January 21st
Holidays and Celebrations
Flag Day (Quebec)
Wellington Anniversary (New Zealand)
Lady of Altagracia Day (Dominican Republic)
Dzień Babci - Grandmothers' Day (Poland) * CLICK HERE
National Hug Day a.k.a. National Hugging Day (USA)
Hat Day
Squirrel Appreciation Day
New England Clam Chowder Day
Anniversity of the Death of George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903 d.1950)
Benny Hill's Birthday, Benny Hill was an English actor, comedian, and singer (b.1924 d. 1992)
AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Day
Inauguration Day (When January 20th is a Sunday)
Christian Feast Day of Saint Agnes
Christian Feast Day of Fructuosus
Christian Feast Day of Meinrad of Einsiedeln
* Dinagyang (Iloilo City, The Philippines( - Late January - (1-2)
* Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival (1of10) Alamos, Sonora the lilting strains of guitars, the pounding rhythms of rock bands and the echoing arias of opera stars.
* Big Day Out - (4of14)last 2 weeks in January, Big Day Out is a music festival that travels around Australia & New Zealand.
* Rijeka Carnival (2011) (1of3 29th and Feb 5th) is in Rijeka, Croatia. This festival usually occurs mid-late January. Also known as karneval/carnaval and to locals as maškare.
Mousse Day Translation Moss Day (French Republican) The Second day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May you never forget
what is worth remembering
or remember
what is best forgotten."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Screaming Orgasm (Cream)
1 Part Vodka
1 Part Irish Cream Liquor
1 Part Amaretto
1 Part Kahlua
1 Part Cream
Roll between mixing cups to blend ingredients
Wine of The Day
Renteria (2008) Chardonnay
Style - Chardonnay
Carneros Napa Valley
$45
Beer of The Day
Y.P.A. (Yorkshire Pale Ale)
Brewer - Roosters Brewing Co. Ltd. ; Knaresborough, United Kingdom
Style - English-Style Summer Ale
Joke of The Day
A man is in a bar and falling off his stool every couple of minutes. He is obviously drunk. So the bartender says to another man in the bar: "Why don't you be a good Samaritan and take him home."
The man takes the drunk out the door and to his car and he stumbles at least ten times. They drive along and the drunk points out his house to the man. He stops the car and the drunk stumbles up the steps to his house with the man.
The drunk's wife greets them at the door: "Why thank you for bringing him home for me, but where's his wheel chair?"
Quote of The Day
"Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of good beer"
- Unknown
January Celebrations
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.
Week Celebrations
Snowfest Third Week in JanuaryHunt for Happiness Week Third Week in January
Sundance Film Festival 9 days Starting the third Tuesday in January
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week January 17th to 23rd
Week of Christian Unity January 18th to 25th
National Activity Professionals Week Starting third Saturday of January
Healthy Weight Week (Australia) January 20th-27th
Hunt For Happiness Week: January 20th-26th
National Nurse Anesthetists Week January 20th-26th
National Take Back Your Time Week January 21st-25th
National Handwriting Analysis Week Week of January 23rd (John Hancock’s birthday)
No Name Calling Week Fourth Week of January
Clean Out Your Inbox Week Last working week of January
Historical Events on January 21st
362 Athanasius returns to Alexandria.
1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket Absp of Canterbury
1189 Philip II of France and Richard I (Lion-Hearted) of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
1245 Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after having confessed to torture and forgery.
1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocent V
1287 The treaty of San Agayz is signed. Minorca is conquered by King Alfons III of Aragon.
1324 Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai & Shingon
1431 England begins trial against Joan of Arc
1440 The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1525 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
1549 Parliament passed the first of four British Acts of Uniformity, this first requiring the exclusive use of the Book of Common Prayer (later called the First Prayer Book of Edward VI) in all public services of the Anglican Church.
1564 Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comte
1574 Spanish garrison of Middelburg Neth surrenders
1583 Groningen Neth begins using Gregorian calendar
1598 Boris Godunov crowned tsar
1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
1613 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
1643 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Tonga.
1664 Count Miklós of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army
1673 Michiel A de Ruyter appointed lt-admiral-general of Dutch fleet
1675 Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1720 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
1732 Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
1738 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'I desire to have no greater portion than the prayers of the poor.'
1749 The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
1764 John Wilkes thrown out of Engl House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
1772 Pioneer Methodist bishop Frances Asbury wrote in his journal: 'Though a stranger in a strange land, God has taken care of me.'
1777 English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag
1782 US congress resolves establishment of a US mint
1789 The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1792 Congress passes Pres Succession Act
1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
1793 After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1795 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
1797 Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British
1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
1818 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
1821 Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1828 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix," published
1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
1842 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Wash DC
1846 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass
1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1853 US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester MA
1857 Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
1857 US issues flying eagle cents
1858 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Mass)
1861 Navaho indians elect Herrero Grande as chief
1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign from the United States Senate.
1862 Confederate Constitution & presidency are declared permanent
1862 Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM
1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1864 Battle at Okolona, Mississippi
1864 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
1864 The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars.
1866 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
1874 Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
1874 Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
1874 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa" premieres in Vienna
1878 1st telephone book issued, 50 subscribers (New Harbor, Connecticut)
1879 Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem" premieres in Copenhagen
1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN
1882 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
1883 2nd French government of Ferry begins
1885 Washington Monument dedicated (Wash DC)
1887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
1887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1887 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
1890 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1893 The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
1894 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 seconds
1895 NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
1899 Opel manufactures its first automobile.
1901 Clyde Fitch's "Climbers" premieres in New York City NY
1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
1903 "Wizard of Oz" premieres in New York City NY
1903 Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC
1903 Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1903 International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City NY
1904 National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich
1904 Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa" premieres in Brno Czechoslovakia
1907 SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Neth (142 dead)
1907 Kenora Thistles sweep Montana Wanderers in 2 for the Stanley Cup
1908 August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten" premieres in Stockholm
1908 New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1909 John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London
1910 John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London
1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1911 Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique)
1911 The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
1913 Aristide Briand forms French government
1914 White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
1915 World's Fair in SF opens
1915 Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan.
