About the day » Saturday January 8, 1994Calender converter

• Rykelt Klaas Pieters Smink († 1994)
• Juul Phillipart

• Beert de Bildt (70)
• Alie de Heer (69), Nunspeet
• Antoinette Maria Victoria Muller (82), Aurora, Colorado
• Adriaan Van Hooydonck (73), Brasschaat, België
• Apolônia Petry (78), Rio Farias, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Albertus H C van Gemert (42)
• * Francina Wilhelmina Kuivenhoven (89), Rotterdam
• Adriana van Ballegooie (83)
• Afke De Vries (99), Makkum, Friesland, Nederland
• Anthonius Johannes van der Vlugt (79), Nieuwveen

• 1986 » David Silva, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Adrián López, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Michael Mancienne, English footballer
• 1989 » Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player
• 1991 » Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer
• 1991 » Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer
• 1991 » Stefan Savić, Montenegrin footballer
• 1992 » Apostolos Vellios, Greek footballer
• 1992 » Koke, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player

• 1990 » Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919)
• 1990 » Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian (b. 1911)
• 1991 » Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)
• 1994 » Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 1994 » Pat Buttram, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)
• 1996 » François Mitterrand, French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France (b. 1916)
• 1996 » Howard Taubman, American author and critic (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968)
• 1997 » Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)

1. Thomas
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Michael
6. Willem
7. Robin
8. Johannes
9. Niels
10. Daniel
11. Rick
12. Dennis
13. Max
14. David
15. Tim
16. Jacob

1. Laura
2. Anne
3. Lisa
4. Tessa
5. Michelle
6. Sanne
7. Anna
8. Melissa
9. Charlotte
10. Eva
11. Amanda
12. Esther
13. Elisabeth
14. Johanna
15. Iris
16. Eline

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
• April 7 » Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
• October 1 » Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
• November 7 » WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
• November 20 » The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
• December 24 » Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists.
• December 29 » Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.

The temperature on January 8, 1994 was between 1.0 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.