May 8

May 8 is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
==Births==
* 1922: Tom Wheatcroft (d. 2009)
* 1923: Roy Parnell (d. 1988)
* 1951: Tadashi Yamashina
* 1975: Gastón Mazzacane
* 2004: Harry Thompson
* 2005: Oliver Bearman
==Deaths==
* 1970: Ray Reed, airplane crash (b. 1932)
* 1982: Gilles Villeneuve, practice accident (b. 1950)
* 1984: Gino Bianco, breathing problems (b. 1916)
* 2004: Yngve Rosqvist (b. 1929)
==Races==
(Italics indicates a non-championship race)
* 1955: 
* 1971: 
* 1977: 
* 2005: 
* 2011: 
* 2022: 
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