Events
Pre-1600
*
27 BC
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–
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title
Augustus by the
Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Medite ...
.
*
378
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– General
Siyaj K'ak' conquers
Tikal, enlarging the domain of King
Spearthrower Owl of
Teotihuacán.
*
550
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–
Gothic War Gothic War may refer to:
*Gothic War (248–253), battles and plundering carried out by the Goths and their allies in the Roman Empire.
*Gothic War (367–369), a war of Thervingi against the Eastern Roman Empire in which the Goths retreated to Mont ...
: The
Ostrogoths, under King
Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the
Isauria
Isauria ( or ; grc, Ἰσαυρία), in ancient geography, is a rugged, isolated, district in the interior of Asia Minor, of very different extent at different periods, but generally covering what is now the district of Bozkır and its surrou ...
n garrison.
*
929 –
Emir
Emir (; ar, أمير ' ), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or cer ...
Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes the
Caliphate of Córdoba.
*
1120
Year 1120 ( MCXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Siege of Sozopolis: Byzantine forces under Emperor John II Komnenos conquer Sozopoli ...
–
Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were ...
: The
Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the
Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
*
1362
Year 1362 ( MCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 1 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania switches New Year to January 1, before ...
–
Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...
.
*
1537
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Year 1537 ( MDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January
** Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry ...
–
Bigod's Rebellion, an armed insurrection attempting to resist the
English Reformation
The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Protestant Reformation, a religious and po ...
, begins.
*
1547 – Grand Duke
Ivan IV
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич; 25 August 1530 – ), commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584.
Ivan ...
of
Muscovy Muscovy is an alternative name for the Grand Duchy of Moscow (1263–1547) and the Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721). It may also refer to:
*Muscovy Company, an English trading company chartered in 1555
*Muscovy duck (''Cairina moschata'') and Domest ...
becomes the first
Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old
Grand Duchy of Moscow
The Grand Duchy of Moscow, Muscovite Russia, Muscovite Rus' or Grand Principality of Moscow (russian: Великое княжество Московское, Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye; also known in English simply as Muscovy from the Lati ...
with the
Tsardom of Russia.
*
1556 –
Philip II becomes King of Spain.
*
1572
Year 1572 ( MDLXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 16 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is tried for treason, for his part ...
–
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and found guilty of treason for his part in the
Ridolfi plot to restore
Catholicism
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
in England.
1601–1900
*
1605
Events
January–June
* January 16 – The first part of Miguel de Cervantes' satire on the theme of chivalry, ''Don Quixote'' (''El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha'', "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha"), is publ ...
– The first edition of ''
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha'' (Book One of ''Don Quixote'') by
Miguel de Cervantes is published in
Madrid, Spain.
*
1707
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 1 – John V is crowned King of Portugal and the Algarv ...
– The
Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament ( gd, Pàrlamaid na h-Alba ; sco, Scots Pairlament) is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Scotland. Located in the Holyrood area of the capital city, Edinburgh, it is frequently referred to by the metonym Holyro ...
ratifies the
Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...
.
*
1757 – Forces of the
Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the
Durrani Empire
The Durrani Empire ( ps, د درانيانو ټولواکمني; fa, امپراتوری درانیان) or the Afghan Empire ( ps, د افغانان ټولواکمني, label=none; fa, امپراتوری افغان, label=none), also know ...
in the
Battle of Narela
The Battle of Narela took place on 16 January 1757, at Narela, on the outskirts of Delhi, between the Maratha Army led by Antaji Mankeshwar and an army of Ahmad Shah Abdali.
The battle
Ahmad Shah Durrani, the emperor of Afghanistan was heading ...
.
*
1780 –
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of ...
:
Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
*
1786 –
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the East Coast of the United States, Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography an ...
enacts the
Statute for Religious Freedom
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was drafted in 1777 by Thomas Jefferson in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and introduced into the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond in 1779. On January 16, 1786, the Assembly enacted the statute into the ...
authored by
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the nati ...
.
*
1809 –
Peninsular War
The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spai ...
: The British defeat the French at the
Battle of La Coruña
The Battle of Corunna (or ''A Coruña'', ''La Corunna'', ''La Coruña'' or ''La Corogne''), in Spain known as Battle of Elviña, took place on 16 January 1809, when a French corps under Marshal of the Empire Jean de Dieu Soult attacked a Bri ...
.
*
1847 –
Westward expansion of the United States
The United States of America was created on July 4, 1776, with the U.S. Declaration of Independence of thirteen British colonies in North America. In the Lee Resolution two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent ...
:
John C. Frémont is appointed
Governor of the new
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the ...
Territory.
*
1862 –
Hartley Colliery disaster
The Hartley Colliery disaster (also known as the Hartley Pit disaster or Hester Pit disaster) was a coal mining accident in Northumberland, England, that occurred on 16 January 1862 and resulted in the deaths of 204 men and children. The beam o ...
: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
*
1878 –
Russo-Turkish War (1877–78):
Battle of Philippopolis: Captain
Aleksandr Burago
Aleksandr Petrovich Burago (russian: Александр Петрович Бураго) was an officer of the Russian Imperial army. Serving as a captain under Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko, he commanded the force that liberated Plovdiv from the ...
with a
squadron of
Russian Imperial army
dragoon
Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat w ...
s
liberates Plovdiv from
Ottoman rule.
*
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.
* Janua ...
– The
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the
United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
*
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), ...
– The
United States Senate accepts the
Anglo-German treaty of 1899
The Tripartite Convention of 1899 concluded the Second Samoan Civil War, resulting in the formal partition of the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory.
Forerunners to the Tripartite Convention of 1899 were the W ...
in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the
Samoan islands
The Samoan Islands ( sm, Motu o Sāmoa) are an archipelago covering in the central South Pacific, forming part of Polynesia and of the wider region of Oceania. Administratively, the archipelago comprises all of the Independent State of Samoa ...
.
1901–present
*
1909 –
Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of A ...
's expedition finds the magnetic
South Pole.
*
1919 –
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the so ...
becomes the 36th state to approve the
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment,
Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
*
1920 – The
League of Nations holds its first council meeting in
Paris, France.
*
1921 – The
Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in
Ľubochňa.
*
1942 –
The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins deporting Jews from the
Łódź Ghetto to
Chełmno extermination camp.
