (Born 1972) |
| 8th of September 2009 | DEATH | Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1922) |
| 8th of September 2009 | DEATH | Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host (Born 1924) |