May 8
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Events
- 1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
- 1938 - a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Mussolini in Rome. The chance meeting between two fictional characters in Un Giornata Particolare takes place.
- 1967 - American censorship, Redrup v. New York: final decision
- 1988 - first airing of Moviedrome, a BBC programme on cult films
- 1945 – World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender comes into effect.
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Births
- 1668 – Alain-René Lesage, French writer (d. 1747)
- 1829 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American musician (d. 1869)
- 1895 – Edmund Wilson, American writer (d. 1972)
- 1899 – Friedrich Hayek, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)
- 1903 – Fernandel, French actor (d. 1971)
- 1906 – Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (d. 1977)
- 1911 – Robert Johnson, American blues musician (d. 1938)
- 1913 – Bob Clampett, American animator (d. 1984)
- 1919 – Lex Barker, American actor (d. 1973)
- 1920 – Saul Bass, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
- 1920 – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (d. 1991)
- 1926 – David Attenborough, English naturalist
- 1930 – Gary Snyder, American poet
- 1937 – Thomas Pynchon, American novelist
- 1938 - Jean Giraud (Gir and Mœbius), French comics artist (d. 2012)
- 1941 – Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopian singer
- 1944 – Gary Glitter, English singer
- 1951 – Chris Frantz, American musician (Talking Heads)
- 1958 – Ron Hardy, American DJ (d. 1991)
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Deaths
- 1785 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
- 1873 – John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (b. 1806)
- 1880 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
- 1903 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
- 1904 – Eadweard Muybridge, British photographer and motion capturer (b. 1830)
- 1936 – Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)
- 1967 – LaVerne Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1911)
- 1982 – Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943)
- 1975 – Pitigrilli, Italian novelist and journalist (b. 1893)
- 1985 – Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (b. 1918)
- 1988 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (b. 1907)
- 1990 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (b. 1924)
- 1999 – Dirk Bogarde, British actor (b. 1921)
- 1999 – Leon Thomas, American avant-garde jazz vocalist (b. 1937)
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