* 1942 – Crash of
TWA Flight 3
TWA Flight 3 was a twin-engine Douglas DC-3-382 propliner, registration NC1946, operated by Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York, New York, to Burbank, California, in the United States ...
, killing all 22 aboard, including film star
Carole Lombard.
*
1945 –
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
:
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
moves into his underground bunker, the so-called
Führerbunker
The ''Führerbunker'' () was an air raid shelter located near the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. It was part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed in two phases in 1936 and 1944. It was the last of the Führer Headquarters ( ...
.
*
1959 –
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 was a regularly scheduled domestic Austral Líneas Aéreas flight operating a route between Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata in Argentina that crashed after encountering poor weather conditions during landing on ...
crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near
Astor Piazzolla International Airport in
Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata is a city on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the seat of General Pueyrredón district. Mar del Plata is the second largest city in Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" is a s ...
, Argentina, killing 51.
*
1969 –
Czech student
Jan Palach
Jan Palach (; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 i ...
commits suicide by
self-immolation in
Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the
Soviets' crushing of the
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring ( cs, Pražské jaro, sk, Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in
the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Sec ...
the year before.
* 1969 –
Space Race: Soviet spacecraft ''
Soyuz 4'' and ''
Soyuz 5'' perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in
orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a
space walk
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut in outer space outside a spacecraft. In the absence of a breathable Earthlike atmosphere, the astronaut is completely reliant on a space suit for environmental support. EVA inc ...
.
*
1979 –
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynas ...
: The
last Iranian Shah flees
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...
with his family for good and relocates to
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Med ...
.
*
1983 –
Turkish Airlines Flight 158
Turkish Airlines Flight 158 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport to Ankara Esenboğa Airport, Turkey. On 16 January 1983, the aircraft operating the flight, a Boeing 727-200, landed about short of the runwa ...
crashes at
Ankara Esenboğa Airport in
Ankara
Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, mak ...
, Turkey, killing 47 and injuring 20.
*
1991 – Coalition Forces go to war with
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
, beginning the
Gulf War.
*
1992 –
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de 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 b ...
officials and rebel leaders sign the
Chapultepec Peace Accords in
Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mex ...
ending the 12-year
Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
*
1995 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village
Súðavík, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.
*
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...
–
Second Congo War
The Second Congo War,, group=lower-alpha also known as the Great War of Africa or the Great African War and sometimes referred to as the African World War, began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 1998, little more than a year a ...
:
Congolese
Congolese or Kongolese may refer to:
African peoples
* Congolese people (disambiguation)
* Kongo people, a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo) to Luanda, Angola, primarily defined by ...
President
Laurent-Désiré Kabila is
assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.
* 2001 – US President
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (Birth name, né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 ...
awards former President
Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous
Medal of Honor for his service in the
Spanish–American War.
*
2002 –
War in Afghanistan: The
UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...
,
al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the
Taliban.
*
2003 – The
Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' takes off for mission
STS-107 which would be its final one. ''Columbia''
disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
*
2006 –
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as
Liberia
Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...
's new
president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
*
2011 –
Syrian civil war: The
Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
along the lines of
democratic confederalism
Democratic confederalism ( ku, Konfederalîzma demokratîk), also known as Kurdish communalism or Apoism, is a political concept theorized by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan about a system of democratic self-organization ...
.
*
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 ...
- The
Mali War begins when
Tuareg militias start fighting the Malian government for independence.
*
2016 – Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist
attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
*
2018 –
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
police open fire
Open or OPEN may refer to:
Music
* Open (band), Australian pop/rock band
* The Open (band), English indie rock band
* ''Open'' (Blues Image album), 1969
* ''Open'' (Gotthard album), 1999
* ''Open'' (Cowboy Junkies album), 2001
* ''Open'' (YF ...
on a group of ethnic
Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
*
2020 – The
first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the
United States Senate.
* 2020 – The United States Senate ratifies the
United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for
NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ; es, Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; french: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that crea ...
.
Births
Pre-1600
*
972 –
Sheng Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (d. 1031)
*
1093
Year 1093 ( MXCIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* April 13 –The Grand Prince of Kiev Vsevolod I Yaroslavich dies, after a 15-year r ...
–
Isaac Komnenos, son of Byzantine emperor
Alexios I Komnenos (d. 1152)
*
1245
Year 1245 ( MCCXLV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Winter – Siege of Jaén: Castilian forces under King Ferdinand III (the Saint) bes ...
–
Edmund Crouchback, English politician,
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom. The post dates from at least the 12th century, when the title was Keeper of the Coast, but may be older. The Lord Warden was originally in charge of the Cinqu ...
(d. 1296)
*
1362
Year 1362 ( MCCCLXII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 1 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania switches New Year to January 1, before ...
–
Robert de Vere, duke of Ireland (d. 1392)
*
1409 –
René of Anjou, king of Naples (d. 1480)
*
1477
Year 1477 (Roman numerals, MCDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 5 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold of Duchy of Burg ...
–
Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
*
1501 –
Anthony Denny, confidant of
Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
*
1516 –
Bayinnaung, king of Burma (d. 1581)
*
1558
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Year 1558 ( MDLVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 7 – French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, ...
–
Jakobea of Baden, Margravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage (d. 1597)
1601–1900
*
1616
Events
January–June
* January
** Six-year-old António Vieira arrives from Portugal, with his parents, in Bahia (present-day Salvador) in Colonial Brazil, where he will become a diplomat, noted author, leading figure of the Church, an ...
–
François de Vendôme, duke of Beaufort (d. 1669)
*
1626 –
, Belgian painter and educator (d. 1699)
*
1630
Events
January–March
* January 2 – A shoemaker in Turin is found to have the first case of bubonic plague there as the plague of 1630 begins spreading through Italy.
* January 5 – A team of Portuguese military advisers ...
–
Guru Har Rai, Sikh Guru (d. 1661)
*
1634 –
Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian author and poet (d. 1716)
*
1675 –
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1755)
*
1691 –
Peter Scheemakers, Belgian sculptor and educator (d. 1781)
*
1728
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The '' Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de la Habana'', the oldest university in Cuba, is founded in Havana.
* January 9 – The coronation of Peter II as the Tsar of t ...
