Octavian
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transfers the state to the free disposal of the
Roman Senate
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and the people. He receives
Spain
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, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
,
Gaul
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, and
Syria
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Nika riots
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break out, during the racing season at the
Hippodrome
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, as a result of discontent with the rule of the Emperor
Justinian I
Justinian I (; la, Iustinianus, ; grc-gre, Ἰουστινιανός ; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was the Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565.
His reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized ''renovat ...
.
* 1435 – '' Sicut Dudum'', forbidding the enslavement of the
Guanche Guanche may refer to:
*Guanches, the indigenous people of the Canary Islands
*Guanche language, an extinct Berber language, spoken by the Guanches until the 16th or 17th century
*''Conus guanche
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natives in
Canary Islands
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by the Spanish, is promulgated by
Pope Eugene IV
Pope Eugene IV ( la, Eugenius IV; it, Eugenio IV; 1383 – 23 February 1447), born Gabriele Condulmer, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 3 March 1431 to his death in February 1447. Condulmer was a Venetian, and ...
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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, is sentenced to death for treason, on the grounds of having quartered his arms to make them similar to those of the King,
Henry VIII of England
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Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville
Nicolas Jean Hugou de Bassville or Basseville (7 February 174313 January 1793), French journalist and diplomat, was born at Abbéville.
Biography
Early life and career
Bassville was trained for the priesthood, taught theology in a provincial ...
, representative of
Revolutionary France
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French Revolutionary Wars
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Brittany
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ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
*
1815
Events
January
* January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England.
* January 3 – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussi ...
–
War of 1812
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:
British
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Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
* 1822 – The design of the
Greek flag
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1833
Events January–March
* January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833), Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
* February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto ...
– United States President
Andrew Jackson
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writes to
Vice President
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Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren ( ; nl, Maarten van Buren; ; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party, he ...
expressing his opposition to
South Carolina
)''Animis opibusque parati'' ( for, , Latin, Prepared in mind and resources, links=no)
, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = ...
's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
* 1840 – The steamship '' Lexington'' burns and sinks four miles off the coast of
Long Island
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William Brydon
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, an assistant surgeon in the British
East India Company
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Army during the
First Anglo-Afghan War
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camp follower
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s when he reaches the safety of a garrison in
Jalalabad
Jalalabad (; Dari/ ps, جلالآباد, ) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about from the capital Kabul. Jala ...
Treaty of Cahuenga
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ends the
Mexican–American War
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in
California
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Colony of Vancouver Island
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.
* 1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Chillianwala: British forces retreat from the Sikhs.
* 1888 – The
National Geographic Society
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Founded in 1888, its interests include geography, archaeology, and ...
Independent Labour Party
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of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
* 1893 –
U.S. Marines
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land in
Honolulu, Hawaii
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from the to prevent the queen from abrogating the
Bayonet Constitution
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First Italo-Ethiopian War
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: The war's opening battle, the
Battle of Coatit
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Émile Zola
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's ''
J'accuse…!
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'' exposes the
Dreyfus affair
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Czech nationalism
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, Emperor
Franz Joseph
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decrees
German
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Rhoads Opera House fire ''
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Cavalleria rusticana
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Province of L'Aquila
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in Italy with a maximum
Mercalli intensity
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plebiscite
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in
Saarland
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shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join
Nazi Germany
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Black Friday bushfires
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burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
* 1942 –
Henry Ford
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patents a soybean car, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
* 1942 –
World War II
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: First use of an aircraft
ejection seat
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by a German test pilot in a
Heinkel He 280
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jet fighter.
* 1950 – British submarine collides with an oil tanker in the
Thames Estuary
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Limits
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, killing 64 men.
* 1950 – Finland forms
diplomatic relations
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First Indochina War
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: The
Battle of Vĩnh Yên
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Pravda
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'' accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
* 1958 – The
Moroccan Army of Liberation
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ambushes a Spanish patrol in the
Battle of Edchera
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Coup d'état
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in
Togo
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Anti-Muslim
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The scope and precise definition of the term ''Islamophobia'' ...
riots break out in
Calcutta
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East Pakistan
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. About one hundred people are killed.
* 1964 – In
Manchester, New Hampshire
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Manchester is, along with Nashua, one of two seats of New Hamp ...
, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case
Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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The state sought to justify the Searc ...
Robert C. Weaver
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becomes the first
African American
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Cabinet member when he is appointed
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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Cabinet or The Cabinet may refer to:
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Johnny Cash
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Folsom State Prison
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Kofi Abrefa Busia
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and President
Edward Akufo-Addo
Edward Akufo-Addo (26 June 1906 – 17 July 1979) was a Ghanaian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the " Big Six" leaders of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) and one of the founding fathers of Ghana who engaged in the fight for ...
of
Ghana
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are ousted in a bloodless
military coup
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by Colonel
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong
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Early life and ...
Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045
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, a
Douglas DC-8
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After losing the May 1954 US Air Force tanker competition to the Boeing KC-135, Douglas announced in July ...
jet, crashes onto the runway during takeoff from
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport
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Food and Drug Administration
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requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
* 1982 – Shortly after takeoff,
Air Florida Flight 90
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, a
Boeing 737
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Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the Boeing 707, 7 ...
jet, crashes into
Washington, D.C.
)
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Potomac River
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Ethiopia
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, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
* 1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and
Abdul Fattah Ismail
Abd al-Fattah Ismail Ali Al-Jawfi ( ar, عبد الفتاح إسماعيل علي الجوفي , translit=ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Ismāʿīl; 28 July 1939 – 13 January 1986) was the Marxist ''de facto'' leader of People's Democratic Republic of Yem ...
Lee Teng-hui
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1990
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– Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as
Governor of Virginia
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Oath of office
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in
Richmond, Virginia
(Thus do we reach the stars)
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Lithuania
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n independence supporters in
Vilnius
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, killing 14 people and wounding around 1,000 others.
* 1993 –
Space Shuttle program
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: ''Endeavour'' heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the
Kennedy Space Center
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Operation Southern Watch
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United States Central Command's Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) had the mission of mon ...
Alfredo Ormando
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sets himself on fire in
St. Peter's Square
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, protesting against
homophobia
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earthquake
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hits
El Salvador
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, killing more than 800.
*
2012
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– The passenger
cruise ship
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports-of-call, where passengers may go on tours known as "s ...
''
Costa Concordia
''Costa Concordia'' () was a cruise ship operated by Costa Crociere. She was the first of her class, followed by sister ships ''Costa Serena'', '' Costa Pacifica'', ''Costa Favolosa'' and ''Costa Fascinosa'', and ''Carnival Splendor'' built for ...
'' sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain
Francesco Schettino
Francesco Schettino (; born 14 November 1960) is an Italian former shipmaster who commanded the cruise ship ''Costa Concordia'' when it struck an underwater rock and capsized with the deaths of 32 passengers and crew off the Italian island of ...
's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.
* 2018 – A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...
causes widespread panic in the state.
*
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
outside China.
*
2021
File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...
– Outgoing
U.S. President
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States ...
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
5 BC
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Year 5 BC was a common year starting on Monday or Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Prolep ...
Lucius Aelius
Lucius Aelius Caesar (13 January 101 – 1 January 138) was the father of Emperor Lucius Verus. In 136, he was adopted by Hadrian and named heir to the throne. He died before Hadrian and thus never became emperor. After Lucius' death, he was ...
, Roman adopted son of
Hadrian
Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania B ...
