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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of May 0589 | EVENT | Reccared summons the Third Council of Toledo |
| 8th of May 1450 | EVENT | Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI. |
| 8th of May 1541 | EVENT | Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Rio de Espiritu Santo. |
| 8th of May 1788 | EVENT | The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts. |
| 8th of May 1794 | EVENT | Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Generale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris. |
| 8th of May 1821 | EVENT | Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia. |
| 8th of May 1846 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: The Battle of Palo Alto : Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war. |
| 8th of May 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America. |
| 8th of May 1877 | EVENT | At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens. |
| 8th of May 1886 | EVENT | Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine. |
| 8th of May 1898 | EVENT | The first games of the Italian football league system are played. |
| 8th of May 1899 | EVENT | The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens. |
| 8th of May 1902 | EVENT | In Martinique, Mount Pelee erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast. |
| 8th of May 1912 | EVENT | Paramount Pictures is founded. |
| 8th of May 1919 | EVENT | Edward George Honey first proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate The Armistice of World War I, which later results in the creation of Remembrance Day. In the United States it was called Armistice Day and is now Veterans Day. |
| 8th of May 1924 | EVENT | the Klaipeda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipeda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania. |
| 8th of May 1927 | EVENT | Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli disappeared after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. |
| 8th of May 1933 | EVENT | Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India. |
| 8th of May 1941 | EVENT | The German Luftwaffe launch a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby |
| 8th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships. |
| 8th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War. |
| 8th of May 1945 | EVENT | Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Setif massacre. |
| 8th of May 1945 | EVENT | End of the Prague uprising, today celebrated as a national holiday in the Czech Republic. |
| 8th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender. |
| 8th of May 1946 | EVENT | Estonian school girls Aili Jogi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. |
| 8th of May 1963 | EVENT | South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine. |
| 8th of May 1967 | EVENT | The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental. |
| 8th of May 1970 | EVENT | The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War. |
| 8th of May 1972 | EVENT | Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day. |
| 8th of May 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War : U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation. |
| 8th of May 1973 | EVENT | A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants. |
| 8th of May 1976 | EVENT | The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain. |
| 8th of May 1978 | EVENT | First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler. |
| 8th of May 1980 | EVENT | The eradication of smallpox is endorsed by the World Health Organization. |
| 8th of May 1984 | EVENT | The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. |
| 8th of May 1984 | EVENT | Thames Barrier officially opened. |
| 8th of May 1984 | EVENT | Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. Rene Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour. |
| 8th of May 1987 | EVENT | The Loughgall Ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. |
| 8th of May 1988 | EVENT | A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' and still the worst to occur on Mother's Day. |
| 8th of May 1997 | EVENT | A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people. |
| 8th of May 1326 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna I of Auvergne, queen of France (d. 1360) |
| 8th of May 1460 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536) |
| 8th of May 1521 | BIRTHDAY | Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit (d. 1597) |
| 8th of May 1587 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637) |
| 8th of May 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Claes Ralamb, Swedish statesman (d. 1698) |
| 8th of May 1629 | BIRTHDAY | Niels Juel, Danish admiral (d. 1697) |
| 8th of May 1632 | BIRTHDAY | Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German marshal (d. 1706) |
| 8th of May 1653 | BIRTHDAY | Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (d. 1734) |
| 8th of May 1668 | BIRTHDAY | Alain-Rene Lesage, French writer (d. 1747) |
| 8th of May 1670 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (d. 1726) |
| 8th of May 1735 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter (d. 1811) |
| 8th of May 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Kamensky, Russian general (d. 1809) |
| 8th of May 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Hidalgo Mexican revolutionary (d. 1811) |
| 8th of May 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Vianney, French Catholic priest (d. 1859) |
| 8th of May 1821 | BIRTHDAY | William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1885) |
| 8th of May 1825 | BIRTHDAY | George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer (d. 1898) |
| 8th of May 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross; Nobel laureate (d. 1910) |
| 8th of May 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk (d. 1898) |
| 8th of May 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American musician (d. 1869) |
| 8th of May 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Bertalan Szekely, Hungarian painter (d. 1910) |
| 8th of May 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (d. 1920) |
| 8th of May 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Christian Hansen, Danish physiologist (d. 1909) |
| 8th of May 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Hammerstein I, American theater producer and impresario (d. 1919) |
| 8th of May 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Barnes, baseball player (d. 1915) |
