Notable deaths on January 8

Laotian royal (1938–2025)

Mexican actor (1981–2024)

American concert promoter and record producer (1944–2022)

Romanian Jewish Holocaust and Iași pogrom survivor

American actor (1930–2020)

Australian rules footballer (1942–2020)

President of Iran from 1989 to 1997

President of Seychelles

Swedish operatic tenor (1925–2017)

British singer-songwriter (1941–2017)

Filipino television host, actor, comedian, and talent manager (1933–2016)

Italian racing driver (1926–2016)

American gospel singer, songwriter, and choir leader (1942–2015)

Australian politician (1926–2015)

American actress and singer (1921–2015)

Filipino politician (1939–2014)

Dutch swimmer (1925–2014)

British television producer and executive (1930–2013)

American schoolteacher and activist

Inuk artist (1927–2013)

Bulgarian-born French pianist

American Texas blues singer and pianist (1938–2012)

British academic (1943–2012)

Czech politician and journalist