Events
Pre-1600
*
962 – Emperor
Otto I and Pope
John XII co-sign the ''
Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
.
*
1258 –
Siege of Baghdad:
Hulegu Khan, a prince of the
Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire was the List of largest empires, largest contiguous empire in human history, history. Originating in present-day Mongolia in East Asia, the Mongol Empire at its height stretched from the Sea of Japan to parts of Eastern Euro ...
, orders his army to sack and plunder the city of
Baghdad
Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...
, which they had just captured.
*
1322 – The central tower of
Ely Cathedral
Ely Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely, is an Church of England, Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
The cathedral can trace its origin to the abbey founded in Ely in 67 ...
falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*
1352 –
War of the Straits: The
Battle of the Bosporus is fought in a stormy sea into the night between the Genoese, Venetian, Aragonese, and Byzantine fleets.
*
1462 – The
Treaty of Westminster is finalised between
Edward IV of England and the Scottish
Lord of the Isles.
*
1503 –
Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near
Barletta.
*
1542 –
Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his Wives of Henry VIII, six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. ...
, is executed for
adultery.
1601–1900
*
1633 –
Galileo Galilei arrives in
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
for his trial before the
Inquisition.
*
1642 – The
Clergy Act becomes law, excluding
bishop
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
s of the
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...
from serving in the
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. One of the oldest ext ...
.
*
1660 – With the accession of young
Charles XI of Sweden, his
regents begin negotiations to end the
Second Northern War
The second (symbol: s) is a unit of time derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes, and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60 = 86400). The current and formal definition in the International System of ...
.
*
1689 –
William
William is a masculine given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman Conquest, Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle ...
and
Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...
.
*
1692 –
Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80
Macdonalds at
Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king,
William of Orange.
*
1726 –
Parliament of Negrete between
Mapuche
The Mapuche ( , ) also known as Araucanians are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging e ...
and Spanish authorities in Chile bring an end to the
Mapuche uprising of 1723–26.
*
1755 –
Treaty of Giyanti signed by
VOC,
Pakubuwono III and
Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of
Mataram into two:
Sunanate of Surakarta and
Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
*
1849 – The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop
Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor
Franz Joseph I of Austria the ''General Petition of Romanian leaders in
Transylvania
Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...
,
Banat
Banat ( , ; ; ; ) is a geographical and Historical regions of Central Europe, historical region located in the Pannonian Basin that straddles Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe. It is divided among three countries: the eastern part lie ...
and
Bukovina'', which demands that the
Romanian nation be recognized.
*
1861 –
Italian unification: The
Siege of Gaeta ends with the capitulation of the defending fortress, effectively bringing an end of the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
*
1867 – Work begins on the
covering of the Senne, burying
Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...
's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
*
1880 –
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February11, 1847October18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, ...
observes
Thermionic emission.
1901–present
*
1913 – The
13th Dalai Lama proclaims
Tibet
Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...
an independence following a period of domination by Manchu
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...
and initiated a period of almost
four decades of independence.
*
1914 –
Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, ...
: In New York City the
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
*
1920 – The
Negro National League is formed.
*
1931 – The
British Raj
The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani language, Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent,
*
* lasting from 1858 to 1947.
*
* It is also called Crown rule ...
completes its transfer from
Calcutta
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...
to
New Delhi
New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...
.
*
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
– A jury in
Flemington, New Jersey finds
Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the
1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of
Charles Lindbergh.
*
1945 –
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
: The
siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of
German and
Hungarian forces to the
Red Army.
* 1945 – World War II:
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
bombers are dispatched to
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
, Germany to attack the city with a
massive aerial bombardment.
*
1951 –
Korean War
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was an armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula fought between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea; ROK) and their allies. North Korea was s ...
:
Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
*
1954 –
Frank Selvy becomes the only
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athlet ...
basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
*
1955 –
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
obtains four of the seven
Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts, ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE). They were discovered over a period of ten years, between ...
.
* 1955 – Twenty-nine people are killed when
Sabena Flight 503 crashes into
Monte Terminillo near
Rieti, Italy.
*
1960 – With the success of a
nuclear test codenamed "
Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
* 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the
Nashville sit-ins at three
lunch counters in
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...
.
*
1961 – An allegedly
500,000-year-old rock is discovered near
Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a
spark plug.
*
1967 – American researchers discover the
Madrid Codices by
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested o ...
in the
National Library of Spain.
