Vandana Shiva learned her first lessons in environmental protection in the Himalayas, where she was born in 1952 to a forest conservator father and a farmer mother with a deep love for nature. Recognized for her brave leadership of social justice movements – women's empowerment in developing countries, advocacy for the human rights of small farming communities, and scientific analysis of environmental sustainability.

Patrick James Cummins, born 8 May 1993, is an Australian international cricketer and the current Test captain of Australia. In limited-overs cricket, he is the team's vice-captain. He is a hard-hitting right-handed batsman and a fast bowler. He represents New South Wales on a domestic level. Cummins made his Test debut in 2011 at the age of 18. Injuries forced him to retire from international cricket in 2015 and from Test cricket in 2017. Cummins received the Allan Border Medal for best Australian cricketer of the year and was named the ICC Test cricketer of the year following the conclusion of the 2019 cricket season.

Enrique Iglesias was born in Madrid, Spain on May 8, 1975. Julio Iglesias, his father, is a well-known Spanish musician, and Isabel Preysler, his mother, is a well-known Madrid socialite. When Enrique's parents split in 1979, he moved home with his mother. Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler, better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish singer, songwriter, and actor who is one of the world's best-selling Latin recording artists. His father was a well-known Spanish musician, but Enrique entered the music industry under the alias Martinez because he did not want to utilise his renowned father's name to further his own career.

In 1894, Thomas Edison of Menlo Park Offsite Link, New Jersey, formally introduced the KinetoscopeOffsite Link, a hand-cranked, single-viewer, lighted box to display the resulting films. William Kennedy Laurie, an Edison employee, was primarily responsible for the development of this group of inventions. On May 9, 1893, the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and SciencesOffsite Link. It was a peep show machine that displayed a continuous loop of the film Dickson invented, lit by an Edison light source and viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components.

Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati (Balakrishna Menon; May 8, 1916 – August 3, 1993) was a Hindu spiritual leader and teacher. In 1951, he established the Chinmaya Mission, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to disseminating knowledge of Advaita Vedanta, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and other ancient Hindu scriptures. Chinmayananda led a global Hindu spiritual and cultural renaissance through the Mission, popularising these spiritual texts and values and teaching them in English all over India and abroad.

Dinesh Kumar Patel (born May 8, 1989 in Lucknow, India) is an Indian right-handed pitcher who previously played for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was the first Indian player, along with Rinku Singh, to sign a contract with a major American baseball team.

Tenzing Norgay was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953, at 11:30 a.m., Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand's Edmund Hillary ascended Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Tenzing Norgay died on May 9, 1986, at the age of 71. According to several reports, his cause of death was either a brain haemorrhage or a bronchial ailment. As a result, a life story that began with a mystery concluded with one.

Rogers had a different perspective. She told the Sun Sentinel in 1987 that she and Cruise were acquainted by mutual acquaintances. On May 9th, 1987, Cruise and Rogers completed their, um, endeavour and married. At the "extremely tiny, personal, and gorgeous" affair, Emilio Estevez served as Cruise's best man. The marriage ended in divorce in February 1990, after it had broken down at the end of 1989.

The sculptural arrangement The Motherland Monument is one of the exhibits of the Museum of Ukraine's World War II History. It is located on one of Kyiv's highest points and can be viewed from anywhere in the city. The Motherland Monument's designers wanted it to represent the tenacity of the national spirit that survived and triumphed in the face of adversity. On May 9, 1981, the monument and museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War opened to the public.

On May 8, 1886, pharmacist John Stith Pemberton delivered a jug of his newest patent medicine, a tonic known as Coca-Cola, to Jacob's Pharmacy on Peachtree Street. The syrup was mixed with soda water, tasted good, and was sold for a nickel a glass. Coca-Cola was marketed as a drug that could "cure all nervous afflictions—sick headache, neuralgia, hysteria, melancholy, and so on..."

Gopal Krishna Gokhale was born on May 9, 1866, in the Ratnagiri District of the Bombay Presidency to an impoverished but ostensibly respectable Chitapavan Brahmin family. He graduated from Elphinstone College with a bachelor's degree at the age of 18 and joined the prestigious Deccan Education Society. At the age of 22, Gokhale was appointed secretary of the illustrious Sarvajanik Sabha, Bombay's main political organisation. He also taught at Fergusson College and served as secretary of the Deccan Education Society in 1891. Gopal Krishna Gokhale was a nationalist leader in India. He was the President of the Indian National Congress, as well as a member of the Imperial Legislative Council and the founder of the Servants of India Society.

Robert Leroy Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson, a sawmill employee. Robert Johnson was an American blues composer, guitarist, and vocalist who impacted both his contemporaries and many forthcoming blues and rock performers with his uncanny falsetto voice and brilliant, rhythmic slide guitar. In Robinsonville, where he spent the most of his childhood, he met Delta blues giants Willie Brown, Charley Patton, and Son House, who were unimpressed with his skill. They were, however, astounded by his musical abilities when he returned to his hometown after a year abroad. According to mythology, he struck a bargain with Satan at a nearby crossroads, thereby earning his great talent as a guitarist, singer, and composer. It is alleged that he sold his soul to Satan in exchange for only eight more years of life.

Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. He lived from 30 August 1871 to 19 October 1937. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, he is the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867). Aside from his work in his home country, he spent a significant portion of his career in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Dhirubhai Ambani and Champaklal Damani co-founded Reliance Commercial Corporation in the 1960s. The partnership ended in 1965, and Dhirubhai continued the firm's polyester business. Reliance Textiles Engineers Pvt. Ltd. was established in Maharashtra in 1966. In the same year, it established a synthetic fabrics mill in Naroda, Gujarat. It was renamed Reliance Industries Limited on May 8, 1973. In 1975, the company expanded into textiles, with "Vimal" eventually becoming its main brand. In 1977, the company held its initial public offering (IPO).