Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/October/October 8
- 1883 – Birth of Otto Heinrich Warburg, recipient of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1883 – Birth of psychiatrist Ernst Kretschmer
- 1962 – Der Spiegel publishes the article Bedingt abwehrbereit, starting the Spiegel scandal
- 1992 – Death of Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany 1969-1974