List of Famous people born on September 8th

Gustav Ernst Schreck was a German music teacher, composer and choirmaster of St. Thomas School, Thomasschule zu Leipzig, in Leipzig from 1893 to 1918.

José María Pino Suárez was a Mexican statesman, lawyer, writer and newspaper proprietor who served as the seventh and last Vice President of Mexico from 1911 until his assassination in 1913, during the events of the Ten Tragic Days, one of the most violent periods of the Mexican Revolution.

Motoko Kumai is a Japanese voice actress employed by 81 Produce. She played Takao Kinomiya in Beyblade and Syaoran Li in Cardcaptor Sakura. From December 21, 2006 to October 2007, she left her career due to an illness requiring medical treatment.

Jean-Michel Beau was a French gendarme. He served during the Irish of Vincennes affair in 1982.

Clelia Maria Josepha (Giuseppina) Strepponi was a nineteenth-century Italian operatic soprano of great renown and the second wife of composer Giuseppe Verdi.

Gojong, the Emperor Gwangmu, was the last king of Joseon and the first Emperor of Korea.

Dr. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko, was a Soviet Russian revolutionary, statesman and academic who became People's Commissar of Public Health in 1918, and served in that role until 1930. He was one of the organizers of the health system in the Soviet Union, an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the Russian SFSR (1945).

José Manuel "Sema" Velázquez Rodríguez, is a Venezuelan football defender. He is playing for Deportivo Táchira and he is also playing for the Venezuela national football team.

Edson André Sitoe, known as Mexer, is a Mozambican professional footballer who plays for French club FC Girondins de Bordeaux and the Mozambique national team as a centre back.

Pierre Kompany is a Belgian politician of the CDH. He was elected mayor of Ganshoren in 2018 and is the father of the footballer Vincent Kompany. He is the first Congolese mayor in Belgium.