Famous People Born on January 8
Famous people born on January 8 include Elvis Presley (1935), Stephen Hawking (1942) and Kim Jong Un (1984).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Elvis Presley
The King of Rock and Roll
Stephen Hawking
Black holes, A Brief History of Time
Kim Jong Un
Supreme Leader of North Korea
David Bowie
Ziggy Stardust, musical chameleon
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Alfred Russel Wallace
English naturalist (1823–1913)
R. Kelly
American former singer (born 1967)
Emily Greene Balch
American economist, academic, and Nobel Laureate
Walther Bothe
German physicist (1891–1957)
Carl Rogers
American psychologist (1902–1987)
Baltasar Gracián
Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher (1601-1658)
Wilkie Collins
English novelist and playwright (1824–1889)
Miguel Primo de Rivera
Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
Koke
Spanish footballer
Jacques Anquetil
French cyclist (1934–1987)
Shirley Bassey
Welsh singer (born 1937)
Adrian Mutu
Romanian footballer and manager (born 1979)
José Ferrer
Puerto Rican actor and director (1912–1992)
Graham Chapman
English actor, comedian and writer (1941–1989)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Marco Polo
Venetian explorer of the Silk Road
Galileo Galilei
Father of modern observational astronomy
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
François Mitterrand
President of France from 1981 to 1995
Paul Verlaine
French poet (1844–1896)
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
British soldier and founder of The Scout Association (1857–1941)
Zhou Enlai
Premier of China from 1949 to 1976
Giotto
Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)
Nikolay Nekrasov
Russian poet, critic, publisher (1821–1878)
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
President of Iran from 1989 to 1997
Alexander Prokhorov
Australian-born Soviet physicist (1916–2002)
Joseph Schumpeter
Austrian-American economist (1883–1950)
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Sources
- January 8 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Stephen Hawking — Wikipedia
- Kim Jong Un — Wikipedia
- David Bowie — Wikipedia
- Marco Polo — Wikipedia
- Galileo Galilei — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths