January 22nd
Holidays and Celebrations
Ukrainian Day (Ukraine)
Roe vs. Wade Day
Celebration of Life Day
Dzień Dziadka - Grandfathers' Day (Poland) * CLICK HERE
Nude Beach Day
Election Day (Israel) (2013) * CLICK HERE
Women's Healthy Weight Day
National Answer Your Cat's Question Day
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
Answer Your Cat's Questions Day
National Blonde Brownie Day
Feast day of St. Vincent (Christianity)
Feast day of Vincent of Saragossa (Christianity)
Feast day of Anastasius of Persia. (Christianity)
* Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival (2of10) Alamos, Sonora the lilting strains of guitars, the pounding rhythms of rock bands and the echoing arias of opera stars.
* Big Day Out - (5of14)last 2 weeks in January, Big Day Out is a music festival that travels around Australia & New Zealand.
* Dinagyang Iloilo City, The Philippines - Late January - (2-2)
* Ati-Atihan (Phillipines) (6-14)
Fragon Day Translation Butcher's Broom Day (French Republican) The Third day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And, whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate."
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), January 22nd, 1788 – April 19th, 1824), a British poet
- Alternative -
"Let us have wine and women
Mirth and laughter
Sermons and soda-water
The day after."
- Lord Byron (also see Apr 19th)
Drink of The Day
Japanese Slipper
1 oz. Triple Sec (Cointreau)
1 oz. Liqueur, melon (Midori)
1 oz. Lemon Juice
Shake everything with ice and strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a slice of honeydew melon
Wine of The Day
Two Rivers 2009 Syrah
Style - Syrah
Mesa County
$15
Beer of The Day
Crazy Ivan
Brewer - Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant ; Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Style - British-Style Imperial Stout
Joke of The Day
Two drunks are in a pub sitting at the bar, staring into their drinks.
One gets a curious look on his face and asks, "Hey, Pete, have you
ever seen an ice cube with a hole in it before?"
"Yep. I been married to one for fifteen years."
Quote of the Day
"Why is American beer served cold?
...So you can distinguish it from urine."
-David Moulton
Whisky of The Day
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
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 22nd
565 Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
871 Battle at Basing Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex
896 Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
1071 Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
1281 Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
1300 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
1349 Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1371 King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
1495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown
1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1510 Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
1517 Turks conquer Cairo
1521 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, opens the Diet of Worms.
1522 German Reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'Love cares for the problems of others as if they were one's own.'
1528 England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V
1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
1575 English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd music press monopoly
1584 Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
1588 Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia)
1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
1632 Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
1673 Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
1689 Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
1689 Prince Willem III calls English parliament together
1690 Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
1744 Battle at Toulon: English-French & Spanish fleet
1746 French troops conquer Brussels
1746 Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
1758 Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East Prussia
1760 Battle at Wandewash India British troops beat French
1771 Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England.
1774 English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1775 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents
1775 Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
1784 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
1797 Last Invasion of Britain: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1798 Coup of Midderigh
1813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
1814 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, New York City NY
1816 Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "The Siege of Corinth"
1817 English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia
1819 Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty)
1821 Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
1824 Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1828 Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
1831 Charles Darwin takes his Bachelor of Arts exam
1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
1836 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
1837 Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1843 Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Blass, German biblical philologist. His 1896 "Grammar of New Testament Greek" became a foundational work in New Testament studies, and is still in print.
1847 Battle of Buena Vista: US troops beat Mexican army
1850 Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in California
1854 1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
1855 Birth of Carrie Ellis Breck, American Presbyterian poet. Several of her verses later became hymns, including "Help Somebody Today" and "Face to Face with Christ My Savior."
1856 1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
1857 National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
1858 Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in NYC
1859 Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
1860 Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time
1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
1862 Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
1863 Union General Burnside's "Mud March"
1863 The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
1864 Battle at Dalton Georgia
1864 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, MS
1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
1865 Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1872 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
1873 Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die
1876 Johns Hopkins University opens
1877 Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
1878 Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio)
1879 1st 5 cent & 10 cent store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY)
1879 James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa
1879 Battle of Isandlwana Zulu troops defeat British troops in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1881 Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
1882 The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
1882 The Fifth Street Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, became the first church in America to be illuminated by electric lighting.
1883 England complete 1st innings victory in Tests vs Australia MCG
1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
1889 Pres Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state to the union.
1889 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 José Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City NY
1890 The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1892 "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London)
1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati OH
1898 Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
1899 Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 Hawaii became a US territory
1901 After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series
1901 Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
1904 The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1905 "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution, Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops.
1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
1906 SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
1907 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1907 Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St Petersburg
1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
1909 Vassily Kandinsky forms Künstlerverein in Munich
1910 The opera "Germania" is 1st performed in New York City NY
1912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
1913 Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus)
1914 Paul Claudel's "L'échange" premieres in Paris
1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
1917 President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe in World War I.
1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
1918 Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
1919 Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville California)
1922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA California)
1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins
1924 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)
1924 Baldwin government resigns in England
1924 Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
1924 KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1924 Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1925 Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu
1926 Belgian chief of staff General Maglinse quits
1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
1927 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
1927 First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
1928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
1930 -35ºF (-37ºC), Mount Carroll IL (state record)
1931 French government of Steeg falls
1931 VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
1931 Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1932 Purple Heart award reinstituted
1932 British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
1933 Goering forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
1934 "It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1934 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady MacBeth" premieres in Leningrad
1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1936 Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins
1936 French Laval government falls
1938 "Our Town", Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners NH, performed publicly for 1st time (New Jersey)
1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1939 Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco CA, is dedicated
1939 Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
1940 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
1940 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
1941 German assault on El Agheila Libya
1941 IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
1941 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
1941 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1941 British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
1941 British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass in World War II.
1942 President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapses in World War II.
1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1942 Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8 44 06)
1943 Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1943 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp CA (state record)
1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th
1943 Temperature rises 49ºF (9ºC) in 2 minutes in Spearfish SD
1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
1944
1944 The Allies commence Operation Shingle, Battle of Anzio (Italy), an assault on Anzio, Italy, Allies stopped on the beach in World War II.
