Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 8

Births

 * 1079 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
 * 1646 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
 * 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
 * 1881 – Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (d. 1960)
 * 1902 – Paul Dirac, English physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
 * 1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (d. 2010)
 * 1937 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor
 * 1940 – Dennis Tito, first space tourist
 * 1948 – Svetlana Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut
 * 1981 – Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player

Deaths

 * 1827 – George Canning (pictured), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
 * 1902 – James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
 * 1977 – Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)
 * 2004 – Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)

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