Turkmenistan
Bashkortostan
Sakha (Yakutia)
Gagauzia
North Macedonia
BulgariaOn this day: September 8
What happened in the Turkic world on September 8? Famous people born and died on this day, key events and national days.
Births
- 1779
Mustafa IV
29th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1807–1808) - 1914
Demetrios I of Constantinople
Patriarch of Constantinople (1914-1991)
- 1927
Ğäbdelxäy Äxätef
Soviet Tatar linguist (1927-1986) - 1928
Tofiq Ağababayev
Azerbaijani painter - 1937
Cüneyt Arkın
Turkish actor and director (1937–2022)
- 1946
Aziz Sancar
Turkish geneticist; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 - 1953
Nikolay Kolesnikov
Soviet athletics competitor (born 1953) - 1955
Valery Gerasimov
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- 1967
Azat Peruashev
Kazakh politician
- 1975
Elena Likhovtseva
Russian tennis player
- 1979
Madina Saduakasova
Kazakh singer
- 1993
Izzat Artykov
Kyrgyz weightlifter
Deaths
- 1991
Latif Karimov
Azerbaijani artist and art historian (1906–1991)
- 1998
Sara Ishanturaeva
Soviet-Uzbek actress (1911-1998) - 2015
Habil Aliyev
Azerbaijani musician (1927–2015)
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