Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 8

Births

• 1892 - Mary Pickford, Canadian actress (d. 1979) (pictured)
• 1918 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
• 1938 - Kofi Annan, Ghanaian United Nations Secretary General (d. 2018)
• 1963 - Julian Lennon, English musician and singer
• 1966 - Robin Wright, American actress

Deaths

• 1861 - Elisha Otis, American elevator builder (b. 1811)
• 1973 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)
• 1981 - Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1993 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)