Births on 8 January
2000s
Zach Charbonnet
2001
American football player (born 2001)
Noah Cyrus
2000
American singer and actress (born 2000)
1900s
Ignas Brazdeikis
1999
Lithuanian-Canadian basketball player (born 1999)
Damiano David
1999
Italian singer (born 1999)
Tony Bradley (basketball)
1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Jhoan Durán
1998
Dominican baseball player (born 1998)
Ryan Destiny
1995
American actress, singer and songwriter
Glenn Robinson III
1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
William Karlsson
1993
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1993)
Sophie Pascoe
1993
New Zealand Paralympic swimmer
Stefanie Dolson
1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Koke (footballer, born 1992)
1992
Spanish footballer
Valkyrae
1992
American online streamer and YouTuber (born 1992)
Josh Hazlewood
1991
Australian cricketer (born 1991)
Stefan Johansen
1991
Norwegian footballer (born 1991)
Stefan Savić
1991
Montenegrin footballer (born 1991)
Greg Smith (basketball, born 1991)
1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Blair Walsh
1990
American football player (born 1990)
Aaron Cruden
1989
New Zealand rugby union player (born 1989)
Adrián López
1988
Spanish footballer (born 1988)
Michael Mancienne
1988
Seychellois footballer (born 1988)
Alex Tyus
1988
American-Israeli basketball player
Chris Douglas-Roberts
1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Cynthia Erivo
1987
English actress and singer (born 1987)
Freddie Stroma
1987
British actor (born 1987)
Jeff Francoeur
1984
American baseball player (born 1984)
Chris Masters
1983
American wrestler (born 1983)
Gaby Hoffmann
1982
American actress (born 1982)
Genevieve Padalecki
1981
American actress (born 1981)
Jeff Francis
1981
Canadian baseball player (born 1981)
Sam Riley
1980
British actor (born 1980)
Seol Ki-hyeon
1979
South Korean footballer (born 1979)
Windell Middlebrooks
1979
American actor (1979–2015)
Adrian Mutu
1979
Romanian footballer and manager (born 1979)
Stipe Pletikosa
1979
Croatian footballer (born 1979)
Sarah Polley
1979
Canadian actress, film director, and screenwriter (born 1979)
Marco Fu
1978
Hong Kongese snooker player
Amber Benson
1977
American actress (born 1977)
Jenny Lewis
1976
American musician
Mike Cameron
1973
American baseball player (born 1973)
Paul Clement (football manager)
1972
English association football player and manager (born 1972)
Jason Giambi
1971
American baseball player (born 1971)
Andreas Kollross
1971
Austrian politician (born 1971)
Pascal Zuberbühler
1971
Swiss footballer (born 1971)
Bull Nakano
1968
Japanese professional wrestler and golfer
Willie Anderson (basketball)
1967
American basketball player (born 1966)
R. Kelly
1967
American R&B singer (born 1967)
Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest
1967
British politician (born 1967)
Maria Pitillo
1966
American retired actress
Igor Vyazmikin
1966
Ice hockey player
Andrew Wood (singer)
1966
American rock musician (1966–1990)
Michelle Forbes
1965
American actress (born 1965)
Ron Sexsmith
1964
Canadian musician (born 1964)
Calvin Smith
1961
American sprinter
Dave Weckl
1960
American drummer (born 1960)
Paul Hester
1959
Australian musician (1959–2005)
Betsy DeVos
1958
American politician and philanthropist (born 1958)
Rey Misterio
1958
Mexican professional wrestler and trainer (1958–2024)
Dwight Clark
1957
American football player and executive (1957–2018)
Nacho Duato
1957
Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer
Ron Cephas Jones
1957
American actor (1957–2023)
Calvin Natt
1957
American basketball player (born 1957)
Harriet Sansom Harris
1955
American actress (born 1955)
Mike Reno
1955
Musical artist
Marián Šťastný
1953
Slovak ice hockey player
Bruce Sutter
1953
American baseball player (1953–2022)
Vladimir Feltsman
1952
Musical artist
Peter McCullagh
1952
Irish statistician (born 1952)
Kenny Anthony
1951
Saint Lucian politician (born 1951)
Shadia Abu Ghazaleh
1949
Palestinian political activist (1949–1968)
Lawrence Rowe
1949
Jamaican cricketer
Gillies MacKinnon
1948
Scottish screenwriter and film director (born 1948)
David Bowie
1947
English musician and actor (1947–2016)
Antti Kalliomäki
1947
Finnish athlete, politician
Robby Krieger
1946
American guitarist (born 1946)
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
1946
Mexican drug lord (born 1946)
Phil Beal
1945
English footballer
Nancy Bond
1945
American author of children's literature
Kathleen Noone
1945
American actress (born 1945)
Terry Brooks
1944
American writer of fantasy fiction
Stephen Hawking
1942
English theoretical physicist (1942–2018)
Junichiro Koizumi
1942
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
Yvette Mimieux
1942
American actress (1942–2022)
Graham Chapman
1941
English actor, comedian and writer (1941–1989)
Boris Vallejo
1941
Peruvian-American painter (born 1941)
Cristy Lane
1940
American country music singer (born 1940)
Carolina Herrera
1939
Venezuelan fashion designer (born 1939)
Bob Eubanks
1938
American television and radio personality (born 1938)
Shirley Bassey
1937
Welsh singer (born 1937)
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
1936
Australian scientist, president of the Royal Society (1936–2020)
Elvis Presley
1935
American singer and actor (1935–1977)
Jacques Anquetil
1934
French cyclist (1934–1987)
Roy Kinnear
1934
English character actor (1934–1988)
Charles Osgood
1933
American television news anchor (1933–2024)
Straub–Huillet
1933
Duo of French filmmakers active 1963–2006
Bill Graham (promoter)
1931
American rock music impresario (1931–1991)