1945 Arab League froms (Cairo)
1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
1945 Burma highway reopens
1945 Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
1946 US President Creats of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1946 Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad (Iran). He is the new president; Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
1947 KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California, begins broadcasting .
1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
1948 Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs West Indies Barbados
1949 "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY for 121 performances
1949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1950 Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
1950 Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
1951 Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
1952 The first Jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, enters service for BOAC.
1953 Arthur Miller's "Crucible" premieres in New York City NY
1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
1955 Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms
1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
1956 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1956 Canadian Football Council forms
1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
1957 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
1957 Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai Penisula
1957 The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1958 "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
1958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
1958 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
1958 KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
1959 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
1959 USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
1959 Knox Mine Disaster, Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
1960 10th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia
1960 Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
1960 French President De Gaulle escapes attempt by General Massu
1960 Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
1962 The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
1963 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament
1963 Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'In Jesus Christ, God and man...are already at peace Ä not as enemies but as true companions. In Him salvation is already present and at work.'
1963 The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
1964 Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)
1964 World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
1965 US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
1967 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1967 Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC
1967 Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
1967 NFL Pro Bowl East beats West 20-10
1968 "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
1968 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
1968 Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
1968 NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix
1968 Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
1969 "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City NY for 110 performances
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
1969 Billy Preston becomes the 5th Beatle
1969 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
1969 Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1970 "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1970 Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs Australia, Cape Town
1970 The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport 6½ hours.
1971 Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
1971 John & Yoko record "Power to the People"
1972 "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
1972 22nd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 112-110 at Los Angeles
1973 US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC
1973 George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1973 US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
1973 A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria killing 176.
1973 The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
1975 Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1976 Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)
1978 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn
1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
1979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain
1980 Afghanistan declares martial law
1980 USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
1980 Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
1980 PGA begins a senior golf tour
1980 West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup
1981 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1981 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
1981 O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of the New Orleans Saints
1982 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
1982 75% of North America is covered by snow
1983 Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record
1983 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds
1983 Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96
1984 Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec
1984 Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 points
1984 Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates
1984 Super Bowl XVIII Los Angeles Raiders beat Washington Redskins, 38-9 in Tampa; Super Bowl MVP Marcus Allen, Los Angeles Raiders, Running Back
1984 The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.
1985 -30ºF (-34ºC), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
1985 Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1985 Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
1985 Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides
1986 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1986 Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
1987 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
1987 Blizzard in New Jersey, as 334 attend the Devils-Flame NHL game, New Jersey wins 7-5
1987 Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
1988 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
1988 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad & Tobago vs Leeward Island
1988 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS vs Transvaal
1988 Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1989 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
1989 NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
1989 Super Bowl XXIII San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Jerry Rice, San Francisco, Wide Receiver
1989 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
1990 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
1990 17th American Music Award Milli Vanilli
1990 Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
1990 Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with San Francisco Giants
1990 Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
1991 Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal
1991 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
1991 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton
1991 Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks in the Gulf War.
1992 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC
1992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
1992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
1992 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament
1992 Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
1992 Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
1992 Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1992 STS-42 Mission Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6 38.77
1994 "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
1994 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
1994 45th NHL All-Star Game East beat West 9-8 at New York Rangers
1994 51st Golden Globes Schlinder's List, Steven Spielberg
1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
1995 Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
1995 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
1995 Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
1995 Israeli-Palestinian conflict Beit Lid massacre In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
1996 "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
1996 Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
1998 "King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
1998 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan
1998 NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
1998 Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time
1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
1998 World League of American Football becomes NFL East
1999 Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2002 Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2002 Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2006 At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2006 Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2010 Conan O'Brien's last Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show timeslot.
