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• 307 – Sima Chi becomes emperor of the Jin dynasty in succession to his brother, Sima Zhong, despite a challenge from his other brother, Sima Ying.{{cite book|author-link=Fang Xuanling|last=Fang|first=Xuanling|title=Book of Jin (Jin Shu)|title-link=Book of Jin}}
• 871 – Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.{{cite book|first=A.H|last=Burne|author-link=Alfred Burne|title=The Battlefields of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WTDAAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-84415-206-3|page=44}}
• 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.{{cite book|first=John|last=Clements|title=Clements' International Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSIkAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Political Research, Incorporated|page=3}}
• 1454 – The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards the Kingdom of Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador.{{cite book|first=Joseph|last=Fessler|author-link=Josef Fessler|title=The True and False Infallibility of the Popes: A Controversial Reply to Dr. Schulte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mENAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA96|year=1875|publisher=Catholic Publication Society|page=96}}
• 1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII.{{cite book|first=Louisa Stuart|last=Costello|author-link=Louisa Stuart Costello|title=Memoirs of Anne, Duchess of Brittany, Twice Queen of France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YtA5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA287|year=1855|publisher=W. & F.G. Cash|page=287}}
• 1547 – The first Lithuanian-language book, the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, is published in Königsberg.{{cite book|first1=Domas|last1=Kaunas|first2=Regina|last2=Koženiauskienė|title=Martynas Mažvydas and Old Lithuania: Collection of Papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SoTgAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Pradai|isbn=978-9986-943-14-3|page=160}}

• 1735 – The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.{{cite book|first=William J.|last=Burling|title=A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMQJxeNpHR0C&pg=PA167|year=1992|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3451-6|page=167}}
• 1746 – Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.{{cite book|first=Carolly|last=Erickson|author-link=Carolly Erickson|title=Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74pnAAAAMAAJ|date=January 1993|publisher=Robson Books|isbn=978-0-86051-712-2|page=204}}
• 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.{{cite book|first1=Arjuna|last1=Tuzzi|first2=Martina|last2=Benešová|first3=Ján|last3=Macutek|title=Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaALCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA158|date=16 October 2015|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-042029-6|page=158}}
• 1806 – The Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes the British Cape Colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.{{cite book|first=Charles J.|last=Becker|title=Guide to the Transvaal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecoNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA13|year=1878|publisher=J. Dollard|page=13}}
• 1811 – Charles Deslondes leads an unsuccessful slave revolt in the North American settlements of St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.{{cite book|first=Nicholas J.|last=Santoro|title=Atlas of Slavery and Civil Rights: An Annotated Chronicle of the Passage from Slavery and Segregation to Civil Rights and Equality Under the Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RmTSSTO0gIgC&pg=PA33|year=2006|isbn=978-0-595-38390-0|page=33|publisher=iUniverse }}
• 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.{{cite book|title=DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress & Resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TvFEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA409|year=1846|publisher=J. D. B. De Bow|page=409}}
• 1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.{{cite book|first=Patricia Lee|last=Sykes|title=Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHl1AAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=University Press of Kansas|isbn=978-0-7006-1017-4|page=193}}
• 1835 – US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.{{cite book|author=United States. Congress|author-link=United States Congress|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UguOmnBiL_kC&pg=SL1-PA1297|year=1945|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=1297}}
• 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.{{cite book|first=Samuel Hawkins Marshall|last=Byers|title=Iowa in War Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYkNFuHHvx0C|year=1888|publisher=W.D. Condit & Company|page=515}}
• 1867 – The United States Congress passes the bill to allow African American men the right to vote in Washington, D.C.{{cite book|first1=Hanes Jr|last1=Walton|author-link1=Hanes Walton Jr.|first2=Sherman|last2=Puckett|first3=Donald R Jr|last3=Deskins|author-link3=Donald R. Deskins Jr.|title=The African American Electorate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8zVVp8qJ5sC&pg=PA205|date=20 July 2012|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-0-87289-508-9|page=205}}
• 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.{{cite journal|title=Nelson A. Miles, Crazy Horse, and the Battle of Wolf Mountains|last=Pearson|first=Jeffrey V.|url=http://visitmt.com/history/Montana_the_Magazine_of_Western_History/wolfmountain.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020419224810/http://visitmt.com/history/Montana_the_Magazine_of_Western_History/wolfmountain.htm|archive-date=2002-04-19|journal=Montana The Magazine of Western History|volume=51|number=1|date=Winter 2001|pages=53–67|publisher=Montana Historical Society Press|location=Helena, MT|jstor=4520376}}
• 1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.{{cite book|first=Richard C.|last=Dorf|author-link=Richard C. Dorf|title=The Electrical Engineering Handbook, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qP7HvuakLgEC&pg=PA2092|date=26 September 1997|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4200-4976-3|page=2092}}
• 1900 – President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=10|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}

• 1912 – The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).{{cite book|author1=Gwyneth Williams|author2=Brian Hackland|title=The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Southern Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LkdACwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5|date=22 December 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-27081-2|page=5}}
• 1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" as conditions for ending World War I.{{cite book|author=United States. Department of State|title=Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HuusX2oQLLMC&pg=PA359|year=1942|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=359}}
• 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.{{cite book|author=Ronald L. Filippelli|title=Labor Conflict in the United States: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0gYAAAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Garland Pub.|isbn=978-0-8240-7968-0|page=8}}
• 1926 – Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ is crowned emperor of Vietnam, the country's last monarch.{{cite web|url=http://indochine.uqam.ca/en/historical-dictionary/106-bo-i-nguyn-phuc-vnh-thy-jean-robert-19131997.html|title=The Indochina War 1945-1956|website=UQUAM|access-date=17 October 2020}}
• 1926 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.{{cite book|author=Prescott Holden Thorp|title=The Commemorative Stamps of the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GudPAQAAMAAJ|year=1934|publisher=Scott stamp and coin Company|page=303}}
• 1933 – Anarchist insurrection of January 1933 breaks out in Barcelona, Spain.{{Cite book|last=Casanova|first=Julián|author-link=Julián Casanova|year=2005|chapter=On the road to insurrection|title=Anarchism, the Republic and Civil War in Spain: 1931–1939|publisher=Routledge|translator-first1=Andrew|translator-last1=Dowling|translator-first2=Graham|translator-last2=Pollok|editor-first=Paul|editor-last=Preston|editor-link=Paul Preston|pages=68–69|isbn=0-415-32095-X}}
• 1936 – Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.Paidar, Parvin (1995): Women and the Political Process in Twentieth-Century Iran, Cambridge Middle East studies, Vol. 1, Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 106–107, 214–215, 218–220, {{ISBN|9780521473408}}
• 1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.{{cite news |last1=Levy |first1=Paul |title=How rationing in World War 2 democratised the British table - and made us all healthier |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11334162/How-rationing-in-World-War-2-democratised-the-British-table-and-made-us-all-healthier.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111003329/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11334162/How-rationing-in-World-War-2-democratised-the-British-table-and-made-us-all-healthier.html |archive-date=11 January 2015 |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=The Telegraph |publisher=Telegraph Media Group |date=8 January 2015}}
• 1945 – World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack invading Japanese Imperial forces.{{cite book|author=Kalinangan Group|title=The Philippines, Land and People: Atang|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmseAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Kalinangan Group|isbn=978-971-8518-00-7|page=79}}
• 1946 – Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Finnish Allied Commission, submitted to the Finnish War Criminal Court an interrogation report by General Erich Buschenhagen, a German prisoner of war, on the contacts between Finnish and German military personnel before the Continuation War and a copy of Hitler's Barbarossa plan.{{cite book | author=Ari Raunio & Juri Kilin | title=Itsenäisyyden puolustajat, Sodan taisteluja 2, Jatkosota | publisher=Weilin+Göös | year=2005 | isbn= 951-593-927-5 | language = fi}}
• 1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Waorani of Ecuador shortly after making first contact.{{cite book|title=The A.B.M. Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H93gyBtoezYC|year=1966|page=52}}
• 1959 – Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.{{cite news |title=1959: De Gaulle becomes president |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/8/newsid_2772000/2772249.stm |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.{{cite news |title=1961: French vote for Algerian freedom |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/8/newsid_4464000/4464264.stm |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.{{cite book|author=Alan S. Newell|title=A Forest in Trust: Three-quarters of a Century of Indian Forestry, 1910-1986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Di6FGuk4xBEC&pg=PA65-IA15|year=1986|publisher=The Division|page=65}}
• 1972 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.{{cite book|author=Richard F. Nyrop|title=Area Handbook for Pakistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5jTh7DA598C&pg=PA254|year=1975|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=254}}
• 1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.{{cite news |last1=Shabad |first1=Theodore |title=Soviet Luna 21 Lands on Moon, Delivering Lunokhod 2 Craft for Exploration |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/17/archives/soviet-luna-21-lands-on-moon-delivering-lunokhod-2-craft-for.html |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=17 January 1973}}
• 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.{{Cite web|title=The Watergate Break-in|url=https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/congress-investigates-part-2/watergate-break|access-date=2021-06-14|website=U.S. Capitol Visitor Center|language=en|archive-date=2022-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713200337/https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/congress-investigates-part-2/watergate-break}}
• 1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.{{cite book|author=Susan J. Tolchin|title=Women in Congress, 1917-1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rosUUqIKa6gC&pg=PA30|year=1976|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=30}}
• 1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.{{cite web|url=http://old.samara.ru/paper/41/5070/91049/|title=Бомба в московском метро|last=Stepanov|first=Alexei|date=31 January 2004|work="Волжская Коммуна" №18|access-date=11 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091224124752/http://old.samara.ru/paper/41/5070/91049/|archive-date=24 December 2009}}
• 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".{{cite book|author=Jerome Clark|title=High Strangeness: UFOs from 1960 Through 1979|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9rWAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Apogee Books|isbn=978-1-55888-742-8|page=78}}
• 1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
• 1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.{{cite book|author=Hurst|first=Nick W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_DBi2TmXTsC&pg=PA8|title=Risk Assessment: The Human Dimension|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|year=1998|isbn=978-0-85404-554-9|page=8}}
