On This Day
January 8
| Event | Source | Birth | Death | Name | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| born | bornToday | 1935 | 1977 | Elvis Presley | US Musician |  |
| born | bornToday | 1942 | Stephen Hawking | English Physicist |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1941 | Boris Vallejo | Peruvian Artist |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1891 | 1986 | Storm Jameson | English Writer |  |
| born | bornToday | 1601 | 1658 | Baltasar Gracian | Spanish philosopher |  |
| born | bornToday | 1909 | 1992 | Jose Ferrer | Puerto Rican actor |  |
| born | bornToday | 1926 | 2009 | Soupy Sales | US actor |  |
| born | bornToday | 1937 | Dame Shirley Bassey | Welsh singer |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1941 | 1989 | Graham Chapman | English comic, actor |  |
| born | bornToday | 1947 | David Bowie | English singer, songwriter |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1823 | 1913 | Alfred Russel Wallace | British Scientist |  |
| born | bornToday | 1942 | Bob Taft | US Politician |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1970 | Dave Eggers | US Writer |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1867 | 1961 | Emily Greene Balch | US Educator |  |
| born | bornToday | 1981 | Genevieve Padalecki | US Actress |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1976 | Kevin Yoder | US Politician |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1935 | Lewis H. Lapham | US Editor |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1904 | 1968 | Peter Arno | US Cartoonist |  |
| born | bornToday | 1967 | Robert Sylvester Kelly | US American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former professional basketball player. |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1980 | Rachel Emily Nichols | US actress and model. |  | |
| born | bornToday | 1984 | Kim Jong-un | Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea. |  |