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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of June 0068 | EVENT | The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor. |
| 8th of June 0218 | EVENT | Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats with support of the Syrian legions the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia. |
| 8th of June 0793 | EVENT | Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England. |
| 8th of June 1191 | EVENT | Richard I arrives in Acre (Israel) thus beginning his crusade. |
| 8th of June 1405 | EVENT | Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders. |
| 8th of June 1690 | EVENT | Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai. |
| 8th of June 1776 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivieres : American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. |
| 8th of June 1783 | EVENT | The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine. |
| 8th of June 1789 | EVENT | James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment. |
| 8th of June 1794 | EVENT | Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France. |
| 8th of June 1856 | EVENT | A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island. |
| 8th of June 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union. |
| 8th of June 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys : Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan. |
| 8th of June 1887 | EVENT | Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' -- his punched card calculator. |
| 8th of June 1906 | EVENT | Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value. |
| 8th of June 1912 | EVENT | Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures. |
| 8th of June 1928 | EVENT | Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing. |
| 8th of June 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon. |
| 8th of June 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle. |
| 8th of June 1948 | EVENT | Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater. |
| 8th of June 1949 | EVENT | Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members. |
| 8th of June 1949 | EVENT | George Orwell's 1984 is published. |
| 8th of June 1950 | EVENT | Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history. |
| 8th of June 1953 | EVENT | Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives. |
| 8th of June 1953 | EVENT | The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons. |
| 8th of June 1959 | EVENT | The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. |
| 8th of June 1966 | EVENT | Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. |
| 8th of June 1966 | EVENT | One of the XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both killed. |
| 8th of June 1967 | EVENT | Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171. |
| 8th of June 1968 | EVENT | Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City. |
| 8th of June 1982 | EVENT | Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships : RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram. |
| 8th of June 1984 | EVENT | Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales. |
| 8th of June 1987 | EVENT | New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 |
| 8th of June 1992 | EVENT | The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| 8th of June 1995 | EVENT | Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia. |
| 8th of June 2004 | EVENT | The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882. |
| 8th of June 2007 | EVENT | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker. |
| 8th of June 2008 | EVENT | The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Kato drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife. |
| 8th of June 1625 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist and astronomer (d. 1712) |
| 8th of June 1671 | BIRTHDAY | Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (d. 1751) |
| 8th of June 1717 | BIRTHDAY | John Collins, American politician (d. 1795) |
| 8th of June 1724 | BIRTHDAY | John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1794) |
| 8th of June 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer (d. 1795) |
| 8th of June 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818) |
| 8th of June 1757 | BIRTHDAY | Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824) |
| 8th of June 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Schumann, German composer (d. 1856) |
| 8th of June 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas J. Higgins, decorated Union Army soldier (d. 1917) |
| 8th of June 1842 | BIRTHDAY | John Q. A. Brackett, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918) |
| 8th of June 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (d. 1907) |
| 8th of June 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques-Arsene d'Arsonval, French physicist (d. 1940) |
| 8th of June 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Colin Cameron, Canadian politician (d. 1921) |
| 8th of June 1855 | BIRTHDAY | George Charles Haite, English designer, painter and illustrator (d.1924) |
| 8th of June 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947) |
| 8th of June 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (d. 1940) |
| 8th of June 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959) |
| 8th of June 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter (d. 1949) |
| 8th of June 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Tuffere, French-Greek athlete (d. 1958) |
| 8th of June 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (d. 1957) |
| 8th of June 1897 | BIRTHDAY | John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974) |
| 8th of June 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Baker, American murderer (d. 1945) |
| 8th of June 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Yarborough, U.S. Senator from Texas (d. 1996) |
| 8th of June 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Yourcenar, French author (d. 1987) |
| 8th of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | John W. Campbell, American publisher and editor (d. 1971) |
| 8th of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003) |
| 8th of June 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Edmundo Rivero, Argentine singer (d. 1986) |
| 8th of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician (d. 1989) |
| 8th of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Holtzman, American abstract artist (d. 1987) |
| 8th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Crick, English molecular biologist; Nobel laureate (d. 2004) |
| 8th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007) |
| 8th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Byron White, American football player and Supreme Court Justice (d. 2002) |
| 8th of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Preston, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 8th of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | John D. Roberts, American chemist |
| 8th of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Gwen Harwood, Australian poet (d. 1995) |
| 8th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Suharto, President of Indonesia (d. 2008) |
