January 8

January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 357 days remain until the end of the year (358 in leap years).

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Events

• 307 – Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.[1]
• 871 – Alfred the Great leads a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.[2]
• 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.[3]
• 1454 – The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards the Kingdom of Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador.[4]
• 1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII.[5]
• 1547 – The first Lithuanian-language book, the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, is published in Königsberg.[6]
• 1735 – The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.[7]
• 1746 – Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.[8]
• 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.[9]
• 1806 – Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes a British colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.[10]
• 1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in the north American settlements of St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.[11]
• 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.[12]
• 1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.[13]
• 1835 – US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt is zero for the only time.[14]
• 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.[15]
• 1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
• 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
• 1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
• 1912 – The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).[16]
• 1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
• 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.[17]
• 1926 – Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ ascends the throne to become the last monarch of Vietnam.
• 1926 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.[18]
• 1936 – Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.[19]
• 1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.[20]
• 1945 – World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces.
• 1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
• 1959 – Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.[21]
• 1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.[22]
• 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
• 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.[23]
• 1972 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.[24]
• 1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.[25]
• 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
• 1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
• 1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
• 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
• 1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
• 1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
• 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
• 1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
• 2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
• 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.
• 2003 – Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
• 2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
• 2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
• 2009 – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
• 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.[26]
• 2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in which five people were shot dead.
• 2016 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.[27]
• 2020 – Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.[28]

