January 9th
Holidays and Celebrations
Republic Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina) * (see below)
Martyrs' Day (Panama) * (see below)
Black Nazarene Feast (Philippines) * (see below)
Play God Day
Birthday of President Richard M. Nixon (37th U.S. President)
Dance Day
Balloon Ascension Day
National Apricot Day
National Static Electricity Day
Feast of Adrian of Canterbury
Feast of Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow
Feast of Theophan the Recluse
* Martyrs' Day (Panama) commemorates1964 riots over sovereignty of Panama Canal Zone
* Black Nazarene Feast (Philippines) AKA Feast of the Most Holy Black Nazarene in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines
Van Day Translation Winnowing basket Day (French Republican) The 20th day of the Month of Nivose in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"One bottle for four of us,
Thank God there's no more of us!"
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Stinger
1 Part White Creme De Menthe
1 Part Brandy
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Easy on the creme de menthe.
Wine of The Day
Ozzie Ba Ru 2003 Shiraz
Style - Shiraz
Hunter Valley
$20
-Alternative-
Apricot Dessert Wine
- In Celebration of Apricot Day
Beer of The Day
Longboard Brown
Brewer - Rock Bottom Brewery – La Jolla ; La Jolla, California, USA
Style - English-Style Brown Ale
Joke of The Day
Three guys were sitting in a biker bar. A man came in, already drunk, sat down at the bar and ordered a drink. The man looked around and saw the 3 men sitting at a corner table. He got up, staggered to the table, leaned over, looked the biggest one in the face and said, "I went by your grandma's house and I saw her in the hallway, buck naked. Man, she is fine!" The biker looked at him and didn't say a word. His buddies were confused,because he was a bad ass, and would fight at he drop of a hat.
The drunk leaned on the table again and said, "I got it on with your grandma and she is good, the best I ever had!" The biker still said nothing. His buddies were starting to get mad.
The drunk leaned on the table again and said, "I'll tell you something else boy, your grandma liked it!" The biker stood up, took the drunk by the shoulder and said, "Damn it, Grandpa, you're drunk! Go home!"
Quote of the Day
“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
- Unknown
Whisky of The Day
January Observances
Apple and Apricots MonthArtichoke and Asparagus Month
Be Kind to Food Servers
Bread Machine Baking Month
California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month
Carnival Season (Starting January 6th)
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Cervical Cancer Screening Month
Cherry Blossom Festival in Okinawa, Japan, a very colorful festivals every January in Nago since 1928.
Coffee Gourmet International Month
Family Fit Lifestyle Month
Financial Wellness Month
First Binary Month (1of 3) (0s and 1s)
International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month
National Bath Safety Month
National Be On-Purpose Month
National Birth Defects Prevention Mont
National Blood Donor Month
National Book Blitz Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Candy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Egg Month
National Get Organized Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hobby Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Lose Weight, Feel Great Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Meat Month
National Mentoring Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Polka Music Month
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
National Soup Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
National Thank You Month
National Volunteer Blood Donor Mont
National Wheat Bread Month
Prune Breakfast Month
Resolve to Eat Breakfast Month
National Returns Month
Rising Star Month
Self-Love Month
Self-help Group Awareness Month
Shape Up US Month
Thaipusam - Festival of Faith in Batu Caves, Malaysia
Thyroid Awareness Month
Tubers and Dried Fruit Month
World Buskers Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Observances this Week
Handsel Week Week beginning with the first Monday of January (Scotland)
Home Office Safety and Security Week January 6th-12th
National Lose Weight, Feel Great Week January 6th-13th
Universal Letter Writing Week Second Week of January
National No-Tillage Week Conference 5 Days Starting the Second Wednesday of January
Historical Events January 9th
475 Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
1296 Earl Floris V signs accord with French king
1317 Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France
1349 The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.
1428 Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid
1431 Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
1464 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)
1522 Adriaan F Boeyens of Utrecht elected only Dutch/last non-Italian pope (Adrian VI)
1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod
1718 France declares war on Spain
1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat
1768 Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London.