| 8th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (d. 1993) |
| 8th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | LeRoy Neiman, American painter |
| 8th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author |
| 8th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Lyn Nofziger, American political operative (d. 2006) |
| 8th of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States |
| 8th of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Gaedel, American baseball player (d. 1961) |
| 8th of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Del Ennis, baseball player (d. 1996) |
| 8th of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor |
| 8th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Leger, Quebec politician (d. 1993) |
| 8th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate |
| 8th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Wynter, German-born American actress |
| 8th of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Rommie Loudd, former American football player, coach, and executive (d. 1998) |
| 8th of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Rivers, American comedian and author |
| 8th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Millicent Martin, English singer and actress |
| 8th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | James Darren, American actor and singer |
| 8th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 8th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Casey, American football player and actor |
| 8th of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Sinatra, American singer |
| 8th of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Wickwire, American mountaineer |
| 8th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (P Funk) |
| 8th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician (d. 1981) |
| 8th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player |
| 8th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Negron, American singer (Three Dog Night) |
| 8th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician |
| 8th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | William Calley, American war criminal |
| 8th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Baker, British actor |
| 8th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Davenport, American athlete (d. 2002) |
| 8th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Eggert, German footballer |
| 8th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998) |
| 8th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec City |
| 8th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Haslam, English painter and singer (Renaissance) |
| 8th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Boz Scaggs, American singer and songwriter |
| 8th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Scarfe, British-born Canadian actor |
| 8th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| 8th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuel Ax, Polish-born pianist |
| 8th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 8th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Sonia Braga, Brazilian actress |
| 8th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Baker, American actress |
| 8th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer and guitarist |
| 8th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Rice, American acoustic guitarist |
| 8th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter |
| 8th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ad Tak, Dutch cyclist |
| 8th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Storchak, Russian deputy finance minister |
| 8th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Marios Tokas, Greek-Cypriot composer (d. 2008) |
| 8th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Ginn, American guitarist (Black Flag) |
| 8th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Berners-Lee, English internet developer |
| 8th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Griffin Dunne, American actor |
| 8th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Udo Bullmann, German politician |
| 8th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Adams, American cartoonist |
| 8th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dimple Kapadia, Indian actress |
| 8th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Don Robinson, American baseball player |
| 8th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor and director |
| 8th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Hucknall, English singer and songwriter (Simply Red) |
| 8th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Steen, Swedish hockey player |
| 8th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Gibbons, American Baseball Player/Manager |
| 8th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Rhodes, English musician (Duran Duran) |
| 8th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kristine W, American musician |
| 8th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Keti Garbi, Greek singer |
| 8th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Butch Reynolds, American former 400m runner |
| 8th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Chavis, American professional wrestler |
| 8th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Pilatus, German-American singer and dancer (d. 1998) |
| 8th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Farley, American actor |
| 8th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Julianna Margulies, American actress |
| 8th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Pearson, singer (Five Star) |
| 8th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Ray, Canadian hockey player |
| 8th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | J.P. Manoux, American actor |
| 8th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Marcos Siega, American director |
| 8th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor |
| 8th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle Giffords, American politician |
| 8th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Seu Jorge, Brazilian musician and actor |
| 8th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Strasser, American writer and television personality |
| 8th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kelli Williams, American actress |
| 8th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Vincent, American footballer |
| 8th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Feuerstein, American actor |
| 8th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Duffy, American director (The Boondock Saints) |
| 8th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer |
| 8th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Bryant Reeves, American basketball player |
| 8th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lucija Serbedzija, Croatian actress |
| 8th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lexa Doig, Canadian actress |
| 8th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan McCabe, Canadian hockey player |
| 8th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress |
| 8th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Trish Goff, American model |
