The 281st day of the year, the 282nd in a leap year
Born on 8 October
Every 8 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 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 October in any year.
Which weekday 8 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 8 October falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 8 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,861 babies were born on 8 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 58th 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 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Sigourney Weaver | 1949– | American actress |
| Ursula von der Leyen | 1958– | President of the European Commission since 2019 |
| Matt Damon | 1970– | American actor |
| Bruno Mars | 1985– | American singer-songwriter and record producer |
| Marina Tsvetaeva | 1892–1941 | Russian poet |
| Juan Perón | 1895–1974 | president of Argentina (1946–55, 1973–74) |
| Frank Herbert | 1920–1986 | American writer |
| Sadiq Khan | 1970– | Mayor of London since 2016 |
| Pyrrhus of Epirus | 318–272 BC | king of Epirus from 307 to 302 and 297 to 272 BC |
| Bella Thorne | 1997– | American actress and singer |
| Jesse Jackson | 1941–2026 | American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and politician |
| Otto Heinrich Warburg | 1883–1970 | German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate |
| Zog I | 1895–1961 | Albanian prime minister, president and king (r.1922-1939) |
| Garbiñe Muguruza | 1993– | Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player |
| Jens Christian Skou | 1918–2018 | Danish chemist |
| César Milstein | 1927–2002 | Argentine biochemist |
| Claude Jade | 1948–2006 | French actress |
| Chevy Chase | 1943– | American actor, comedian and writer |
Died on 8 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin Pierce | 1804–1869 | president of the United States from 1853 to 1857 |
| Willy Brandt | 1913–1992 | German politician, Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974 |
| Clement Attlee | 1883–1967 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 |
| Henry Fielding | 1707–1754 | English novelist and dramatist |
| Premchand | 1880–1936 | Indian writer of Hindi and Urdu fiction; pioneer of social realism in Hindustani literature |
| Gabriel Marcel | 1889–1973 | French philosopher, playwright, music critic and Christian existentialist |
| Philip Noel-Baker | 1889–1982 | British athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| Jean Giono | 1895–1970 | French writer |
| Filippo Lippi | 1406–1469 | Italian Renaissance painter |
| Felix Salten | 1869–1945 | Austro-Hungarian author and critic in Vienna |
| Yongzheng Emperor | 1678–1735 | emperor of Qing-dynasty China from 1722 to 1735 |
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