08 April: today's birthdays

• Patricia Arquette - American actress
• Jacques Brel - Belgian singer-songwriter
• Emil Cioran - Romanian philosopher, writer and essayist
• John Fante - American writer. His main work is Ask the Dust
• Hou Hsiao-Hsien - China-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. He directed The Assassin
• Edmund Husserl - Austrian-born German philosopher and mathematician, born Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl. He was the founder of Phenomenology, a philosophical movement 
• Ron Johnson - American politician
• John Madden - English film and stage director. He directed Shakespeare in Love and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
• Richard Neutra - Austrian-born American architect
• Mary Pickford - Canadian actress
• Jean Prouvé - French architect and designer
• Giuseppe Samonà - Italian architect
• Izzy Stradlin - American guitarist
• Vivienne Isabel Swire - English fashion designer best known as Vivienne Westwood.
• Vivienne Westwood - English fashion designer born Vivienne Isabel Swire.
• Robin Wright - American actress
  
• Robin Wright Penn - American actress