1788 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
1792 Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy
1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard
1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
1799 Income Tax introduced in UK, British prime minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.
1806 Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held
1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1816 Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
1822 The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia
1839 Composer John Knowles Paine was born.
1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)
1839 The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily
1848 The first commercial bank was established in San Francisco, CA.
1854 Astor Library opens in New York City NY
1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies
1857 The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
1858 Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
1861 The "Star of the West" incident occurs in Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War".
1861 Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
1863 -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post AR (Fort Hindman)
1863 American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman occurs in Arkansas.
1866 Fisk University establishes
1878 Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson
1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas
1880 The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow, 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters
1894 The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company put the first battery-operated switchboard into operation in Lexington, MA.
1894 Georges Feydeau's "Un à la Patte" premieres in Paris
1901 New South Wales (918) defeat S Australia (157 & 156) by innings & 605
1902 New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.
1903 Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace
1903 Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 & move it to New York City NY (Yankees)
1903 Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota established
1903 Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
1905 According to the Julian Calendar, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905 forcing Czar Nicholas II to grant some civil rights.
1908 Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium
1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
1909 Ernest Shackleton reaches 88º23' south
1912 US marines invade Honduras
1914 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.
1915 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, San Francisco
1916 The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated.
1916 The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
1917 The Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine in World War I
1918 Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
1922 KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions
1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends
1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogyro (helicopter) flight, Spain
1925 German Postal Minister A Höfle resigns due to corruption
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich's Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montréal, 78 children died
1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in NYC
1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions" premieres in New York City NY
1929 Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in New York City NY
1929 The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, TN. The company's purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.
1929 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
1930 Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1936 The United States Army adopted the semi-automatic rifle.
1936 Noël Coward's "Astonished Heart" premieres in London
1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians
1937 Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in NYC
1937 The first issue of "Look" went on sale. Within a month, "Look" became a biweekly magazine.
1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium
1940 Television was used for the first time to present a sales meeting to convention delegates in New York City.
1940 J Thurber & E Nugent's "Male Animal" premieres in New York City NY
1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1941 Sammy Kaye and his orchestra recorded "Until Tomorrow."
1941 First flight of the Avro Lancaster durning World War II
1941 The Greek Triton (S.112) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto durning World War II
1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Luzon in the Philippines
1946 "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City NY for 77 performances
1947 "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City NY for 148 performances
1947 Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
1947 Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in San Francisco
1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston
1951 The United Nations headquarters officially opened in New York City.
1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds
1952 Belgian Pholien government resigns
1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty
1952 Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title
1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249
1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 points in basketball game
1954 -87ºF (-66ºC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)
1954 Bert Olmstead, Montréal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan & Leonie Adams
1956 Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan
1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns
1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
1958 In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cincinnati OH) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54
1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die
1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ
1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins
1961 The play, "Rhinoceros," opened on Broadway.
1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minneapolis/St Paul territory
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minnesota, to become NWA champ
1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks
1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panamá Canal Zone
1964 Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians (Martyrs' Day)
1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism
1967 Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond
1967 The NFL New Orleans franchise takes the name "Saints"
1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
1968 1st ABA All-Star Game East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana
1969 The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol, England
1970 Constitution of Singapore enacted
1971 "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic New York City NY after 19 performances
1972 British miners went on strike for the first time since 1926.
1972 The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor.
1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes said Clifford Irving's biography is a fake
1972 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon
1973 Mick Jagger was refused a Japanese visa because of a 1969 drug bust. The event halted the Rolling Stones' plan to tour the Orient.
1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
1975 Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
1976 Graham Parker of Graham Parker & the Rumour signed his first recording contract.
1976 Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot
1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts
1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK
1977 "Porgy & Bess" closes at Uris Theater New York City NY after 122 performances
1977 Oakland Raiders defeat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14, in Pasadena Superbowl XI; Super Bowl MVP Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, Wide Receiver
1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
1979 A benefit concert called A Gift of Song was held at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The performers were Olivia Newton-John, Rita Coolidge, the Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson, Abba and Earth, Wind & Fire.
1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1981 Francisco Balsamao elected pres of Portugal
1981 Hockey Hall of Famer, Phil Esposito, announced that he would retire as a hockey player after the New York Rangers-Buffalo Sabres hockey game. The game ended in a tie. (NHL)
1981 Jerry Dammers and Terry Hall of the Specials were fined in London for inciting violence at a concert the previous fall.
1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855
1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 seconds in Massachusetts high school game
1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands
1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)
1984 Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's.
1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
1984 John Lennon's "Nobody Told Me" is released
1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
1986 Kodak got out of the instant camera business after 10 years due to a loss in a court battle that claimed that Kodak copied Polaroid patents.
1986 New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
1987 Sir Rudolf Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
1988 August Wilson's "Piano Lesson" premieres in Boston
1988 English Earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
1988 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
1989 Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
1990 Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1990 Boston Celtics worst-ever (6 points in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) & lose 87-78
1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
1991 U.S. secretary of state Baker and Iraqi foreign minister Aziz met for 61/2 hours in Geneva, but failed to reach any agreement that would forestall war in the Persian Gulf.
1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
1992 Sting made a guest appearance on the series "The Simpsons," in the episode "Radio Bart."
1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 meter free style (53.33)
1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 points)
1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
1995 Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight
1995 Russian cosmonaut Valeri Poliakov, 51, completed his 366th day in outer space aboard the Mir space station, breaking the record for the longest continuous time spent in outer space.
1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
1996 First episode of "Third Rock from the Sun" screened on NBC
1997 Tamil rebels attact a military base in Sri Lanka. 200 soldiers and 140 rebels were killed.
1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
1998 Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hrs 8 mins
1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
1998 Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn pleads not guilty to drunken driving
1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
1999 Guru (Gang Star) was robbed outside a small recording studio in Woohaven, Queens. The three masked men stole $10,000 in jewelry.
2001 ABC-TV deputs "The Mole" for the first time
2001 Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos. Now widely used by Windows and Mac users.
2001 Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, is launched.
2002 Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards
2002 The U.S. Justice Department announced that it was pursuing a criminal investigation of Enron Corp. The company had filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.
2002 Yasmine Bleeth was sentenced to two years of probation, regular drug tests, 100 hours of community service and pay the court costs in connection to a cocaine-possession charge.
2003 Archaeologists announced that they had found five more chambers in the tomb of Qin Shihuang, China's first emperor. The rooms were believed to cover about 750,000 square feet.
2005 Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
2005 The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, commonly known as the Naivasha Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.
2005 Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.
2006 Brokeback Mountain wins Best Film at the 11th Critics' Choice Movie Awards
2006 Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane received stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a dual ceremony.
2007 Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
2007 Johnny Depp & Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Eva Longoria win (TV) at the 33rd People's Choice Awards
2012 Lionel Messi wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the second consecutive year
2012 #2 Alabama beats #1 LSU, 21-0 to win the 14th BCS National Championship
2014 5 people are killed in a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant, Yokkaichi, Japan
2014 Taliban suicide car bomb assassinates senior police officer Chaudhry Aslam and kills three others in Pakistan, Pakistan
2014 Yaya Toure wins African Footballer of the Year
Born on January 9th
1475 Crinitus, Florentine humanist (d. 1507)
1554 Gregory XV [Alessandro Ludovisi], Roman Catholic pope (1621-23) (d. 1623)
1571 Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)
1571 Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621)
1574 Christoph Buel, composer
1589 Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
1620 Johann Weichmann, composer
1624 Empress Meishō (d. 1696)
1685 Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
1695 John E Loovens, lawyer
1699 Robert J Pothier, French lawyer
1728 Thomas Warton, poet laureate of England (Pleasures of Melancholy) (d. 1790)
1745 Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
1748 Stefan Paluselli, composer
1773 Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
1790 Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (Lycksalighetens) (d. 1855)
1803 Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secretary Treasurer (Confederacy) died in 1888
1811 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
1815 William Jackson, composer
1816 John Palmer Usher, Secretary Interior (Union) died in 1889
1819 James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
1820 Pavel Krizkovsky, composer
1822 John Porter Hatch, volunteers Brevet Major General (Union), died in 1901
1823 Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908)
1829 Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (Tarimbekken) (d. 1857)
1829 Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste) (d. 1871)
1832 Esquire Maurits A de Savornin Lohman, Dutch governor of Suriname
1832 Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900)
1839 John Knowles Paine, U.S. composer (d. 1906)
1843 Christiaan A Ulder, Curacao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)
1848 Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
1849 John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935)
1851 Giuseppi Gallignani, composer
1851 Luis Coloma Spanish jesuit/writer/theologian (Pequeñeces, Boy)
1854 Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
1856 Lizette Woodworth Reese, US poet (Branch of May, Tears)
1856 Stevan Mokranjac, composer
1856 Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (Primoz Trubar) (d. 1912)
1857 Henry B Fuller, American writer (Under the Skylights)
1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist-women's rights leader, founder (League of Women Voters) (d. 1947)
1859 Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian (The Monasteries)
1864 Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
1866 Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher
1867 Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth)
1868 S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
1870 Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (Golden Gate Bridge) (d. 1938)
1871 Charles Kortright, British cricket player
1873 Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
1875 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
1876 Hans Bethge, writer
1879 John Broadus Watson, American behaviorist psychologist (d. 1958)
1881 Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
1881 Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo) (d. 1956)
1881 Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (Revaluations) (d. 1938)
1886 Lloyd Loar, Acoustical engineer and inventor of the Gibson F-5 mandolin (d. 1943)
1890 Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co) (d. 1935)
1890 Karel Capek, Czechoslovakia, writer (R U R ); coined the word "robot" (d. 1938)
1891 August Gailit, Estonia, writer (Ekke Moor)
1892 Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
1894 Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist
1896 Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
1897 Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
1897 Luis Gianneo, composer
1898 Gracie Fields, [Stansfield], English music hall-vaudville performer (d. 1979)
1898 Vilma Banky, Budapest Hungary, silent screen actress (Eagle, Rebel) (d. 1991)
1898 Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1899 Alexander Tcherepnin St Petersburg Russia, composer
19-Melissa Morgan actress (Brittany-Young & Restless)
19-Pat Dunbar heavy metal rocker (Mind Funk-Sugar Ain't So Sweet, Fire)
1900 Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer
1900 Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
1900 Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
1901 Chic Young (Murat Bernard), American cartoonist (Blondie) (d. 1973)
1902 Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (New York Metropolitan Opera) (d. 1997)
1902
1902 Saint Josemaría Escrivá (Jose Maria Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás) Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
1903 Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
1904 George Balanchine, dancer/choreographer/ballet producer
1908 Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex) (d. 1986)
1909 Herva Nelli, soprano
1909 Anthony Mamo, Malta's 1st President (d. 2008)
