Born on October 8
October 8 birthdays & history
If you were born on October 8, you share a birthday with Sigourney Weaver, Ursula von der Leyen and Matt Damon. October 8 babies are Libra, with opal as their birthstone and the marigold as their birth flower. October 8 is the 282nd day of the year in leap years (281st in other years).
Famous people born on October 8
- 1949Sigourney Weaver, American actress and producer
- 1958Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian-German physician and politician, Defense Minister of Germany, President of the European Commission
- 1970Matt Damon, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1985Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1892Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet and author
- 1920Frank Herbert, American journalist, photographer, and author
- 1997Bella Thorne, American actress
- 1883Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1895Zog I, Leader of Albania from 1922 to 1939
- 1993Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish tennis player
What happened on October 8
- 451The Council of Chalcedon, a Christian ecumenical council, opened, and went on to repudiate the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
- 1813The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.
- 1829Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
- 1921KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
- 1956Major League Baseball pitcher Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in World Series history.
- 1970Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
- 1973Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
- 1978Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 275.97 knots at Blowering Dam, Australia.
- 1982Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions.
- 1991Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.
- 1998A new airport for Oslo, Norway, opened at Gardermoen, replacing a smaller one at the same location that had served as a backup to the city's previous main airport at Fornebu.
- 2001U.S. president George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
Also observed on October 8
- World Space Week (October 4–10)
- Air Force Day (India)
- Children's Day (Iran)
- International Lesbian Day
- National Fluffernutter Day
- World Octopus Day
Questions, answered
What star sign is October 8?
People born on October 8 are Libra. Their birthstone is opal and their birth flower is the marigold.
Which famous people were born on October 8?
Sigourney Weaver (1949), Ursula von der Leyen (1958), Matt Damon (1970), Bruno Mars (1985), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Frank Herbert (1920) were all born on October 8.
What happened on October 8 in history?
Among other things: in 1991, Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia; in 1998, A new airport for Oslo, Norway, opened at Gardermoen, replacing a smaller one at the same location that had served as a backup to the city's previous main airport at Fornebu; in 2001, U.S. president George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
Can I get a newspaper front page from October 8?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any October 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, “October 8”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.