Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/December/December 8
- 1708 – Birth of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I
- 1813 – Birth of priest and social activist Adolph Kolping
- 1815 – Birth of artist Adolph Menzel
- 1914 – The German East Asia Squadron is destroyed in the Battle of the Falkland Islands
- 1955 – Death of mathematician Hermann Weyl