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Famous people born on July 8
Short answer
Well-known people born on July 8 include John D. Rockefeller (1839), Igor Tamm (1895), Son Heung-min (1992) and Artemisia Gentileschi (1593). Our list below has 86 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives July 8 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1593 (Artemisia Gentileschi) and the most recent is 2001 (Benjamin Nygren). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on July 8?
- John D. Rockefeller 1839 American industrialist and philanthropist
- Igor Tamm 1895 Soviet physicist
- Son Heung-min 1992 South Korean association football player
- Artemisia Gentileschi 1593 Italian Baroque painter
- Nelson Rockefeller 1908 Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
- Virgil van Dijk 1991 Dutch association football player
- Walter Scheel 1919 President of West Germany
- Kevin Bacon 1958 American actor
- Anjelica Huston 1951 American actress
- Philip Johnson 1906 American architect
- Tzipi Livni 1958 Israeli politician, former Israeli Foreign Minister and former leader of the…
- Robbie Keane 1980 Irish association football player and manager
- Ernst Bloch 1885 German philosopher
- Sophia Bush 1982 American actress
- Käthe Kollwitz 1867 German printmaker and sculptor
- Arthur Evans 1851 British archaeologist and scholar
- Jaden Smith 1998 American rapper and actor
- Alfred Binet 1857 French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
- Valerii Zaluzhnyi 1973 Ukrainian military officer
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1838 German general and airship pioneer
- John Pemberton 1831 American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola
- Beck 1970 American musician
- Micheline Calmy-Rey 1945 Member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Milo Ventimiglia 1977 American actor
- Richard Aldington 1892 English writer and poet
- Kevin Trapp 1990 German association football player
- Keita Suzuki 1981 Japanese association football player
- Christian Abbiati 1977 Italian association football player
- Maya Hawke 1998 American actress and singer-songwriter
- Anastasia Myskina 1981 Russian tennis player
- Joseph Chamberlain 1836 British politician
- Arawa Kimura 1931 Japanese association football player
- Manizha 1991 Russian-Tajik singer-songwriter
- Marianne Williamson 1952 American political activist
- Henri Cartan 1904 French mathematician
- Marty Feldman 1934 British author, actor, comedian and director
- Mike Phiromphorn 1966 Thai singer from Isan (northeastern) region
- Robert Knepper 1959 American actor
- Billy Crudup 1968 American actor
- Andrew Fletcher 1961 English keyboardist
- Edgar Morin 1921 French philosopher and sociologist
- George Robert Gray 1808 English ornithologist, author and museum curator
- Yann LeCun 1959 French computer scientist
- Michael Weatherly 1968 American actor and director
- Gulnara Karimova 1972 Uzbek businesswoman and social activist, daughter of the former president
- David Corenswet 1993 American actor
- Ahmed Nazif 1952 Egyptian Prime Minister
- Madoka Haji 1988 Japanese association football player
- Klaus Tschütscher 1967 Politician from Liechtenstein, former Head of government of Liechtenstein
- Jeffrey Tambor 1944 American actor
- Harrison Dillard 1923 American athlete
- Ri Chun-hee 1943 North Korean news anchor
- Karen Shakhnazarov 1952 Russian film director
- Kaiane Aldorino 1986 Miss World 2009
- Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen 1792 Queen consort of Bavaria
- Jeanna Friske 1974 Russian actor and singer
- Vitaly Sevastyanov 1935 Soviet cosmonaut
- Hugo Boss 1885 German fashion designer
- Neetu Singh 1958 Indian actress
- Rocky Carroll 1963 American actor
- Wally Pfister 1961 American cinematographer and film director
- Toby Keith 1961 American country music singer and actor
- Percy Grainger 1882 Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist
- Ernő Gerő 1898 Former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
- John Money 1921 New Zealand-US psychologist and sexologist
- Andrey Myagkov 1938 Soviet and Russian actor
- Kathleen Robertson 1973 Canadian actress
- Dominique Jean Larrey 1766 French surgeon in Napoleon's army and an important innovator in battlefield medicine
- Jyoti Basu 1914 Indian politician
- Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg 1830 Wife of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich of Russia
- Sky Ferreira 1992 American singer-songwriter, model, and actress
- August Leskien 1840 German linguist
- Antonio Mirante el flecheiro 1983 Italian footballer
- David Brooks 1997 Welsh association football player
- Francisco Calvo 1992 Costa Rican footballer
- Walter Hasenclever 1890 German poet and playwright
- Benjamin Nygren 2001 Swedish footballer
- Louis Jordan 1908 American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader
- Ellen MacArthur 1976 Long-distance yachtswoman
- Thorvald Stoltenberg 1931 Norwegian politician
- Lena Endre 1955 Swedish actress
- Nadir Rüstəmli 1999 Azerbaijani singer
- Yarden Gerbi 1989 Israeli judoka
- Franca Raimondi 1932 Italian singer
- Yusuke Tasaka 1985 Japanese association football player
- Bakhodir Jalolov 1994 Uzbekistan boxer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on July 8 share the 8th of July as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.