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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of April 0217 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. |
| 8th of April 1093 | EVENT | The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin. |
| 8th of April 1139 | EVENT | Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated. |
| 8th of April 1149 | EVENT | Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum. |
| 8th of April 1271 | EVENT | In Syria, sultan Baybars conquers the Krak of Chevaliers. |
| 8th of April 1730 | EVENT | Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated. |
| 8th of April 1740 | EVENT | War of Jenkin's Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa. |
| 8th of April 1767 | EVENT | Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders. |
| 8th of April 1808 | EVENT | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII. |
| 8th of April 1820 | EVENT | The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos. |
| 8th of April 1832 | EVENT | Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans. |
| 8th of April 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield : Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana. |
| 8th of April 1866 | EVENT | Italy and Prussia ally against Austrian Empire. |
| 8th of April 1886 | EVENT | William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons. |
| 8th of April 1893 | EVENT | The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. |
| 8th of April 1895 | EVENT | In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional. |
| 8th of April 1904 | EVENT | The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale. |
| 8th of April 1904 | EVENT | British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law. |
| 8th of April 1904 | EVENT | Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times. |
| 8th of April 1906 | EVENT | Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies. |
| 8th of April 1908 | EVENT | Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School. |
| 8th of April 1911 | EVENT | Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity. |
| 8th of April 1913 | EVENT | The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law. |
| 8th of April 1916 | EVENT | In Corona, California, race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three, and badly injuring five, spectators. |
| 8th of April 1918 | EVENT | World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district. |
| 8th of April 1929 | EVENT | Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest. |
| 8th of April 1935 | EVENT | The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law. |
| 8th of April 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Siege of Leningrad : Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad. |
| 8th of April 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines. |
| 8th of April 1943 | EVENT | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities. |
| 8th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis. |
| 8th of April 1946 | EVENT | The last meeting of the League of Nations, the precursor of the United Nations, is held. |
| 8th of April 1946 | EVENT | Electricite de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors. |
| 8th of April 1950 | EVENT | India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat-Nehru Pact. |
| 8th of April 1952 | EVENT | U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike. |
| 8th of April 1953 | EVENT | Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by Kenya's British rulers. |
| 8th of April 1954 | EVENT | A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collided with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people. |
| 8th of April 1959 | EVENT | A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL. |
| 8th of April 1959 | EVENT | The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank. |
| 8th of April 1960 | EVENT | The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung. |
| 8th of April 1961 | EVENT | A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238. |
| 8th of April 1968 | EVENT | BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. |
| 8th of April 1970 | EVENT | Bahr el-Baqar incident: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. 46 children are killed. |
| 8th of April 1974 | EVENT | at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record. |
| 8th of April 1975 | EVENT | Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. |
| 8th of April 1975 | EVENT | Voyageurs National Park is established in northern Minnesota. |
| 8th of April 1985 | EVENT | Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000. |
| 8th of April 1987 | EVENT | Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline. |
| 8th of April 1992 | EVENT | Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries. |
| 8th of April 1993 | EVENT | The Republic of Macedonia joins the United Nations. |
| 8th of April 1999 | EVENT | Haryana Gana Parishad, a political party in the Indian state of Haryana, merges with the Indian National Congress. |
| 8th of April 2004 | EVENT | Darfur conflict: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups. |
| 8th of April 2005 | EVENT | Over four million people attend the funeral of Pope John Paul II. |
| 8th of April 2006 | EVENT | Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Ontario, Canada. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos motorcycle gang. |
| 8th of April 2008 | EVENT | The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain. |
| 8th of April 2008 | EVENT | Yi So-Yeon becomes the first Korean and second Asian woman to go into space. |
| 8th of April 1320 | BIRTHDAY | King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367) |
| 8th of April 1336 | BIRTHDAY | Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405) |
| 8th of April 1533 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (d. 1604) |
| 8th of April 1541 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593) |
| 8th of April 1605 | BIRTHDAY | King Philip IV of Spain, (d. 1665) |
| 8th of April 1641 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704) |
| 8th of April 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (d. 1770) |
| 8th of April 1732 | BIRTHDAY | David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796) |
| 8th of April 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, Founder of the Society of Mary (d. 1850) |
| 8th of April 1818 | BIRTHDAY | August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892) |
| 8th of April 1818 | BIRTHDAY | King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906) |
| 8th of April 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890) |
