People born on August 8

Roger Federer

Swiss tennis player

Paul Dirac

British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)

Mohamed Morsi

President of Egypt from 2012 to 2013

Dustin Hoffman

American actor (born 1937)

Giuseppe Conte

Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 to 2021

Emiliano Zapata

Mexican revolutionary (1879-1919)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1888-1970)

Ernest Lawrence

American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)

Roger Penrose

English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

Klaus Ebner

Austrian writer

Jostein Gaarder

Norwegian author (*1952)

Alija Izetbegović

Bosnian politician, lawyer, philosopher and author (1925–2003)

Louis van Gaal

Dutch footballer and manager (born 1951)

Shawn Mendes

Canadian singer

Svetlana Savitskaya

Soviet cosmonaut