| 8th of May 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Brouthers, baseball player (d. 1932) |
| 8th of May 1858 | BIRTHDAY | John Meade Falkner, English novelist (d. 1932) |
| 8th of May 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Berte, Austrian operetta composer (d. 1924) |
| 8th of May 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (d. 1925) |
| 8th of May 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Harry S. Truman, President of the United States (d. 1972) |
| 8th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Edd Roush, American baseball player (d. 1988) |
| 8th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby player (d. 1963) |
| 8th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Ouimet, American golfer and businessman (d. 1967) |
| 8th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Fulton J. Sheen, American bishop (d. 1979) |
| 8th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | James H. Kindelberger, American aviation executve (d. 1962) |
| 8th of May 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Wilson, American writer (d. 1972) |
| 8th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-born British economist and philosopher, Nobel laureate (d. 1992) |
| 8th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Q. Bryan, American voice actor (d. 1959) |
| 8th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Turkey Stearnes, American baseball player (d. 1979) |
| 8th of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994) |
| 8th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971) |
| 8th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | John Snagge, British radio personality (d. 1996) |
| 8th of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Red Nichols, American musician (d. 1965) |
| 8th of May 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977) |
| 8th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew E. Svenson, American children's book author and publisher (d. 1975) |
| 8th of May 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Lou Williams, American singer (d. 1981) |
| 8th of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Johnson, American blues musician (d. 1938) |
| 8th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Clampett, American animator (d. 1984) |
| 8th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Romain Gary, Polish writer (d. 1980) |
| 8th of May 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Meltzer, American writer (d. 2009) |
| 8th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Havelange, Brazilian industrialist |
| 8th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Swami Chinmayananda, Indian spiritualist (d. 1993) |
| 8th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973) |
| 8th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker (d. 1996) |
| 8th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991) |
| 8th of May 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Sloan Wilson, American author (d. 2003) |
| 8th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of Tanzania |
| 8th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | David Attenborough, English naturalist |
| 8th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Don Rickles, American comedian |
| 8th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Chumy Chumez, Spanish film director (d. 2003) |
| 8th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Sorensen, American lawyer and special counsel to John F. Kennedy (d. 2010) |
| 8th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (d. 2007) |
| 8th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Castonguay, Quebec politician |
| 8th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Harper, Irish singer |
| 8th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Snyder, American poet |
| 8th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllida Law, Scottish actress |
| 8th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Liston, American boxer (d. 1970) |
| 8th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Julieta Campos, Cuban-born Mexican writer (d. 2007) |
| 8th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Charlton, English footballer |
| 8th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Elisabeth of Denmark |
| 8th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Gaviria Diaz, Colombian politician |
| 8th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Pynchon, American novelist |
| 8th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Cuellar, American baseball player (d. 2010) |
| 8th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Benchley, American author (d. 2006) |
| 8th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Irwin Cotler, Canadian politician |
| 8th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Toni Tennille, American singer |
| 8th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Delgado, American actor |
| 8th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Nelson, American singer (d. 1985) |
| 8th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian singer |
| 8th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | John Fred, American singer (d. 2005) |
| 8th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Lockyer, American politician |
| 8th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Lamont, British politician |
| 8th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Neill, Northern Irish footballer |
| 8th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Samwell-Smith, British bassist (The Yardbirds) |
| 8th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Glitter, English singer |
| 8th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Jarrett, American musician |
| 8th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Boulerice, French-Canadian politician |
| 8th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Dancy, British philosopher |
| 8th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist, Nobel laureate |
| 8th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Felicity Lott, English singer |
| 8th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Braun, American baseball player |
| 8th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer |
| 8th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mugge, American music documentary filmmaker |
| 8th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Mike D'Antoni, American professional basktball coach |
| 8th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads) |
