| 3241 | January 8 | Birth | 1632 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German economist and jurist (d. 1694) |
| 3242 | January 8 | Birth | 1635 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal (d. 1709) |
| 3243 | January 8 | Birth | 1638 – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1665) |
| 3244 | January 8 | Birth | 1735 – John Carroll, American archbishop (d. 1815) |
| 3245 | January 8 | Birth | 1763 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American translator and diplomat (d. 1834) |
| 3246 | January 8 | Birth | 1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier (d. 1844) |
| 3247 | January 8 | Birth | 1788 – Archduke Rudolf of Austria (d. 1831) |
| 3248 | January 8 | Birth | 1792 – Lowell Mason, American composer and educator (d. 1872) |
| 3249 | January 8 | Birth | 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 3rd Governor of California (d. 1871) |
| 3250 | January 8 | Birth | 1805 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (d. 1878) |
| 3251 | January 8 | Birth | 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1871) |
| 3252 | January 8 | Birth | 1817 – Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (d. 1893) |
| 3253 | January 8 | Birth | 1821 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (d. 1904) |
| 3254 | January 8 | Birth | 1821 – W. H. L. Wallace, American lawyer and general (d. 1862) |
| 3255 | January 8 | Birth | 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1913) |
| 3256 | January 8 | Birth | 1824 – Wilkie Collins, English author and playwright (d. 1889) |
| 3257 | January 8 | Birth | 1824 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (d. 1861) |
| 3258 | January 8 | Birth | 1830 – Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (d. 1902) |
| 3259 | January 8 | Birth | 1830 – Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894) |
| 3260 | January 8 | Birth | 1836 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter (d. 1912) |
| 3261 | January 8 | Birth | 1843 – Frederick Abberline, English police officer (d. 1929) |
| 3262 | January 8 | Birth | 1843 – Karl Eduard Heusner, German admiral (d. 1891) |
| 3263 | January 8 | Birth | 1843 – John H. Moffitt, American soldier and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1926) |
| 3264 | January 8 | Birth | 1852 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931) |
| 3265 | January 8 | Birth | 1854 – John Rahm, American golfer (d. 1935) |
| 3266 | January 8 | Birth | 1859 – Fanny Bullock Workman, American mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1925) |
| 3267 | January 8 | Birth | 1860 – Emma Booth, English author (d. 1903) |
| 3268 | January 8 | Birth | 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934) |
| 3269 | January 8 | Birth | 1864 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892) |
| 3270 | January 8 | Birth | 1865 – Winnaretta Singer, American heiress (d. 1943) |