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| March 8th, 2008 (March 08 2008) | Death | Carol Barnes, former ITV news presenter (born in 1944) |  | 
| March 8th, 1998 (March 08 1998) | Death | Ray Nitschke, American football player (born in 1936) |  | 
| March 8th, 1988 (March 08 1988) | Birth | Armanti Edwards, American college football player |  | 
| March 8th, 1988 (March 08 1988) | Death | Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (born in 1961) |  | 
| March 8th, 1988 (March 08 1988) | Death | Werner Hartmann, German physicist (born in 1912) |  | 
| March 8th, 1988 (March 08 1988) | Death | Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (born in 1918) |  | 
| March 8th, 1978 (March 08 1978) | Birth | Nick Zano, American actor |  | 
| March 8th, 1968 (March 08 1968) | Birth | Michael Bartels, German race car driver |  | 
| March 8th, 1968 (March 08 1968) | Birth | Ellen Forney, American cartoonist |  | 
| March 8th, 1968 (March 08 1968) | Birth | Shawn Mullins, American musician |  | 
| March 8th, 1968 (March 08 1968) | Birth | Jim Dougherty, American baseball player |  | 
| March 8th, 1958 (March 08 1958) | Birth | Gary Numan, British singer |  | 
| March 8th, 1958 (March 08 1958) | Birth | Nick Capra, American baseball player |  | 
| March 8th, 1948 (March 08 1948) | Birth | Peggy March, American pop singer |  | 
| March 8th, 1938 (March 08 1938) | Birth | Pete Dawkins, American football player |  | 
| March 8th, 1918 (March 08 1918) | Event | The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic. |  | 
| March 8th, 1748 (March 08 1748) | Birth | William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic |  | 
| March 8th, 1618 (March 08 1618) | Event | Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. |  |