| 3481 | January 8 | Birth | 1981 – Carmen Schäfer, Swiss curler |
| 3482 | January 8 | Birth | 1981 – Virgil Spier, Dutch sprinter and hurdler |
| 3483 | January 8 | Birth | 1981 – Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player |
| 3484 | January 8 | Birth | 1982 – Emanuele Calaiò, Italian footballer |
| 3485 | January 8 | Birth | 1982 – Wil Francis, American singer-songwriter and producer (Aiden and William Control) |
| 3486 | January 8 | Birth | 1982 – Gaby Hoffmann, American actress |
| 3487 | January 8 | Birth | 1982 – Wesley Marquette, Mauritian footballer |
| 3488 | January 8 | Birth | 1982 – John Utaka, Nigerian footballer |
| 3489 | January 8 | Birth | 1983 – Felipe Colombo, Mexican-Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor |
| 3490 | January 8 | Birth | 1983 – Kim Jong-un, North Korean soldier and politician 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea |
| 3491 | January 8 | Birth | 1983 – Chris Masters, American wrestler and actor |
| 3492 | January 8 | Birth | 1984 – Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player |
| 3493 | January 8 | Birth | 1984 – Stephen Simpson, South African race car driver |
| 3494 | January 8 | Birth | 1986 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (d. 2003) |
| 3495 | January 8 | Birth | 1986 – Maria Ozawa, Japanese-Canadian porn actress and model |
| 3496 | January 8 | Birth | 1986 – David Silva, Spanish footballer |
| 3497 | January 8 | Birth | 1986 – Jamie T, English singer-songwriter |
| 3498 | January 8 | Birth | 1987 – Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player |
| 3499 | January 8 | Birth | 1987 – Freddie Stroma, English actor and singer |
| 3500 | January 8 | Birth | 1988 – Allison Harvard, American model and actress |
| 3501 | January 8 | Birth | 1988 – Vitaliy Hoshkoderya, Ukrainian footballer |
| 3502 | January 8 | Birth | 1988 – Adrián López Álvarez, Spanish footballer |
| 3503 | January 8 | Birth | 1988 – Michael Mancienne, English footballer |
| 3504 | January 8 | Birth | 1989 – Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player |
| 3505 | January 8 | Birth | 1989 – Kristján Einar, Icelandic race car driver |
| 3506 | January 8 | Birth | 1989 – Barbora Silná, Czech-Austrian ice dancer |
| 3507 | January 8 | Birth | 1990 – Hassan Adhuham, Maldivian footballer |
| 3508 | January 8 | Birth | 1990 – Jeff Allen, American football player |
| 3509 | January 8 | Birth | 1990 – Danny Barrera, Colombian-American soccer player |
| 3510 | January 8 | Birth | 1990 – Sascha Bigalke, German footballer |