People born on January 8

Elvis Presley

American singer and actor (1935–1977)

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

Kim Jong-un

General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and 3rd Supreme leader of North Korea

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

Alfred Russel Wallace

British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)

R. Kelly

American R&B singer and sex offender

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

Georgy Malenkov

Soviet politician (1901–1988)

Emily Greene Balch

American economist and writer

Walther Bothe

German physicist (*1891 – †1957)

David Silva

Spanish association football player

Carl Rogers

American psychologist (1902–1987)

Baltasar Gracián

Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658)

Wilkie Collins

British writer (1824-1889)

Maximilian Kolbe

Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1894–1941)