–
Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer and educator (d. 1800)
*
1749 –
Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1803)
*
1757 –
Richard Goodwin Keats
Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats (16 January 1757 – 5 April 1834) was a British naval officer who fought throughout the American Revolution, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic War. He retired in 1812 due to ill health and was made Co ...
, English admiral and politician, third
Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834)
*
1807 –
Charles Henry Davis, American admiral (d. 1877)
*
1815 –
Henry Halleck, American lawyer, general, and scholar (d. 1872)
*
1821 –
John C. Breckinridge, American general and politician, 14th
Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
*
1834 –
Robert R. Hitt, American lawyer and politician, 13th
United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1906)
*
1836 –
Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
*
1838
Events
January–March
* January 10 – A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.
* January 11 – At Morristown, New Jersey, Samuel Morse, Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale give the first public demonstration o ...
–
Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
*
1844
In the Philippines, it was the only leap year with 365 days, as December 31 was skipped when 1845 began after December 30.
Events
January–March
* January 15 – The University of Notre Dame, based in the city of the same name, receives ...
–
Ismail Qemali, Albanian civil servant and politician, first Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1919)
*
1851
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
* January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly.
...
–
William Hall-Jones, English-New Zealand politician, 16th
Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1936)
*
1853
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida.
* January 8 – Taiping Reb ...
–
Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager (d. 1937)
* 1853 –
Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Greek-English general (d. 1947)
* 1853 –
André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the
Michelin Tyre Company (d. 1931)
*
1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the Broo ...
–
Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician,
State Elder of Estonia (d. 1942)
*
1872 –
Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1973)
*
1874 –
Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author (d. 1958)
*
1875 –
Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physician (d. 1949)
*
1876 –
Claude Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1937)
*
1878 –
Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1947)
*
1880 –
Samuel Jones, American high jumper (d. 1954)
*
1882 –
Margaret Wilson, American author (d. 1973)
*
1885 –
Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator (d. 1967)
*
1888
In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late ...
–
Osip Brik, Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (d. 1945)
*
1892 –
Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist (d. 1949)
*
1893 –
Daisy Kennedy, Australian-English violinist (d. 1981)
*
1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
–
Irving Mills
Irving Harold Mills (born Isadore Minsky; January 16, 1894 – April 21, 1985) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose.
Personal
Mills was ...
, American publisher (d. 1985)
*
1895 –
Evripidis Bakirtzis, Greek soldier and politician (d. 1947)
* 1895 –
T. M. Sabaratnam
Thambaiyah Mudaliyar Sabaratnam ( ta, தம்பையா முதலியார் சபாரத்தினம், translit=Tampaiyā Mutaliyār Capārattiṉam; died 1970) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and member of the Legislativ ...
, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
* 1895 –
Nat Schachner, American lawyer, chemist, and author (d. 1955)
*
1897
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
* January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...
–
Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet and academic (d. 1977)
*
1898 –
Margaret Booth, American producer and editor (d. 2002)
* 1898 –
Irving Rapper, American film director and producer (d. 1999)
*
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), ...
–
Kiku Amino
was a Japanese writer and translator of English and Russian literature. She was a recipient of the Women's Literature Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, and Japan Academy of the Arts prize.
Biography
Amino was born in Azabu Mamiana-cho and raised in Ak ...
, Japanese author and translator (d. 1978)
* 1900 –
Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (, ; 12 June 1929 – )Research by The Anne Frank House in 2015 revealed that Frank may have died in February 1945 rather than in March, as Dutch authorities had long assumed"New research sheds new light on Anne Fra ...
(d. 1945)
1901–present
*
1901 –
Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, ninth
President of Cuba (d. 1973)
*
1902
Events
January
* January 1
** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's f ...
–
Eric Liddell, Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary (d. 1945)
*
1903
Events January
* January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
* January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...
–
William Grover-Williams
William Charles Frederick Grover-Williams (born William Charles Frederick Grover, 16 January 1903 – 18 March 1945 (or shortly thereafter)), also known as "W Williams", was a British Grand Prix motor racing driver and special agent who worked ...
, English-French racing driver (d. 1945)
*
1905 –
Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)
*
1906 –
Johannes Brenner
Johannes Brenner (16 January 1906 in Mäo – 9 September 1975 in Tallinn) was an Estonia football forward, who played for ESS Kalev Tallinn, Tallinna Jalgpalli Klubi and the Estonia national football team.
Football career
Brenner started playi ...
, Estonian footballer and pilot (d. 1975)
* 1906 –
Diana Wynyard, English actress (d. 1964)
*
1907 –
Alexander Knox, Canadian-English actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
* 1907 –
Paul Nitze, American banker and politician, tenth
United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2004)
*
1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...
–
Sammy Crooks
Samuel Dickinson Crooks (16 January 1908 – 3 February 1981) was an English footballer who played as outside forward or outside right for Derby County in the mid-war era. He was one of the best-known footballers of the 1920s and 1930s and was c ...
, English footballer (d. 1981)
* 1908 –
Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
* 1908 –
Günther Prien, German captain (d. 1941)
*
1909 –
Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d. 1994)
*
1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
–
Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1974)
*
1911 –
Ivan Barrow, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1979)
* 1911 –
Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th
President of Chile (d. 1982)
* 1911 –
Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)
*
1914 –
Roger Wagner
Roger Wagner, KCSG (January 16, 1914 – September 17, 1992) was an American choral musician, administrator and educator. He founded the Roger Wagner Chorale, which became one of America's premier vocal ensembles.
Early life
Wagner was born in L ...
, French-American conductor and educator (d. 1992)
*
1915 –
Leslie H. Martinson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
*
1916 –
Philip Lucock
Philip Ernest Lucock, Order of the British Empire, CBE (16 January 1916 – 8 August 1996) was an Australian politician and Presbyterian Church of Australia, Presbysterian minister. He served in the Australian House of Representatives, House ...
, English-Australian minister and politician (d. 1996)
*
1917 –
Carl Karcher
Carl Nicholas Karcher Sovereign Military Order of Malta, SMOM (January 16, 1917 – January 11, 2008) was an American businessman who founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, now owned by parent company Snow Star LP.
Early life
Born on a farm nea ...
, American businessman, founded
Carl's Jr. (d. 2008)
*
1918 –
Nel Benschop
Nelly Anna Benschop (16 January 1918 – 31 January 2005) was a Dutch poet. She was a best selling poet in the Netherlands.