1916 Battle of Verdun in WW I begins (1 million casualties)
1917 British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
1918 Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
1918 The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919 German National Meeting accepts Anschluss, incorporation of Austria
1919 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
1919 Meeting of the First Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution, proclaims parliament of Free Ireland. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary.
1920 Darius Milhaud & Jean Cocteau's ballet, premieres in Paris
1921 Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 The Italian Communist Party is founded at Livorno.
1922 Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die
1922 Great Britain grants Egypt independence
1922 WHK-AM in Cleveland OH begins radio transmissions
1922 1st slalom ski race run, Mürren, Switzerland
1923 Andre Charlot's musical "Rats," premieres in London
1925 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
1925 Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic, Ahmed Zogoe President
1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
1927 Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres
1927 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1929 Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End" premieres in London
1930 Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in NYC
1931 Alka Seltzer introduced
1931 Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
1932 Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France
1932 Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
1932 USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
1934 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard
1935 The Wilderness Society is founded
1935 WFI-AM in Philadelphia PA merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
1937 Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
1937 The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1938 Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
1939 Belgian government of Pierlot forms
1939 George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way" premieres in New York City NY
1939 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1939 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1940 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
1941 Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general
1941 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
1941 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport TX
1941 Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1942 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1942 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1942 Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942 Tito's partisans occupy Foca
1943 Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews
1943 German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
1943 Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British Admiral of fleet
1944 "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)
1944 447 German bombers attack London
1944 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg
1945 Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
1945 British Army captures Goch
1945 US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1946 "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City NY for 16 performances
1946 Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
1947 "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater New York City NY for 288 performances
1947 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
1947 Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ
1947 Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel
1948 NASCAR is incorporated.
1948 West Indies vs England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes & Jim Laker
1948 The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day.
1949 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1950 "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater New York City NY after 460 performances
1950 WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1950 New York jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
1950 T S Eliot's "Cocktail Party" premieres in New York City NY
1951 SC House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
1952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
1952 Liz Taylor's 2nd marriage (Michael Wilding)
1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1953 "Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances
1953 F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
1953 Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
1954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City NY)
1954 The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut on Thames River by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
1956 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City NY after 849 performances
1956 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of the New Yorker
1957 Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
1958 Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City NY (doesn't happen)
1958 The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator.
1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
1960 Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning
1960 Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
1961 "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater New York City NY after 8 performances
1961 Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Die Physiker," premieres in Zurich
1961 Gabon adopts constitution
1961 Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km
1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria
1962 Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Neth
1962 JFK arrives in Uruguay
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1962 Snow falls in San Francisco
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
1964 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
1965 Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
1966 Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution
1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
1967 AFL Pro Bowl East beats West 30-23
1967 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1967 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin
1968 Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
1968 AFL Pro Bowl East beats West 25-24
1968 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 38-20
1968 A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base in Greenland, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
1968 Battle of Khe Sanh One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the Vietnam War begins.
1969 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
1969 Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Wash Senators
1969 22nd NHL All-Star Game West beat East 3-3 at Montréal
1970 Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"
1970 Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
1971 "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
1971 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1971 Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117
1971 The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," premieres in NYC
1972 Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China
1972 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh territory
1972 Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms
1972 Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
1972 Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
1973 Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
1973 Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
1973 3rd NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 33-28
1973 Leslie Nielsen appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
1974 Israeli forces leave western Suez
1974 Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London
1974 Yugoslavia adopts constitution
1974 Gold hits record $161.31 an ounce in London
1975 John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album
1975 John Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs
1975 28th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montréal
1976 "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1976 Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1976 Commercial service of Supersonic Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
1977 74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC
1977 Italy legalizes abortion
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1979 2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period
1979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km)
1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce
1979 Super Bowl XIII Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, Quarterback
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1500m in 1:55.44
1980 Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom)
1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce
1980 Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater New York City NY for 54 performances
1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
1981 Charles Rocket clearly says "fuck" on Saturday Night Live
1981 Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
1981 NASA launches Comstar D-4
1981 Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for 1st time on a New York subway train
1981 Tehran releases American hostages after 444 days.
1982 "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City NY for 36 performances
1982 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 perfs
1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1982 New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1983 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid
1984 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1985 -19ºF (-28ºC), Caesar's Head SC (state record)
1985 -34ºF (-37ºC), Mt Mitchell NC (state record)
1985 Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race
1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
1985 The inauguration of President Ronald Reagan to a second term, already postponed a day because Jan. 20 fell on a Sunday, becomes the second inauguration in history moved indoors because of freezing temperatures and high winds. The parade is cancelled altogether.
1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana
1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
1986 Charismatic Bible Ministries was founded in Oklahoma. A fraternal fellowship of charismatic organizations, CBM held its first major conference in June 1986 in Tulsa.
1987 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut
1987 Archbishop's envoy Terry Waite disappears in Lebanon
1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi
1988 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
1988 Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20)
1988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation
1988 US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1989 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
1989 US bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1B st value)
1989 US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)(dup)
1989 A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player
1989 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
1990 32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins
1990 41st NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director
1990 John McEnroe becomes the 1st ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official
1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1991 Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 780 perfs
1991 USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable
1991 CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1992 Kristi Yamaguchi of US wins Olympic gold medal in women's fig skating
1993 43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City
1993 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record indoor (6.15 m)
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6 38.77
1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis
1995 CFL's Sacramento Gold Miners become San Antonio Texans
1995 RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
1995 52th Golden Globes Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, Brad Pitt
1996 Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
1996 53th Golden Globes Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta
1996 Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1996 US male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo
1997 "Empire Strikes Back, special edition," premieres
1997 STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands
1997 Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
1998 Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1998 Pope John Paul II visits Cuba
1999 War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
2000 Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
2002 The Canadian Dollar sets all-time low against the US Dollar (US$0.6179).
2004 The first European political party organization, the European Greens, is established in Rome.
2004 NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2005 In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
2007 Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
2008 Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.
2012 Yemen voters go to the polls for a presidential election where the only candidate on the ballot paper is vice-president Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi
2013 30 people are killed in a car bombing in Salamiyeh, Syria
2013 18 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus falls down a ravine in Yungas, Bolivia
2013 1 person is killed and 15 are injured by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Indonesia
2013 41 people are injured after two trains collide in Vienna, Austria
2013 Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Netherlands’ Minister of Finance, becomes the President of the Euro Group
Born on January 21st
1338 King Charles V (the Wise) of France (1364-80) (d. 1380)
1417 Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)
1484 Joachim I Nestor, elector (Brandenburg, Constitution)
1556 Sethus Calvisius, composer
1571 John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam)
1659 Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect
1674 Johann Augustin Kobelius, composer
1675 Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (d. 1750)
1684 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator)
1690 Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer
1705 Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (d. 1781)
1710 Willem van Haren, Frisian nobleman/poet (Human Life)
1721 John McKinly, American physician (d. 1796)
1721 James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
1723 Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (d. 1808)
1728 Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar (1762)/husband of Catherine
1730 Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter
1735 Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer
1743 John Fitch, inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)
1744 Eise J Eisinga, Frisia, built planetarium Franeker
1746 Johann H Pestalozzi, Zurich Switzerland, educator (Leonard & Gertrude)
1751 Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer
1759 Johan Valckenaer, Dutch politician/patriot
1762 Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
1771 Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director
1775 Manuel Garcia, composer
1776 Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
1779 Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer
1783 Princess Catharina of Württemberg, Queen consort of Westphalia (d. 1835)
1785 Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner)
1792 Tsjalling Hiddes Halbertsma Fries, story teller (Rhymes & Tales)
1794 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico (1833-36)
1795 Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer
1796 John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author
1800 John Henry Winder, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1865
1801 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, composer
1801 John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius)
1801 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera composer
1802 George Douglas Ramsey, Bvt Major general (Union Army), died in 1882
1804 Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
1805 David Tod, US diplomat/(Gov-R-Ohio, 1861-63)
1813 John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer, Governor (AZ), and presidential candidate (d. 1890)
1814 Nicolo Gabrielli, composer
1814 Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer
1815 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor
1815 Horace Wells, dentist (pioneered use of medical anesthesia)
1815 John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900)
1817 Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Vallodolid Spain, poet/dramatist (El rey Loco)
1821 Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
1821 John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US Vice Pressident (1857-61)/Major-General (Confederacy)
1823 Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer
1824 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Lieutenant-General American, Confederate army general (d. 1863)
1825 Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
1827 Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
1829 Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
1829 Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905) (d. 1907)
1831 Eduard Rappoldi, composer
1833 Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress)
1836 Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer
1836 Emil Hartmann, composer
1840 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician
1844 Charles-Marie Widor, Lyons France, composer/prof (Paris Conservatory)
1848 Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
1852 (James) Burner Matthews, US playwright/critic (NY Times)
1855 Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame)
1855 John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer
1856 Hendrik P Berlage, architect (Stock exchange Amsterdam)
1857 Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
1859 Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
1860 Goscombe John, Welsh sculptor (d. 1952)
1860 Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (d. 1927)
1860 Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
1861 Pierre Breville, composer
1865 John Haden Badley, English school founder (d. 1967)
1865 Heinrich E Albers-Schönberg, German röntgenologist
1867 Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co
1867 James Marcus, actor (Eagle, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Lone Avenger)
1867 Willem C Royaards, Dutch theater director (Summer Games)
1867 Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
1867 Maxime Weygand, French general (Algeria) (d. 1965)
1872 Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
1875 Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman (died at 122)
1875 John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist (Der Wille)
1875 Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies
1876 Constantin Brancusi, Romanian/French sculptor (Princesse X)
1876 Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (d. 1956)
1877 Jacob D du Toit (Totius), South African poet/theologist
1878 Fritz Cortolezis, composer
1878 The Mother, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1973)
1878 Egon Friedell, Austria, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe)
1880 Frank Orth, Phila Pa, actor (Boston Blackie, Brothers)
1880 Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952)
1881 Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1881 Arch McCarthy, American baseball player (d. unknown)
1882 Pavel Florensky (O.S. January 9), Russian Orthodox theologian and mathematician (d. 1937)
1883 J M M "Mick" Commaille, cricketer (dual South African cricket/soccer rep)
1883 Olav Aukrust, Norway, poet
1883 Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964)
1883 Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
1884 Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter
1884 Roger Baldwin, American social activist (American Civil Liberties Union) (d. 1981)
1885 Sacha Guitry, France, actor/playwright (Story of a Cheat)
1885 Umberto Nobile, Italian aeronautical engineer (d. 1978)
1886 Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Finance/Economy
1887 Savielly (Xavier) G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1887 Alfred Henry Ackley, composer
1887 Wolfgang Köhler, German/US Gestalt psychologist (Mentality of Apes)
1887 Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
1888 Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (d. 1965)
1888 Florence Bates, TX, actress (Moon & Sixpence, Love Crazy, San Antonio)
1888 Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Religious Build Up)
1889 Felix Aylmer, actor (Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St Joan)
1889 Bert Collins, cricketer (Aussie batsman in the post WWI years)
1889 Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist (Social mobility)
1891 Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese runner
