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| November 8th, 2035 (November 08 2035) | Birth | Nerva, Roman Emperor (died in 98) | |
| November 8th, 2007 (November 08 2007) | Death | Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (born in 1943) | |
| November 8th, 2007 (November 08 2007) | Death | Chad Varah founder of charity The Samaritans (born in 1911) | |
| November 8th, 2006 (November 08 2006) | Death | Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (born in 1945) | |
| November 8th, 2005 (November 08 2005) | Death | David Westheimer, American novelist (born in 1917) | |
| November 8th, 2005 (November 08 2005) | Death | Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (born in 1928) | |
| November 8th, 2004 (November 08 2004) | Event | War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. | |
| November 8th, 2003 (November 08 2003) | Birth | Lady Louise Windsor, British royal | |
| November 8th, 2003 (November 08 2003) | Death | Bob Grant, English actor (born in 1932) | |
| November 8th, 2003 (November 08 2003) | Death | C. Z. Guest, American socialite (born in 1920) | |
| November 8th, 2003 (November 08 2003) | Death | Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (born in 1956) | |
| November 8th, 2002 (November 08 2002) | Event | Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| November 8th, 2002 (November 08 2002) | Death | Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (born in 1931) | Philo Quotes |
| November 8th, 1999 (November 08 1999) | Death | Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (born in 1941) | |
| November 8th, 1999 (November 08 1999) | Death | Leon Stukelj, Slovenian gymnast (born in 1898) | |
| November 8th, 1998 (November 08 1998) | Death | Jean Marais, French actor (born in 1913) | |
| November 8th, 1994 (November 08 1994) | Death | Michael O Donoghue, American writer (born in 1940) | |
| November 8th, 1993 (November 08 1993) | Death | Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (born in 1906) | |
| November 8th, 1989 (November 08 1989) | Event | Hong Kong s MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service. | |
| November 8th, 1987 (November 08 1987) | Event | Remembrance Day Bombing: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain s war dead, killing twelve people. | |
| November 8th, 1986 (November 08 1986) | Death | Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (born in 1890) | Vyacheslav Molotov Quotes |
| November 8th, 1985 (November 08 1985) | Birth | Jack Osbourne, English television star | |
| November 8th, 1985 (November 08 1985) | Death | Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (born in 1899) | |
| November 8th, 1983 (November 08 1983) | Birth | Kat Shoob, British television presenter | |
| November 8th, 1983 (November 08 1983) | Birth | Blanka Vlasic, Croatian high jumper | |
| November 8th, 1983 (November 08 1983) | Birth | Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer | |
| November 8th, 1983 (November 08 1983) | Death | Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (born in 1881) | |
| November 8th, 1982 (November 08 1982) | Birth | Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer | |
| November 8th, 1982 (November 08 1982) | Birth | Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib | |
| November 8th, 1982 (November 08 1982) | Birth | Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor | |
| November 8th, 1981 (November 08 1981) | Birth | Joe Cole, English footballer | |
| November 8th, 1980 (November 08 1980) | Birth | Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist | |
| November 8th, 1979 (November 08 1979) | Event | The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed. | |
| November 8th, 1979 (November 08 1979) | Birth | Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer | Aaron North Quotes |
| November 8th, 1979 (November 08 1979) | Birth | Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress | |
| November 8th, 1979 (November 08 1979) | Death | Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (born in 1900) | Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
| November 8th, 1978 (November 08 1978) | Birth | Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer | |
| November 8th, 1978 (November 08 1978) | Birth | Julio Sergio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer | |
| November 8th, 1978 (November 08 1978) | Birth | Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer | |
| November 8th, 1978 (November 08 1978) | Birth | Maurice Evans, American basketball player | Evans Quotes |
| November 8th, 1978 (November 08 1978) | Birth | Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer | |
| November 8th, 1978 (November 08 1978) | Death | Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (born in 1894) | |
| November 8th, 1977 (November 08 1977) | Event | Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. | Aristotle Quotes |
