Who was born on July 8?
– 1593 – Artemisia Gentileschi (1653) – Italian painter.
– 1621 – Jean de La Fontaine (1695) – French poet and science fiction writer.
– 1836 – Joseph Shamilen (1914) – British politician and statesman, father of Austin Chamberlain and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
– 1839 – John Rockefeller (1937) – American industrialist, founder of the Standard Oil oil company.
– 1842 – Nikolai Benardos (1905) – Russian engineer, inventor of all types of arc electric welding.
– 1851 – Arthur John Evans (1941) – English historian and archaeologist, discoverer of the Minoan civilization.
– 1894 – Peter Kapitsa (1984) – Soviet physicist, engineer, academician, Nobel Prize laureate (1978).
– 1895 – Igor Tamm (1971) – Soviet theoretical physicist, professor, academician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (1958).
– 1904 – Henri Cartan (2008) – French mathematician.
– 1912 – Maksuda Khojinova (1981) – scientist in the field of mechanics.
– 1917 – Mikhail Devyatayev (2002) – Soviet fighter pilot who escaped from a German concentration camp on a stolen plane, Hero of the Soviet Union.
– 1950 – Konstantin Raikin – theater and film actor, artistic director of the Satyricon Theater, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1952 – Karen Shakhnazarov – Russian director, screenwriter, producer, public figure, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1972 – Gulnara Karimova – eldest daughter of the first President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Spain (2010-2012).
– 1981 – Anastasia Miskina – Russian tennis player.
– 1994 – Bakhodir Jalolov – professional heavyweight boxer, Olympic champion (2020), two-time world champion (2019, 2023), international master of sports of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
