On This Day — January 8
4275 noted people were born and 2147 died on January 8 in our archive, including Carl Rogers, Frank Watson Dyson and Igor Kurchatov.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 8
Carl Rogers
1902 – 1987
Frank Watson Dyson
1868 – 1939
Igor Kurchatov
1903 – 1960
Alfred Russel Wallace
1823 – 1913
Bernard Helffer
b. 1949
Boris Kozo-Polyansky
1890 – 1957
Bryce DeWitt
1923 – 2004
Cathy Berx
b. 1969
Charles Eliot
1862 – 1931
Dale Dehaven Myers
1922 – 2015
Duncan Archibald Graham
1882 – 1974
Earl Busby Hunt
1933 – 2016
Ellen Churchill Semple
1863 – 1932
Emily Greene Balch
1867 – 1961
Francisco Caamaño Domínguez
b. 1963
George Forsythe
1917 – 1972
J. Hunter Guthrie
1901 – 1974
Jaroslav Miller
b. 1971
Julieta Castellanos
b. 1954
K. Vijayakarthikeyan
b. 1986
Kenny Anthony
b. 1951
Mark Galassi
b. 1965
Maurice de Bunsen
1852 – 1932
Mel Reynolds
b. 1952
Osamu Hayaishi
1920 – 2015
Paul Cohn
1924 – 2006
Paul Vaillant-Couturier
1892 – 1937
Pentti Eskola
1883 – 1964
Peter Arno
1904 – 1968
Richard Courant
1888 – 1972
Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
1936 – 2020
Sherard Cowper-Coles
b. 1955
Stepan Smal-Stotskyi
1859 – 1938
Stephen Hawking
1942 – 2018
Tom Crick
b. 1981
Tom Watson
b. 1967
Tudor Vianu
1898 – 1964
Uladzimier Karanik
b. 1973
Walter Beaupré Townley
1863 – 1945
Walther Bothe
1891 – 1957
William E. Gordon
1918 – 2010
A. J. Muste
1885 – 1967
Abram de Swaan
b. 1942
Adrian Fulford
b. 1953
Albert Assor
1895 – 1943
Albrecht Glaser
b. 1942
Aleksandr Khvostov
1857 – 1922
Ales Savitsky
1924 – 2015
Alexander Filipović
b. 1975
Alexander Stuart Murray
1841 – 1904
Anatoly Serdyukov
b. 1962
Angel Marin
1942 – 2024
Anton II of Georgia
1762 – 1827
Antti Kalliomäki
b. 1947
Armand Mattelart
1936 – 2025
Arsen Aydinian
1823 – 1902
Arthur Stoll
1887 – 1971
Arturs Alberings
1877 – 1934
Auguste Warnier
1810 – 1875
Bill Stefaniak
b. 1952
Boo Suk-jong
b. 1964
Charles Bass
b. 1952
Charles Murray
b. 1943
Chesús Bernal Bernal
1960 – 2019
Ciril Cvetko
1920 – 1999
Cvijetin Mijatović
1913 – 1993
Cyrus J. Colter
1910 – 2002
Dave Hodge
b. 1945
David Lang
b. 1957
Earl Babbie
b. 1938
Edwin Wijeyeratne
1889 – 1968
Elena of Montenegro
1873 – 1952
Eliot Higgins
b. 1979
Enrique Krauss
1932 – 2026
Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann
1801 – 1871
Estelle Bee Dagum
1935 – 2026
Frank C. Hawthorne
b. 1946
Frank John Kerr
1918 – 2000
François de Menthon
1900 – 1984
Friedrich Arnold
1803 – 1890
George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford
1735 – 1800
George Legrady
b. 1950
Georgy Malenkov
1902 – 1988
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
b. 1970
Gohar Ayub Khan
1937 – 2023
Graham Chapman
1941 – 1989
Grigori Ivanovitch Villamov
1773 – 1842
Grzegorz Matuszak
1941 – 2022
Gérard Leman
1851 – 1920
Halvor Heyerdahl Rasch
1805 – 1883
Han Jeoung-ae
b. 1965
Hans von Bülow
1830 – 1894
Harris J. Ryan
1866 – 1934
Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery
1882 – 1974
Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
1742 – 1797
Hieorhij Niski
1903 – 1987
James Quincey
b. 1965
Jean Hyppolite
1907 – 1968
Jean de Fabrègues
1906 – 1983
John C. Spencer
1788 – 1855
