08 July: today's birthdays

• Kevin Bacon - American actor. He starred in the film Footloose. He is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick
• Alfred Binet - French psychologist, born Alfred Binetti, the inventor of the first intelligence test
• Ernst Bloch - German philosopher and author
• Sophia Bush - American actress. She stars as Detective Erin Lindsay in the TV series Chicago P.D.
• Billy Crudup - American actor
• Phineas Gage - American railroad construction foreman, best known for an accident he had: an iron rod was rammed through his head. He became the object of numerous neurological and psychological studies
• Anjelica Huston - American actress. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1986 for her role in Prizzi's Honor
• Tony Kaye - English film director. He directed American History X and Detachment 
• Jean de La Fontaine - French writer and poet, best known for his Fables
• Tzipi Livni - Israeli politician
• Wolfgang Puck - Austrian chef
  
• Son Heung-min - South Korean professional footballer
• Jeffrey Tambor - American actor
• Virgil van Dijk - Dutch professional footballer 
• Marianne Williamson - American author, entrepreneur, and activist, born Marianne Deborah Williamson. She is a member of the Democratic Party