| 77611 | July 8 | Event | 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. |
| 77612 | July 8 | Event | 2014 – Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amidst rising tensions following the killing of Israeli teenagers. |
| 77613 | July 8 | Birth | 1478 – Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian linguist, poet, and playwright (d. 1550) |
| 77614 | July 8 | Birth | 1528 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580) |
| 77615 | July 8 | Birth | 1545 – Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568) |
| 77616 | July 8 | Birth | 1593 – Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653) |
| 77617 | July 8 | Birth | 1604 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651) |
| 77618 | July 8 | Birth | 1621 – Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (d. 1695) |
| 77619 | July 8 | Birth | 1760 – Christian Kramp, French mathematician and academic (d. 1826) |
| 77620 | July 8 | Birth | 1766 – Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842) |
| 77621 | July 8 | Birth | 1792 – Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (d. 1854) |
| 77622 | July 8 | Birth | 1819 – Francis Leopold McClintock, Irish admiral and explorer (d. 1907) |
| 77623 | July 8 | Birth | 1830 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1911) |
| 77624 | July 8 | Birth | 1830 – Frederick W. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915) |
| 77625 | July 8 | Birth | 1831 – John Pemberton, American chemist and pharmacist, invented Coca-Cola (d. 1888) |
| 77626 | July 8 | Birth | 1836 – Joseph Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1914) |
| 77627 | July 8 | Birth | 1838 – Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (d. 1898) |
| 77628 | July 8 | Birth | 1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (d. 1917) |
| 77629 | July 8 | Birth | 1839 – John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company (d. 1937) |
| 77630 | July 8 | Birth | 1851 – Arthur Evans, English archaeologist and academic (d. 1941) |
| 77631 | July 8 | Birth | 1857 – Alfred Binet, French psychologist and graphologist (d. 1911) |
| 77632 | July 8 | Birth | 1867 – Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (d. 1945) |
| 77633 | July 8 | Birth | 1882 – Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (d. 1961) |
| 77634 | July 8 | Birth | 1885 – Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1977) |
| 77635 | July 8 | Birth | 1885 – Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss (d. 1948) |
| 77636 | July 8 | Birth | 1890 – Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American painter (d. 1973) |
| 77637 | July 8 | Birth | 1892 – Richard Aldington, English author and poet (d. 1962) |
| 77638 | July 8 | Birth | 1892 – Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967) |
| 77639 | July 8 | Birth | 1893 – R. Carlyle Buley, American historian and author (d. 1968) |
| 77640 | July 8 | Birth | 1894 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) |