Early years
Benschop was born in The Hague and grew up in a strictly religious Dutch Reformed family. She followed the ...
, Dutch poet and educator (d. 2005)
* 1918 –
Allan Ekelund, Swedish director, producer, and production manager (d. 2009)
* 1918 –
Clem Jones, Australian surveyor and politician, eighth
Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
* 1918 –
Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
*
1919 –
Jerome Horwitz, American chemist and academic (d. 2012)
*
1920 –
Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
*
1921 –
Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
*
1923
Events
January–February
* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
* January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
–
Gene Feist Gene Feist (January 16, 1923 – March 17, 2014, New York City) was an American playwright, theater director and co-founder of the Roundabout Theater Company. He authored 15 plays or adaptations, of which two were published by Samuel French Inc. ...
, American director and playwright, co-founded the
Roundabout Theatre Company (d. 2014)
* 1923 –
Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
*
1924 –
Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
*
1925 –
Peter Hirsch, German-English metallurgist and academic
* 1925 –
James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot (d. 2013)
*
1928 –
William Kennedy, American novelist and journalist
* 1928 –
Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1996)
*
1929 –
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)
*
1930 –
Mary Ann McMorrow
Mary Ann McMorrow (née Grohwin; January 16, 1930 – February 23, 2013) was an Illinois Supreme Court chief justice.
Career
Mary Ann Grohwin was born to Roman and Emily Grohwin and grew up in a Roman Catholic household on the northwest side o ...
, American lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
* 1930 –
Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz (; born January 16, 1930) is an American magazine editor, writer, and conservative political commentator, who identifies his views as " paleo- neoconservative". , American journalist and author
* 1930 –
Paula Tilbrook, English actress (d. 2019)
*
1931 –
John Enderby
Sir John Edwin Enderby One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (16 January 1931 – 3 August 2021) was a British physicist, and was Professor of Physics at University of Bristol from 19 ...
, English physicist and academic (d. 2021)
* 1931 –
Robert L. Park, American physicist and academic (d. 2020)
* 1931 –
Johannes Rau, German journalist and politician, eighth
Federal President of Germany (d. 2006)
*
1932 –
Victor Ciocâltea
Victor Ciocâltea (January 16, 1932 – September 10, 1983) was a Romanian chess player. He was awarded the International Master title in 1957 and the International Grandmaster title in 1978. Among his notable games is the one at the 15th Che ...
, Romanian chess player (d. 1983)
* 1932 –
Dian Fossey, American zoologist and anthropologist (d. 1985)
*
1933 –
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her ...
, American novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 2004)
*
1934 –
Bob Bogle, American rock guitarist and bass player (d. 2009)
* 1934 –
Marilyn Horne, American soprano and actress
*
1935 –
A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
* 1935 –
Udo Lattek, German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
*
1936 –
Michael White, Scottish actor and producer (d. 2016)
*
1937 –
Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver (d. 2011)
* 1937 –
Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
*
1938 –
Marina Vaizey
Marina Alandra Vaizey, Baroness Vaizey, ( Stansky; born 16 January 1938) is an art critic and author based in the United Kingdom.
Vaizey is an Anglo-American broadcaster, exhibition curator and journalist. She was educated at the Brearley Schoo ...
, American journalist and critic
*
1939 –
Ralph Gibson, American photographer
*
1941 –
Christine Truman, English tennis player and sportscaster
*
1942 –
René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (d. 2016)
* 1942 –
Barbara Lynn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
*
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 – ...
–
Gavin Bryars, English bassist and composer
* 1943 –
Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Lee Milsap (born Ronald Lee Millsaps; January 16, 1943) is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, ...
, American singer and pianist
*
1944 –
Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (d. 2015)
* 1944 –
Jim Stafford, American singer-songwriter and actor
* 1944 –
Jill Tarter
Jill Cornell Tarter (born January 16, 1944) is an American astronomer best known for her work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Tarter is the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Cha ...
, American astronomer and biologist
* 1944 –
Judy Baar Topinka, American journalist and politician (d. 2014)
*
1945 –
Wim Suurbier, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2020)
*
1946 –
Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
* 1946 –
Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano and actress
*
1947 –
Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy, English academic and politician
* 1947 –
Harvey Proctor, English politician
* 1947 –
Laura Schlessinger, American physiologist, talk show host, and author
*
1948 –
John Carpenter, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer
* 1948 –
Ants Laaneots, Estonian general
* 1948 –
Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
* 1948 –
Ruth Reichl, American journalist and critic
*
1949 –
Anne F. Beiler, American businesswoman, founded
Auntie Anne's
* 1949 –
R. F. Foster, Irish historian and academic
* 1949 –
Andrew Refshauge, Australian physician and politician, 13th
Deputy Premier of New South Wales
*
1950 –
Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
* 1950 –
Robert Schimmel, American comedian, actor, and producer (d. 2010)
*
1952 –
Fuad II
Fuad II (, full name: Ahmed Fuad bin Farouk bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin Muhammad Ali; born 16 January 1952), or alternatively Ahmed Fuad II, is a member of the Egyptian Muhammad Ali dynasty. He formally reigned as the last King of Egypt and the S ...
, King of Egypt
* 1952 –
Piercarlo Ghinzani, Italian racing driver and manager
*
1953 –
Robert Jay Mathews, American militant, founded
The Order (d. 1984)
*
1954 –
Wolfgang Schmidt Wolfgang Schmidt may refer to:
* Wolfgang Schmidt (athlete) (born 1954), German track and field athlete
* Wolfgang Schmidt (politician)
Wolfgang Schmidt (; born ) is a German politician and jurist who has been serving as Federal Minister for ...
, German discus thrower
* 1954 –
Vasili Zhupikov
Vasili Mikhailovich Zhupikov (russian: Василий Михайлович Жупиков; 16 January 1954 – 7 June 2015) was a Soviet Union, Soviet football player and a Russian coach.
Honours
* Soviet Top League bronze: 1977.
* Soviet Cup w ...
, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2015)
*
1955 –
Jerry M. Linenger, American captain, physician, and astronaut
*
1956 –
Wayne Daniel, Barbadian cricketer
* 1956 –
Martin Jol
Maarten Cornelis "Martin" Jol (born 16 January 1956) is a Dutch football manager and former midfielder. He played over 400 games during his career which included spells in the Netherlands, Germany, and England, as well as earning three caps wit ...
