January 10th
Holidays and Celebrations
United Nations Day (First meeting in 1946)
League of Nations Day
Traditional Day (Benin)
Anniversary of the Women's Suffrage Amendment
Peculiar People Day
National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
National Clean Off Your Desk Day
Positively Penguins Day
The Second Binary Day (2of 9) (0s and 1s)
Houseplant Appreciation Day
Bittersweet Chocolate Day
Feast of Pope Agatho (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Peter Orseolo, Roman Catholic Church
Feast of Doge of Venice, Roman Catholic Church
Feast of Obadiah AKA Christian Feast Day of Obadiah (Coptic Church)
Pierre à plâtre Day Translation Gypsum Day (French Republican) The 21st day of the Month of Nivose in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and a smooth road all the way to your door."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Mudslide
1/3 vodka
1/3 kahlua
1/3 Bailey's Irish Cream
mix with crushed ice in a shaker. strain and serve in a chilled highball glass.
Wine of The Day
Rotta Winery 2005 Giubbini Vineyard
Style - Zinfandel
Paso Robles
$30
Beer of The Day
Bock Lager
Brewer - Elk Grove Brewery and Restaurant ; Elk Grove, California, USA
Style - German Bock Lager
Flavor - Full-bodied, smooth and complex strong beer, with German style malts
Joke of The Day
One night, a police officer was staking out a particularly rowdy bar for possible violations of the driving-under-the-influence laws. At closing time, he saw a fellow stumble out of the bar, trip on the curb, and try his keys on five different cars before he found his. Then, sat in the front seat fumbling around with his keys for several minutes. Everyone else left the bar and drove off. Finally, the fellow started his engine and began to pull away. The police officer was waiting for him. He stopped the driver, read him his rights and administered the Breathalyzer test. The results showed a reading of 0.0. The puzzled officer demanded to know how that could be. The driver replied, "Tonight, I'm the designated decoy"
Quote of the Day
"A mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer."
- Ancient Egyptian Wisdom, 2200 B.C
Whisky of The Day
$120
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
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
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week Starting second Friday of January
National Soccer Coaches of America Week 5 Days Starting the second Friday in January
Historical Events on January 10th
(49 BC) Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
9 The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.
69 Roman emperor Galba appoints Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus as Caesar, deputy Roman Emperor
236 Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth Catholic pope of Rome.
1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo
1356 German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
1429 Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
1430 Order of the Guilder forms
1475 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
1550 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
1642 King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
1645 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1663 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
1731 Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
1776 "Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published advocating American independence
1791 The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar
1806 Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1808 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1810 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Joséphine.
1811 Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
1833 Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin
1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
1840 Penny Post mail system starts
1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
1853 Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London
1861 Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1861 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by LA state troops (US Civil War)
1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1862 Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
1862 Romney expedition, West Virginia starts (US Civil War)
1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark
1863 January-uprising begins in Poland
1863 The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes
1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage
1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1890 Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine," premieres
1890 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
1893 Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
1897 Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
1897 Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels
1900 Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
1902 Although it has professed neutrality in the Boer War, German Chancellor von Bulow joins others in attacking British actions in South Africa
1906 The British and French begin consultations on military and naval issues
1910 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1914 First edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
1914 Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
1914 Yuan Shih-k'ai, president of the new Chinese republic, dissolves parliament and prepares a constitution of his own design: he will set himself up as dictator, preparatory to an attempt to make himself emperor
1916 In retaliation for President Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pacho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 American mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood
1916 In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire during World War I
1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus
1917 The Allied Governments respond to US President Wilson's December 1916 note, giving their terms for ending the war
1920 Inauguration of the League of Nations held in Paris
1920 Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1922 Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dáil Éireann.