• 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.{{cite book|author=John Wilkinson|title=Probing the New Solar System|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXmZP40vFksC&pg=PA23|year=2009|publisher=Csiro Publishing|isbn=978-0-643-09575-5|page=23}}
• 1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 people on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.{{cite book|author=Ben R. Guttery|title=Encyclopedia of African Airlines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KBmGpaD36cMC&pg=PA43|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Ben Guttery|isbn=978-0-7864-0495-7|page=43}}
• 2002 – President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.{{cite book|author=William Hayes|title=No Child Left Behind: Past, Present, and Future|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W67vHaByunAC&pg=PA159|date=14 August 2008|publisher=R&L Education|isbn=978-1-57886-897-1|page=159}}
• 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.{{cite news|date=8 January 2003|title=Turkish Airlines plane crashes, 75 dead, 5 survivors|work=CNN|url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/01/08/turkish.plane.crash/|access-date=29 December 2008}}
• 2003 – Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.{{cite book |url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR0401.pdf |title=Aircraft Accident Report: Loss of Pitch Control During Takeoff, Air Midwest Flight 5481, Raytheon (Beechcraft) 1900D, N233YV, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 8, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217155524/https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR0401.pdf |archive-date=February 17, 2015 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB/AAR-04/01 |date=February 26, 2004 }}
• 2004 – The {{RMS|Queen Mary 2}}, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.{{cite web|title=QUEEN MARY 2 TECHNICAL INFORMATION|url=http://www.cunard.com/documents/press%20kits/queen%20mary%202/queen_mary_2_technical.pdf|work=Cunard.com|publisher=Cunard|access-date=16 April 2014|archive-date=19 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019220221/https://www.cunard.com/documents/press%20kits/queen%20mary%202/queen_mary_2_technical.pdf}}
• 2005 – The nuclear sub {{USS|San Francisco|SSN-711|6}} collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.{{cite book|author=Nicholas Costa|title=Adam to Apophis: Asteroids, Millenarianism and Climate Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xGb-9NimZGoC&pg=PA17|year=2013|publisher=D'Aleman Publishing|isbn=978-9963-2917-0-0|page=17}}
• 2009 – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.{{cite web|url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/36696/61-earthquake-in-costa-rica#:~:text=A%20magnitude%206.1%20earthquake%20caused,U.S.%20Geological%20Survey%20(USGS).&text=The%20quake%20damaged%20buildings%20and,the%20deaths%2C%20said%20the%20USGS.|title=6.1 Earthquake in Costa Rica|website=NASA Earth Observatory|date=16 January 2009|access-date=17 October 2020}}
• 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.{{cite news|title=Assistant coach among dead in attack on Togo team|publisher=CNN|date=9 January 2010|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/football/01/09/angola.african.nations.cup.togo/index.html|access-date=10 January 2010}}
• 2011 – Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge.{{cite news|title=Congresswoman Giffords wounded, five killed in shooting|publisher=Reuters|date=8 January 2010|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7071IA20110108|access-date=2 January 2021}}
• 2016 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.{{cite web |last1=Agren |first1=David |title=Mexico recaptures drug cartel kingpin El Chapo after humiliating prison escape |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/08/mexican-drug-lord-el-chapo-recaptured-president-says |website=The Guardian |access-date=3 March 2020 |date=8 January 2016}}
• 2016 – West Air Sweden Flight 294 crashes near the Swedish reservoir of Akkajaure; both pilots, the only people on board, are killed.{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-200PF SE-DUX Oajevágge|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20160108-0|access-date=2021-12-20|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}
• 2020 – Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/world/middleeast/plane-crash.html|title=Plane Shot Down Because of Human Error, Iran Says|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 11, 2020}}
• 2021 – Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.{{cite news |title=Activists claim Venezuela police 'massacre' killed 23 people |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210111-activists-claim-venezuela-police-massacre-killed-23-people |access-date=March 11, 2021 |work=France 24 |date=11 January 2021 |language=en}}
• 2023 – Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian Congress.{{Cite news |date=2023-01-08 |title=Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazilian Congress |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64204860 |access-date=2023-01-08}}

• 1037 – Su Dongpo, Chinese calligrapher and poet (died 1101){{cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/regional/2010-09/28/content_11357593.htm|title=The life of Su Dongpo|website=China Daily|access-date=9 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109155516/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/regional/2010-09/28/content_11357593.htm|archive-date=9 January 2019|url-status=live}}
• 1345 – Kadi Burhan al-Din, poet, kadi, and ruler of Sivas (died 1398){{EI2 | volume = 1 | title = Burhãn al-Dīn | last = Rypka | first = J. | pages = 1327–1328 | url=https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_1543}}
• 1529 – John Frederick II, duke of Saxony (died 1595){{Cite EB1911|wstitle= John Frederick, Duke of Saxony |volume= 15 | pages = 458–459; see lines two and three |quote=... Born at Torgau on the 8th of January 1529 }}
• 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian and academic (died 1643){{cite book|title=The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HEY-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74|year=1836|publisher=C. & J. Rivington, and J. Mawman|page=74}}
• 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer and academic (died 1616){{cite book|author1=G. Rudiger|author2=Günther Rüdiger|title=Differential Rotation and Stellar Convection: Sun and Solar-type Stars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cKaE9mLyCaIC&pg=PA13|year=1989|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-2-88124-066-9|page=13}}
• 1587 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1629){{cite book|author=Joris van Spilbergen|title=The East and West Indian Mirror: Being an Account of Joris Van Speilbergen's Voyage Round the World (1614-1617), and the Australian Navigations of Jacob Le Maire|url=https://archive.org/details/eastwestindianmispil|year=1906|publisher=Hakluyt Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/eastwestindianmispil/page/n342 151]}}
• 1589 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet and playwright (died 1638){{cite book|author1=Merriam-Webster, Inc|author2=Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff|title=Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/merriamwebsters00merr|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=Merriam-Webster|isbn=978-0-87779-042-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/merriamwebsters00merr/page/501 501]}}

• 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (died 1658){{cite book|author=Virginia Ramos Foster|title=Baltasar Gracián|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoQNAAAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-2398-4|page=11}}
• 1626 – Jean Talon, first Intendant of New France (died 1694){{Cite web |last=Vachon |first=André |year=2020 |orig-date=1966 |title=Talon, Jean (Talon Du Quesnoy) |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/talon_jean_1E.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610184530/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/talon_jean_1E.html |archive-date=10 June 2023 |access-date=8 January 2023 |website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1 |publisher=University of Toronto/Université Laval}}
• 1628 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, French general (died 1695){{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Luxemburg, François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, Duke of |volume= 17 | pages = 144–145; see page 144 line two |quote=...was born at Paris on the 8th of January 1628. }}
• 1632 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German economist and jurist (died 1694){{cite book|author1=Serge Dauchy|author2=Georges Martyn|author3=Anthony Musson|title=The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture: 150 Books that Made the Law in the Age of Printing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7r2iDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA219|date=1 December 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-45567-9|page=219}}
• 1635 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal (died 1709){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Portocarrero, Luis Manuel Fernandez de |volume=22|page=123; see line two |quote=....and was born on the 8th of January 1635.}}
• 1638 – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (died 1665){{cite book|author=Laura Maria Roberts Ragg|title=The Women Artists of Bologna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3b0MAQAAIAAJ|year=1907|publisher=Methuen|page=233}}
• 1735 – John Carroll, American archbishop, founder of Georgetown University (died 1815){{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Carroll, John}}
• 1763 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American translator and diplomat (died 1834){{cite book|author1=Charles Fenno Hoffman|author2=Timothy Flint|author3=Lewis Gaylord Clark|author4=Kinahan Cornwallis|author5= John Holmes Agnew|title=The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LsdGAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA284|year=1850|page=284}}
• 1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier (died 1844){{cite book|title=The Bankers Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AOMzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA614|year=1869|publisher=Warren, Gorham & Lamont, Incorporated|page=614}}
• 1788 – Rudolf of Austria, Austrian archduke and archbishop (died 1831){{cite book|author=Susan Kagan|title=Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven's Patron, Pupil, and Friend: His Life and Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsD7i4To5sEC&pg=PA1|year=1988|publisher=Pendragon Press|isbn=978-0-945193-45-6|page=1}}
• 1792 – Lowell Mason, American composer and educator (died 1872){{cite book|author1=Edith L. Blumhofer|author2=Edith Waldvogel Blumhofer|title=Her Heart Can See: The Life and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9LWkw81bRXwC&pg=PA127|date=12 May 2005|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-4253-4|page=127}}
• 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 3rd Governor of California (died 1871){{cite book|author1=Howard Brett Melendy|author2=Benjamin Franklin Gilbert|title=The Governors of California: Peter H. Burnett to Edmund G. Brown|url=https://archive.org/details/governorsofcalif0000unse|url-access=registration|year=1965|publisher=Talisman Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/governorsofcalif0000unse/page/n53 50]}}
• 1805 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (died 1878){{cite book|author=Howard H. Barron|title=Orson Hyde: Missionary, Apostle, Colonizer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-J7tAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Horizon Publishers|isbn=978-0-88290-076-6|page=5}}
• 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer (died 1871){{cite book|author=Alan Walker|title=Franz Liszt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hckAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Knopf|page=232|isbn=978-0-394-52540-2}}
• 1817 – Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (died 1893){{cite book|author=Ruth E. Gordon|title=Shepstone: the Role of the Family in the History of South Africa, 1820-1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQ8fAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=A. A. Balkema|page=2}}
• 1821 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Turkey (died 1904){{cite book|author=Luther William Minnigh|title=Gettysburg: "what They Did Here"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdPTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA146|year=1863|page=146}}
• 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh geographer, biologist, and explorer (died 1913){{cite book|author=Alfred Russel Wallace|title=Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters from the Malay Archipelago|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cRyRAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR12|date=24 October 2013|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-968399-4|page=12}}
• 1824 – Wilkie Collins, English novelist, playwright, and short story writer (died 1889){{cite book|author1=Professor Department of Sociology Michael S Kimmel|author2=Amy B Aronson|title=Men and Masculinities: A-J|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jWj5OBvTh1IC&pg=PA165|year=2004|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-774-0|page=165}}
• 1824 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (died 1861){{cite book|author=Eladio Cortés|title=Dictionary of Mexican Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j-K-13qmBSoC&pg=PA284|year=1992|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26271-5|page=284}}
