History Births on June 08

Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter

#Tony_Rice

Pål Arne Fagernes, Norwegian javelin thrower (d. 2003)

#Pål_Arne_Fagernes

Greg Ginn, American punk rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (Black Flag)

#Greg_Ginn

Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player

#Timea_Bacsinszky

Irina L?z?reanu, Romanian-Canadian model and singer

#Irina_L?z?reanu

C. C. Beck, American illustrator (d. 1989)

#C._C._Beck

Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer

#Jerry_Stiller

Kevin Farley, American screenwriter

#Kevin_Farley

Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer

#Kanye_West

John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (d. 2016)

#John_D._Roberts

Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet and author (d. 1638)

#Gabriello_Chiabrera

George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania (d. 1648)

#George_I_Rákóczi

Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer

#Javier_Mascherano

George Pell, Australian cardinal

#George_Pell

Derek Trucks, American guitarist and songwriter

#Derek_Trucks

Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (d. 1934)

#Ernst_Enno

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter (d. 2004)

#Wilhelmina_Barns-Graham

George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (d. 1994)

#George_Edward_Hughes

Pete Orr, Canadian-American baseball player

#Pete_Orr

Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter

#Mick_Hucknall

Andrej Sekera, Slovak ice hockey player

#Andrej_Sekera

Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (d. 2018)

#Barbara_Bush

Rob Pilatus, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli) (d. 1998)

#Rob_Pilatus

Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751)

#Tomaso_Albinoni

Don Robinson, American baseball player and politician

#Don_Robinson_(baseball)

Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1359)

#Cangrande_II_della_Scala

Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)

#Emperor_Xizong_of_Tang

Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer

#Pantelis_Kapetanos

Pierre-André Fournier, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2015)

#Pierre-André_Fournier

Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1917)

#Thomas_J._Higgins

Colin Baker, English actor

#Colin_Baker

Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal

#Angelo_Amato

John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (d. 1971)

#John_W._Campbell

Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

#Alex_Band

Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (d. 1942)

#Robert_Robinson_Taylor

Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1949)

#Jan_Frans_De_Boever

Jamie Spencer, Irish jockey

#Jamie_Spencer

Bryan McCabe, Canadian-American ice hockey player

#Bryan_McCabe

Maria Menounos, American television journalist

#Maria_Menounos

Nick Rhodes, English keyboard player and producer

#Nick_Rhodes

John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (d. 1794)

#John_Smeaton

John Gibbons, American baseball player and manager

#John_Gibbons

Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author

#Rachel_Held_Evans

Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate

#Robert_Aumann

George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (d. 1924)

#George_Charles_Haité

Lexa Doig, Canadian model and actress

#Lexa_Doig

LeRoy Neiman, American soldier and painter (d. 2012)

#LeRoy_Neiman

Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator

#Emanuel_Ax

Michael Cammalleri, Canadian ice hockey player

#Michael_Cammalleri

Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

#Boz_Scaggs

Eun Ji-won, South Korean rapper, dancer, and producer

#Eun_Ji-won

Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player

#Kim_Clijsters

Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)

#Giovanni_Domenico_Cassini

Willie Davenport, American colonel and hurdler (d. 2002)

#Willie_Davenport

Je?ena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player

#Je?ena_Ostapenko

Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal

#Marc_Ouellet

Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)

#Primož_Trubar

Russell E. Morris, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of St Andrews

#Russell_E._Morris

José Antonio Camacho, Spanish footballer and manager

#José_Antonio_Camacho

Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player

#Kenji_Johjima

Eion Bailey, American actor

#Eion_Bailey

Violant of Aragon, queen consort of Castile and León (d. 1301)

#Violant_of_Aragon

Sara Paretsky, American author

#Sara_Paretsky

Coby Karl, American basketball player

#Coby_Karl

Marcel Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1993)

#Marcel_Léger

Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress

#Nancy_Sinatra

Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 1986)

#Edmundo_Rivero

Catherine McKinnell, English lawyer and politician

#Catherine_McKinnell

Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor, director, and screenwriter

#Keenen_Ivory_Wayans

J. P. Manoux, American actor

#J._P._Manoux

Mark Ricciuto, Australian footballer and sportscaster

#Mark_Ricciuto

John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (d. 1896)

#John_Everett_Millais

David Barnhill, Australian rugby league player and coach

#David_Barnhill

Griffin Dunne, American actor, director, and producer

#Griffin_Dunne

Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (d. 1824)

#Ercole_Consalvi

Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach

#Graham_Henry

Coralie Balmy, French swimmer

#Coralie_Balmy

Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician, Greek Minister of the Interior

#Nikos_Konstantopoulos

Troy Vincent, American football player

#Troy_Vincent

Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)

#Joan_Rivers

Jonathan Potter, English psychologist, sociolinguist, and academic

#Jonathan_Potter

Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physician and physicist (d. 1940)

#Jacques-Arsène_d'Arsonval

Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver

#Alexandre_Despatie

Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate

#Eric_F._Wieschaus

Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer

#Mark_Feuerstein

Kathy Baker, American actress

#Kathy_Baker

Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)