Births

• 1037 – Su Dongpo, Chinese calligrapher and poet (d. 1101)[29]
• 1345 – Kadi Burhan al-Din, poet, kadi, and ruler of Sivas (d. 1398)[30]
• 1462 – Walraven II van Brederode, Dutch nobleman (d. 1531)
• 1529 – John Frederick II, duke of Saxony (d. 1595)
• 1556 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese daimyō (d. 1623)
• 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1643)[31]
• 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1616)[32]
• 1587 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1629)[33]
• 1589 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1638)[34]
• 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (d. 1658)
• 1628 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
• 1632 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German economist and jurist (d. 1694)[35]
• 1635 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal (d. 1709)[36]
• 1638 – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1665)[37]
• 1735 – John Carroll, American archbishop, founder of Georgetown University (d. 1815)
• 1763 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American translator and diplomat (d. 1834)
• 1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier (d. 1844)
• 1788 – Rudolf of Austria, Austrian archduke and archbishop (d. 1831)
• 1792 – Lowell Mason, American composer and educator (d. 1872)
• 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 3rd Governor of California (d. 1871)[38]
• 1805 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (d. 1878)[39]
• 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1871)[40]
• 1817 – Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (d. 1893)[41]
• 1821 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Turkey (d. 1904)
• 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1913)[42]
• 1824 – Wilkie Collins, English novelist, playwright, and short story writer (d. 1889)[43]
• 1824 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (d. 1861)[44]
• 1830 – Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)
• 1836 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter and academic (d. 1912)[45]
• 1843 – Frederick Abberline, English police officer (d. 1929)[46]
• 1843 – Karl Eduard Heusner, German admiral (d. 1891)
• 1852 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)
• 1854 – Fanny Bullock Workman, American mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1925)
• 1860 – Emma Booth, English author (d. 1903)
• 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934)
• 1864 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)[47]
• 1865 – Winnaretta Singer, American philanthropist (d. 1943)
• 1866 – William G. Conley, American educator and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1940)
• 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
• 1870 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1930)
• 1871 – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish captain and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940)
• 1873 – Iuliu Maniu, Romanian lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953)
• 1876 – Arturs Alberings, Latvian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Latvia (d. 1934)
• 1879 – Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (d. 1948)
• 1881 – Henrik Shipstead, American dentist and politician (d. 1960)[48]
• 1881 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (d. 1941)
• 1883 – Patrick J. Hurley, American general, politician, and diplomat, 51st United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
• 1885 – John Curtin, Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)[49]
• 1885 – Mór Kóczán, Hungarian javelin thrower and pastor (d. 1972)
• 1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch-American pastor and activist (d. 1967)[50]
• 1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician and academic (d. 1972)[51]
• 1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
• 1891 – Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (d. 1986)[52]
• 1891 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972) name="Jöckle1995">Clemens Jöckle (1995). Encyclopedia of Saints. Alpine Fine Arts Collection. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-88168-226-7.</ref>
• 1896 – Jaromír Weinberger, Czech-American composer and academic (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Dennis Wheatley, English soldier and author (d. 1977)
• 1899 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
• 1900 – Dorothy Adams, American character actress (d. 1988) [53]
• 1900 – Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
• 1902 – Georgy Malenkov, Russian engineer and politician (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist and academic (d. 1987)
• 1904 – Karl Brandt, German physician and SS officer (d. 1948)
• 1904 – Tampa Red, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1981)
• 1905 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (d. 1997)
• 1905 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter (d. 1969)
• 1907 – Keizō Hayashi, Japanese general and civil servant (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Fearless Nadia, Australian-Indian actress and stuntwoman (d. 1996)
• 1908 – William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975)
• 1909 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (d. 1995)
• 1909 – Willy Millowitsch, German actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1909 – Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
• 1909 – Evelyn Wood, American author and educator (d. 1995)[54]
• 1910 – Galina Ulanova, Russian actress and ballerina (d. 1998)[55]
• 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and author (d. 1970)[56]
• 1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director (d. 1992)[57]
• 1912 – Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Walker Cooper, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)[58]
• 1917 – Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1994)
• 1922 – Dale D. Myers, American engineer (d. 2015)[59]
• 1923 – Larry Storch, American actor and comedian
• 1923 – Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer and actor (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)
• 1923 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer scientist and author (d. 2008)[60]
• 1924 – Benjamin Lees, Chinese-American soldier and composer (d. 2010)[61]
• 1924 – Ron Moody, English actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (d. 1972)
• 1926 – Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Kerwin Mathews, American actor (d. 2007)[62]
• 1926 – Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)[63]
• 1926 – Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer[64]
• 1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (d. 2009)[65]
• 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet and academic (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Slade Gorton, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 14th Attorney General of Washington[66]
• 1928 – Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (d. 1996)
• 1928 – Luther Perkins, American country guitarist (d. 1968)
• 1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (d. 2015)[67]
• 1931 – Bill Graham, German-American businessman (d. 1991)
• 1931 – Clarence Benjamin Jones, American lawyer and scholar
• 1933 – Charles Osgood, American soldier and journalist
• 1933 – Jean-Marie Straub, French director and screenwriter
• 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)
• 1934 – Gene Freese, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Roy Kinnear, British actor (d. 1988)[68]
• 1934 – Alexandra Ripley, American author (d. 2004)
• 1935 – Lewis H. Lapham, American publisher, founded Lapham's Quarterly
• 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1977)
• 1936 – Zdeněk Mácal, Czech-American conductor
• 1936 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-English zoologist, ecologist, and academic (d. 2020)
• 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer[69]
• 1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host and producer[70]
• 1938 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer and educator
• 1939 – Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan-American fashion designer
• 1939 – Ruth Maleczech, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Alan Wilson, English mathematician and academic
• 1940 – Mark Bretscher, English biologist and academic
• 1940 – Cristy Lane, American country and gospel singer
• 1941 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)[71]
• 1942 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (d. 2018)[72]
• 1942 – Junichirō Koizumi, Japanese politician, 56th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1942 – Yvette Mimieux, American actress[73]
• 1942 – Royce Waltman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Charles Murray, American political scientist and author
• 1944 – Terry Brooks, American lawyer and author
• 1945 – Nancy Bond, American author and academic
• 1945 – Phil Beal, English footballer, defender[74]
• 1945 – Kadir Topbaş, Turkish architect and politician, 31st Mayor of Istanbul
• 1946 – Robby Krieger, American guitarist and songwriter[75]
• 1946 – Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Mexican drug lord[76]
• 1947 – Don Bendell, American rancher and author
• 1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2016)[77]
• 1947 – David Gates, American journalist and novelist
• 1947 – Antti Kalliomäki, Finnish pole vaulter and politician[78]
• 1947 – Luke Williams, New Zealand-American wrestler
• 1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish director and screenwriter[79]
• 1949 – Lawrence Rowe, Jamaican cricketer
• 1951 – Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia[80]
• 1951 – Karen Tei Yamashita, American author and academic
• 1952 – Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist and educator[81]
• 1952 – Peter McCullagh, Irish mathematician and academic[82]
• 1953 – Bruce Sutter, American baseball player
• 1954 – Konstantinos Kypriotis, Greek martial artist (d. 1995)
• 1955 – Spiros Livathinos, Greek footballer and coach
• 1955 – Mike Reno, Canadian singer and drummer[83]
• 1957 – Nacho Duato, Spanish dancer and choreographer[84]
• 1958 – Betsy DeVos, American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education
• 1958 – Rey Misterio, Sr., Mexican wrestler, trainer, and actor
• 1959 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer (d. 2005)[85]
• 1960 – Dave Weckl, American drummer[86]
• 1961 – Calvin Smith, American sprinter[87]
• 1966 – Willie Anderson, American basketball player
• 1966 – Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
• 1966 – Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (d. 1990)[88]
• 1967 – Torsten Gowitzke, German footballer and manager
• 1967 – Steven Jacobs, Australian television host and actor
• 1967 – R. Kelly, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and former professional basketball player[89]
• 1967 – Tom Watson, English politician
• 1971 – Jason Giambi, American baseball player
• 1971 – Jesper Jansson, Swedish footballer
• 1971 – Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer and coach
• 1972 – Paul Clement, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1972 – Giuseppe Favalli, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Mike Cameron, American baseball player[90]
• 1975 – Harris Jayaraj, Indian composer and producer
• 1976 – Kenneth Andam, Ghanaian sprinter and businessman
• 1976 – Carl Pavano, American baseball player
• 1977 – Amber Benson, American actress, writer, director, and producer[91]
• 1977 – Francesco Coco, Italian footballer
• 1979 – Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer and manager
• 1979 – Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer[92]
• 1979 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer[93]
• 1979 – Sarah Polley, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1980 – Adam Goodes, Australian footballer
• 1980 – Rachel Nichols, American actress and producer
• 1981 – Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player[94]
• 1981 – Trent Waterhouse, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
• 1983 – Jon Daly, Irish footballer
• 1984 – Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
• 1984 – Jeon Ji-ae, South Korean actress
• 1984 – Kim Jong-un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea (probable)[95]
• 1986 – David Silva, Spanish footballer
• 1988 – Adrián López, Spanish footballer[96]
• 1988 – Michael Mancienne, English footballer[97]
• 1989 – Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player[98]
• 1991 – Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer[99]
• 1991 – Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer[100]
• 1991 – Stefan Savić, Montenegrin footballer
• 1992 – Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player[101]
• 1992 – Koke, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Apostolos Vellios, Greek footballer