*
1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the
World Trade Center in
New York.
*
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
–
Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the
Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
*
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
– An
intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a long section of the
Hood Canal Bridge.
*
1981 – A series of
sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the List of cities in Kentucky, most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeastern United States, Southeast, and the list of United States cities by population, 27th-most-populous city ...
.
*
1983 – A
cinema fire in
Turin
Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
, Italy, kills 64 people.
*
1984 –
Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late
Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...
.
*
1991 –
Gulf War
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: Two laser-guided "
smart bombs" destroy the
Amiriyah shelter in
Baghdad
Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...
. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
*
1996 – The
Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the
Kingdom of Nepal by the
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
*
2001 –
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the
Richter magnitude scale hits
El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...
, killing at least 315.
*
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
– The
Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known
diamond
Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...
,
white dwarf
A white dwarf is a Compact star, stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very density, dense: in an Earth sized volume, it packs a mass that is comparable to the Sun. No nuclear fusion takes place i ...
star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by Self-gravitation, self-gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night sk ...
''
BPM 37093''. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are widely regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatle ...
' song "
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
*
2007 –
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...
opposition leader
Ma Ying-jeou
Ma Ying-jeou ( zh, t=馬英九; pinyin: ''Mǎ Yīngjiǔ''; ; born 13 July 1950) is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT ...
resigns as the chairman of the
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...
party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of
Taipei
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; Ma also announces his candidacy for the
2008 presidential election.
*
2008 – Australian Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd makes a
historic apology to the
Indigenous Australians
Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of contemporary Australia prior to History of Australia (1788–1850), British colonisation. The ...
and the
Stolen Generations.
*
2010 –
A bomb explodes in the city of
Pune
Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...
,
Maharashtra
Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...
, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
*
2011
The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
– For the first time in more than 100 years the
Umatilla, an
American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a
bison
A bison (: bison) is a large bovine in the genus ''Bison'' (from Greek, meaning 'wild ox') within the tribe Bovini. Two extant taxon, extant and numerous extinction, extinct species are recognised.
Of the two surviving species, the American ...
just outside
Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
*
2012 – The
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 23-member International organization, international organization devoted to space exploration. With its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 2,547 people globally as of 2023, ESA was founded in 1975 ...
(ESA) conducted the first launch of the European ''
Vega'' rocket from Europe's spaceport in
Kourou, French Guiana.
*
2017 –
Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator
Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at
Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
*
2021 – Former U.S. President
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45 ...
is acquitted in his
second impeachment trial.
* 2021 – A
major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in
Texas
Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...
and northern
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
.
Births
Pre-1600
*
1440 –
Hartmann Schedel, German physician (died 1514)
*
1457 –
Mary of Burgundy, Sovereign Duchess regnant of Burgundy, married to
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1482)
*
1469 –
Elia Levita, Renaissance Hebrew grammarian (died 1549)
*
1480 –
Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (died 1542)
*
1523 –
Valentin Naboth, German astronomer and mathematician (died 1593)
*
1539 –
Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine (died 1582)
*
1569 –
Johann Reinhard I, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1625)
*
1599 –
Pope Alexander VII (died 1667)
1601–1900
*
1602 –
William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1637)
*
1672 –
Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (died 1731)
*
1683 –
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (died 1754)
*
1719 –
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician (died 1792)
*
1721 –
John Reid, Scottish general (died 1807)
*
1728 –
John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist (died 1793)
*
1766 –
Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and scholar (died 1834)
*
1768 –
Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French general and politician, 15th
Prime Minister of France
The prime minister of France (), officially the prime minister of the French Republic (''Premier ministre de la République française''), is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of its Council of Ministers.
The prime ...
