8 February is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 326 days remaining until the end of the year (327 in leap years). On this day was born in the year: 120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astrologer (d. 175) 412 – Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 485) 1191 – Yaroslav II of Vladimir (d. 1246) 1291 – Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357) 1405 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1453) 1487 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550) 1552 – Agrippa dAubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630) 1577 – Robert Burton, English scholar (d. 1640) 1612 – Samuel Butler, English poet (d. 1680) 1708 – Václav Jan Kopřiva, Bohemian composer and organist (d. 1789) 1741 – André Grétry, Belgian-French composer (d. 1813) 1764 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer (d. 1846) 1866 – Moses Gomberg, Russian-American chemist (d. 1947) 1903 – Greta Keller, Austrian-American singer and actress (d. 1977) 1906 – Chester Carlson, American physicist, invented Xerography (d. 1968) 1909 – Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (d. 2012) 1914 – Bill Finger, American screenwriter and author (d. 1974) 1915 – Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French singer, dancer, and actor (d. 1997) 1925 – Jack Lemmon, American actor, singer, and director (d. 2001) 1928 – Osian Ellis, Welsh harpist 1928 – Gene Lees, Canadian journalist and songwriter (d. 2010) 1932 – John Williams, American pianist, composer, and conductor 1933 – Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano) 1936 – Larry Verne, American singer (d. 2013) 1937 – Manfred Krug, German actor, singer, and author 1937 – Joe Raposo, American pianist and composer (d. 1989) 1941 – Tom Rush, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1941 – Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2011) 1942 – Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer (Bruce & Terry) (d. 2004) 1943 – Creed Bratton, American actor and singer (The Grass Roots) 1944 – Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian photographer 1948 – Dan Seals, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (England Dan and John Ford Coley) (d. 2009) 1948 – Ron Tyson, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations) 1960 – Stuart Hamm, American bass player 1961 – Vince Neil, American singer-songwriter (Mötley Crüe) 1963 – Joshua Kadison, American singer-songwriter and pianist 1965 – Dicky Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Big Four) 1971 – Mika Karppinen, Swedish-Finnish drummer (HIM and To Separate the Flesh from the Bones) 1974 – Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-American boxer, mixed martial artist, and actor 1979 – Josh Keaton, American actor and singer 1980 – Cameron Muncey, Australian singer and guitarist (Jet) 1981 – Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer 1981 – Sophie Choudry, English actress and singer 1983 – Jim Verraros, American singer and actor 1994 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter 1998 – Šarlote Lēnmane, Latvian singer-songwriter Deaths
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