Famous people born on 8 March

• Hebe CamargoBrazilian recording artist, television host, actress and singer · 1929–2012
  83 yrs
• Otto HahnGerman chemist and physicist · 1879–1968
  89 yrs
• Bayezid IFourth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire · 1354–1403
  49 yrs
• Carl Philipp Emanuel BachGerman composer · 1714–1788
  74 yrs
• Cyd Charisse ↗American dancer and actress · 1922–2008
  86 yrs
• Juvénal Habyarimana ↗2nd President of Rwanda · 1937–1994
  57 yrs
• Edward Calvin Kendall ↗American chemist · 1886–1972
  86 yrs
• Ignacy Łukasiewicz ↗Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer · 1822–1882
  59 yrs
• Kenneth Grahame ↗British novelist · 1859–1932
  73 yrs
• Yakov Zeldovich ↗Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist · 1914–1987
  73 yrs
• Claire Trevor ↗American actress · 1910–2000
  90 yrs
• Lynn Redgrave ↗British actress · 1943–2010
  67 yrs
• Josep Pla ↗Spanish journalist · 1897–1981
  84 yrs
• Wäinö Aaltonen ↗Finnish artist and sculptor · 1894–1966
  72 yrs
• Alfonso VII of Castile ↗Castilian monarch · 1105–1157
  52 yrs
• Gyula Andrássy ↗Hungarian statesman · 1823–1890
  66 yrs
• Howard H. Aiken ↗Pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer · 1900–1973
  73 yrs
• Oliver Wendell Holmes ↗American jurist (1841–1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932 · 1841–1935
  93 yrs
• Neil Postman ↗American writer and academic · 1931–2003
  72 yrs
• Ralph H. Baer ↗German-born American inventor and engineer · 1922–2014
  92 yrs
• Josephine Cochrane ↗American inventor · 1839–1913
  74 yrs
• Anthony Caro ↗English abstract sculptor · 1924–2013
  89 yrs
• William V, Prince of Orange ↗Prince of Orange, General Stadtholder of the United Provinces · 1748–1806
  58 yrs
• Pyotr Bolotnikov ↗Soviet long-distance runner · 1930–2013
  83 yrs
• Efim Geller ↗Soviet chess player · 1925–1998
  73 yrs
• Jan Potocki ↗Polish nobleman, writer (creating in French), traveler, politician and historian · 1761–1815
  54 yrs
• Francisco Rabal ↗Spanish actor · 1926–2001
  75 yrs
• Juana de Ibarbourou ↗Uruguayan writer · 1892–1979
  87 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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