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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of March 1010 | EVENT | Ferdowsi completes his Shahnameh. |
| 8th of March 1126 | EVENT | Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leon. |
| 8th of March 1618 | EVENT | Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. |
| 8th of March 1655 | EVENT | John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies. |
| 8th of March 1702 | EVENT | Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
| 8th of March 1722 | EVENT | The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy. |
| 8th of March 1736 | EVENT | Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran. |
| 8th of March 1775 | EVENT | An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. |
| 8th of March 1777 | EVENT | Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt. |
| 8th of March 1782 | EVENT | Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians. |
| 8th of March 1817 | EVENT | The New York Stock Exchange is founded. |
| 8th of March 1844 | EVENT | King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. |
| 8th of March 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia. |
| 8th of March 1868 | EVENT | Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka. |
| 8th of March 1910 | EVENT | French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license. |
| 8th of March 1911 | EVENT | International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. |
| 8th of March 1916 | EVENT | World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila. |
| 8th of March 1917 | EVENT | The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. |
| 8th of March 1917 | EVENT | International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar). |
| 8th of March 1920 | EVENT | The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established. |
| 8th of March 1921 | EVENT | Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid. |
| 8th of March 1924 | EVENT | The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. |
| 8th of March 1936 | EVENT | Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race. |
| 8th of March 1937 | EVENT | Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins. |
| 8th of March 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java. |
| 8th of March 1949 | EVENT | Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason |
| 8th of March 1957 | EVENT | Ghana joins the United Nations. |
| 8th of March 1957 | EVENT | Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. |
| 8th of March 1957 | EVENT | The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia. |
| 8th of March 1963 | EVENT | The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'etat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command. |
| 8th of March 1966 | EVENT | A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin. |
| 8th of March 1974 | EVENT | Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. |
| 8th of March 1978 | EVENT | The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4. |
| 8th of March 1979 | EVENT | Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time. |
| 8th of March 1983 | EVENT | President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire". |
| 8th of March 1985 | EVENT | A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others. |
| 8th of March 1999 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. |
| 8th of March 2004 | EVENT | A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council. |
| 8th of March 2010 | EVENT | The stolen body of Tassos Papadopoulos, fifth President of Cyprus, is discovered in a cemetery near the capital. |
| 8th of March 1286 | BIRTHDAY | John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341) |
| 8th of March 1293 | BIRTHDAY | Beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (d. 1359) |
| 8th of March 1495 | BIRTHDAY | John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (d. 1550) |
| 8th of March 1514 | BIRTHDAY | Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562) |
| 8th of March 1566 | BIRTHDAY | Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613) |
| 8th of March 1659 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738) |
| 8th of March 1702 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Bonny, Irish-American pirate (d. 1782) |
| 8th of March 1712 | BIRTHDAY | John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780) |
| 8th of March 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788) |
| 8th of March 1726 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (d. 1799) |
| 8th of March 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802) |
| 8th of March 1748 | BIRTHDAY | William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (d. 1806) |
| 8th of March 1783 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819) |
| 8th of March 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Cameron, 26th U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889) |
| 8th of March 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Alvan Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1887) |
| 8th of March 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878) |
| 8th of March 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882) |
| 8th of March 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875) |
| 8th of March 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Joao de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896) |
| 8th of March 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1935) |
| 8th of March 1847 | BIRTHDAY | John Lister, English politician (d. 1933) |
| 8th of March 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929) |
| 8th of March 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931) |
| 8th of March 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937) |
| 8th of March 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932) |
| 8th of March 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947) |
| 8th of March 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918) |
| 8th of March 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968) |
| 8th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972) |
| 8th of March 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984) |
| 8th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (d. 1979) |
| 8th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966) |
| 8th of March 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975) |
| 8th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Damerla Rama Rao, Indian artist, (d. 1925) |
| 8th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Elmer Keith, American firearms developer (d. 1984) |
| 8th of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973) |
| 8th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jennings Randolph, America politician, United States Senator from West Virginia (d. 1998) |
| 8th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962) |
| 8th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998) |
| 8th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Benjamin, British statistician (d. 2002) |
| 8th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000) |
| 8th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000) |
| 8th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Preston Smith, America politician, 40th Governor of Texas (d. 2003) |
| 8th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987) |
| 8th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979) |
| 8th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | John W. Seybold, American businessman, father of computer typesetting (d. 2004) |
| 8th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (d. 1985) |
| 8th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990) |
| 8th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Luchsinger, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1983) |
| 8th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor |
| 8th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008) |
| 8th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989) |
| 8th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and film director (d. 2003) |
| 8th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Mangaka |