1891 Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer
1891 Timothy Mather Spelman, composer
1893 Andres Segovia, Linares Spain, classical guitarist, (d. 1987)
1893 Celia Lovsky, Russian-born actress (d. 1979)
1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist (Mother, Deserter)
1895 Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1895 Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)
1896 Sylvain Poons, Dutch cabaret performer (Blue Jackets)
1897 Celia Lovsky, Vienna Aus, actress (Airport, Harlow, T'Pau-Star Trek)
1897 J Carrol Naish, New York City NY, actor (Charlie Chan-Adventures of Charlie Chan)
1897 René Iché, French sculptor (d. 1954)
1898 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh)
1898 Avery Claflin, composer
1898 John George, Syria, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu)
1899 Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977)
1900 Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director (Plaisir)
1900 Sydney Arnold, English comic/actor (Miss Jones & Son)
1901 Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
1902 Arthur D Nock, English/US historian (St Paul)
1902 Bob (Hijman) Scholte, Dutch vocalist (or 1909)
1902 John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs (or 1909)
1903 Anaïs Nin, French writer (d. 1977)
1903 Eric Fogg, composer
1903 Fairfax M. Cone, American advertising executive (d. 1977)
1903 Madeleine Renaud, Paris France, actress (Helene, Longest Day)
1903 Raymond Queneau, (M Presle), French author (Un Enfant a Dit)
1903 Thomas Yawkey, baseball owner (Boston Red Sox)
1904 Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/poet
1904 Joseph Ford McGuinn, Brooklyn NY, actor (Dick Tracy's G-Men)
1904 Richard P Blackmur, Massachusetts, critic/poet (Anni Mirabiles, Good European)
1905 Christian Dior, French fashion designer (long-skirted look) (d. 1957)
1905 Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)
1906 Fred Fehl, Austrian/US Broadway photographer
1906 John Putz, journalist
1906 Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007)
1907 Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
1908 Bengt Strömgren Göteborg, Sweden, astrophysicist (studied gas cloud)
1909 George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director
1909 Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
1909 Helen O Dickens, (Henderson), US physician/gynaecologist
1909 Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d. 2004)
1910 Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
1910 Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WW II)
1910 Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986)
1910 Lord Cayzer, British financier/Schweppes magnate/multi-millionaire
1910 Patsy Kelly, Brooklyn NY, actress (Cowboy & the Lady)
1910 Albert Rosellini, American politician
1910 Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1911 Stanley William Reed, cineaste
1912 Arline Judge, actress (Girls in Chains, Mad Wednesday, Age of Consent)
1912 Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert)
1912 Patrick Murphy, English multi-millionaire
1912 Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964) (d. 2000)
1913 Glenn M Anderson, (Rep-D-CA, 1969)
1913 Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (d. 1997)
1914 Arnold S Denker, NY, US chess champion (1944-46)
1914 Hermanus P "Piet" Mulder, Dutch journalist (Parool/VARA)
1915 Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Another World)
1915 Godfrey Brown, England, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1915 Alan Hewitt, New York City NY, actor (Detective Brennan-My Favorite Martian)
1917 Lucille Bremer, American actress (d. 1996)
1917 Victor G M Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65)
1917 Rohan Butler, historian
1918 Geoffrey Dawes, physiologist
1918 Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
1918 Richard D. Winters, American war hero
1919 Jinx Falkenburg, Barcelona Spain, actress (Masquerade Party)
1920 Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian
1920 Errol Walton Barrow, PM of Barbados (DLP) (1966-76, 1986-87)
1920 Torsten Nilsson, composer
1921 Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart
1921 John Doucette, Brockton MA, actor (Lock Up, Big Town)
1921 Todor Popov, composer
1921 Howard Unruh, American mass murderer (d. 2009)
1922 Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle)
1922 Uros Krek, composer
1922 Jean P Vroom, Dutch sculptor
1922 Paul Scofield, English actor (Man for All Seasons, Train) (d. 2008)
1922 Telly Savalas, American actor (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) (d. 1994)
1923 Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ruthless, Ziegfeld Follies)
1923 Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/prof (Eastman School)
1923 Judith Merril (Josephine Juliet Grossman), sci-fi writer
1923 Lola Flores, Spanish singer (Kuma Ching, Faraona) (d. 1995)
1924 Robert Mugabe, president (Zimbabwe, 1988)
1924 Telly (Aristotle) Savalas Garden City Long Island NY, actor (Acapulco, Kojak)
1924 Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, and singer (Benny Hill Show) (d. 1992)
1925 Al Fann, Cleve, actor (Alvin-He's the Mayor)
1925 Jack Ramsay, NBA coach
1925 Sam Peckinpah, Fresno CA, film director (Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs)
1925 Oswald "Ossie" Stevens Nock, railway writer
1926 Hans Andreus, (Johan W van der Zant), Dutch poet (Animal Language)
1926 Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
1926 Paul Burke, New Orleans LA, actor (Neal-Dynasty)
1926 Raf Reymen, Flemish actor
1926 Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
1926 Steve Reeves, American actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained) (d. 2000)
1927 Erma Bombeck, Dayton Ohio, humorist (Grass is Always Greener...)
1927 Hubert de Givenchy, Beauvais France, fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn)
1927 Pierre Mercure, composer
1927 Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985)
1928 Gene Sharp, American political theorist and pacifist
1929 James Beck, English actor (d. 1973)
1930 Elizabeth Adams, madame
1930 Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1932 Harald V, King of Norway (1991)
1932 Boris Shakhlin, Russia, gymnast (Olympics-gold-1956-60-64)
1932 John Chaney, American basketball coach
1933 Nina Simone, (Eunice Waymon), Tyron NC, vocalist/pianist (Porgy)
1933 Itzhak Fuks, Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam
1933 William Wrigley III, chewing gum mogul (Wrigleys)
1933 Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (d. 2007)
1934 Rue McClanahan, Healdton Oklahoma, actress (Maude, Golden Girls)
1934 Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
1935 Jean Pelletier, French Canadian political operative
1935 Mark McManus, actor (Taggart, Nightstick, 2000 Weeks, 12th Night)
1935 Ann Wedgeworth, Abilene TX, actress (Tiger's Tale, Men's Club, Bogie)
1936 Barbara Jordan, Houston, Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1972-78)
1936 Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
1937 Gary Lockwood, Van Nuys Cal, actor (2001, Survival Zone, Lieutenant)
1937 Ron Clarke, Australia, runner (held 19 world records)
1937 Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria
1938 Beryl F Anthony Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1979)
1938 John Savident, British actor
1938 Wolfman Jack (Bob Smith), American disk jockey and actor (Midnight Special) (d. 1995)
1939 Richard Beymer, Avoca IA, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank)
1939 Ron Nagle, rock producer (Riding with the King)
1939 Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
1940 John Lewis, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1940 Peter Gethin, British racing driver
1940 Peter McEnery, England, actor (Game is Over, Moonspinners)
1940 Jack Nicklaus, American golfer (Player of Year 1967,72,73,75,76)
1940 Marquis of Tavistock, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1941 Charlie Shelburne, English earl/large landowner
