Discover what happened on 8 January 2006 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Births
- Julia Kaitlyn Fujimagari ((born 2006))
- Benjamin Hurd ((born 2006))
- Katie Grimes (American swimmer)
- Callan Short (badminton player)
- Martín Landaluce (Spanish tennis player)
- Ainhoa Alguacil
- Matija Popović (Serbian association football player)
- Wiktoria Gadajska (Polish hurdler)
- Andrew Idoko (Nigerian association football player)
- Habiba Emad (Egyptian footballer)
- Bernardo Loroño (Bolivian footballer)
- Lucas Balthazar
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- Ghofrane Lahmedi (Tunisian athlete)
Deaths
- Mimmo Rotella (Italian artist and poet (1918-2006))
- František Vystrčil (Czech film director (1923-2006))
- Manfred Bofinger (German illustrator (1941–2006))
- Helmut Schmolz (German archivist (1928–2006))
- James Robert Hightower (American sinologist (1915–2006))
- Jamie Hodgson (British photographer (1930-2006))
- Joop van Elsen (Dutch politician (1916-2006))
- Stafke Fabri (Belgian singer (1934–2006))
- Elbert Nathaniel Gates
- Yves Gras (French soldier (1921-2006))
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- Butch McDonald (Canadian ice hockey player)
- David Rosenbaum (American journalist)
- Gloria Root (American model (1948–2006))
- Frances Margaret Leighton (South African botanist (1909-2006))
- Jim Spruill (American football and basketball player (1923-2006))
- Özdemir Birsel (Turkish screenwriter and film director)
- Masaaki Tanaka (Japanese writer (1911-2006))
- Merv Connors (American baseball player (1914-2006))
- Raatbek Sanatbayev (Kyrgyzstani wrestler and politician (1969–2006))
- Zheng Wenhan (Chinese military officer)
- José Luis Sánchez (Argentine footballer (1974-2006))
- John H. Brodie (American physicist)
- Naomi Tanaka (Japanese actor (1957-2006))
- Noboru Inaba
- Veijo-Lassi Holopainen (Finnish journalist, pesäpallo player and sports journalist (1921-2006))
- Ján Tabaček (Czechoslovak manager, minister of international trade and slovak nation politician (1927–2006))
- Bogdan Brukner (Serbian historian (1931-2006))
- Ulduz Rafili-Aliyeva (Azerbaijani and Soviet theater director)
- Andrej Bystran
- Serafima Karpovna Safonova
- Jim Lounsbury (Disc jockey, radio host, UPI radio news anchor (1923-2006))
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- Hiroshi Ishida
- Richard Aquilina (Maltese association football player (1953-2006))
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- Priscilla Young (Young, Priscilla Helen Ferguson (1925–2006), social worker)
- Frank B. Morrison Jr. (American politician)
- Tomás Chávarri del Rivero (Spanish diplomat (1929-2006))
- Avraham Cohen (Israeli diplomat)
- Boris Stavisky
- Paul Knüpper (German politician (1930-2006))
- Victorine Q. Adams (African American politician in Baltimore)
- Katherine Graham Peden (Kentucky business leader, politician, and government advisor)
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- Frans De Pauw (Belgian academic)
- Fernand Monnier ((1920-2006))
- Willi Jaksch
- Jogendra Naik (politician from Odisha, India (1947-2006))
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- Ruth Fournier Barker (World War II veteran (1917-2006))
- Hubert Clement Hungerford Pollen ((1913-2006))
- Pauline Geertruida Ine van den Boom ((1914-2006))
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- Ron Heller (college basketball player (1960–1961) Wichita State)
- François Taillefer
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- Márta Lécesné Mesterházi-Nagy (Hungarian librarian (1930–2006))
- Gyula Tokody (Hungarian historian (1927–2006))
- Olaf Roß
- Tyrone Danell Brooks (African American person killed due to interaction with a California Law Enforcement Agency)
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (British politician (1942-2006))
- Alex Elmsley (Magician famous for the Elmsley Count (1929–2006))
- Elson Becerra (Colombian footballer (1978-2006))
- Rajczi Péter Pál (Hungarian jurist, teacher, historian and archivist (1917-2006))
- Tony Banks, Baron Stratford (British politician (1942-2006))
- Prince Georg Wilhelm of Hanover (German nobleman (1915–2006))
- Alex Elmsley (Magician famous for the Elmsley Count (1929–2006))
- Elson Becerra (Colombian footballer (1978-2006))
- Rajczi Péter Pál (Hungarian jurist, teacher, historian and archivist (1917-2006))