(died 1835)
*
1769 –
Ivan Krylov, Russian author, poet, and playwright (died 1844)
*
1805 –
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (died 1859)
*
1811 –
François Achille Bazaine, French general (died 1888)
*
1815 –
Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American anthologist, editor, poet and critic (died 1857)
*
1819 –
Francis Smith, Haitian-Australian politician, 4th
Premier of Tasmania (died 1909)
*
1831 –
John Aaron Rawlins, American general and politician, 29th
United States Secretary of War (died 1869)
*
1834 –
Heinrich Caro,
Sephardic Jewish Polish-German chemist and academic (died 1910)
*
1835 –
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Indian religious leader (died 1908)
*
1849 –
Lord Randolph Churchill, English lawyer and politician,
Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1895)
*
1855 –
Paul Deschanel, Belgian-French politician, 11th
President of France (died 1922)
*
1863 –
Hugo Becker, German cellist and composer (died 1941)
*
1867 –
Harold Mahony, Scottish-Irish tennis player (died 1905)
*
1870 –
Leopold Godowsky, Polish-American pianist and composer (died 1938)
*
1871 –
Joseph Devlin, Northern Irish political leader (
Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland)) (died 1934)
*
1873 –
Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (died 1938)
*
1876 –
Fritz Buelow, German-American baseball player and umpire (died 1933)
*
1879 –
Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (died 1949)
*
1880 –
Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher (died 1955)
*
1881 –
Eleanor Farjeon, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1965)
*
1883 –
Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (died 1947)
* 1883 –
Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director (died 1922)
*
1884 –
Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the
A. C. Gilbert Company (died 1961)
*
1885 –
Bess Truman, 35th
First Lady of the United States
First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) is a title typically held by the wife of the president of the United States, concurrent with the president's term in office. Although the first lady's role has never been Code of law, codified or offici ...
(died 1982)
*
1887 –
Géza Csáth, Hungarian playwright and critic (died 1919)
*
1888 –
Georgios Papandreou, Greek lawyer, economist, and politician, 162nd
Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968)
*
1889 –
Leontine Sagan, Austrian actress and director (died 1974)
*
1891 –
Kate Roberts, Welsh author and activist (died 1985)
* 1891 –
Grant Wood, American painter and academic (died 1942)
*
1892 –
Robert H. Jackson, American politician, 57th
United States Attorney General
The United States attorney general is the head of the United States Department of Justice and serves as the chief law enforcement officer of the Federal government of the United States, federal government. The attorney general acts as the princi ...
,
Nuremberg
Nuremberg (, ; ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the Franconia#Towns and cities, largest city in Franconia, the List of cities in Bavaria by population, second-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Bav ...
prosecutor, and
Supreme Court justice (died 1954)
*
1898 –
Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician (died 1979)
*
1899 –
Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (died 1978)
*
1900 –
Barbara von Annenkoff, Russian-born German film and stage actress (died 1979)
1901–present
*
1901 –
Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist and academic (died 1976)
*
1902 –
Harold Lasswell, American political scientist and theorist (died 1978)
*
1903 –
Georgy Beriev, Georgian-Russian engineer, founded the
Beriev Design Bureau (died 1979)
* 1903 –
Georges Simenon, Belgian-Swiss author (died 1989)
*
1906 –
Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and author (died 1994)
*
1907 –
Katy de la Cruz, Filipino-American singer and actress (died 2004)
*
1910 –
William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...
laureate (died 1989)
*
1911 –
Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Indian-Pakistani poet and journalist (died 1984)
* 1911 –
Jean Muir, American actress and educator (died 1996)
*
1912 –
Harald Riipalu, Russian-Estonian commander (died 1961)
* 1912 –
Margaretta Scott, English actress (died 2005)
*
1913 –
Khalid of Saudi Arabia (died 1982)
*
1915 –
Lyle Bettger, American actor (died 2003)
* 1915 –
Aung San, Burmese general and politician, 5th
Premier of British Crown Colony of Burma (died 1947)
*
1916 –
Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist (died 1987)
*
1919 –
Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (died 1991)
* 1919 –
Eddie Robinson, American football player and coach (died 2007)
*
1920 –
Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (died 1987)
* 1920 –
Eileen Farrell, American soprano and educator (died 2002)
*
1921 –
Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (died 1968)
* 1921 –
Aung Khin, Burmese painter (died 1996)
*
1922 –
Francis Pym, Baron Pym, Welsh soldier and politician,
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (died 2008)
* 1922 –
Gordon Tullock, American economist and academic (died 2014)
*
1923 –
Michael Anthony Bilandic, American soldier, judge, and politician, 49th
Mayor of Chicago (died 2002)
* 1923 –
Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier (died 2020)
*
1924 –
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist and politician (died 2006)
*
1926 –
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, American nuclear physicist (died 2012)
*
1928 –
Gerald Regan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th
Premier of Nova Scotia (died 2019)
*
1929 –
Omar Torrijos, Panamanian commander and politician,
Military Leader of Panama (died 1981)
*
1930 –
Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 2015)
* 1930 –
Israel Kirzner, English-American economist, author, and academic
*
1932 –
Susan Oliver, American actress (died 1990)
*
1933 –
Paul Biya, Cameroon politician, 2nd
President of Cameroon
* 1933 –
Kim Novak, American actress
* 1933 –
Emanuel Ungaro, French fashion designer (died 2019)
*
1934 –
George Segal, American actor (died 2021)
*
1937 –
Ali El-Maak, Sudanese author and academic (died 1992)
* 1937 –
Sigmund Jähn, German pilot and cosmonaut (died 2019)
* 1937 –
Angelo Mosca, American-Canadian football player and wrestler (died 2021)
*
1938
Events
January
* January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS).