1941 Edwin Starr (Charles Hatcher), US singer (War)
1941 Placido Domingo, Spanish tenor(Pinkerton-Madame Butterfly)
1941 Richie Havens, American musician (Here Comes the Sun)
1941 Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler
1941 Mike Medavoy, American film producer
1941 Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor
1942 Margarethe Von Trotta, Berlin Germany, actress/director (Marianne)
1942 Mac Davis, American musician (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
1942 Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)
1943 David Geffin, Brooklyn NY, record producer (Geffin, Asylum)
1943 Duncan Swift, jazz pianist
1943 Roberto Faenza, director (Cop Killers, Corrupt)
1943 Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek actor, songwriter and singer
1944 Herman de Coninck, Flemish writer/poet (Impossible Work)
1944 Kitty Winn, Wash DC, actress (Beacon Hill)
1944 John Kenneth Tavener, composer
1944 Neely Bruce, composer
1945 Paul Newton, rock bassist
1945 Sudhir Naik, cricketer (Indian Test batsman in 2 Tests 1974)
1945 Andrew Stein, president of NYC council (D)
1945 Chris Britton, Musician (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine)
1946 Alan Rickman, actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Harry Potter)
1946 Anthony Daniels, British actor (Star Wars C-3PO)
1946 Bob Ryan, Boston sports columnist
1946 Desmond Lewis, WI cricket batsman/keeper (avg 86.33 in 3 Tests)
1946 Tricia Nixon Cox, Richard Milhaus' daughter (or 0202)
1946 Tyne Daly, Madison Wisc, actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained)
1946 Vito Rizzuto, Sicilian-born alleged mafia boss
1946 Vincent Placoly Martinique, writer (L'eau-de-mort guildive)
1946 Johnny Oates, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
1947 Olympia J Snowe, (Rep-R-ME, 1979)
1947 Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1947 Jill Eikenberry, American actress (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project)
1947 Jimmy Ibbotson Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1947 Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
1947 Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
1948 Larry Ragland, Richmond Va, comedian (Keep on Truckin')
1949 Jerry Harrison, Milwaukee, rock keyboardist (Talking Heads)
1949 Ronnie Hellström, Swedish footballer
1950 Billy Ocean (Leslie S Charles), Trinidad, singer (Suddenly, Caribbean Queen)
1950 Joseph R Tanner, Danville IL, astronaut (STS 66, 82, sk 97)
1950 Richie Ranno, rocker
1950 Billy Ocean, West Indian musician
1950 Gary Locke, American Secretary of Commerce
1951 John Parker, cricketer (NZ batsman of 70s)
1951 Michael Cotten, rock synthesizer (Tubes)
1951 Vince Welnick, rock keyboardist (Tubes)
1951 Eric Holder, American Attorney General (2009-)
1952 Jean-Jacques Brunel, rock bassist (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
1952 Cyril and Libbye Hellier, identical-twin sopranos
1952 Louis Menand, American writer and critic
1952 Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist
1953 Christine Ebersole, Park Forest Ill, actress (SNL, Valerie, Tootsie)
1953 William L Petersen, actor (Return to Lonesome Dove)
1953 Fausto Bara, Mexico, actor (Gaucho-Renegades)
1953 Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft
1954 Ivo van Damme, Belgium, 800/1500m dash (Olympic-silver-1976)
1954 Phil Thompson, English footballer and coach
1955 Sir Steven Fayburgh, British diplomat
1955 Peter Fleming, New Jersey, tennis player (US Open Doubles 1979, 81, 83)
1955 Robby Benson, Dallas TX, actor (One on One, Running Brave, ChosenIce Castles, Beauty and the Beast)
1955 Jeff Koons, American artist
1956 Woody Brown, Dayton Ohio, actor (Cliff-Facts of Life)
1956 Bob Brill, New York City NY, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
1956 Robby Benson, American actor (Beauty and the Beast)
1957 Geena (Virginia) Davis, American actress (Beetlejuice, The Fly)
1957 Jacob Green, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawk)
1957 Shaukat Dukanwala, cricketer (Baroda off-spinner, UAE World Cup 1996)
1957 Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
1958 Alan Trammell, Garden Grove CA, infielder (Detroit Tigers)
1958 Jack Coleman, Easton Pa, actor (Steven Carrington-Dynasty)
1958 Jake Steinfeld, exercise expert (Body by Jake)
1958 Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Princeton NJ, country vocalist (This Shirt)
1958 Miguel Alejandro, New York City NY, actor (Popi)
1958 Frank Ticheli, American composer
1958 Michael Wincott, Canadian actor (The Crow)
1959 José María Cano, Spanish musician
1959 Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
1960 Steve Wynn, American singer (
1961 Bertha Faye, American wrestler (d. 2001)
1961 Christopher Atkins, Rye NY, actor (Peter-Dallas, Blue Lagoon)
1961 Martha Hackett, American actress
1961 Ranking Roger, rock vocalist (English Beat-Drowning)
1961 Yobes Ondieki, Kenya, 10K runner (world record)
1961 Gabrielle Carteris, Phoenix AZ, actress (Andrea-Beverly Hills 90210)
1961 Sherry Ramsay, Stauton VA, actress (Trish Mason-As the World Turns)
1962 Chuck Palahniuk, American writer
1962 David Foster Wallace, American writer
1962 Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter
1962 Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
1962 Tyler Cowen, American economist
1963 Greg Turner, Dunedin NZ, Australasia golfer
1963 Michael Gostigian, Newtown Sq PA, pentathelete (Oly-16th-88, 92, 96)
1963 Cindy Schreyer, Forest Park GA, LPGA golfer (1993 Sun-Times Challenge)
1963 Detlef Schrempf, Germany, NBA forward (Mavericks, Pacers, Supersonics)
1963 Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player, NBA center (Rockets, Olympics-gold-96)
1963 Jessie Hester, NFL player (St Louis Rams)
1963 Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
1964 Alana Soares, Redondo Beach Ca, playmate (Mar, 1983)
1964 Huw Higginson, British actor
1964 Jane Tomlinson, British cancer campaigner (d. 2007)
1964 Mark E Kelly, Orange NJ, Lt USN/astronaut
1964 Scott J Kelly, Orange NJ, Lt USN/astronaut
1964 Willie Pless, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1965 Jayson Meyer, Regina Saskatchewan, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1965 Keith Arthurton, cricketer (Charlestown, Nevis WI lefty bat)
1965 Brian Bradley Kitchener, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 Cordell Crockett, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
1965 Eric Moore, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1965 Tania Abitbol, Madrid Spain, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open-4th)
1965 Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)
1966 Bronwen Booth, London, actress (Andy-One Life to Live, Eternal Evil)
1966 Chris Donnels, US baseball infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 Edie Boyer, St Paul Minn, discus thrower
1966 Tommy Hendricks, Musician
1966 Wendy James, London England, vocalist (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1966 Chris Hammond, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1966 Katrine Michaelsen, Gentokte Denmark, Miss Denmark (1984)
1966 Candi Milo, American voice actress
1966 Robert Del Naja, English musician
1967 Bas Roorda, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen, NEC) (or Feb 13)
1967 Leroy Russel Burrell, Phila, long jumper (Olympics-96)
1967 Patrick Lodewijks, Dutch soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1967 Ulf Stenlund, Sweden, tennis star
1967 Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
1968 Pellom McDaniels, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs)
1968 Terry Allen, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings, Wash Redskins)
1968 Charlotte Ross, Chicago, actress (Eve-Days of Our Lives)
1968 Tom Urbani, Santa Cruz CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers)
1968 Charlotte Ross, American actress
1968 Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician
1969 Dean Noel, CFL full back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 Eric Wilson, American musician
