| 3511 | January 8 | Birth | 1990 – Claudine Mendy, French handball player |
| 3512 | January 8 | Birth | 1990 – Scott Pye, Australian race car driver |
| 3513 | January 8 | Birth | 1991 – Jorge Enríquez, Mexican footballer |
| 3514 | January 8 | Birth | 1991 – Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer |
| 3515 | January 8 | Birth | 1991 – Shin Jimin, South Korean singer, actress, and dancer (AOA) |
| 3516 | January 8 | Birth | 1991 – Emiliano Tabone, Argentinian footballer |
| 3517 | January 8 | Birth | 1992 – Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player |
| 3518 | January 8 | Birth | 1992 – Apostolos Vellios, Greek footballer |
| 3519 | January 8 | Birth | 1992 – Pamu Pamorada, Filipino actress |
| 3520 | January 8 | Birth | 1993 – Giovanni Galbieri, Italian sprinter |
| 3521 | January 8 | Birth | 1993 – Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare disease (d. 2013) |
| 3522 | January 8 | Birth | 1993 – Amanda Lim, Singaporean swimmer |
| 3523 | January 8 | Birth | 1993 – Marek Šovčík, Slovak footballer |
| 3524 | January 8 | Birth | 1994 – Charlotte Römer, Ecuadorian tennis player |
| 3525 | January 8 | Birth | 1997 – Fran Brodić, Croatian footballer |
| 3526 | January 8 | Birth | 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer |
| 3527 | January 8 | Birth | 2011 – Princess Josephine of Denmark |
| 3528 | January 8 | Birth | 2011 – Prince Vincent of Denmark |
| 3529 | January 8 | Death | 307 – Emperor Hui of Jin (b. 259) |
| 3530 | January 8 | Death | 482 – Severinus of Noricum, Italian saint (b. 410) |
| 3531 | January 8 | Death | 1107 – Edgar, King of Scotland (b. 1074) |
| 3532 | January 8 | Death | 1198 – Pope Celestine III (b. 1106) |
| 3533 | January 8 | Death | 1337 – Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (b. 1266) |
| 3534 | January 8 | Death | 1456 – Lawrence Giustiniani, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1381) |
| 3535 | January 8 | Death | 1464 – Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian and academic (b. 1385) |
| 3536 | January 8 | Death | 1557 – Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (b. 1522) |
| 3537 | January 8 | Death | 1570 – Philibert de l'Orme, French architect, designed the Château d'Anet (b. 1510) |
| 3538 | January 8 | Death | 1598 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525) |
| 3539 | January 8 | Death | 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564) |
| 3540 | January 8 | Death | 1664 – Moses Amyraut, French physician and theologian (b. 1596) |