08 February: today's birthdays

• Hans Asperger - Austrian paediatrician who specialised in children mental disorders. The Asperger Syndrome was named after him
• Louis-Auguste Blanqui - French revolutionary
• James Dean - American actor. He starred in Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden and Giant 
• Francis Ysidro Edgeworth - English mathematician and economist
• Paul Epworth - English musician and songwriter
• John Grisham - American lawyer and writer, author of crime novels
• Pierre-Daniel Huet - French philosopher and theologian.
• Joshua Kimmich - German professional footballer 
• Carolina Kostner - Italian figure skater
• ​Kató Lomb - Hungarian translater, simultaneous interpreter, and essayst. She was famous for speaking 16 languages 
• Mauricio Macri - Argentine civil engineer, businessman and politician. He is the 57th President of Argentina
• Dmitrij Ivanovič Mendeleev (Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev) - Russian chemist. He invented the periodic table of elements
• Nick Nolte - American actor. He starred in The Prince of Tides and Cape Fear
• Joseph Shumpeter - German economist
• Jules Verne - French author. He wrote Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea