Birthday facts

Born on April 8.

Everyone born on April 8 is a Aries — ruled by Mars, first, loudest, already gone. The stone is diamond, the flower daisy, and the day is shared with Chris Kyle and Patricia Arquette.

Sun sign

Aries ♈︎

the Ram · ruled by Mars · first, loudest, already gone

Birthstone

Diamond

April

Birth flower

Daisy

& sweet pea

Your book

Born on April 8? Add the year.

Then it is a pop-up book: the sky the day you arrived, the No. 1 that week, the president, what a stamp cost, your life in weeks, and who was exactly your age when they did the thing they are known for — and at the end, a birthday poster of the day, engraved, to take home. One field. The date lives after the # in the link, which no server sees — nothing about you leaves your browser.

Making it for someone else? Send it as a pop-up birthday card.

The old books say

Aries, March 21 to April 19.

The first sign, and the tradition treats it that way: the Ram is the one who goes first — through the door, into the argument, off the cliff. Ruled by Mars, a fire sign, and the books credit it with courage, impatience and a short memory for grudges, which is a generous way of saying it has already moved on. Its people are supposed to start things. Finishing them is what the other eleven are for.

Astrology, reported rather than endorsed — the astronomy is the part of the book that is real.

Good company

Also born on April 8.

The names most looked up among everyone who shares the day — leaning on the ones who last.

1974

Chris Kyle

American sniper and memoirist

1968

Patricia Arquette

American director and actress

1989

Matty Healy

English singer-songwriter and producer

1938

Kofi Annan

Secretary-General of the United Nations

1955

Barbara Kingsolver

American novelist and poet

1936

Ghassan Kanafani

Palestinian author and politician

1966

Robin Wright

American director and actress

1941

Vivienne Westwood

English fashion designer

On this day

What April 8 has seen.

876Abbasid forces decisively defeated the Saffarid emir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing the latter to halt his advance into Iraq.

1630Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased land near present-day Albany, New York, to establish Rensselaerswyck, which became the most successful patroonship under the Dutch West India Company.

1820The Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek statue of a woman with its arms missing, was discovered on the island of Milos.

2008On board Soyuz , Yi So-yeon became the first Korean astronaut.

The calendar

When April 8 falls.

A Wednesday in 2026, a Thursday in 2027, a Saturday in 2028, a Sunday in 2029, and a Monday in 2030.