| 8th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Bailey, American singer (Earth, Wind & Fire) |
| 8th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Burnette, American singer and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac) |
| 8th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Van Halen, Dutch-born American drummer (Van Halen) |
| 8th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Furst, American actor |
| 8th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | David Keith, American actor |
| 8th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian politician |
| 8th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Wincott, Canadian actor |
| 8th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Myriam, French singer |
| 8th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Cowher, American professional football coach |
| 8th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lovie Smith, American professional football coach |
| 8th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Lott, American football player |
| 8th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Baresi, Italian footballer |
| 8th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Brittingham, American bassist |
| 8th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Janet McTeer, British actress |
| 8th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Taue, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 8th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | David Winning, Canadian film director |
| 8th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Christian, British radio and television presenter |
| 8th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Cossette, Quebec singer and songwriter |
| 8th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Field, Australian musician and actor |
| 8th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Izabela Kloc, Polish politician |
| 8th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Gondry, French director and screenwriter |
| 8th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Jarvis, British writer |
| 8th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Gilbert, American actress |
| 8th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Labonte, American race car driver |
| 8th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Rowntree, British musician (Blur) |
| 8th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Marta Sanchez, Spanish singer |
| 8th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Taffarel, Brazilian footballer |
| 8th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Pehrson, Swedish politician |
| 8th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Nathalie Normandeau, Quebec politician |
| 8th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Summers, American porn star |
| 8th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Akebono Taro, American sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna |
| 8th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Enrique, Spanish football player |
| 8th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist |
| 8th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Whitney, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Hayes, Australian singer |
| 8th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kris Hudson-Lee, English musician |
| 8th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese artist |
| 8th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Brigstocke, English comedian |
| 8th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Tickle, English entertainer |
| 8th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001) |
| 8th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jussi Markkanen, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 8th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Mazzacane, Argentine racing driver |
| 8th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer |
| 8th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Watkins, Welsh singer and actor (Steps) |
| 8th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Wainwright, Canadian musician and songwriter |
| 8th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Bonamassa, American blues rock guitarist and singer |
| 8th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Walcott, American glamor model |
| 8th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Theodoros Papaloukas, Greek basketball player |
| 8th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lucio, Brazilian footballer |
| 8th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Davis, American actor |
| 8th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Josie Maran, American model |
| 8th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jang Woo Hyuk, Korean singer |
| 8th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Keyon Dooling, American basketball player |
| 8th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Panayiotis Kafkis, Greek basketball player |
| 8th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle McManus, Scottish singer |
| 8th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Yau, Canadian entertainer |
| 8th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer |
| 8th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Yasuko Tajima, Japanese swimmer |
| 8th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | John Maine, American baseball player |
| 8th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Dixgard, Swedish guitarist, singer, songwriter |
| 8th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Gonzalez, American baseball player |
| 8th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Buakaw Por. Pramuk, Thai Muaythai kickboxer |
| 8th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Martin Goity, Argentine-born German rugby player |
| 8th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Vickers, American football player |
| 8th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Vitiello, Italian footballer |
| 8th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Willis, British singer (Busted) |
| 8th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nadine Chandrawinata, Indonesian beauty pageant contestant |
| 8th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mashio Miyazaki, Japanese actress |
| 8th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Marvell Wynne, American footballer |
| 8th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Jones, American football player |
| 8th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Kemba Walker, American basketball player |
