On this day: 8 January
Events, births and deaths on 8 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Maria Teresa de Filippis
- Events · West Air Sweden Flight 294
- Deaths · German Moreno
100 years ago1926
- Births · Kerwin Mathews
- Births · Soupy Sales
- Births · Hanae Mori
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1037 · Births · Su Shi
- 1107 · Deaths · Edgar
- 1079 · Deaths · Adela of France
Events · 29
- 871(Julian date)Battle of Ashdown — 871 battle in Berkshire
- 1198(Julian date)1198 papal election — 1198 election of the Catholic pope
- 1297(Julian date)Monaco — microstate in Western Europe
- 1806Battle of Blaauwberg — battle fought in 1806
- 18111811 German Coast Uprising — slave rebellion in parts of the Territory of Orleans, USA
- 1815Battle of New Orleans — battle of the War of 1812
- 1828Democratic Party — American political party
- 1863Second Battle of Springfield — January 8, 1863, battle in the American Civil War fought in Springfield, Missouri
- 1877Battle of Wolf Mountain — battle of the Great Sioux War of 1876
- 1912(Julian date)African National Congress — left-wing nationalist political party in South Africa
- 1918Fourteen Points — statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I
- 1936Kashf-e hijab — 1936 decree banning Islamic veils in Iran
- 1961French referendum on Algerian self-determination — 1961 vote in France and colonial Algeria on Algerian independence
- 19771977 Moscow bombings — Bombings in Moscow
- 1981Trans-en-Provence Case — UFO sighting
- 1989Heisei era — period of Japanese history from 1989 to 2019
- 1989Kegworth air disaster — British air accident, 1989
- 19961996 Air Africa crash — aviation accident
- 1996Case Closed — Japanese anime television series
- 2002No Child Left Behind Act — 2002 United States education reform law; repealed 2015
- 2003Turkish Airlines flight 634 — aviation accident
- 2003Air Midwest Flight 5481 — 2003 aviation accident in North Carolina, USA
- 20092009 Costa Rica earthquake — seismic event in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
- 2010Togo national football team attack — Terrorist attack in Angola
- 20112011 Tucson shooting — Casas Adobes Safeway shooting on January 8 that killed 6 and injured Gabby Giffords
- 2016West Air Sweden Flight 294 — fatal crash of a CRJ200 in Sweden
- 2020Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 — flight shot down by Iranian armed forces
- 2021La Vega massacre — Venezuelan massacre
- 20232023 Brazilian Congress attack — storming of government buildings in Brasília
Births · 60
- 1037(Julian date)Su Shi — Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101)
- 1589Ivan Gundulić — Croatian baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa
- 1632Samuel von Pufendorf — German philosopher (1632–1694)
- 1638Elisabetta Sirani — Italian painter (1638-1665)
- 1788Archduke Rudolf of Austria — Austrian cardinal
- 1812Sigismond Thalberg — Swiss composer and pianist (1812–1871)
- 1821James Longstreet — Confederate Army general (1821–1904)
- 1823Alfred Russel Wallace — British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)
- 1824Wilkie Collins — British writer (1824-1889)
- 1830Hans von Bülow — German conductor and pianist (1830–1894)
- 1836Lawrence Alma-Tadema — Dutch-born British painter (1836–1912)
- 1854Yan Fu — Chinese translator (1854–1921)
- 1864Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale — British prince (1864-1892); eldest child of the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
- 1867Emily Greene Balch — American economist and writer
- 1870Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella — Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
- 1885John Curtin — Australian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (1885-1945)
- 1888Richard Courant — German American mathematician (1888-1972)
- 1891Walther Bothe — German physicist, mathematician and chemist (1891-1957)
- 1899S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike — 4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956-59
- 1902Georgy Malenkov — Soviet politician (1902–1988)
- 1902Carl Rogers — American psychologist (1902–1987)
- 1904Karl Brandt — German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity (1904–1948)
- 1905Carl Gustav Hempel — German philosopher (1905–1997)
- 1908William Hartnell — English actor (1908–1975)
- 1912José Ferrer — American actor and director (1912–1992)
Deaths · 60
- 307(Julian date)Emperor Hui of Jin — Emperor of the Jin Dynasty from 290 to 307
- 482Severinus of Noricum — Italian Roman Catholic saint
- 1079(Julian date)Adela of France — Countess of Flanders (1009–1079)
- 1107(Julian date)Edgar — King of Scotland (1074-1107)
- 1198(Julian date)Celestine III — pope of the Catholic Church from 1191 to 1198
- 1324(Julian date)Marco Polo — Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324)
- 1337(Julian date)Giotto — Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)
- 1354Charles de La Cerda — French noble (1327-1354)
- 1456(Julian date)Lawrence Giustiniani — first Patriarch of Venice and Catholic saint (1381-1456)
- 1538(Julian date)Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy — Portuguese noble (1505-1538)
- 1557Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach — Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1527-1553)
- 1570(Julian date)Philibert de l'Orme — French architect of the Renaissance. (1514–1570)
- 1642Galileo Galilei — Italian polymath (1564–1642)
- 1713Arcangelo Corelli — Italian violinist and composer (1653–1713)
- 1775John Baskerville — British printer
- 1794Justus Möser — German jurist and social theorist (1720-1794)
- 1825Eli Whitney — American inventor (1765-1825)
- 1854William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford — British soldier and politician (1768-1854)
- 1878Nikolay Nekrasov — Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher (1821–1878)
- 1880Emperor Norton — San Francisco eccentric and self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States
- 1896Paul Verlaine — French poet (1844-1896)
- 1914Simon Bolivar Buckner — Confederate Army general (1823-1914)
- 1925George Bellows — American painter (1882-1925)
- 1934Andrei Bely — Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
- 1941Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell — lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)
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