1909 Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994)
1909 John Richard Simplot, American entrepreneur (d. 2008)
1909 Patrick Peyton, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1992)
1910 Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader
1911 Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health
1911 Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor
1912 Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
1913 Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano
1913 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist
1913 Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
1914 Derek Allhusen, England, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1968)
1914 Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
1914 Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (Epistrop) (d. 1985)
1915 Anita Louise (Fremault), New York City NY, actress (My Friend Flicka) (d. 1970)
1915 Fernando Lamas, Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous") (d. 1982)
1915 Les Paul, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul Guitar)
1916 Alain Bernardin, impressario (Crazy Horse Saloon)
1916 Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
1916 Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (Don Rickles Show) (d. 2009)
1917 Herbert Lom, Czech, actor (Pink Panther Strikes Again, Dorian Gray)
1920 Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
1920 Clive Dunn, British actor
1920 Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar (d. 1998)
1921 Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
1921 Seymour Barab, composer
1922 Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
1922 Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate, India/Canada bio-chemist (Nobel 1968)
1924 Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
1924 Julián B Coco Curaçao guitarist/bassist (Utrecht Symphony Orchestra)
1925 Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist
1925 Lee Van Cleef, American actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from New York) (d. 1989)
1926 Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
1926 Giannis Christou, Greek composer (d. 1970)
1928 Fernand J St Germain, (Representative-D-RI, 1961)
1928 Judith Krantz, New York, American author (Scruples, I'll Take Manhattan, Princess Daisy, Dazzle)
1928 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (Polignano A Mare) (d. 1994)
1929 Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
1929 Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1929 Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
1931 Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth) (d. 2008)
1931 Geoffrey Wragg, British reorganizer
1933 Robert Garcia, American politician, (Representative-D-New York, 1978)
1933 Sonia Garmers, [Justina], Curacao, author (Dear Queen)
1933 Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
1934 Bart Starr, NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
1934 Julian B Coco, Antilles, guitarist/tutor (Princess Christina)
1935 Bob Denver, American actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island) (d. 2005)
1935 Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
1935 Dick Enberg, Mt Clemens Mich, American sportscaster (Where's Huddles)
1935 Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American Publisher
1935 Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer
1936 Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
1936 Peter Fletcher, music teacher
1937 K Schlesinger, writer
1938 Aad Kosto, Dutch theologist/actor/assistant secretary of Justice
1939 Susannah York, British actress (Superman)
1940 Al Downing (Big Al Downing), American singer (d. 2005)
1940 Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer (Howard-Bachelor Father) (d. 2009)
1940 Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
1940 Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
1941 Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
1941 Susannah York, London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
1941 Joan Baez, American folk singer and activist (human rights)
1942 Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
1942 K Callan, American actress (This House Possessed, Splendor in the Grass, Martha-Lois & Clark)
1942 Judy Malloy, American hypertext fiction pioneer and artist
1943 Dick Yount, rocker (Harpers Bizarre)
1943 Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1943 Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
1943 Kenneth Kelley, US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live)
1943 Rob Hoeke, Dutch pianist/singer (Drinking on My Bed)
1943 Robert Drewe, Australian author
1943 Kathryn Walker, Philadelphia PA, actress (Beacon Hill, Barbara-Another World)
1943 Roy Head
1943 Scott Walker, American singer
1944 Ian Hornak, American Painter, Draughtsman and Sculptor (d. 2002)
1944 Jimmy Page, London, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1944 Scott Engel, vocalist (Walker Brothers-Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore)
1944 Jimmy Page, Rock Guitarest and producer (Led Zeppelin)
1944 Scott (Noel) Engel (The Walker Brothers)
1945 Frank J Biondi Jr, president (HBO)
1945 Harun Farocki, actor/director (Nicht loeschbares Feur)
1945 John Doman, American actor
1946 Leo Gullotta, actor (Sinbad of the 7 Seas)
1947 Ronnie Landfield, American artist
1948 William (Bill) Cowsill, rock guitarist and vocals (The Cowsills) (d. 2006)
1948 Paul King, Dagenham Essex, English rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
1948 Cassie Gaines, backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
195Margaret Klenck actress (One Life to Live, As The World Turns)
