July 8th (1979) was a Sunday. It's the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 176 days left to the end of the year.
Famous Birthdays on July 8 in 1979
» Mat McBriar, American football player
July 8th Famous Deaths for 1979
» Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
» Michael Wilding (actor) named Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
» Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
July 8th Holidays in History
» Christian Calendar of saints named Feast Day:
» Abda and Sabas
» Auspicius of Trier
» Grimbald
» Saint Kilian Kilian, Saint Totnan Totnan, and Saint Colman (martyr) Colman