The 189th day of the year, the 190th in a leap year
Born on 8 July
Every 8 July birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Cancer, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CancerWater, cardinal, ruled by the Moon.
- Birthstone
- RubyThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Larkspur, Water lilyUsually taken today to mean an open heart and purity.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 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 July in any year.
Which weekday 8 July falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 8 July falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 8 July is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,855 babies were born on 8 July in each year of the twenty, making it the 78th 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 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621–1695 | French poet, fabulist and writer |
| John D. Rockefeller | 1839–1937 | American industrialist and philanthropist |
| Igor Tamm | 1895–1971 | Soviet physicist |
| Son Heung-min | 1992– | South Korean association football player |
| Nelson Rockefeller | 1908–1979 | Vice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977 |
| Artemisia Gentileschi | 1593–1653 | Italian Baroque painter |
| Virgil van Dijk | 1991– | Dutch association football player |
| Walter Scheel | 1919–2016 | President of West Germany (1974-1979) |
| Kevin Bacon | 1958– | American actor |
| Anjelica Huston | 1951– | American actress |
| Philip Johnson | 1906–2005 | American architect |
| Tzipi Livni | 1958– | Israeli politician, former Israeli Foreign Minister and former leader of the Coalition: Zionist Union together with Isaac Herzog from 2015 to 2019 |
| Robbie Keane | 1980– | Irish association football player and manager |
| Ernst Bloch | 1885–1977 | German philosopher |
| Sophia Bush | 1982– | American actress |
| Arthur Evans | 1851–1941 | British archaeologist and scholar |
| Käthe Kollwitz | 1867–1945 | German printmaker and sculptor |
| Jaden Smith | 1998– | American rapper and actor |
Died on 8 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Shinzo Abe | 1954–2022 | Prime Minister of Japan from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020 |
| Kim Il Sung | 1912–1994 | Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792–1822 | British Romantic poet |
| Christiaan Huygens | 1629–1695 | Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer |
| Vivien Leigh | 1913–1967 | British actress |
| Pope Gregory XV | 1554–1623 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623 |
| Pope Eugene III | died 1153 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1145 to 1153 |
| Ernest Borgnine | 1917–2012 | American actor |
| Shin'ichirō Tomonaga | 1906–1979 | Japanese physicist |
| Betty Ford | 1918–2011 | First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 |
| Bonnie Tyler | 1951–2026 | Welsh singer |
| Robert Burns Woodward | 1917–1979 | American chemist |
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