Born on March 8

German chemist (1879–1968), awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944. He discovered nuclear fission of uranium in 1938 with Fritz Strassmann, paving the way for atomic energy.

Beatrice Shilling (1909-1990) was a British aeronautical engineer. She is famous for solving a serious flaw in the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines that powered RAF fighters during the Second World War.

Hebe Camargo (1929-2012) was an icon of Brazilian television, a singer and TV host who shaped Brazil's popular culture for more than six decades. She began her career in radio in the 1940s before becoming a fixture on Brazilian television from its earliest days.

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor born in 1945, a leading figure of Neo-Expressionism. His monumental work confronts German history, the memory of Nazism, and the traumas of the Second World War.