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Famous people born on September 8
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Well-known people born on September 8 include Antonín Dvořák (1841), Bernie Sanders (1941), Frédéric Mistral (1830) and Peter Sellers (1925). Our list below has 91 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 8 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1588 (Marin Mersenne) and the most recent is 2004 (Nico Paz). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.
Who was born on September 8?
- Antonín Dvořák 1841 Czech composer
- Bernie Sanders 1941 United States Senator from Vermont
- Frédéric Mistral 1830 Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige
- Peter Sellers 1925 British actor and comedian
- Avicii 1989 Swedish electronic music producer
- Mojtaba Khamenei 1969 3rd Supreme Leader of Iran since 2026
- Pink 1979 American singer, songwriter, and actress
- Aziz Sancar 1946 Turkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
- Bruno Fernandes 1994 Portuguese association football player
- Martin Freeman 1971 English actor
- Mustafa IV 1779 29th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Asha Bhosle 1933 Indian playback singer
- Marin Mersenne 1588 French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as…
- August Wilhelm von Schlegel 1767 German poet, translator, critic, and writer
- João Moutinh0 1986 Portuguese association football player
- Derek Barton 1918 English organic chemist
- Patsy Cline 1932 American country singer
- Rasul Gamzatov 1923 Avar poet
- Clemens Brentano 1778 German poet and novelist
- Gylfi Sigurðsson 1989 Icelandic association football player
- Valery Gerasimov 1955 Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Teruyuki Moniwa 1981 Japanese association football player
- Jim Mattis 1950 United States 26th Secretary of Defense
- Eduard Mörike 1804 German poet
- David Arquette 1971 American actor, director and professional wrestler
- Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig 1783 Danish Lutheran pastor, theologian, hymn-writer and educator
- Daiki Takamatsu 1981 Japanese association football player
- Carola Häggkvist 1966 Swedish singer and songwriter
- Georg Michaelis 1857 German civil servant and chancellor
- Wilhelm Raabe 1831 German novelist
- Diego Benaglio 1983 Swiss footballer
- Carlos Bacca 1986 Colombian association football player
- Peter Leko 1979 Hungarian chess player
- Nico Paz 2004 Argentine-Spanish footballer
- Thomas Kretschmann 1962 German actor
- Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans 1633 King of Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia, and the Romans
- Gary Speed 1969 Welsh association football player and manager
- Halldór Ásgrímsson 1947 Icelandic politician
- Siegfried Sassoon 1886 English war poet and writer
- Mario Adorf 1930 German actor and writer
- Bernard 1992 Brazilian association football player
- Vitaly Petrov 1984 Russian racing driver
- Jean-Louis Barrault 1910 French actor and theatre director
- Michael Shermer 1954 American science writer
- Li Ning 1963 Chinese artistic gymnast and entrepreneur
- Markus Babbel 1972 German association football player and manager
- Sivananda Saraswati 1887 Hindu spiritual teacher
- Julian Weigl 1995 German association football player
- Louis, Grand Condé 1621 Prince of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon, French general and famous military…
- Luka Sučić 2002 Croatian association football player
- Daiki Sugioka 1998 Japanese association football player
- Sakiko Ikeda 1992 Japanese association football player
- Morten Gamst Pedersen 1981 Norwegian footballer
- Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy 1892 Bengali barrister and politician
- Magdalena Eriksson 1993 Swedish footballer
- Sid Caesar 1922 American comic actor and writer
- Anne Catherine Emmerich 1774 German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist
- Kirill Nababkin 1986 Russian football player, defender
- Indraneil Sengupta 1974 Indian actor
- B. P. Koirala 1914 Nepalese politician and writer
- Ğäbdelxäy Äxätef 1927 Soviet Tatar linguist
- Vinko Puljić 1945 Catholic cardinal
- Peter Maxwell Davies 1934 English composer and conductor
- Marie Thérèse of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe 1749 French princess
- Ray Fisher 1987 American actor
- Russ J Kun 1975 Nauruan politician
- Demetrios I of Constantinople 1914 Patriarch of Constantinople
- Park So-dam 1991 South Korean actress
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas 1981 American actor
- Ruby Bridges 1954 American civil rights activist
- Jimmie Rodgers 1897 American country singer
- Matthew Dellavedova 1990 Australian basketball player
- Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse 1864 British sociologist
- Yolande de Polastron 1749 French aristocrat and courtier
- Masahiro Koga 1978 Japanese association football player
- Elena Likhovtseva 1975 Russian tennis player
- Alexandre Bilodeau 1987 Canadian freestyle skier
- Viktor Meyer 1848 German chemist
- Bhupen Hazarika 1926 Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor and filmmaker
- Tomasz Jodłowiec 1985 Polish footballer
- Víctor Sánchez Mata 1987 Spanish footballer
- Denis de Rougemont 1906 Swiss writer
- Yassine Benzia 1994 Algerian and French footballer
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 1828 American military officer, professor, and 32nd Governor of Maine
- Robert A. Taft 1889 American politician, son of 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft
- Jakob von Uexküll 1864 Baltic German biologist, zoologist, and philosopher
- Eusebio Di Francesco 1969 Italian footballer and manager
- Daiya Maekawa 1994 Japanese association football player
- Tetsuo Nakanishi 1969 Japanese association football player
- Stefan Johansson 1956 Swedish racing driver
- Nguyen Cao Ky 1930 Vietnamese politician and general
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 8 share the 8th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.