Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 8

Births

• 1656 - Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
• 1836 - Milton Bradley, American lithographer and game manufacturer (d. 1911)
• 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912) (pictured)
• 1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949)
• 1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1953 - Alfre Woodard, American actress

Deaths

• 1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
• 1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
• 1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
• 1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)