• 1830 – Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (died 1894){{cite book|author=Hans von Bülow|title=The Early Correspondence of Hans Von Bülow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ycM5AAAAIAAJ|year=1896|publisher=T.F. Unwin|page=4}}
• 1836 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter and academic (died 1912){{cite book|title=The Art Journal: New series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbJCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9|year=1875|publisher=D. Appleton & Company|page=9}}
• 1843 – Frederick Abberline, English police officer (died 1929){{cite book|author=M.J. Trow|title=Ripper Hunter: Abberline and the Whitechapel Murders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SWgqVCSNwikC&pg=PT106|date=19 December 2012|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-78337-855-5|page=106}}
• 1852 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (died 1931)[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fca66 Carroll, James Milton] J. A. Reynolds, Handbook of Texas Online, Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
• 1859 – Fanny Bullock Workman, American mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (died 1925){{cite book|author=Margo McLoone|title=Women Explorers of the Mountains: Nina Mazuchelli, Fanny Bullock Workman, Mary Vaux Walcott, Gertrude Benham, Junko Tabei|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1TeHkUIocC8C&pg=PA17|date=August 1999|publisher=Capstone|isbn=978-0-7368-0311-3|page=17}}
• 1860 – Emma Booth-Tucker, English author (died 1903){{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark C. Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYYRAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University|isbn=978-0-19-512782-9|page=201}}
• 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (died 1934){{cite book|author=John N. Ingham|title=Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qzxy3pejsdoC&pg=PA1792|year=1983|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-21362-5|page=1792}}
• 1864 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (died 1892){{cite book|author=James H. Murphy|title=Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Victoria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nnh22zBI5uAC&pg=PA308|year=2001|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=978-0-8132-1076-6|page=308}}
• 1865 – Winnaretta Singer, American philanthropist (died 1943){{cite book|author1=Gabriel Fauré|title=His Life Through Letters|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UqIHAQAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=M. Boyars|isbn=978-0-7145-2768-0|page=153}}
• 1866 – William G. Conley, American educator and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (died 1940){{cite book|author=Charles A. Thomas|title=Preston County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fS35x8TQej8C&pg=PA93|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-4319-2|page=93}}
• 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961){{cite book|author=Judith Freeman Clark|title=Almanac of American Women in the 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ryMqAAAAYAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-022658-7|page=88}}
• 1870 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1930){{cite book|author1=Charles Petrie|author2=Charles Alexander Petrie, Sir bart.|title=King Alfonso XIII and His Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zvk8AAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Chapman & Hall|page=179}}
• 1871 – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish captain and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1940){{cite book|author=Patrick Buckland|title=James Craig: Lord Craigavon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DgM0AAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Gill and Macmillan|page=3|isbn=978-0-7171-1078-0}}
• 1873 – Iuliu Maniu, Romanian lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Romania (died 1953){{Cite web|title=Iuliu Maniu {{!}} prime minister of Romania|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Iuliu-Maniu|access-date=2021-02-12|website=Britannica.com|language=en}}
• 1881 – Henrik Shipstead, American dentist and politician (died 1960){{cite book|author=James Stuart Olson|title=Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929-1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CDD1aGiJJTkC&pg=PA255|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30618-1|page=255}}
• 1881 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (died 1945)"Linnie Marsh Wolfe." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Biography In Context. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
• 1883 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (died 1941){{cite book|author=John E. Bowlt|title=Russian Art, 1875-1975: A Collection of Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmx6DAjZCxsC&pg=PA140|year=1976|publisher=Ardent Media|isbn=978-0-8422-0547-4|page=140}}
• 1883 – Patrick J. Hurley, American general, politician, and diplomat, 51st United States Secretary of War (died 1963)
• 1885 – John Curtin, Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1945){{cite book|author=Brian Carroll|title=Australia's Prime Ministers: From Barton to Howard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8PUBuw4idYC&pg=PA159|year=2004|publisher=Rosenberg Publishing Pty, Limited|isbn=978-1-877058-22-6|page=159}}
• 1885 – Mór Kóczán, Hungarian javelin thrower and pastor (died 1972){{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/mor-koczan-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417175050/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/mor-koczan-1.html|archive-date=April 17, 2020|title=Mór Kóczán Biography and Olympic Results|publisher=Sports Reference|access-date=April 19, 2012}}
• 1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch-American pastor and activist (died 1967){{cite journal|author=Howlett, Charles F.|url=http://www.friendsjournal.org/j-muste-20th-centurys-most-famous-u-s-pacifist|title=A.J. Muste: The 20th Century's Most Famous US Pacifist|journal=Friends Journal|date= April 2006}}
• 1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician and academic (died 1972){{cite book|author=National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)|title=Report of the National Academy of Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5grAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA141|year=1879|publisher=National Academies|page=141}}
• 1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957){{cite book|author=M. Melarango|title=Quantification in Science: The VNR Dictionary of Engineering Units and Measures|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFt6YPLNjMgC&pg=PA35|date=1 July 1991|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-442-00641-9|page=35}}
• 1891 – Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (died 1986){{cite book|author1=Patricia Burgess|author2=Trish Burgess|title=Annual Obituary, 1986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZPZBuqy_SYC|date=1 August 1989|publisher=St James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-013-1|page=528}}
• 1891 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (died 1972){{cite book|author=Clemens Jöckle|title=Encyclopedia of Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GC1GAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Alpine Fine Arts Collection|isbn=978-0-88168-226-7|page=319}}
• 1896 – Jaromír Weinberger, Czech-American composer and academic (died 1967){{cite book|author1=David Mason Greene|author2=Constance Green|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA1247|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|page=1247}}
• 1897 – Dennis Wheatley, English soldier and author (died 1977){{cite book|author=Clive Barker|title=Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKAqAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=BBC|isbn=978-0-563-37152-6|page=56}}
• 1899 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (died 1959)
• 1900 – Dorothy Adams, American character actress (died 1988){{Citation|title=Dorothy Adams: Classic Movie Hub (CMH)|url=http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/dorothy-adams/|access-date=2017-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020083718/http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/dorothy-adams/|archive-date=2017-10-20|url-status=live}}
• 1900 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter (died 1969){{cite book|author=Wolf Stubbe|title=Graphic Arts in the Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfpPAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Praeger|page=292}}

• 1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist and academic (died 1987){{cite book|author1=Liora Bresler|author2=David Cooper|author3=Joy Palmer|title=Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MXcii-IYm2kC&pg=PA49|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-59259-3|page=49}}
• 1904 – Karl Brandt, German physician and SS officer (died 1948){{cite book|title=Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Nuremberg, October 1946-April, 1949|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gpHuXlH479kC&pg=PA190|year=1949|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=190}}
• 1905 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (died 1997){{cite book|author1=Stuart Gerry Brown|author2=Stuart Brown|author3=Stuart C. Brown|author4=Diané Collinson |author5=Robert Wilkinson|title=Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hz8OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA332|year=1996|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-06043-1|page=332}}
• 1908 – William Hartnell, English actor (died 1975){{cite book|author=Paul Donnelley|title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmYcAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7984-0|page=266}}
• 1908 – Fearless Nadia, Australian-Indian actress and stuntwoman (died 1996){{cite web | title=Fearless Nadia's 110th Birthday | website=Google | date=2018-01-08 | url=https://doodles.google/doodle/fearless-nadias-110th-birthday/ | access-date=2018-01-09}}
• 1909 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (died 1995){{cite book|title=The Book Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aiDhAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=C. Chari for Perspective Publications|page=23}}
• 1909 – Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (died 1995){{cite book|author=Eric Rosenthal|title=Total Book of South African Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=28pBAAAAYAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Delta Books|isbn=978-0-908387-19-9|page=124}}
• 1909 – Evelyn Wood, American author and educator (died 1995){{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/30/obituaries/evelyn-wood-who-promoted-speed-reading-is-dead-at-86.html | title = Evelyn Wood, Who Promoted Speed Reading, Is Dead at 86|author=Lawrence Van Gelder | date = 1995-08-30 | work = The New York Times | access-date = 2017-03-11}}
• 1910 – Galina Ulanova, Russian actress and ballerina (died 1998){{cite book|author1=Allen Robertson|author2=Donald Hutera|title=The Dance Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZ0YAAAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=978-0-8161-9095-9|page=131}}
• 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and author (died 1970){{cite book|author=Noralee Frankel|title=Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=riwpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|date=3 March 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-975433-5|page=4}}
• 1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director (died 1992){{cite book|title=Chase's Annual Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6|page=61}}
• 1912 – Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (died 2014){{cite book|author=Charles Moritz|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DWftWR1VGIEC|year=1992|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=597|isbn=978-0-8242-0128-9}}
• 1915 – Walker Cooper, American baseball player and manager (died 1991){{cite book|title=Baseball Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q0wsAAAAMAAJ|year=1956|publisher=C.C. Spink & Son|page=46}}
• 1917 – Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (died 1994)
• 1920 – Douglas Wilmer, English actor (died 2016){{cite news|last=Hadoke|first=Toby|title=Douglas Wilmer obituary|work=The Guardian|date=5 April 2016|accessdate=8 January 2024|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/05/douglas-wilmer-obituary-sherlock-holmes}}
• 1922 – Dale D. Myers, American engineer (died 2015){{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences|title=NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rt1Ze5R9v_UC&pg=PA122|year=1974|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=122}}
• 1923 – Larry Storch, American actor and comedian{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/01/08/UPI-Almanac-for-Monday-Jan-8-2018/2171515208436/|title= UPI Almanac for Monday, Jan. 8, 2018|work= United Press International|date=January 8, 2018|access-date=September 21, 2019| archive-date= January 8, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180108222931/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/01/08/UPI-Almanac-for-Monday-Jan-8-2018/2171515208436/|url-status=live|quote=…comic actor Larry Storch in 1923 (age 95)}}(died 2022){{cite news|url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/larry-storch-dead-f-troop-1235177225/|title = Larry Storch, Corporal Randolph Agarn on 'F Troop,' Dies at 99|newspaper = The Hollywood Reporter|date = July 8, 2022|access-date = July 8, 2022|last = Barnes|first = Mike}}
