Events

Pre-1600

* 49 BC –

Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, an ...

crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of

civil war A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government polici ...

. * 9 – The Western

Han dynasty The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by th ...

ends when

Wang Mang Wang Mang () (c. 45 – 6 October 23 CE), courtesy name Jujun (), was the founder and the only emperor of the short-lived Chinese Xin dynasty. He was originally an official and consort kin of the Han dynasty and later seized the th ...

claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the

Xin dynasty The Xin dynasty (; ), also known as Xin Mang () in Chinese historiography, was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty which lasted from 9 to 23 AD, established by the Han dynasty consort kin Wang Mang, who usurped the throne of the Emperor Pin ...

. * 69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor. * 236 – Pope Fabian succeeds

Anterus Pope Anterus (, ,) was the bishop of Rome from 21 November 235 until his death on 3 January 236.Shahan, Thomas (1907). "Pope St. Anterus" in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Life Anterus was the son of Ro ...

to become the twentieth pope of

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus ( legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

. * 1072 –

Robert Guiscard Robert Guiscard (; Modern ; – 17 July 1085) was a Norman adventurer remembered for the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily. Robert was born into the Hauteville family in Normandy, went on to become count and then duke of Apulia and Calab ...

conquers

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for its ...

in Sicily for the Normans. * 1430 – Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, establishes the Order of the Golden Fleece, the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive

order of chivalry An order of chivalry, order of knighthood, chivalric order, or equestrian order is an order of knights, typically founded during or inspired by the original Catholic military orders of the Crusades ( 1099–1291) and paired with medieval concept ...

in the world. * 1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University ...

at the Battle of Vaslui.

1601–1900

* 1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the

Tower of London The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is sep ...

. * 1776 – American Revolution:

Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In th ...

publishes his pamphlet ''

Common Sense ''Common Sense'' is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arg ...

''. * 1791 – The

Siege of Dunlap's Station The siege of Dunlap's Station was a battle that took place on January 10–11, 1791, during the Northwest Indian War between the Northwestern Confederacy of American Indians and European-American settlers in what became the southwestern region ...

begins near

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line w ...

during the

Northwest Indian War The Northwest Indian War (1786–1795), also known by other names, was an armed conflict for control of the Northwest Territory fought between the United States and a united group of Native American nations known today as the Northwestern ...

. * 1812 – The first steamboat on the

Ohio River The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of ...

or the

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem), second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest Drainage system (geomorphology), drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson B ...

arrives in

New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

, 82 days after departing from

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

. * 1861 –

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and t ...

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and ...

becomes the third state to secede from the Union. * 1863 – The

Metropolitan Railway The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex su ...

, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between

Paddington Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Padd ...

and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the

London Underground The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England. The ...

. *

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 Br ...

– John D. Rockefeller incorporates

Standard Oil Standard Oil Company, Inc., was an American oil production, transportation, refining, and marketing company that operated from 1870 to 1911. At its height, Standard Oil was the largest petroleum company in the world, and its success made its co- ...

1901–present

* 1901 – The first great

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

oil gusher is discovered at

Spindletop Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas, in the United States. The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of the Jurassic geologic period. On January 10, 1901, a well at Spindle ...

in Beaumont, Texas. * 1901 – New York: Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways. * 1916 –

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

: Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive, leading to the defeat of the

Third Army. * 1917 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the

Ross Sea party The Ross Sea party was a component of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Its task was to lay a series of supply depots across the Great Ice Barrier from the Ross Sea to the Beardmore Glacier, along the pola ...

were rescued after being stranded for several months. *

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...

– The

Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles (french: Traité de Versailles; german: Versailler Vertrag, ) was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1 ...

takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States. * 1920 – League of Nations Covenant automatically enters into force after the

is ratified by

Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwee ...

. * 1927 –

Fritz Lang Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.Obituary '' Variety'', August 4, 1976, p. ...

's futuristic film ''

Metropolis A metropolis () is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. A big c ...

'' is released in Germany. * 1941 –

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 ...

: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. * 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the

Methodist Central Hall, Westminster The Methodist Central Hall (also known as Central Hall Westminster) is a multi-purpose venue in the City of Westminster, London, serving primarily as a Methodist church and a conference centre. The building, which is a tourist attraction, also ho ...

