Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 8

Births

 * 1593 – Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
 * 1836 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914)
 * 1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1937)
 * 1867 – Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1945)
 * 1906 – Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
 * 1951 – Anjelica Huston, American actress
 * 1958 – Kevin Bacon, American actor
 * 1961 – Toby Keith, American singer
 * 1970 – Beck, (pictured) American singer
 * 1981 – Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player

Deaths

 * 1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
 * 1898 – Soapy Smith, Shooting death of Jefferson R. Smith. Skagway, Alaska (b. 1860)
 * 1917 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
 * 1979 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

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