| 8th of May 1192 | DEATH | Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (Born 1163) |
| 8th of May 1278 | DEATH | Emperor Duanzong of China (Born 1268) |
| 8th of May 1319 | DEATH | King Haakon V of Norway (Born 1270) |
| 8th of May 1473 | DEATH | John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (Born 1420) |
| 8th of May 1538 | DEATH | Edward Fox, English bishop |
| 8th of May 1672 | DEATH | Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Treville and French Officer (Born 1598) |
| 8th of May 1766 | DEATH | Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (Born 1693) |
| 8th of May 1773 | DEATH | Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (Born 1728) |
| 8th of May 1781 | DEATH | Richard Jago, English poet (Born 1715) |
| 8th of May 1785 | DEATH | Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (Born 1719) |
| 8th of May 1785 | DEATH | Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (Born 1701) |
| 8th of May 1788 | DEATH | Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (Born 1723) |
| 8th of May 1794 | DEATH | Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (Born 1743) |
| 8th of May 1819 | DEATH | Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii |
| 8th of May 1828 | DEATH | Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (Born 1781) |
| 8th of May 1837 | DEATH | Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (Born 1770) |
| 8th of May 1842 | DEATH | Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (Born 1790) |
| 8th of May 1853 | DEATH | Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (Born 1785) |
| 8th of May 1873 | DEATH | John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (Born 1806) |
| 8th of May 1880 | DEATH | Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Born 1821) |
| 8th of May 1891 | DEATH | Helena Blavatsky, Russian-born author (Born 1831) |
| 8th of May 1903 | DEATH | Paul Gauguin, French painter (Born 1848) |
| 8th of May 1907 | DEATH | Edmund G. Ross, American Senator (Born 1826) |
| 8th of May 1936 | DEATH | Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (Born 1880) |
| 8th of May 1943 | DEATH | Mordechaj Anielewicz, Polish Resistance Fighter (Born 1919) |
| 8th of May 1944 | DEATH | Themistoklis Diakidis, Greek high jumper (Born 1882) |
| 8th of May 1945 | DEATH | Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police leader of Nazi-occupied Norway (Born 1900) |
| 8th of May 1945 | DEATH | Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (Born 1883) |
| 8th of May 1945 | DEATH | Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway (Born 1898) |
| 8th of May 1947 | DEATH | Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (Born 1858) |
| 8th of May 1948 | DEATH | U Saw, Burmese politician (Born 1900) |
| 8th of May 1950 | DEATH | Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (Born 1865) |
| 8th of May 1952 | DEATH | William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (Born 1879) |
| 8th of May 1960 | DEATH | J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (Born 1904) |
| 8th of May 1967 | DEATH | LaVerne Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (Born 1911) |
| 8th of May 1969 | DEATH | Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (Born 1892) |
| 8th of May 1975 | DEATH | Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee (Born 1887) |
| 8th of May 1981 | DEATH | Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (Born 1896) |
| 8th of May 1982 | DEATH | Neil Bogart, American record executive (Born 1943) |
| 8th of May 1982 | DEATH | Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (Born 1950) |
| 8th of May 1984 | DEATH | Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (Born 1890) |
| 8th of May 1984 | DEATH | Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (Born 1916) |
| 8th of May 1985 | DEATH | Karl Marx, German composer (Born 1897) |
| 8th of May 1985 | DEATH | Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (Born 1918) |
| 8th of May 1985 | DEATH | Dolph Sweet, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 8th of May 1986 | DEATH | Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (Born 1922) |
| 8th of May 1987 | DEATH | Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (Born 1920) |
| 8th of May 1988 | DEATH | Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (Born 1907) |
| 8th of May 1990 | DEATH | Luigi Nono, Italian composer (Born 1924) |
| 8th of May 1991 | DEATH | Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (Born 1903) |
| 8th of May 1991 | DEATH | Jean Langlais, French composer and pianist (Born 1907) |
| 8th of May 1992 | DEATH | Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (Born 1933) |
| 8th of May 1993 | DEATH | Avram Davidson, American writer (Born 1923) |
| 8th of May 1994 | DEATH | George Peppard, American actor (Born 1928) |
| 8th of May 1995 | DEATH | Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (Born 1953) |
| 8th of May 1996 | DEATH | Dominguin, Spanish bullfighter (Born 1926) |
| 8th of May 1996 | DEATH | Larry Levis, American poet (Born 1946) |
| 8th of May 1996 | DEATH | Beryl Burton, English cyclist (Born 1937) |
| 8th of May 1996 | DEATH | Garth Williams, American illustrator (Born 1912) |
| 8th of May 1998 | DEATH | Bebe Rebozo, American banker and Watergate figure (Born 1912) |
| 8th of May 1999 | DEATH | Ed Gilbert, American actor (Born 1931) |
| 8th of May 1999 | DEATH | Dana Plato, American actress (Born 1964) |
| 8th of May 1999 | DEATH | Sir Dirk Bogarde, British actor (Born 1921) |
| 8th of May 2000 | DEATH | Dede Fortin, singer Quebecois to group Les Colocs (Born 1962) |
| 8th of May 2000 | DEATH | Alexander Chislenko, Russian-American transhumanist (Born 1959) |
| 8th of May 2000 | DEATH | Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (Born 1918) |
| 8th of May 2000 | DEATH | Henry Nicols, AIDS activist (Born 1973) |
| 8th of May 2001 | DEATH | Koby Mandell, Israeli-American terror victim (Born 1987) |
| 8th of May 2005 | DEATH | Nicolas Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (Born 1981) |
| 8th of May 2006 | DEATH | Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (Born 1938) |
| 8th of May 2008 | DEATH | Eddy Arnold, country music star (Born 1918) |
| 8th of May 2008 | DEATH | Francois Sterchele, Belgian football player (Born 1982) |
| 8th of May 2009 | DEATH | Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (Born 1917) |
| 8th of May 2009 | DEATH | Bud Shrake, American writer (Born 1931) |
| 8th of May 2011 | DEATH | Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (Born 1948) |