| November 8th, 1977 (November 08 1977) | Birth | Bucky Covington, American entertainer | |
| November 8th, 1977 (November 08 1977) | Birth | Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer | |
| November 8th, 1977 (November 08 1977) | Birth | Nick Punto, American baseball player | |
| November 8th, 1977 (November 08 1977) | Death | Bucky Harris, baseball player (born in 1896) | |
| November 8th, 1976 (November 08 1976) | Event | A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated. | |
| November 8th, 1976 (November 08 1976) | Birth | Brett Lee, Australian cricketer | |
| November 8th, 1976 (November 08 1976) | Birth | Colin Strause, American director | |
| November 8th, 1975 (November 08 1975) | Birth | Tara Reid, American actress | |
| November 8th, 1975 (November 08 1975) | Birth | Jose Pinto, Spanish footballer | |
| November 8th, 1974 (November 08 1974) | Birth | Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author | |
| November 8th, 1974 (November 08 1974) | Birth | Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author | |
| November 8th, 1974 (November 08 1974) | Death | Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (born in 1914) | |
| November 8th, 1973 (November 08 1973) | Event | The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD. | |
| November 8th, 1973 (November 08 1973) | Birth | Vanesa Littlecrow, Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model | |
| November 8th, 1972 (November 08 1972) | Birth | Gretchen Mol, American actress | |
| November 8th, 1971 (November 08 1971) | Birth | Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director | |
| November 8th, 1971 (November 08 1971) | Birth | Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE), American rapper | |
| November 8th, 1970 (November 08 1970) | Birth | Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace | |
| November 8th, 1970 (November 08 1970) | Birth | Jose Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer | |
| November 8th, 1970 (November 08 1970) | Birth | Diana King, Jamaican singer | |
| November 8th, 1970 (November 08 1970) | Death | Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (born in 1892) | Edward Thomas Quotes |
| November 8th, 1969 (November 08 1969) | Birth | Roxana Zal, American actress | |
| November 8th, 1968 (November 08 1968) | Birth | Parker Posey, American actress | |
| November 8th, 1968 (November 08 1968) | Birth | Zara Whites, Dutch actress | |
| November 8th, 1968 (November 08 1968) | Birth | Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer | |
| November 8th, 1968 (November 08 1968) | Death | Wendell Corey, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| November 8th, 1967 (November 08 1967) | Birth | Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress | |
| November 8th, 1967 (November 08 1967) | Birth | Henry Rodriguez, Dominican Republic baseball player | |
| November 8th, 1966 (November 08 1966) | Event | Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate. | |
| November 8th, 1966 (November 08 1966) | Event | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| November 8th, 1966 (November 08 1966) | Birth | Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality | |
| November 8th, 1965 (November 08 1965) | Event | The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. | |
| November 8th, 1965 (November 08 1965) | Event | The Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom. | |
| November 8th, 1965 (November 08 1965) | Event | The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War. | |
| November 8th, 1965 (November 08 1965) | Birth | Jeff Blauser, American baseball player | |
| November 8th, 1965 (November 08 1965) | Birth | Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter | |
| November 8th, 1965 (November 08 1965) | Death | Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (born in 1913) | |
| November 8th, 1961 (November 08 1961) | Birth | Leif Garrett, American singer | |
| November 8th, 1960 (November 08 1960) | Birth | Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor | |
| November 8th, 1960 (November 08 1960) | Birth | Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor | |
| November 8th, 1959 (November 08 1959) | Death | Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (born in 1890) | |
| November 8th, 1958 (November 08 1958) | Birth | Don Byron, American clarinetist | |
| November 8th, 1957 (November 08 1957) | Event | Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. Two tests earlier that year were publicly hailed as successful, but in fact largely failed. | |
| November 8th, 1957 (November 08 1957) | Birth | Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure) | |
| November 8th, 1957 (November 08 1957) | Birth | Alan Curbishley, English football manager | |
| November 8th, 1956 (November 08 1956) | Birth | Steven Miller, American record producer | |
| November 8th, 1956 (November 08 1956) | Birth | Richard Curtis, British screenwriter | |
