October 8: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is October 8th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on October 8th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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October 8th was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

October 8th Birthdays: Famous Artists

Serge Ivan Issakovitch Chermayeff, Russian designer, architect (Bentley Wood, De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill and Shrub's Wood in Chalfont St Giles) and author (Community and Privacy and The Shape of Community), was born on October 8, 1900.

Dutch portrait painter Cornelius Consolation (Unseemly Love) was born on October 8, 1697.

Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect (Church Hill at Walsall, Ditchley Park, Hemel Hempstead at Herts, Mottisfont at Hants, Royal Lodge at Windsor Park and Rutherford High Energy Laboratory) and author (Baroque Gardens of Austria, Guelph Lectures on Landscape Design, Italian Gardens of the Renaissance, Motopia and Studies in Landscape Design), was born on October 8, 1900.

Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American movie director (Applause, Blood and Sand, City Streets, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Gay Desperado, Golden Boy, Love Me Tonight, Mark of Zorro, Silk Stockings, Song of Songs and Summer Holiday), was born on October 8, 1897.

American painter Faith Ringgold (Coming to Jones Road, Groovin' High and We Came to America) was born on October 8, 1930. CTRL-click here to view these Faith Ringgold pieces at Simply Snickers.

Max Slevogt, German Impressionist painter (Beflaggte Strasse in London. Eingang in den Zoologischen Garten and Strasse bei Godramstein), was born on October 8, 1868.

October 8th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Matt Biondi, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1984, 1988 and 1992), was born on October 8, 1965.