1950 David Johansen, American singer (Buster Poindexter) (Hot! Hot! Hot!)
1950 Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
1951 Crystal Gayle, American country singer (Don't it make my brown eyes blue)
1951 Rosalyn Kind, Brooklyn, singer (½ sister of Barbra Streisand)
1951 M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
1952 Eveline L Herfkens, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1952 Hugh Bayley, British politician
1952 Michael Capuano, American politician
1953 Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author
1954 Lance Hoppens, rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me)
1955 J. K. Simmons, American actor (Oz, Spider-Man)
1955 Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
1956 David Smith, cricketer (England lefty batsman in 2 Tests vs West Indies 1986)
1956 Imelda Staunton, British actress (Vera Drake)
1956 Kimberly Beck, American actress (Kim-Peyton Place)
1956 Mike Walczewski, American Public Address Announcer at Madison Square Garden
1957 Bibie, Ghanaian singer
1957 Phil Lewis, American singer (L.A. Guns)
1958 Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
1958 Stephen Neale, British philosopher
1959 Mark Martin, American race car driver
1959 Otis Nixon, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers)
1959 Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1959 Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
1960 David Peoples, Augusta ME, Nike golfer (1991 Buick Southern Open)
1960 Lisa Walters, Prince Rupert BC, LPGA golfer (Itoki Hawaiian-1992, 93)
1961 Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
1962 Phil Lewis, London England, rock vocalist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1963 Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
1963 Eric Erlandson Musician (Hole)
1964 Stan Javier, S P de Macoris Dominican Republic, outfielder (Oakland A's, San Francisco Giants)
1965 Carin Garbarra, East Orange NJ, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1965 Cindy Brooks, East Hampton CT, rower (Olympics-96)
1965 Darren Bennett, NFL punter (San Diego Chargers)
1965 Eric Erlandson, American musician
1965 Georg Franz, Straubing Germany, hockey forward (Team Germany, Landshut)
1965 Muggsy Bogues, Tyrone Bogues, American basketball player (Charlotte Hornets, San Francisco Warriors, Washington Bullets)
1965 Vincent Brown, NFL inside linebacker (New England Patriots)
1965 Atsuo Kudo, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1965 Haddaway, Trinidadian singer
1965 Iain Dowie, English football manager
1965 Joely Richardson, British actress (The Patriot)
1966 Candi Milo, American voice actress
1966 Jimmie Jones, defensive end/defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 Jan Johansen, Swedish singer
1967 Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician (Dave Matthews Band)
1967 Dave Mcllwain, Seaforth, NHL center (Pitts Penguins)
1967 Jamie Huscroft, Creston, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1967 Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
1967 Carl Bell, American Musician (Fuel)
1967 Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
1967 Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player
1968 Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
1968 Jimmy Adams, cricketer (prolific West Indian lefty bat since 1992)
1968 Joey Lauren Adams, American actress (Big Daddy)
1968 Katie Anderson, Kingston Jamaica, Canada 100m hurdler (Oly-7th-92, 96)
1968 Mardi Lunn, Liverpool Sydney Australia, golfer (1991 Thailand Open)
1968 Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer (prolific West Indian lefty bat since 1992)
1968 Katie Anderson Kingston Jamaica, Canada 100m hurdler (Olympics-7th-92, 96)
1968 Mardi Lunn Liverpool Sydney Australia, golfer (1991 Thailand Open)
1968 Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
1968 Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress
1969 Domingo Jean, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (Houston Astros)
1969 Johanna Ikonen, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Olympics-98)
1970 Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire)
1970 Graciela Schutt, El Paso Tex, WPVA volleyballer (Deerfield-25th-1995)
1970 Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
1970 Mia X, American rapper
1971 Bill Schroeder, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl XXXI)
1971 Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist
1971 Elizabeth Punsalan, Syracuse NY, American ice skater (Olympics-15-94))
1971 Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author
1971 Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
1972 Angie Martinez, American radio and television personality
1972 Eddie Mason, NFL linebacker (New York Jets)
1972 Jay Powell, baseball player (Florida Marlins)
1972 Kristie Hicks, Bardstown Kentucky, Miss America-Kentucky (1996)
1972 Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
1973 Aaron Holbert, US baseball infielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1973 Angela Bettis, Actress (May)
1973 Ronald Hamming, soccer player (FC Groningen, Fortuna Sittard)
1973 Angela Bettis, American actress
1973 Sean Paul, Jamaican ragga and hip hop musician
1974 Craig Wishart, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman vs South Africa 1995)
1974 Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood Director, Actor, Producer, Singer.