• 1923 – Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer and actor (died 2011){{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HgdaAAAAYAAJ|year=1961|publisher=H.W. Wilson Company|page=455}}
• 1923 – Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (died 1985){{cite book |title=If The Cap Fits |last=Bateman |first=Colin |year=1993 |publisher=Tony Williams Publications |isbn=1-869833-21-X |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/180 180–181] |url=https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/180 }}
• 1923 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer scientist and author (died 2008){{cite book|author=Harry Henderson|title=Artificial Intelligence: Mirrors for the Mind|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vKmIiICDIwgC&pg=PA118|year=2007|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-60413-059-1|page=118}}
• 1924 – Benjamin Lees, Chinese-American soldier and composer (died 2010){{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Martin |title=Benjamin Lees: Composer who eschewed modernism in favour of a gritty, muscular clarity |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/benjamin-lees-composer-who-eschewed-modernism-in-favour-of-a-gritty-muscular-clarity-2066921.html |access-date=24 March 2020 |work=The Independent |date=1 September 2010}}
• 1924 – Ron Moody, English actor and singer (died 2015){{cite book|author=Peter Noble|title=British Film and Television Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJFmAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=King Publications|page=282}}
• 1925 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (died 1972){{cite book|author=Mohan Rakesh|title=One Day in the Season of Rain: The Play that launched modern Hindi theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B_2dCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT45|date=24 April 2015|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-93-5214-012-1|page=45}}
• 1926 – Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (died 2012){{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: Laa-Lyud|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hTwOAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4068-2|page=254}}
• 1926 – Kerwin Mathews, American actor (died 2007){{cite news|last=Bergan|first=Ronald|title=Kerwin Mathews: Actor who crossed swords with animation|work=The Guardian|date=3 September 2007|access-date=8 January 2018|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/03/guardianobituaries.obituaries|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108200941/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/03/guardianobituaries.obituaries|archive-date=8 January 2019|url-status=live}}
• 1926 – Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian dancer and choreographer (died 2004){{Cite web|title=Kelucharan Mohapatra {{!}} Indian dancer|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kelucharan-Mohapatra|access-date=2020-08-02|website= Britannica.com|language=en}}
• 1926 – Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer{{cite book|author=Andrea Arsenault|title=Contemporary Designers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLLXrvCeTGwC|year=1990|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-0-912289-69-4|page=405}} (died 2022)
• 1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (died 2009){{cite book|author=Karin Adir|title=The Great Clowns of American Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5jr9L--C4tMC&pg=PA189|date=1 December 2001|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1303-4|page=189}}
• 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet and academic (died 2015)
• 1928 – Slade Gorton, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 14th Attorney General of Washington{{cite web|url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=G000333|title=Gorton, Thomas Slade, III (Slade) (1928-)|website=Biographical Directory of US Congress|access-date=3 June 2020}} (died 2020){{cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/former-u-s-sen-slade-gorton-92-dies/ |title=Former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, a towering figure in Washington state, dies at 92 |date=18 August 2020 |publisher=Seattletimes.com |access-date=2020-08-19}}
• 1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (died 2015){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/16/saeed-jaffrey|title=Saeed Jaffrey obituary|author=Naseem Khan|date=16 November 2015|website=The Guardian|access-date=3 June 2020}}
• 1931 – Bill Graham, German-American businessman (died 1991)
• 1931 – Clarence Benjamin Jones, American lawyer and scholar{{cite book|author1=Clayborne Carson|author2=Tenisha Armstrong|author3=Susan Carson|title=The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zWN2AAAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-29440-2|pages=163–164}}
• 1933 – Charles Osgood, American soldier and journalist (died 2024){{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/01/08/UPI-Almanac-for-Monday-Jan-8-2018/2171515208436/|title= UPI Almanac for Monday, Jan. 8, 2018|work= United Press International|date=January 8, 2018|access-date=September 21, 2019| archive-date= January 8, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180108222931/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/01/08/UPI-Almanac-for-Monday-Jan-8-2018/2171515208436/|url-status=live|quote=…newsman Charles Osgood in 1933 (age 85)}}
• 1933 – Jean-Marie Straub, French director and screenwriter (died 2022){{cite book|author1=ans-Michael Bock|author2=im Bergfelder|title=The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7gFT_Duq1cC&pg=PA462|date=1 September 2009|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-0-85745-565-9|page=462}}
• 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (died 1987){{cite book|title=Guinness Book of World Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxZNAAAAYAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company|page=551}}
• 1934 – Roy Kinnear, British actor (died 1988){{cite book|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmIYAAAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=St. Martin's|isbn=978-1-55862-050-6|page=431}}
• 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (died 1977){{cite book |author=Guralnick, Peter; Jorgensen, Ernst|year=1999|title=Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music|publisher=Ballantine|isbn=0-345-42089-6|page=3}}
• 1936 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-English zoologist, ecologist, and academic (died 2020){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/29/robert-may-bob-may-lord-may-obituary|title=Lord May of Oxford obituary|date=29 April 2020|author=Georgina Ferry|website=The Guardian|access-date=14 October 2020}}
• 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer{{cite book|author=John L. Williams|title=Miss Shirley Bassey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d8RgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT38|date=2 September 2010|publisher=Quercus|isbn=978-0-85738-394-5|page=38}}
• 1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host and producer{{cite book|title=Chase's ... Calendar of Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZlmAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-9554-8|page=80}}
• 1939 – Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan-American fashion designer{{cite book|author=Janet Riehecky|title=Carolina Herrera: International Fashion Designer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Afs8AAAAYAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Childrens Press|isbn=978-0-516-04178-0|page=6}}
• 1940 – Cristy Lane, American country and gospel singer{{cite book|author=Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum (Nashville, Tenn.)|title=The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xQoKAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-511671-7|page=289}}
• 1941 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (died 1989){{cite book|title=Screen International Film and TV Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqNmAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Screen International, King Publications|page=342}}
• 1941 – Boris Vallejo, Peruvian-American painter{{cite web|title=Boris Vallejo|website=Illustration History|publisher=Norman Rockwell Museum|date=2020|accessdate=8 January 2024|url=https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/boris-vallejo}}
• 1942 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (died 2018){{cite book|author=Thomas Elton|title=Stephen Hawking: A Brief History of My Life Time and a Biography of an Envisioned Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S6rYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|publisher=Thomas Elton|page=1}}
• 1942 – Junichirō Koizumi, Japanese politician, 56th Prime Minister of Japan{{cite book|author=Gale Group|title=Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzksAQAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-7337-6|page=307}}
• 1942 – Yvette Mimieux, American actress (died 2022){{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2022/01/yvette-mimieux-dead-the-time-machine-actress-the-most-deadly-game-1234914745/|title=Yvette Mimieux Dies; Actress/Writer Who Starred In 'The Time Machine' Had Just Turned 80|publisher=Deadline Hollywood|date=18 January 2022|access-date=18 January 2022}}
• 1944 – Terry Brooks, American lawyer and author{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/01/08/UPI-Almanac-for-Monday-Jan-8-2018/2171515208436/|title= UPI Almanac for Monday, Jan. 8, 2018|work= United Press International|date=January 8, 2018|access-date=September 21, 2019| archive-date= January 8, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180108222931/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/01/08/UPI-Almanac-for-Monday-Jan-8-2018/2171515208436/|url-status=live}}
• 1945 – Phil Beal, English footballer{{cite web|url=http://www.sporting-heroes.net/football/tottenham-hotspur-fc/phil-beal-9730/league-appearances_a12832/|title=Phil BEAL|website=sporting-heroes.net|access-date=2 January 2020}}
• 1945 – Nancy Bond, American author and academic{{cite book|author1=Hile|author2=Donna Oldendorf|author3=Hile Kevin|title=Something about the Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0Rh-vhjOOMC|date=July 1995|publisher=Gale Research International, Limited|isbn=978-0-8103-2292-9|page=16}}
• 1945 – Kathleen Noone, American actress
• 1946 – Robby Krieger, American guitarist and songwriter{{cite book|author1=James Riordan|author2=Jerry Prochnicky|title=Break on through: the life and death of Jim Morrison|url=https://archive.org/details/breakonthroughli00rior|url-access=registration|date=June 1991|publisher=Morrow|isbn=978-0-688-08829-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/breakonthroughli00rior/page/84 84]}}
• 1946 – Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Mexican drug lord{{cite book|author=Malcolm Beith|title=The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jmid9oCEz04C&pg=PR9|date=7 September 2010|publisher=Open Road + Grove/Atlantic|isbn=978-0-8021-9622-4|page=9}}
• 1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2016){{cite book|author=Thomas Forget|title=David Bowie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FXfCunHNWrAC&pg=PP13|year=2002|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8239-3523-9|page=13}}
• 1947 – Antti Kalliomäki, Finnish pole vaulter and politician{{cite book|title=Who's Who in European Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WN6eAAAAIAAJ|date=December 1990|publisher=Bowker-Saur|isbn=978-0-86291-911-5|page=328}}
• 1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish director and screenwriter{{cite book|author=Robert Murphy|title=Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UOdkAAAAMAAJ|date=11 September 2006|publisher=British Film Institute|isbn=978-1-84457-126-0|page=402}}
• 1949 – Lawrence Rowe, Jamaican cricketer{{cite book|author1=Bridgette Lawrence|author2=Reg Scarlett|title=100 Great Westindian Test Cricketers: From Challenor to Richards|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbbA2GVEBKQC|year=1988|publisher=Hansib|isbn=978-1-870518-65-9|page=185}}
• 1951 – Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia{{cite book|author1=Roger East|author2=Richard J. Thomas|title=Profiles of People in Power: The World's Government Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VO4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA442|date=3 June 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-63940-4|page=442}}
• 1952 – Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist and educator{{cite book|author=((Chase's Editors))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJLTKKjnDVQC|year=2007|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-146819-0|page=79}}
• 1952 – Peter McCullagh, Irish mathematician and academic{{cite book|author=Royal Society (Great Britain)|title=List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660-1998: a complete listing of all Fellows and Foreign Members since the foundation of the Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XklnAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Royal Society|page=109}}
• 1953 – Marián Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Marian Stastny |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/marian-stastny-8451687 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1953 – Bruce Sutter, American baseball pitcher (died 2022){{cite web|url=https://baseballhall.org/discover/Sutter-remembered-as-pioneer-of-split-fingered-fastball|title=Sutter remembered as pioneer of split-fingered fastball|publisher=Baseball Hall of Fame|date=October 14, 2022|access-date=October 14, 2022}}
• 1955 – Harriet Sansom Harris, American actress
• 1955 – Mike Reno, Canadian singer and drummer{{cite book|author=Norm N. Nite|title=Rock on: the illustrated encyclopedia of rock n' roll: the video revolution, 1978-present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rxwKAQAAMAAJ|date=1 September 1985|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0-06-181644-4|page=191}}
• 1957 – Dwight Clark, American football player (died 2018){{cite web |last1=Goldstein |first1=Richard |title=Dwight Clark, 61, Dies; Made a Touchdown Catch for the Ages |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/obituaries/dwight-clark-61-dies-made-a-touchdown-catch-for-the-ages.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=7 January 2024 |date=5 June 2018}}
• 1957 – Nacho Duato, Spanish dancer and choreographer{{cite book|title=Dansart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=az3vAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Los Libros de Danza|page=71}}
• 1957 – Ron Cephas Jones, American actor (died 2023)
• 1957 – Calvin Natt, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Calvin Natt |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/77691/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1958 – Betsy DeVos, American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education{{cite book|author=Congress (U.S.), Joint Committee on Printing|title=Official Congressional Directory 115th Congress, 2017-2018, Convened January 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bWDn3d8YZNcC&pg=PA763|date=6 September 2018|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-094209-9|page=763}}
• 1958 – Rey Misterio, Mexican wrestler, trainer, and actor. (died 2024){{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2018: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAY3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA596|date=26 September 2017|publisher=Bernan Press|isbn=978-1-59888-926-0|page=596}}
• 1959 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer (died 2005){{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/29/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1|title=Paul Hester|last=Laing|first=Dave|date=29 March 2005|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=28 November 2016}}
• 1960 – Dave Weckl, American drummer{{cite book|title=Modern Drummer: MD.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1O8JAQAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Modern Drummer Publications|page=30}}
• 1961 – Calvin Smith, American sprinter{{cite web|title=Calvin Smith|url=https://www.olympic.org/calvin-smith-1|publisher=International Olympic Committee|access-date=17 April 2020}}
• 1964 – Ron Sexsmith, Canadian singer-songwriter{{cite web|title=Tweet by Ron Sexsmith|url=https://twitter.com/RonSexsmith/status/1479847252264894464|publisher=Twitter|access-date=8 January 2021}}
• 1965 – Michelle Forbes, American actress{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for January 8, 2023 includes celebrities Noah Cyrus, Sarah Polley |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/01/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-january-8-2023-includes-celebrities-noah-cyrus-sarah-polley.html |website=The Plain Dealer |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=7 January 2024 |date=8 January 2023}}
• 1966 – Maria Pitillo, American actress
• 1966 – Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player (died 2009){{cite book|author=K. Michael Gaschnitz|title=The Edmonton Oilers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YLSJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA213|date=31 January 2003|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1252-5|page=213}}
• 1966 – Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (died 1990){{cite book|author=Nick Talevski|title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7548-4|page=481}}
• 1967 – Willie Anderson, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Willie Anderson |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/335/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1967 – R. Kelly, American singer-songwriter, producer, and sex offender{{cite news|url=http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/sweethomecookcounty/pages/rkelly.aspx|title=R. Kelly|access-date=March 31, 2016|work=Cook County Clerk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414092511/http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/sweethomecookcounty/pages/rkelly.aspx|archive-date=April 14, 2016}}
• 1967 – Tom Watson, English politician{{cite book|title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b30NAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited|isbn=978-0-905702-66-7|page=335}}
• 1971 – Jason Giambi, American baseball player{{cite book|author=((Editors of Chase's))|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA79|date=30 September 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-264-1|page=79}}
• 1971 – Andreas Kollross, Austrian politician{{cite web |title=Recherchieren: Personen - Andreas Kollross |url=https://www.parlament.gv.at/person/18666 |publisher=Austrian Parliament |access-date=30 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240929172235/https://www.parlament.gv.at/person/18666 |archive-date=29 September 2024 |location=Vienna, Austria |language=de}}
• 1971 – Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer and coach{{cite web |title=2006 FIFA World Cup Germany List of Players |url=https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf |website=FIFA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610174527/https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2019 |page=27}}
• 1972 – Paul Clement, English footballer, coach, and manager{{cite web |url=https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2015/06/in-profile-paul-clement |title=In profile: Paul Clement |publisher=Derby County F.C. |date=1 June 2015 |access-date=24 September 2020}}
• 1973 – Mike Cameron, American baseball player{{cite book|author=Baseball Prospectus|title=Baseball Prospectus 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OsgRQcR8YHcC&pg=PA313|date=22 February 2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-55840-9|page=313}}
• 1976 – Jenny Lewis, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
• 1977 – Amber Benson, American actress, writer, director, and producer{{cite book|last=Stafford|first=Nikki|title=Bite Me!: The Unofficial Guide to 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'|location=Toronto|publisher=ECW Press|date=2007|isbn=978-1-55022-807-6|page=104}}
• 1978 – Marco Fu, Hong Kongese snooker player{{Cite web|title=Marco Fu|url=https://wst.tv/players/marco-fu/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220174549/https://wst.tv/players/marco-fu/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 20, 2020|access-date=2022-01-09|website=World Snooker|language=en-US}}
• 1979 – Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer and manager{{cite web|url=http://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=177806/index.html|title=SEOL Ki Hyeon profile|website=FIFA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906054447/http://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=177806/index.html|access-date=19 October 2020|archive-date=2015-09-06}}
• 1979 – Windell Middlebrooks, American actor (died 2015){{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Jan. 8: Sam Riley, Jenny Lewis |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/01/08/Famous-birthdays-for-Jan-8-Sam-Riley-Jenny-Lewis/2351673195535/ |publisher=UPI |access-date=7 January 2024 |date=8 January 2023}}
• 1979 – Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer{{Hugman|14348|Adrian Mutu|access-date=29 November 2017}}
• 1979 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/players/player=27322/profile/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100904052448/http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/players/player=27322/profile/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 4, 2010|title=Stipe Pleticosa|website=UEFA|access-date=21 June 2020}}
• 1979 – Sarah Polley, Canadian actress and director{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Brian D. |title=Sarah Polley's birthday triumph at the TFCA Awards |url=https://www.macleans.ca/culture/movies/sarah-polleys-birthday-triumph-at-the-tfca-awards/ |publisher=Maclean's |access-date=6 January 2023 |date=9 January 2013}}
• 1980 – Sam Riley, English actor and singer
• 1981 – Genevieve Cortese, American actress
• 1981 – Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jeff-francis-433585|title=Jeff Francis Stats|website=Major League Baseball|access-date=24 June 2020}}
• 1982 – Gaby Hoffmann, American actress{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/01/08/UPI-Almanac-for-Monday-Jan-8-2018/2171515208436/|title= UPI Almanac for Monday, Jan. 8, 2018|work= United Press International|date=January 8, 2018|access-date=September 21, 2019| archive-date= January 8, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180108222931/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2018/01/08/UPI-Almanac-for-Monday-Jan-8-2018/2171515208436/|url-status=live|quote=...actor Gaby Hoffmann in 1982 (age 36)}}
• 1982 (or 1983, 1984) – Kim Jong Un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea{{cite book|author=Ian Jeffries|title=Contemporary North Korea: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtmNAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA568|date=10 September 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-27610-2|page=568}}
• 1983 – Chris Masters, American wrestler{{cite web |last1=Paglino |first1=Nick |title=WWE To End Raw Guest Hosts?, Chris Masters' Birthday |url=https://www.wrestlezone.com/news/184557-wwe-to-end-raw-guest-hosts-chris-masters-birthday |website=WrestleZone |publisher=Mandatory |access-date=7 January 2024 |date=8 January 2010}}
• 1984 – Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player and broadcaster{{cite web |title=Jeff Francoeur |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jeff-francoeur-425796 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1987 – Chris Douglas-Roberts, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Chris Douglas-Roberts |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/201604/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1987 – Cynthia Erivo, English actress and singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Freddie Stroma, English actor
• 1988 – Adrián López, Spanish footballer{{cite web|url=http://en.clubatleticodemadrid.com/jugadores/adrian-lopez-alvarez-2|title=Adrian|website=Atletico Madrid|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318141200/http://en.clubatleticodemadrid.com/jugadores/adrian-lopez-alvarez-2|access-date=7 July 2020|archive-date=2015-03-18}}
• 1988 – Michael Mancienne, English footballer{{cite book | editor-first = Barry J. | editor-last = Hugman | title = The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010–11 | year = 2010 | publisher = Mainstream Publishing | location = Edinburgh | isbn = 978-1-84596-601-0 | page = 276 }}
• 1988 – Alex Tyus, American-Israeli basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Alex-Tyus/Summary/5630|title=Alex Tyus Player Profile, Florida, NCAA Stats, International Stats, Events Stats, Game Logs, Bests, Awards - RealGM|website=basketball.realgm.com}}
• 1989 – Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player{{cite web|url=http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/profile.asp?ABID=1105|title=Aaron Cruden|website=All Blacks|access-date=25 June 2020}}
• 1990 – Blair Walsh, American football player{{cite web |title=Blair Walsh |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/15058/blair-walsh |publisher=ESPN |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1991 – Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer{{cite web|url=http://www.sydneysixers.com.au/team/player-profiles/josh-hazlewood|title=Sydney Sixers Player Profiles – Josh Hazlewood|access-date=8 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219081420/http://www.sydneysixers.com.au/team/player-profiles/josh-hazlewood|archive-date=19 December 2014}}
• 1991 – Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer{{cite web|url=https://www.fulhamfc.com/player-profiles/stefan-johansen|title=Stefan Johansen|website=fulhamfc.com|access-date=2 January 2020}}
• 1991 – Stefan Savić, Montenegrin footballer{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/players/player=1907998/profile/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614042517/http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/players/player=1907998/profile/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 14, 2010|title=Stefan Savić|website=UEFA|access-date=31 August 2020}}
• 1991 – Greg Smith, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Greg Smith |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/202962/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1992 – Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player{{cite web|url=https://www.wnba.com/player/stefanie-dolson/#/gamelogs|title=Game Log|website=Women's National Basketball Association|access-date=21 June 2020}}
• 1992 – Koke, Spanish footballer{{cite web |title=Olympedia – Koke |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/125660 |website=www.olympedia.org |access-date=25 February 2021}}
• 1992 – Valkyrae, American online streamer{{Cite tweet |number=1744502686471655835 |user=Valkyrae |title=32 today!!!!! 🥳 |date=January 8, 2024 |access-date=January 7, 2025}}
