January 8

Shorts

• 1928 - Harem Scarem

Television

• 1999 - The Timon & Pumbaa episodes "Luck Be a Meerkat" and "Just When You Thought You'd Cuisine It All" premiere on Disney Channel.
• 2016 - BUNK'D premieres on the Disney Channel with the episode "Counselors' Night Off".
• 2019 - Good Trouble premieres on Freeform.

VHS & DVD releases

• 2002
  • The Book of Pooh: A Valentine for Eeyore
  • The Color of Friendship
  • Miracle in Lane 2
  • Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century
  • Zenon: The Zequel
  • Motocrossed

Video games

• 2008 - Dance Dance Revolution Disney Channel Edition is released for PlayStation 2.

DVD & Blu-ray releases

• 2013 - Frankenweenie

Books

• 2013 - Eye of the Dragon
• 2019
  • The Adventures of Kim Possible
  • Kim Possible: Junior Novelization

Soundtracks

• 2016 - The Lion Guard

People

Births

• 1924 - Ron Moody (actor)
• 1934 - Roy Kinnear (actor)
• 1935 - Elvis Presley (singer and actor)
• 1942 - Yvette Mimieux (actress)
• 1947 - David Bowie (actor and singer)
• 1950 - Jerzy Zieliński (cinematographer)
• 1971 - Zac Moncrief (producer and director)
• 1980
  • Sam Riley (actor and singer)
  • Rachel Nichols (actress)
• 2000 - Noah Cyrus (actress)

Deaths

• 1982 - Reta Shaw (actress)
• 1990 - Terry-Thomas (actor)
• 1994 - Pat Buttram (actor and comedian)
• 2007 - Iwao Takamoto (animator, T.V. producer, and film director)
• 2018 - Donnelly Rhodes (actor)