08 May: today's birthdays

• Andrea Barzagli - Italian professional footballer 
• Joe Bonamassa - American blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter of Italian descent, born Joseph Leonard Bonamassa
• Lucimar da Silva Ferreira - Brazilian soccer player
• Bill de Blasio - American politician
• Leon Festinger - American sociologist and psychologist. He is best known for his cognitive dissonance
• Jean Giraud - French cartoonist best known as Moebius
• Michel Gondry - French film director
• Friedrich August von Hayek - Austrian economist and philosopher
• Enrique Iglesias - Spanish singer. He is the son of Enrique Iglesias
• Keith Jarrett - American pianist and composer
• Daniel Kaluuya - English actor and screenwriter
• Hans Knoll - German-born American furniture manufacturer. He founded the worldly known design company Knoll
• Sonny Liston - American boxer
• Moebius - Pseudonym of French cartoonist Jean Giraud
• Thomas Pynchon - American writer, born Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.. He wrote Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49
• ​Carola Rackete - German ship captain currently working for the German sea rescue organisation Sea-Watch
• Roberto Rossellini - Italian film director, one of the most important. He directed Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City) 
• Vittorio Sgarbi - Italian art critic, art historian, politician and TV personality 
• Harry Truman - American politician, 33rd President of the United States
• Harry S. Truman - 33rd President of the United States
• Kemba Walker - American basketball player who plays for the Boston Celtics in the NBA.
• David Winning - Canadian-born American film director, screenwriter and producer