Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 8

Births

 * 1883 - Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
 * 1895 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (d. 1974)
 * 1920 - Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986)
 * 1941 - Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist (pictured)
 * 1943 - Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor
 * 1946 - Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Congressman and Presidential candidate
 * 1948 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (d. 2004)
 * 1949 - Sigourney Weaver, American actress
 * 1970 - Matt Damon, American actor

Deaths

 * 1317 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan (b. 1265)
 * 1754 - Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
 * 1793 - John Hancock, American revolutionary and businessman (b. 1737)
 * 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (b. 1809)
 * 2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)