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Famous people born on April 8
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 8 include Kofi Annan (1938), Edmund Husserl (1859), Philip IV of Spain (1605) and Emil Cioran (1911). Our list below has 94 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 8 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1605 (Philip IV of Spain) and the most recent is 2002 (Skai Jackson). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.
Who was born on April 8?
- Kofi Annan 1938 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Edmund Husserl 1859 German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology
- Philip IV of Spain 1605 King of Spain and Portugal
- Emil Cioran 1911 Romanian-French philosopher and essayist
- Jacques Brel 1929 Belgian singer
- Robert Kiyosaki 1947 American finance author and investor
- Betty Ford 1918 First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
- Albert I of Belgium 1875 King of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934
- Patricia Arquette 1968 American actress
- Robin Wright 1966 American actress
- Melvin Calvin 1911 American biochemist
- Igor Akinfeev 1986 Russian association football player
- Christian IX of Denmark 1818 King of Denmark from 1863 to 1906
- Andrej Plenković 1970 Prime Minister of Croatia since 2016
- Vivienne Westwood 1941 British fashion designer
- John Richard Hicks 1904 British economist
- Sonja Henie 1912 Norwegian figure skater and actress
- Ian Douglas Smith 1919 Prime Minister of Rhodesia
- Grzegorz Lato 1950 Polish footballer and manager
- Chris Kyle 1974 US Navy SEAL and author
- Piotr Świerczewski 1972 Polish association football player
- Kim Jong-hyun 1990 South Korean singer and dancer
- Richard Neutra 1892 Austrian–American architect
- Nobuo Fujishima 1950 Japanese association football player
- Barbara Kingsolver 1955 American author, poet and essayist
- Kazuyoshi Nakamura 1955 Japanese association football player
- Masanobu Izumi 1944 Japanese association football player
- Mathew Ryan 1992 Australian association football player
- Geir Haarde 1951 Icelandic politician and former head of government
- John Fante 1909 1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent
- John Havlicek 1940 American basketball player
- Edson Braafheid 1983 Dutch association football player
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann 1818 German chemist
- Anouk 1975 Dutch singer
- Julian Lennon 1963 English musician; son of John Lennon
- Katee Sackhoff 1980 American actress
- Nayden Todorov 1974 Bulgarian conductor
- Alexi Laiho 1979 Finnish musician
- Karl Ludwig Hencke 1793 German astronomer
- Dionysios Solomos 1798 Greek poet
- Abdelilah Benkirane 1954 Prime Minister of Morocco from 2011 to 2017
- Emma Caulfield 1973 American actress
- Royston Drenthe 1987 Dutch footballer
- Pascal Lamy 1947 French businessman and political advisor
- Renan Lodi 1998 Brazilian association football player
- Mazinho 1966 Brazilian football player and manager
- Taylor Kitsch 1981 Canadian actor and model
- Karim Bellarabi 1990 German professional footballer
- Sung Kang 1972 American actor
- Harvey Williams Cushing 1869 American neurosurgeon
- Dean Norris 1963 American actor
- John Gavin 1931 American film actor and former Ambassador to Mexico
- Seymour Hersh 1937 American investigative journalist
- Izzy Stradlin 1962 American rock guitarist
- Sourou-Migan Apithy 1913 Beninese politician
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1932 French film director and screenwriter
- Jürgen Moltmann 1926 German Reformed theologian
- József Antall 1932 Hungarian politician and historian, Prime Minister of Hungary
- Gennady Golovkin 1982 Kazakhstani boxer
- John Schneider 1960 American actor and singer
- László Kleinheisler 1994 Hungarian football player
- Dulce Pontes 1969 Portuguese songwriter and singer
- Skai Jackson 2002 American actress
- Paul Gray 1972 American bassist
- Gabriella Wilde 1989 British actress
- Franco Corelli 1921 Italian operatic tenor
- Cedi Osman 1995 Turkish-Macedonian basketball player
- Mark Blundell 1966 British racing driver
- Freddie 1990 Hungarian singer
- Ho Chong 1896 Korean politician and independence activist
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien 1947 Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Kane Hodder 1955 American actor and stunt performer
- Dario Šarić 1994 Croatian basketball player
- Keira Walsh 1997 English footballer
- Ron Johnson 1955 American politician
- Achille Van Acker 1898 Belgian former prime minister
- Barbara Bodichon 1827 British educationalist, artist, feminist and activist for women's rights
- Steve Howe 1947 English guitarist
- John Madden 1949 English theatre, film, television, and radio director
- Austin Ejide 1984 Nigerian footballer
- Natalia Ishchenko 1986 Russian synchronized swimmer
- Andrew Comyn Irvine 1902 English mountaineer
- Therese Neumann 1898 German mystic
- Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden 1655 Margrave of Baden-Baden and chief commander of the German imperial army
- Nnedi Okorafor 1974 Nigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and comics
- Oscar Ortiz 1953 Argentine footballer
- Dario Vidošić 1987 Australian association football player
- Archduchess Marie Caroline Ferdinanda of Austria 1801 Austrian noble
- Ridle Baku 1998 German association football player
- Margherita Sarfatti 1880 Italian writer, journalist, art critic and unmarried partner of Benito Mussolini
- Odd Nerdrum 1944 Norwegian painter
- George Pușcaș 1996 Romanian association football player
- Mohamed Kader 1979 Togolese footballer Player
- Rafael Cadenas 1930 Venezuelan writer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 8 share the 8th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.