The 220th day of the year, the 221st in a leap year
Born on 8 August
Every 8 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 8 August in any year.
Which weekday 8 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 8 August falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 8 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,883 babies were born on 8 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 32nd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 8 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Wales | 1966– | co-founder of Wikipedia |
| Roger Federer | 1981– | Swiss tennis player |
| Paul Dirac | 1902–1984 | British theoretical physicist |
| Mohamed Morsi | 1951–2019 | president of Egypt from 2012 to 2013 |
| Dustin Hoffman | 1937– | American actor |
| Giuseppe Conte | 1964– | Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 to 2021 |
| Emiliano Zapata | 1879–1919 | Mexican revolutionary |
| Ernest Lawrence | 1901–1958 | American nuclear physicist |
| Roger Penrose | 1931– | English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher |
| Dominic de Guzmán | 1170–1221 | founder of the Dominican Order |
| Alija Izetbegović | 1925–2003 | Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author |
| Louis van Gaal | 1951– | Dutch football manager and former player |
| Jostein Gaarder | 1952– | Norwegian author |
| Shawn Mendes | 1998– | Canadian singer |
| Svetlana Savitskaya | 1948– | Soviet cosmonaut |
| Lloyd Austin | 1953– | retired United States Army general, Secretary of Defense from 2021 to 2025 |
| Nigel Mansell | 1953– | British racing driver |
| Louis Saha | 1978– | French footballer |
Died on 8 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Olivia Newton-John | 1948–2022 | British and Australian singer |
| Patricia Neal | 1926–2010 | American stage and film actress |
| George Canning | 1770–1827 | British Prime Minister, statesman, and politician |
| Nevill Mott | 1905–1996 | English physicist, Nobel prize winner |
| Jacob Burckhardt | 1818–1897 | Swiss historian |
| Karen Black | 1939–2013 | American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter |
| Eugène Boudin | 1824–1898 | French painter |
| Fay Wray | 1907–2004 | actress |
| James Irwin | 1930–1991 | American astronaut |
| James Tissot | 1836–1902 | French painter and illustrator |
| Louise Brooks | 1906–1985 | American actress |
| Barbara Bel Geddes | 1922–2005 | American actress |
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