1974 Jamain Stephens, NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1975 Justin Huish, Fountain Valley CA, archer (Olympics-gold-1996)
1975 Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
1975 Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem
1975 Mariano Friedick, Tarzana California, pursuit cyclist
1975 Omari Hardwick, Actor (The A-Team)
(Olympics-96)
1976 Amy Safe, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 Radek Bonk, Czechoslovakia ice hockey player (Ottawa Senators, Team Czechoslovakia)
1976 Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
1977 Beth Troutman, American production assistant
1978 AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1978 Chad Johnson (Chad Ocho Cinco), American football player
1978 Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
1978 Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
1978 Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 Lavinia Magruder, Miss Vermont Teen USA (1996)
1979 Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
1979 Athanassios Prittas, Greek footballer
1980 Sergio García, Spanish golfer
1981 Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
1981 Julia Dietze, Actress (Iron Sky)
1982 Catherine Elizabeth (Kate) Middleton Duchess of Cambridge, married to Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
1982 Timmy Bowers, American basketball player
1983 Sharad Malhotra, Indian Television Actor
1984 Weronika Rosati, Actress (Stand Up Guys)
1985 Brett Fleisher, Actor (Hearts in Atlantis)
1986 Jenn Pinto, Actress (Cricket Head)
1987 Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian and Liverpool Footballer
1987 Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
1987 Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter
1987 Sam Bird, English racing driver
1987 Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian footballer
1987 Mao Inoue, Japanese actress
1988 Yeon-hee Lee, Actress (Hello, Schoolgirl)
1989 Chris Sandow, Australian Rugby League player
1989 Michael Beasley, American basketball player
1989 Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1989 Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian actress (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
1990 Melissa Ricks, Filipina actress
1991 Trevor Neuhoff, Actor (Sahkanaga)
1992 Melina Hennen, Actress (Wellen)
1993 Ashley Argota, Actress (Little Buddies)
1994 Luke Scott, Actor (The World's End)
1997 Lauryn McClain, American actress (Daddy's Little Girls), and singer
1998 Kerris Dorsey, Actress (Moneyball)
2001 Jacob and Lucas Melton, Twin Actors (Zombeo & Juliécula)
2007 Anais and Mirabelle Lee, Twin Actresses (Blood Ties)
2008 Sean Paul Hellendall, Actor (Marker 187)
Died on January 9th
1150 Emperor Xizong of Jin is murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état. (b. 1119)
1282 Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
1283 Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
1324 Marco Polo, Italian explorer
1499 Johan Cicero, elector of (Brandenburg, 1486-99) (b. 1455)
1514 Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
1514 Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian, at 36
1543 Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
1562 Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
1571 Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
1598 Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
1677 Aernout "Aert" van der Neer, Dutch cartoonist/landscape painter (b. 1603)
1679 Werner Fabricius, composer, at 45
1757 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
1757 Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
1766 Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
1798 Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea earl of Aranda, Spanish officer, at 79
1799 Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1800 Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1805 Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1828 Pieter Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot (Neder-Rhijn), at 83
1843 Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", at 98 in Germany
1843 William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
1848 Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
1849 Jan Kops, Dutch agriculturist/vicar, at 83
1853 Juan N Gallego, Spanish poet/interpreter (El dos de Mayo), at 75
1854 Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, at 77
1858 Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
1863 Ferdinand Huber, composer, at 71
1873 Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1876 Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
1877 Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
1878 Victor Emmanuel II, king of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78) (b. 1820)
1879 Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, at 86
1886 Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer, at 73
1893 Mohara, Arab ivory/slave trader, in battle & is eaten
1895 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
1901 Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
1902 Gustaaf Rolin-Jaequemyns, Belgian lawyer/Interior minister, at 66
1904 Alfred Richard, cricketer (6 & 0 in only Test for South Africa 1895-96)
1908 Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor, US Yiddish stage performer (Shulamis) (b. 1840)
1908 Wilhelm Busch, German painter and writer (b. 1832)
1911 Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
1911 Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
1918 Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
1923 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand/British writer (Dove's Nest) (b. 1888)
1927 Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
1929 Heiner Muller, writer,