John Carroll
1735 – 1815
John F. Brady
b. 1954
John Liu
b. 1967
John Rigby
1834 – 1903
Joseph Weizenbaum
1923 – 2008
José Antonio Martínez Soler
b. 1947
Junichiro Koizumi
b. 1942
Jyotindra Nath Dixit
1936 – 2005
Ján Horecký
1920 – 2006
Kadir Topbaş
1945 – 2021
Karen Tei Yamashita
b. 1951
Karl Brandt
1904 – 1948
Karl Klare
b. 1947
Keizō Hayashi
1907 – 1991
Kemi Adetiba
b. 1980
Kim Jong-un
b. 1984
Koichi Hamada
b. 1936
Laurynas Kasčiūnas
b. 1982
Leonard Gillman
1917 – 2009
Li Tianyou
1914 – 1970
Lucien Capet
1873 – 1928
Mabel Strickland
1899 – 1988
Maria Martens
b. 1955
Mathieu Gallet
b. 1977
Małgorzata Foremniak
b. 1967
Michael Goodfellow
1941 – 2024
Mikhail Ignatyev
1962 – 2020
Mikhail Stakhovich
1861 – 1923
Monika MacDonagh-Pajerová
b. 1966
Nicolas Dautricourt
b. 1977
Ozires Silva
b. 1931
Patrick J. Hurley
1883 – 1963
Paul Shoup
1874 – 1946
Paula Ortiz
b. 1979
Pavel Egorov
1948 – 2017
Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor
1917 – 1994
Pierre Marraud
1861 – 1958
Piers Lane
b. 1958
Piet Dankert
1934 – 2003
Pieter Omtzigt
b. 1974
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
1864 – 1892
Qanat Bozymbaev
b. 1969
Rick Noriega
b. 1958
Rod Davies
1930 – 2015
Rosaly Lopes
b. 1957
Samuel von Pufendorf
1632 – 1694
Sidney Moko Mead
1927 – 2026
Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet
1845 – 1937
Sir John Henderson, 5th Baronet
1752 – 1817
Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
1847 – 1922
Sylvie Germain
b. 1954
Thomas Rosenboom
b. 1956
Tien Pei Chun James
b. 1947
Tim Barrett
b. 1959
Tracy Phillips
b. 1968
Valentyna Tserbe-Nessina
b. 1969
Vasily Stepanovich Popov
1894 – 1967
Virginia Norwood
1927 – 2023
Vyvyan Donnithorne
1886 – 1968
Walter Tennyson Swingle
1871 – 1952
Wendy Mesley
b. 1957
Wilhelm Lamormaini
1571 – 1648
William F. Ruddiman
b. 1943
William T. Piper
1881 – 1970
Yevgeny Nesterenko
1938 – 2021
Yu Pingbo
1900 – 1990
Zdeněk Mácal
1936 – 2023
A. Sreekar Prasad
b. 1952
Abraham de Veer
1767 – 1838
Adrian Mutu
b. 1979
Adrian Pang
b. 1966
Afonso Antunes da Motta
b. 1950
Agnieszka Pomaska
b. 1980
Ahmad Fuzi Abdul Razak
b. 1949
Aitor Albizua
b. 1992
Alan Wilson
b. 1939
Albert Wass
1908 – 1998
Alex Maskey
b. 1952
Alex Tyus
b. 1988
Alexander Hay
1865 – 1941
Alexandra Ripley
1934 – 2004
Alioune Blondin Béye
1939 – 1998
Amanullah Mirza Qajar
1857 – 1937
Anant Gupta
b. 1965
Anatolii Brezvin
b. 1956
Andrew Hardie, Baron Hardie
b. 1946
André Pomarat
1930 – 2020
Anita Dunn
b. 1958
Anna C. Hartshorne
1860 – 1957
Anna Kubik
b. 1957
Annabelle Bennett
b. 1950
Anni Espar
b. 1993
Anti Avsan
b. 1958
Anton Trstenjak
1906 – 1996
Aoyama Yukiyoshi
1855 – 1930
Archduke Rudolf of Austria
1788 – 1831
Archibald Cochrane
1885 – 1958
Arkady Filippenko
1912 – 1983
Armande de Polignac
1876 – 1962
Arnold Genthe
1869 – 1942
… and 4,075 more
Died on January 8
Alexander Prokhorov
1916 – 2002
Gabriel de Broglie
1931 – 2025
John Mauchly
1907 – 1980
Rudolf von Jaksch
1855 – 1947
Thomas Barbour
1884 – 1946
Wilhelm Ramsay
1865 – 1928
Fredrik Pacius
1809 – 1891
Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642
George Maxwell Richards
1931 – 2018
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville
1773 – 1846
H. G. van de Sande Bakhuyzen
1838 – 1923
James Barr Ames
1846 – 1910
James E. Cheek
1932 – 2010
John Corcoran
1937 – 2021
Joseph Schumpeter
1883 – 1950
Julius Raab
1891 – 1964
Melvin Calvin
1911 – 1997
Piet Steenkamp
1925 – 2016
Robert Henry Meade
1835 – 1898
Taketora Ogata
1888 – 1956
Tom McCall
1913 – 1983
Walter Bruno Henning
1908 – 1967
Zhou Enlai
1898 – 1976
Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg
1803 – 1868
Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre
1779 – 1865
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
1934 – 2017
Aleksandr Alekseevič Vjazemskij
1727 – 1793
Alexis Caswell
1799 – 1877
Andres Larka
1879 – 1943
André François-Poncet
1887 – 1978
Antonia Maury
1866 – 1952
Antonio Baldissera
1838 – 1917
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield
1916 – 2007
Asbjørn Aarnes
1923 – 2013
Axel Tallberg
1860 – 1928
Bohdan Lachert
1900 – 1987
Boris Barnet
1902 – 1965
Carl Christian Mez
1866 – 1944
Charles David Allis
1951 – 2023
Charles Edward Merriam
1874 – 1953
Charles Young
1864 – 1922
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
1877 – 1957
Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn
1813 – 1896
Dave Thomas
1932 – 2002
David Hieronymus Grindel
1776 – 1836
David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
1928 – 2020
Deborah L. Rhode
1952 – 2021
Delma S. Arrigoitia
1945 – 2023
Edward Pakenham
1778 – 1815
Einar Gjerstad
1897 – 1988
Ernst von Mohl
1849 – 1929
François Mitterrand
1916 – 1996
George Bellows
1882 – 1925
Georges Scelle
1878 – 1961
Giorgio Zur
1930 – 2019
Harry Govier Seeley
1839 – 1909
Henri Jules Bataille
1816 – 1882
Hiranmay Sengupta
1934 – 2022
Hugh Binney
1883 – 1953
J. Franklin Bell
1856 – 1919
J. P. R. Williams
1949 – 2024
Jean-Luc Domenach
1945 – 2026
Jiří Dienstbier
1937 – 2011
Johan Antony Barrau
1873 – 1953
Joseph Esposito
1950 – 2024
Joseph Jastrow
1863 – 1944
Juan B. Justo
1865 – 1928
Judith P. Vladeck
1923 – 2007
Karl Ivanovich Weber
1841 – 1910
Karsten Jakobsen
1928 – 2019
Karsten Klepsvik
1952 – 2025
Lawrence H. Cohn
1937 – 2016
Lope García de Castro
1516 – 1576
Lyusyena Ovchinnikova
1931 – 1999
Léon-Ernest Drivier
1878 – 1951
Manuel Pestana Filho
1928 – 2011
Marie-Madeleine Dienesch
1914 – 1998
Mary Colter
1869 – 1958
Michael Tippett
1905 – 1998
Moses Amyraut
1596 – 1664
Muhammed Saadulah
1885 – 1955
Mykola Liubynsky
1891 – 1938
Ole A. Sæther
1936 – 2013
Otmar Suitner
1922 – 2010
Paul Julius Möbius
1853 – 1907
Paul Vialar
1898 – 1996
Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer
1801 – 1894
Pierre Fournier
1906 – 1986
Prince Alfons of Bavaria
1862 – 1933
Pritish Nandy
1951 – 2025
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross
1823 – 1914
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1857 – 1941
Rudolf Wegscheider
1859 – 1935
Sarat Kumar Ghosh
1879 – 1963
Shimamura Hayao
1858 – 1923
Sir Thomas Strickland
1621 – 1694
Stig H:son Ericson
1897 – 1985
Tim Shadbolt
1947 – 2026
Truman G. Yuncker
1891 – 1964
Ventsislav Yankov
1926 – 2022
Vicente T. Blaz
1928 – 2014
Victor Dourlen
1780 – 1864
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik
1854 – 1941
Vildebon-Winceslas Larue
