Born on January 8
January 8 birthdays & history
If you were born on January 8, you share a birthday with Elvis Presley, Stephen Hawking and David Bowie. January 8 babies are Capricorn, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 8 is the 8th day of the year in leap years.
Famous people born on January 8
- 1935Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor
- 1942Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
- 1947David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
- 1823Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh geographer, biologist, and explorer
- 1942Junichirō Koizumi, Japanese politician, 56th Prime Minister of Japan
- 1867Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1891Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1902Carl Rogers, American psychologist and academic
- 1601Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author
- 1824Wilkie Collins, English novelist, playwright, and short story writer
What happened on January 8
- 1198Lotario dei Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.
- 1735George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.
- 1790George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
- 1828The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
- 1835US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.
- 1867The United States Congress passes the bill to allow African American men the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- 1889American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electromechanical tabulating machine for punched-card data.
- 1904Blackstone Library, the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.
- 1928The Committee for Union Action is established in Guatemala.
- 1936Reza Shah issued the Kashf-e hijab decree, ordering Iranian police to remove hijabs from any women in public.
- 1939The New Deal for Aborigines was formally announced by the Australian government, providing for full civil rights for Indigenous Australians in exchange for cultural assimilation.
- 1981In Trans-en-Provence, France, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
Also observed on January 8
- Babinden (Belarus, Russia)
- Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
- Typing Day (International observance)
Questions, answered
What star sign is January 8?
People born on January 8 are Capricorn. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.
Which famous people were born on January 8?
Elvis Presley (1935), Stephen Hawking (1942), David Bowie (1947), Alfred Russel Wallace (1823), Junichirō Koizumi (1942), Emily Greene Balch (1867) were all born on January 8.
What happened on January 8 in history?
Among other things: in 1936, Reza Shah issued the Kashf-e hijab decree, ordering Iranian police to remove hijabs from any women in public; in 1939, The New Deal for Aborigines was formally announced by the Australian government, providing for full civil rights for Indigenous Australians in exchange for cultural assimilation; in 1981, In Trans-en-Provence, France, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
Can I get a newspaper front page from January 8?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 8 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “January 8”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.