What happened on January 8 ?

482 - Saint Severinus

1100 - Antipope Clement III

1107 - King Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)

1198 - Pope Celestine III

1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)

1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)

1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)

1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)

1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect

1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1564)

1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)

1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)

1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)

1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer

1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)

1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1778)

1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)

1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)

1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)

1874 - Charles-ÿtienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)

1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)

1880 - Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor Norton I of the United States" (b. 1811)

1896 - William Raine Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)

1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)

1916 - Ada Rehan, Stage Actress (b. 1860)

1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (b. 1866)

1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)

1941 - Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier, writer, and founder of Scouting (b. 1857)

1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)

1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)

1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)

1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary and martyr (b. 1928)

1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)

1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)

1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)

1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)

1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (b. 1911)

1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)

1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)

1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)

1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist and computer engineer (b. 1907)

1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)

1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)

1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)

1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)

1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)

1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)

1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)

1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)

1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)

1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)

1997 - Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)

2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)

2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)

2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)

2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)

2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)

2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)

2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer

2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)

2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)