Arts & Entertainment:
* Chevy Chase (1943) - American actor, comedian, and writer
* Meg Ryan (1961) - American actress
* Jason Priestley (1969) - Canadian actor
* Carmen Electra (1972) - American actress and model
* Toni Braxton (1967) - American singer
* Kieran Culkin (1982) - American actor
* Chloe Grace Moretz (1997) - American actress
Sports:
* John Elway (1960) - American former NFL quarterback
* Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962) - American former track and field athlete
* Mark McGwire (1963) - American former MLB player
* Mike Piazza (1968) - American former MLB player
Other:
* Eleanor Roosevelt (1884) - American diplomat and human rights activist
* Chuck Yeager (1923) - American test pilot and the first person to break the sound barrier
* Sigmund Freud (1856) - Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis
* Martin Luther King Jr. (1929) - American activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Note: This is not an exhaustive list. There are many other famous people born on October 8th.