January 8th, 1979

Born on January 8th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 455 days, exactly on July 25th, 2025, people who were born on January 8th, 1979 will be 17,000 days old!

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What happened on January 8th?

January 8th, 2011

Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a public meeting held by U.S. representative Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, killing six people and injuring twelve others.

January 8th, 2010

Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus transporting the Togo national football team to the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, killing three people.

January 8th, 1991

Jeremy Wade Delle committed suicide in his high-school class in Richardson, Texas, an event that inspired the Pearl Jam song "Jeremy".

January 8th, 1981

In Trans-en-Provence, France, a local farmer reported a UFO sighting claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".

January 8th, 1977

Three bombs attributed to Armenian nationalists exploded across Moscow, killing seven people and injuring 37 people.

January 8th, 1972

Following Pakistan's defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto released Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (pictured) from prison in response to international pressure.

January 8th, 1964

During his State of the Union address, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a "war on poverty".

January 8th, 1936

Reza Shah issued the Kashf-e hijab decree, ordering Iranian police to remove hijabs from any women in public.

January 8th, 1918

U.S. president Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post–World War I peace in Europe.

January 8th, 1904

Blackstone Library (pictured), the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.

January 8th, 1889

American statistician Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electromechanical tabulating machine for punched-card data.

January 8th, 1790

George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York City, then the provisional capital of the United States.

January 8th, 1735

George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante premiered at the Covent Garden Theatre in London.

January 8th, 1198

Lotario dei Conti was elected as Pope Innocent III; he later worked to restore papal power in Rome.

January 8th, 2023

Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian Congress.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 8th

Born on January 8th, 1979

45

Adrian Mutu

Romanian footballer

*January 8th, 1979, Călinești

45

David Civera

Spanish singer

*January 8th, 1979, Teruel

45

Sarah Polley

Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter

*January 8th, 1979, Toronto

45

Seol Ki-hyeon

South Korean footballer

*January 8th, 1979, Jeongseon County

45

Hanna Ljungberg

Swedish association football player

*January 8th, 1979, Umeå

45

Simon Colosimo

Australian soccer player

*January 8th, 1979, Melbourne

45

Stipe Pletikosa

Croatian association football player

*January 8th, 1979, Split

45

Harpreet Sandhu

Indian actor

*January 8th, 1979, Rurka Kalan

45

Tommy Miller

Footballer (born 1979)

*January 8th, 1979, Shotton Colliery

45

Birte Hanusrichter

German actress

*January 8th, 1979, Hamm

45

Maya Ford

Bass player for The Donnas

*January 8th, 1979, Oakland

45

Torry Castellano

American musician

*January 8th, 1979, San Francisco

45

Eric Paulhus

Canadian actor

*January 8th, 1979, Laval

45

Donna Agnesia

Indonesian actor and model

*January 8th, 1979, Jakarta

45

Tomasz Schafernaker

Polish-British meteorologist

*January 8th, 1979, Gdańsk

45

Erin McCarley

American musician

*January 8th, 1979, Garland

36

Windell Middlebrooks

American actor (1979–2015)

*January 8th, 1979, Fort Worth †March 10th, 2015, Los Angeles

45

Marsha Timothy

Indonesian actress

*January 8th, 1979, Jakarta

45

Ashraf Barhom

Israeli Arab actor

*January 8th, 1979, Ma'alot-Tarshiha

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42

Huang Sui

Badminton player

*January 8th, 1982, Hunan

40

Kim Jong-un

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

*January 8th, 1984, Pyongyang

44

Hugo Grimm

German actor

*January 8th, 1980, Ndanda

34

Chou Tien-Chen

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 8th, 1990, Taipei

76

Stephen Hawking

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

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

47

Amber Benson

American actress

*January 8th, 1977, Birmingham

42

Elvis Presley

American singer and actor (1935–1977)

*January 8th, 1935, Tupelo †August 16th, 1977, Memphis

25

Arne Maier

German association football player

*January 8th, 1999, Ludwigsfelde

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

44

Rachel Nichols

American actress and model (born. 1980)

*January 8th, 1980, Augusta

37

Cynthia Erivo

British actress and singer

*January 8th, 1987, Stockwell

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

36

Lars Bender

German footballer (1988–)

*January 8th, 1988, Koblenz

75

Heino Aunin

Estonian badminton player

*January 8th, 1935, Valga †May 2nd, 2010, Tallinn

38

David Silva

Spanish association football player

*January 8th, 1986, Arguineguín

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

72

Klaus-Peter Flosbach

German politician

*January 8th, 1952, Wipperfürth

89

Bab Christensen

Norwegian actress (1928-2017)

*January 8th, 1928, Oslo †April 10th, 2017, Oslo

44

Lee Jung-soo

South Korean association football player

*January 8th, 1980, Gimhae

35

Marcel Meisen

German cyclist

*January 8th, 1989, Stolberg

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Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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