#Mark_Belanger

Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress and producer

#Sônia_Braga

Mickey Bushell, English wheelchair racer

#Mickey_Bushell

Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player

#Patrick_Kaleta

Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer

#Issiar_Dia

Sonja Vectomov, Czech/Finnish sculptor

#Sonja_Vectomov_(sculptor)

Marcos Siega, American director and producer

#Marcos_Siega

James Darren, American actor

#James_Darren

Kwame Kilpatrick, American educator and politician, 68th Mayor of Detroit

#Kwame_Kilpatrick

Ivo Sanader, Croatian historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia

#Ivo_Sanader

Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

#Francis_Crick

Lena Baker, African-American maid executed for capital murder, later pardoned posthumously (d. 1945)

#Lena_Baker

Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach (d. 1998)

#Rommie_Loudd

Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player and coach

#Lindsay_Davenport

Scott Adams, American author and illustrator

#Scott_Adams

Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter

#Annie_Haslam

Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (d. 2013)

#Kiril_of_Varna

Byron White, American football player and judge (d. 2002)

#Byron_White

Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician (d. 1996)

#Ralph_Yarborough

Gaines Adams, American football player (d. 2010)

#Gaines_Adams

Udo Bullmann, German politician

#Udo_Bullmann

Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player

#Nadia_Petrova

Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1987)

#Marguerite_Yourcenar

Julianna Margulies, American actress

#Julianna_Margulies

Mitchell Schwartz, American football player

#Mitchell_Schwartz

Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician

#Sergei_Storchak

Smith Wigglesworth, English evangelist (d. 1947)

#Smith_Wigglesworth

Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist (d. 1942)

#Erwin_Schulhoff

Mohsen Kadivar, Iranian philosopher

#Mohsen_Kadivar

Derek Underwood, English cricketer

#Derek_Underwood

Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web

#Tim_Berners-Lee

Rob Holliday, American singer-songwriter and bass player

#Rob_Holliday

Dana Wynter, British actress (d. 2011)

#Dana_Wynter

Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (d. 1921)

#Douglas_Cameron_(politician)

Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (d. 2014)

#Steven_Fromholz

Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (d. 1958)

#Alexandre_Tuffère

Todd Barclay, New Zealand politician

#Todd_Barclay

Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)

#Suharto

Guido Banti, Italian physician and pathologist (d. 1925)

#Guido_Banti

Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)

#Robert_Schumann

Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress and producer

#Shilpa_Shetty

Hildegard Falck, German runner

#Hildegard_Falck

John Q. A. Brackett, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)

#John_Q._A._Brackett

Robert Preston, American captain, actor, and singer (d. 1987)

#Robert_Preston_(actor)

Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer

#Dickson_Etuhu

Gaby Morlay, French actress (d. 1964)

#Gaby_Morlay

Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1869)

#Charles_A._Wickliffe

Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)

#Luigi_Comencini

Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (d. 1993)

#Alexis_Smith

Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter

#Bonnie_Tyler

Karl Genzken, German physician (d. 1957)

#Karl_Genzken

Terje Gewelt, Norwegian bassist

#Terje_Gewelt

Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic

#Louise_Richardson

Emm Gryner, Canadian singer-songwriter

#Emm_Gryner

Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)

#Frank_Lloyd_Wright

Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler

#Sara_Watkins

Francesca Capaldi, American actress

Do?anay K?l?ç, Turkish footballer

Sebá, Brazilian footballer

Rosanna Pansino, American actress, writer and TV personality

Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player

Matteo Meneghello, Italian race car driver

Gustavo Manduca, Brazilian footballer

?pek ?eno?lu, Turkish tennis player

Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player

Alexei Kozlov, Estonian figure skater

Alma Lepina, Latvian figure skater

Lauren Burns, Australian taekwondo practitioner

Bryant Reeves, American basketball player

Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer

Steve Renouf, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

Gabrielle Giffords, American businesswoman, politician and activist

Rob Ray, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

Dan Futterman, American actor, screenwriter and producer

Doris Pearson, English singer-songwriter and choreographer

Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach

Antoaneta Todorova, Bulgarian javelin thrower

Karen Kingsbury, American journalist and author

Andreas Keim, German footballer

Mary Bonauto, American lawyer and gay rights activist

Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach

Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter

Sandy Nairne, English historian and curator

Billy Hayes, English union leader

Peter Eggert, German footballer and manager

William Calley, American lieutenant

Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player

Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician and activist (d. 1981)

Herb Adderley, American football player

Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet and playwright

Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)

Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)

Millicent Martin, English actress and singer

Robert Stevens, English lawyer and academic

Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (d. 2017)

Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster

James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)

Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (d. 2013)

Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (d. 2013)

Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2013)

Olga Nardone, American actress (d. 2010)

Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)

Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (d. 1995)

John R. Deane, Jr., American general (d. 2013)

John H. Ross, American captain and pilot (d. 2013)

Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (d. 1992)

Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 2015)

Harry Holtzman, American painter (d. 1987)

Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)

Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter (d. 2003)

Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (d. 1970)

John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)

Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978)

Ernst Marcus, German zoologist (d. 1968)

William Funnell, Australian public servant (d. 1962)

Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)

Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (d. 1818)

John Collins, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795)