1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
1925 Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed
1925 France-Saarland forms
1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's 2nd woman governor
1927 Fritz Lang's futuristic silent film Metropolis is released in Berlin, Germany.
1928 G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC
1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1929 Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC
1929 The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium.
1930 Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England Christchurch
1930 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
1931 Phila Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
1938 Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris
1938 Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC
1939 Bradman hits 186 SA v Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg
1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC
1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
1941 The Greek army captures Kleisoura in World War II
1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
1943 1st US president to visit a foreign country in wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
1945 LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1945 No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1946 The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals from Belmar, NJ
1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1947 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
1948 "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances
1949 First Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 1st jet passenger trip made
1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
1952 Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toréadors," premieres in Paris
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth", directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring James Stewart and Carlton Heston, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1953)
1953 "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 performances
1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
1953 National Conference beats American Conference 27-7 in the NFL Pro Bowl:
1954 A Comet jet airliner crashes in the Mediterranea; 35 people are missing
1954 BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minster of Great Britain
1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts
1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
1962 NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
1964 "Introducing the Beatles", released 1st Beatles album released in the US
1964 Battles between muslems & hindus in Calcutta
1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1965 West beats East 34-14 in the NFL Pro Bowl
1966 India & Pakistan sign Tashkent Declaration peace accord
1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Gorgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War
1967 Edward W. Brooke (Sen-R-Mass), takes his seat as the 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate
1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia
1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1967 West beats East 135-120 at Daly City, California in the 17th NBA All-Star Game
1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1970 Preview Center opens at Walt Disney World, Florida - first building to open
1971 "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 performances
1971 A by-poll is held in the Lebanese Chouf District.
1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
1971 Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Belfast
1972 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1973 For the first time graduates studying from home with 'the Open University' receive their degrees
1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1978 Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1979 Entertainer of the Year Awards
1979 First brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
1979 The Sun paper headline is 'Crisis? What Crisis?' as UK Prime Minister James Callaghan denies that the country is in chaos during the 'Winter of Discontent' strike wave
1980 Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins & a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in NHL
1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
1981 John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
1981 The FMLN launches its first major offensive of the Salvadoran Civil War, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
1982 "Freezer Bowl", Bengals beat Chargers in -59°F (-51°C) to win AFC championship
1982 "The Catch" - iconic moment in NFL history - Dwight Clark makes a fingertip catch for a touchdown from Joe Montana with 58 seconds left (SF 49ers win the game and go on to win the Super Bowl)
1982 -17°F (27.2°C) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)
1982 Cincinnati Bengals beat San Diego Chargers 27-7 in the AFC Championship Game
1982 NBC's premiere of TV made "Will: G. Gordon Liddy", based on title Watergate conspirator, participant and convict
1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
1982 San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in the NFC Championship Game
1983 NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
1984 Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
1984 The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
1985 Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1985 Sir Clive Sinclair launches the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, which became a notorious commercial failure and later a cult collector's item.
1986 NASA's STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Florida's Kennedy Space Center
1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
1988 "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 86 performances
1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
1990 China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1990 Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
1992 Days of Our Lives wins in the 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1993 "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 performances
1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
1993 Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1994 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1996 Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
1996 King Hussein of Jordan visits Israel
1997 "Rehersal," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua
1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
1999 "The Sopranos", starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO
1999 25th People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Sandra Bullock win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Helen Hunt win (TV)
1999 Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You'
1999 Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
2001 A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
2001 The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not be designatd as a national monument, the White House announces; a move environmentalist groups had been pressing for to prevent oil drilling
2004 9th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins Best Film
2005 10th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Sideways wins Best Film
2005 A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
2005 In California, the 2005 La Conchita landslide killed 10 people, injured many more, and closed U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
2006 Johnny Depp and Sandra Bullock win (Motion Picture) and Ray Romano & Jennifer Garner win (TV) at the 32nd People's Choice Awards
2007 A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
2010 The US economy is expected to get worse with more job cuts, it is reported today
2011 13th BCS National Championship: #1 Auburn beats #2 Oregon, 22-19
2011 Ian McKellen officially confirms that he will reprise the role of Gandalf in "The Hobbit" film adaptations
2011 Lionel Messi wins the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or, for being the best football player in 2010
2011 Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia, causes severe flash flooding, killing nine people.