• 1993 – William Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player{{cite web |title=William Karlsson |url=https://www.nhl.com/goldenknights/player/william-karlsson-8476448 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1993 – Sophie Pascoe, New Zealand swimmer{{cite web|url=https://paralympics.org.nz/paralympians-profiles/sophie-pascoe-paralympian-166/|title=Sophie Pascoe|website=Paralympics NZ|access-date=10 October 2020}}
• 1994 – Glenn Robinson III, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Glenn Robinson III |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/203922/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1995 – Ryan Destiny, American actress and singer{{cite tweet |first= Ryan |last= Destiny |author-link= Ryan Destiny |user=RyanDestiny |number=818145024697335809 |date= January 8, 2017|title= Ryan Destiny on Twitter: "23 years young"|link= https://twitter.com/RyanDestiny/status/818145024697335809 |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}
• 1998 – Tony Bradley, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Tony Bradley |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1628396/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1998 – Jhoan Durán, Dominican baseball player{{cite web |title=Jhoan Duran |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jhoan-duran-661395 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=24 October 2024}}
• 1999 – Ignas Brazdeikis, Lithuanian-Canadian basketball player{{cite web |title=Ignas Brazdeikis |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1629649/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=7 January 2024}}
• 1999 – Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter{{Cite news|date=8 January 2021|title=Damiano, 22 anni da rockstar per il cantante dei Maneskin|work=La Repubblica|url=https://www.repubblica.it/moda-e-beauty/dossier/i-compleanni-dei-vip/2021/01/08/news/damiano_david_compleanno_22_anni_cantante_maneskin-291105416/|access-date=2 June 2021 |last=Lupini |first=Anna |quote=...è nato a Roma l'8 gennaio del 1999 |language=it}}
• 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American singer, songwriter, and actress{{cite web|url=https://news.amomama.com/234869-glimpse-noah-cyrus-journey-becoming-a-mu.html|title=Glimpse into Noah Cyrus' Journey to Becoming a Music Star|website=AmoMama|date=1 November 2020}}
• 2001 – Zach Charbonnet, American football player{{cite web |title=Zach Charbonnet Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft ... |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/C/CharZa00.htm |website=Pro Football Reference |access-date=January 7, 2025}}

• 307 – Hui of Jin, Chinese emperor (born 259){{cite book|title=East Asian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tT1uAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University|page=156}}
• 482 – Severinus of Noricum, Italian apostle and saint{{cite book|author=Adrian Murdoch|title=The Last Roman: Romulus Augustulus and the Decline of the West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EMA7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT66|date=15 December 2006|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7524-9608-5|page=66}}
• 871 – Bagsecg, Viking warrior and leader{{cite book|author=Jim Bradbury|title=The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3FRsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA135|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-59847-2|page=135}}
• 926 – Athelm, archbishop of Canterbury{{cite book|author=S. E. Kelly|title=Charters of Bath and Wells|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JoRnAAAAMAAJ|date=8 November 2007|publisher=OUP/British Academy|isbn=978-0-19-726397-6|page=182}}
• 1079 – Adèle of France, countess of Flanders (born 1009){{cite book|author=Anne Commire|title=Women in World History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RT0OAQAAMAAJ|date=12 December 2000|publisher=Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-4069-9|page=617}}
• 1107 – Edgar, King of Scotland (born 1074){{cite book|author=Philip J. Potter|title=Gothic Kings of Britain: The Lives of 31 Medieval Rulers, 1016-1399|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_zW8TBBVQkC&pg=PA130|date=14 January 2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5248-4|page=130}}
• 1198 – Celestine III, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1106){{cite book|author=Christopher Kleinhenz|title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2CTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT555|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94880-1|page=555}}
• 1337 – Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (born 1266){{cite book|author=Bard Thompson|title=Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hrq9d567398C&pg=PA236|year=1996|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-6348-5|page=236}}
• 1354 – Charles de la Cerda, French nobleman (born 1327){{cite book |title=Les Grandes Chroniques de France: Chronique des règnes de Jean II et de Charles V, Tome Premier (1350–1364) |volume=I |editor-first=Roland |editor-last=Delachenal |publisher=Librairie Renouard |year=1910 |pages=37–38|language=fr}}
• 1424 – Stephen Zaccaria, archbishop of Patras{{La Morée franque}} page 10
• 1456 – Lawrence Giustiniani, Italian bishop and saint (born 1381){{cite book|author=Pope John XXIII|title=Journal of a Soul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oSCr4lQbl30C&pg=PA286|date=9 July 2000|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-567-12306-0|page=286}}
• 1538 – Beatrice of Portugal, duchess of Savoy (born 1504){{cite book|title=History of Piedmont|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1cj4Zj0RPq0C&pg=PA337|year=1855|publisher=Chapman and Hall|page=337}}
• 1557 – Albert Alcibiades, margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (born 1522){{cite book|author=Rawdon Lubbock Brown|title=Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Relating to English Affairs: Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice, and in Other Libraries of Northern Italy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nf6VA0XRymIC&pg=PA1298|date=6 May 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-06061-5|page=1298}}
• 1570 – Philibert de l'Orme, French sculptor and architect, designed the Château d'Anet (born 1510){{cite book|author1=Russell Sturgis|author2=Francis A. Davis|title=Sturgis' Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building: An Unabridged Reprint of the 1901-2 Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j9wAW2YleywC&pg=PA387|date=27 March 2013|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-14840-3|page=387}}
• 1598 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1525){{cite book|author=Frederick II (King of Prussia)|title=Memoirs of Frederick III, King of Prussia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zIDgvwek9vIC&pg=PA3|year=1758|publisher=P. Wilson and J. Exshaw|page=3}}

• 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (born 1564){{cite book|title=Nuncius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-gHAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=L.S. Olschki|page=315}}
• 1707 – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and politician, Scottish Secretary of State (born 1648){{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmBBAQAAMAAJ|year=1910|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|page=1697}}
• 1713 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (born 1653){{cite book|author=L. C. Harnsberger|title=Essential Dictionary of Music|date=1997 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mzu1eaR0ikAC&pg=PA80|publisher=Alfred Music|isbn=978-1-4574-1112-0|page=80}}
• 1775 – John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (born 1706){{cite book|author=John Alfred Langford|title=A Century of Birmingham Life; or, a chronicle of local events, from 1741 to 1841. Compiled and edited by J. A. L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJ8qhNRaZ_cC&pg=PA214|year=1868|page=214}}
• 1789 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (born 1703){{cite ODNB|last=Gee | first=Tony | title=Broughton, John (c. 1703–1789), pugilist | year=2004 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-3586 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/3586 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |access-date=26 July 2023}}
• 1794 – Justus Möser, German lawyer and jurist (born 1720){{cite book|author=Franz J. L. THIMM|title=The Literature of Germany, from its earliest period to the present time... Edited by W. H. Faru|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nNaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA59|year=1866|page=59}}
• 1815 – Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (born 1778){{cite book|author=Stuart Murray|title=Atlas of American Military History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJ_sy7mmmxQC&pg=PA55|year=2004|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-3025-5|page=55}}
• 1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (born 1765){{cite book|author=Holly Cefrey|title=The Inventions of Eli Whitney: The Cotton Gin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vnnLV9S5ANYC&pg=PA20|date=15 December 2002|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc|isbn=978-0-8239-6443-7|page=20}}
• 1854 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English field marshal and politician, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance (born 1768){{cite book|title=The Military Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVu5AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA7|year=1854|page=7}}
• 1865 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (born 1779)
• 1874 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French historian and archaeologist (born 1814){{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Brasseur de Bourbourg, Charles Etienne |volume= 04 | pages = 434–435; see page 435, penultimate line |quote= He died at Nice on the 8th of January 1874}}
• 1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (born 1821){{cite book|author=Murray B. Peppard|title=Nikolai Nekrasov|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxBgAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Twayne Publishers|page=16}}
• 1880 – Emperor Norton, English-American businessman (born 1811){{cite book|author=Allen Stanley Lane|title=Emperor Norton: The Mad Monarch of America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lEEJAQAAIAAJ|year=1939|publisher=Caxton printers, Limited|page=272}}
• 1883 – Miska Magyarics, Slovene-Hungarian poet (born 1825)
• 1896 – William Rainey Marshall, American banker and politician, 5th Governor of Minnesota (born 1825)
• 1896 – Paul Verlaine, French poet and writer (born 1844){{cite book|author1=Charles Dudley Warner|author2=Hamilton Wright Mabie|author3=Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle|title=Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jtOAAAAYAAJ|year=1902|publisher=J. A. Hill|page=15315}}

• 1914 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American general and 30th Governor of Kentucky (born 1823){{cite book|author=Arndt Stickles|title=Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uv3U_BMcktoC|year=2001|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=978-0-8078-5356-6|page=425}}
• 1916 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (born 1884){{cite book|author=Philippe Dejean|title=Bugatti: Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KdTAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Random House Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8478-0446-7|page=144}}
• 1916 – Ada Rehan, Irish-American actress (born 1860){{cite book|title=The Acting of Ada Rehan (Ada Crehan,1860-1916): A Study Based on Contemporary Opinion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4RdKAQAAMAAJ|year=1919|publisher=University of Iowa|page=15}}
• 1918 – Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (born 1827){{cite book|title=Journal of History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YnbUAAAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=Board of Publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints|page=253}}
• 1920 – Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (born 1852){{cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016041832.html|title= Josephi, Josef, 1852-1920|website=id.loc.gov|access-date=30 October 2019}}
• 1925 – George Bellows, American painter (born 1882){{cite book|author=Gerry Souter|title=American Realism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XXOlCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT162|date=15 September 2015|publisher=Parkstone International|isbn=978-1-78310-767-4|page=162}}
• 1934 – Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic (born 1880){{cite book|author=Gerald Janecek|title=Andrey Bely: A Critical Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gLQfBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA8|date=15 July 2014|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-6167-9|page=8}}
• 1934 – Alexandre Stavisky, Ukrainian-French financier (born 1886)Paul Jankowski, Stavisky - A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue, (2002)David Clay Large, Between Two Fires: Europes Path in the 1930s (W.W.Norton: 1990) pp 24-58
• 1938 – Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (born 1880){{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/01/10/archives/john-gruelle-dead-cartoonist-writer-creator-of-comic-strip-brutus.html | title=John Gruelle Dead; Cartoonist, Writer; Creator of Comic Strip 'Brutus' Was on The Herald Tribune – Wrote Children's Books| agency = Associated Press | work=The New York Times | date= January 10, 1938| access-date = October 30, 2015}} Abstract; full article requires subscription.Hall, Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy, p. 178.