* January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
–
Oliver Reed, English actor (died 1999)
*
1940 –
Bram Peper, Dutch sociologist and politician,
Mayor of Rotterdam (died 2022)
*
1941 –
Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (died 2010)
* 1941 –
Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor, director, and producer
*
1942 –
Carol Lynley, American model and actress (died 2019)
* 1942 –
Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (died 2019)
* 1942 –
Donald E. Williams, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2016)
*
1943
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 4 � ...
–
Elaine Pagels, American theologian and academic
*
1944 –
Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American actress. List of awards and nominations received by Stockard Channing, Her accolades include three Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a nomination for an Acade ...
, American actress
* 1944 –
Jerry Springer
Gerald Norman Springer (February 13, 1944 – April 27, 2023) was a British-American broadcaster, journalist, actor, lawyer, and politician. He was best known for hosting the controversial tabloid talk show '' Jerry Springer'' from 1991 to 2 ...
, English-American television host, actor, and politician, 56th
Mayor of Cincinnati (died 2023)
*
1945 –
Marian Dawkins, English biologist and academic
* 1945 –
King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (died 2006)
* 1945 –
Simon Schama, English historian and author
* 1945 –
William Sleator, American author and composer (died 2011)
*
1946
1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...
–
Richard Blumenthal
Richard Blumenthal ( ; born February 13, 1946) is an American politician, lawyer, and United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps veteran serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States Senate, United States senator from ...
, American sergeant and politician, 23rd
Attorney General of Connecticut
* 1946 –
Janet Finch, English sociologist and academic
* 1946 –
Colin Matthews, English composer and educator
*
1947 –
Stephen Hadley, American soldier and diplomat, 21st
United States National Security Advisor
* 1947 –
Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach
* 1947 –
Bogdan Tanjević, Montenegrin-Bosnian basketball coach
* 1947 –
Kevin Bloody Wilson, Australian comedian, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
*
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025
* January 2 – Luis ...
–
Peter Kern, Austrian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
*
1950 –
Vera Baird, English lawyer and politician
* 1950 –
Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician
*
1951 –
David Naughton, American actor and singer
*
1952 –
Ed Gagliardi, American musician (died 2014)
*
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
–
Akio Sato, Japanese wrestler and manager
*
1954 –
Donnie Moore, American baseball player (died 1989)
*
1955 –
Joe Birkett, American lawyer, judge, and politician
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
–
Peter Hook, English singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer
*
1957 –
Denise Austin, American fitness trainer and author
*
1958 –
Pernilla August, Swedish actress
* 1958 –
Øivind Elgenes, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and composer
* 1958 –
Marc Emery, Canadian publisher and activist
* 1958 –
Jean-François Lisée, Canadian journalist and politician
* 1958 –
Derek Riggs, English painter and illustrator
*
1959 –
Gaston Gingras, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1960 –
Pierluigi Collina, Italian footballer and referee
* 1960 –
John Healey, English journalist and politician
* 1960 –
Gary Patterson, American football player and coach
* 1960 –
Matt Salinger, American actor
* 1960 –
Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player and author
*
1961 –
Marc Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* 1961 –
cEvin Key, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboard player, and producer
* 1961 –
Henry Rollins, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
*
1962 –
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician
* 1962 –
Baby Doll, American wrestler and manager
* 1962 –
Michele Greene, American actress
*
1964 –
Stephen Bowen, American engineer, captain, and astronaut
* 1964 –
Ylva Johansson, Swedish educator and politician,
Swedish Minister of Employment
*
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
–
Peter O'Neill, Papua New Guinean accountant and politician, 7th
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
*
1966 –
Neal McDonough, American actor and producer
* 1966 –
Jeff Waters, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
* 1966 –
Freedom Williams, American rapper and singer
*
1967 –
Stanimir Stoilov, Bulgarian footballer and coach
*
1968 –
Kelly Hu, American actress
*
1969 –
Joyce DiDonato, American soprano and actress
* 1969 –
Bryan Thomas Schmidt, American science fiction author and editor
*
1970 –
Elmer Bennett, American basketball player
* 1970 –
Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer-songwriter and pianist
*
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
–
Sonia Evans, English singer-songwriter
* 1971 –
Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1971 –
Todd Williams, American baseball player
*
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
–
Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuanian discus thrower
* 1972 –
Juha Ylönen, Finnish ice hockey player
*
1974 –
Fonzworth Bentley, American rapper and actor
* 1974 –
Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, launching a solo career in 1996. His debut studio album, ''Life thru a Lens'', was re ...
, English singer-songwriter
*
1975 –
Ben Collins, English race car driver
* 1975 –
Katie Hopkins, English media personality and columnist
*
1976
Events January
* January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
–
Jörg Bergmeister, German race car driver
* 1976 –
Feist, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
*
1977 –
Randy Moss, American football player and coach
*
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
–
Niklas Bäckström, Finnish ice hockey player
* 1978 –
Philippe Jaroussky, French singer
* 1978 –
Cory Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
–
Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian mass murderer
* 1979 –
Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
* 1979 –
Rachel Reeves, English economist and politician,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
* 1979 –
Mena Suvari, American actress and fashion designer
*
1980 –
Carlos Cotto, Puerto Rican-American wrestler and boxer
*
1981 –
Luisão, Brazilian footballer
* 1981 –
Luke Ridnour, American basketball player
*
1982 –
Even Helte Hermansen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
* 1982 –
Michael Turner, American football player
*
1983 –
Mike Nickeas, Canadian baseball player
* 1983 –
Anna Watkins, English rower
*
1984 –
Hinkelien Schreuder, Dutch swimmer
*
1985 –
Somdev Devvarman, Indian tennis player
* 1985 –
J. R. Giddens, American basketball player
* 1985 –
Kwak Ji-min, South Korean actress
* 1985 –
Al Montoya, American ice hockey player
*
1986 –
Luke Moore, English footballer
* 1986 –
Aqib Talib, American football player
*
1987 –
Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer
*
1988 –
Ryan Goins, American baseball player
* 1988 –
Dave Rudden, Irish author
*
1989 –
Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer
*
1990 –
Nathan Eovaldi, American baseball player
* 1990 –
Mamadou Sakho, French footballer
*
1991 –
Eliaquim Mangala, French footballer
* 1991 –
Vianney, French singer
* 1991 –
Luke Voit, American baseball player
*
1992 –
Keith Appling, American basketball player
*
1994 –
Memphis Depay, Dutch footballer
*
1995 –
Kendall Fuller, American football player
* 1995 –
Georges-Kévin Nkoudou, French-Cameroonian footballer
*
2000 –
Vitinha, Portuguese footballer
*
2001 –
Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player
*
2002 –
Jaden Ivey, American basketball player
* 2002 –
Sophia Lillis, American actress
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
106 –
Emperor He of Han (Han Hedi) of the Chinese Eastern
Han dynasty
The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...
(born AD 79)
*
721 –
Chilperic II
Chilperic II ( 672 – 13 February 721) was King of the Franks from 715 until his death.
He was a son of Childeric II and his half-cousin wife, Bilichild, both of whom were assassinated, along with their eldest son Dagobert, in 675. Still a ...
, Frankish king (born 672)
*
858 –
Kenneth MacAlpin
Kenneth MacAlpin (; ; 810 – 13 February 858) or Kenneth I was King of Dál Riada (841–850), and King of the Picts (848–858), of likely Gaelic origin. According to the traditional account, he inherited the throne of Dál Riada from his fa ...
, Scottish king (probable; b. 810)
*
921 –
Vratislaus I, duke of Bohemia
*
936 –
Xiao Wen, empress of the
Liao dynasty
*
942 –
Muhammad ibn Ra'iq, Abbasid emir and regent
*
988 –
Adalbert Atto, Lombard nobleman
*
1021 –
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (born 985)
*
1130 –
Honorius II, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1060)
*
1141 –
Béla II, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1110)
*
1199
Year 1199 (Roman numerals, MCXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* January 13 – A short-lived truce is declared, between the Kings Richard I of England, Richard I (the Lionh ...
