Did I ever tell you how special January 8 is? :) It is the..

Birthday of
- German composer Robert Schumann (1810)
- Elvis Presley (1935)
- Shirley Bassey (1937)
- Stephen W. Hawking (1942) - A Brief History of Time
- David Bowie (1947)

& Death Anniversary of
- Marco Polo, Explorer (1324)
- Galileo Galilei, Astronomer (1642)
- Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement (1941)
- Zhou Enlai, the most popular leader of China in the 20th century (1976)
- François Mitterrand, President of France (1981-95) (1996)

Wow! I could be famous one day!! :O Check out who's born on your birthday at Genealogy Today