| 8th of April 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898) |
| 8th of April 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933) |
| 8th of April 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1938) |
| 8th of April 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist (d. 1940) |
| 8th of April 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Cushing, American neurosurgeon (d. 1939) |
| 8th of April 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Hudson White American photographer (d. 1925) |
| 8th of April 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960) |
| 8th of April 1875 | BIRTHDAY | King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934) |
| 8th of April 1883 | BIRTHDAY | R. P. Keigwin, English academic (d. 1972) |
| 8th of April 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitrios Levidis, Greek composer (d. 1951) |
| 8th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Chavez, American politician (d. 1964) |
| 8th of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Adrian Boult, British conductor (d. 1983) |
| 8th of April 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Neutra, American architect (d. 1970) |
| 8th of April 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Pickford, Canadian actress (d. 1979) |
| 8th of April 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Yip Harburg, American lyricist (d. 1981) |
| 8th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Irvine, British mountaineer (d. 1924) |
| 8th of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | John Hicks, British economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1989) |
| 8th of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (d. 1970) |
| 8th of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Erwin Keller, German field hockey player (d. 1971) |
| 8th of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Joseph, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 1992) |
| 8th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Raoul Jobin, French Canadian tenor (d. 1974) |
| 8th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (d. 1987) |
| 8th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | John Fante, American novelist (d. 1983) |
| 8th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | George Musso, American football player (d. 2000) |
| 8th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. 1995) |
| 8th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997) |
| 8th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Alois Brunner, Austrian Nazi |
| 8th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (d. 1969) |
| 8th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Felix, Mexican actress (d. 2002) |
| 8th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Glendon Swarthout, American author (d. 1992) |
| 8th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Ford, Former First Lady of the United States |
| 8th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Smith, Former Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007) |
| 8th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen McRae, American jazz singer (d. 1994) |
| 8th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Novak, Czech composer (d. 1984) |
| 8th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Corelli, Italian tenor (d. 2003) |
| 8th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003) |
| 8th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (d. 1997) |
| 8th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter |
| 8th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English soldier and historian (d. 2006) |
| 8th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Mills, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 8th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Henry N. Cobb, American architect |
| 8th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Shecky Greene, American comedian |
| 8th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Moltmann, German theologian |
| 8th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Monty Sunshine, English jazz clarinetist |
| 8th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Leah Rabin, widow of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000) |
| 8th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978) |
| 8th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (d. 2000) |
| 8th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Renzo De Felice, Italian historian (d. 1996) |
| 8th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma (d. 2010) |
| 8th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | John Gavin, American actor and politician |
| 8th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Sultan Iskandar of Johor, also the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2010) |
| 8th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Ebb, American composer (d. 2004) |
| 8th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007) |
| 8th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Bustamante, American politician |
| 8th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Zeta Acosta, American attorney, politician, and Chicano Movement activist (d. 1974?) |
| 8th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Seymour Hersh, American journalist |
| 8th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and former United Nations Secretary General |
| 8th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Leona Gage, American beauty pageant contestant and actress (d. 2010) |
| 8th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Havlicek, American basketball player |
| 8th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters) |
| 8th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Darlene Gillespie, Canadian-born American actress |
| 8th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer |
| 8th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Trumbull, American film director |
| 8th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Chapman, British rock singer (Family, Streetwalkers) |
| 8th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bennett, American dancer/choreographer (d. 1987) |
| 8th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Miller Farr, American football player |
| 8th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Banks, British politician (d. 2006) |
| 8th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Hywel Bennett, Welsh actor |
| 8th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter |
| 8th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Walker, British racing team owner |
