July 8

The July 8 is the 189th day of the Gregorian Calendar ( 190th in leap years), thus still had 176 days remaining until the end of the year.

  • 2.1 Before the 19th century
  • 2.2 19th century
  • 2.3 20th century 2.3.1 1901-1950
  • 2.3.2 1951-2000
  • 3.1 Before the 19th century
  • 3.2 19th century
  • 3.3 20th century
  • 3.4 21st century

Events

  • Appointed by the Austrian Federal President

2004: Heinz Fischer

Politics and World Affairs

Economy

Science and Technology

Culture

Society

Religion

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.

Sports

Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics. Entries to the World Cup games are found in the bottoms of football 's World Cup. The same is true for the European Football Championships.

Born

Before the 19th century

Artemisia Gentileschi (* 1593)

Therese of Saxe- Hildburghausen (* 1792)

19th century

John Pemberton (* 1831)

Joseph Chamberlain (* 1836)

Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (* 1838)

John D. Rockefeller (* 1839)

Käthe Kollwitz (* 1867)

Ernst Bloch (* 1885)

Igor Tamm Jewgenjewitsch (* 1895)

20th century

1901-1950

1951-2000

Died

Before the 19th century

19th century

20th century

Jean Moulin († 1943)

Vivien Leigh († 1967)

Robert B. Woodward († 1979)

Franz Fühmann († 1984)

Kim Il-sung († 1994)

21st Century

  • 2001: Ernst Baier, German figure skater
  • 2001: Christl Haas, Austrian alpine skier
  • 2001: Eberhard Stanjek, German sports journalist, ARD sports show presenter
  • 2003: Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins
  • 2003: Lewis Coser, American sociologist
  • 2004: Jean Lefebvre, French actor
  • 2004: Clovis Poth, German humorist, draftsman and caricaturist
  • 2005: Peter Boenisch, German journalist, editor, publisher, government spokesman
  • 2006: Markus Kronthaler, Austrian mountaineer
  • 2006: Sabine Dünser, singer Liechtenstein Gothic metal band Elis
  • 2006: June Allyson, American actress
  • 2006: Pjetër Arbnori, Albanian writer and politician
  • 2007: Kurt Hertha, German lyricist and composer
  • 2007: Kajo Schommer, German politicians and state ministers
  • 2010: Yehuda Amital, Israeli rabbi and politician
  • 2010: Gerold Becker, German educator and educationalist
  • 2010: Gerhard Hochschild, American mathematician
  • 2011: Betty Ford, American President's wife
  • 2011: Gordon Krunnfusz, American composer and music educator
  • 2012: Ernest Borgnine, American actor
  • 2013: Mena Schemm - Gregory, German palaeontologist

Holidays and observances

  • Religious observances St. Kilian, an Irish itinerant bishop and martyr (Protestant, Catholic)
  • St Procopius of Ustjug, German businessman ( Orthodox)
  • Name Days Amelie, Edgar, Kilian

More entries contains the list of commemorative and Action days.

  • Day
  • Day in July
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