Who Was Born Today – August 8 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on August 8 | ||
1865 | Matthew A. Henson, explorer with Robert Peary who first reached the North Pole (Though some recent scholarship disputes this claim). | |
1883 | Emilano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary leader. | |
1896 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling. | |
1901 | Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron and winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize for physics. | |
1908 | Arthur J. Goldburg, labor lawyer instrumental in the merger of the Amercian Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. | |
1937 | Dustin Hoffman, American actor. | |
1948 | Svetlana Y Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (July 25, 1984). | |
1964 | M. Ashman, author, co-editor of Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey, and a founding member of TED Global, the international organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. |
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