| 8th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (d. 1999) |
| 8th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Pankin, American actor |
| 8th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Thomerson, American actor |
| 8th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tom DeLay, American politician and convict |
| 8th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Howe, English guitarist (Yes, Asia, GTR) |
| 8th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Kiyosaki, American investor |
| 8th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Lamy, Director-General of WTO |
| 8th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Norman, American singer/songwriter (d. 2008) |
| 8th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Leshner, Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate |
| 8th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Madden, English film director |
| 8th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Brenda Russell, American singer/songwriter |
| 8th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer |
| 8th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gerd Andres, German politician |
| 8th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Geir Haarde, former Icelandic prime minister |
| 8th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | G.V. Loganathan, American professor (d. 2007) |
| 8th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Carter, American baseball player |
| 8th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer |
| 8th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Bell, American football player (d. 1984) |
| 8th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Kane Hodder, American actor and stuntman |
| 8th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Johnson, American politician, junior senator of Wisconsin. |
| 8th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist |
| 8th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | David Wu, Taiwanese-born American politician |
| 8th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Boisson, French actress |
| 8th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Sullivan, English musician (New Model Army) |
| 8th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Piddock, English actor, writer and producer |
| 8th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Smerlas, American football player |
| 8th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Detlef Bruckhoff, German footballer |
| 8th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John Schneider, American actor |
| 8th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hatch, American reality television personality |
| 8th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Davis, British journalist and television presenter |
| 8th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Paddy Lowe, British engineer |
| 8th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Izzy Stradlin, American musician (Guns N' Roses) |
| 8th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Lennon, English musician and singer |
| 8th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Porter, American basketball player and coach |
| 8th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Tobias, American financial commentator (d. 2007) |
| 8th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alec Stewart, English cricketer |
| 8th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Guerrero, American sports broadcaster |
| 8th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Biz Markie, American rapper/disc jockey |
| 8th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | John McGinlay, Scottish footballer |
| 8th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Jones, New Zealand rugby player and coach |
| 8th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mazinho, Brazilian footballer |
| 8th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television personality |
| 8th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Blundell, British racing driver |
| 8th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Evripidis Stylianidis, Greek politician |
| 8th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Wright Penn, American actress |
| 8th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dalton Grant, British high jumper |
| 8th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Arwyn Davies, Welsh actor |
| 8th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Arquette, American actress |
| 8th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Girard-Leno, French athlete |
| 8th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Grammer, American folk singer |
| 8th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gray, American bassist (Slipknot) (d. 2010) |
| 8th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Khaled Badra, Tunisian footballer |
| 8th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Caulfield, American actress |
| 8th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alex S. Gonzalez, American baseball player |
| 8th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chino XL, American rapper |
| 8th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Holger Hott Johansen, Norwegian orienteerist |
| 8th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nnedi Okorafor, Nigerian American writer |
| 8th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nayden Todorov, Bulgarian conductor |
| 8th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Anouk, Dutch singer |
| 8th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Timo Perez, Dominican baseball player |
| 8th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Flachi, Italian footballer |
| 8th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Spencer, American computer programmer |
| 8th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (d. 2008) |
| 8th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress |
| 8th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress |
| 8th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bernt Haas, Swiss footballer |
| 8th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Guthrie, American baseball player |
| 8th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist and singer (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylahullut) |
| 8th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer |
| 8th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Katee Sackhoff, American actress |
| 8th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Burres, American baseball player |
| 8th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lito Sheppard, American football cornerback |