1969 James Dean Bradfield, Welsh musician
1969 Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skiier (Olympic-gold-1992)
1969 Tony Meola, American Soccer Player
1969 Ashley Sheppard, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Matt Willig, NFL tackle/guard (Atlanta Falcons, New York Jets), Actor (We're the Millers)
1969 Rusty Greer, Fort Rucker AL, outfielder (Texas Rangers)
1969 Ted Long, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 Eduard Hämäläinen, Finnish-Belarusian decathlete
1969 Karina Lombard, American actress (Legends of the Fall)
1969 M. K. Hobson, American speculative fiction and fantasy writer
1969 Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
1970 Javier De La Hoya, Mexican/US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1970 Marc Woodard, NFL linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 Michael Slater, cricketer (devastating Aust opening bat since 1993)
1970 Patrick Pilloni, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1970 Will Moore, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Brennan Little, St Thomas Ontario, golfer (1994 Western States mini-tour)
1970 Ian Salisbury, cricketer (Sussex & England leg-spinner 1992-96)
1970 Ken Leung, American actor (Rush Hour)
1970 Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1971 Arco Jochemsen, Dutch soccer player (SVDB, Vitesse)
1971 Jeff Schmidt, US baseball pitcher (California Angels)
1971 Jey Phillips, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Jose Solano, actor (Baywatch)
1971 Randy Blythe, American musician
1971 Terry Mickens, NFL wide reciever (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 Doug Edwards, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1971 Doug Weight, Warren MI, NHL center (Edmonton Oilers, Team USA 98)
1971 Tommy Puett, Gary IN, actor (Tyler-Life Goes On, America's Top 10)
1971 Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
1971 Doug Weight, American ice hockey player
1971 Tweet, American singer
1972 Karl DeWolf, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1972 Seo Taiji, Korean musician
1972 Alan Benes, American baseball player (St Louis Cardinals)
1972 Howard Nathan, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1972 Shelley Looney, ice hockey forward (USA, Olympics-98)
1972 Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
1972 Rick Falkvinge, Swedish politician
1972 Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1973 Bowie Tsang, Taiwanese singer and TV host
1973 Brian Rolston, Flint, NHL left wing (Olympics-1994, NJ Devils)
1973 Heri Joensen, Faroese musician
1973 Bubba Miller, corner (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Grady Jackson, defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1973 Jamal Cox, WLAF linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1973 Duane Lee Chapman Jr, (American bounty hunter)
1974 Alexei Lojkin, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
1974 Iván Campo, Spanish footballer
1974 Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
1974 Rohsaan Griffin, Texas City Texas, 200m runner
1974 Wish Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1974 Jerald Sowell, fullback (New York Jets)
1974 Jerry Wunsch, tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 Orpheus Roye, defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 Alex Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver
1974 Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian
1975 Scott Miller, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1975 Troy Slaten, actor (Jerry-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1975 Anette Oldenborg, Miss Denmark-Universe (1996)
1975 Faghma Absalom, Miss Namibia-Universe (1996)
1975 Willem Korsten, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
1975 Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater
1975 Ito, Spanish footballer
1975 Nicky Butt, English footballer
1975 Thomas Castaignede, French rugby player
1975 Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
1976 Robin Confer, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1976 Ryan Smyth, Banff, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1976 Amanda Little, Miss Texas-USA (1997, top 6)
1976 Emma Lee Bunton "Baby Spice", Finchley London, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1976 Lynn Thomas, Newport News VA, playmate (May 1997)
1976 Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
1977 Chad Hutchinson, baseball and football player
1977 Kevin Rose, American television host and Internet entrepreneur
1977 Steve Francis, American basketball player
1977 Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer
1977 Jerry Trainor, Actor (Donnie Darko)
1977 Matt Perry, English rugby player
1977 Phil Neville, English footballer
1978 Kim Ha Neul, South Korean actress
1978 Nicole Parker, American actress
1978 Park Eun-hye, South Korean actress
1978 Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
1978 Bryan Gilmore, National Football League player
1978 Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete
1978 Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist
1978 Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
1979 Carly "Carlito" Colón, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
1979 Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress (Sarah Reeves-Party of Five)
1979 Lonnie Ford, American football player
1979 Pascal Chimbonda, French footballer
1979 Kelly Gaudet, Miss Florida Teen-USA (1996)
1979 Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer
1979 Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player
1979 Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
1980 Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 Jim Vandermeer, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 Parthiva Sureshwaren, Indian racing driver
1980 Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer
1980 Aubrie Rippner, Los Angeles CA, tennis star (1995 USTA National Girls 18)
1980 Dave Kitson, English footballer
1980 Mari Possa, Salvatorian-American Adult-Films actress
1980 Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1981 Alex Ubago, Spanish singer-songwriter
1981 Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1981 Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1981 Ivan Ergic, Serbian footballer
1981 Izabella Miko, Polish actress (Clash of the Titans) and model
1981 Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer
1982 Bernhard Auinger, Austrian racing driver
1982 Chantal Claret, American musician
1982 Dean Whitehead, English footballer
1982 Go Shiozaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1982 Simon Rolfes, German footballer
1983 Braylon Edwards, American football player
1983 Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 Katie Griffiths, English actress
1983 Maryse Ouellet, Canadian model and professional wrestler
1983 Moritz Volz, German footballer
1983 Peter Philipakos, American/Greek soccer player
1983 Svetlana Khodchenkova, Actress (The Wolverine)
1984 Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby union player
1984 David Odonkor, German footballer
1984 Karina, Japanese model and actress
1984 Luke Grimes, Actor (Taken 2)
1984 Raymond Gutierrez, Filipino actor and television host
1984 Robert Ray, American baseball player
1985 Bob Burton, American speedcuber
1985 Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
1985 Adrian Lewis, English dart player
1985 Alex Pérez, Spanish footballer
1985 Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player
1985 Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
1986 Amedeo, Belgium, son of princess Astrid/arch duke Lorenz
1986 Charlotte Church, Welsh singer
1987 Ashley Greene, American model and actress
1987 Burgess Abernethy, Australian Actor
1987 Ellen Page, Canadian actress
1987 Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
1988 William C. Woxlin, Swedish composer
1989 Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
1989 Josh Walker, English footballer
1989 Kristin Herrera, American actress
