Editing January 8 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1642]] &ndash; [[Galileo Galilei]], Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564)<ref>{{cite book|title=Nuncius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-gHAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=L.S. Olschki|page=315}}</ref>
*[[1707]] &ndash; [[John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair]], Scottish soldier and politician, [[Secretary of State, Scotland|Scottish Secretary of State]] (b. 1648)<ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmBBAQAAMAAJ|year=1910|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|page=1697}}</ref>
*[[1713]] &ndash; [[Arcangelo Corelli]], Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653)<ref>{{cite book|author=L. C. Harnsberger|title=Essential Dictionary of Music|date=1997 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mzu1eaR0ikAC&pg=PA80|publisher=Alfred Music|isbn=978-1-4574-1112-0|page=80}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[John Baskerville]], English printer and type designer (b. 1706)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Alfred Langford|title=A Century of Birmingham Life; or, a chronicle of local events, from 1741 to 1841. Compiled and edited by J. A. L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJ8qhNRaZ_cC&pg=PA214|year=1868|page=214}}</ref>
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Jack Broughton]], English boxer (b. 1703)<ref>{{cite ODNB|last=Gee | first=Tony | title=Broughton, John (c. 1703–1789), pugilist | year=2004 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-3586 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/3586 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |access-date=26 July 2023}}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Justus Möser]], German lawyer and jurist (b. 1720)<ref>{{cite book|author=Franz J. L. THIMM|title=The Literature of Germany, from its earliest period to the present time... Edited by W. H. Faru|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nNaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA59|year=1866|page=59}}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[Edward Pakenham]], Anglo-Irish general and politician (b. 1778)<ref>{{cite book|author=Stuart Murray|title=Atlas of American Military History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJ_sy7mmmxQC&pg=PA55|year=2004|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-3025-5|page=55}}</ref>
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Eli Whitney]], American engineer and theorist, invented the [[cotton gin]] (b. 1765)<ref>{{cite book|author=Holly Cefrey|title=The Inventions of Eli Whitney: The Cotton Gin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vnnLV9S5ANYC&pg=PA20|date=15 December 2002|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc|isbn=978-0-8239-6443-7|page=20}}</ref>
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford]], English field marshal and politician, [[Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance]] (b. 1768)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Military Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVu5AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA7|year=1854|page=7}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre]], French general and politician, [[Minister of Defence (France)|French Minister of Defence]] (b. 1779)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg]], French historian and archaeologist (b. 1814)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Brasseur de Bourbourg, Charles Etienne |volume= 04 | pages = 434&ndash;435; see page 435, penultimate line |quote= He died at Nice on the 8th of January 1874}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Nikolay Nekrasov]], Russian poet and critic (b. 1821)<ref>{{cite book|author=Murray B. Peppard|title=Nikolai Nekrasov|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxBgAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Twayne Publishers|page=16}}</ref>
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Emperor Norton]], English-American businessman (b. 1811)<ref>{{cite book|author=Allen Stanley Lane|title=Emperor Norton: The Mad Monarch of America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lEEJAQAAIAAJ|year=1939|publisher=Caxton printers, Limited|page=272}}</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Miska Magyarics]], Slovene-Hungarian poet (b. 1825)
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[William Rainey Marshall]], American banker and politician, 5th [[Governor of Minnesota]] (b. 1825)
*  1896 &ndash; [[Paul Verlaine]], French poet and writer (b. 1844)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles Dudley Warner|author2=Hamilton Wright Mabie|author3=Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle|title=Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jtOAAAAYAAJ|year=1902|publisher=J. A. Hill|page=15315}}</ref>