• 1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general and founder of the Scout movement (born 1857){{cite book|author=F. M. Leventhal|title=Twentieth-century Britain: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwgZAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-0-8204-5108-4|page=35}}
• 1941 – Vladimír Mandl, Czechoslovak lawyer (born 1899){{Cite book |last1=Kopal |first1=Vladimír |title=Pioneers of Space Law |last2=Hofmann |first2=Mahulena |publisher=Brill |year=2013 |isbn=978-90-04-24027-8 |editor-last=Hobe |editor-first=Stephan |pages=56–69 |chapter=Vladimír Mandl (20.3.1899 – 8.1.1941) |doi=10.1163/9789004240285_007}}
• 1942 – Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American lawyer and religious leader (born 1869){{cite book | last = Rogerson |first = Alan| title = Millions Now Living Will Never Die: A Study of Jehovah's Witnesses | publisher = Constable & Co, London| year = 1969 |page = 64| isbn = 0-09-455940-6}}
• 1943 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (born 1879)
• 1944 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American lieutenant and sailor (born 1878){{cite news |title=William Kissam Vanderbilt |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/174800962.html?dids=174800962:174800962&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jan+08%2C+1944&author=&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=William+K.+Vanderbilt&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106194856/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/csmonitor_historic/access/174800962.html?dids=174800962:174800962&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jan+08,+1944&author=&pub=Christian+Science+Monitor&desc=William+K.+Vanderbilt&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 6, 2012 |quote=William Kissam Vanderbilt, who passed on here today, was a former President of the New York Central Railroad and one of the nation's foremost yachtsmen ... |newspaper=Associated Press |date= January 8, 1944 |access-date=2011-05-23 }}
• 1945 – Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer and author (born 1900){{cite book|author=James Randi|title=The Mask of Nostradamus: The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4J1hNKT3nSUC|year=1993|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-0-87975-830-1|page=124}}
• 1948 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter and graphic designer (born 1887){{cite book|author=Elizabeth Burns Gamard|title=Kurt Schwitters Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMr4w3V5otYC&pg=RA1-PA2|date=April 2000|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=978-1-56898-136-9|page=2}}
• 1950 – Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and academic (born 1883){{cite book|chapter-url= http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Schumpeter.html |chapter=Joseph Alois Schumpeter: Biography |title=Library of Economics and Liberty |publisher=Econlib.org |access-date=19 December 2019}}
• 1952 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1866){{cite book |last1=Cavendish |first1=Dean Miller |title=Astronomers and Cosmologists |date=Jan 1, 2014 |publisher=Square Publishing, LLC |pages=127–129 |isbn=978-1-62712-549-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kpVmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127 |access-date=8 July 2020}}
• 1953 – Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (born 1883){{cite book|title=The Illustrated London News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IZoeAQAAMAAJ|year=1953|publisher=William Little|page=83}}
• 1954 – Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (born 1898){{cite book|title=The Yale University Library Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NMaAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Yale University Library|page=159}}
• 1958 – Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (born 1869){{cite book|title=Arizona, 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXOxlZyym8sC|date=29 August 1990|publisher=Fodor's Travel Publications|isbn=978-0-679-01874-2|page=183}}
• 1961 – Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player and coach (born 1910){{cite web|url=http://www.thedeadballera.com/Obits/Obits_R/Rowe.Linwood.Obit.html|title=Schoolboy Rowe, Pitcher, 48, Dies|work=New York Times|date=January 9, 1961}}
• 1963 – Kay Sage, American painter (born 1898)Suther, Judith D. A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, page 223
• 1975 – Richard Tucker, American operatic tenor (born 1913){{cite news |last1=Carmody |first1=Deirdre |title=Richard Tucker's Friends Fill the Met for Funeral |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/01/11/936867572.html?pageNumber=32 |access-date=8 November 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=January 11, 1975}}
• 1976 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1898){{cite book|title=Great Events: 1971-1984|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbhWAAAAYAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-1-58765-058-1|page=1849}}
• 1980 – John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (born 1907){{cite book|author=IDG Enterprise|title=Computerworld|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5XFJRnhR28C&pg=PA35|date=2 November 1981|publisher=IDG Enterprise|page=35}}
• 1982 – Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (born 1908){{cite book|author=Mike Kaplan|title=Variety International Show Business Reference, 1983|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_RLAAAAYAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Garland Pub.|isbn=978-0-8240-9089-0|page=17}}
• 1983 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (born 1919){{Cite book |last=Barbas |first=Bernd |year=2014 |title=Das vergessene As — Der Jagdflieger Gerhard Barkhorn |trans-title=The Forgotten Ace — The Fighter Pilot Gerhard Barkhorn |language=de, en |location=Bad Zwischenahn, Germany |publisher=Luftfahrtverlag-Start |isbn=978-3-941437-22-7|page=202}}
• 1986 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (born 1906){{cite news |last1=Holland |first1=Bernard |title=Pierre Fournier is Dead at 79; Cellist Typified French Style |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/09/obituaries/pierre-fournier-is-dea-at-79-cellist-typified-french-style.html |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=9 January 1986 |ref=nytobituary}}
• 1990 – Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (born 1919)
• 1990 – Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian (born 1911){{cite news|last=Adair|first=Gilbert|title=Obituary: Terry-Thomas|newspaper=The Independent|date=9 January 1990|author-link=Gilbert Adair|location=London|page=13}}
• 1991 – Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1960){{cite book|author=Deborah Andrews|title=Annual Obituary, 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-175-6|page=14}}
• 1994 – Pat Buttram, American actor and comedian (born 1915){{cite book|author1=Patsy Montana|author2=Jane Frost|title=Patsy Montana: The Cowboy's Sweetheart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qd_HkaVAWzMC&pg=PA238|date=15 February 2002|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1080-4|page=238}}
• 1994 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (born 1925){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/10/obituaries/harvey-haddix-68-known-for-pitching-12-perfect-innings.html|title=Harvey Haddix, 68; Known for Pitching 12 Perfect Innings|date=January 10, 1994|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=The New York Times}}
• 1996 – Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (born 1968){{cite book|title=Official Journal of the European Communities: Information and notices|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3DeutcF3w48C|year=1996|publisher=Office for Official Publications of the European Communities|pages=280–289}}
• 1996 – François Mitterrand, French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France (born 1916){{cite news |title=1996: France's former president Mitterrand dies |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/8/newsid_4489000/4489322.stm |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC}}
• 1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911){{Cite journal | last1 = Seaborg | first1 = G. T. | author-link1 = Glenn T. Seaborg| last2 = Benson | first2 = A. A. | author-link2 = Andrew Benson| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2007.0050 | title = Melvin Calvin. 8 April 1911 -- 8 January 1997 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 54 | pages = 59–70 | year = 2008 | doi-access = free }}
• 1998 – Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (born 1905){{cite book|author1=Kenneth Gloag|author2=Nicholas Jones|title=The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Qj3AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA3|date=17 January 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-47033-0|page=3}}
• 2000 – Hilary Smart, American sailor (born 1925){{Cite web |title=Hilary Smart |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/63693 |website=olympedia.org |access-date=28 March 2024 }}
• 2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916){{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alexander-prokhorov-9180425.html|title=Alexander Prokhorov|author=Jeff Hecht|date=23 January 2002|website=The Independent|access-date=24 November 2020}}
• 2002 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (born 1932){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/09/business/dave-thomas-69-wendy-s-founder-dies.html|title=Dave Thomas, 69, Wendy's Founder, Dies|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=2002-01-09|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-08-27|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
• 2003 – Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (born 1925){{cite book|title=Film Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=easqAQAAIAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Orpheus Pub|page=17}}
• 2006 – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern Irish broadcaster and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (born 1943){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jan/09/guardianobituaries.obituaries1|title=Tony Banks|author=Julia Langdon|date=9 January 2006|website=The Guardian|access-date=24 November 2020}}
• 2007 – Jane Bolin, American lawyer and judge (born 1908){{cite book|title=Who's who in Colored America|date=1942|publisher=Who's Who in Colored America Corporation|page=371|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rQRAQAAMAAJ&q=ralph+mizelle&pg=PA371|access-date=28 March 2018|language=en}}
• 2007 – Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (born 1916){{cite web|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2169226.ece|title=Obituary - Lord Cockfield|website=The Independent|date=22 January 2007|author=John Barnes|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001031353/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2169226.ece|access-date=24 November 2020|archive-date=2007-10-01}}
• 2007 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (born 1922){{cite news|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|title=Yvonne De Carlo Dies at 84; Played Lily on 'Munsters'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/arts/television/11decarlo.html?_r=0|access-date=March 25, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 11, 2007|page=B6}}
• 2007 – David Ervine, Northern Irish politician and activist (born 1953)[http://www.independent.ie/national-news/progressive-unionist-leader-ervine-dies-58295.html Progressive Unionist leader Ervine dies] The Independent, 8 January 2007. Accessed 3 June 2020
