June 8

June 8 is the 159th day of the year (160th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 206 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Events

• 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
• 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina.
• 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
• 1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.
• 1191 – Richard I arrives in Acre, beginning his crusade.
• 1405 – Richard le Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American attackers are driven back at the Battle of Trois-Rivières.
• 1783 – Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
• 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
• 1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
• 1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1862 – 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.
• 1867 – Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
• 1887 – Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
• 1906 – 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.
• 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
• 1918 – A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
• 1928 – Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
• 1929 – Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
• 1940 – World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
• 1941 – World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
• 1942 – World War II: The Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
• 1949 – 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.
• 1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• 1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
• 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C. cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
• 1959 – The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
• 1966 – An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
• 1966 – 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.
• 1966 – The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
• 1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
• 1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
• 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
• 1987 – New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
• 1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1995 – Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
• 2001 – Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
• 2004 – The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
• 2007 – 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 a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
• 2008 – At least 37 miners go missing after an explosion in an Ukrainian coal mine causes it to collapse.
• 2008 – At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
• 2009 – Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
• 2014 – At least 28 people are killed in an attack at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan.

Births

• 862 – Emperor Xizong of Tang (d. 888)
• 1236 – Violant of Aragon, queen consort of Castile and León (d. 1301)
• 1318 – Eleanor of Woodstock, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (d. 1355)
• 1332 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1359)
• 1508 – Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
• 1552 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet and author (d. 1638)
• 1593 – George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania (d. 1648)
• 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1712)
• 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1751)
• 1717 – John Collins, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1795)
• 1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (d. 1794)
• 1745 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (d. 1818)
• 1757 – Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (d. 1824)
• 1788 – Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1869)
• 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer and critic (d. 1856)
• 1829 – John Everett Millais, English painter and illustrator (d. 1896)
• 1831 – Thomas J. Higgins, Canadian-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1917)
• 1842 – John Q. A. Brackett, American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1918)
• 1851 – Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physician and physicist (d. 1940)
• 1852 – Guido Banti, Italian physician and pathologist (d. 1925)
• 1854 – Douglas Cameron, Canadian politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (d. 1921)
• 1855 – George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (d. 1924)
• 1859 – Smith Wigglesworth, English evangelist (d. 1947)
• 1860 – Alicia Boole Stott, Irish-English mathematician and theorist (d. 1940)
• 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designed the Price Tower and Fallingwater (d. 1959)
• 1868 – Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (d. 1942)
• 1872 – Jan Frans De Boever, Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1949)
• 1875 – Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (d. 1934)
• 1876 – Alexandre Tuffère, Greek-French triple jumper (d. 1958)
• 1885 – Karl Genzken, German physician (d. 1957)
• 1891 – William Funnell, Australian public servant (d. 1962)
• 1893 – Ernst Marcus, German zoologist (d. 1968)
• 1893 – Gaby Morlay, French actress (d. 1964)
• 1894 – Erwin Schulhoff, Czech composer and pianist (d. 1942)
• 1895 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978)
• 1897 – John G. Bennett, English mathematician and technologist (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Eugène Lapierre, Canadian organist, composer and arts administrator (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Ralph Yarborough, American colonel and politician (d. 1996)
• 1903 – Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1987)
• 1910 – C. C. Beck, American illustrator (d. 1989)
• 1910 – John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (d. 1971)
• 1910 – Fernand Fonssagrives, French-American photographer, sculptor, and painter (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Edmundo Rivero, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
• 1912 – Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, British abstract painter (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
• 1912 – Harry Holtzman, American painter (d. 1987)
• 1915 – Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian journalist, author, and poet (d. 2015)
• 1916 – Francis Crick, English biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 1916 – Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (d. 1992)
• 1917 – Byron White, American football player and judge (d. 2002)
• 1918 – George Edward Hughes, Irish-New Zealand philosopher and logician (d. 1994)
• 1918 – Robert Preston, American captain, actor, and singer (d. 1987)
• 1918 – John D. Roberts, American chemist and academic (d. 2016)
• 1918 – John H. Ross, American captain and pilot (d. 2013)
• 1919 – John R. Deane, Jr., American general (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (d. 1995)
• 1921 – Gordon McLendon, American broadcaster and businessman (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Olga Nardone, American actress (d. 2010)
• 1921 – LeRoy Neiman, American soldier and painter (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Suharto, Indonesian soldier and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Kenneth Waltz, American political scientist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States
• 1927 – Jerry Stiller, American actor, comedian and producer