. Fifty-one nations are represented. * 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts

Project Diana Project Diana, named for the Roman moon goddess Diana, was an experimental project of the US Army Signal Corps in 1946 to bounce radar signals off the Moon and receive the reflected signals. This was the first experiment in radar astronomy ...

, bouncing

radio wave Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, typically with frequencies of 300 gigahertz ( GHz) and below. At 300 GHz, the corresponding wavelength is 1 mm (sho ...

s off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals. *

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

–

BOAC Flight 781 BOAC Flight 781 was a scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) passenger flight from Singapore to London. On 10 January 1954, a de Havilland Comet passenger jet operating the flight suffered an explosive decompression at altitude an ...

, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people. * 1966 – Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. * 1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mo ...

as president after spending over nine months in prison in

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

. *

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – In ...

–

The New England Journal of Medicine ''The New England Journal of Medicine'' (''NEJM'') is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is among the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals as well as the oldest continuously published one. H ...

publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to

opioid Opioids are substances that act on opioid receptors to produce morphine-like effects. Medically they are primarily used for pain relief, including anesthesia. Other medical uses include suppression of diarrhea, replacement therapy for opioid use ...

s. * 1981 –

Salvadoran Civil War The Salvadoran Civil War ( es, guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or ...

: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments * 1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and

Holy See The Holy See ( lat, Sancta Sedes, ; it, Santa Sede ), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the Pope in his role as the bishop of Rome. It includes the apostolic episcopal see of the Diocese of R ...

(

Vatican City Vatican City (), officially the Vatican City State ( it, Stato della Città del Vaticano; la, Status Civitatis Vaticanae),—' * german: Vatikanstadt, cf. '—' (in Austria: ') * pl, Miasto Watykańskie, cf. '—' * pt, Cidade do Vati ...

) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the

United States Congress The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is Bicameralism, bicameral, composed of a lower body, the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives, and an upper body, ...

's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy. * 1985 – Sandinista

Daniel Ortega José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; born 11 November 1945) is a Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician serving as President of Nicaragua since 2007. Previously he was leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as coordinator of the Junta of Na ...

becomes president of

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the coun ...

and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the

Contras The Contras were the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which came to power in 1979 foll ...

in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government. *

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 humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...

–

Time Warner Warner Media, LLC ( traded as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States. It was originally established in 1972 by ...

is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. * 2000 –

Crossair Flight 498 Crossair Flight 498 was a scheduled commuter flight from Zurich, Switzerland, to Dresden, Germany. On 10 January 2000, the Saab 340B operating the flight crashed two minutes after takeoff in the Swiss municipality of Niederhasli on 10 Januar ...

, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in

Niederhasli Niederhasli is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. History Niederhasli is first mentioned in 931 as ''Hasila''. On 10 January 2000, Crossair Flight 498 crashed in Niederhasli after taking off fro ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, after taking off from

Zurich Airport Zürich Airport (), french: Aéroport de Zurich, it, Aeroporto di Zurigo, rm, Eroport da Turitg is the largest international airport of Switzerland and the principal hub of Swiss International Air Lines. It serves Zürich, Switzerland's l ...

, killing 13 people. *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple Inc., Apple's first iPhone (1st generation), iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakis ...

– A

general strike A general strike refers to a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal. They are organised by large coa ...

begins in

Guinea Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...

in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign. * 2012 – A

bombing A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechanica ...

at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others. *

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fa ...

– More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the

Quetta Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه‎) is the tenth most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in south-west of the country close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is the capital of th ...

area of

. *

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...

– A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...

on the

National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people. * 2019 – A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.

Births

Pre-1600

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– Husayn ibn Ali the third Shia Imam (d. 680) * 1480 – Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1530) * 1538 – Louis of Nassau (d. 1574)

1601–1900

* 1607 –

Isaac Jogues Isaac Jogues, S.J. (10 January 1607 – 18 October 1646) was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked among the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the first European to name Lake George, c ...

, French priest and missionary (d. 1646) * 1644 –

Louis François, duc de Boufflers Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis ( ...

, French general (d. 1711) * 1654 – Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (d. 1712) * 1702 – Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762) * 1715 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775) *

1750 Various sources, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, use the year 1750 as a baseline year for the end of the pre-industrial era. Events January–March * January 13 – The Treaty of Madrid between Spain a ...

– Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1823) * 1760 – Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, German composer and conductor (d. 1802) *

1769 Events January–March * February 2 – Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.Denis De Lucca, ''Jesuits and Fortifications: The Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture ...

– Michel Ney, French general (d. 1815) * 1776 – George Birkbeck, English physician and academic, founded

Birkbeck, University of London , mottoeng = Advice comes over nightTranslation used by Birkbeck. , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £4.3 m (2014) , budget = £10 ...

(d. 1841) * 1780 – Martin Lichtenstein, German physician and explorer (d. 1857) * 1802 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (d. 1860) * 1810 –

Ferdinand Barbedienne Ferdinand Barbedienne (6 August 1810 – 21 March 1892) was a French metalworker and manufacturer, who was well known as a bronze founder. Career The son of a small farmer from Calvados, he started his career as a dealer in wallpaper in Par ...

, French engineer (d. 1892) * 1810 –

Jeremiah S. Black Jeremiah Sullivan Black (January 10, 1810 – August 19, 1883) was an American statesman and lawyer. He served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1851–1857) and as the Court's Chief Justice (1851–1854). He also served in the ...

, American jurist and politician, 23rd

United States Secretary of State The United States secretary of state is a member of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States and the head of the U.S. Department of State. The office holder is one of the highest ranking members of the president's Ca ...

(d. 1883) * 1810 – William Haines, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Victoria (d. 1866) * 1823 – Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Azerbaijani national industrial magnate and philanthropist (d. 1924) * 1827 –

Amanda Cajander Mathilda Fredrika "Amanda" Cajander, née Nygren (10 January 1827 – 23 February 1871), was a Finnish deaconess and a pioneer within medical care in Finland. Life Cajander married the doctor Anders Cajander in 1848 and had two children. In ...

, Finnish medical reformer (d. 1871) * 1828 –

Herman Koeckemann Herman Koeckemann, formally Bernard Hermann Koeckemann, SS.CC., (January 10, 1828 – February 22, 1892), served as the second vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands — now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hono ...

, German bishop and missionary (d. 1892) * 1829 –

Epameinondas Deligeorgis Epameinondas Deligiorgis ( el, Επαμεινώνδας Δεληγεώργης, ; 10 January 1829 – 14 May 1879) was a Greek lawyer, newspaper reporter and politician who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Greece. He was born in Tripoli, ...

, Greek lawyer, journalist and politician,

Prime Minister of Greece The prime minister of the Hellenic Republic ( el, Πρωθυπουργός της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας, Prothypourgós tis Ellinikís Dimokratías), colloquially referred to as the prime minister of Greece ( el, Πρωθυ� ...

(d. 1879) * 1834 – John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Italian-English historian and politician (d. 1902) * 1840 –

Louis-Nazaire Bégin Louis-Nazaire Bégin (January 10, 1840 – July 18, 1925) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. Begin held a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and was later appointed Archbishop of Quebec by ...

, Canadian cardinal (d. 1925) * 1842 –

Luigi Pigorini Luigi Pigorini (10 January 1842 – 1 April 1925) was an Italian palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer. Biography Pigorini was born at Fontanellato, near Parma. At the age of sixteen years, in 1858, he became an alumnus of the Mu ...

, Italian paleontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer (d. 1925) *

1843 Events January–March * January ** Serial publication of Charles Dickens's novel ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' begins in London; in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States. ** Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart ...

– Frank James, American soldier and criminal (d. 1915) * 1848 – Reinhold Sadler, American merchant and politician, 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906) * 1849 –

Robert Crosbie Robert Crosbie (10 January 1849 – 25 June 1919) was a theosophist and founder of the United Lodge of Theosophists (ULT). Crosbie was born in Montreal, Lower Canada. In 1902, he moved to Lomaland, Point Loma, California where he helped i ...

, Canadian theosophist, founded the

United Lodge of Theosophists The United Lodge of Theosophists or ULT is an informal and wholly voluntary association of ''students'' of Theosophy. It was founded in 1909, mainly through the efforts of Robert Crosbie. The first ''parent lodge'' of the ULT was started in Los A ...

(d. 1919) *

1850 Events January–June * April ** Pope Pius IX returns from exile to Rome. ** Stephen Foster's parlor ballad " Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway" is published in the United States. * April 4 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city ...

– John Wellborn Root, American architect, designed the Rookery Building and

Monadnock Building The Monadnock Building (historically the Monadnock Block; pronounced ) is a 16-story skyscraper located at 53 West Jackson Boulevard in the south Loop area of Chicago. The north half of the building was designed by the firm of Burnham & Roo ...

