Emiliano Zapata
1879 – 1919
Mexican revolutionary (1879–1919)
Famous Birthdays on August 8
15 notable people were born on August 8.
19th Century
Mexico
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1887 – 1970
Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1888–1970)
short story writernovelistpoet
20th Century
Paul Dirac
1902 – 1984
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
Alija Izetbegović
1925 – 2003
Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author (1925–2003)
philosopherpolitical commissarpolitician
Luis García Meza Tejada
1929 – 2018
Bolivian dictator (1929-2018)
military officerpolitician
Svetlana Savitskaya
1948
Soviet cosmonaut
Mohamed Morsi
1951 – 2019
President of Egypt from 2012 to 2013
materials scientistuniversity teachermember of parliament
Louis van Gaal
1951
Dutch association football manager (born 1951)
Jostein Gaarder
1952
Norwegian author (born 1952)
novelistphilosopher
Giuseppe Conte
1964
Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 to 2021
Roger Federer
1981
Swiss tennis player
tennis player
Sesil Karatantcheva
1989
Bulgarian tennis player
tennis player
Abel Hernández
1990
Uruguayan association football player
association football player
Joël Matip
1991
Cameroonian-German association football player (born 1991)
association football player
Shawn Mendes
1998
Canadian singer