, Dutch footballer and manager
* 1956 –
Greedy Smith, Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist (d. 2019)
*
1957 –
Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer and manager
* 1957 –
Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
*
1958 –
Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountaineer and explorer (d. 1997)
* 1958 –
Lena Ek
Lena Ek (born 16 January 1958 in Mönsterås, Kalmar County) is a Swedish politician who served as Minister for the Environment from 2011 to 2014. She is a former Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Riksdag. She is a member of t ...
, Swedish lawyer and politician, ninth
Swedish Minister for the Environment
* 1958 –
Andris Šķēle, Latvian businessman and politician, fourth
Prime Minister of Latvia
The prime minister of Latvia ( lv, ministru prezidents) is the most powerful member of the Government of Latvia, who presides over the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers. The officeholder is nominated by the president of Latvia, but must be able to obta ...
*
1959 –
Lisa Milroy
Lisa Milroy (born 16 January 1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects. In the 1980s, Milroy’s paintings featured ordinary objects depicted against an off-white ba ...
, Canadian painter and educator
* 1959 –
Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
*
1961 –
Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer (d. 2006)
*
1962 –
Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian electrician and politician, 51st
Australian Minister of Defence
* 1962 –
Maxine Jones, American R&B singer–songwriter and actress
*
1963 –
James May, British journalist/co-host of ''Top Gear''
*
1964 –
Gail Graham, Canadian golfer
*
1966 –
Jack McDowell, American baseball player
*
1968 –
Rebecca Stead, American author
*
1969 –
Marinus Bester
Marinus Bester (born 16 January 1969) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Coaching career Hamburger SV
From February 2002 to August 2004, Bester worked as a press officer for Hamburger SV. Retiring from football ...
, German footballer
* 1969 –
Stevie Jackson
Stephen Jackson (born 16 January 1969) is a Scottish musician and songwriter. He plays lead guitar and sings in the Glasgow-based indie band Belle and Sebastian.
Career
Jackson's early musical influences include Madness, ABBA, Orchestral Ma ...
, Scottish guitarist and songwriter
* 1969 –
Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
*
1970 –
Ron Villone, American baseball player and coach
*
1971 –
Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player and coach
* 1971 –
Josh Evans, American film producer, screenwriter and actor
* 1971 –
Jonathan Mangum, American actor
*
1972 –
Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer
* 1972 –
Ang Christou
Ang Christou (born 16 January 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer for Carlton in the Australian Football League.
Football career
Christou played for the Carlton Football Club and along with Anthony Koutoufides was a popular figure a ...
, Australian footballer
* 1972 –
Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov
Yuri Alekseyevich Drozdov (russian: Юрий Алексеевич Дроздов; born 16 January 1972) is a Russian association football coach and a former player who spent most of his playing career at FC Lokomotiv Moscow. He is the manager of ...
, Russian footballer and manager
* 1972 –
Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer and manager
* 1972 –
Joe Horn
Joseph Horn (born January 16, 1972) is a former American football wide receiver and current assistant coach at Northeast Mississippi Community College. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and also ...
, American football player and coach
*
1974 –
Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is a British model. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fas ...
, English model and fashion designer
*
1976 –
Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver
* 1976 –
Martina Moravcová, Slovak swimmer
*
1977 –
Jeff Foster, American basketball player
*
1978 –
Alfredo Amézaga
Alfredo Amézaga Delgado (; ; born January 16, 1978) is a Mexican former professional baseball player and was a coach for the AA Mississippi Braves. In his career, he played 265 games in the outfield (most of them in center field), 115 games at sh ...
, Mexican baseball player
*
1979 –
Aaliyah, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
* 1979 –
Brenden Morrow
Brenden Blair Morrow (born January 16, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. Morrow was drafted in the first round, 25th overall, by the Dallas Stars at the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, the organization he would play with for 1 ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1979 –
Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1980 –
Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, and composer
* 1980 –
Albert Pujols, Dominican-American baseball player
*
1981 –
Jamie Lundmark, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1981 –
Paul Rofe, Australian cricketer
* 1981 –
Bobby Zamora, English footballer
*
1982 –
Preston
Preston is a place name, surname and given name that may refer to:
Places
England
*Preston, Lancashire, an urban settlement
**The City of Preston, Lancashire, a borough and non-metropolitan district which contains the settlement
**County Boro ...
, English singer-songwriter
* 1982 –
Tuncay, Turkish footballer
*
1983 –
Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
* 1983 –
Andriy Rusol
Andriy Anatoliyovych Rusol ( uk, Андрій Анатолійович Русол; born 16 January 1983) is a Ukrainian retired footballer who formerly played as a defender for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and the Ukrainian national team.
Club car ...
, Ukrainian footballer
*
1984 –
Stephan Lichtsteiner
Stephan Lichtsteiner (; born 16 January 1984) is a Swiss former professional footballer. An attacking right-back or wing-back, he was known for his energetic runs down the right wing, as well as his stamina and athleticism, which earned him the ...
, Swiss footballer
* 1984 –
Miroslav Radović
Miroslav Radović (; born 16 January 1984) is a Serbian former footballer who played as a winger.
Radović started his career with Partizan, before joining Polish club Legia Warsaw in the summer of 2006. He acquired Polish citizenship in Janua ...
, Serbian footballer
*
1985 –
Jayde Herrick, Australian cricketer
* 1985 –
Gintaras Januševičius
Gintaras Januševičius (born 16 January 1985) is a Lithuanian pianist, music educator, event producer, radio presenter, and philanthropist. He is renowned for narrative recitals and original interpretations; particularly that of Rachmaninoff, C ...
, Russian-Lithuanian pianist
* 1985 – Twins
Jonathan
Jonathan may refer to:
*Jonathan (name), a masculine given name
Media
* ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer
* ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski
* ''Jonathan'' (2018 ...
and
Simon Richter, Danish-Gambian footballers
* 1985 –
Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
* 1985 –
Joe Flacco
Joseph Vincent Flacco (born January 16, 1985) is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Delaware after transferring from Pittsburgh and was drafted by the Baltim ...
