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Births On This Day,
June, 8

  • 1983 Kim Clijsters

    Belgian tennis player

  • 1977 Kanye West

    American rapper, producer, director, fashion designer

  • 1921 Suharto

    Indonesian soldier, politician, 2nd President of Indonesia

  • 1916 Francis Crick

    English biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate

  • 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright

    American architect, designed the Price Tower, Fallingwater

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 8

  • 2009 Omar Bongo

    Gabonese politician, President of Gabon

  • 1982 Satchel Paige

    American baseball player

  • 1924 George Mallory

    British mountaineer

  • 1809 Thomas Paine

    English/American theorist, author

  • 632 Muhammad

    Islamic prophet

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