1930 Edward W Buck, Dutch/US editor (Ladies Home Journal), at 66
1931 Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue),
1931 Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
1936 John Gilbert, American actor (Love, Downstairs) (b. 1899)
1939 Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
1941 Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter,
1943 Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), at 53
1945 Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1946 Countee Cullen, American poet (Black Christ, One Way to Heaven) (b. 1903)
1946 Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
1947 Lambertus Zijl, sculptor (Merchant Exchange-Amsterdam), at 80
1947 Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (Diagnosis of Our Time) (b. 1893)
1949 Amilcare Zanella, composer, at 75
1953 Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken), at 89
1957 Mary Carr Moore, composer, at 83
1958 Paul Fechter, German writer/historian (God's Magician),
1959 Paul Malengreau, composer, at 71
1960 Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
1961 Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1962 LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), at 68
1964 Halide Edib Adevar/Salih, Turkish feminist (Handan), at about 80
1966 Haro Levoni Step'anyan, composer, at 68
1968 Kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Olympics-bronze-1964), commits suicide
1968 Louis-François-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera), at 90
1969 Ladislav Vycpalek, composer, at 86
1971 Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1971 Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
1972 Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
1975 John Slater, actor (Deadlock, 3 on a Spree), at 58
1975 Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent) (b. 1897)
1975 Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1977 Alexey Kozlovsky, composer, at 71
1977 Hal Sawyer, TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), at 62
1978 Eddie Gilbert, cricket (Aboriginal Queensland quick got Don for a duck)
1979 Avery Claflin, composer, at 80
1979 Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
1979 Sara Carter, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), at 80
1981 Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
1982 Paul Lynde, actor (Bye Bye Birdie, Bewitched), at 55
1984 Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Ciske de Rat) (b. 1906)
1985 Don Brennan, cricket wicketkeeper (England in 2 Tests 1951),
1985 Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
1987 Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
1987 Arthur Lake, American actor (Dagwood-Blondie) (b. 1905)
1989 Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1990 Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
1990 Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
1992 Steve Brodie, American actor (Desperate, Bodyguard) (b. 1919)
1992 William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/British playwright (Alfie) (b. 1910)
1993 Felix Grucci, fireworks expert, Alzheimer's disease at 87
1993 Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
1993 Alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy
1994 Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist, at 82
1994 Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
1995 Souphanouvong, [Red Prince], president of Laos (1975-87), at 85
1995 Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled) (b. 1937)
1995 Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
1996 Fearless Mary Nadia Wadia, actress, at 88
1996 Kurt Schmucker, German RFA minister of Economy (1963-66),
1996 Michael Lynn Synar, politician, at 45
1997 Junaidu ibn Buhari, scholar, at 90
1997 Jesse [Marc Weidenfeld] White, American actor (Maytag repairman, Bedtime for Bonzo) (b. 1917)
1997 Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
1998 Michael Tippett British composer (Royal College of Music), at 93
1998 Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
1998 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (1981) (b. 1918)
2000 Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
2000 Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)
2001 Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
2003 Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
2004 Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
2005 Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
2006 Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
2006 Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
2007 Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
2007 Jean-Pierre Vernant, French structuralist historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
2008 Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
2008 Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
2008 Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b.1924).
2008 William Quinn, Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950)
2008 Liam Quinn, Provisional IRA member (b. 1949)
2009 T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915)
2009 Rob Gauntlett, English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker (b. 1987)
2010 Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)
2012 Brian Curvis, British boxer and 1960 welterweight champion, from leukemia at 74
2012 Bridie Gallagher, Irish singer, at 87
2012 Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau, of diabetes at 64
2012 Ruth Fernandez, Puerto Rican singer and politician, from septic shock and pneumonia at 92
2012 William Roll, parapsychologist
2013 James M. Buchanan, American Nobel economist (b. 1919)
2014 Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and Nobel laureate
2016 Ed Stewart, British DJ and broadcaster (Crackerjack)
