February 8
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Art and culture
- 1915 - D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
- 1968 - American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in the United States is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the Orangeburg Massacre.
- 1977 - Release of Marquee Moon by Television
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Births
- 1577 - Robert Burton, English cleric and writer (The Anatomy of Melancholy) (d. 1640)
- 1630 - Pierre Daniel Huet, French churchman and scholar (Traitté de l'origine des romans) (d. 1721)
- 1805 - Louis-Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (d. 1881)
- 1819 - John Ruskin, English author (d. 1900)
- 1822 - Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (d. 1894)
- 1828 - Jules Verne, French author (d. 1905)
- 1851 - Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904)
- 1880 - Franz Marc, German painter (d. 1916)
- 1889 - Siegfried Kracauer, German-American writer, journalist, sociologist, and cultural critic (From Caligari to Hitler) (b. 1966)
- 1894 - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher and writer (Obscene: The history of an indignation) (d. 1971)
- 1894 - King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982)
- 1903 - Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
- 1925 - Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)
- 1926 - Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
- 1931 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
- 1941 - Nick Nolte, American actor
- 1948 - Ron Tyson, American singer (The Temptations)
- 1951 - Z'EV, American text/sound artist (born Stefan Weisser)
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Deaths
- 1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478)
- 1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
- 1909 - Catulle Mendès, French poet and man of letters (b. 1841)
- 1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
- 1925 - Arthur Heffter, German pharmacologist and chemist (b. 1859)
- 1945 - Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (Villa Poiret and Villa Noailles) (b. 1886)
- 1987 - Carlos Clarens, American film critic (b. 1930)
- 1999 - Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919)
- 2005 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
- 2023 – Burt Bacharach, American composer (b. 1928)
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