2012 A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
2013 81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
2013 Argo wins Best Film at the 18th Critics' Choice Movie Awards:
2013 More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
2013 Robert Downey, Jr and Jennifer Lawrence win (Movie Star) and Nathan Fillion & Ellen Pompeo win (TV Drama) at the 39th People's Choice Awards
2015 57 people are killed after an oil tanker collided with a passenger coach outside of Karachi, Pakistan
2015 A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
2015 A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, kills at least 62 people.
2016 The Revenant, The Martian, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson win at the 73rd Golden Globes
Born on January 10th
1480 Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)
1538 Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)
1573 Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
1607 Isaac Jogues, French missionary (d. 1646)
1628 George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
1638 Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)
1644 Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
1654 Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
1702 Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762)
1715 Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
1721 Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
1729 Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
1738 Ethan Allen, American military leader (d. 1789)
1750 Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)
1769 Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
1797 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
1810 Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (d. 1883)
1812 Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
1815 Sir John Alexander Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
1828 Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
1834 Lord Acton, British historian (d. 1902)
1840 Louis Nazaire Bégin, Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
1843 Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
1849 Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
1836 Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
1850 John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
1858 Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
1864 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
1865 Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
1873 Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
1873 George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
1880 Manuel Azaña y Diaz, Spanish republican President (d. 1940)
1883 Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)
1883 Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)
1887 Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
1890 Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
1893 Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
1898 Katharine Blodgett, American scientist and inventor (d. 1979)
1903 Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
1903 Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
1903 Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
1904 Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (The Wizard of Oz) (d. 1987)
1905 Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (d. 1993)
1908 Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1908 Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981)
1910 Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976)
1912 Maria Mandel, Austrian Auschwitz prison guard (d. 1948)
1913 Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
1913 Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
1914 Yu Kuo-hwa, Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
1915 Dean Dixon, American conductor (d. 1976)
1916 Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1916 Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1916 Eldzier Cortor, American painter
1917 Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d. 2008)
1918 Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
1920 Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)
1920 Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
1921 Rodger Ward, American racing driver (d. 2004)
1924 Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1996)
1924 Max Roach, American musician and composer (d. 2007)
1926 Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician
1927 Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003)
1927 Lee Philips, American actor (d. 1999)
1927 Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
1927 Otto Stich, Swiss politician
1928 Philip Levine, American poet
1929 Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
1930 Roy Edward Disney, American film executive (d. 2009)
1931 Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
1932 Elaine Devry, American actress
1933 Anton Rodgers, English actor (d. 2007)
1934 Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
1935 Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
1935 Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
1936 Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
1936 Burnum Burnum, Australian activist, actor and author (d. 1997)
1936 Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer
1936 Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
1937 Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
1938 Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
1938 Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and Canadian Senator
1938 Willie McCovey, American baseball player
1939 Jared Carter, American poet
1939 David Horowitz, American author and political commentator
1939 William Levy, Dutch writer
1939 Scott McKenzie, American singer
1939 Sal Mineo, American actor (Rebel Without a Cause) (d. 1976)
1939 Bill Toomey, American athlete
1940 Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician
1940 Harry Gant, American racing driver
1940 Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
1940 Yesudas, Indian playback singer and classical musician
1942 Walter Hill, American film director
1943 Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
1944 Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer
1944 Bernard Derome, Canadian news presenter
1944 William Sanderson, American actor (Blade Runner)
1944 Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
1945 John Fahey, Australian politician
1945 Jennifer Moss, English Actress (d. 2006)
1945 Rod Stewart, Scottish singer
1945 Edward Wiskoski, American wrestler
1946 Aynsley Dunbar, English musician
1947 Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur
1947 Peer Steinbrueck, German politician
1948 Donald Fagen, American musician (Steely Dan)
1948 Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002)
1948 Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
1948 Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist
1949 George Foreman, American boxer
1949 James Lapine, American stage director
1949 Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (Deep Throat) (d. 2002)
1950 Roy Blunt, American politician, House minority whip
1950 Ernie Wasson, American gardener and writer
1951 Paul DiMaggio, American educator
1952 Scott Thurston, American musician
1953 Pat Benatar, American singer
1953 Dennis Cooper, American author
1953 Bobby Rahal, American racing driver and team owner
1955 Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO)
1956 Shawn Colvin, American singer
1956 Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
1957 Greg Walden, American politician
1958 Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter
1959 Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
1960 Gurinder Chadha, British film director
1960 Brian Cowen, Taoiseach of Ireland
1960 Benoît Pelletier, Canadian politician
1960 Samira Said, Moroccan singer
1961 Evan Handler, American actor (The Three Stooges)
1961 Janet Jones, American actress (A League of Their Own)
1961 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian violinist
1962 Michael Fortier, Canadian politician