(d. 1891) * 1854 –

Ramón Corral Ramón Corral Verdugo (January 10, 1854 – November 10, 1912) was the Vice President of Mexico under Porfirio Díaz from 1904 until their resignations in May 1911. Early life Corral was born Ramón Corral Verdugo on Hacienda Las Mercedes ( ...

, Mexican general and politician, 6th

Vice President of Mexico The office of the vice president of Mexico was first created by the Constitution of 1824, then it was abolished in 1836 by the Seven Constitutional Laws, then briefly restored in 1846 following the restoration of the Constitution of 1824 and las ...

(d. 1912) * 1858 – Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929) * 1859 –

Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (; January 14, 1859 – October 13, 1909), widely known as Francisco Ferrer (), was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around ...

, Spanish philosopher and academic (d. 1909) *

1860 Events January–March * January 2 – The discovery of a hypothetical planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. * January 10 – The Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts ...

– Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet and author (d. 1943) *

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 ...

–

Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (Russian: Пётр Никола́евич Рома́нов; 22 January Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._10_January.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New ...

(d. 1931) * 1873 – Algernon Maudslay, English sailor (d. 1948) * 1873 – Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player (d. 1935) * 1873 – George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler (d. 1958) *

1875 Events January–March * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of th ...

–

Issai Schur Issai Schur (10 January 1875 – 10 January 1941) was a Russian mathematician who worked in Germany for most of his life. He studied at the University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in 1901, became lecturer in 1903 and, after a stay at ...

, German mathematician and academic (d. 1941) *

1877 Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . * January 8 – Great ...

– Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1948) * 1878 – John McLean, American hurdler, football player, and coach (d. 1955) * 1880 –

Manuel Azaña Manuel Azaña Díaz (; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Re ...

, Spanish jurist and politician, 7th

President of Spain President of the Republic ( es, Presidente de la República) was the title of the head of state during the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1939). The office was based on the model of the Weimar Republic, then still in power in Germany, and a com ...

(d. 1940) *

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 ...

– Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1966) * 1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1945) * 1887 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (d. 1962) * 1890 – Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (d. 1984) * 1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician and academic (d. 1970) * 1891 – Ann Shoemaker, American actress (d. 1978) * 1892 – Dumas Malone, American historian and author (d. 1986) * 1892 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1974) * 1893 – Albert Jacka, Australian captain,

Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previousl ...

recipient (d. 1932) * 1894 – Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet and author (d. 1972) * 1895 –

Percy Cerutty Percy Wells Cerutty (10 January 189514 August 1975) was an Australian athletics coach in the 1950s and 1960s. The eccentric Australian pioneered a home-spun system of "Stotan" training, embracing a holistic regime of natural diets, hard trai ...

, Australian athletics coach (d. 1975) * 1896 – Yong Mun Sen, Malaysian watercolour painter (d. 1962) * 1896 – Dinkar G. Kelkar, Indian art collector (d. 1990) * 1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979) * 1900 – Violette Cordery, English racing driver (d. 1983)

1901–present

* 1903 –

Barbara Hepworth Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a lea ...

, English sculptor (d. 1975) * 1903 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997) * 1904 –

Ray Bolger Raymond Wallace Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer, vaudevillian and stage performer (particularly musical theatre) who started in the silent-film era. Bolger was a major Broadway performer in ...

, American actor and dancer (d. 1987) * 1907 – Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor (d. 2003) * 1908 – Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director (d. 1992) * 1910 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976) *

1911 A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * ...

– Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (d. 2013) * 1911 – Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist (d. 2004) * 1913 – Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991) * 1913 – Mehmet Shehu, Albanian soldier and politician, 22nd

Prime Minister of Albania The Prime Minister of Albania ( sq, Kryeministri i Shqipërisë), officially styled Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania ( sq, Kryeministri i Republikës së Shqipërisë), is the head of government of the Republic of Albania and the mo ...

(d. 1981) * 1914 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 23rd Premier of the Republic of China (d. 2000) * 1915 –

Dean Dixon Charles Dean Dixon (January 10, 1915November 3, 1976) was an American conductor. Career Dixon was born in the upper-Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem in New York City to parents who had earlier migrated from the Caribbean. He studied conducting ...