–
Stefan Nemanja, Serbian grand prince (born 1113)
*
1219 –
Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shōgun (born 1192)
*
1332 –
Andronikos II Palaiologos
Andronikos II Palaiologos (; 25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332), Latinization of names, Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328. His reign marked the beginning of the recently restored em ...
, Byzantine emperor (born 1259)
*
1351 –
Kō no Morofuyu, Japanese general
*
1539 –
Isabella d'Este, Italian noblewoman (born 1474)
*
1542 –
Catherine Howard, English wife of
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his Wives of Henry VIII, six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. ...
(executed; b. 1521)
*
1571 –
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1500)
*
1585 –
Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish priest and scholar (born 1515)
1601–1900
*
1602 –
Alexander Nowell, English clergyman and theologian (born 1507)
*
1660 –
Charles X Gustav, king of Sweden (born 1622)
*
1662 –
Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia (born 1596)
*
1693 –
Johann Caspar Kerll, German organist and composer (born 1627)
*
1727 –
William Wotton, English linguist and scholar (born 1666)
*
1728 –
Cotton Mather, American minister and author (born 1663)
*
1732 –
Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian and author (born 1640)
*
1741 –
Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer and theorist (born 1660)
*
1787 –
Roger Joseph Boscovich, Croatian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (born 1711)
* 1787 –
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French lawyer and politician,
Foreign Minister of France (born 1717)
*
1795
Events
January–June
* January – Central England records its coldest ever month, in the CET records dating back to 1659.
* January 14 – The University of North Carolina opens to students at Chapel Hill, becoming the ...
–
George (Konissky), Orthodox archbishop, preacher, philosopher and theologian (born 1717)
*
1813 –
Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th
Governor of North Carolina (born 1725)
*
1818
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Battle of Koregaon: Troops of the British East India Company score a decisive victory over the Maratha Confederacy, Maratha Empire.
** English author Mary Shelley publishes the novel ''Frankenstein ...
–
George Rogers Clark, American general (born 1752)
*
1826 –
Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen, Russian general and politician,
Governor-General of Baltic provinces (born 1745)
*
1831 –
Edward Berry, English admiral (born 1768)
*
1837 –
Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (born 1809)
*
1845 –
Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher and poet (born 1773)
*
1859 –
Eliza Acton, English food writer and poet (born 1799)
*
1877 –
Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (born 1815)
*
1883 –
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...
, German composer (born 1813)
*
1888 –
Jean-Baptiste Lamy, French-American archbishop (born 1814)
*
1892 –
Provo Wallis
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, (12 April 1791 – 13 February 1892) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, following the Capture of USS Chesapeake, capture of USS ''Chesapeake'' by ...
, Canadian-English admiral (born 1791)
*
1893 –
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Mexican intellectual and journalist (born 1834)
1901–present
*
1905 –
Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (born 1844)
*
1906 –
Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (born 1866)
*
1934 –
József Pusztai, Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (born 1864)
*
1942 –
Otakar Batlička, Czech journalist (born 1895)
* 1942 –
Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th
President of Brazil (born 1865)
*
1950 –
Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian people, Italian-born British writer of novels, writer of romance novel, romance and adventure novel, adventure novels.
He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: ''The Sea ...
, Italian-English novelist and short story writer (born 1875)
*
1951 –
Lloyd C. Douglas, American minister and author (born 1877)
*
1952 –
Josephine Tey, Scottish author and playwright (born 1896)
*
1954 –
Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (born 1890)
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
–
Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish mathematician and philosopher (born 1878)
*
1958 –
Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the
Women's Social and Political Union
The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and p ...