1989 Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress
1990 Jacob Smith, American actor
1991 Craig Roberts, Actor (Submarine)
1992 Keely Purvis, Actress (X2)
1993 Tuval Shafir, Actor (The Matchmaker)
1994 BooBoo Stewart, Actor (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), singer
1994 Laura Robson, Australian/British tennis player
1995 Jennifer Rae Daykin, Actress (Nanny McPhee)
1997 Jeremy Shada, Voice Actor (Team America: World Police)
1999 Kenny Roach, Actor (Cadence)
2001 Jackson Brundage, Actor (One Tree Hill)
2003 Mackenzie Clynes, Actress (The Family Secret)
2004 Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
Died on January 21st
304 Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)
556 Maximianus van Ravenna, bishop (Basilica S Stefano)
879 Boudouin with the Iron Arm, Earl of Flanders
917 Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (b. c. 880)
1118 Paschalis II (Raniero), Pope (1099-1118)
1437 King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
1471 John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop
1513 Julius II, (Giuliano dellea Rovere), Pope (1503-13)
1519 Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1527 Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (b. c. 1489)
1546 Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
1554 Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany)
1595 Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged
1596 John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister
1609 Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar "Julian Period(b. 1540)
1624 Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), at about 28
1626 John Dowland, English musician/lyric poet (In Darkness We Dwell)
1638 Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. c. 1570)
1648 Christian IV, king of Denmark/Norway
1653 Adriaen Pauw, master of Heemstede/Dutch Grand Pensionary
1665 Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, at 72
1665 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat theorem)
1668 John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
1670 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright
1677 (Benedictus) Baruch Spinoza, philosopher, at 44
1683 Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
1684 Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, at about 75
1686 Nicolas-François Blondel, French architect
1689 Isaacus Vossius, Dutch (Isaac Vos), librarian
1699 Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
1704 Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner
1706 Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
1710 Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)
1711 Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1707-09)
1715 Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
1722 Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
1730 Benedict XIII, (Pietro F Orsini), Pope (1724-30)
1731 Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
1746 Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer
1766 James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
1773 Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
1774 Mustapha III, sultan of Turkey (1957-74) (b. 1717)
1775 Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel
1788 Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1790 Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer, at 64
1793 Louis XVI, French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries (b. 1754)
1795 Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
1803 Edward Despard, last person drawn & quartered in England
1809 Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)
1814 Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)
1815 M Claudius, writer at 74
1821 Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
1823 Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)
1824 Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
1831 Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
1842 Wojciech Zywny, composer
1846 Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
1851 Gustav Albert Lortzing, German composer (b. 1801)
1862 Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer
1862 Bozena Nemcová (Barnora Panklová), Czechoslovakian author (b. 1820)
1864 Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate brig-general in battle
1870 Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
1871 John J Rochussen, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1845-51)
1872 Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, at 82
1872 Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (Sappho/Libussa) (b. 1791)
1876 Henry John Gauntlett, composer, at 70
1879 Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance
1881 Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1882 Anton Emil Titl, composer
1883 Jacopo Tomadini, composer
1884 John Pike Hullah, composer
1884 Auguste Franchomme, composer
1888 Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer
1891 Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
1892 John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune
1894 Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding designer/painter
1894 Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu composer, at 24
1901 George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
1901 Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
1903 Hermanus J A M Schaepman, Dutch clergyman/politician
1914 Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
1919 Giovanni Bolzoni, composer, at 77
1919 Habib Ullah Chan, emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered
1919 Karl von Hohenzollern, Prince of Belgium
1919 Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (soc), murdered, at 51
1919 Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
1920 Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)
1924 Salvatore Auteri Manzocchi, composer, at 78
1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)
1925 Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer, at 52
1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913)
1926 Camillo Golgi Italian medical research at 81
1926 Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (malaria, Nobel 1906) (b. 1843)
1927 Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, at 65
1928 George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
1931 Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer (b. 1863)
1932 Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)
1933 George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)
1937 Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1938 Albert Huybrechts, composer, at 39
1938 George Ellery Hale, astronomer
1941 Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
1942 Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, at 72
1943 Otakar Sini, composer, at 61
1944 Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
1944 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer
1944 Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down
1945 Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (Olympic-gold 1924)
1946 José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
1948 Frederick Archibald Lamond, composer, at 80
1948 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
1949 Ernest Walker, composer, at 78
1950 George Orwell, British writer (Animal Farm, 1984) (b. 1903)
1951 Anton Roemer, Dutch actor (Gay Death), at 63
1954 Billy Jenkins, at 69
1955 Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/High Council
1955 Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
1956 Edwin Franko Goldman, composer
1956 Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
1957 Arthur L Bowley, English statistician/economist
1958 Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
1959 Lamar Stringfield, composer, at 61
1959 Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)
1959 Cecil B. DeMille, American director (10 Commandments) (b. 1881)
1961 Blaise Cendrars, (Frederic Sauser-Hall), Swiss/French poet (J'ai tué)
