Anniversaries 8 January
Birth
![Husayn ibn Ali photo]()
The grandson of Muhammad and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib
626–680
![Baltasar Gracián photo]()
Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher
1601–1658
![Orson Hyde photo]()
American Mormon leader
1805–1878
![James Longstreet photo]()
Confederate Army general
1821–1904
![Alfred Russel Wallace photo]()
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist an…
1823–1913
![Hans von Bülow photo]()
German musician
1830–1894
![James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon photo]()
British politician
1871–1940
![A. J. Muste photo]()
Christian pacifist and civil rights activist
1885–1967
![Robert Clarkson Clothier photo]()
American academic administrator
1885–1970
![Richard Courant photo]()
German American mathematician (1888-1972)
1888–1972
![Maximilian Kolbe photo]()
Polish Conventual Franciscan friar
1894–1941
![S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike photo]()
Sri Lankan politician
1899–1959
![Carl R. Rogers photo]()
American psychologist
1902–1987
![George Forsythe photo]()
Stanford University computer scientist
1917–1972
![Philip Selznick photo]()
American sociologist
1919–2010
![Edward Robert Harrison photo]()
British astronomer
1919–2007
![Joseph Weizenbaum photo]()
German-American computer scientist
1923–2008
![Daniel A. Wren photo]()
American business theorist
1932
![Alexandra Ripley photo]()
American writer
1934–2004
![Elvis Presley photo]()
American singer and actor
1935–1977
![Robert M. May photo]()
Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser …
1936
![Graham Chapman photo]()
English comedian, writer and actor
1941–1989
![Stephen Hawking photo]()
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
1942–2018
![Charles Murray photo]()
American libertarian political scientist, author, and colum…
1943
![Robby Krieger photo]()
American rock guitarist and songwriter
1946
![David Bowie photo]()
British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
1947–2016
![Archie Roach photo]()
Australian musician
1956–2022
![Anita Dunn photo]()
American political strategist
1958
![Betsy DeVos photo]()
11th United States Secretary of Education
1958
![Jenny Lewis photo]()
American actor, singer-songwriter
1976
![Amber Benson photo]()
actress from the United States
1977
![Kim Jong-un photo]()
3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea
1984
![Peng Shuai photo]()
Chinese female tennis player (1986-)
1986
![Paola Di Benedetto photo]()
Italian showgirl, model, television presenter and radio host
1995
![Alexard Esther photo]()
Alexard Esther also know as Jenny Queen is a Haitian short …
1996
![Noah Cyrus photo]()
American singer and actress
2000
Death
![Marco Polo photo]()
Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central …
1254–1324
![Philibert de l'Orme photo]()
French architect of the Renaissance.
1514–1570
![Galileo Galilei photo]()
Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
1564–1642
![Richard Watson photo]()
British methodist theologian
1781–1833
![Emperor Norton photo]()
Self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States
1811–1880
![Keshub Chunder Sen photo]()
Indian academic
1838–1884
![Katrina Trask photo]()
American writer
1853–1922
![Robert Baden-Powell photo]()
lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and…
1857–1941
![Charles Alexander Eastman photo]()
American scouting pioneer
1858–1939
![Peter Altenberg photo]()
Austrian writer and poet
1859–1919
![Charles Edward Merriam photo]()
American political scientist
1874–1953
![Yoshijirō Umezu photo]()
Japanese general
1882–1949
![Joseph Alois Schumpeter photo]()
Austrian economist
1883–1950
![Dion Fortune photo]()
British occultist and author
1890–1946
![Zhou Enlai photo]()
1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
1898–1976
![Kenneth Patchen photo]()
American writer and poet
1911–1972
![Nicolas Schöffer photo]()
French sculptor and plastician
1912–1992
![Michel Thomas photo]()
American linguist and language teacher
1914–2005
![François Mitterrand photo]()
21st President of the French Republic
1916–1996
![Art Clokey photo]()
American animator
1921–2010
![Yvonne De Carlo photo]()
Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer
1922–2007
![André Gernez photo]()
French physician
1923–2014
![Jim Elliot photo]()
Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
1927–1956
![Ed McCully photo]()
American Christian missionary
1927–1956
![Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani photo]()
Iranian politician, Shi'a cleric and Writer
1934–2017
![Richard John Neuhaus photo]()
Canadian-American Christian writer
1936–2009
![Tony Banks photo]()
British politician
1942–2006
![Tony Halme photo]()
Finnish boxer and politician
1963–2010
