Anniversaries 8 January
Birth
The grandson of Muhammad and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib
626–680
Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher
1601–1658
American Mormon leader
1805–1878
Confederate Army general
1821–1904
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist an…
1823–1913
German musician
1830–1894
British politician
1871–1940
Christian pacifist and civil rights activist
1885–1967
American academic administrator
1885–1970
German American mathematician (1888-1972)
1888–1972
Polish Conventual Franciscan friar
1894–1941
Sri Lankan politician
1899–1959
American psychologist
1902–1987
Stanford University computer scientist
1917–1972
American sociologist
1919–2010
British astronomer
1919–2007
German-American computer scientist
1923–2008
American business theorist
1932
American writer
1934–2004
American singer and actor
1935–1977
Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser …
1936
English comedian, writer and actor
1941–1989
British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
1942–2018
American libertarian political scientist, author, and colum…
1943
American rock guitarist and songwriter
1946
British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
1947–2016
Australian musician
1956–2022
American political strategist
1958
11th United States Secretary of Education
1958
American actor, singer-songwriter
1976
actress from the United States
1977
3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea
1984
Chinese female tennis player (1986-)
1986
Italian showgirl, model, television presenter and radio host
1995
Alexard Esther also know as Jenny Queen is a Haitian short …
1996
American singer and actress
2000
Death
Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central …
1254–1324
French architect of the Renaissance.
1514–1570
Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
1564–1642
British methodist theologian
1781–1833
Self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States
1811–1880
Indian academic
1838–1884
American writer
1853–1922
lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and…
1857–1941
American scouting pioneer
1858–1939
Austrian writer and poet
1859–1919
American political scientist
1874–1953
Japanese general
1882–1949
Austrian economist
1883–1950
British occultist and author
1890–1946
1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
1898–1976
American writer and poet
1911–1972
French sculptor and plastician
1912–1992
American linguist and language teacher
1914–2005
21st President of the French Republic
1916–1996
American animator
1921–2010
Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer
1922–2007
French physician
1923–2014
Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
1927–1956
American Christian missionary
1927–1956
Iranian politician, Shi'a cleric and Writer
1934–2017
Canadian-American Christian writer
1936–2009
British politician
1942–2006
Finnish boxer and politician
1963–2010