Deaths

• 307 – Hui of Jin, Chinese emperor (b. 259)
• 482 – Severinus of Noricum, Italian apostle and saint
• 871 – Bagsecg, Viking warrior and leader
• 926 – Athelm, archbishop of Canterbury
• 1079 – Adèle of France, countess of Flanders (b. 1009)
• 1107 – Edgar, king of Scotland (b. 1074)
• 1198 – Celestine III, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1106)
• 1332 – Andronikos III, emperor of Trebizond
• 1337 – Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (b. 1266)
• 1354 – Charles de La Cerda, French nobleman (b. 1327)
• 1424 – Stephen Zaccaria, archbishop of Patras
• 1456 – Lawrence Giustiniani, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1381)
• 1464 – Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian and academic (b. 1385)
• 1538 – Beatrice of Portugal, duchess of Savoy (b. 1504)
• 1557 – Albert Alcibiades, margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (b. 1522)
• 1570 – Philibert de l'Orme, French sculptor and architect, designed the Château d'Anet (b. 1510)
• 1598 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
• 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564)
• 1664 – Moses Amyraut, French physician and theologian (b. 1596)
• 1707 – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and politician, Scottish Secretary of State (b. 1648)
• 1713 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653)
• 1775 – John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (b. 1706)
• 1789 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703)
• 1794 – Justus Möser, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1720)
• 1815 – Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (b. 1778)
• 1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)
• 1853 – Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene-Hungarian poet and educator (b. 1788)
• 1854 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English field marshal and politician, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance (b. 1768)
• 1865 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1779)
• 1874 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French historian and archaeologist (b. 1814)
• 1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1821)
• 1878 – Gauchito Gil, Argentinian saint (b. 1847)
• 1880 – Emperor Norton, English-American businessman (b. 1811)
• 1883 – Miska Magyarics, Slovene-Hungarian poet (b. 1825)
• 1896 – William Rainey Marshall, American banker and politician, 5th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
• 1896 – Paul Verlaine, French poet and writer (b. 1844)
• 1901 – John Barry, Irish soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1873)
• 1912 – Friedrich Schrempf, German journalist and politician (b. 1858)
• 1914 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American general and 30th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1823)
• 1916 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1916 – Ada Rehan, Irish-American actress (b. 1860)
• 1918 – Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer and director (b. 1892)
• 1918 – Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1827)
• 1920 – Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (b.1852)[102]
• 1925 – George Bellows, American painter (b.1882)
• 1934 – Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1880)
• 1934 – Alexandre Stavisky, Ukrainian-French financier (b. 1886)
• 1935 – Rauf Yekta, Turkish musicologist and author (b. 1871)
• 1938 – Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (b. 1880)
• 1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general (b. 1857)
• 1942 – Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (b. 1919)
• 1943 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (b. 1879)
• 1944 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American lieutenant and sailor (b. 1878)
• 1945 – Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer and author (b. 1900)
• 1948 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter and graphic designer (b. 1887)
• 1950 – Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and academic (b. 1883)
• 1952 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866)
• 1953 – Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
• 1954 – Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1956 – Jim Elliot, American missionary and martyr (b. 1928)
• 1958 – Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869)
• 1961 – Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player and coach (b. 1910)
• 1963 – Kay Sage, American painter (b. 1898)
• 1969 – Albert Hill, English runner and coach (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Elmar Kaljot, Estonian footballer and coach (b. 1901)
• 1970 – Georges Guibourg, French actor, singer, and playwright (b. 1891)
• 1972 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and author (b. 1911)
• 1975 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
• 1976 – Robert Forgan, Scottish-English physician and politician (b. 1891)
• 1979 – Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter and harp player (b. 1898)
• 1980 – John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1981 – Matthew Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1982 – Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1983 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1983 – Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
• 1983 – Gale Page, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1986 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906)
• 1990 – Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919)
• 1990 – Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)
• 1994 – Pat Buttram, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)
• 1994 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 1996 – Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968)
• 1996 – François Mitterrand, French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France (b. 1916)[103]
• 1996 – Howard Taubman, American author and critic (b. 1907)
• 1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2004 – John A. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern Irish broadcaster and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Jane Bolin, American lawyer and judge (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 2007 – David Ervine, Northern Irish politician and activist (b. 1953)[104]
• 2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1925)
• 2008 – George Moore, Australian jockey and trainer (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan Journalist (b. 1958)
• 2010 – Art Clokey, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1937)
• 2011 – Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Dave Alexander, American singer and pianist (b. 1938)
• 2012 – T. J. Hamblin, English haematologist and academic (b. 1943)
• 2012 – John Madin, English architect, designed the Birmingham Central Library (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Bernhard Schrader, German chemist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Vicente T. Blaz, American general and politician (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Madeline Gins, American poet and architect (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch-Australian swimmer (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Antonino P. Roman, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (b. 1942)
• 2015 – Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
• 2016 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)[105]
• 2016 – German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor, comedian and talent manager (b. 1933)
• 2017 – Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)
• 2017 – James Mancham, Seychellois politician (b. 1939)
• 2017 – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician (b. 1934)
• 2017 – Peter Sarstedt, Indian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2020 – Pat Dalton, Australian rules footballer (b. 1942)[106]
• 2020 – Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1930)[107]

Holidays and observances

• Babinden (Belarus, Russia)
• Christian feast day:
  • Abo of Tiflis
  • Apollinaris Claudius
  • Blessed Eurosia Fabris
  • Gauchito Gil (Folk Catholicism)
  • Gudula
  • Harriet Bedell (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Lawrence Giustiniani
  • Lucian of Beauvais
  • Maximus of Pavia
  • Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Pega (Anglican and Roman Catholic churches)
  • Severinus of Noricum
  • Thorfinn of Hamar
  • January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
• Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while January 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Saturday in January. (Thailand)
• Earliest day on which Lee–Jackson Day can fall, while January 14 is the latest; celebrated on Friday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (Virginia)
• Typing Day (International observance)

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External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• Historical Events on January 8
• Today in Canadian History