| 40441 | April 8 | Birth | 1910 – George Musso, American football player and police officer (d. 2000) |
| 40442 | April 8 | Birth | 1911 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) |
| 40443 | April 8 | Birth | 1911 – Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1995) |
| 40444 | April 8 | Birth | 1912 – Alois Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2010) |
| 40445 | April 8 | Birth | 1912 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (d. 1969) |
| 40446 | April 8 | Birth | 1914 – María Félix, Mexican actress and singer (d. 2002) |
| 40447 | April 8 | Birth | 1915 – Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer President of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991-1997) (d. 2007) |
| 40448 | April 8 | Birth | 1917 – Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2007) |
| 40449 | April 8 | Birth | 1917 – Lloyd Bott, Australian public servant (d. 2004) |
| 40450 | April 8 | Birth | 1917 – Hubertus Ernst, Dutch bishop |
| 40451 | April 8 | Birth | 1917 – Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer (d. 1988) |
| 40452 | April 8 | Birth | 1918 – Betty Ford, American wife of Gerald R. Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States (d. 2011) |
| 40453 | April 8 | Birth | 1918 – Glendon Swarthout, American author and academic (d. 1992) |
| 40454 | April 8 | Birth | 1919 – Ian Smith, Zimbabwean lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007) |
| 40455 | April 8 | Birth | 1920 – Carmen McRae, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress (d. 1994) |
| 40456 | April 8 | Birth | 1921 – Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2003) |
| 40457 | April 8 | Birth | 1921 – Jan Novák, Czech composer (d. 1984) |
| 40458 | April 8 | Birth | 1921 – Herman van Raalte, Dutch footballer (d. 2013) |
| 40459 | April 8 | Birth | 1923 – George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003) |
| 40460 | April 8 | Birth | 1923 – Edward Mulhare, Irish-American actor (d. 1997) |
| 40461 | April 8 | Birth | 1924 – Frédéric Back, German-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 2013) |
| 40462 | April 8 | Birth | 1924 – Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English general and historian (d. 2006) |
| 40463 | April 8 | Birth | 1926 – Henry N. Cobb, American architect and academic, co-founded Pei Cobb Freed & Partners |
| 40464 | April 8 | Birth | 1926 – Shecky Greene, American actor |
| 40465 | April 8 | Birth | 1926 – Shirley Mills, American actress and dancer (d. 2010) |
| 40466 | April 8 | Birth | 1926 – Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian and academic |
| 40467 | April 8 | Birth | 1927 – Tilly Armstrong, English author (d. 2010) |
| 40468 | April 8 | Birth | 1927 – Ollie Mitchell, American trumpet player and bandleader (The Wrecking Crew) (d. 2013) |
| 40469 | April 8 | Birth | 1928 – Leah Rabin, German-Israeli wife of Yitzhak Rabin (d. 2000) |
| 40470 | April 8 | Birth | 1929 – Walter Berry, Austrian actor and singer (d. 2000) |