, American-Swiss conductor (d. 1976) * 1915 – Cynthia Freeman, American author (d. 1988) * 1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist 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 ...

laureate (d. 2004) * 1916 – Eldzier Cortor, American painter (d. 2015) * 1916 – Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) * 1917 – Jerry Wexler, American journalist and producer (d. 2008) *

1918 This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide. Events Below, the events ...

– Les Bennett, English footballer and manager (d. 1999) * 1918 – Arthur Chung, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008) * 1919 –

Terukuni Manzō was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ogachi, Akita. He was the sport's 38th ''yokozuna''. He was promoted to ''yokozuna'' without any top division tournament titles to his name, although he later attained two. Career Born , he later ...

, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (d. 1977) * 1919 – Milton Parker, American businessman, co-founded the Carnegie Deli (d. 2009) *

– Rosella Hightower, American ballerina (d. 2008) * 1920 –

Roberto M. Levingston Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda (January 10, 1920 – June 17, 2015) was an Argentine Army general who was President of Argentina from June 18, 1970 to March 22, 1971, during the Revolución Argentina period in Argentine history... Early life ...

, Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015) *

1921 Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil. ** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' bre ...

– Rodger Ward, American aviator, race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2004) *

1922 Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...

– Billy Liddell, Scottish-English footballer (d. 2001) *

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hold ...

–

Earl Bakken Earl Elmer Bakken (January 10, 1924 – October 21, 2018) was an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist of Dutch and Norwegian American ancestry. He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transi ...

, American inventor (d. 2018) * 1924 – Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (d. 1996) * 1925 –

Billie Sol Estes Billie Sol Estes (January 10, 1925 – May 14, 2013) was an American businessman and financier best known for his involvement in a business fraud scandal that complicated his ties to friend and future U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. Early life Es ...

, American financier and businessman (d. 2013) * 1926 – Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician (d. 2017) * 1927 – Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (d. 2003) * 1927 –

Johnnie Ray John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and bl ...

, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1990) * 1927 –

Otto Stich Otto Stich (10 January 1927 – 13 September 2012) was a Swiss politician. Born in Basel, he was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 7 December 1983 and handed over office on 31 October 1995. He was affiliated to the Social Democra ...

, Swiss lawyer and politician, 140th

President of the Swiss Confederation The president of the Swiss Confederation, also known as the president of the Confederation or colloquially as the president of Switzerland, is the head of Switzerland's seven-member Federal Council, the country's executive branch. Elected by ...

(d. 2012) *

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...

– Philip Levine, American poet and academic (d. 2015) * 1928 – Peter Mathias, English historian and academic (d. 2016) * 1930 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009) * 1931 – Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2004) * 1931 – Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, Grenadian-English academic and politician * 1931 – Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian cleric and politician, 12th Menteri Besar of Kelantan (d. 2015) *

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hir ...

–

Lou Henson Louis Ray Henson (January 10, 1932 – July 25, 2020) was an American college basketball coach. He retired as the all-time leader in victories at the University of Illinois with 423 victories and New Mexico State with 289 victories. Overall, Henso ...

, American

college basketball In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athleti ...

coach (d. 2020) * 1934 –

Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk ( uk, Леонід Макарович Кравчук; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed ...

, Ukrainian politician, 1st

President of Ukraine The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

(d. 2022) *

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...

–

Ronnie Hawkins Ronald Cornett Hawkins (January 10, 1935 – May 29, 2022) was an American singer-songwriter, long based in Canada, whose career spanned more than half a century. His career began in Arkansas, United States, where he was born and raised. He ...

, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2022). * 1935 –

Sherrill Milnes Sherrill Milnes (born January 10, 1935) is an American dramatic baritone most famous for his Verdi roles. From 1965 until 1997 he was associated with the Metropolitan Opera. His voice is a high dramatic baritone, combining good legato with an in ...

, American opera singer and educator * 1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author (d. 2002) * 1936 – Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and astronomer,

laureate *

1938 Events January * January 1 ** The new constitution of Estonia enters into force, which many consider to be the ending of the Era of Silence and the authoritarian regime. ** State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France ...

– Elza Ibrahimova, Azerbaijani composer (d. 2012) * 1938 – Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and mathematician * 1938 – Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician * 1938 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player (d. 2018) *

1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to ...

–

Scott McKenzie Scott McKenzie (born Philip Wallach Blondheim III; January 10, 1939 – August 18, 2012) was an American singer and songwriter who recorded the 1967 hit single and generational anthem "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)". ...

, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012) * 1939 – Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976) * 1940 – K. J. Yesudas, Indian singer and music director * 1940 – Godfrey Hewitt, English geneticist and academic (d. 2013) * 1941 – Tom Clarke, Scottish politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland * 1942 –

Graeme Gahan Graeme Arthur Gahan (10 January 1942 – 23 February 2018) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Used mostly as a half back, Gahan spent eight seasons at Richmond. He moved to Tasm ...

, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2018) * 1943 – Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973) *

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...

–

Jeffrey Catherine Jones Jeffrey Catherine Jones (January 10, 1944 – May 19, 2011) was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through the 2000s. Jones created the cover art for more than 150 books through 1976, as well as venturing into ...

, American comics and fantasy artist (d. 2011) * 1944 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer and actor (d. 2016) * 1945 – John Fahey, New Zealand-Australian lawyer and politician, 38th

Premier of New South Wales The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Government of New South Wales follows the Westminster Parliamentary System, with a Parliament of New South Wales acting as the legislatur ...

(d. 2020) * 1945 –

Rod Stewart Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling ...

, British singer-songwriter * 1945 –

Gunther von Hagens Gunther von Hagens (born Gunther Gerhard Liebchen; 10 January 1945) is a German anatomist who invented the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination. He has organized numerous ''Body Worlds'' public exhibitions a ...

, German anatomist, invented plastination * 1947 –

George Alec Effinger George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio. Writing career Effinger was a part of the Clarion class of 1970 and had three stories in the first Clarion antholog ...

, American author (d. 2002) * 1947 – James Morris, American opera singer * 1947 – Peer Steinbrück, German politician, German Minister of Finance * 1947 –

Tiit Vähi Tiit Vähi (born 10 January 1947) is an Estonian politician who was Prime Minister of Estonia from 1995 to 1997. He was also acting Prime Minister for several months during 1992 under the transitional government. Life and career Born in Kaagj� ...

, Estonian engineer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Estonia * 1948 –

Remu Aaltonen Henry Olavi "Remu" Aaltonen (born 10 January 1948) is a Finnish drummer and singer. He is the lead musician of the band Hurriganes, but has also pursued a solo singing career. Aaltonen was born in Helsinki. He was the oldest child in a family o ...

, Finnish musician * 1948 –

Donald Fagen Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948) is an American musician best known as the co-founder, lead singer, co-songwriter, and keyboardist of the band Steely Dan, formed in the early 1970s with musical partner Walter Becker. In addition to his ...

, American singer-songwriter and musician * 1948 –

Bernard Thévenet Bernard Thévenet (; born 10 January 1948) is a retired professional cyclist. His sporting career began with ACBB Paris. He is twice a winner of the Tour de France and known for ending the reign of five-times Tour champion Eddy Merckx, though bo ...

, French cyclist and sportscaster * 1949 – Kemal Derviş, Turkish economist and politician, Turkish Minister of Economy * 1949 – George Foreman, American boxer, actor, and businessman * 1949 –

Linda Lovelace Linda Lovelace (born Linda Susan Boreman; January 10, 1949 – April 22, 2002) was an American pornographic actress who became famous for her performance in the 1972 hardcore film '' Deep Throat''. Although the film was an enormous success, Bor ...

, American porn actress and activist (d. 2002) *

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugosl ...

–

Pat Benatar Patricia Mae Giraldo ('' née'' Andrzejewski, formerly Benatar; born January 10, 1953), known professionally as Pat Benatar, is an American rock singer and songwriter. In the United States, she has had two multi-platinum albums, five platinum al ...

, American singer-songwriter * 1953 –

Bobby Rahal Robert Woodward Rahal (born January 10, 1953) is an American former auto racing driver and team owner. As a driver he won three championships and 24 races in the CART open-wheel series, including the 1986 Indianapolis 500. He also won the 2004 a ...

, American race car driver *

– Baba Vaziroglu, Azerbaijani writer, poet and translator *

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...

– Shawn Colvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1956 –

Antonio Muñoz Molina Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 10 January 1956) is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He received the 1991 Premio Planeta, the 2013 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for liter ...