• 1929 – Nada Inada, Japanese psychiatrist and author (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1930 – Marcel Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
• 1931 – James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1931 – Dana Wynter, British actress (d. 2011)
• 1932 – Ray Illingworth, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1932 – Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, Scottish lawyer and judge (d. 2017)
• 1933 – Rommie Loudd, American football player and coach (d. 1998)
• 1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Robert Stevens, English lawyer and academic
• 1934 – Millicent Martin, English actress and singer
• 1935 – Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2015)
• 1936 – James Darren, American actor
• 1936 – Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet and playwright
• 1938 – Angelo Amato, Italian cardinal
• 1939 – Herb Adderley, American football player
• 1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress
• 1941 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish politician and activist (d. 1981)
• 1941 – George Pell, Australian cardinal
• 1942 – Nikos Konstantopoulos, Greek politician, Greek Minister of the Interior
• 1942 – Doug Mountjoy, Welsh snooker player
• 1943 – Colin Baker, English actor
• 1943 – William Calley, American lieutenant
• 1943 – Willie Davenport, American colonel and hurdler (d. 2002)
• 1943 – Peter Eggert, German footballer and manager
• 1943 – Pierre-André Fournier, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 2015)
• 1944 – Mark Belanger, American baseball player (d. 1998)
• 1944 – Marc Ouellet, Canadian cardinal
• 1944 – Boz Scaggs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1945 – Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Derek Underwood, English cricketer
• 1946 – Graham Henry, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1947 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter
• 1947 – Sara Paretsky, American author
• 1947 – Eric F. Wieschaus, American biologist, geneticist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate
• 1949 – Emanuel Ax, Polish-American pianist and educator
• 1949 – Hildegard Falck, German runner
• 1950 – Kathy Baker, American actress
• 1950 – Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress and producer
• 1951 – Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1951 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Billy Hayes, English union leader
• 1953 – Sandy Nairne, English historian and curator
• 1953 – Ivo Sanader, Croatian historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Croatia
• 1953 – Olav Stedje, Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Greg Ginn, American punk rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (Black Flag)
• 1954 – Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (d. 2013)
• 1954 – Sergei Storchak, Ukrainian-Russian politician
• 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
• 1955 – Griffin Dunne, American actor, director, and producer
• 1956 – Udo Bullmann, German politician
• 1956 – Jonathan Potter, English psychologist, sociolinguist, and academic
• 1957 – Scott Adams, American author and illustrator
• 1957 – Don Robinson, American baseball player and politician
• 1957 – Sonja Vectomov, Czech/Finnish sculptor
• 1958 – Louise Richardson, Irish political scientist and academic
• 1958 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Mohsen Kadivar, Iranian philosopher
• 1960 – Mick Hucknall, English singer-songwriter
• 1960 – Terje Gewelt, Norwegian bassist
• 1960 – Thomas Steen, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1962 – John Gibbons, American baseball player and manager
• 1962 – Andreas Keim, German footballer
• 1962 – Nick Rhodes, English keyboard player and producer
• 1963 – Karen Kingsbury, American journalist and author
• 1963 – Antoaneta Todorova, Bulgarian javelin thrower
• 1964 – Butch Reynolds, American runner and coach
• 1965 – Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
• 1965 – Rob Pilatus, German model, dancer and singer (Milli Vanilli) (d. 1998)
• 1966 – Julianna Margulies, American actress
• 1966 – Doris Pearson, English singer-songwriter and choreographer
• 1967 – Russell E. Morris, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of St Andrews
• 1968 – Rob Ray, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1969 – David Barnhill, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 – J. P. Manoux, American actor
• 1969 – Marcos Siega, American director and producer
• 1970 – Gabrielle Giffords, American businesswoman and politician
• 1970 – Kwame Kilpatrick, American educator and politician, 68th Mayor of Detroit
• 1970 – Steve Renouf, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Troy Vincent, American football player
• 1971 – Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
• 1972 – Christian Mayrleb, Austrian footballer
• 1973 – Lexa Doig, Canadian model and actress
• 1973 – Bryant Reeves, American basketball player
• 1974 – Pål Arne Fagernes, Norwegian javelin thrower (d. 2003)
• 1974 – Lauren Burns, Australian taekwondo practitioner
• 1974 – Alma Lepina, Latvian figure skater
• 1975 – Emm Gryner, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1975 – Bryan McCabe, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Mark Ricciuto, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1975 – Shilpa Shetty, Indian actress and producer
• 1976 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player and coach
• 1976 – Kenji Johjima, Japanese baseball player
• 1976 – Catherine McKinnell, English lawyer and politician
• 1977 – Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
• 1978 – Eun Ji-won, South Korean rapper, dancer, and producer
• 1978 – Maria Menounos, American television journalist
• 1979 – Alexei Kozlov, Estonian figure skater
• 1979 – Pete Orr, Canadian-American baseball player
• 1979 – Derek Trucks, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1979 – Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player
• 1979 – Rob Holliday, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1979 – İpek Şenoğlu, Turkish tennis player
• 1980 – Gustavo Manduca, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Jamie Spencer, Irish jockey
• 1981 – Alex Band, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1981 – Matteo Meneghello, Italian race car driver
• 1981 – Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler
• 1982 – Matteo Barbini, Italian rugby player
• 1982 – Michael Cammalleri, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Dickson Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
• 1982 – Irina Lăzăreanu, Romanian-Canadian model and singer
• 1982 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
• 1983 – Gaines Adams, American football player (d. 2010)
• 1983 – Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
• 1983 – Pantelis Kapetanos, Greek footballer
• 1983 – Coby Karl, American basketball player
• 1984 – Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Alexandre Despatie, Canadian diver
• 1986 – Patrick Kaleta, American ice hockey player
• 1986 – Andrej Sekera, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1987 – Coralie Balmy, French swimmer
• 1987 – Issiar Dia, Senegalese footballer
• 1989 – Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
• 1989 – Mitchell Schwartz, American football player
• 1990 – Todd Barclay, New Zealand politician
• 1990 – Mickey Bushell, English wheelchair racer
• 1992 – Sebá, Brazilian footballer
• 1996 – Doğanay Kılıç, Turkish footballer
• 1997 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
• 2004 – Francesca Capaldi, American actress

