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Weatherspoon was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010, and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.
Famous Birthdays on December 8
1965 — Teresa Weatherspoon
American basketball player and coach
December 8 has 274 recorded notable births across history, from 65 BC to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on December 8
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- 1987 Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House. Source
- 2010 With the second launch of the Falcon 9, and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. Source
- 2004 The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations. Source
- 1953 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world. Source
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was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
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Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz was a German army general during the First World War.
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The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate.
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Except for his periods of government service, he has taught at Yale Law School from 1985 to the present, including as the law school's 15th Dean from 2004 to 2009, and currently as a Sterling Professor of international law.
More major people born on December 8
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1765
Eli Whitney
American engineer, invented the cotton gin (died 1825)
Eli Whitney Jr. was an American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.
1865
Rüdiger von der Goltz
German general (died 1946)
Gustav Adolf Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz was a German army general during the First World War.
1832
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Norwegian-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the…
1954
Harold Hongju Koh
American lawyer, academic, and politician
Harold Hongju Koh is an American diplomat, lawyer, legal scholar, politician, and writer.
1964
Chigusa Nagayo
Japanese wrestler
Chigusa Nagayo is a Japanese professional wrestler best known for her mainstream popularity in the 1980s as a member of the Crush Gals with long-time tag team partner Lioness Asuka.
1881
Albert Gleizes
French painter (died 1953)
Albert Gleizes was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris.
1950
Tim Foli
American baseball player, coach, and manager
Timothy John Foli is an American former professional baseball player, coach and minor league manager.
1967
Andy Kapp
German curler
Andreas "Andy" Kapp is a German curler from Unterthingau. After participating in several tournaments at the Junior, Olympic, and World Championship levels, Kapp surprised many by winning the 1992 European championship.
1960
Aaron Allston
American game designer and author (died 2014)
Aaron Dale Allston was an American game designer and author of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels.
1917
Ian Johnson
Australian cricketer and administrator (died 1998)
Ian William Geddes Johnson, was an Australian cricketer who played 45 Test matches as a slow off-break bowler between 1946 and 1956.
1924
Lionel Gilbert
Australian historian, author, and academic (died 2015)
Lionel Arthur Gilbert CF was an Australian historian, author, curator, lecturer, and biographer, specializing in applied, natural, and local history.
2002
Sunghoon
South Korean singer
Park Sung-hoon, known mononymously as Sunghoon, is a South Korean singer and former figure skater. He competed as a figure skater from 2010 to early 2020; while simultaneously being a K-pop trainee since 2018.
1969
Kristin Lauter
American mathematician and cryptographer
Kristin Estella Lauter is an American mathematician and cryptographer whose research interest is broadly in application of number theory and algebraic geometry in cryptography.
1986
Enzo Amore
American wrestler and rapper
Eric Arndt is an American professional wrestler. He is performing on the independent circuit under the ring name Real1.
1986
Kate Voegele
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
Kate Elizabeth Voegele is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She made her musical debut in 2003, with the release of her extended play The Other Side.
1919
Kateryna Yushchenko
Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (died 2001)
Kateryna Lohvynivna Yushchenko was a Ukrainian computer and information research scientist, corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences (1976), and member of The International Academy of Computer Science.
1941
Bob Brown
American football player (died 2023)
Robert Stanford Brown, nicknamed "the Boomer", was an American professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1964 through 1973.
1980
Brandt Snedeker
American golfer
Brandt Newell Snedeker is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
1902
Wifredo Lam
Cuban-French painter (died 1982)
Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla, better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture.