Famous people born on 8 July

• Peter Paul RubensFlemish painter · 1577–1640
  62 yrs
• Jean de La FontaineFrench poet, fabulist and writer · 1621–1695
  73 yrs
• John D. RockefellerAmerican industrialist and philanthropist · 1839–1937
  97 yrs
• Pyotr KapitsaSoviet physicist · 1894–1984
  89 yrs
• Igor TammSoviet physicist · 1895–1971
  75 yrs
• Nelson RockefellerVice President of the United States from 1974 to 1977 · 1908–1979
  70 yrs
• Walter ScheelPresident of West Germany · 1919–2016
  97 yrs
• Philip Johnson ↗American architect · 1906–2007
  100 yrs
• Anne of Cleves ↗Queen consort of England · 1515–1557
  42 yrs
• Ernst Bloch ↗German philosopher · 1885–1977
  92 yrs
• Käthe Kollwitz ↗German printmaker and sculptor · 1867–1945
  77 yrs
• Arthur Evans ↗British archaeologist and scholar · 1851–1941
  90 yrs
• Alfred Binet ↗French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test · 1857–1911
  54 yrs
• Ferdinand von Zeppelin ↗German general and airship pioneer · 1838–1917
  78 yrs
• John Pemberton ↗American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola · 1831–1888
  57 yrs
• Richard Aldington ↗English writer and poet · 1892–1962
  70 yrs
• Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ↗Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies · 1926–2004
  78 yrs
• Arawa Kimura ↗Japanese association football player · 1931–2007
  75 yrs
• Joseph Chamberlain ↗British politician · 1836–1914
  77 yrs
• Henri Cartan ↗French mathematician · 1904–2008
  104 yrs
• Marty Feldman ↗British author, actor, comedian and director · 1934–1982
  48 yrs
• Andrew Fletcher ↗English keyboardist · 1961–2022
  60 yrs
• Maria of Aragon ↗Queen of Portugal · 1482–1517
  34 yrs
• George Robert Gray ↗English ornithologist, author and museum curator · 1808–1872
  63 yrs
• Ljudevit Gaj ↗Croatian academic, writer and politician · 1809–1872
  62 yrs
• Harrison Dillard ↗American athlete · 1923–2019
  96 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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