| 8th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model |
| 8th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Bousquet, French swimmer |
| 8th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Allu Arjun, Indian film actor |
| 8th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Bellani, American actor |
| 8th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ezra Koenig, American singer (Vampire Weekend) |
| 8th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Taran Noah Smith, American actor |
| 8th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsten Storms, American actress |
| 8th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Liptakova, Slovak model |
| 8th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player |
| 8th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, model and singer |
| 8th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Hernandez, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 8th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer |
| 8th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer |
| 8th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Myung-Sung, South Korean baseball player |
| 8th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer |
| 8th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Alex DeLeon, American singer (The Cab)= |
| 8th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jonghyun, South Korean singer (SHINee) |
| 8th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Shelby Young, American actress |
| 8th of April 0217 | DEATH | Caracalla, Roman Emperor (Born 188) |
| 8th of April 0956 | DEATH | Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy |
| 8th of April 1143 | DEATH | John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (Born 1087) |
| 8th of April 1364 | DEATH | King John II of France (Born 1319) |
| 8th of April 1461 | DEATH | Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (Born 1423) |
| 8th of April 1586 | DEATH | Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (Born 1522) |
| 8th of April 1587 | DEATH | John Foxe, English writer (Born 1516) |
| 8th of April 1691 | DEATH | Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (Born 1611) |
| 8th of April 1697 | DEATH | Niels Juel, Danish admiral (Born 1629) |
| 8th of April 1704 | DEATH | Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (Born 1641) |
| 8th of April 1704 | DEATH | Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (Born 1624) |
| 8th of April 1725 | DEATH | John Wise, English clergyman (Born 1652) |
| 8th of April 1735 | DEATH | Francis II Rakoczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (Born 1676) |
| 8th of April 1848 | DEATH | Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (Born 1797) |
| 8th of April 1857 | DEATH | Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (Born 1827) |
| 8th of April 1861 | DEATH | Elisha Otis, American elevator builder (Born 1811) |
| 8th of April 1870 | DEATH | Charles de Beriot, Belgian composer (Born 1802) |
| 8th of April 1906 | DEATH | Auguste D, First recorded Alzheimer's victim (Born 1850) |
| 8th of April 1919 | DEATH | Lorand Eotvos, Hungarian physicist (Born 1848) |
| 8th of April 1920 | DEATH | Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (Born 1884) |
| 8th of April 1931 | DEATH | Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1864) |
| 8th of April 1936 | DEATH | Robert Barany, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (Born 1876) |
| 8th of April 1942 | DEATH | Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (Born 1880) |
| 8th of April 1950 | DEATH | Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born ballet dancer (Born 1890) |
| 8th of April 1958 | DEATH | Ethel Turner, Australian author (Born 1872) |
| 8th of April 1965 | DEATH | Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Born 1886) |
| 8th of April 1968 | DEATH | Barbara Jane Harrison, Air stewardess (Born1945) |
| 8th of April 1973 | DEATH | Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist and sculptor (Born 1881) |
| 8th of April 1974 | DEATH | James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (Born 1894) |
| 8th of April 1978 | DEATH | Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (Born 1894) |
| 8th of April 1981 | DEATH | Omar Bradley, U.S. general (Born 1893) |
| 8th of April 1984 | DEATH | Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1894) |
| 8th of April 1985 | DEATH | J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (Born 1897) |
| 8th of April 1986 | DEATH | Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (Born 1967) |
| 8th of April 1990 | DEATH | Ryan White, American AIDS activist (Born 1971) |
| 8th of April 1991 | DEATH | Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish metal singer (Mayhem) (Born 1969) |
| 8th of April 1992 | DEATH | Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1907) |
| 8th of April 1993 | DEATH | Marian Anderson, American contralto (Born 1897) |
| 8th of April 1994 | DEATH | Francois Rozet, French Canadian actor (Born 1899) |
| 8th of April 1996 | DEATH | George W. Jenkins, American businessman (Born 1907) |
| 8th of April 1996 | DEATH | Ben Johnson, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 8th of April 1996 | DEATH | Leon Klimovsky, Argentine film director (Born 1906) |
| 8th of April 1997 | DEATH | Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (Born 1947) |
| 8th of April 2000 | DEATH | Claire Trevor, American actress (Born 1910) |
| 8th of April 2002 | DEATH | Maria Felix, Mexican actress (Born 1914) |
| 8th of April 2004 | DEATH | Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (Born 1941) |
| 8th of April 2005 | DEATH | Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (Born 1926) |
| 8th of April 2005 | DEATH | Onna White, Canadian choreographer (Born 1924) |
| 8th of April 2006 | DEATH | Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (Born 1923) |
| 8th of April 2007 | DEATH | Carey W. Barber, American clergyman (Born 1905) |
| 8th of April 2007 | DEATH | Sol LeWitt, American artist (Born 1928) |
| 8th of April 2008 | DEATH | John Button, Australian politician (Born 1933) |
| 8th of April 2008 | DEATH | Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (Born 1928) |
| 8th of April 2008 | DEATH | Stanley Kamel, American actor (Born 1943) |
| 8th of April 2009 | DEATH | Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (Born 1976) |
| 8th of April 2010 | DEATH | Jack Agnew, Irish-born American World War II veteran (Born 1922) |
| 8th of April 2010 | DEATH | Malcolm McLaren, British music manager (Born 1946) |
| 8th of April 2010 | DEATH | Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (Born 1926) |