2011 An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people
2012 Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds
2012 New England Patriots beat Baltimore Ravens 23-20 in the AFC Championship Game
2012 New York Giants beat San Francisco 49ers 20-17 (OT) in the NFC Championship Game
2013 A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people
2013 The Bank of Japan doubles its inflation target to 2% and announces open-ended asset purchases for 2014 in the hope of ending deflation
2014 Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres
2016 Winter storm conditions strand 500 motorists for 24 hours on the New Jersey turnpike in Pennsylvania
Born on January 22nd
1040 Rashi, French rabbi, Jewish scholar (d. 1105)
1263 Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
1403 Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), drove out English
1440 Ladislaus V Posthumus, King of Hungary/Bohemia
1440 Ivan III the Great, Russian czar (1462-1505), conquered Lithuania (d. 1505)
1500 Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
1514 Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1542 Santino Garsi, composer
1553 Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
1561 Francis Bacon, English philosopher and essayist (Novum Organum) (d. 1626)
1571 Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
1573 Gemignano Capilupi, composer
1592 Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter
1612 George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1634 Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten, fortress architect
1649 Pascal Collasse, composer
1654 Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
1655 Geleyn Evertsen, Lieutenant-Admiral (Zealand)
1684 William Pulteney, London, statesman (Earl of Bath)
1690 Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1705 Peter Arctedius, (Artedi), Swedish biologist
1707 Carl Hockh, composer
1709 Joseph Reipel, composer
1714 Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
1727 Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer
1729 Giuseppe Luigi Tibaldi, composer
1729 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
1732 George Washington, Westmoreland, Virginia, 1st American president (1789-97)
1733 Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer (d. 1796)
1740 Noah Phelps, American Spy (d. 1809)
1745 Joao de Sousa Carvalho, composer
1748 Lewis Edson, composer
1749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
1753 Peter Fuchs, composer
1756 Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1756 Vincenzo Righini, composer
1761 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer
1761 Jacob Kimball, composer
1764 Alexander Campbell, composer
1766 Antoine-Vincent Arnault, French writer (Les Vénitiens)
1770 Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
1772 Joseph Lipavsky, composer
1772 Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
1773 Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
1778 Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)
1779 Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
1779 Stefano Pavesi, composer
1781 François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
1788 Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
1788 George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (Don Juan) (d. 1824)
1796 Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
1796 Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
1796 Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
1797 William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1797 Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
1798 Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1799 Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
1802 Richard Upjohn US, gothic architect (Trinity Chapel, New York)
1806 Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1810 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer (OS)
1810 Holger Simon Paulli, composer
1814 Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1815 Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer
1817 Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1817 Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
1819 Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
1819 James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
1820 Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet
1820 Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe)
1820 Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
1821 Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1822 Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
1824 Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1824 Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer
1825 Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
1826 (Merriwether) Jeff Thompson Partisan (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1827 James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1828 Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1831 Jack Slade, American frontier figure (d. 1864)
1831 Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1917)
1833 Josef Foerster, composer
1834 Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
1836 Eduard Wachmann, composer
1838 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
1839 Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
1840 F August Bebel, German social-democrat
1840 Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
1842 Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
1842 Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
1842 Charles Henri Marechal, composer
1843 Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1844 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
1845 Jacob Verdam, Dutch philologist
1845 Paul Vidal de la Blanche, France, geographer
1848 Samuel Muller, Dutch historian/archivist (Middle Ages)
1849 Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
1849 August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Apologia) (d. 1912)
1850 Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
1852 Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
1855 Ernst Kullak, composer
1857 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1857 Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
1858 Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron (Congo)
1858 Beatrice Potter Webb, English economist (d. 1943)
1861 Karel Stecker, composer
1862 Karen Hulda Garborg(-Bergersen), Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
1864 Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte)
1865 Otto Modersohn, German painter
1865 Friedrich Paschen German physicist
1868 Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
1869 Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1869 José Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese military officer and politician (d. 1952)
1870 Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer
1871 Leon Jessel, composer
1873 Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
1874 Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1874 Wincenty Witoz Galicia, PM of Poland (1920-21, 1923, 1926)
1874 Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
1874 Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924)
1875 Bonifacius C de Jonge, Governor (Dutch East Indies)
1875 Thomas W Ross, actor (Without Limit, Kings Row, 17, Mortal Storm)
1875 D. W. Griffith, American film director (Birth of a Nation) (d. 1948)
1876 Warren McLaughlin, American baseball player (d. 1923)
1877 Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
1877 Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics
1877 Tom Jones, American baseball player (d. 1923)
1878 Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1878 Constance Collier, Windsor England, actress/writer (Kitty, Whirlpool)
1879 Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1880 Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1880 Bill O'Neill, American baseball player (d. 1920)
1881 Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
1881 Ira Thomas, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1882 Eric Gill, England, sculptor/engraver/typographer (Perpetua)
1882 Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
1883 Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
1883 Jaroslav Kocian, composer
1883 Marguerite Clark, voice (Snow White)
1884 Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
1886 Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti
1886 John Joseph Becker, composer
1886 Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)
1887 Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
1887 Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
1888 Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
1889 Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
1889 Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1889 Amos Strunk, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1889 Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
1890 Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (1946-53) (d. 1953)
1890 Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
1891 "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1891 Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
1891 Lucien Cailliet, composer
1891 Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1891 Franz Alexander, Hungarian/US psycho analytical
1891 Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La Souris Boiteuse)
1891 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist (d. 1937)
1892 David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
1892 Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1892 Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986)
1893 Conrad Veidt, German actor (Cabinet of Dr Caligari) (d. 1943)
1894 Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
1894 Charles Morgan, England, writer (Fountain)
1894 Matt McHugh, PA, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast, Innocent Affair)
1895 Victor RaulHaya de la Torre, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party)
1896 Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
1896 Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
1896 Nacio Herb Brown, US composer
1896 Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
1897 Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1897 Josef Stanislav, composer
1897 Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (Casta Diva, La Forza del Destino) (d. 1981)
1898 Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
1898 Alexander Abramsky, composer
1898 Ben van Eysselsteijn, Dutch writer (Arid Earth)
1898 Gustaf Paulson, composer
1898 Hans van Werveke, Flemish historian (Diocese Terwaan)
1898 Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-MS)
1899 Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1899 Dwight Frye, Salina KS, actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein)
1899 George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
1899 Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany)
1899 Martti Haavio (P Mastapää), Finnish linguist/poet
19-Dawn Smith, Jackson TN, actress (Jolene-Joe Forrester)
19-Steve Riley, rock drummer (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1900 Evald Aav, composer
1900 Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
1900 Seán Ó Faoláin (John Whelan), Irish author (d. 1991) (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
1900 Franz Salmhofer, composer
1900 Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
1901 Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
1901 Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
1901 Stefan Lorant, writer
1901 Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Sonata Ritmica)
1902 Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
1902 Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
1903 Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1903 Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
1903 Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
1903 Robin Humphrey Milford composer
1903 Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
1903 Robin Milford, British composer (d. 1959)
1904 Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera)
1904 George Balanchine composer/choreographer
1904 Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
1904 George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
1904 John Milligan, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1905 Luis Sandi, composer
1906 Edmund von Borck, composer
1906 Gale Gordon, LA California, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
1906 Willa B Brown (Coffey) US black air pioneer (NAAA)
1906 Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
1906 Robert E. Howard, American author (Conan the Conqueror) (d. 1936)
1907 Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
1907 Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
1907 Marie Dressler, actress (Anna Christie, Dinner at 8)
1907 Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907 Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
1907 Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
1908 John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace)
1908 Romulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
1908 Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1908 Prince Oana, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1909 Roderick Barclay, diplomat
1909 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962)
1909 (Sithu) U Thant Burma, 3rd UN Secretary-General (1962-72)
1909 Ann Sothern (Harriette Lake), American actress (Lady in a Cage, My Mother the Car) (d. 2001)
1909 Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
1909 U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
1910 Al Sears, jazz performer
1910 Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
1910 Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
1911 Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1911 Roberto Garcia Morillo, composer
1911 Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (1970-83) (d. 1990)
1913 Verdina Shlonsky, composer
1913 Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
1913 Henry Bauchau, Belgian novelist, poet, and psychoanalyst
1913 William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal (d. 1977)
1914 Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1914 Suzanne Danco, Belgian singer
1914 Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
1915 Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
1915 Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
1915 Tom Burtt, cricketer (slow left-armer took 33 wickets for New Zealand)
1915 Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)
1916 Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
1916 Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati author, poet, astrologist (d. 1994)
1916 Henri Dutilleux, French composer
1917 Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter (WW II)
1917 Jack Robertson, cricketer (superb Engld batsman only played 11 Tests)
1917 Jane Bowles, writer
1917 Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist
1917 Herwig Hensen (Flor Mielants), Flemish poet/playwright
1917 Huck Geary, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1918 Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (Oakland A's) (d. 1996)
1918 Don Pardo, Westfield Mass, TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)
1918 Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
1918 Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player (1948-49 Hart Trophy) (d. 2000)
1918 Richard Eastham, Opelousas LA, actor (Wonder Woman, Falcon Crest)
1918 Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
1919 Jiri Pauer, composer
1919 Diomedes Olivo, Dominican Republic baseball player (d. 1977)
1920 Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
1920 Del Wood, singer
1920 George Breakston, Paris France, actor/director (Jungle Stampede)
1920 Piet Van Lishout ,Flemish writer (Eva & I)
1920 William Warfield, singer (Show Boat)
1920 Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
1921 David Greene, British television director (d. 2003)
1921 Giulietta Masina, Italy, actress, (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik) wife of Federico Fellini
1921 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator
1921 Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1921 Andre Hodeir, composer
1921 Andy Ganteaume, cricketer (West Indies batsman, 112 in only Test innings 1948)
1922 Andre Asriel, composer
1922 Felix Werder, composer
1922 Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1922 Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (New Yorker) (d. 1987)
1923 Diana Douglas Devonshire Bermuda, actress (The Cowboys)
1923 Friedrich Zehm, composer
1923 Leslie Bassett, composer
1924 Margaret Whiting, big band singer
1924 J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
1925 Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist (Curious Sofa)
1925 Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1925 Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect
1925 Leslie Silver, English paint manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1925 Bobby Young, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1925 Johnny Bucha, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1926 Bud Yorkin, producer (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
1926 Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
1926 Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer
1926 Tom Blackburn, writer
1927 David Ahlstrom, composer
1927 Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
1927 Joe Perry, NFL Hall-of-Famer
1927 Lou Creekmur, American football player
1928 Bruce Forsyth, London England, comedian/TV host (Generation Game)
1928 Paul Dooley, Parkensburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
1928 Birch Bayh, (Senator-D-IN)
1928 Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
1929 James Hong, American actor
1929 Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)
1929 Rebecca Schull, American actress
1929 Ryne Duren, near-sighted pitcher (NY Yankees)
1929 Rita Gillespie, TV director
1930 Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
1930 JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
1930 James McGarrell, American painter
1930 Roy Cooper, London England, actor (Amistad, Julian Po, Trevor-Beacon Hill)
1931 Galina Zybina, USSR, discus thrower (15 world records between 1952-58)
1931 Rauno Makinen, Finland, Greco-Roman featherweight (Olympics-gold-1956)
1931 Sam Cooke, American gospel & blues singer (You Send Me, Another Saturday Night, Twisting The Night Away) (d. 1964)
