List of Famous people born on February 8th
Tayavek Gallizzi
Tayavek Gallizzi is an Argentine professional basketball player who currently plays for Regatas Corrientes of the Argentine Liga Nacional de Básquet (LNB). He defends Argentina.
Mustapha Dahleb
Mustapha Dahleb is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Having begun his career at CS Sedan and CR Belouizdad, he spent most of his career at Paris Saint-Germain before playing a final season at OGC Nice. At international level, Dahleb represented the Algeria national football team.
Fritz Peterson
Fred Ingels Peterson is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) player who played for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, and Texas Rangers from 1966 to 1976. Peterson was a southpaw starting pitcher who enjoyed his best success in 1970 with the Yankees when he went 20–11 and pitched in the All-Star game. He is widely known for trading families with teammate Mike Kekich in the early 1970s. He had a career record of 133–131.
Martin Buber
Martin Buber was an Austrian Jewish and Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship. Born in Vienna, Buber came from a family of observant Jews, but broke with Jewish custom to pursue secular studies in philosophy. In 1902, he became the editor of the weekly Die Welt, the central organ of the Zionist movement, although he later withdrew from organizational work in Zionism. In 1923, Buber wrote his famous essay on existence, Ich und Du, and in 1925, he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.
Roberto Soriano
Roberto Soriano is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bologna and the Italy national team. He is the younger brother of Elia Soriano.
Guido nahuel Vadalá
Guido Vadalá is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for Charlotte Independence in the USL Championship.
Ali Kılıç
Ali Kılıç or Kilij Ali also known as Kılıç Ali Bey was an officer of the Ottoman Army and Turkish Army. He was also a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He married with Füreya Koral, one of the first Turkish ceramicists. Football coach Gündüz Kılıç was his son.
David Almeida
David Antônio Abisai Pereira de Almeida, better known as David Almeida, is a Brazilian lawyer and politician affiliated to the Avante. He was elected mayor of Manaus in the municipal elections of Brazil in 2020. In 2017 he was interim Governor of Amazonas after the annulment of José Melo de Oliveira and his vice-governor by TSE, due to problems in Brazilian justice. The Brazilian Constitution establishes that the annulment of a governor and his vice-governor, temporarily declares the presidency of the Legislative Assembly during the year, until the supplementary internal elections, from which they occurred in 2017, at the time Almeida was president of the legislative authority of the state of Amazonas. In 2020, David Almeida was elected mayor of the city of Manaus by the Avante, turning over the votes in the second round on Amazonino Mendes, of PODE, which ended first in the first round, succeeding Arthur Virgílio Neto, for the 2021–2025 term.
Anton Mitryushkin
Anton Vladimirovich Mitryushkin is a Russian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for German club Dynamo Dresden.
Kasper Asgreen
Kasper Asgreen is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Deceuninck–Quick-Step. In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Vuelta a España. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France.