Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 8

Births

 * 1823 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913)
 * 1824 - Wilkie Collins, British novelist (d. 1889)
 * 1926 - Soupy Sales, American comedian (d. 2009)
 * 1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977) (pictured)
 * 1941 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (d. 1989)
 * 1947 - David Bowie, English musician (d. 2016)

Deaths

 * 1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
 * 1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (b. 1564)
 * 1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
 * 1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
 * 1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)