, American football player
*
1986 –
Johannes Rahn
Johannes Rahn (born 16 January 1986 in Hachenburg) is a German footballer who plays for SV Eintracht Windhagen.
Rahn made his professional debut for TuS Koblenz during the first round of fixtures of the 2006–07 2. Bundesliga season away to MSV ...
, German footballer
* 1986 –
Mark Trumbo
Mark Trumbo (born January 16, 1986) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2010 through 2013, for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2 ...
, American baseball player
* 1986 –
Reto Ziegler, Swiss footballer
*
1987 –
Jake Epstein, Canadian actor
* 1987 –
Charlotte Henshaw
Charlotte Sarah Henshaw (born 16 January 1987) is a British Paralympic full-time athlete across multiple disciplines. Originally a swimmer, she changed to canoeing from 2017, becoming the reigning World champion in the KL2 (three-time) and VL3 ...
, English swimmer
*
1988 –
Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
* 1988 –
Jorge Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer
*
1991 –
Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1993 –
Hannes Anier, Estonian footballer
* 1993 –
Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
*
1995 –
Mikaela Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer
*
1996 –
Kim Jennie
Jennie Kim (; born January 16, 1996), known mononymously as Jennie, is a South Korean singer and rapper. Born and raised in South Korea, Jennie studied in New Zealand for five years before returning to South Korea in 2010. She debuted as a me ...
, Korean singer
*
1997 –
Brendan Donovan, American baseball player
*
2003 –
Adriana Hernández
Adriana Hernández (born 16 January 2003) is a Mexican rhythmic gymnast.
Hernández competed at the 2019 Pan American Games
The 2019 Pan American Games ( es, Juegos Panamericanos de 2019, links=no), officially the XVIII Pan American Games and ...
, Mexican rhythmic gymnast
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
654
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Year 654 ( DCLIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 654 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar er ...
–
Gao Jifu, Chinese politician and chancellor (b. 596)
*
957
Year 957 ( CMLVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* September 6 – Liudolf, the eldest son of King Otto I, dies of a violent fever nea ...
–
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i (871–957) was the last important representative of the bureaucratic al-Madhara'i dynasty of fiscal officials. He served as director of finances of Egypt and Syria under the Tulunid dynasty and the Abbasid Cal ...
, Tulunid vizier (b. 871)
*
970 –
Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch (b. 956)
*
1263
Year 1263 ( MCCLXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Summer – Emperor Michael VIII (Palaiologos) sends a Byzantine expeditio ...
–
Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism
*
1289 –
Buqa, Mongol minister
*
1327 –
Nikephoros Choumnos
Nikephoros Choumnos ( el, , 1250/55 – 1327) was a Byzantine scholar and official of the early Palaiologan period, one of the most important figures in the flowering of arts and letters of the so-called " Palaiologan Renaissance". He is nota ...
, Byzantine monk, scholar, and politician (b. 1250)
*
1354 –
Joanna of Châtillon
Joanna of Châtillon or ''Joan'', french: Jeanne; (c. 1285 – 16 January 1354) was the wife of Walter V of Brienne (1305). She was Duchess of Athens by marriage (1308–1311). She was the daughter of Gaucher V de Châtillon, Constable of Fra ...
, duchess of Athens (b. c.1285)
*
1373
Year 1373 ( MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* March 24 – The Treaty of Santarém is signed between Ferdinand I of Portu ...
–
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)
*
1391
Year 1391 ( MCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* June 6 – Massacre of 1391: Anti-Jewish pogroms erupt in Seville, Spain. Many thousand ...
–
Muhammed V of Granada
Abu Abdallah Muhammad V () (4 January 1339 – 16 January 1391), known by the regnal name al-Ghani bi'llah ( ar, الغني بالله, al-Ghanī bi-ʾllāh, He who is contented with God), was the eighth Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada ...
, Nasrid emir (b. 1338)
*
1400 –
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician,
Lord Great Chamberlain
The Lord Great Chamberlain of England is the sixth of the Great Officers of State (United Kingdom), Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord Privy Seal, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and above the Lord High Constable of England, Lord Hi ...
(b. 1352)
*
1443
Year 1443 ( MCDXLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* July 22 – Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl (Old Zürich War): The forces of the ...
–
Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (b. 1370)
*
1545
Year 1545 ( MDXLV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* February 22 – A firman of the Ottoman Empire is issued for the dethronement of Radu ...
–
George Spalatin, German priest and reformer (b. 1484)
*
1547 –
Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
*
1554
__NOTOC__
Year 1554 ( MDLIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 5 – A great fire breaks out in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
*January 11 ...
–
Christiern Pedersen, Danish publisher and scholar (b. 1480)
*
1585
Events
January–June
* January – The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar.
* February – The Spanish seize Brussels.
* April 24 – Pope Sixtus V succeeds Pope Gregory XIII, as the 227th pope.
* May 19 – S ...
–
Edward Clinton, first Earl of Lincoln, English admiral and politician (b. 1512)
*
1595 –
Murad III
Murad III ( ota, مراد ثالث, Murād-i sālis; tr, III. Murad; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Saf ...
, Ottoman sultan (b. 1546)
1601–1900
*
1659
Events
January–March
* January 14 – In the Battle of the Lines of Elvas, fought near the small city of Elvas in Portugal during the Portuguese Restoration War, the Spanish Army under the command of Luis Méndez de Haro suff ...
–
Charles Annibal Fabrot
Charles Annibal Fabrot (15 September 1580 – 16 January 1659) was a French jurisconsult.
Biography
He was born in Aix-en-Provence. At an early age he made great progress in the ancient languages and in the civil and the Canon law, and in 1602 h ...
, French lawyer (b. 1580)
*
1710
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Saturday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 1 – In Prussia, Cölln is merged with Alt-Berlin b ...
–
Higashiyama, Japanese emperor (b. 1675)
*
1711
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January – Cary's Rebellion: The Lords Proprietor appoint Edward ...
–
Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)
*
1747
Events
January–March
* January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
* February 11 – King George's War: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicolas Antoine II Coul ...
–
Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet and playwright (b. 1680)
*
1748
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Ahmad Shah Durrani captures Lahore.
* January 27 – A fire at the prison and barracks at Kinsale, in Ireland, kills 54 of the prisoners of war housed there. An estimated 500 prison ...