1932 Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, American politician, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962), (Don't let him drive)
1932 Piper Laurie (Rosetta Jacobs), American actress (Twin Peaks, Carrie)
1932 Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
1932 Piper Laurie, American actress
1933 Bobby Smith, English footballer
1933 Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley, England, Duchess of Kent
1934 George "Sparky" Anderson, SD, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
1934 Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1934 Graham Kerr, chef (Galloping Gourmet)
1934 Bill Bixby, American actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian) (d. 1993)
1934 Graham Kerr, British-born chef
1935 Ineke (R M) Haas-Berger, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1935 Pierre S Du Pont IV (Governor-DE)
1935 Seymour Cassel, American actor (Faces, Plain Clothes, Valentino)
1936 Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
1936 J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1936 Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1936 Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
1937 Dubravko Detoni, composer
1937 Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1937 Noel Murphy, British(?) rugby player
1937 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1937 Tommy Aaron, Gainesville GA, PGA golfer (1973 Masters)
1937 Eden Pastora Gomez, Nicaraguan contra leader
1937 Joseph Wambaugh, American author, police writer (Onion Fields)
1938 Bobby Hendricks, US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
1938 Ishmael Reed, US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red)
1938 Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1938 Altair, Brazilian footballer
1939 Steve Barber, pitcher (Balt Orioles, NY Yankees)
1939 Alfredo Palacio, former President of Ecuador
1939 J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
1939 Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
1940 Billy Name, American photographer
1940 Chet Walker, NBA all-star forward (Chicago Bulls)
1940 Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader (Pan-African Congress)
1940 Julian Chagrin, London, mime/actor (Golddiggers)
1940 Addie "Micki" Harris, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1940 John Hurt, England, actor (Elephant Man, Alien, V for Vendetta)
1940 Tilo Medek, German composer
1940 George Seifert, American football coach
1941 Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
1942 Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
1942 Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
1943 David E Skaggs, (Rep-D-Colorado)
1943 Dick Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (NY Knicks, Phoenix Suns)
1943 Horst Köhler, President of Germany
1943 Louise Lopez, singer
1943 Tom Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinnati, KC-Omaha, Phil)
1943 H James "Jim" Saxton, (Representative-R-NJ, 1984)
1943 Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
1944 E J Peaker, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress (That's Life)
1944 Jonathan Demme, Baldwin NY, actor/director (Caged Heat, Swing Shift)
1944 Ranjit Fernando, Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper (1975 World Cup)
1944 Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1944 Tom Okker, tennis star
1945 Leslie Charleson, American actress
1945 Oliver, American singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean) (d. 2000)
1945 Michael Cristofer, actor/writer (Little Drummer Girl)
1945 Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
1946 Andrew Rubin, New Bedford MA, actor (Hometown, Joe Bash)
1946 Malcolm McLaren, British music manager (d. 2010)
1946 Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
1947 John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983)
1948 Dennis Awtrey, NBA center (Chicago Bulls, Suns)
1948 John Ashton, American actor
1948 Gilbert Levine, American conductor
1948 Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
1949 Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1949 Nikki Lauda, Austria, formula 1 auto racer (world champ 1975, 77, 84)
1949 Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1949 James P Pennington, rocker (Exile)
1949 Rein P Hummel, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
1949 Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole)
1949 Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey)
1950 Ellen Greene, Bkln NY, vocalist/actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors)
1950 Julie Walters, England, actress (Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears)
1950 Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers)
1950 Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
1950 Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Dog Day, My Other Husband)
1950 Sylvette Miou-Miou, Paris France, actress (Bottom Line, Menage)
1951 Elaine Tanner, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadian swimmer (1966 Commonwealth Games, 1968 Olympics)
1951 Harley O Staggers Jr, (Rep-D-WV, 1983)
1951 Leon Roberts, American baseball player
1951 Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
1951 Steve J. Spears, Australian playwright, actor, writer and singer (d. 2007)
1952 Bill Frist, American politician
1952 James Philip Bagian, Philadelphia, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
1952 Wayne John Levi, Little Falls NY, PGA golfer (1983 Buick Open)
1952 Karen Moe (Thornton), US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1972)
1952 Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
1952 Ramón Avilés, Puerto Rican baseball player
1952 Teddy Gentry, American musician, country music star (Alabama)
1953 Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
1953 Nigel Planer, British actor
1953 Jim Jarmusch, American director (Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai)
1953 Myung-Whun Chung,South Korean Conductor and pianist
1954 Chris Lemmon, American actor (Brothers & Sisters, Duet)
1954 Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
1954 Tully Blanchard, American professional wrestler
1955 Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 Thomas David Jones, NASA astronaut (STS 59, 68, 80, sk 98)
1955 Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
1956 Amy Alcott, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1956 Becky Pearson, LPGA golfer
1956 John Wesley Shipp, American actor (The Flash, Dawson's Creek, Kelly-Guiding Light)
1956 Steve Riley, American drummer
1957 Mike Bossy, NHL forward (New York Islanders)
1957 Brian Dayett, American baseball player
1957 Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
1957 Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
1957 Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
1958 Kyle MacLachlan, Yakima WA, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden)
1958 Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
1959 Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
1959 Susan Benjamin, actress (Tracy-Accidental Family)
1959 Linda Blair, American actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St)
1960 Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997)
1961 Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
1961 Debbie Linden, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Kenny Everett Show)
1961 Don Van Spall, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1961 Marla O'Hara, Gardena Ca, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-3rd-1991)
1961 Mike Morris, NFL center (Minnesota Vikings)
1961 Barb Thomas Whitehead, Sibley IA, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian Open)
1961 Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and artist
1962 Lenda Murray, Detroit Mich, body builder (4X Ms Olympia)
1962 Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
1962 Lisa Jacquin, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1962 Michael Wilton, singer
1962 Robert Mailhouse, New Haven CT, actor (Brian-Days of our Life)
1962 Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
1962 Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1963 Dave Besteman, Madison Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1963 Devon Malcolm, cricketer (in Jamaica England fast bowler 1989-95)
1963 Vijay Singh, Lautoka Fiji, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic)
1963 Diane Lane, New York City NY, actress (Cotton Club, 6 Pack, Big Town)
1963 Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
1963 Javier Ortiz, American baseball player
1963 Jeff Treadway, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1964 Gigi Fernandez, (Beatriz), San Juan PR, US tennis star (Olymp-gold-96)
1964 Jim Wicek, NYC, actor (Ben-Ryan's Hope)
1964 Ann Rowe, Auburn Maine, Miss Maine-America (1990)
1964 Maria Ellingsen, Reykjavik Iceland, actress (Katrina-Santa Barbara)
1964 Stojko Vrankovic, NBA center (Los Angeles Clippers)
1964 Nigel Benn, English boxer
1964 Wayne Kirby, American baseball player, outfielder (Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Dodgers)
1965 Chris Dudley, NBA center (NY Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers)
1965 Dean Karr, American director and photographer
1965 Joe Reekie, Victoria, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1965 Pat LaFontaine, St Louis Mo, NHL center (NY Islanders, NY Rangers)
