| 3601 | January 8 | Death | 1979 – Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter and harp player (Carter Family) (b. 1898) |
| 3602 | January 8 | Death | 1980 – John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907) |
| 3603 | January 8 | Death | 1981 – Matthew Beard, American actor and singer (b. 1925) |
| 3604 | January 8 | Death | 1982 – Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908) |
| 3605 | January 8 | Death | 1983 – Hüseyin Alp, Turkish basketball player and actor (b. 1935) |
| 3606 | January 8 | Death | 1983 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German pilot (b. 1919) |
| 3607 | January 8 | Death | 1983 – Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924) |
| 3608 | January 8 | Death | 1983 – Tom McCall, American journalist and politician 30th Governor of Oregon (b. 1913) |
| 3609 | January 8 | Death | 1984 – Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist and academic (b. 1912) |
| 3610 | January 8 | Death | 1986 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906) |
| 3611 | January 8 | Death | 1990 – Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919) |
| 3612 | January 8 | Death | 1990 – Terry-Thomas, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1911) |
| 3613 | January 8 | Death | 1991 – Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960) |
| 3614 | January 8 | Death | 1992 – Reta Shaw, American actress and singer (b. 1912) |
| 3615 | January 8 | Death | 1994 – Pat Buttram, American actor and singer (b. 1915) |
| 3616 | January 8 | Death | 1994 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925) |
| 3617 | January 8 | Death | 1995 – Carlos Monzón, Argentinian boxer and actor (b. 1942) |
| 3618 | January 8 | Death | 1996 – Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968) |
| 3619 | January 8 | Death | 1996 – John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945) |
| 3620 | January 8 | Death | 1996 – François Mitterrand, French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France (b. 1916) |
| 3621 | January 8 | Death | 1996 – Howard Taubman, American author and critic (b. 1907) |
| 3622 | January 8 | Death | 1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
| 3623 | January 8 | Death | 1998 – Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905) |
| 3624 | January 8 | Death | 2000 – Fritz Thiedemann, German horse rider (b. 1918) |
| 3625 | January 8 | Death | 2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) |
| 3626 | January 8 | Death | 2002 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (b. 1932) |
| 3627 | January 8 | Death | 2003 – Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925) |
| 3628 | January 8 | Death | 2004 – Charles Brown, American actor (b. 1946) |
| 3629 | January 8 | Death | 2004 – John A. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1930) |
| 3630 | January 8 | Death | 2005 – Aksella Luts, Estonian filmmaker and actress (b. 1905) |