The 8t o Aprile is the 98t day o the year (99t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 267 days ti come.
EventsBirths
- 1605 - Philip IV o Spain/III o Portugal (d. 1665)
- 1783 - John Claudius Loudon, Scots botanist an gairden designer (d. 1843)
- 1818 - Christian IX o Denmark (d. 1906)
- 1849 - William Cowie, Scots ingineer, mariner an businessman (d. 1910)
- 1859 - Edmund Husserl, Austrick-German philosopher (d. 1938)
- 1875 - Albert I o Belgium (d. 1934)
- 1892 - Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer an screenwriter (d. 1979)
- 1911 - Melvin Calvin, American biochemist (d. 1997)
- 1912 - Sonja Henie, Norse skater (d. 1969)
- 1918 - Betty Ford, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 2011)
- 1919 - Ian Smith, Prime meenister o Rhodesie (d. 2007)
- 1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian sangster an actor (d. 1978)
- 1938 - Kofi Annan, umwhile Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (d. 2018)
- 1941 - Vivienne Westwood, Inglis fashion designer
- 1944 - Tariana Turia, New Zealand politeecian
- 1950 - Grzegorz Lato, Pols fitbawer
- 1951 - Geir Haarde, umwhile Prime meenister o Iceland
- 1955 - Jim Fleeting, Scots fitbawer
- 1958 - Steve Paterson, Scots fitbawer
- 1960 - Gordon Chisholm, Scots fitbawer
- 1964 - Dordi Nordby, Norse curler
- 1966 - Robin Wright, American actress
- 1968 - Patricia Arquette, American actress
- 1972 - Lisa Cameron, Scots politeecian
- 1981 - Kelly Schafer, Scots curler
- 1986 - Igor Akinfeev, Roushie fitbawer
Daiths
- 217 - Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 188)
- 1364 - John II o Fraunce (b. 1319)
- 1800 - James Stuart-Mackenzie, Scots politeecian (b. 1717)
- 1820 - Thomas Douglas, 5t Yerl o Selkirk, Scots peer (b. 1771)
- 1835 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German statesman (b. 1767)
- 1848 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian componer (b. 1797)
- 1879 - James Nicol, Scots geologist (b. 1810)
- 1906 - Auguste Deter, first-kent Alzheimer's disease patient (b. 1851)
- 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swadish writer (b. 1864)
- 1950 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Roushie dancer an choreographer (b. 1890)
- 1973 - Pablo Picasso, Spainyie penter an sculptor (b. 1881)
- 1984 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Roushie pheesicist (b. 1894)
- 1993 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
- 2013 - Margaret Thatcher, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1925)
Halidays
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