1965 Jazzy Jeff Townes, American rapper and actor (DJ Jazzy Jeff) (Parents Just Don't Understand)
1965 Ray Mayhew, musician (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1965 Tim Prukop, WLAF linebacker-secondary coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1965 Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter
1965 Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
1965 Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
1965 Diane Lane, American actress (Man of Steel)
1965 Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)
1966 Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
1966 Brent Severyn, Vegreville, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1966 Brian Greig, Australian politician
1966 Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
1966 Resga Riggins, Trussville Alabama, Miss Alabama-America (1991)
1966 Suave, singer
1966 Thorsten Kaye, soap actor (Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers)
1966 Carlton Haselrig, NFL guard (New York Jets)
1966 Nishantha Ranatunga, cricket (brother of Arjuna Sri Lankan ODI allrounder)
1967 Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
1967 Marianne Ihalainen, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1967 Steve Broussard, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1967 Nicholas Gillingham, British swimmer (world record 200m freestyle)
1967 Olivia d'Abo, London England, actress (Wonder Years, Single Guy)
1967 Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
1967 Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer and songwriter
1967 Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler (NJPW)
1967 Nick Gillingham, British swimmer
1968 Abeyratne Samarasekera, UAE cricket all-rounder (1996 World Cup)
1968 Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996)
1968 Jayson Williams, NBA center (NJ Nets)
1968 Jeri Ryan, actress (7 of 9-Star Trek Voyager)
1968 Johanne Samarasekera, UAE cricket opening bowler (96 World Cup)
1968 Reggie Rivers, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1968 Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
1968 Andrey Sokolov, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998)
1968 Brian Jones, NFL linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
1968 Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
1968 Heath, Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan)
1968 Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
1969 Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
1969 Byron Stroud, American bassist
1969 Clinton Kelly, American television personality
1969 Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist
1969 Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
1969 Kahryn Tough, Calgary Alberta, volleyball (Olympics-96)
1969 Leslie Spalding, Billings MT, golfer (Montana Women's Amat-90, 91)
1969 Mark Chmura, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 Shawn Jefferson, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, NE Patriots)
1969 Thomas Jane, American actor
1969 Christina Marie Leardini, St Petersburg FL, playmate (April 1991)
1969 Keith Gordon, US baseball outfielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1969 Ousmane Bary, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 Shelley Sandie, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-88, 96)
1969 Vinnie Clark, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 John Linton, Roberson, American cartoonist
1969 Keith Gordon, American baseball player
1969 Olivia d'Abo, English actress (Conan the Destroyer)
1970 Adam Keefe, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1970 Dominic Roussel, Hull, NHL goalie (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 Leo Stefan, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1970 Brian Gaskill, actor (David Michaels-Models Inc, Bob-All My Children)
1970 Keith Wagner, NFL/WLAF tackle (New York Giants, Redskins, Scot Claymores)
1970 Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
1970 Alex Ross, American comic book artist
1971 Barry Smith, 100m/200m runner
1971 Gilbert Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 Jason Marshall, Cranbrook, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 Katie Finneran, Actress (You've Got Mail)
1971 Lea Salonga, Philippines, singer/actress (Miss Siagon)
1971 Lisa Fernandez, Lakewood California, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Max Lane, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1971 Mohammed Sylla, soccer player (Willem II, FC Martigues)
1971 Rico Mack, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Bucky Brooks, wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 Jennifer Christine Joseph, Wendover NV, Miss Nevada-America (1995)
1971 Stan Collymore, English footballer
1972 Christin Didier, Miss USA-Montana (1997)
1972 Michael Chang, Hoboken NJ, tennis star (1989 French Open)
1972 Steve Scifres, guard/tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 Toddrick McIntosh, NFL defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 Gabriel Macht, American actor (Behind Enemy Lines)
1972 Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
1972 Katie Barberi, Mexican actress
1972 Namrata Shirodkar, Indian actress
1972 Romi Park, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1973 Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
1973 Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
1973 James Christensen, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 Kate Sage, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1973 Kimberly Davies, Melbourne Aust, actress (Baywatch)
1973 Ntala Skinner, Sun Valley Idaho, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1973 Deon Minor, Paris Texas, 400m runner
1973 George Noga, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 Reggie Barlow, wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1973 Said Larossi, soccer player (Emmen/Vitesse)
1973 Vincent Bradford, linebacker (San Francisco 49ers)
1973 Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
1974 Aaron Gavey, Sudbury, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1974 Chris Moyles, English DJ
1974 James Blunt, English musician
1974 Kyoko Nagatsuka, Shizuoka Prefecture Japan, tennis star (1996 Hobart)
1974 Pavel Mikhalevitch, soccer player (NEC)
1974 Stephanie Rottier, St Niklaas Belgium, tennis star (1995 semi Prague)
1974 Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver
1975 Charles O'Bannon, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1975 Drew Barrymore, LA California, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy)
1975 Gregory Maddalone, Schenectady NY, dance skater (& Demkowski)
1975 Lee Maxwell Francis Vertongen Palmerston North New Zealand, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1975 Balthazar Getty, American actor (Lord of the Flies)
1975 David Výborný, Czech ice hockey player
1975 Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
1976 Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
1976 Balthazar Getty, actor (Young Guns 2, Lord of the Flies)
1976 James Dearth, American football player
1976 Jimmy Anderson, American baseball player
1976 Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice hockey player
1977 Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
1977 Melanie Schnell, Radstadt Austria, tennis star (1994 semi Surabaya)
1977 Timo Rose, German filmmaker
1977 Aaron Rakers, American baseball player
1977 Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
1977 Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1978 Chone Figgins, American baseball player
1979 Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
1979 David Lopez, Queens NY, actor (and God Created Women, Ghostwriter)
1979 Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
1979 Melanie Winiger, Miss Switzerland-Universe (1997)
1979 Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
1980 Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1980 Christopher Masterson, American actor (American History X)
1980 Jake Grove, American football player
1980 Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1980 Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese writer
1981 Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
1981 Beverley Mitchell, American actress (Saw II)
1981 Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
1981 Willa Ford, American singer and actress
1982 Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
1982 Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
1982 Kevin Sheridan, actor (Soul Man)
1982 Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
1982 Jason Peters, American football player
1983 Shaun Cody, American football player
1984 Venetian Princess, Internet (You tube) Star (Real Name: Jodie-Amy Rivera)
1984 Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 Leon Powe, American basketball player
1984 Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
1984 Raica Oliveira, Brazilian model
1984 Ubaldo Jimenez, Dominican Republic baseball player
1985 Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985 Sean Garballey, American politician
1985 Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
1985 Orianthi Panagaris, Australian guitarist
1986 Miko Hughes, American actor
1986 Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
