On This Day = January 8

Bithdays + Events + Holidays + Observances

EDWARD PERRY WARREN + KERWIN MATHEWS

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.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• National Argyle Day

• National Bubble Bath Day

• Typing Day (International observance)