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January 8
January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 357 days remaining (358 in leap years).
Events
Births
- 1556 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1623)
- 1735 - John Carroll, first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S. (d. 1815)
- 1763 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (d. 1834)
- 1786 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (d. 1844)
- 1805 - Orson Hyde, American religious leader (d. 1878)
- 1821 - James Longstreet, Confederate general (d. 1904)
- 1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
- 1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
- 1867 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer, pacifist 1946 (d. 1961)
- 1870 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain (d. 1930)
- 1881 - Willy Piper , aviation pioneer (d. 1970)
- 1885 - John Curtin, fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)
- 1891 - Walther Bothe, German physicist (d. 1957)
- 1908 - William Hartnell, British actor (1975)
- 1909 - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
- 1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova , dancer (d. 1988)
- 1912 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
- 1923 - Larry Storch, American actor
- 1924 - Ron Moody, English actor
- 1925 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and writer (d. 1995)
- 1925 - James Saunders , dramatist
- 1926 - Evelyn Lear, American soprano
- 1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian
- 1926 - Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
- 1926 - Kerwin Mathews , American actor
- 1928 - Sander Vanocur , journalist
- 1931 - Bill Graham, German rock music entrepreneur (d. 1991)
- 1933 - Charles Osgood, American journalist, commentator
- 1934 - Alexandra Ripley, writer (d. 2004)
- 1934 - Roy Kinnear, English actor (1988)
- 1934 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
- 1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
- 1937 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
- 1937 - John Hume, Northern Ireland politician
- 1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host
- 1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
- 1941 - Boris Vallejo, illustrator
- 1942 - Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and author
- 1942 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
- 1942 - Yvette Mimieux, American actress
- 1942 - George Passmore, English artist, half of Gilbert and George
- 1946 - Robby Krieger, American musician ("The Doors")
- 1947 - David Bowie, English rock artist
- 1947 - Samuel Schmid, member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1947 - Laurie Walters , American actress
- 1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian celebrity chef
- 1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball relief pitcher
- 1959 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer
- 1961 - Calvin Smith, American athlete
- 1966 - Andrew Wood, musician (d. 1990)
- 1967 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
- 1969 - R. Kelly, American R&B singer
- 1971 - Jason Giambi, American Major League Baseball player
- 1973 - Sean Paul, Jamaican reggae singer
- 1973 - Mark Knight, aka the madfiddler. Video game composer, sound designer and electric violin player
- 1978 - Marco Fu, Hong Kong snooker player
Deaths
- 482 - Saint Severinus, monk
- 1107 - King Edgar of Scotland (b. ca. 1072)
- 1198 - Pope Celestine III (b. ca. 1106)
- 1324 - Marco Polo Italian explorer (b. 1254)
- 1642 - Galileo Galilei, Tuscan astronomer, father of the scientific method (b. 1564)
- 1775 - John Baskerville, English printer, typefounder (b. 1706)
- 1880 - Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor Norton I of the United States of America" (b. 1811)
- 1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
- 1941 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier, writer, founder of Scouting (b. 1857)
- 1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian martyr and missionary to Ecuador (b. 1928)
- 1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete
- 1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete
- 1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (b. 1911)
- 1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
- 1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
- 1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist, computer engineer (b. 1907)
- 1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor
- 1982 - Reta Shaw , American actress
- 1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
- 1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
- 1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
- 1991 - Steve Clark, Def Leppard guitarist
- 1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor
- 1996 - François Mitterrand, politician and President of France (b. 1916)
- 1997 - Melvin Calvin, winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
- 2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
- 2002 - Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's International (b. 1932)
- 2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Russian physicist 1964 (b. 1916)
- 2003 - Ron Goodwin, British film music composer and conductor
- 2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
- 2005 - Warren Spears, choreographer, dancer
- 2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist and teacher (b. 1914)
Holidays and observances
External links
January 7 - January 9 - December 8 - February 8 -- listing of all days
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