Notable Birthdays For February 8

Those born on this date include:
- Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in 1820
- Pioneer science fiction writer Jules Verne in 1828
- Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, who devised the periodic table, in 1834
- Actress Edith Evans in 1888
- Film director King Vidor in 1894
- Chester Carlson, inventor of the Xerox copying process, in 1906
- Actress Lana Turner in 1920
- Actress Audrey Meadows in 1922
- Actor Jack Lemmon in 1925
- Actor James Dean in 1931
- Composer/conductor John Williams in 1932 (age 78)
- Television journalist Ted Koppel in 1940 (age 70)
- Actor Nick Nolte in 1941 (age 69)
- Comedian Robert Klein in 1942 (age 68)
- Actress Mary Steenburgen in 1953 (age 57)
- Author John Grisham in 1955 (age 55)
- Actor Gary Coleman in 1968 (age 42)
- Actor Seth Green in 1974 (age 36)