Notable Birthdays for February 8
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- Civil War-era U.S. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in 1820
- pioneer science fiction writer Jules Verne in 1828
- Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who devised the periodic table, in 1834
- actor Charles Ruggles in 1886
- actor Edith Evans in 1888
- film director King Vidor in 1894
- Chester Carlson, inventor of the Xerox copying process, in 1906
- actor Lana Turner in 1921
- actor Audrey Meadows in 1922
- actor Jack Lemmon in 1925
- actor Alejandro Rey in 1930
- actor James Dean in 1931
- Oscar-winning composer/conductor John Williams in 1932 (age 83)
- television journalist Ted Koppel in 1940 (age 75)
- actor Nick Nolte in 1941 (age 74)
- folk singer Tom Rush in 1941 (age 74)
- comedian Robert Klein in 1942 (age 73)
- singer Ron Tyson (The Temptations) in 1948 (age 67)
- actor Brooke Adams in 1949 (age 66)
- actor Mary Steenburgen in 1953 (age 62)
- author John Grisham in 1955 (age 60)
- Philippines President Benigno Aquino III in 1960 (age 55).actor Gary Coleman in 1968
- actor Seth Green in 1974 (age 41)
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