Al-Hakam II
Al-Hakam II, also known as Abū al-ʿĀṣ al-Mustanṣir bi-Llāh al-Hakam b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (; January 13, 915 – October 16, 976), was the Caliph of Córdoba. He was the second ''Umayyad'' Caliph of Córdoba in Al-Andalus, and son of Ab ...
, Umayyad caliph (d. 976)
*
1334
Year 1334 ( MCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* July 18 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundational stone laid fo ...
– Henry II, king of Castile and León (d. 1379)
* 1338 –
Jeong Mong-ju
Jeong Mong-ju (Korean: 정몽주, Hanja: 鄭夢周, January 13, 1338 – April 26, 1392), also known by his pen name Poeun (Korean: 포은), a historical figure during the transition period of the Korean dynasty moving from Goryeo (918-1392) to ...
, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
* 1381 –
Colette of Corbie
Colette of Corbie, PCC (13 January 1381 – 6 March 1447) was a French abbess and the foundress of the Colettine Poor Clares, a reform branch of the Order of Saint Clare, better known as the Poor Clares. She is honored as a saint in the Cathol ...
, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (d. 1447)
* 1400 – Infante John,
Constable of Portugal {{Short description, Defunct office created by King Ferdinand I of Portugal
Constable of Portugal ( pt, Condestável de Portugal) was an office created by King Ferdinand I of Portugal in 1382, to substitute the High Standard-bearer ('' Alferes-Mor'' ...
Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, KG (13 January 1477 – 19 May 1527) was an English nobleman and a member of the courts of both Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII.
Origins
Percy was son of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberlan ...
Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg
Joachim II (german: Joachim II Hector or ''Hektor''; 13 January 1505 – 3 January 1571) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1535–1571), the sixth member of the House of Hohenzollern. Joachim II was the eldest son of Joa ...
Jan van Goyen
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapesm marines, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscape, cityscap ...
Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington
Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington (13 January 1652 – 2 January 1694) was a Member of Parliament, Privy Councillor, Protestant protagonist in the Revolution of 1688, Mayor of Chester and author.
Life
Booth was a son of George Booth, ...
, English soldier and politician,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The chancellor of the Exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the Chancellor is ...
Lucy Filippini
Lucy Filippini ( it, Santa Lucia Filippini; 13 January 1672 – 25 March 1732) is venerated as a Catholic saint. She founded ''the Institute of the Maestre Pie'', dedicated to the education of young girls.
Life
Lucy Filippini was born on 13 ...
, Italian teacher and saint (d. 1732)
* 1683 – Christoph Graupner, German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1760)
* 1720 – Richard Hurd, English bishop (d. 1808)
* 1749 – Maler Müller, German poet, painter, and playwright (d. 1825)
* 1787 – John Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th
Governor of Massachusetts
The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the chief executive officer of the government of Massachusetts. The governor is the head of the state cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the commonwealth's military forces.
Massachuset ...
(d. 1854)
*
1804
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Haiti gains independence from France, and becomes the first black republic, having the only successful slave revolt ever.
* February 4 – The Sokoto Caliphate is founded in West Africa.
* Februa ...
–
Paul Gavarni
Paul Gavarni was the pen name of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (13 January 1804 – 24 November 1866), a French illustrator, born in Paris.
Early career
Gavarni's father, Sulpice Chevalier, was from a family line of coopers from Burgundy. Pau ...
Thomas Dyer
Thomas Dyer (January 13, 1805June 6, 1862) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1856–1857) for the Democratic Party. He also served as the founding president of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Biography
Thomas Dyer was born in Canton, Connect ...
Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist who served as the sixth chief justice of the United States. He also served as the 23rd governor of Ohio, represented Ohio in the United States Senate, a ...
Ernestine Rose
Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892) was a suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker who has been called the “first Jewish feminist.” Her career spanned from the 1830s to the 1870s, making her a contemporary to the mor ...
, American suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker (d. 1892)
*
1812
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The ''Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch'' (the Austrian civil code) enters into force in the Austrian Empire.
* January 19 – Peninsular War: The French-held fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo Siege of ...
–
Victor de Laprade
Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade (13 January 181213 December 1883), known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic.
Biography
He was born at Montbrison, Loire, of a modest provincial family. After completing his studies at Lyon, ...
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Horatio Alger Jr. (; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works. His wri ...
, American novelist and journalist (d. 1899)
* 1845 –
Félix Tisserand
François Félix Tisserand (13 January 1845 – 20 October 1896) was a French astronomer.
Life
Tisserand was born at Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte-d'Or. In 1863 he entered the École Normale Supérieure, and on leaving he went for a month as profes ...
, French astronomer and academic (d. 1896)
* 1858 –
Oskar Minkowski
Oskar Minkowski (; 13 January 1858 – 18 July 1931) was a German physician and physiologist who held a professorship at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes. He was the brother of the mathematician Hermann M ...
, Lithuanian-German biologist and academic (d. 1931)
* 1859 –
Kostis Palamas
Kostis Palamas ( el, Κωστής Παλαμάς; – 27 February 1943) was a Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called Ne ...
, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1943)
*
1861
Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry.
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City.
** The first steam-p ...
–
Max Nonne
Max Nonne (13 January 1861, Hamburg – 12 August 1959, Hamburg) was a German neurologist.
Biography
Max Nonne received his early education at the ''Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums'' in Hamburg, and later studied medicine at the universities of ...
, German neurologist and academic (d. 1959)
*
1864
Events
January–March
* January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " ...
–
Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody ...
, German physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
Vasily Kalinnikov
Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (russian: Васи́лий Серге́евич Кали́нников; 13 January 1866 – 11 January 1901 ) was a Russian composer. His body of work consists of two symphonies, several additional orchestral wor ...
, Russian
bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuo ...
Ross Granville Harrison
Ross Granville Harrison (January 13, 1870 – September 30, 1959) was an American biologist and anatomist credited for his pioneering work on animal tissue culture. His work also contributed to the understanding of embryonic development. Harrison ...
, American biologist and anatomist (d. 1959)
* 1878 –
Lionel Groulx
Lionel Groulx (; 13 January 1878 – 23 May 1967) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, historian, and Quebec nationalist.
Biography
Early life and ordination
Lionel Groulx, né Joseph Adolphe Lyonel Groulx, the son of a farmer and lumber ...
, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1967)
* 1881 –
Essington Lewis
Essington Lewis, CH (13 January 18812 October 1961) was a prominent Australian industrialist. He was the Director-General of the Department of Munitions during World War II.
Biography
Early life
Essington Lewis was born in Burra, South Aust ...
, Australian engineer and businessman (d. 1961)
*
1883
Events
January–March
* January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States.
* January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people.
* Ja ...
–
Nathaniel Cartmell
Nathaniel John Cartmell (January 13, 1883 – August 23, 1967), also known as Nat and Nate, was an American Athletics (sport), athlete who won medals at two editions of the Olympic Games. Importantly, Nate was on first racially integrated Athlet ...
, American runner and coach (d. 1967)
* 1885 – Alfred Fuller, Canadian-American businessman, founded the
Fuller Brush Company
The Fuller Brush Company sells branded and private label products for personal care as well as commercial and household cleaning. It was founded in 1906 by Alfred Fuller. Consolidated Foods, now Sara Lee Corporation, acquired Fuller Brush in 19 ...
(d. 1973)
* 1886 – Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1964)
* 1886 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer and actress (d. 1966)
*
1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship ...
–
Jüri Uluots
Jüri Uluots (13 January 1890 – 9 January 1945) was an Estonian prime minister, journalist, prominent attorney and distinguished Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu.
Early life
Uluots was born in Kirbla Paris ...
, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 7th
Prime Minister of Estonia
The Prime Minister of Estonia ( Estonian: ''peaminister'') is the head of government of the Republic of Estonia. The prime minister is nominated by the president after appropriate consultations with the parliamentary factions and confirmed by ...
Ermanno Aebi
Ermanno Aebi (; 13 January 1892 – 22 November 1976) was an Italian-Swiss footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Born in Milan to a Swiss father and an Italian mother, at the age of 16 Aebi was contracted by Internazionale. He con ...
Charles Arnison
Lieutenant Charles Henry Arnison (13 January 1893 – 4 September 1974) was a British World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories. He won the Military Cross for valour in World War I, and returned to the RAF to serve in World War ...
, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1974)
* 1893 – Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer and coach (d. 1963)
* 1893 –
Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Algernon Charles Swinburne ...
, American poet, sculptor, painter, and author (d. 1961)
* 1893 –
Chaïm Soutine
Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a Belarusian painter who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.
Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the ...
, Belarusian-French painter (d. 1943)
* 1900 – Shimizugawa Motokichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1967)
* 1900 –
Gertrude Mary Cox
Gertrude Mary Cox (January 13, 1900 – October 17, 1978) was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University. She was later appointed director of both the Institute of Statist ...
Karl Menger
Karl Menger (January 13, 1902 – October 5, 1985) was an Austrian-American mathematician, the son of the economist Carl Menger. In mathematics, Menger studied the theory of algebras and the dimension theory of low- regularity ("rough") curves ...
, Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (d. 1985)
* 1904 –
Richard Addinsell
Richard Stewart Addinsell (13 January 190414 November 1977) was an English composer, best known for film music, primarily his '' Warsaw Concerto'', composed for the 1941 film '' Dangerous Moonlight'' (also known under the later title ''Suicide S ...
, English composer (d. 1977)
* 1904 –
Nathan Milstein
Nathan Mironovich Milstein ( – December 21, 1992) was a Russian-born American virtuoso violinist.
Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo violin works and ...
, Ukrainian-American violinist and composer (d. 1992)
* 1904 –
Dick Rowley
Richard William Morris Rowley DCM (13 January 1904 – 18 April 1984) was an Irish professional footballer who played as an inside-forward or centre-forward for Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur and Preston North End in the English Football L ...
Kay Francis
Kay Francis (born Katharine Edwina Gibbs; January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 an ...
, American actress (d. 1968)
* 1905 –
Jack London
John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...
Zhou Youguang
Zhou Youguang (; 13 January 1906 – 14 January 2017), also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, Esperantist, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system ...
, Chinese linguist, sinologist, and academic (d. 2017)
* 1909 –
Helm Glöckler
Helmut Erik "Helm" Glöckler (13 January 1909 in Frankfurt am Main – 18 December 1993 same place) was a German amateur racing driver.
Biography
Glöckler raced a Deutsch-Bonnet in Formula 3 in 1951, and won the sports car racing event at t ...
Yannis Tsarouchis
Yannis Tsarouchis ( el, Γιάννης Τσαρούχης; 13 January 1910 – 20 July 1989) was a Greek modernist painter and set designer who achieved international fame, and was "known in particular for his homoerotic subjects," including so ...
, Greek painter and illustrator (d. 1989)
* 1911 –
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen (13 January 191123 April 2005), known as Joh Bjelke-Petersen, was a conservative Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, during ...
, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 31st
Premier of Queensland
The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.
By convention the premier is the leader of the party with a parliamentary majority in the unicameral Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The premier is ap ...
Osa Massen
Osa Massen (born Aase Madsen Iversen, 13 January 1914 – 2 January 2006) was a Danish actress who became a successful movie actress in Hollywood. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1941.
Background and early career
Bo ...
, Danish-American actress (d. 2006)
* 1914 –
Ted Willis, Baron Willis
Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis (13 January 1914 – 22 December 1992) was an English playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party. In 1941 he became the General Secretary of the Young Co ...
, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
* 1919 –
Robert Stack
Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack; January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was an American actor. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over forty feature films. He starred in the highly successful ABC tele ...
Necati Cumalı
Necati Cumalı (13 January 1921 – 10 January 2001) was a Turkish writer of novels, short-stories, essays and poetry. He was born in Florina, Greece to a Turkish family and his family had settled in Urla near İzmir in the framework of the 1 ...
, Greek-Turkish author and poet (d. 2001)
* 1921 – Dachine Rainer, American-English author and poet (d. 2000)
* 1921 – Arthur Stevens, English footballer (d. 2007)
* 1922 –
Albert Lamorisse
Albert Lamorisse (; 13 January 1922 – 2 June 1970) was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer of award-winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s. He also invented the strategic board game ''Risk'' in 1957.
Life
Lamor ...
Daniil Shafran
Daniil Borisovich Shafran (russian: Даниил Борисович Шафран, January 13, 1923February 7, 1997) was a Soviet Russian cellist.
Biography
Early years
Daniil Shafran was born in Petrograd (later Leningrad, then Saint Petersburg ...
, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
* 1923 –
Willem Slijkhuis
Willem Frederik "Wim" Slijkhuis (13 January 1923 – 28 June 2003) was a Dutch athlete. During his career that lasted from 1939 to 1954 he was a world's top middle distance runner, excelling in distances from 1500 to 5000 metres.
Slijkhuis began ...
Paul Feyerabend
Paul Karl Feyerabend (; January 13, 1924 – February 11, 1994) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades (195 ...
, Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1994)
* 1924 –
Roland Petit
Roland Petit (13 January 192410 July 2011) was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets.
Life and work
The son of shoe designer Ros ...
, French dancer and choreographer (d. 2011)
* 1925 –
Rosemary Murphy
Rosemary Murphy (January 13, 1925 – July 5, 2014) was a German- American actress of stage, film, and television. She was nominated for three Tony Awards for her stage work, as well as two Emmy Awards for television work, winning once, for h ...
, American actress (d. 2014)
* 1925 – Vanita Smythe, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
* 1925 –
Ron Tauranac
Ronald Sidney Tauranac (13 January 1925 – 17 July 2020) was a British-Australian engineer and racing car designer, who with Formula One driver Jack Brabham founded the Brabham constructor and racing team in 1962. Following Brabham's retireme ...
, Australian engineer and businessman (d. 2020)
* 1925 –
Gwen Verdon
Gwyneth Evelyn "Gwen" Verdon (January 13, 1925October 18, 2000) was an American actress and dancer. She won four Tony Awards for her musical comedy performances, and served as an uncredited choreographer's assistant and specialty dance coach for t ...
Michael Bond
Thomas Michael Bond (13 January 1926 – 27 June 2017) was a British author. He is best known for a series of fictional stories for children, featuring the character of Paddington Bear. More than 35 million Paddington books have been sold ...
, English author, created
Paddington Bear
Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature. He first appeared on 13 October 1958 in the children's book ''A Bear Called Paddington'' and has been featured in more than twenty books written by British author Michael Bond, a ...
(d. 2017)
* 1926 –
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (January 13, 1926 – October 9, 2003) was an American academic at Columbia University, the first woman to receive tenure in the English department, and a prolific feminist author of academic studies. In addition, beginnin ...
