The 8th day of the year
Born on 8 January
Every 8 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Capricorn, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CapricornEarth, cardinal, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 8 January in any year.
Which weekday 8 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 8 January falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Sunday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Friday 15, Wednesday 15.
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How common a birthday 8 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,783 babies were born on 8 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 265th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 8 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Elvis Presley | 1935–1977 | American singer and actor |
| Stephen Hawking | 1942–2018 | British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author |
| David Bowie | 1947–2016 | English musician and actor |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | 1823–1913 | British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist |
| R. Kelly | 1967– | American singer-songwriter and record producer |
| Junichiro Koizumi | 1942– | Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006 |
| Emily Greene Balch | 1867–1961 | American economist and writer |
| Walther Bothe | 1891–1957 | German physicist, mathematician and chemist |
| Carl Rogers | 1902–1987 | American psychologist |
| Baltasar Gracián | 1601–1658 | Spanish Jesuit priest, prose writer and philosopher |
| Wilkie Collins | 1824–1889 | British writer |
| Miguel Primo de Rivera | 1870–1930 | Spanish military officer and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 |
| Koke | 1992– | Spanish association football player |
| Su Shi | 1037–1101 | Chinese writer and politician |
| Jacques Anquetil | 1934–1987 | French cyclist |
| Shirley Bassey | 1937– | Welsh singer |
| José Ferrer | 1912–1992 | American actor and director |
| Adrian Mutu | 1979– | Romanian footballer |
Died on 8 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Galileo Galilei | 1564–1642 | Italian polymath |
| François Mitterrand | 1916–1996 | 21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 |
| Paul Verlaine | 1844–1896 | French poet |
| Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | 1857–1941 | lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement |
| Zhou Enlai | 1898–1976 | 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China |
| Giotto | 1267–1337 | Italian painter and architect |
| Nikolay Nekrasov | 1821–1878 | Russian poet, writer, critic, editor and publisher |
| Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | 1934–2017 | Iranian politician |
| Alexander Prokhorov | 1916–2002 | Soviet and Russian physicist |
| Pope Celestine III | died 1198 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1191 to 1198 |
| Joseph Schumpeter | 1883–1950 | Austrian political economist |
| Melvin Calvin | 1911–1997 | American biochemist |
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