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The 8t o Mairch is the 67t day o the year (68t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 298 days ti come.
Events
1966: Nelson's Pillar in Dublin
2014: Kent flicht route o Malaysia Airlines Flicht 370
Births
Otto Hahn
Hebe Camargo
- 1636 - Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess o Lowden, Scots peer (d. 1703)
- 1714 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German componer (d. 1788)
- 1818 - Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9t Baronet, Scots historical writer, historian an politeecian (d. 1878)
- 1824 - John Elder, Scots ingineer an shipbigger (d. 1869)
- 1859 - Kenneth Grahame, Scots writer (d. 1932)
- 1879 - Otto Hahn, German chemist (d. 1968)
- 1886 - Alexander Fraser, 20t Laird Saltoun, Scots peer (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Eric Linklater, Scots writer (d. 1974)
- 1922 - Ralph H. Baer, German-American inventor, video gemme designer an ingineer (d. 2014)
- 1922 - Cyd Charisse, American actress (d. 2008)
- 1924 - Georges Charpak, Pols-French pheesicist (d. 2010)
- 1929 - Hebe Camargo, Brazilian sangster, actress an presenter (d. 2012)
- 1940 - John Divers, Scots fitbawer (d. 2014)
- 1941 - Norman Stone, Scots historian an author
- 1943 - Lynn Redgrave, Inglis actress (d. 2010)
- 1948 - Jonathan Sacks, Inglis rabbi
- 1949 - Antonello Venditti, Italian sangster-sangwriter
- 1954 - David Wilkie, Scots soummer
- 1958 - Gary Numan, Inglis sangster an muisicker
- 1964 - Mark Oaten, Inglish politeecian
- 1966 - Anne McLaughlin, Scots politeecian
- 1970 - Nazario Moreno González, Mexican drog laird (d. 2014)
- 1974 - Ash Denham, Scots politeecian
- 1979 - Ross Tokely, Scots fitbawer
- 1981 - Laura Main, Scots actress
- 1982 - Marjorie Estiano, Brazilian sangster an actress
- 1990 - Petra Kvitova, Czech tennis player
- 1994 - Claire Emslie, Scots fitbawer
- 1996 - Callum Crane, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
1930: Grave o William Howard Taft
- 1144 - Pape Celestine II
- 1403 - Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1360)
- 1702 - William II, Keeng o Scots (b. 1650)
- 1844 - Charles XIV o Swaden (b. 1763)
- 1869 - Hector Berlioz, French componer (b. 1803)
- 1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1800)
- 1917 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (b. 1838)
- 1921 - Andrew Watson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1856)
- 1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch pheesicist (b. 1837)
- 1930 - William Howard Taft, 27nt Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1857)
- 1999 - Joe DiMaggio, American fitbaa player (b. 1914)
- 2015 - Sam Simon, American producer an writer (b. 1955)
- 2016 - George Martin, Inglis muisicker, producer an componer (b. 1926)
Halidays
1914 Poster for Internaitional Weemen's Day
- 8 Mairch is the eat day o the follaein saunts:
- St. John o God
- St. Senan
- St. Arian an Companions
- St. Beoadh
- St. Veremundus
- St. Vincent Kadlubek
- St. Duthac
- St. Beoadh
- St. Julian o Toledo
- St. Rhian
- St. Quintilis
- St. Ogmund
- St. Philemon
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