| November 8th, 1954 (November 08 1954) | Birth | David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster | |
| November 8th, 1954 (November 08 1954) | Birth | Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director | Michael D. Brown Quotes |
| November 8th, 1954 (November 08 1954) | Birth | Kazuo Ishiguro, British author | |
| November 8th, 1954 (November 08 1954) | Birth | Rickie Lee Jones, American singer | |
| November 8th, 1954 (November 08 1954) | Birth | Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk) | |
| November 8th, 1953 (November 08 1953) | Birth | Alfre Woodard, American actress | |
| November 8th, 1953 (November 08 1953) | Death | Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1870) | |
| November 8th, 1953 (November 08 1953) | Death | John van Melle, South African author (born in 1887) | |
| November 8th, 1952 (November 08 1952) | Birth | Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist | |
| November 8th, 1952 (November 08 1952) | Birth | Jerry Remy, American Baseball Player, color commentator, and President of Red Sox Nation | |
| November 8th, 1952 (November 08 1952) | Birth | Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises | |
| November 8th, 1952 (November 08 1952) | Birth | John Denny, American baseball player | |
| November 8th, 1951 (November 08 1951) | Birth | Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general | |
| November 8th, 1950 (November 08 1950) | Event | Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history. | |
| November 8th, 1950 (November 08 1950) | Birth | Mary Hart, American television personality | |
| November 8th, 1949 (November 08 1949) | Birth | Bonnie Raitt, American singer | |
| November 8th, 1949 (November 08 1949) | Birth | Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice Presidenf of the National Rifle Association. | |
| November 8th, 1949 (November 08 1949) | Death | Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (born in 1874) | |
| November 8th, 1947 (November 08 1947) | Birth | Minnie Riperton, American singer (died in 1979) | |
| November 8th, 1946 (November 08 1946) | Birth | Guus Hiddink, Dutch football coach | |
| November 8th, 1946 (November 08 1946) | Birth | Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard) | |
| November 8th, 1945 (November 08 1945) | Birth | Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) | |
| November 8th, 1945 (November 08 1945) | Death | August von Mackensen, German field marshal (born in 1849) | |
| November 8th, 1944 (November 08 1944) | Birth | Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends) | |
| November 8th, 1944 (November 08 1944) | Death | Walter Nowotny, Austrian/German fighter pilot (born in 1920) | |
| November 8th, 1943 (November 08 1943) | Birth | Martin Peters, English footballer | |
| November 8th, 1942 (November 08 1942) | Event | Holocaust: In Ternopil, western Ukraine, the German SS deport about 2,400 Jews from Ternopil ghetto to the Belzec death camp, in the so called "Second Aktion". When the Germans captured Ternopil, about 18,000 Jews lived in the city. | |
| November 8th, 1942 (November 08 1942) | Event | World War II: Operation TorchUnited States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa. | |
| November 8th, 1942 (November 08 1942) | Event | World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers. | |
| November 8th, 1942 (November 08 1942) | Birth | Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey | |
| November 8th, 1941 (November 08 1941) | Event | The Albanian Communist Party is founded. | |
| November 8th, 1939 (November 08 1939) | Event | Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans. | |
| November 8th, 1939 (November 08 1939) | Event | In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| November 8th, 1938 (November 08 1938) | Event | A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris. | |
| November 8th, 1938 (November 08 1938) | Birth | Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (died in 2007) | |
| November 8th, 1937 (November 08 1937) | Event | The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich. | |
| November 8th, 1937 (November 08 1937) | Event | The Chinese Youth Journalist Association is created in Shanghai. It is now known as Chinese Journalist Day. | |
| November 8th, 1935 (November 08 1935) | Event | A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism. | |
| November 8th, 1935 (November 08 1935) | Event | Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France. | |
| November 8th, 1935 (November 08 1935) | Birth | Alain Delon, French actor | |
| November 8th, 1935 (November 08 1935) | Birth | Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop | |
| November 8th, 1934 (November 08 1934) | Death | Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (born in 1879) | |
| November 8th, 1933 (November 08 1933) | Event | Great Depression: New DealUS President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed. | |