1851 – 1906
Volodymyr Sosiura
1897 – 1965
Walter Elliot
1888 – 1958
Werner Klumpp
1928 – 2021
William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
1809 – 1889
Wiwen Nilsson
1897 – 1974
Yoshijirō Umezu
1882 – 1949
Abderrahim Bouabid
1922 – 1992
Adriano Lualdi
1885 – 1971
Alamsyah Ratu Perwiranegara
1925 – 1998
Albert C. Greene
1792 – 1863
Alejandro Reyes
1825 – 1884
Alexey Nagayev
1704 – 1781
Alexis Weissenberg
1929 – 2012
Alfonso Merry del Val y de Alzola
1903 – 1975
Alfred Neumann
1909 – 2001
Allison G. Catheron
1878 – 1950
Andrew Jennings
1943 – 2022
André Gernez
1923 – 2014
Antonino P. Roman
1939 – 2014
Armen Mazmanyan
1960 – 2014
Arshak Ter-Gukasov
1819 – 1881
Asif Nawaz
1937 – 1993
Astrid Roemer
1947 – 2026
Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara
1793 – 1879
Bernhard Schrader
1931 – 2012
Beryl Brewin
1910 – 1999
Bimal Roy
1909 – 1966
Bjørn Føyn
1898 – 1985
Blas Villate
1824 – 1882
Bruno Gentili
1915 – 2014
Buck Henry
1930 – 2020
Cao Tianqin
1920 – 1995
Carlo De Franceschi
1809 – 1893
Carmen Conde
1907 – 1996
Charles Cousin-Montauban
1796 – 1878
Charles Debbasch
1937 – 2022
Charles E. Hooker
1825 – 1914
Charles Hayt
1850 – 1927
Charles Humphrey Atherton
1773 – 1853
Charles Linnaeus Benedict
1824 – 1901
Charles Loewner
1893 – 1968
Charles-Michel-Ange Challe
1718 – 1778
Charles-Paul Diday
1813 – 1894
Christian Frank Schilt
1895 – 1987
Christian Frederik Emil Horneman
1840 – 1906
Christiane Papon
1924 – 2023
Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint
1764 – 1853
Cynthia May Alden
1862 – 1931
Daniel Melanderhjelm
1726 – 1810
David Vaisey
1935 – 2025
Dmitri Lebedev
1872 – 1935
Don Galloway
1937 – 2009
Donnelly Rhodes
1937 – 2018
Edd Byrnes
1933 – 2020
Edward Rennie
1852 – 1927
Eli Whitney
1765 – 1825
Ellis H. Roberts
1827 – 1918
Elspeth Kennedy
1931 – 2017
Eugene W. Hilgard
1833 – 1916
Eugène Grébaut
1846 – 1915
Everhardus Koster
1817 – 1892
Ezra P. Savage
1842 – 1920
Fausto Bisantis
1909 – 1996
Fazila Samadova
1929 – 2020
Felix Philipp Kanitz
1829 – 1904
Fernando Niño de Guevara
1541 – 1609
Florenty Pavlenkov
1839 – 1900
Frank Pace
1912 – 1988
Frederick Brown
1851 – 1941
Frederik Marcus Knuth
1813 – 1856
Georg Friedrich Puchta
1798 – 1846
George Edmund Haynes
1880 – 1960
George Edward Wales
1792 – 1860
George Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchilsea
1791 – 1858
George P. Raney
1845 – 1911
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
1877 – 1956
Guido Banti
1852 – 1925
Gundars Bērziņš
1959 – 2023
Guy Carleton
1857 – 1946
Günther Brendel
1930 – 2026
Hamdy Ahmed
1933 – 2016
Harvey Haddix
1925 – 1994
Harvey R. Kingsley
1871 – 1936
Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester
1787 – 1858
Henry Kaulback
1830 – 1896
Henry Tonks
1862 – 1937
Hiroshi Nakamura
1932 – 2026
Héctor Murguía Lardizábal
1953 – 2024
Jacqueline Joubert
1921 – 2005
Jacques Labillardière
1755 – 1834
James Manahan
1866 – 1932
James Mancham
1939 – 2017
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
1690 – 1764
James P.B. Duffy
1878 – 1969
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
1621 – 1693
Jan Łaski
1499 – 1560
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