Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 8
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Births
- 1810 - Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856)
- 1867 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)
- 1916 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
- 1921 - Suharto, (pictured) President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
- 1933 - Joan Rivers, American comedian and author (d. 2014)
- 1955 - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, English inventor of the World Wide Web
- 1957 - Scott Adams, American cartoonist
- 1976 - Lindsay Davenport, American tennis legend
- 1977 - Kanye West, American rapper
Deaths
- 632 - Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
- 1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b. 1737)
- 1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
- 1876 - George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
- 1982 - Satchel Paige, baseball player (b. 1906)