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Birthdays

Birthdays of People

Kenedy, Brazilian footballer was born on February 8, 1996.

Robert Kenedy Nunes Nascimento, commonly known as Kenedy, is a Brazilian professional footballer who...

Joshua Kimmich, German footballer was born on February 8, 1995.

Joshua Walter Kimmich is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or rig...

Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer was born on February 8, 1994.

Hakan Çalhanoğlu is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Ser...

Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter was born on February 8, 1994.

Nicole Rachel "Nikki" Yanofsky is a jazz-pop singer from Montreal, Quebec. She sang the CT...

Bruno Martins Indi, Portuguese-Dutch footballer was born on February 8, 1992.

Rolando Maximiliano "Bruno" Martins Indi is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a...

Nam Woo-hyun, South Korean singer was born on February 8, 1991.

Nam Woo-hyun, also known mononymously as Woohyun, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and actor. H...

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Deaths

Deaths of People

Marty Schottenheimer, American football player and coach (b. 1943) died on Febru...

Martin Edward Schottenheimer was an American football linebacker and coach who served as a head coac...

Mary Wilson, American singer (b. 1944) died on February 8, 2021.

Mary Wilson was an American singer. She gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of The Sup...

Peter Mansfield, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1933) died on February 8,...

Sir Peter Mansfield was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or M...

Rina Matsuno, Japanese idol singer (b. 1998) died on February 8, 2017.

Rina Matsuno was a Japanese singer, model, actress and tarento who was a member of girl idol group ...

Alan Simpson, English scriptwriter (b. 1929) died on February 8, 2017.

Alan Francis Simpson was an English scriptwriter, best known for the Galton and Simpson comedy writi...

Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914) died on February 8, 2016.

Amelia Bence was an Argentine film actress and one of the divas of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinem...

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Events

Events occurred in history

A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others ...

The 2014 Medina hotel fire was a hotel fire that occurred in a hotel in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The fi...

A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people wi...

The February 2013 North American blizzard, also known as Winter Storm Nemo and the Blizzard of 2013,...

A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at...

The Hindu Kush is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range in Central and South Asia to the we...

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru ...

The Sri Lankan Civil War was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July...

The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is ...

General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended t...

General Motors Company (GM) is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company. Headquart...

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Special Days

Special Days

Christian feast day:Cuthmann of Steyning

Saint Cuthmann of Steyning, also spelt Cuthman, was an Anglo-Saxon hermit and church-builder.

Christian feast day:Elffled of Whitby

Saint Ælfflæd (654–714) was the daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Eanflæd. She was abbe...

Christian feast day:Gerolamo Emiliani

Gerolamo Emiliani was an Italian humanitarian, founder of the Somaschi Fathers, and is considered a ...

Christian feast day:Josephine Bakhita

Josephine Margaret Bakhita,, was a Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister who lived in Italy fo...

Christian feast day:Juventius of Pavia

Saint Iuventius was a bishop of Pavia during the 1st century. Together with Syrus of Pavia he was se...

Christian feast day:Meingold of Huy

Saint Meingold is said to have been count of Huy, who was murdered by his opponents in 892. It is po...

Special Days

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