• 2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (born 1925){{cite news |title=Scooby-Doo's creator dies aged 81 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6243717.stm |work=BBC News |date=2007-01-08 |access-date=2007-01-10 }}
• 2008 – George Moore, Australian jockey and trainer (born 1923){{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-01-09/champion-jockey-moore-dies/1007240|title=Champion jockey Moore dies|date=8 January 2008|website=ABC|access-date=12 February 2021}}
• 2009 – Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan journalist (born 1958){{cite news |first=Oliver |last=Luft |title=Sri Lankan newspaper editor shot dead |work=The Guardian |date=8 January 2009|access-date=10 January 2009|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/08/sri-lankan-editor-killed | location=London}}
• 2010 – Art Clokey, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921){{cite news|last=Felch | first=Jason | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-me-art-clokey9-2010jan09,0,5170610.story | title=Art Clokey dies at 88; creator of Gumby | work=Los Angeles Times | date=January 9, 2010 | access-date=May 20, 2012}}
• 2011 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (born 1937){{cite news |title=Jiri Dienstbier: A Czech's career |url=http://www.economist.com/node/17911256 |newspaper=The Economist |date=13 January 2011 |access-date=3 September 2012}}
• 2011 – Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (born 1924){{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Thorbj%C3%B8rn_Svenssen/utdypning|title=Thorbjørn Svenssen|last=Jacobsen|first=Fridthjof|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|language=Norwegian|access-date=12 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915022355/http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Thorbj%c3%b8rn_Svenssen/utdypning|archive-date=2012-09-15}}
• 2012 – Dave Alexander, American singer and pianist (born 1938){{cite news|url=http://www.ksla.com/story/16473447/legendary-arklatex-musician-found-shot-to-death |title=Legendary ArkLaTex musician found dead Sunday |date=January 8, 2012 |access-date=January 9, 2012 |archive-date=January 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113085147/http://www.ksla.com/story/16473447/legendary-arklatex-musician-found-shot-to-death |last=Stanley |first=James |publisher=KSLA News 12 }}
• 2012 – T. J. Hamblin, English haematologist and academic (born 1943){{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/medicine-obituaries/9036815/Terry-Hamblin.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/medicine-obituaries/9036815/Terry-Hamblin.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary for Professor Terry Hamblin|website=The Telegraph|date=24 January 2012}}{{cbignore}}
• 2012 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (born 1929){{cite web| author=Margalit Fox | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/music/alexis-weissenberg-pianist-of-fire-and-ice-dies-at-82.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/arts/music/alexis-weissenberg-pianist-of-fire-and-ice-dies-at-82.html |archive-date=2022-01-03 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Alexis Weissenberg, Pianist of Fire and Ice, Dies at 82|work=The New York Times| date=2012-01-09 |access-date=2014-11-14}}{{cbignore}}
• 2013 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (born 1927){{cite web|author=Mark Lipman|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/article/1312121--kenojuak-ashevak-renowned-inuit-artist-dies-at-85|title=Kenojuak Ashevak, renowned Inuit artist, dies at 85|website=The Star|access-date=2020-11-18|archive-date=2013-01-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130055809/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/article/1312121--kenojuak-ashevak-renowned-inuit-artist-dies-at-85}}", 8 January 2013, The Toronto Star. Accessed 8 January 2013.
• 2013 – Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (born 1920){{cite news|title = Jeanne Manford, PFLAG founder, dies|author = Coté, J.|date = January 10, 2013|access-date = November 18, 2020|newspaper = San Francisco Chronicle|url = http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Jeanne-Manford-PFLAG-founder-dies-4184570.php}}
• 2013 – Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (born 1930){{cite news|last=Wilby|first=Peter|url= http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/04/thin-controller|title=The Thin Controller|work=New Statesman|date=16 April 2016|access-date=20 October 2016}}
• 2014 – Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch-Australian swimmer (born 1925){{Cite web|url=http://www.knzb.nl/wedstrijdsport/zwemmen/nieuws/bericht/1000024886/oud_topzwemster_irma_heijting_schuhmacher_overleden/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122170856/http://www.knzb.nl/wedstrijdsport/zwemmen/nieuws/bericht/1000024886/oud_topzwemster_irma_heijting_schuhmacher_overleden/|title=Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher's obituary|archive-date=January 22, 2014|language=nl}}
• 2014 – Antonino P. Roman, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1939){{cite web |url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/01/08/14/ex-congressman-antonino-roman-passes-away |title=Ex-congressman Antonino Roman passes away |date=8 January 2014|access-date=8 January 2014 |publisher=abs-cbnnews.com}}
• 2015 – Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (born 1942){{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/arts/music/andra-crouch-72-who-infused-gospel-with-soul-dies.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/arts/music/andra-crouch-72-who-infused-gospel-with-soul-dies.html |archive-date=2022-01-03 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Andraé Crouch, 72, Who Infused Gospel With Soul, Dies| work=The New York Times | date=January 9, 2015 | access-date=November 8, 2016 | author=Bruce Weber}}{{cbignore}}
• 2015 – Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (born 1926){{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/former-federal-attorney-general-kep-enderby-remembered-among-his-peers-20150113-12nqcy.html|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media|date=14 January 2015|title=Former federal Attorney General Kep Enderby remembered among his peers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160928091608/http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/former-federal-attorney-general-kep-enderby-remembered-among-his-peers-20150113-12nqcy.html|archive-date=28 September 2016|first=Michael|last=Easson|author-link=Michael Easson}}
• 2015 – Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer (born 1921){{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2015/tv/people-news/actress-patsy-garrett-dies-at-93-1201407386/|title=Actress Patsy Garrett Dies at 93|work=Variety|date=16 January 2015|access-date=17 January 2015}}
• 2016 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (born 1926){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/11/maria-teresa-de-filippis|title=Maria Teresa de Filippis|author=Richard Williams|date=11 January 2016|website=The Guardian|access-date=3 June 2020}}
• 2016 – German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor, comedian and talent manager (born 1933){{Cite web|title=Master Showman German 'Kuya Germs' Moreno passes away|url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/550430/showbiz/master-showman-german-kuya-germs-moreno-passes-away|website=GMA News Online|date=8 January 2016|access-date=18 November 2020}}
• 2017 – Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (born 1925){{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/arts/music/nicolai-gedda-celebrated-opera-tenor-dies-at-91.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/arts/music/nicolai-gedda-celebrated-opera-tenor-dies-at-91.html |archive-date=2022-01-03 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Nicolai Gedda, Celebrated Opera Tenor, Dies at 91|author=Margalit Fox|work=The New York Times|date=10 February 2017|access-date=11 February 2017}}{{cbignore}}
• 2017 – James Mancham, Seychellois politician, President 1976-77 (born 1939){{cite news | last1 = Vannier | last2 = Bonnelame | first1 =Rassin | first2 =Betymie | title = Former Seychelles' president James Mancham dies at residence | newspaper = Seychelles News Agency | location = Victoria, Seychelles | language = en | date = 8 January 2017 | url =http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/6572/Former+Seychelles+president+James+Mancham+dies+at+residence | access-date = 8 January 2017 }}
• 2017 – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician (born 1934){{cite news|last1=Erdbrink|first1=Thomas|title=Death of Iran's Rafsanjani Removes Influential Voice Against Hard-Liners|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/08/world/middleeast/iran-ali-akbar-hashemi-rafsanjani-dies.html?_r=0|access-date=8 January 2017|work=The New York Times|date=8 January 2017}}
• 2017 – Peter Sarstedt, Indian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941){{Cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/advice/peter-sarstedt-dies-tdm9mrccg |title=Peter Sarstedt dies |work=The Times |date=9 January 2017 |access-date=9 January 2017}}
• 2020 – Pat Dalton, Australian footballer (born 1942){{cite web |last1=Kennedy |first1=Peter |title=Pat Dalton - Champion Centreman |url=http://www.perthfc.com.au/news/18382/pat-dalton-champion-centreman |website=Perth Football Club |access-date=4 March 2020 |date=14 January 2020}}
• 2020 – Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (born 1930){{Cite web | url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/ | title=Buck Henry Dies: 'The Graduate' Writer, 'Get Smart' Co-Creator & Early 'SNL' Favorite Was 89| date=2020-01-09}}
• 2021 – Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (born 1922){{cite news|url=https://newsweek.ro/actualitate/a-murit-iancu-tucarman-penultimul-supravietuitor-al-trenurilor-mortii-din-timpul-pogromului|title=A murit Iancu Țucărman, penultimul supraviețuitor al "trenurilor morții" din timpul Pogromului|first=Alex|last=Darvari|newspaper=Newsweek România|date=9 January 2021|language=ro}}{{cite news|url=https://adevarul.ro/news/societate/iancu-Tucarman-supravietuitor-pogromului-iasi-murit-cauza-covid-19-1_5ff8c5ae5163ec4271bc21c6/index.html|title=Iancu Țucărman, supraviețuitor al Pogromului de la Iași, a murit din cauza COVID-19|first=George Andrei|last=Cristescu|newspaper=Adevărul|date=8 January 2021|language=ro}}
• 2022 – Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (born 1944){{cite magazine |last1=Newman |first1=Jason |last2=Kreps |first2=Daniel |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/woodstock-michael-lang-dead-1281681/ |title=Woodstock Impresario Michael Lang Dead at 77 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=January 9, 2022 |access-date=January 9, 2022}}
• 2024 – Adan Canto, Mexican actor (born 1981){{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-01-09/adan-canto-dead-obituary-cleaning-lady|first=Jonah|last=Valdez|title=Adan Canto, 'The Cleaning Lady' and 'Designated Survivor' actor, dies at 42|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=10 January 2024|date=9 January 2024}}

• Babinden (Belarus, Russia)
• Christian feast day:
• Abo of Tiflis
• Apollinaris Claudius
• Blessed Eurosia Fabris
• Gauchito Gil (Folk Catholicism)
• Gudula
• Harriet Bedell (Episcopal Church (USA))
• Lawrence Giustiniani
• Lucian of Beauvais
• Maximus of Pavia
• Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Roman Catholic Church)
• Pega (Anglican and Roman Catholic churches)
• Severinus of Noricum
• Thorfinn of Hamar
• January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
• Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while January 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Saturday in January. (Thailand)
• Typing Day (International observance)

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