1963 Mark Pryor, American politician
1963 David Dewayne Johnson, American convicted murderer (d. 2000)
1964 Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
1965 Butch Hartman, American animator
1966 Steve Kramer, American politician
1967 Johan Laats, Belgian judoka
1967 Trini Alvarado, Actress (The Frighteners)
1970 Buff Bagwell, American wrestler
1970 Alisa Maric, Serbian-born chess grandmaster
1972 Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier
1972 Brian Lawler, American wrestler
1973 Ryan Drummond, American voice actor
1973 Glenn Robinson, American basketball player
1973 Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer
1974 Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor and musician (Flight of the Concords)
1974 Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer
1974 Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
1974 Hrithik Roshan, Actor (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
1974 Steve Marlet, French footballer
1974 Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
1975 Jake Delhomme, American football player
1976 Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
1976 Ian Poulter, English Professional Golfer
1977 Bart the Bear, Acting Bear (The Bear)
1978 Antonio Cupo, Actor (American Mary)
1978 Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
1979 Cash Warren, Producer (Crips and Bloods: Made in America)
1980 Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan footballer
1980 Petri Lindroos, Finnish musician (Ensiferum)
1980 Sarah Shahi, American actress (Old School) and model
1981 Brian Joo, American-born Korean singer
1982 Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) (d. 2002)
1983 Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver
1983 Li Nina, Chinese aerial skier
1984 Barnaby Barrilla, Actor (Operation: CTF)
1985 Alex Meraz, American actor (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)
1986 Abigail Clancy, English model
1986 Saleisha Stowers, American model
1987 Conrad Murray, Actor (The Plague)
1988 Bryan James, Actor (A New Gang)
1989 Emily Meade, Actress (Trespass)
1989 Kyle Reimers, Australian rules footballer
1990 Tao Li, Singaporean swimmer
1991 Amanda Thorp, Actress (Volvo)
1992 Daniel Johnstone, Actor (Masquerade)
1993 Monica Anne Parales, Actress (The Alyson Stoner Project)
1994 Bridget McGuinness, Actress (That's My Boy)
1995 Laura Detter, Actress (Getrennte Wege)
2000 Juliette Chappey, Actress (With Love... from the Age of Reason)
2001 Jake and Sydney Melman, Twin Actor and Actress (The Babysitters)
2003 Lisa Lynn Witte, Actress (Neue Wege)
2004 Kaitlyn Maher, Actor (Santa Paws)
2008 Finn Donoghue, Actor (Price Check)
Died on January 10th
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1094 Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)
1276 Pope Gregory X (b. c.1210)
1645 William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
1654 Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
1662 Prince Honoré II of Monaco (b. 1597)
1698 Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
1707 Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
1754 Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)
1761 Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
1777 Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
1778 Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
1794 Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
1811 Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
1824 King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b. 1759)
1828 François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
1833 Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
1851 Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
1855 Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist (b. 1787)
1862 Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
1863 Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
1866 Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)
1883 Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
1895 Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
1901 Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
1904 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
1905 Karlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
1917 William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
1922 Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
1934 Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
1935 Edwin Flack, Australian athlete, first Olympic champion (b. 1873)
1941 Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
1941 Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
1941 Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
1949 Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)
1951 Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1951 Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
1957 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
1960 Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)
1961 Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 Basil Sydney, English actor (b. 1894)
1969 John Brownlee, Australian tenor (b. 1900)
1970 Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
1972 Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
1976 Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
1978 Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)
1978 Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
1980 Hughie Critz, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1980 George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
1980 Bo Rein, American college football coach (b. 1945)
1981 Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
1981 Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
1981 Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)
1982 Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
1984 Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
1985 Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
1986 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1987 Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
1987 Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
1989 Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
1989 Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
1992 Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
1995 Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
1997 Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907)
1997 Sheldon Leonard, American film producer, actor, and director (b. 1907)
1997 Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
1999 Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)
2000 Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
2002 W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
2004 Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2004 Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
2005 Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
2005 Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
2005 James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
2005 Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
2005 Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
2005 Jack Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)
2005 Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
2005 Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
2007 Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
2007 Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)
2008 Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
2008 Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (b. 1921)
2008 Mikhail Minin, Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
2009 William Frederick "Bill" Stone, British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
2011 Margaret Whiting, American singer (b. 1924)
2012 Gevork Vartanian, Soviet intelligence agent
2013 Evan Connell, American author
2015 Robert Stone, American novelist (Dog Soldiers, WUSA)
2015 Francesco Rosi, Italian film director ("The Mattei Affair" - Palme d'Or 1972)
2016 David Bowie [Jones], English singer-songwriter (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)