| 8th of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010) |
| 8th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Bennis, American educator and author |
| 8th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001) |
| 8th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Hyman, American pianist and composer |
| 8th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Hebe Camargo, Brazilian television presenter, actress and singer |
| 8th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996) |
| 8th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | John McPhee, American writer and professor |
| 8th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Adcock, South African Cricket player |
| 8th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003) |
| 8th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Margaret Ay, American beauty pageant winner (d. 2008) |
| 8th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Ronconi, Italian theater and opera director |
| 8th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d. 2006) |
| 8th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Gabor Szabo, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982) |
| 8th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Farina, American folksinger (d. 1966) |
| 8th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994) |
| 8th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Dawkins, American football player |
| 8th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bouton, American baseball player and author |
| 8th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Tear, Welsh tenor |
| 8th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lidia Skoblikova, Russian skater |
| 8th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Clark, Canadian actress |
| 8th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (d. 1987) |
| 8th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Allen, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Packer, British athlete |
| 8th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010) |
| 8th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dionysis Simopoulos, Greek physicist and astronomer |
| 8th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer |
| 8th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader |
| 8th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor |
| 8th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist |
| 8th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Broughton, American composer |
| 8th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Chapman, American politician |
| 8th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Micky Dolenz, American musician (The Monkees) |
| 8th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Anselm Kiefer, German painter |
| 8th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles) |
| 8th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Carole Bayer Sager, American composer |
| 8th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Florentino Perez, Spanish football executive |
| 8th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night) |
| 8th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy March, American pop singer |
| 8th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth |
| 8th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Lismont, Belgian athlete |
| 8th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter |
| 8th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Ouzounian, Canadian/American theatre director and critic |
| 8th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Spentzopoulos, Greek footballer |
| 8th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | George Felix Allen, American politician, 67th Governor of Virginia |
| 8th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Don Werner, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Rice, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Brozman, American musician |
| 8th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz) |
| 8th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer |
| 8th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981) |
| 8th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989) |
| 8th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Kapelos, Canadian actor |
| 8th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Childs, composer/pianist |
| 8th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden) |
| 8th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | John Butcher, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia Rothrock, American actress |
| 8th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Stoddard, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Numan, British singer |
| 8th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Capra, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Holt, American television journalist |
| 8th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Aidan Quinn, American actor |
| 8th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Max Metzker, Australian swimmer |
| 8th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Buck Williams, American basketball player |
| 8th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Salas, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Camryn Manheim, American actress |
| 8th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Ung-Yong, Korean child prodigy |
| 8th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Betts, American fashion editor |
| 8th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Lance McCullers, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Bezucha, American screenwriter and director |
| 8th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Cheryl James, American performer (Salt-n-Pepa) |
| 8th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Fatima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer |
| 8th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Smith, American basketball player |
| 8th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Johnston, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bartels, German race car driver |
| 8th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Dougherty, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Forney, American cartoonist |
| 8th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Mullins, American musician |
| 8th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Elam, American football player |
| 8th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Parker, American actress, ballet dancer |
| 8th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kit Symons, Welsh footballer |
| 8th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer |
| 8th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Angie Hart, Australian pop singer |
| 8th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player |
| 8th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering) |
| 8th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model |
| 8th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Thompson, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Mollekens, Belgian racing car driver |
| 8th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Moriarty, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mauro Briano, Italian footballer |
| 8th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Fardeen Khan, Indian actor |
| 8th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Peggy Zina, Greek singer |
| 8th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass) |
| 8th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Encarnacion, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor |
| 8th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Freel, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Hines Ward, American football player |
| 8th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | James Van Der Beek, American actor |
| 8th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer |
| 8th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Bouyeri, Dutch-Moroccan assassin |
| 8th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Zano, American actor |
| 8th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane) |
