Born on March 8
March 8 birthdays & history
If you were born on March 8, you share a birthday with Otto Hahn, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Petra Kvitová. March 8 babies are Pisces, with aquamarine as their birthstone and the daffodil as their birth flower. March 8 is the 68th day of the year in leap years (67th in other years).
Famous people born on March 8
- 1879Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1714Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer
- 1990Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
- 1922Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
- 1937Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician, President of Rwanda
- 1886Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1977James Van Der Beek, American actor
- 1822Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp
- 1859Kenneth Grahame, British author
- 1914Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian-Russian physicist and astronomer
What happened on March 8
- 1576A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first known mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.
- 1702Anne became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding her brother-in-law William III.
- 1736Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.
- 1844King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
- 1844The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, is reopened after 45 years of closure.
- 1910French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.
- 1917The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
- 1936Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
- 1949President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-Vietnamese emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
- 1950The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production.
- 1978BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other formats.
- 1979Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
Also observed on March 8
- International Women's Day, and its related observances: International Women's Collaboration Brew Day
Questions, answered
What star sign is March 8?
People born on March 8 are Pisces. Their birthstone is aquamarine and their birth flower is the daffodil.
Which famous people were born on March 8?
Otto Hahn (1879), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714), Petra Kvitová (1990), Cyd Charisse (1922), Juvénal Habyarimana (1937), Edward Calvin Kendall (1886) were all born on March 8.
What happened on March 8 in history?
Among other things: in 1950, The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production; in 1978, BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other formats; in 1979, Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
Can I get a newspaper front page from March 8?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any March 8 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “March 8”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.