, Spanish author * 1959 – Chandra Cheeseborough, American sprinter and coach * 1959 – Chris Van Hollen, American lawyer and politician * 1959 – Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter and producer *

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

– Gurinder Chadha, Kenyan-English director, producer, and screenwriter * 1960 – Brian Cowen, Irish lawyer and politician, 12th Taoiseach of Ireland * 1960 – Benoît Pelletier, Canadian lawyer and politician *1961 – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian-American violinist, author, and educator *1962 – Michael Fortier, Canadian lawyer and politician * 1962 – Kathryn S. McKinley, American computer scientist and academic *1963 – Malcolm Dunford, New Zealand-Australian footballer * 1963 – Kira Ivanova, Russian figure skater (d. 2001) *1964 – Brad Roberts, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist *1967 – Maciej Śliwowski, Polish footballer *1969 – Simone Bagel-Trah, German businessperson *1970 – Alisa Marić, Serbian chess player and politician, Ministry of Youth and Sports (Serbia), Serbian Minister of Youth and Sports * 1972 – Mohammed Benzakour, Moroccan-Dutch journalist, poet, and author *1973 – Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican-American boxer *1974 – Jemaine Clement, New Zealand comedian, actor, and musician * 1974 – Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer and manager * 1974 – Steve Marlet, French footballer and coach * 1974 – Bob Peeters, Belgian footballer and manager * 1974 – Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor *1976 – Ian Poulter, English golfer *1978 – Johan van der Wath, South African cricketer *1979 – Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer *

– Sarah Shahi, American actress * 1981 – Jared Kushner, American real estate investor and political figure *1982 – Julien Brellier, French footballer * 1982 – Tomasz Brzyski, Polish footballer * 1984 – Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan footballer * 1984 – Ariane Friedrich, German high jumper * 1984 – Kalki Koechlin, Indian actress *1986 – Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player *1987 – César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer *1988 – Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan runner *

– Ishiura Shikanosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler * 1990 – Cody Walker (rugby league), Cody Walker, Australian rugby league player *1991 – Chad Townsend, Australian rugby league player *1996 – Matthew Dufty, Australian rugby league player * 1996 – Dylan Edwards, Australian rugby league player *1997 – Patrick Herbert, New Zealand rugby league player * 1997 – Blake Lawrie, Australian rugby league player

Deaths

Pre-1600

* 259 – Polyeuctus, Roman saint * 314 – Pope Miltiades, Miltiades, pope of the Catholic Church * 681 – Pope Agatho, Agatho, pope of the Catholic Church * 976 – John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor (b. 925) * 987 – Pietro I Orseolo, doge of Venice (b. 928) *1055 – Bretislav I, duke of Bohemia *1094 – Al-Mustansir Billah, Egyptian caliph (b. 1029) *1218 – Hugh I of Cyprus, Hugh I, king of Cyprus *1276 – Pope Gregory X, Gregory X, pope of the Catholic Church (b. c.1210) *1322 – Petrus Aureolus, scholastic philosopher *1358 – Abu Inan Faris, Marinid ruler of Morocco (b. 1329) *1552 – Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (b. 1479)

1601–1900

* 1645 – William Laud, English archbishop and academic (b. 1573) * 1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616) *1698 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French priest and historian (b. 1637) *1754 – Edward Cave, English publisher, founded ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' (b. 1691) *1761 – Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician (b. 1711) *1778 – Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician (b. 1707) *1794 – Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (b. 1754) *1811 – Joseph Chénier, French poet, playwright, and politician (b. 1764) *1824 – Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel I, duke of Savoy and king of Sardinia (b. 1759) * 1828 – François de Neufchâteau, French poet, academic, and politician, Minister of the Interior (France), French Minister of the Interior (b. 1750) * 1829 – Gregorio Funes, Argentinian clergyman, historian, and educator (b. 1749) *

– Dimitrie Macedonski, Greek-Romanian captain and politician (b. 1780) *1851 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775) *1855 – Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (b. 1787) *1862 – Samuel Colt, American engineer and businessman, founded Colt's Manufacturing Company (b. 1814) * 1863 – Lyman Beecher, American minister and activist, co-founded the American Temperance Society (b. 1775) * 1895 – Benjamin Godard, French violinist and composer (b. 1849)

1901–present

* 1901 – James Dickson (Queensland politician), James Dickson, English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Minister for Defence (Australia), Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832) * 1904 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824) *1905 – Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835) * 1917 – Buffalo Bill, American soldier and hunter (b. 1846) * 1917 – Feliks Leparsky, Russian fencer and captain (b. 1875) *

– Sali Nivica, Albanian journalist and politician (b. 1890) *

– Frank Tudor, Australian politician, 6th Minister for Trade and Investment (Australia), Australian Minister for Trade and Investment (b. 1866) * 1926 – Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1878) *

– Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (b. 1873) * 1935 – Charlie McGahey, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1871) * 1941 – Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer (b. 1879) * 1941 – John Lavery, Irish painter and academic (b. 1856) * 1941 –

, Belarusian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1875) * 1949 – Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865) *1951 – Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885) * 1951 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890) *

– Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911) *

– Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (b. 1862) *1957 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) * 1959 – Şükrü Kaya, Turkish jurist and politician, List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Turkey), Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883) *

– Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1879) *1961 – Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (b. 1894) *1967 – Charles E. Burchfield, American painter (b. 1893) *1968 – Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Turkish general and politician, 6th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey (b. 1882) *1969 – Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891) *1970 – Pavel Belyayev, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1925) *1971 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded Chanel (b. 1883) * 1971 – Ignazio Giunti, Italian racing driver (b. 1941) * 1972 – Aksel Larsen, Danish lawyer and politician (b. 1897) *1976 – Howlin' Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910) *1978 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist and author (b. 1924) * 1978 – Don Gillis (composer), Don Gillis, American composer and conductor (b. 1912) * 1978 – Gluck (painter), Hannah Gluckstein, British painter (b. 1895) * 1981 – Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author (b. 1915) * 1984 – Souvanna Phouma, Laotian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901) *1986 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech journalist and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) *1987 – Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919) * 1987 – David Robinson (philanthropist), David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1904) *1989 – Herbert Morrison (announcer), Herbert Morrison, American journalist and producer (b. 1905) *

– Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (b. 1925) *1992 – Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian racing driver (b. 1919) *1995 – Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1937) *1997 – Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan-English journalist and author (b. 1907) * 1997 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907) * 1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) *1999 – Edward Williams (Queensland judge), Edward Williams, Australian lieutenant, pilot, and judge (b. 1921) * 2000 – Sam Jaffe (producer), Sam Jaffe, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1901) *2004 – Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941) *2005 – Wasyly (Fedak), Wasyly, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop (b. 1909) * 2005 – Jack Horner (journalist), Jack Horner, American journalist (b. 1912) * 2005 – Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1927) *

– Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912) * 2007 – Bradford Washburn, American explorer, photographer, and cartographer (b. 1910) *2008 – Christopher Bowman, American figure skater and actor (b. 1967) * 2008 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) *2010 – Patcha Ramachandra Rao, Indian metallurgist, educator and administrator (b. 1942) *2011 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (b. 1924) * 2012 – Jean Pigott, Canadian businesswoman and politician (b. 1924) * 2012 – Gevork Vartanian, Russian intelligence agent (b. 1924) *

– George Gruntz, Swiss pianist and composer (b. 1932) * 2013 – Claude Nobs, Swiss businessman, founded the Montreux Jazz Festival (b. 1936) *2014 – Sam Berns, American activist (b. 1996) * 2014 – Petr Hlaváček, Czech shoemaker and academic (b. 1950) * 2014 – Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and politician, 9th List of Prime Ministers of Poland, Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (b. 1929) * 2014 – Larry Speakes, American journalist, 16th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939) * 2014 – Dajikaka Gadgil, Indian jeweller (b. 1915) *

– Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (b. 1994) * 2015 – Taylor Negron, American actor, playwright, and painter (b. 1957) * 2015 – Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922) * 2015 – Robert Stone (novelist), Robert Stone, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1937) *2016 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1947) * 2016 – George Jonas, Hungarian-Canadian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1935) *2017 – Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (b. 1926) * 2017 – Clare Hollingworth, English journalist (b. 1911) *2020 – Qaboos bin Said, ruler of Oman (b. 1940) *2022 – Joyce Eliason, American television personality (b. 1934) *2022 – Robert Durst, American real estate heir and convicted murderer (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

* Christian feast day: ** Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs (Armenian Apostolic Church) ** Gregory of Nyssa ** Leonie Aviat ** Obadiah (prophet), Obadiah (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Coptic Church) ** Pietro I Orseolo, Peter Orseolo ** Pope Agatho (Roman Catholic) ** William Laud (Anglican Communion) ** William of Donjeon ** January 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) * Fête du Vodoun (Benin) * Margaret Thatcher Day (Falkland Islands) * Public holidays in the Bahamas, Majority Rule Day (Bahamas)

References

External links

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