| 8th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Martins, Portuguese artist |
| 8th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go) |
| 8th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Charli Delaney, Australian singer (Hi-5) |
| 8th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Milne, Australian rules footballer |
| 8th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (d. 2005) |
| 8th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer |
| 8th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Joost Posthuma, Dutch professional cyclist |
| 8th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver |
| 8th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kat Von D, Mexican-born tattoo artist |
| 8th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Stansberry, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer |
| 8th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Worrell, American baseball player |
| 8th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Moffatt, Canadian musician |
| 8th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer |
| 8th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sasha Vujacic, Slovenian basketball player |
| 8th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and pop singer |
| 8th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Tsuguko of Takamado, Japanese princess |
| 8th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Armanti Edwards, American college football player |
| 8th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Hummel, American basketball player |
| 8th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Kristinia DeBarge, American R&B singer |
| 8th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Tozer, English footballer |
| 8th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Devon Werkheiser, American actor |
| 8th of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Ray, American actress |
| 8th of March 1126 | DEATH | Urraca of Leon (Born 1082) |
| 8th of March 1144 | DEATH | Pope Celestine II |
| 8th of March 1223 | DEATH | Wincenty Kad?ubek, Polish chronicler (Born 1161) |
| 8th of March 1550 | DEATH | John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (Born 1495) |
| 8th of March 1641 | DEATH | Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (Born 1587) |
| 8th of March 1674 | DEATH | Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (Born 1597) |
| 8th of March 1702 | DEATH | William III of England (Born 1650) |
| 8th of March 1731 | DEATH | Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (Born 1688) |
| 8th of March 1757 | DEATH | Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (Born 1701) |
| 8th of March 1771 | DEATH | Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (Born 1688) |
| 8th of March 1819 | DEATH | Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (Born 1739) |
| 8th of March 1844 | DEATH | Charles XIV John of Sweden (Born 1763) |
| 8th of March 1855 | DEATH | William Poole, American criminal, member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (Born 1821) |
| 8th of March 1869 | DEATH | Hector Berlioz, French composer (Born 1803) |
| 8th of March 1872 | DEATH | Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (Born 1815) |
| 8th of March 1874 | DEATH | Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (Born 1800) |
| 8th of March 1887 | DEATH | Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (Born 1813) |
| 8th of March 1887 | DEATH | James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (Born 1820) |
| 8th of March 1889 | DEATH | John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (Born 1803) |
| 8th of March 1907 | DEATH | Marinos Antypas, Greek lawyer and journalist, one of the country's first socialists (Born 1872) |
| 8th of March 1917 | DEATH | Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (Born 1838) |
| 8th of March 1923 | DEATH | Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel laureate (Born 1837) |
| 8th of March 1923 | DEATH | Krisjanis Barons, Latvian writer (Born 1835) |
| 8th of March 1930 | DEATH | William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (Born 1857) |
| 8th of March 1930 | DEATH | Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (Born 1865) |
| 8th of March 1935 | DEATH | Hachiko, world-famous dog (Born 1923) |
| 8th of March 1937 | DEATH | Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1902) |
| 8th of March 1941 | DEATH | Sherwood Anderson, American author (Born 1876) |
| 8th of March 1942 | DEATH | Jose Raul Capablanca, Cuban chess player (Born 1888) |
| 8th of March 1945 | DEATH | Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect, illustrator, archaeologist and psychical researcher (Born1864) |
| 8th of March 1951 | DEATH | Martha Beck, American convicted murderer (Born 1920) |
| 8th of March 1951 | DEATH | Raymond Fernandez, American convicted murderer (d. 1914) |
| 8th of March 1957 | DEATH | Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (Born 1886) |
| 8th of March 1961 | DEATH | Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Born 1879) |
| 8th of March 1971 | DEATH | Harold Lloyd, American actor (Born 1893) |
| 8th of March 1972 | DEATH | Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi official (Born 1899) |
| 8th of March 1973 | DEATH | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Born 1945) |
| 8th of March 1975 | DEATH | George Stevens, American director (Born 1904) |
| 8th of March 1976 | DEATH | Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (Born 1908) |
| 8th of March 1981 | DEATH | Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (Born 1894) |
| 8th of March 1983 | DEATH | William Walton, English composer (Born 1902) |
| 8th of March 1985 | DEATH | Edward Andrews, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 8th of March 1986 | DEATH | Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author, poet (Born 1913) |
| 8th of March 1988 | DEATH | Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (Born 1961) |
| 8th of March 1988 | DEATH | Werner Hartmann, German physicist (Born 1912) |
| 8th of March 1988 | DEATH | Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (Born 1918) |
| 8th of March 1991 | DEATH | John Bellairs, American mystery author (Born 1938) |
| 8th of March 1993 | DEATH | Billy Eckstine, American musician (Born 1914) |
| 8th of March 1995 | DEATH | Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Born 1965) |
| 8th of March 1996 | DEATH | Jack Churchill, eccentric British soldier (Born1906) |
| 8th of March 1998 | DEATH | Ray Nitschke, American football player (Born 1936) |
| 8th of March 1999 | DEATH | Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (Born 1914) |
| 8th of March 1999 | DEATH | Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (Born 1924) |
| 8th of March 1999 | DEATH | Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (Born 1914) |
| 8th of March 1999 | DEATH | William Wrigley III, President of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (Born 1933) |
| 8th of March 2001 | DEATH | Edward Winter, American actor (Born 1937) |
| 8th of March 2003 | DEATH | Adam Faith, English singer and actor (Born 1940) |
| 8th of March 2003 | DEATH | Karen Morley, American actress (Born 1909) |
| 8th of March 2004 | DEATH | Robert Pastorelli, American actor (Born 1954) |
| 8th of March 2004 | DEATH | Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (Born 1948) |
| 8th of March 2005 | DEATH | Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (Born 1951) |
| 8th of March 2005 | DEATH | Cesar Lattes, Brazilian physicist (Born 1924) |
| 8th of March 2006 | DEATH | Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (Born 1924) |
| 8th of March 2007 | DEATH | John Inman, English actor (Born 1935) |
| 8th of March 2007 | DEATH | Viky Vanita, Greek actress (Born 1948) |
| 8th of March 2007 | DEATH | John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (Born 1947) |
| 8th of March 2008 | DEATH | Carol Barnes, former ITV news presenter (Born 1944) |
| 8th of March 2009 | DEATH | Ali Bongo, British magician (Born 1929) |
| 8th of March 2009 | DEATH | Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (Born 1938) |
| 8th of March 2011 | DEATH | Mike Starr (musician), American Musician (Born 1966) |