List of Famous people born on July 8th

David Thomas Howard is a former American football defensive tackle. After playing college football for Brown Bears, he was drafted in the seventh round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans.

Kat Frankie is an Australian-born singer-songwriter and guitarist. She relocated to Berlin in December 2004 and has issued four solo studio albums, Pocketknife, The Dance of a Stranger Heart, Please Don’t Give Me What I Want and Bad Behaviour.

Arthur Useldinger was a Luxembourgian politician. He was a member of the Communist Party of Luxembourg. Useldinger served two stints as Mayor of Esch-sur-Alzette: one following the end of the Second World War, and one in the 1970s, both in coalition with the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party. He is remembered as the most popular of Esch-sur-Alzette's post-war mayors. In addition, Useldinger sat in the national legislature, the Chamber of Deputies for a total of twenty-five years between the war and his death

Pierre Macq was a Belgian physicist who was the rector of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) from 1986 until 1995. In 1973, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences for his work on experimental nuclear physics.

Kamiel Buysse was a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1959 Tour de France. He was the grandfather of Greg Van Avermaet.

Harry Von Tilzer, 8 July 1872 – 10 January 1946) was an American composer, songwriter, publisher and vaudeville performer.

Hans Olaf Halvor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian Realist painter. His work was characterized by naturalism and focused largely on portraits and landscape paintings.

Roone Pinckney Arledge Jr. was an American sports and news broadcasting executive who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s. He created many programs still airing today, such as Monday Night Football, ABC World News Tonight, Primetime, Nightline and 20/20. John Heard portrayed him in the 2002 TNT movie Monday Night Mayhem.

George Robert Gray FRS was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years. He was the younger brother of the zoologist John Edward Gray and the son of the botanist Samuel Frederick Gray.