1961 John Joseph Becker, composer, a day before 75th birthday
1961 Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)
1962 André Lhote, French painter/art historian
1963 Al St John, actor (Law & Order, Devil Riders)
1963 Franz Jung, writer, at 74
1964 Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Cleopatra, Diary of Anne Frank)
1965 Malcolm X, (Little), black Moslem leader, assassinated in NYC,
1965 Harvey Zorbaugh, doctor/TV host (Play the Game), at 68
1966 Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895)
1967 Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
1967 Ann Sheridan, American actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats) (b. 1915)
1968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), at 65
1968 Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmocologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
1968 Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
1969 Jose de Capriles, Mexican-born US Olympic fencer
1971 Adolph Weiss, composer, at 79
1971 Richard B Russell, (Senator-D-GA), at 73
1972 Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891)
1972 Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic candinal (b. 1884)
1974 Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
1974 Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, at 48
1974 Ken Viljoen, cricketer (played 27 Tests for South Africa 1930-47)
1974 Lewis L Strauss, head US Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58)
1975 Marie Lohr, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel, Escapade)
1976 Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), at 32
1976 Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer)
1977 John Vincent, composer, at 74
1977 Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer, at 76
1977 Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
1978 Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
1978 Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898)
1979 Glendon Gibbs, cricketer (Test Cricket WI v Australia 1955)
1979 Ray Whitley, composer
1980 Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town)
1981 Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society)
1982 Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
1984 Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965)
1984 Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (b. 1893)
1984 Jackie Wilson, American musician (I Get the Sweetest Feeling) (b. 1934)
1985 Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris)
1985 Ina Claire, actress/comedienne (3 Bdwy Girls) of stroke
1985 Louis Hayward, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors) of lung cancer
1985 Barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills) of emphysema
1985 Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
1985 James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)
1986 Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
1986 Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but now disputed (b. 1865)
1987 Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (7th Day)
1987 Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
1988 Abraham Sofaer, actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk)
1989 Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
1989 Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
1989 Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (b. 1922)
1991 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet)
1991 Roger Swaybill, actor/writer (Porky's II, Breaking Point)
1991 Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke)
1991 Howard "Red" Grange, football's galloping ghost
1991 Richard Bolling, (Representative-D-MO)/US civil-rights leader
1992 Eva A Jessye, US singer/actress (Eva Jessye Choir)
1992 Franc Holden, British astronomer (Binary Stars)
1992 Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, at 83
1992 William S Magginetti, at 98
1992 William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer, pianist
1993 Ferrucci Lamborghini, car maker (Lamborghini)
1993 Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1994 Frederick Edward Nicklin, architect
1994 William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist
1994 Basel al-Assad, Syrian President Assad's son in car accident
1995 Robert Bolt, Brit playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty)
1995 Flavio "Negao" Pires da Conceicao, drug Trafficker
1995 John Halas, animator
1995 Philippe Casado, Moroccan-French cyclist
1996 Horace Leonard Gold, sF writer, editor
1996 Jean Burroughs, educationalist at 67
1996 Morton Gould, composer, at 82
1996 Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer
1996 Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer
1996 Sam Green, industrialist/inventor, at 88
1996 René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1921)
1997 Kenneth Rowntree, painter, at 81
1997 Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader
1997 Dennis Main Wilson, TV/radio producer
1997 Michael Duane, educationalist, at 81
1997 Colonel Tom Parker, American manager of Elvis Presley (b. 1909)
1998 Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
1999 Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
1999 Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (b. 1930)
1999 Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)
1999 Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
2000 Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933)
2001 Byron De La Beckwith, American white supremacist (b. 1921)
2002 Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
2002 John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942)
2002 Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
2003 Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947)
2003 Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet (b. 1933)
2004 Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (b. 1933)
2004 John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
2004 Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)
2005 Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930)
2005 Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929)
2005 Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
2005 Gérard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920)
2005 John L. Hess, American journalist (b. 1917)
2005 Parveen Babi, Indian actress (b. 1955)
2005 Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1907)
2006 Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician
2006 Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
2007 Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
2007 U Nee, Korean pop artist (b. 1981)
2008 Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)
2008 Sunny Lowry, First British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911)
2008 Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
2008 Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
2009 Veatrice Rice, Security guard, television personality on Jimmy Kimmel Live (b. 1949)
2010 Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator (b. 1953)
2011 Bernard Nathanson, American abortionist turned pro-life activist (b. 1926)
2011 E V V Satyanarayana, Indian Film Director, Producer. (b. 1958)
2011 Dennis Oppenheim, American conceptual artist (b.1938)
2012 Jonathan Idema, American torturer, kidnapper and con-artist
2012 Roy John Britten, American molecular biologist
2012 Barney Rosset, American publisher and free speech advocate
2012 Baron Hooson (Hugh Emlyn), British politician and peer
2012 Colin Ireland, British 'Gay Slayer' serial killer
2012 John Michuki, Kenyan politician from heart attack
2012 Pierre Juneau, Canadian film and broadcast executive
2013 Michael Winner, British film director and producer (b. 1935)
2013 Robert Michael Winner, English film director and producer (Death Wish)
2015 Martin Honeysett, British cartoonist (Punch, Private Eye)
2015 Pauline Yates, English actress (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin)
2016 Bill Johnson, alpine skier (first American to win alpine Olympic gold - 1984)