On This Day = January 8
Bithdays + Events + Holidays + Observances
BIRTHDAYS
1860 = Edward Perry Warren = American art collector and curator 🌈
1862 = Frank Nelson Doubleday = American Doubleday Publishing founder
1864 = Prince Albert Victor = English royal 🌈
1865 = Winnaretta Singer = American heiress 🌈
1909 = Evelyn Wood = American author and educator
1911 = Gypsy Rose Lee = American actor, dancer, and author
1912 = José Ferrer = Puerto Rican-American actor and director
1924 = Ron Moody = English actor and singer
1926 = Kerwin Mathews = American actor 🌈
1926 = Soupy Sales = American comedian and actor
1933 = Charles Osgood = American soldier and journalist
1935 = Elvis Presley = American singer and actor
1937 = Shirley Bassey = Welsh singer
1938 = Bob Eubanks = American game show host and producer
1939 = Carolina Herrera = Venezuelan-American fashion designer
1940 = Cristy Lane = American country and gospel singer
1941 = Boris Vallejo = Peruvian-American painter
1941 = Graham Chapman = English actor and screenwriter
1942 = Gilbert Passmore = British artist (Gilbert & George) 🌈
1942 = Stephen Hawking = English physicist and author
1944 = Terry Brooks = American lawyer and author
1945 = Kathleen Noone = American actor
1947 = David Bowie = British singer-songwriter and actor 🌈
1948 = Gillies MacKinnon = Scottish director and screenwriter
1955 = Harriet Sansom Harris = American actor
1957 = Nacho Duato = Spanish dancer and choreographer 🌈
1957 = Ron Cephas Jones = American actor
1964 = Ron Sexsmith = Canadian singer-songwriter
1965 = Michelle Forbes = American actor
1976 = Jenny Lewis = American singer-songwriter and actor
1979 = Sarah Polley = Canadian actor and director
1980 = Sam Riley = English actor and singer
1982 = Gaby Hoffmann = American actor
1987 = Cynthia Erivo = British actor and singer 🌈
1987 = Freddie Stroma = English actor
1997 = Jack Andraka = American inventor. scientist. and researcher 🌈
2000 = Noah Cyrus = American singer-songwriter = and actor
EVENTS
1790 = George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in NYC.
1835 = US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.
1904 = Blackstone Library, the first branch of the Chicago Public Library system, was dedicated.
1978 = Harvey Milk is sworn in as a member of the SF Board of Supervisors.
1979 = Acting San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein names Harry Britt to fill the vacant Board of Supervisor’s seat left empty by the assassination of Harvey Milk.
1982 = Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
2004 = The New Jersey Legislature passes a bill creating a domestic partnership status for same-sex couples, with many of the same legal rights as marriage.