Who Was Born Today – February 8 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on February 8 | ||
412 | St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople | |
1820 | William T. Sherman, Union general in the American Civil War. | |
1828 | Jules Verne, French novelist, one of the first writers of science fiction (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). | |
1834 | Dmitri Ivanovich Medeleyev, Russian chemist, developed the periodic table of elements. | |
1851 | Kate (O’Flaherty ) Chopin, novelist, short story writer (The Awakening). | |
1906 | Chester F. Carlson, physicist, inventor of xerography, the electrostatic dry-copy process. | |
1906 | Henry Roth, writer (Call it Sleep). | |
1911 | Elizabeth Bishop, poet. | |
1926 | Neal Cassaday, writer, counterculture proponent. | |
1931 | James Dean, film actor and 1950s teenage icon (Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden, Giant). | |
1940 | Ted Koppel, television journalist. |