1986 Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor, reality television personality (d. 2006)
1986 Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
1987 Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1987 Ray Rice , American football player
1987 Shane Long, Irish footballer
1988 Kevin Borlée, Belgian athlete
1988 Przemysław Kazimierczak, Polish footballer
1988 Asher Allen, American football player
1988 Greg Oden, American basketball player
1989 Alia Sabur, American college educator
1990 Joshua Lee Young, Actor (Silent Goodbye)
1991 Rishi Nair, Actor (Lessons in Life)
1992 Dana Leonard, Actress (Rumor of Love)
1993 Tommy Knight, Actor (Stitches)
1994 Adam Price, Director (The Celestial Rhythm -Short)
1996 Sami Gayle, Actress (Detachment)
1997 Zoë Raye, Actress (Happy Feet)
1998 Megan Weckwerth, Actress (Guilty at 17)
2000 Petra Krolo, Actress (Ruza vjetrova)
2001 Chase Edmunds, Actor (Body of Lies)
2002 Abigail Falle, Actress (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio)
2179 Hikaru Walter Sulu, San Francisco CA, (character on Star Trek)
Died on January 22nd
606 Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06),
965 Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), in battle
1076 Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered (or Feb 26)
1078 Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer,
1111 Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1213 Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers,
1336 Louis III, last Earl of Loon,
1371 David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71), at 46
1478 Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit),
1512 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), at 60
1531 Andrea del Sarto, Italian artist, at 43
1536 Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
1552 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason
1581 Joost de Damhoudere, Flemish lawyer,
1581 Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/military/politician, at 52
1599 Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1627 Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1640 Erasmus Quellinus I, Flemish wood carver, at about 55
1666 Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
1674 Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1674 John Wilson, composer, at 78
1680 Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c.1640)
1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer
1690 Charles Le Brun, classical painter (Academie de Peinture), at 70
1700 Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, at 39
1727 Francesco Gasparini, composer, at 58
1731 Frederik Ruysch, Dutch anatomist, at 92
1732 Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1742 Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
1750 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer, at 71
1750 Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
1763 John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
1767 Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
1770 Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
1779 Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
1779 Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
1781 Johann Siebenkas, composer, at 66
1788 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, at 63
1796 Bernhard Hupfeld, composer, at 78
1797 Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1798 Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence), at 71
1798 Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), at 66
1799 Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
1799 Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist/alpinist, at 58
1816 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, at 92
1822 Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, at 66
1824 John Davy, composer, at 60
1829 Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, at 53
1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany
1836 John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, at 65
1838 Friedrich Johann Eck, composer, at 70
1840 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1846 Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer, at 77
1846 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, at 49 (OS)
1847 Georges-Julien Sieber, composer, at 71
1849 Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, at 28
1850 Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint, at 54
1852 George Rodwell, composer, at 51
1868 Moritz Ganz, composer, at 61
1875 Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), at 77
1875 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1878 Franz Hunten, composer, at 84
1879 Anthony Durnford, British Colonel, in battle
1879 George Shepstone, British political affiliate, in battle
1890 Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
1890 John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1892 Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1892 Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
1893 Vincenz Lachner, composer, at 81
1895 Edward Solomon, composer, at 39
1896 Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton
1900 David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
1901 Victoria (Alexandrine), Britain's Queen (1837-1901), at 81
1901 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
1903 Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903),
1903 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), at 42
1904 Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
1909 Richard A C E Erlenmeyer German chemist, at 83
1912 Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas), at 76
1913 Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist, at 55
1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mex pres, assassinated in milt coup at 39
1913 Suarez, Mexican vice pres, assassinated in a miltary coup
1913 Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Flemish librarian/bibliographer, at 82
1914 Frederik Rung, composer, at 60
1916 Iwan Knorr, composer, at 63
1921 Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1921 Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
1922 Benedictus XV (Giacomo Markies D Chiesa), pope (1914-22), at 67
1922 Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
1922 Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
1922 Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
1923 Max Nordau (Südfeld), German physician/zionists leader, at 73
1924 Maurice du Plessys, French poet (Le Feu Sacré), at 59
1925 Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister, at 72
1925 Nina David, (Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon), poet/author,
1925 Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist, at 88
1929 R.C. Lehmann, English writer (b. 1856)
1930 Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh, at 66
1930 Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist (b. 1867)
1931 Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
1934 Willem Kes, violinist/composer/conductor, at 78
1936 Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), at 74
1936 Louis Glass, composer, at 71
1939 Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1942 Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemish National Front, at 81
1942 Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), at 81
1943 Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose),
1943 Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24
1943 Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded
1944 Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1945 A Wolfenstein, writer, at 61
1945 Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, a day before 76th birthday
1945 Else Lasker-Schüler, writer, at 48
1945 Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), at 52
1945 Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1949 Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire),
1949 William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
1950 Alan Hale Sr, actor (The Seahawk, Yellowstone), at 57
1950 Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
1950 Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
1951 Eastwood Lane, composer, at 71
1951 Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
1952 Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), at 52
1954 Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (b. 1872)
1956 P A M Speet, Dutch broadcast CEO (KRO),
1957 Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), at 72
1958 Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash
1959 Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass), of cancer at 36
1959 A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Hamlet, Nora), at 73
1959 Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
1960 Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi), at 86
1960 Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
1961 George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis, at 75
1961 Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1964 Edie Martin, actor (Titfield Thunderbolt), at 84
1964 Marc Blitzstein, US composer (Cradle Will Rock), at 58
1965 Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
1966 Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist, at 74
1966 Herbert Marshall, English actor (Dark Angel, Duel in the Sun) (b. 1890)