Deaths

• 632 – Muhammad, the central figure of Islam, widely regarded as its founder (b. 570/571)
• 696 – Chlodulf, bishop of Metz (or 697)
• 1042 – Harthacnut, English-Danish king (b. 1018)
• 1154 – William of York, English archbishop and saint
• 1290 – Beatrice Portinari, object of Dante Alighieri's adoration (b. 1266)
• 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
• 1383 – Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1338)
• 1384 – Kan'ami, Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1333)
• 1405 – Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York (b. c.1350)
• 1405 – Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1385)
• 1476 – George Neville, English archbishop and academic (b. 1432)
• 1492 – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of England (b. 1437)
• 1501 – George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, Earl of Huntly and Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1440)
• 1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
• 1600 – Edward Fortunatus, German nobleman (b. 1565)
• 1611 – Jean Bertaut, French bishop and poet (b. 1552)
• 1612 – Hans Leo Hassler, German organist and composer (b. 1562)
• 1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founded the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
• 1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German lexicographer and philosopher (b. 1547)
• 1651 – Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1604)
• 1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
• 1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German son of Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1658)
• 1727 – August Hermann Francke, German-Lutheran pietist, philanthropist, and scholar (b. 1663)
• 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and scholar (b. 1717)
• 1771 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1716)
• 1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
• 1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American theorist and author (b. 1737)
• 1831 – Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress (b. 1755)
• 1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian economist and jurist (b. 1761)
• 1845 – Andrew Jackson, American general, judge, and politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (b. 1803)
• 1874 – Cochise, American tribal chief (b. 1805)
• 1876 – George Sand, French author and playwright (b. 1804)
• 1885 – Ignace Bourget, Canadian bishop (b. 1799)
• 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b. 1844)
• 1899 – Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (b. 1863)
• 1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1902)
• 1924 – George Mallory, English lieutenant and mountaineer (b. 1886)
• 1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian-American poet and playwright (b. 1861)
• 1945 – Karl Hanke, Polish-German soldier and politician (b. 1903)
• 1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian physician, general, and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1874)
• 1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
• 1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter and sculptor (b. 1883)
• 1959 – Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (b. 1912)
• 1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
• 1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (b. 1890)
• 1968 – Elizabeth Enright, American author and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1968 – Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1933)
• 1969 – Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
• 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor and singer (b. 1911)
• 1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (b. 1894)
• 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer and academic (b. 1895)
• 1987 – Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (b. 1907)
• 1997 – George Turner, Australian author and critic (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (b. 1948)
• 1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
• 1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)
• 2001 – Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (b. 1935)
• 2004 – Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded Rip Off Press (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk, theologian, and author (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese captain and politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Pete Brennan, American basketball player (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Charles E. M. Pearce, New Zealand-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1940)
• 2012 – Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist, and critic (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Taufiq Kiemas, Indonesian politician, 5th First Spouse of Indonesia (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (b. 1903)
• 2014 – Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (b. 1948)
• 2015 – Chea Sim, Cambodian commander and politician (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Blessed Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan
  • Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (Droste zu Vischering)
  • Chlodulf of Metz
  • Jacques Berthieu, S.J.
  • Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Poland
  • Medard
  • Melania the Elder
  • Roland Allen (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Thomas Ken (Church of England)
  • William of York
  • June 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which Queen's Birthday can fall, while June 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in June. (Australia, except Western Australia and Queensland)
• Bounty Day (Norfolk Island)
• Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
• Engineer's Day (Peru)
• Pranav Sivakumar Day (Illinois, United States)
• Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia)
• World Brain Tumor Day
• World Oceans Day

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to June 8.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Today in Canadian History