| 8th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player |
| 8th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player |
| 8th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kanye West, American rapper |
| 8th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Eun Ji Won, South Korean rapper (Sechs Kies) |
| 8th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Menounos, American actress and television host |
| 8th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Trucks, American guitarist |
| 8th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player |
| 8th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player |
| 8th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Band, American singer (The Calling) |
| 8th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actor |
| 8th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matteo Meneghello, Italian racing driver |
| 8th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jess Weixler, American actress |
| 8th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Watkins, American fiddler |
| 8th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Irina Lazareanu, Romanian/Canadian model |
| 8th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player |
| 8th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cammalleri, Canadian hockey player |
| 8th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer |
| 8th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player |
| 8th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player |
| 8th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer |
| 8th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Harding, Australian punk rock singer |
| 8th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mamoru Miyano, Japanese voice actor |
| 8th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Mascherano, Argentine footballer |
| 8th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Casiraghi, Monagasque royalty |
| 8th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver |
| 8th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Kaleta, American hockey player |
| 8th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Coralie Balmy, French swimmer |
| 8th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer |
| 8th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Broccolini, Canadian TV presenter |
| 8th of June 0632 | DEATH | Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (Born 570) |
| 8th of June 1042 | DEATH | Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (Born 1018) |
| 8th of June 1376 | DEATH | Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (Born 1330) |
| 8th of June 1383 | DEATH | Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (Born 1338) |
| 8th of June 1384 | DEATH | Kanami, Japanese actor (Born 1333) |
| 8th of June 1476 | DEATH | George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (Born 1432) |
| 8th of June 1505 | DEATH | Hongzhi, Emperor of China (Born 1470) |
| 8th of June 1611 | DEATH | Jean Bertaut, French poet (Born 1552) |
| 8th of June 1612 | DEATH | Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (Born 1562) |
| 8th of June 1621 | DEATH | Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (Born 1567) |
| 8th of June 1628 | DEATH | Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (Born 1547) |
| 8th of June 1714 | DEATH | Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (Born 1630) |
| 8th of June 1716 | DEATH | Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (Born 1658) |
| 8th of June 1727 | DEATH | August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (Born 1663) |
| 8th of June 1768 | DEATH | Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German scholar and archaeologist (Born 1717) |
| 8th of June 1771 | DEATH | George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (Born 1716) |
| 8th of June 1795 | DEATH | King Louis XVII of France (Born 1785) |
| 8th of June 1809 | DEATH | Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (Born 1737) |
| 8th of June 1835 | DEATH | Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (Born 1761) |
| 8th of June 1845 | DEATH | Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (Born 1767) |
| 8th of June 1857 | DEATH | Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (Born 1803) |
| 8th of June 1874 | DEATH | Cochise, Apache leader |
| 8th of June 1876 | DEATH | George Sand, French author (Born 1804) |
| 8th of June 1885 | DEATH | Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (Born 1799) |
| 8th of June 1889 | DEATH | Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet(Born 1844) |
| 8th of June 1924 | DEATH | Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (Born 1902) |
| 8th of June 1924 | DEATH | George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (Born 1886) |
| 8th of June 1929 | DEATH | Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (Born 1861) |
| 8th of June 1945 | DEATH | Karl Hanke, Nazi official (Born 1903) |
| 8th of June 1951 | DEATH | Eugene Fiset, Canadian military officer and politician (Born 1874) |
| 8th of June 1956 | DEATH | Marie Laurencin, French painter (Born 1883) |
| 8th of June 1965 | DEATH | Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (Born 1884) |
| 8th of June 1966 | DEATH | Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (Born 1890) |
| 8th of June 1969 | DEATH | Robert Taylor, American actor (Born 1911) |
| 8th of June 1970 | DEATH | Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (Born 1908) |
| 8th of June 1972 | DEATH | Jimmy Rushing, American blues singer (Born 1901) |
| 8th of June 1980 | DEATH | Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (Born 1900) |
| 8th of June 1982 | DEATH | Satchel Paige, American baseball player (Born 1906) |
| 8th of June 1984 | DEATH | Gordon Jacob, English composer (Born 1895) |
| 8th of June 1987 | DEATH | Alexander Iolas, Greek gallerist and collector (Born 1907) |
| 8th of June 1993 | DEATH | Root Boy Slim, American entertainer (Born 1945) |
| 8th of June 1997 | DEATH | George Turner, Australian author (Born 1916) |
| 8th of June 1998 | DEATH | Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (Born 1903) |
| 8th of June 1998 | DEATH | Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (Born 1943) |
| 8th of June 2000 | DEATH | Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (Born 1948) |
| 8th of June 2003 | DEATH | Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (Born 1940) |
| 8th of June 2004 | DEATH | Mack Jones, American baseball player (Born 1938) |
| 8th of June 2006 | DEATH | Robert Donner, American actor (Born 1931) |
| 8th of June 2006 | DEATH | Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (Born 1919) |
| 8th of June 2007 | DEATH | Kenny Olsson, Swedish speedway racer (Born 1977) |
| 8th of June 2007 | DEATH | Richard Rorty, American postanalytic, pragmatic philosopher (Born 1931) |
| 8th of June 2008 | DEATH | Saban Bajramovic, Serbian Romani musician (Born 1936) |
| 8th of June 2009 | DEATH | Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (Born 1935) |
| 8th of June 2009 | DEATH | Johnny Palermo American actor (Born 1982) |
| 8th of June 2010 | DEATH | Andreas Voutsinas Greek actor and theater director (Born 1932) |