, American author and academic (d. 2003)
* 1926 –
Melba Liston
Melba Doretta Liston (January 13, 1926 – April 23, 1999) was an American jazz trombonist, arranger, and composer. Other than those playing in all-female bands she was the first woman trombonist to play in big bands during the 1940s and 1960s, ...
, American trombonist and composer (d. 1999)
* 1927 –
Brock Adams
Brockman Adams (January 13, 1927 – September 10, 2004) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of Congress. A Democrat from Washington, Adams served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Trans ...
Liz Anderson
Liz is a female name of Hebrew origin, meaning "God's Promise". It is also a short form of Elizabeth, Elisabeth, Lisbeth, Lizanne, Liszbeth, Lizbeth, Lizabeth, Lyzbeth, Lisa, Lizette, Alyssa, and Eliza.
People
* Liz Balmaseda (born 1959), Pu ...
, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
* 1927 –
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work ...
, South African biologist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
Joe Pass
Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua; January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. Pass is well known for his work stemming from numerous collaborations with pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, an ...
, American guitarist and composer (d. 1994)
* 1930 –
Frances Sternhagen
Frances Hussey Sternhagen (born January 13, 1930) is an American actress; she has appeared on- and off-Broadway, in movies, and on TV since the 1950s.Joy, Car"Frances Sternhagen in Talks to Join Company of Broadway Magnolias" Broadway.com, Nov ...
Ian Hendry
Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was a British actor. He worked on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of '' The Avengers'' and '' The Lotus Eaters'', and played ...
, English actor (d. 1984)
* 1931 –
Charles Nelson Reilly
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...
, American actor, comedian, director, game show panelist, and television personality (d. 2007)
* 1931 –
Rip Taylor
Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor Jr. (January 13, 1931 – October 6, 2019) was an American actor and comedian, known for his exuberance and flamboyant personality, including his wild moustache, toupee, and his habit of showering himself (and others ...
, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
* 1932 – Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (d. 1994)
* 1933 –
Tom Gola
Thomas Joseph Gola (January 13, 1933 – January 26, 2014) was an American basketball player and politician. He is widely considered one of the greatest NCAA basketball players of all-time. Gola was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball ...
, American basketball player, coach, and politician (d. 2014)
* 1936 –
Renato Bruson
Renato Bruson (born 13 January 1936) is an Italian operatic baritone. Bruson is widely considered one of the most important Verdi baritones of the late 20th and early 21st century. He was born in Granze near Padua, Italy.
Biography and caree ...
Guy Dodson
George Guy Dodson FRS FMedSci (13 January 1937 – 24 December 2012), was a British biochemist who specialised in protein crystallography at the University of York..
Education
Dodson graduated from the University of New Zealand where he was ...
, New Zealand-English biochemist and academic (d. 2012)
* 1938 – Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
* 1938 –
Daevid Allen
Christopher David Allen (13 January 1938 – 13 March 2015), known professionally as Daevid Allen, sometimes credited as Divided Alien, was an Australian musician. He was co-founder of the psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine (in the UK, 1966) ...
, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
* 1938 – Richard Anthony, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
* 1938 – Dave Edwards, American captain and politician (d. 2013)
* 1938 –
Tord Grip
Tord Erland Grip (born 13 January 1938) is a Swedish former football coach and player. He has worked with several national teams, including England, Sweden, Indonesia, Mexico, the Ivory Coast and Kosovo.
Playing career
Grip began his football ca ...
, Swedish footballer and manager
* 1938 – Anna Home, English children's television executive and producer
* 1939 –
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Edgardo Cozarinsky (; born 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for his Spanish-language novel ''Vudú urbano''.
Life
Cozarinsky was born to an Argentine family of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. His name reflects ...
, Argentinian author, screenwriter, and director
* 1939 –
Jacek Gmoch
Jacek Wojciech Gmoch (born 13 January 1939 in Pruszków) is a former Polish footballer, who later became a trainer and manager of the Poland National Team.
While having a successful football career he graduated in communication from the Warsaw ...
, Polish footballer and coach
* 1939 –
Cesare Maniago
Cesare Maniago (born January 13, 1939) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Maniago played the majority of his National Hockey League (NHL) career for the Minnesota North Stars, for whom he stands second all-time in games playe ...
Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White III (born 1940) is an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and an essayist on literary and social topics. Since 1999 he has been a professor at Princeton University. France made him (and later ) de l'Ordr ...
, American novelist, memoirist, and essayist
*
1941
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
–
Pasqual Maragall
Pasqual Maragall i Mira (; born 13 January 1941) is a Spanish politician and former President of Generalitat de Catalunya. He had previously been Mayor of Barcelona, from 1982 to 1997, and helped run the city's successful Olympic bid.
Early l ...
Meinhard Nehmer
Meinhard Nehmer (born 13 January 1941 in Bobolin, Police County, Boblin near Police, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pölitz, Pomerania) is a former East Germany, East German bobsledder who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980 ...
, German bobsledder
* 1943 – William Duckworth, American composer and author (d. 2012)
* 1943 –
Richard Moll
Charles Richard Moll (born January 13, 1943) is an American actor. He played the role of Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon, a bailiff on the NBC sitcom '' Night Court'' from 1984 to 1992. He has also done extensive work as a voice actor, typica ...
Gordon McVie
John Gordon McVie (13 January 1945 – 20 January 2021) was an international authority on the treatment and research of cancer. He wrote over 350 peer-reviewed articles, editorials and books. McVie was born in Glasgow, Scotland and died of ...
, English oncologist and author (d. 2021)
* 1945 –
Peter Simpson Peter Simpson may refer to:
*Peter Simpson (film producer) (1943–2007), often credited as Peter R. Simpson, a British-Canadian film producer and advertiser
*Peter Simpson (Scottish footballer) (1904/05–1974), Scottish football striker who playe ...
Ordal Demokan
Ordal Demokan (January 13, 1946 – October 29, 2004) was a Turkish physicist.
Biography
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Demokan graduated from TED Ankara Koleji in 1962, and received his BSc and MSc degrees on Electrical Engineering in 1966 and 196 ...
, Turkish physicist and academic (d. 2004)
* 1946 –
Eero Koivistoinen
Eero Koivistoinen (born 13 January 1946, in Helsinki) is a Finnish jazz musician and saxophone player, who started his career in the mid-1960s. Koivistoinen has worked as a musician, composer, arranger, conductor, producer and educator. He first h ...
, Finnish saxophonist, composer, and conductor
* 1947 –
Jacek Majchrowski
Jacek Maria Majchrowski (born 13 January 1947 in Sosnowiec) is a Polish politician, lawyer, historian, professor at the Jagiellonian University, and the current mayor of Kraków since 2002; making him the longest serving mayor in the history of ...
, Polish historian, lawyer, and politician
* 1947 –
Carles Rexach
Carles Rexach i Cerdà (; born 13 January 1947) is a Spanish former football winger and manager.
His career was mainly associated to Barcelona, spending 44 years at the club as a player (youth levels included) and coach. He formed a successful ...
Gaj Singh
Gaj Singh (born 13 January 1948) is an Indian politician who served as a member of the Indian parliament and High Commissioner of India. He has been the Maharaja of Jodhpur since 1952.
Early years and accession
Singh was born in Royal, Rajpu ...
Rakesh Sharma
Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC (born 13 January 1949) is a former Indian Air Force pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme. He is the only Indian citizen to travel in space, although ...
, Indian commander, pilot, and astronaut
* 1949 –
Brandon Tartikoff
Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 – August 27, 1997) was an American television executive who was the president of NBC from 1981 to 1991. He was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with such hit series as ''Hill Stre ...
, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
* 1950 –
Clive Betts
Clive James Charles Betts (born 13 January 1950) is a British Labour Party politician and former economist, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1992 to 2010 and is the current MP for the successor seat of She ...
, English economist and politician
* 1950 –
Bob Forsch
Robert Herbert Forsch (January 13, 1950 – November 3, 2011) was an American professional baseball player who spent most of his sixteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the St. Louis Cardinals (1974–1988) before finishing his pl ...
, American baseball player (d. 2011)
* 1950 –
Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
Gholam Hossein Mazloumi ( fa, غلامحسین مظلومی; 13 January 1950 – 19 November 2014), nicknamed ''Sar Talaei'' ("Golden Head"), was an Iranian football player, coach and football administrator.
He played for three clubs includ ...
, Iranian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
* 1952 – Stephen Glover, English journalist, co-founded ''
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...
Silvana Gallardo
Sandra Silvana Gallardo (January 13, 1953 – January 2, 2012) was an American film and television actress.
Born in New York City, Gallardo's television credits include episodes of '' Starsky & Hutch'', ''Lou Grant'', '' Quincy'', ''Hill Stree ...
, American actress and producer (d. 2012)
* 1954 –
Richard Blackford
Richard Blackford (born 13 January 1954 in London, England) is an English composer.
Biography
Richard Blackford PhD studied composition with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music and conducting with Norman Del Mar. He was awarded the Men ...
, English composer
* 1954 –
Trevor Rabin
Trevor Charles Rabin (; born ) is a South African rock musician and composer. Born into a musical family and raised in Johannesburg, Rabin took up the piano and guitar at an early age and became a session musician, playing and producing with a va ...
, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1955 –
Jay McInerney
John Barrett "Jay" McInerney Jr. (; born January 13, 1955) is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist. His novels include ''Bright Lights, Big City (novel), Bright Lights, Big City'', ''Ransom'', ''Story of My Life (novel), Sto ...
Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson (January 13, 1957 – December 4, 2014) was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection ''Late Wife'', and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008.
Early life
Emerso ...
, American poet and academic (d. 2014)
* 1957 –
Mary Glindon
Mary Theresa Glindon (née Mulgrove; born 13 January 1957) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tyneside since 2010.
Early life
She attended Sacred Heart Grammar School, an RC girls' direct ...
, English lawyer and politician
* 1957 –
Mark O'Meara
Mark Francis O'Meara (born January 13, 1957) is an American professional golfer. He was a tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He spent nearly 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World ...
, American golfer
* 1957 –
Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer.
Biography
Marie Lorena Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York, and nicknamed "Lorrie" by her parents. She attended St. Lawrence University. At 19, she won ''Seve ...
Francisco Buyo
Francisco "Paco" Buyo Sánchez (born 13 January 1958) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Best known for his Sevilla and Real Madrid spells, he appeared in 542 La Liga matches, third all-time highest at the time of his ...
, Spanish footballer and manager
* 1958 – Juan Pedro de Miguel, Spanish handball player (d. 2016)
*
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
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Winnie Byanyima
Winifred Byanyima (born 13 January 1959), is a Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician, human rights activist, feminist and diplomat. She is the executive director of UNAIDS, effective November 2019.
From May 2013 until November 2019, she ser ...
, Ugandan engineer, politician, and diplomat
* 1960 –
Eric Betzig
Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research ...
, American physicist and chemist,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate
* 1960 –
Matthew Bourne
Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne (born 13 January 1960) is an English choreographer whose work includes contemporary dance and dance theatre.
Choreographer
In 2007, Bourne contemplated a gay version of ''Romeo and Juliet''. Despite the succ ...
Wayne Coyne
Wayne Michael Coyne (born January 13, 1961) is an American musician. He is the lead singer, guitarist, keyboardist, theremin player and songwriter for the band the Flaming Lips.
Early life
Coyne was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United Stat ...
, American singer-songwriter and musician
* 1961 –
Kelly Hrudey
Kelly Hrudey (; born January 13, 1961) is a Canadian former National Hockey League ice hockey goaltender. He is a current hockey broadcaster with Sportsnet as an analyst for ''Hockey Night in Canada'' and the Calgary Flames as a commentator. Durin ...
, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
* 1961 –
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus ( ; born January 13, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and producer who worked on the comedy television series ''Saturday Night Live'' (1982–1985), ''Seinfeld'' (1989–1998), ''The New Adventures ...
, American actress, comedian, and producer
* 1962 –
Trace Adkins
Trace may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
* ''Trace'' (Son Volt album), 1995
* ''Trace'' (Died Pretty album), 1993
* Trace (band), a Dutch progressive rock band
* ''The Trace'' (album)
Other uses in arts and entertainment
* ''Trace'' ...
, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1962 – Paul Higgins, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1964 –
Penelope Ann Miller
Penelope Ann Miller (born Penelope Andrea Miller; January 13, 1964), sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress.
She began her career on Broadway in the 1985 original production of ''Biloxi Blues'' and received a Tony Award no ...
, American actress
* 1965 – Bill Bailey, British musician and comedian
* 1966 –
Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Galen Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is an American actor and race car driver. He is best known for his role as neurosurgeon Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd in ''Grey's Anatomy''. He had early success as an actor, starring in a number of fi ...
, American actor and race car driver
* 1966 –
Leo Visser
Leendert "Leo" Visser (born 13 January 1966) is a Dutch former speed skater, who in 1989 won the World Allround championships and European championships.
At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he won a silver medal in the 5000 m and a bronze medal i ...
Mike Whitlow
Michael William Whitlow (born 13 January 1968) is an English former professional footballer and Under-18s coach at League Two club Mansfield Town.
As a player, he was a defender from 1987 to 2007. He notably played for Leeds United, and in the P ...
Stefania Belmondo
Stefania Belmondo (born 13 January 1969) is an Italian former cross-country skier, a two-time Olympic champion and four-time world champion in her career.
Biography
Debut
Belmondo was born in Vinadio, in the province of Cuneo (Piedmont), the d ...
, Italian skier
* 1969 –
Stephen Hendry
Stephen Gordon Hendry (born 13 January 1969) is a Scottish professional snooker player who dominated the sport during the 1990s, becoming one of the most successful players in its history. After turning professional in 1985 at age 16, Hendry ...
, Scottish snooker player and journalist
* 1970 – Frank Kooiman, Dutch footballer
* 1970 –
Marco Pantani
Marco Pantani (; 13 January 1970 – 14 February 2004) was an Italian road racing cyclist, widely regarded as the greatest climbing specialist in the history of the sport by measures of his legacy, credits from other riders, and records. He re ...
, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
* 1970 –
Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Lynn Rhimes (born January 13, 1970) is an American television screenwriter, producer, and author. She is best known as the showrunner—creator, head writer, and executive producer—of the television medical drama '' Grey's Anatomy'', ...
, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1972 –
Mark Bosnich
Mark John Bosnich (born 13 January 1972) is an Australian former professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper, and sports pundit. He played in England for Premier League clubs Aston Villa, Manchester United and Chelsea. He also played in ...
, Australian footballer and sportscaster
* 1972 –
Nicole Eggert
Nicole Elizabeth Eggert (born January 13, 1972) is an American actress. Her notable roles include Jamie Powell on the situation comedy ''Charles in Charge'' and Summer Quinn on the television series ''Baywatch''. She guest-starred in '' The Supe ...
, American actress
* 1972 –
Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Venediktovich Scherbo (or Shcherbo; russian: Виталий Венедиктович Щербо, or Shcherba; be, Віталь Венядзіктавіч Шчэрба, ''Vital' Venjadziktavich Shcherba'', born 13 January 1972) is a Bel ...
Nikolai Khabibulin
Nikolai Alexandrovich Khabibulin (; rus, Николай Александрович Хабибулин, p=xəbʲɪˈbulʲɪn, born January 13, 1973) is a Russian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Known by the nickname "The Bulin Wall", h ...
, Russian ice hockey player
* 1973 –
Gigi Galli
Gianluigi Galli (born 13 January 1973), better known as Gigi Galli, is an Italian rally driver, best known for his spectacular driving style. He comes from, and lives in Livigno, Italy.
Career
Galli debuted in the World Rally Championship at the ...
Sergei Brylin
Sergei Vladimirovich Brylin (russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Бры́лин; born January 13, 1974) is a Russian former professional ice hockey centre, currently an assistant coach with the New Jersey Devils of the National Ho ...
, Russian ice hockey player and coach
* 1975 – Rune Eriksen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
* 1975 –
Mailis Reps
Mailis Reps (née Rand, born 13 January 1975) is an Estonian politician, a member of the Estonian Centre Party. She served as the Minister of Education and Research from 2002 to 2003, 2005 to 2007 and 2016 to 2020.
Early life and education
Re ...
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is an American businessman, attorney, lobbyist, and politician. Yang was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary. He is the co-c ...
, American entrepreneur, founder of
Venture for America
Venture For America (VFA) is an American nonprofit organization and fellowship headquartered in New York City. Founded by Andrew Yang in 2011, its mission is "to create economic opportunity in American cities" by training recent graduates and youn ...
1976
Events January
* January 3 – 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 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
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Mario Yepes
Mario Alberto Yepes Díaz (; born 13 January 1976) is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is well known for his time in Paris Saint-Germain, where he was considered to be one of the best defenders at the ...
, Colombian footballer
* 1977 – Orlando Bloom, English actor
* 1977 –
Mi-Hyun Kim
Mi-Hyun Kim ( ko, 김미현, born 13 January 1977) is a professional golfer from South Korea. She turned professional in 1996 and won 11 events on the LPGA of Korea Tour (KLPGA) between 1996 and 2000. In 1999, she joined the LPGA Tour and was na ...
, South Korean golfer
* 1977 –
Elliot Mason
Elliot Mason (born 13 January 1977) is an English jazz trombonist. He also plays the keyboard and the bass trumpet. He has been praised by such musicians as Michael Brecker for his technical facility and innovative harmonically complex improvisa ...
, English trombonist and keyboard player
* 1977 –
James Posey
James Mikely Mantell Posey Jr. (born January 13, 1977) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played the small forward pos ...
Mohit Sharma
Mohit Mahipal Sharma (born 18 September 1988) is an Indian international cricketer. He also plays for Haryana. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler.
Domestic and IPL career
Following his work with pace bowling coach Ian Pont, Sharma picked up ...
Nate Silver
Nathaniel Read Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician, writer, and poker player who analyzes baseball (see sabermetrics), basketball, and elections (see psephology). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of ''FiveThirtyEight' ...
, American journalist and statistician, developed
PECOTA PECOTA, an acronym for ''Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm'', is a sabermetric system for forecasting Major League Baseball player performance. The word is a backronym based on the name of journeyman major league player Bil ...
Katy Brand
Katherine Frances Brand (born 1979), known as Katy Brand, is an English actress, comedian and writer, known for her ITV2 series ''Katy Brand's Big Ass Show'' and for Comedy Lab ''Slap'' on Channel 4.
Early life and education
Brand was born in ...
Akira Kaji
is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a defender. He last played for Japan national team until 2008.
Club career
After graduating from Takigawa Daini High School, Kaji joined Cerezo Osaka in 1998. He made his first league ...
, Japanese footballer
* 1980 –
Wolfgang Loitzl
Wolfgang Loitzl (born 13 January 1980) is an Austrian former ski jumper. He was the winner of the 2008–09 Four Hills Tournament and the 2009 Normal Hill World Champion.
Career
He won seven medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships wit ...
, Austrian ski jumper
* 1980 – Mirko Soltau, German footballer
* 1981 – Reggie Brown, American football player
* 1981 –
Darrell Rasner
Darrell Wayne Rasner, Jr. (born January 13, 1981) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals and New York Yankees and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Toh ...
, American baseball player
* 1981 –
Yujiro Takahashi
, is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of Bullet Club and its sub-group House of Torture.
Takahashi entered New Japan in November 2003 with an extensive amateur backgr ...
Kamran Akmal
Kamran Akmal (Urdu, pa, ; born 13 January 1982) is a Pakistani former cricketer, who played for Pakistan as a right-handed batsman & wicketkeeper. He started his international career in November 2002 with a Test match at Harare Sports Club. ...
, Pakistani cricketer
* 1982 –
Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria (born 13 January 1982), nicknamed ''El Mago'' (''The Magician'' in Spanish), is an Argentine retired professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP world No. 3 singles ranking in May 2004. Coria achieved hi ...
Ruth Wilson
Ruth Wilson (born 13 January 1982) is an English actress. She is known for her performances as the eponymous protagonist in ''Jane Eyre'' (2006), as Alice Morgan in the BBC psychological crime drama ''Luther'' (2010–2013, 2019), as Alison L ...
Ender Arslan
Ender Arslan (born 13 January 1983) is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player who played at the point guard position. He is assistant coach for Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL).
Professional care ...
Nick Mangold
Nicholas Allan Mangold (born January 13, 1984) is a former American football center. He played college football at Ohio State, and was drafted by the New York Jets in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Mangold was a seven-time Pro Bowl selec ...
Joannie Rochette
Joannie Rochette (born January 13, 1986) is a Canadian physician and retired competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Olympic bronze medallist, the 2009 World silver medallist, the 2008 and 2009 Four Continents silver medallist, the 2004 G ...
Florica Leonida
Florica (Floarea) Leonida (born January 13, 1987 in Bucharest, RomaniaGymbox Floarea Leonida) is a retired , Romanian gymnast
* 1987 – Steven Michaels, Australian rugby league player
* 1987 –
Daniel Oss
Daniel Oss (born 13 January 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .
Career
Oss was born in Trento. In 2004, Oss' first results on the track and road were outstanding: he excelled in the Nationa ...
, Italian cyclist
* 1987 –
Marc Staal
Marc Staal (born January 13, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL) after having played over 1,000 regular season games with the New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1988 – Josh Freeman, American football player
* 1989 –
Morgan Burnett
Morgan Mark Burnett (born January 13, 1989) is a former American football strong safety. He played college football at Georgia Tech and was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He also played for the Pi ...
, American football player
* 1989 – Doug Martin, American football player
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
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Vincenzo Fiorillo
Vincenzo Fiorillo (born 13 January 1990) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Salernitana.
Club career
Sampdoria
Born in Genoa, Fiorillo started playing football in Nuova Oregina Calcio from the Oreg ...
, Italian footballer
* 1990 –
Liam Hemsworth
Liam Hemsworth (born 13 January 1990) is an Australian actor. He played the roles of Josh Taylor in the soap opera ''Neighbours'' and Marcus in the children's television series ''The Elephant Princess''. In American films, Hemsworth starred as ...
Adam Matthews
Adam James Matthews (born 13 January 1992) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a right back for Omonia and for the Wales national team. Matthews has also played for Cardiff City, Celtic, Sunderland and Charlton Athletic, having had loan spel ...
, Welsh footballer
* 1992 –
Dinah Pfizenmaier
Dinah Pfizenmaier (born 13 January 1992) is a German former tennis player.
Pfizenmaier won nine singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Circuit in her career. On 17 March 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 79. On 2 Febru ...
Max Whitlock
Max Antony Whitlock (born 13 January 1993) is a British artistic gymnast. With fourteen medals and six titles in Olympic and world championships, Whitlock is the most successful gymnast in his nation's history, and the most successful pommel ...
Micah Hart
Micah Arielle Zandee-Hart (born January 13, 1997) is a Canadian women's ice hockey player.
On November 23, 2016, she was named to the Canada women's national ice hockey team roster that competed against the United States in a pair of contests on ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1997 –
Connor McDavid
Connor Andrew McDavid (born January 13, 1997) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Oilers selected him first overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
McDavid spen ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1997 –
Ivan Provorov
Ivan Vladimirovich Provorov (russian: Иван Владимирович Проворов; born 13 January 1997) is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL ...
, Russian ice hockey player
* 1997 –
Egan Bernal
Egan Arley Bernal Gómez (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2019 he won the Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American rider to do so, and the youngest winner since 1909. At the 2021 Giro d'Ita ...
left winger
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for English club
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has p ...
Oksana Selekhmeteva
Oksana Olegovna Selekhmeteva ( rus, Окса́на Оле́говна Селехме́тьева, links=no; ; born 13 January 2003) is a Russian tennis player. Selekhmeteva has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA ...
, Russian tennis player
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
86 BC
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Year 86 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cinna and Marius/Flaccus (or, less frequently, year 668 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 86 BC for this year has be ...
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Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius (; – 13 January 86 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. He was also noted for his important refor ...
, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
* 533 – Remigius, French bishop and saint (b. 437)
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614
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703
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Year 703 (Roman numerals, DCCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 703rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 703rd year of the 1st mi ...
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Jitō
were medieval territory stewards in Japan, especially in the Kamakura and Muromachi shogunates. Appointed by the ''shōgun'', ''jitō'' managed manors including national holdings governed by the provincial governor ( kokushi). There were also ...
, Japanese empress (b. 645)
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858
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Events
By place
Europe
* Summer – King Louis the German, summoned by the disaffected Frankish ...
888 888 or triple eight may refer to:
* 888 (number), an integer
* 888 BC, a year of the 9th century BC
* AD 888, a year of the Julian calendar
* 888casino, an online casino
* 888chan, an image board
* 888 Holdings, an online gambling company, tradin ...
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Charles the Fat
Charles III (839 – 13 January 888), also known as Charles the Fat, was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 888. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest son of Louis the German and Hemma, and a great-grandso ...
Berno of Cluny
Saint Berno of Cluny (French: ''Bernon'') or Berno of Baume (c. 850 – 13 January 927) was the first abbot of Cluny from its foundation in 909 until he died in 927. He began the tradition of the Cluniac reforms which his successors spread acr ...
Fujiwara no Teishi
, also known as Sadako, was an empress consort of the Japanese Emperor Ichijō. She appears in the literary classic ''The Pillow Book'' written by her court lady Sei Shōnagon.
Life
She was the first daughter of Fujiwara no Michitaka (藤 ...
Robert de Craon
Robert de Craon or Robert Burgundio (died 13 January 1147) was the second Grand Master of the Knights Templar from June 1136 until his death. He was instrumental in getting papal sanction for the Templar Order, making it independent from ecclesia ...
Suger
Suger (; la, Sugerius; 1081 – 13 January 1151) was a French abbot, statesman, and historian. He once lived at the court of Pope Calixtus II in Maguelonne, France. He later became abbot of St-Denis, and became a close confidant to King Lo ...
, French historian and politician (b. 1081)
* 1177 – Henry II, count palatine and duke of Austria (b. 1107)
* 1321 –
Bonacossa Borri
Bonacossa Borri, also known as Bonaca, or Bonaccossi Bonacosta (1254–1321), was Lady of Milan by marriage from 1269 to 1321.
Biography
Bonacossa was the daughter of Squarcina Borri (1230–1277, also called Scarsini), captain of exiles from M ...
, Italian noblewoman (b. 1254)
*
1330
Year 1330 ( MCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* July 28 – Battle of Velbazhd: The Bulgarians under Tsar Michael Shishman (who is ...
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Frederick I Frederick I may refer to:
* Frederick of Utrecht or Frederick I (815/16–834/38), Bishop of Utrecht.
* Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine (942–978)
* Frederick I, Duke of Swabia (1050–1105)
* Frederick I, Count of Zoll ...
, duke and king of Germany
* 1363 – Meinhard III, German nobleman (b. 1344)
* 1400 –
Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
Thomas le Despenser, 2nd Baron Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester KG (22 September 137313 January 1400) was the son of Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer, whom he succeeded in 1375.
Royal intrigues
A supporter of Richard II against Th ...
Jane Dormer
Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (6 January 1538 – 13 January 1612) was an English lady-in-waiting to Mary I who, after the Queen's death, married Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria and went to live in Spain, where she wou ...
Jan Brueghel the Elder
Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Elder (, ; ; 1568 – 13 January 1625) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collabora ...
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (12 July 162813 January 1684) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the second son of Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel, and Lady Elizabeth Stuart. He succeeded his brother Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of ...
, English nobleman (b. 1628)
*
1691
Events
January–March
* January 6 – King William III of England, who rules Scotland and Ireland as well as being the Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, departs from Margate to tend to the affairs of the Netherlands.
* January 14 – A ...
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George Fox
George Fox (July 1624 – 13 January 1691) was an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. The son of a Leicestershire weaver, he lived in times of social upheaval and ...
, English religious leader, founded the
Religious Society of Friends
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's abili ...
Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 164713 January 1717) was a German naturalist and scientific illustrator. She was one of the earliest European naturalists to observe insects directly. Merian was a descendant of the Frankfurt branch of the Swiss M ...
, German entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647)
* 1775 –
Johann Georg Walch
Johann Georg Walch (17 June 1693 – 13 January 1775) was a German Lutheran theologian.
Life
He was born in Meiningen, where his father, Georg Walch, was general superintendent. He studied at Leipzig and Jena, amongst his teachers being J. F. ...
1796
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.)
* February 1 – The capital ...
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John Anderson John Anderson may refer to:
Business
*John Anderson (Scottish businessman) (1747–1820), Scottish merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland
* John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), American educator, military officer and railroad executive, mentor of ...
, Scottish philosopher and educator (b. 1726)
* 1832 –
Thomas Lord
Thomas Lord (23 November 1755 – 13 January 1832) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1787 to 1802. He made a brief comeback, playing in one further match in 1815. Overall, Lord made 90 known appearances ...
Ferdinand Ries
Ferdinand Ries (baptised 28 November 1784 – 13 January 1838) was a German composer. Ries was a friend, pupil and secretary of Ludwig van Beethoven. He composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto, nine piano concertos (the first concert ...
William Mason William, Willie, or Willy Mason may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*William Mason (poet) (1724–1797), English poet, editor and gardener
*William Mason (architect) (1810–1897), New Zealand architect
*William Mason (composer) (1829–1908), Ame ...
, American surgeon and politician (b. 1786)
*
1864
Events
January–March
* January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " ...
–
Stephen Foster
Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known also as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour music, parlour and Minstrel show, minstrel music during the Romantic music, Romantic ...
, American composer and songwriter (b. 1826)
*
1872
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years.
* February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
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William Scamp
William Scamp (5 June 1801 – 13 January 1872) was an English architect and engineer. After working on the reconstruction of Windsor Castle to designs of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, he was employed by the Admiralty from 1838 to his retirement in 1867 ...
, English architect and engineer (b. 1801)
* 1882 –
Wilhelm Mauser
Wilhelm Mauser (2 May 1834 – 13 January 1882) was a German weapon designer and manufacturer/industrialist.
Biography
Mauser was born in Oberndorf am Neckar, in what was then the Kingdom of Württemberg. His father and his four brothers were guns ...
, German engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company (b. 1834)
* 1885 –
Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax Jr. (; March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th speaker of the Hous ...
, American journalist and politician, 17th
Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice ...
(b. 1823)
* 1889 – Solomon Bundy, American lawyer and politician (b. 1823)
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Попо́в; – ) was a Russian physicist, who was one of the first persons to invent a radio receiving device. declassified 8 Janua ...
, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1859)
* 1907 –
Jakob Hurt
Jakob Hurt ( in Himmaste – in St Petersburg) was a notable Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist. With respect to the last, he is perhaps best known for his dissertation on "pure" -ne stem nouns ("Die estnischen Nomina auf -ne purum ...
, Estonian theologist and linguist (b. 1839)
* 1915 –
Mary Slessor
Mary may refer to:
People
* Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name)
Religious contexts
* New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below
* Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...
Victoriano Huerta
José Victoriano Huerta Márquez (; 22 December 1854 – 13 January 1916) was a general in the Mexican Federal Army and 39th President of Mexico, who came to power by coup against the democratically elected government of Francisco I. Madero wit ...
, Mexican military officer and president, 1913–1914 (b. 1850)
* 1923 –
Alexandre Ribot
Alexandre-Félix-Joseph Ribot (; 7 February 184213 January 1923) was a French politician, four times Prime Minister.
Early career
Ribot was born in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais. After a brilliant academic career at the University of Paris, where h ...
, French academic and politician,
Prime Minister of France
The prime minister of France (french: link=no, Premier ministre français), officially the prime minister of the French Republic, is the head of government of the French Republic and the leader of the Council of Ministers.
The prime minister ...
Georg Hermann Quincke
Georg Hermann Quincke FRSFor HFRSE (; November 19, 1834 – January 13, 1924) was a German physicist.
Biography
Born in Frankfurt-on-Oder, Quincke was the son of prominent physician ''Geheimer Medicinal-Rath'' Hermann Quincke and the older br ...
, German physicist and academic (b. 1834)
* 1929 –
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American lawman and gambler in the American West, including Dodge City, Deadwood, and Tombstone. Earp took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which l ...
, American police officer (b. 1848)
* 1929 – H. B. Higgins, Irish-Australian judge and politician, 3rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1851)
*1934 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist and chemist (b. 1860)
*
1941
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
– James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1882)
* 1943 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889)
* 1949 – Aino Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1894)
*1956 – Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
* 1957 – A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (b. 1878)
* 1958 – Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1880)
* 1958 – Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
* 1962 – Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show host (b. 1919)
* 1963 – Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese businessman and politician, List of heads of state of Togo, President of Togo (b. 1902)
*1967 – Anatole de Grunwald, Russian-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
*1971 – Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)
* 1973 – Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Turkish screenwriter and producer (b. 1908)
* 1974 – Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (b. 1906)
* 1974 – Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet (b. 1904)
*
1976
Events January
* January 3 – 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 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
– Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
* 1977 – Henri Langlois, Turkish-French historian, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)
* 1978 – Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th
Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice ...
(b. 1911)
* 1978 – Joe McCarthy (manager), Joe McCarthy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
* 1979 – Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1945)
* 1979 – Marjorie Lawrence, Australian-American soprano (b. 1907)
* 1980 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor (b. 1901)
* 1982 – Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
* 1983 – René Bonnet, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1904)
* 1986 –
Abdul Fattah Ismail
Abd al-Fattah Ismail Ali Al-Jawfi ( ar, عبد الفتاح إسماعيل علي الجوفي , translit=ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Ismāʿīl; 28 July 1939 – 13 January 1986) was the Marxist ''de facto'' leader of People's Democratic Republic of Yem ...
, Yemeni educator and politician, 4th President of South Yemen (b. 1939)
* 1986 – Kevin Longbottom, Australian rugby league player (b. 1940)
* 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
* 1993 – Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer and conductor (b. 1907)
*1995 – Max Harris (poet), Max Harris, Australian journalist, poet, and author (b. 1921)
*2002 – Frank Shuster, Canadian actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
* 2003 – Norman Panama, American director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
*2004 – Arne Næss, Jr., Norwegian businessman and mountaineer (b. 1937)
*2005 – Earl Cameron (broadcaster), Earl Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1915)
* 2005 – Nell Rankin, American soprano and actress (b. 1924)
*2006 – Frank Fixaris, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1934)
* 2006 – Marc Potvin, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1967)
*2007 – Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)
* 2007 – Danny Oakes, American race car driver (b. 1911)
*2008 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (b. 1932)
*2009 – Dai Llewellyn, Welsh socialite and politician (b. 1946)
* 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
* 2009 – Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese poet, composer, and producer (b. 1925)
* 2009 – W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (b. 1926)
* 2009 – Nancy Bird Walton, Australian pilot (b. 1915)
*2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
*2011 – Albert Heijn (born 1927), Albert Heijn, Dutch businessman (b. 1927)
*
2012
File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
– Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
* 2012 – Guido Dessauer, German physicist and engineer (b. 1915)
* 2012 – Miljan Miljanić, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1930)
*2013 – Diogenes Allen, American philosopher and theologian (b. 1932)
* 2013 – Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924)
* 2013 – Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
*2014 – Bobby Collins (footballer), Bobby Collins, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1931)
* 2014 – Randal Tye Thomas, American journalist and politician (b. 1978)
* 2014 – Waldemar von Gazen, German general and lawyer (b. 1917)
*2015 – Mark Juddery, Australian journalist and author (b. 1971)
* 2015 – Robert White (ambassador), Robert White, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Paraguay (b. 1926)
*2016 – Brian Bedford, English-American actor and director (b. 1935)
* 2016 – Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian-American director, producer, songwriter, and manager (b. 1934)
* 2016 – Lawrence Phillips, American football player (b. 1975)
*2017 – Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and sometime member of the British royal family (b. 1930)
* 2017 – Dick Gautier, American actor (b. 1931)
* 2017 – Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b. 1942)
*2019 – Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
*
2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...
– Bryan Monroe, American journalist and educator, (b. 1965)
* 2020 – Philip Tartaglia, Scottish prelate, Catholic archbishop of Glasgow (b. 1951)
Holidays and observances
*Christian feast day:
**Blessed Veronica of Milan
**Saint Elian (Wales), Elian
**Hilary of Poitiers
** Mungo
**St. Knut's Day or ''Tjugondag Knut'', the last day of Christmas. (Sweden and Finland)
**January 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Constitution Day (Mongolia)
*Democracy Day (Cape Verde)
*Liberation Day (Togo)
*Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, North Macedonia), and its related observances:
**Malanka (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus)
*Sidereal time, Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period ''(see January 14)'':
**Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu)
**Lohri (Punjab, India, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)
**Uruka (Assam)
*Stephen Foster Memorial Day (United States)
*Yennayer (Berbers)