| 3331 | January 8 | Birth | 1925 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (d. 1972) |
| 3332 | January 8 | Birth | 1926 – Evelyn Lear, American soprano and actress (d. 2012) |
| 3333 | January 8 | Birth | 1926 – Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2004) |
| 3334 | January 8 | Birth | 1926 – Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer |
| 3335 | January 8 | Birth | 1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (d. 2009) |
| 3336 | January 8 | Birth | 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet and academic (d. 2015) |
| 3337 | January 8 | Birth | 1928 – Slade Gorton, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 14th Attorney General of Washington |
| 3338 | January 8 | Birth | 1928 – Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (d. 1996) |
| 3339 | January 8 | Birth | 1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-English actor |
| 3340 | January 8 | Birth | 1931 – Bill Graham, German-American businessman (d. 1991) |
| 3341 | January 8 | Birth | 1931 – Clarence Benjamin Jones, American lawyer and scholar |
| 3342 | January 8 | Birth | 1931 – Chuck Metcalf, American bassist (d. 2012) |
| 3343 | January 8 | Birth | 1933 – Nolan Miller, American fashion designer (d. 2012) |
| 3344 | January 8 | Birth | 1933 – Charles Osgood, American soldier and journalist |
| 3345 | January 8 | Birth | 1933 – Jean-Marie Straub, French director and screenwriter |
| 3346 | January 8 | Birth | 1933 – Willie Tasby, American baseball player |
| 3347 | January 8 | Birth | 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987) |
| 3348 | January 8 | Birth | 1934 – Gene Freese, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013) |
| 3349 | January 8 | Birth | 1934 – Roy Kinnear, English actor (d. 1988) |
| 3350 | January 8 | Birth | 1934 – Alexandra Ripley, American author (d. 2004) |
| 3351 | January 8 | Birth | 1935 – Lewis H. Lapham, American publisher |
| 3352 | January 8 | Birth | 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1977) |
| 3353 | January 8 | Birth | 1936 – Zdeněk Mácal, Czech-American conductor |
| 3354 | January 8 | Birth | 1936 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-English zoologist, ecologist, and academic |
| 3355 | January 8 | Birth | 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer |
| 3356 | January 8 | Birth | 1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host |
| 3357 | January 8 | Birth | 1938 – Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens, English sociologist and academic |
| 3358 | January 8 | Birth | 1938 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer and educator |
| 3359 | January 8 | Birth | 1938 – Camille Yarbrough, American actress, television producer, poet and author |
| 3360 | January 8 | Birth | 1939 – Nanda, Indian actress (d. 2014) |