| November 8th, 1933 (November 08 1933) | Birth | Peter Arundell, British racing driver | |
| November 8th, 1931 (November 08 1931) | Birth | Darla Hood, American actress (died in 1979) | |
| November 8th, 1931 (November 08 1931) | Birth | Morley Safer, Canadian journalist | |
| November 8th, 1929 (November 08 1929) | Birth | Antonio Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher | Philo Quotes |
| November 8th, 1929 (November 08 1929) | Birth | Bobby Bowden, American football coach | |
| November 8th, 1927 (November 08 1927) | Birth | Ken Dodd, English comedian | |
| November 8th, 1927 (November 08 1927) | Birth | Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam | |
| November 8th, 1927 (November 08 1927) | Birth | Patti Page, American singer | |
| November 8th, 1924 (November 08 1924) | Birth | Joe Flynn, American actor (died in 1974) | |
| November 8th, 1923 (November 08 1923) | Event | Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| November 8th, 1923 (November 08 1923) | Birth | Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (died in 2005) | |
| November 8th, 1922 (November 08 1922) | Birth | Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (died in 2001) | |
| November 8th, 1922 (November 08 1922) | Birth | Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (died in 1996) | |
| November 8th, 1921 (November 08 1921) | Death | Pavol Orszagh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (born in 1849) | |
| November 8th, 1920 (November 08 1920) | Birth | Esther Rolle, American actress (died in 1998) | |
| November 8th, 1920 (November 08 1920) | Birth | Eugenio de Araujo Sales, Brazilian cardinal | |
| November 8th, 1919 (November 08 1919) | Birth | P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (died in 2000) | |
| November 8th, 1918 (November 08 1918) | Birth | Hermann Zapf, German designer | |
| November 8th, 1917 (November 08 1917) | Event | The People s Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin. | Vladimir Lenin Quotes |
| November 8th, 1917 (November 08 1917) | Death | Colin Blythe, English cricketer (born in 1879) | |
| November 8th, 1913 (November 08 1913) | Birth | June Havoc, American actress | |
| November 8th, 1908 (November 08 1908) | Birth | Martha Gellhorn, American writer (died in 1998) | |
| November 8th, 1905 (November 08 1905) | Death | Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (born in 1870) | |
| November 8th, 1904 (November 08 1904) | Birth | Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (died in 1990) | |
| November 8th, 1901 (November 08 1901) | Event | Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. | |
| November 8th, 1900 (November 08 1900) | Birth | Margaret Mitchell, American author (died in 1949) | |
| November 8th, 1900 (November 08 1900) | Birth | Charlie Paddock, American athlete (died in 1943) | |
| November 8th, 1898 (November 08 1898) | Birth | Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (died in 1937) | |
| November 8th, 1897 (November 08 1897) | Birth | Dorothy Day, social activist (died in 1980) | |
| November 8th, 1896 (November 08 1896) | Birth | Bucky Harris, baseball player (died in 1977) | |
| November 8th, 1895 (November 08 1895) | Event | While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Rontgen discovers the X-ray. | |
| November 8th, 1895 (November 08 1895) | Birth | Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (died in 1965) | |
| November 8th, 1893 (November 08 1893) | Birth | Clarence Williams, American composer (died in 1965) | |
| November 8th, 1893 (November 08 1893) | Birth | Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (died in 1941) | |
| November 8th, 1892 (November 08 1892) | Event | The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time. | |
| November 8th, 1890 (November 08 1890) | Death | Cesar Franck, Belgian composer and organist (born in 1822) | |
| November 8th, 1889 (November 08 1889) | Event | Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state. | |
| November 8th, 1887 (November 08 1887) | Death | Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (born in 1851) | |
| November 8th, 1885 (November 08 1885) | Birth | Hans Cloos, German geologist (died in 1951) | |
| November 8th, 1885 (November 08 1885) | Birth | Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (died in 1946) | Tomoyuki Yamashita Quotes |
| November 8th, 1885 (November 08 1885) | Birth | Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (died in 1966) | |
| November 8th, 1884 (November 08 1884) | Birth | Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (died in 1922) | |
| November 8th, 1883 (November 08 1883) | Birth | Arnold Bax, English composer (died in 1953) | |
| November 8th, 1869 (November 08 1869) | Birth | Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (died in 1945) | |
| November 8th, 1868 (November 08 1868) | Birth | Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (died in 1942) | |
