Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 8

Births

 * 828 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (d. 868)
 * 1157 - King Richard I of England (d. 1199)
 * 1380 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (d. 1444)
 * 1633 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
 * 1841 - Charles J. Guiteau, Non-Devout Oneida Community Survivor, Assassin of President James A. Garfield (d. June 30, 1882)
 * 1852 - Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (d. 1919)
 * 1914 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (d. 2001)
 * 1971 - David Arquette, American actor

Deaths

 * 701 - Pope Sergius I
 * 1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
 * 1637 - Robert Fludd, (pictured) English mystic (b. 1574)
 * 1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
 * 1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
 * 1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
 * 1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
 * 2003  - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)