(born 1880)
* 1958 –
Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (born 1871)
*
1964 –
Paulino Alcántara, Filipino-Spanish footballer and manager (born 1896)
* 1964 –
Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic (born 1902)
*
1967 –
Yoshisuke Aikawa, entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, founded
Nissan Motor Company (born 1880)
* 1967 –
Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932–1934) (born 1889)
*
1968 –
Mae Marsh, American actress (born 1895)
* 1968 –
Portia White, Canadian opera singer (born 1911)
*
1973
Events January
* January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
–
Marinus Jan Granpré Molière, Dutch architect and educator (born 1883)
*
1975 –
André Beaufre, French general (born 1902)
*
1976
Events January
* January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
–
Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general and politician, 4th
President of Nigeria (born 1938)
* 1976 –
Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (born 1904)
*
1980 –
David Janssen, American actor (born 1931)
*
1984 –
Cheong Eak Chong, Singaporean entrepreneur (born 1888)
*
1986 –
Yuri Ivask, Russian-American poet and critic (born 1907)
*
1989 –
Wayne Hays, American lieutenant and politician (born 1911)
*
1991 –
Arno Breker, German sculptor and illustrator (born 1900)
*
1992 –
Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and physicist (born 1909)
*
1996 –
Martin Balsam, American actor (born 1919)
*
1997 –
Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman (born 1906)
* 1997 –
Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician and academic (born 1920)
*
2000 –
Anders Aalborg, Canadian educator and politician (born 1914)
* 2000 –
James Cooke Brown, American sociologist and author (born 1921)
* 2000 –
John Leake, English soldier (born 1949)
*
2002 –
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Outlaw country, outlaw movement in country music.
Jennings started playing ...
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)
*
2003 –
Kid Gavilán, Cuban-American boxer (born 1926)
* 2003 –
Walt Whitman Rostow, American economist; 7th
United States National Security Advisor (born 1916)
*
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
–
François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (born 1942)
* 2004 –
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen politician, 2nd
President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (born 1952)
*
2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
–
Nelson Briles, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1943)
* 2005 –
Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (born 1907)
*
2006 –
P. F. Strawson, English philosopher and author (born 1919)
*
2007 –
Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author and academic (born 1923)
* 2007 –
Charlie Norwood, American captain and politician (born 1941)
* 2007 –
Richard Gordon Wakeford, English air marshal (born 1922)
*
2008 –
Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)
*
2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
–
Edward Upward, English author and educator (born 1903)
*
2010 –
Lucille Clifton, American poet and academic (born 1936)
* 2010 –
Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
*
2012 –
Russell Arms, American actor and singer (born 1920)
* 2012 –
Louise Cochrane, American-English screenwriter and producer (born 1918)
* 2012 –
Daniel C. Gerould, American playwright and academic (born 1928)
*
2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
–
Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (born 1922)
* 2013 –
Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (born 1952)
* 2013 –
Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician,
Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (born 1933)
* 2013 –
Andrée Malebranche, Haitian artist (born 1916)
* 2013 –
Yuko Tojo, Japanese activist and politician (born 1939)
*
2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
–
Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1939)
* 2014 –
Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (born 1937)
* 2014 –
Ralph Waite, American actor and activist (born 1928)
* 2014 –
Laura Motta, Brazilian catholic nun (born 1919)
*
2015 –
Faith Bandler, Australian activist and author (born 1918)
* 2015 –
Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor (born 1923)
*
2016 –
O. N. V. Kurup, Indian poet and academic (born 1931)
* 2016 –
Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a Justice (title), justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States. The number of associate justices is eight, as set by the J ...
(born 1936)
*
2017 –
Ricardo Arias Calderón, Panamanian politician (born 1933)
* 2017 –
Aileen Hernandez, American union organizer and activist (born 1926)
* 2017 –
Seijun Suzuki, Japanese filmmaker (born 1923)
* 2017 –
Kim Jong-nam, North Korean politician (born 1971)
* 2017 –
E-Dubble, American rapper (born 1982)
*
2018 –
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born Danish royal (born 1934)
*
2019 –
Callistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic and politician (born 1936)
*
2021 –
Kadir Topbaş, Turkish politician (born 1945)
*
2025
So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...
–
Jim Guy Tucker, American lawyer and politician, 43rd
Governor of Arkansas
The governor of Arkansas is the head of government of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Governor (United States), governor is the head of the Executive (government), executive branch of the Politics and government of Arkansas, Arkansas government a ...
(born 1943)
Holidays and observances
*
Black Love Day (United States)
*
Children's Day (Myanmar)
*Christian
feast day:
**
Absalom Jones (
Episcopal Church (USA))
**
Beatrice of Ornacieux
**
Castor of Karden
**
Catherine of Ricci
**
Dyfnog
**
Ermenilda of Ely
**
Fulcran
**
Jordan of Saxony
**
Polyeuctus (
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
)
**
February 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*
World Radio Day
References
External links
BBC: On This Day*
Historical Events on February 13
{{months
Days of February