| November 8th, 1866 (November 08 1866) | Birth | Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (died in 1941) | |
| November 8th, 1861 (November 08 1861) | Event | American Civil War: The "Trent Affair" - The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. | |
| November 8th, 1854 (November 08 1854) | Birth | Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (died in 1919) | |
| November 8th, 1848 (November 08 1848) | Birth | Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (died in 1925) | |
| November 8th, 1847 (November 08 1847) | Birth | Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (died in 1907) | |
| November 8th, 1847 (November 08 1847) | Birth | Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (died in 1912) | |
| November 8th, 1837 (November 08 1837) | Event | Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College. | |
| November 8th, 1836 (November 08 1836) | Birth | Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (died in 1911) | |
| November 8th, 1830 (November 08 1830) | Death | King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (born in 1777) | |
| November 8th, 1817 (November 08 1817) | Death | Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (born in 1754) | |
| November 8th, 1793 (November 08 1793) | Event | In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opens the Louvre to the public as a museum. | |
| November 8th, 1777 (November 08 1777) | Birth | Desiree Clary, queen of Sweden (died in 1860) | |
| November 8th, 1768 (November 08 1768) | Birth | Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (died in 1840) | |
| November 8th, 1723 (November 08 1723) | Birth | John Byron, British naval officer (died in 1786) | |
| November 8th, 1719 (November 08 1719) | Death | Michel Rolle, French mathematician (born in 1652) | |
| November 8th, 1715 (November 08 1715) | Birth | Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (died in 1797) | Frederick II of Prussia Quotes |
| November 8th, 1710 (November 08 1710) | Birth | Sarah Fielding, English writer (died in 1768) | |
| November 8th, 1706 (November 08 1706) | Birth | Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (died in 1772) | Philo Quotes |
| November 8th, 1674 (November 08 1674) | Death | John Milton, English poet (born in 1608) | John Milton Quotes |
| November 8th, 1658 (November 08 1658) | Death | Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (born in 1599) | |
| November 8th, 1622 (November 08 1622) | Birth | King Charles X of Sweden (died in 1660) | |
| November 8th, 1620 (November 08 1620) | Event | The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours. | |
| November 8th, 1605 (November 08 1605) | Death | Robert Catesby, English conspirator (born in 1573) | |
| November 8th, 1602 (November 08 1602) | Event | The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public. | |
| November 8th, 1600 (November 08 1600) | Death | Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (born in 1562) | |
| November 8th, 1599 (November 08 1599) | Death | Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (born in 1528) | |
| November 8th, 1576 (November 08 1576) | Event | Eighty Years War: Pacification of GhentThe States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation. | |
| November 8th, 1527 (November 08 1527) | Death | Jerome Emser, German theologian (born in 1477) | |
| November 8th, 1520 (November 08 1520) | Event | Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people. | |
| November 8th, 1519 (November 08 1519) | Event | Hernan Cortes enters Tenochtitlan and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great a celebration as would befit a returning god. | |
| November 8th, 1517 (November 08 1517) | Death | Francisco Cardinal Jimenez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman (born in 1436) | |
| November 8th, 1491 (November 08 1491) | Birth | Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (died in 1544) | |
| November 8th, 1431 (November 08 1431) | Birth | Vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (died in 1476) | |
| November 8th, 1342 (November 08 1342) | Birth | Julian of Norwich, English saint (died in 1416) | Julian of Norwich Quotes |
| November 8th, 1308 (November 08 1308) | Death | Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher | Philo Quotes |
| November 8th, 1246 (November 08 1246) | Death | Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (born in 1180) | |
| November 8th, 1226 (November 08 1226) | Death | King Louis VIII of France (born in 1187) | |
| November 8th, 1195 (November 08 1195) | Death | Conrad of Hohenstaufen | |
| November 8th, 1171 (November 08 1171) | Death | Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (born in 1108) | |
| November 8th, 0955 (November 08 0955) | Death | Pope Agapetus II | |
| November 8th, 0911 (November 08 0911) | Death | Louis the Child, last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks (born in 893) | |
