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October 8:

• 1713 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist, born. (d. 1793)
• 1715 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary, born. (d. 1774)
• 1720 - Jonathan Mayhew, American minister and patriot, born. (d. 1766)