08 October: today's birthdays

• Matthew Nicholas Biondi - American swimmer
• ​Simone Bolelli - Italian professional tennis player. In 2015 he won the Australian Open doubles event with Fabio Fognini
• Betty Boothroyd - English politician. She is the Speaker of the House of Commons
• Chevy Chase - American actor and comedian, born Cornelius Crane Chase
• Marina Ivanovna Cvetaeva (Tsvetaeva) - Russian poet and writer, one of the most important in Russian literature
• Matt Damon - American actor and screenwriter, born Matthew Paige Damon. He wrote with Ben Affleck the screenplay of the film Good Will Hunting (1997) and won an Oscar for Writing Original Screenplay
• Julien Duvivier - French film director. He directed the Italian films The Little World of don Camillo and The Return of Don Camillo
• Louise Hay - American author of self help books. She wrote You Can Heal Your Life
• Sadiq Khan - English solicitor specialising in human rights and politician of Pakistanu descent. He is the Mayor of London 
• Rouben Mamoulian - American film director of Armenian descent, born in Georgia
• Bruno Mars - American singer, songwriter, and voice actor, born Peter Gene Hernandez 
• Juan Domingo Perón - Argentine general and politician, 28th and 40th President of Argentina
• Rodney Robert Porter - English biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1972 with Gerald Edelman
• Heinrich Schütz - German composer and organist
  
• Lana Turner - American actress, born Julia Jean Turner. She starred in the 1957 film Peyton Place
• Ursula von der Leyen - German politician and President of the European Commission, born Ursula Gertrud Albrecht
• Sigourney Weaver - American actress, born Susan Alexandra Weaver. She starred as Ellen Ripley in the film series Alien, directed by Ridley Scott