–
Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684)
*
1750 –
Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667)
*
1752 –
Francis Blomefield, English historian and author (b. 1705)
*
1794 –
Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (b. 1737)
*
1809 –
John Moore, Scottish general and politician (b. 1761)
*
1817
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island.
* January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the ...
–
Alexander J. Dallas, Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, sixth
United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759)
*
1834 –
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769)
*
1856 –
Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)
*
1864 –
Anton Schindler, Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795)
*
1865 –
Edmond François Valentin About
Edmond François Valentin About (14 February 182816 January 1885) was a French novelist, publicist and journalist.
Biography
About was born at Dieuze, in the Moselle '' département'' in the Lorraine region of France. In 1848 he entered the ...
, French journalist and author (b. 1828)
*
1879
Events January–March
* January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War.
* January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
* Janu ...
–
Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827)
*
1886
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
–
Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic (b. 1834)
*
1891
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany.
** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence.
**Germany takes formal possession of its new Africa ...
–
Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (b. 1836)
*
1898 –
Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802)
1901–present
*
1901 –
Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825)
* 1901 –
Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter and academic (b. 1827)
* 1901 –
Hiram Rhodes Revels, American soldier, minister, and politician (b. 1822)
* 1901 –
Mahadev Govind Ranade
Mahadev Govind Ranade (18 January 1842 – 16 January 1901), popularly referred to as Justice Ranade, was an Indian scholar, social reformer, judge and author. He was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress party and owned ...
, Indian scholar, social reformer, judge and author (b. 1842)
*
1906 –
Marshall Field, American businessman and philanthropist, founded
Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
*
1917 –
George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
*
1919 –
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, fifth
President of Brazil (b. 1848)
*
1933 –
Bekir Sami Kunduh
Bekir Sami Bey (known as Bekir Sami Kunduh in modern Turkish sources) ( os, Къуындыхаты Муссæйы фырт Бечыр; 1867 – 16 January 1933) was a Turkish politician of Ossetian origin. He served as the first Minister of Forei ...
, Turkish politician (b. 1867)
*
1936 –
Albert Fish, American serial killer, rapist and cannibal (b. 1870)
*
1938 –
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (b. 1876)
*
1942 –
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 185016 January 1942), was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He served as Gov ...
(b. 1850)
* 1942 –
Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (b. 1885)
* 1942 –
Carole Lombard, American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
* 1942 –
Ernst Scheller
Ernst Scheller (18 July 1899 in Lintel (East Frisia) – 16 January 1942 in Simferopol) was a German Nazi Hauptmann and politician. Life and work
Scheller was appointed mayor of Marburg in 27.4.1934 by Adolf Hitler and fought on the Eastern Fron ...
, German lawyer and politician,
Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899)
*
1957 –
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English general and politician, 16th
Governor General of Canada (b. 1874)
* 1957 –
Arturo Toscanini, Italian cellist and conductor (b. 1867)
*
1959 –
Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and author (b. 1887)
*
1961 –
Max Schöne
Max Schöne (January 20, 1880 – January 16, 1961) was a German swimmer who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million i ...
, German swimmer (b. 1880)
*
1962 –
Frank Hurley, Australian photographer, director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1885)
* 1962 –
Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect, designed the
Monument to the Unknown Hero (b. 1883)
*
1967 –
Robert J. Van de Graaff
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (December 20, 1901 – January 16, 1967) was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high-voltage Van de Graaff generators. The bulk of his career was spent in the Massachusetts Institute of T ...
, American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
*
1968 –
Bob Jones Sr., American evangelist, founded
Bob Jones University (b. 1883)
* 1968 –
Panagiotis Poulitsas
Panagiotis Poulitsas (Greek: Παναγιώτης Πουλίτσας) was a Greek judge and archeologist who briefly served as interim Prime Minister of Greece from 4 April 1946 to 18 April 1946. He was born in Geraki, Laconia on 9 September 18 ...
, Greek archaeologist and judge (b. 1881)
*
1969 –
Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
*
1971 –
Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
*
1972 –
Teller Ammons, American soldier and politician, 28th
Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
* 1972 –
Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created ''
Alvin and the Chipmunks'' (b. 1919)
*
1973 –
Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer (b. 1907)
*
1975 –
Israel Abramofsky
Israel Abramofsky (September 10, 1888 – January 16, 1975) was a Russian Empire born artist, who trained in Paris and settled in the United States, known for his landscape works and works depicting Jewish life in Eastern Europe.
Biography
Abra ...
, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)
*
1978 –
A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890)
*
1981 –
Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
*
1983 –
Virginia Mauret, American musician and dancer
*
1986 –
Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
*
1987 –
Bertram Wainer
Bertram Barney Wainer (30 December 192816 January 1987) was an Australian doctor who successfully campaigned for legal access to abortion for women in the state of Victoria. In the process he received multiple death threats from Victoria Police ...
, Australian physician and activist (b. 1928)
*
1988 –
Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician, war criminal, and
Porajmos perpetrator, first
Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia
The Croatian State Government ( hr, Hrvatska državna vlada) was the government of the Independent State of Croatia from 16 April 1941 until 8 May 1945.
On 11 April 1941, after the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia, Slavko Kvatern ...
(b. 1899)
*
1990 –
Lady Eve Balfour, British farmer, educator, and founding figure in the organic movement (b. 1898)
*
1995 –
Eric Mottram, English poet and critic (b. 1924)
*
1996 –
Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (b. 1903)
* 1996 –
Kaye Webb, English journalist and publisher (b. 1914)
*
1999 –
Jim McClelland
James Robert McClelland (3 June 1915 – 16 January 1999) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a Senator for New South Wales from 1971 to 1978. He briefly held mini ...
, Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th
Minister for Industry and Science (b. 1915)
*
2000 –
Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914)
*
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...
–
Auberon Waugh, English author and journalist (b. 1939)
*
2002 –
Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
*
2003 –
Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
*
2004 –
Kalevi Sorsa
Taisto Kalevi Sorsa (21 December 1930 – 16 January 2004) was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland three times: 1972–1975, 1977–1979 and 1982–1987. At the time of his death he still held the record for most d ...
, Finnish politician 34th
Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
*
2005 –
Marjorie Williams, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
*
2006 –
Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician (b. 1923)
*
2009 –
Joe Erskine, American boxer and runner (b. 1930)
* 2009 –
John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer (21 April 1923 – 16 January 2009) was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. He is best known for novels about a barrister named Horace Rumpole.
