January 8 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 8, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#322 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 8 birthdays
Alfred Russel Wallace · British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist1823
Wilkie Collins · British writer1824
Emily Greene Balch · American economist and writer1867
Walther Bothe · German physicist, mathematician and chemist1891
Maximilian Kolbe · Polish Conventual Franciscan friar1894
Carl Rogers · American psychologist1902
Georgy Malenkov · Soviet politician1902
José Ferrer · American actor and director1912
Jacques Anquetil · French cyclist1934
Elvis Presley · American singer and actor1935
Shirley Bassey · Welsh singer1937
Stephen Hawking · British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author1942
Junichiro Koizumi · Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 20061942
David Bowie · English musician and actor1947
Amber Benson · American actress1977
Rachel Nichols · American actress and model1980
David Silva · Spanish association football player1986
Koke · Spanish association football player1992
Noah Cyrus · American singer and actress2000
On this day in history
1790George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.
1889American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electromechanical tabulating machine for punched-card data.
1918U.S. president Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post–World War I peace in Europe.
2023Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian Congress.
1975Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
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".
1982Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
2002President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
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