List of Famous people born on July 8th

Jasmin Duehring is a German-born Canadian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team Twenty20 Pro Cycling. Duehring was part of the Canadian team that won bronze medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games in the women's team pursuit. She was also part of the team that won gold at the 2011 Pan American Games in the team pursuit.

Shin'ichi Nagashima , better known by the pen name Shinji Nagashima , was a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo, Japan. His pseudonym came about due to a publisher's error when printing his name, and he continued using the pseudonym after that.

Alexander Fomich Veltman was one of the most successful Russian prose writers of the 1830s and 1840s, "popular for various modes of Romantic fiction — historical, Gothic, fantastic, and folkloristic". He was one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction.

Jūlijs Vanags was a Latvian writer and translator, a co-author of the text of the Anthem of Latvian SSR.

Peter Wilhelm Danckert is a German politician and member of the SPD.