Early life
Mortimer was born in Hampstead, London, ...
, English lawyer and author (b. 1923)
* 2009 –
Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917)
*
2010 –
Glen Bell, American businessman, founded
Taco Bell (b. 1923)
* 2010 –
Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator (b. 1926)
*
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 ...
–
Joe Bygraves, Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931)
* 2012 –
Jimmy Castor, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1940)
* 2012 –
Sigursteinn Gíslason
Sigursteinn Davíð Gíslason (25 June 1968 – 16 January 2012) was an Icelandic football player and manager. A left-sided defender who could also play in midfield, he spent the majority of his playing career in his home country; he started his ...
, Icelandic footballer and manager (b. 1968)
* 2012 –
Lorna Kesterson
Lorna J. Kesterson (December 30, 1925 – January 16, 2012) was an American journalist, newspaper editor and politician. She served as the first female mayor of the city of Henderson, Nevada, for two consecutive four-year terms from 1985 to 1993 ...
, American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
* 2012 –
Gustav Leonhardt
Gustav Maria Leonhardt (30 May 1928 – 16 January 2012) was a Dutch keyboardist, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. He was a leading figure in the historically informed performance movement to perform music on period instruments.
Leo ...
, Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1928)
*
2013 –
Wayne D. Anderson
Wayne Delbert Anderson (December 10, 1930 – January 16, 2013) was an American college basketball coach, the head coach for eight seasons at the University of Idaho, his alma mater. He was also the head baseball coach at Idaho for nine seasons, ...
, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
* 2013 –
André Cassagnes
André Cassagnes (September 23, 1926 – January 16, 2013) was a French inventor, electrical technician, toymaker, and kite designer. Cassagnes is best known as the inventor of the Etch A Sketch, a popular mechanical drawing toy manufactured sin ...
, French technician and toy maker, created the
Etch A Sketch (b. 1926)
* 2013 –
Gussie Moran, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
* 2013 –
Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created
Dear Abby (b. 1918)
* 2013 –
Glen P. Robinson
Glen Parmelee Robinson, Jr. (September 10, 1923 – January 16, 2013), called the "father of high-tech industry in Georgia", was an American businessman and founder of Scientific Atlanta, now a subsidiary of Cisco Systems. Robinson was the fi ...
, American businessman, founded
Scientific Atlanta (b. 1923)
*
2014 –
Gary Arlington, American author and illustrator (b. 1938)
* 2014 –
Ruth Duccini, American actress (b. 1918)
* 2014 –
Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (b. 1931)
* 2014 –
Hiroo Onoda
was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and was a Japanese holdout who did not surrender at the war's end in August 1945. After the war ended, Onoda spent 29 years hiding in the Philippines until his for ...
, Japanese lieutenant (b. 1922)
*
2015 –
Miriam Akavia
Miriam Akavia also Matylda Weinfeld (1927 – 16 January 2015) was a Polish-born Israeli writer and translator, a Holocaust survivor, and the president of the Platform for Jewish-Polish Dialogue.
Life
She was born in 1927 in Krakow to the ...
, Polish-Israeli author and translator (b. 1927)
* 2015 –
Yao Beina, Chinese singer (b. 1981)
*
2016 –
Joannis Avramidis, Greek sculptor (b. 1922)
* 2016 –
Ted Marchibroda, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
*
2017 –
Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934)
*
2018 –
Ed Doolan, British radio presenter (b. 1941)
* 2018 –
Oliver Ivanović, Kosovo Serb politician (b. 1953)
*
2019 –
John C. Bogle
John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (May 8, 1929 – January 16, 2019) was an American investor, business magnate, and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive of The Vanguard Group, and is credited with creating the index fund. An avid inve ...
, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (b. 1929)
* 2019 –
Lorna Doom, American musician (b. 1958)
* 2019 –
Chris Wilson, Australian musician (b. 1956)
*
2020 –
Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor (b. 1924)
*
2021 –
Pedro Trebbau, German-born Venezuelan zoologist (b.
1929)
* 2021 –
Chris Cramer
Christopher Ranville Cramer (3 January 1948 – 16 January 2021) was a British news journalist and executive. During his career, he was head of news gathering for the BBC, an executive at CNN International, and a consultant for ''The Wall Stre ...
, British journalist (b.1948)
* 2021 –
Phil Spector, American record producer, songwriter (b. 1939)
*
2022 –
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Former Malian President (b. 1945)
Holidays and observances
*Christian
feast day
The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context does ...
:
**
Pope Benjamin (
Coptic)
**
Berard of Carbio
Berard of Carbio, O.F.M., was a thirteenth-century Franciscan friar who was executed in Morocco for attempting to promote Christianity. He and his companions, Peter, Otho, Accursius, and Adjutus, are venerated as saints and considered the Francis ...
**
Blaise (
Armenian Apostolic)
**
Fursey
**
Joseph Vaz
**
Honoratus of Arles
**
Pope Marcellus I
**
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (
Coptic Church)
**
Titian of Oderzo
Saint Titian of Oderzo ( it, San Tiziano di Oderzo) was a 7th-century bishop of Opitergium (Oderzo), in the Province of Treviso.
Titian was born to a noble family of Eraclea (Grisolera) in the Veneto region, and served as a deacon and priest to Fl ...
**Eve of
Saint Anthony observed with ritual bonfires in
San Bartolomé de Pinares
San Bartolomé de Pinares is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain, with a population of 627 inhabitants (2011 census, INE). Only 20 km from Ávila, it has long been important for its livestock.
Named ...
**
January 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
January 15 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 17
All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 29 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For January 16th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Sai ...
*
National Religious Freedom Day (United States)
*
Teacher's Day (Myanmar)
Teachers' Day is a special day for the appreciation of teachers, and may include celebrations to honor them for their special contributions in a particular field area, or the community tone in education. This is the primary reason why countries ce ...
*
Teachers' Day (Thailand)
Public holidays in Thailand are regulated by the government, and most are observed by both the public and private sectors. There are usually nineteen public holidays in a year, but more may be declared by the cabinet. Other observances, both offic ...
References
External links
BBC: On This Day*
Historical Events on January 16
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