Clarence B. Jones
1931
American lawyer (born 1931)
Saeed Jaffrey
1929
British-Indian actor (1929–2015)
Slade Gorton
1928
American politician (1928–2020)
Charles Tomlinson
1927
English poet, translator, and illustrator (1927–2015)
Evelyn Lear
1926
American operatic soprano
Kerwin Mathews
1926
American actor (1926–2007)
Kelucharan Mohapatra
1926
Indian classical dancer (1926–2004)
Hanae Mori
1926
Japanese fashion designer (1926–2022)
Soupy Sales
1926
American comedian and actor (1926–2009)
Mohan Rakesh
1925
Indian writer (1925–1972)
Benjamin Lees
1924
American classical composer
Ron Moody
1924
English actor, composer, singer and writer (1924–2015)
Larry Storch
1923
American actor (1923–2022)
Giorgio Tozzi
1923
American bass singer (1923–2011)
Johnny Wardle
1923
English cricketer (1923–1985)
Joseph Weizenbaum
1923
German-American computer scientist (1923–2008)
Dale D. Myers
1922
American aerospace engineer (1922–2015)
Douglas Wilmer
1920
British actor (1920–2016)
Peter Taylor (writer)
1917
American author (1917–1994)
Walker Cooper
1915
American baseball player and manager (1915–1991)
José Ferrer
1912
Puerto Rican actor and director (1912–1992)
Lawrence Walsh
1912
American judge (1912–2014)
Gypsy Rose Lee
1911
American burlesque performer, actress and writer (1911–1970)
Galina Ulanova
1910
Soviet and Russian ballerina (1910–1998)
Ashapurna Devi
1909
Indian writer (8 January 1909)
Bruce Mitchell (cricketer)
1909
South African cricketer
Evelyn Wood (teacher)
1909
American educator and businesswoman
William Hartnell
1908
English actor (1908–1975)
Fearless Nadia
1908
Australian-born Indian actress (1908–1996)
Carl Gustav Hempel
1905
German writer and philosopher (1905–1997)
Karl Brandt
1904
German physician and Nazi criminal (1904–1948)
Carl Rogers
1902
American psychologist (1902–1987)
Dorothy Adams
1900
American actress (1900–1988)
Serge Poliakoff
1900
French painter (1900–1969)
1800s
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
1899
4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956 to 1959
Dennis Wheatley
1897
British writer (1897–1977)
Jaromír Weinberger
1896
Czechoslovak-American composer (1896–1967)
Walther Bothe
1891
German experimental physicist (1891–1957)
Storm Jameson
1891
English journalist and author
Bronislava Nijinska
1891
Russian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer (1891–1972)
Richard Courant
1888
German-American mathematician (1888–1972)
John Curtin
1885
Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945
Mór Kóczán
1885
Athlete and Calvinist pastor (1895–1972)
A. J. Muste
1885
American clergyman and activist (1885–1967)
Pavel Filonov
1883
Russian painter
Patrick J. Hurley
1883
American diplomat and politician
Henrik Shipstead
1881
American politician (1881–1960)
Linnie Marsh Wolfe
1881
American librarian (1881–1945)
Iuliu Maniu
1873
Romanian politician (1873–1953)
Jeanne Adnet
1871
French seamstress, illegalist anarchist and then socialist
James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon
1871
Northern Irish Unionist politician (1871–1940)
Miguel Primo de Rivera
1870
Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
Emily Greene Balch
1867
American economist, academic, and Nobel Laureate
William G. Conley
1866
American politician (1866–1940)
Winnaretta Singer
1865
American patron of the arts
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
1864
British prince (1864–1892)
Frank Nelson Doubleday
1862
American publisher (1862–1934)
Emma Booth-Tucker
1860
British Salvation Army officer
Fanny Bullock Workman
1859
American mountaineer (1859–1925)
James Milton Carroll
1852
American historian, writer and pastor (1852–1931)
Frederick Abberline
1843
English policeman (1843–1929)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
1836
Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912)
Hans von Bülow
1830
German conductor and pianist (1830–1894)
Wilkie Collins
1824
English novelist and playwright (1824–1889)
Francisco González Bocanegra
1824
Mexican poet (1824–1861)
Alfred Russel Wallace
1823
English naturalist (1823–1913)
James Longstreet
1821
Confederate Army general (1821–1904)
Theophilus Shepstone
1817
British South African statesman
Sigismond Thalberg
1812
Austrian composer and pianist (1812–1871)
John Bigler
1805
American politician
Orson Hyde
1805
American religious leader (1805–1878)
Before 1800
Lowell Mason
1792
American composer; leading figure in American church music
Archduke Rudolf of Austria
1788
Austrian cardinal and noble (1788–1831)
Nicholas Biddle
1786
American financier (1786–1844)
Edmond-Charles Genêt
1763
French diplomat
John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore)
1735
First Catholic bishop in the US (1735–1815)
Elisabetta Sirani
1638
Italian artist (1638–1665)
Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero
1635
Catholic cardinal in Spain (1635–1709)
Samuel von Pufendorf
1632
German jurist and philosopher (1632–1694)
François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg
1628
French general (1628–1695)
Jean Talon
1626
Colonial administrator of New France (1626–1694)
Baltasar Gracián
1601
Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher
Ivan Gundulić
1589
Poet from Ragusa, in modern Croatia (1589–1638)
Johannes Fabricius
1587
German astronomer
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
1587
Dutch colonial administrator
Simon Episcopius
1583
Dutch theologian (1583–1643)
John Frederick II, Duke of Saxony
1529
Duke of Saxony
Kadi Burhan al-Din
1345
Poet and statesman (1345–1398)
Su Shi
1037
Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101)