1967 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), at 53
1967 Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi), at 70
1967 Jobyna Ralston, actress (Wings, Girl Shy, Freshman), at 66
1967 Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
1968 Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer, at 71
1968 Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1968 Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (Olympics-gold-1912, 20, 24) (b. 1890)
1969 Judy Garland, singer/actress (Wizard of Oz), at 48 of an overdose
1971 Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront), at 81
1971 Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast), at 77
1971 Rudolf Mauersberger, composer, at 82
1972 Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), at 65
1973 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), in Lond at 73
1973 Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1973 Katina Paxinou, actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita), at 72
1973 Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas), at 60
1973 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (1963-69) (b. 1908)
1974 Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1974 Leon Lontoc, actor (Henry-Burke's Law), at 64
1975 Klaas Voskuil, Dutch journalist, at 79
1975 Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
1976 Angela Baddeley, actress (Speckled Band), at 71
1976 Florence Ballard, rocker (Supremes), of a heart attack at 32
1976 Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist, at 84
1977 Edith Barrett, actress (Molly & Me, Ghost Ship), at 64
1977 Jack O'Connor, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England 1929-30),
1978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien), at 74
1978 Phyllis McGinley, US poetess (Pulitzer 1961), at 72
1978 Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555 runs) (b. 1894)
1978 Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
1979 Ali Hassan Salameh (Abu Hassan), killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
1980 Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head), at 66
1980 Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, at 93
1980 Richard Kallman, actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws), at 46
1980 Iris Meredith, actress (Lawless Land, Gambling Terror), at 64
1980 Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (b. 1888)
1981 Fannie Thomas, US, at 113
1981 Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
1982 Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1982 Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle), at 60
1982 Eduardo Frei Montalva, 28th President of Chile (1964-70) (b. 1911)
1982 Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
1983 Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, at 75
1983 Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), at 70
1983 Fred Bakewell, cricketer (dashing England bat of 30s, 6 Tests),
1984 David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble, at 12
1984 Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
1985 Alexander Scourby, actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom), at 71
1985 Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, at 95
1985 Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1985 Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
1987 Andy Warhol, pop artist, of a heart attack at 58
1987 David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), at 66
1987 Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens), at 85
1987 Budd Dwyer, American politician, Pennsylvania State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference (b. 1939)
1988 Georgi M Malenkov, Russian premier (1953-55), at 86
1988 Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm) (b. 1891)
1989 Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail),
1990 Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow),
1991 Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
1991 Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
1992 Richard Sheldon, at 59
1992 A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), at 47
1992 Ali Amini, PM of Iran (1961-62),
1993 Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate, at 72
1993 Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba), at 63
1993 Alexander Bodon Hung, Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), at 86
1993 Charlie Gehringer, baseball player, at 89
1993 Kobo Abe, Japanese writer (Wife in the Sand), at 68
1993 Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author, at 75
1993 Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
1994 "Papa" John Creach, US jazz musician (Papa Blues), at 76
1994 Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71
1994 Irving B Kahn, inventor (teleprompter), at 76
1994 Telly Savalas, actor (Kojak), of prostate cancer at 70
1994 Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (La Ronde) (b. 1910)
1994 Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
1994 Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
1995 Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60
1995 Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, at 80
1995 Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of Pres Boudiaf,
1995 Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrater/author, at 48
1995 Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian Muslim leader, shot to death at 29
1995 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), at 88
1995 Nico Adriaans, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, of AIDS at 37
1995 Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family, mother of President John F Kennedy (b. 1890)
1996 Helmut Schoen, soccer coach, at 80
1996 Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician, at 79
1996 Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert, at 77
1996 Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer, at 71
1996 Mabel Leigh, potter, at 80
1996 Yisrael Eldad, extremist politician, at 85
1997 Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor, at 85
1997 Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, at 91
1997 Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1997 Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist, at 73
1997 Irwin Levine, composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), at 58
1997 Mollie Panter-Downes, writer , at 90
1997 Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
1997 Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
1997 Wally Whyton, English musician (b. 1929)
1998 Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
1998 Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones, country singer (Hee Haw), at 84
1998 Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76),
1998 Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide at 28
1999 Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
1999 Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
2000 Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2000 Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
2000 Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
2001 Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
2001 Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2002 Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
2002 Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2002 Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
2002 Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2002 Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
2003 Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2003 Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
2004 Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2004 Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2004 Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
2004 Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
2004 Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
2005 Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2005 Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2005 Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2005 Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
2005 César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
2005 Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
2006 Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)
2007 Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007 Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
2007 Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer (b. 1962)
2007 Ngô Quang Trung, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
2008 Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
2008 Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)
2008 Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
2009 Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
2010 Jean Simmons, English-American actress (b. 1929)
2011 Nicholas Courtney, British actor (b. 1929)
2012 Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter
2012 Joe Paterno, American College Hall of Fame football coach
2012 Dick Tufeld, American voice actor
2013 Leslie Frankenheimer, American film set designer
2016 Cecil Parkinson, British politician (C)
2016 Anthony Simmons, British writer and film director (The Optimists of Nine Elms)