Events
Pre-1600
*
393
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Year 393 ( CCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Augustus (or, less frequently, year 114 ...
–
Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son
Honorius co-emperor.
*
971 – Using
crossbows,
Song dynasty
The Song dynasty (; ; 960–1279) was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou. The Song conquered the rest ...
troops soundly
defeat a
war elephant corps of the
Southern Han
Southern Han (; 917–971), officially Han (), originally Yue (), was one of the ten kingdoms that existed during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It was located on China's southern coast, controlling modern Guangdong and Guangxi. The ...
at Shao.
*
1264
Year 1264 ( MCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Spring – Battle of Makryplagi: Constantine Palaiologos, half-brother of ...
– In the conflict between King
Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by
Simon de Montfort
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester ( – 4 August 1265), later sometimes referred to as Simon V de Montfort to distinguish him from his namesake relatives, was a nobleman of French origin and a member of the English peerage, who led the ...
, King
Louis IX of France issues the
Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the
Second Barons' War
The Second Barons' War (1264–1267) was a civil war in England between the forces of a number of barons led by Simon de Montfort against the royalist forces of King Henry III, led initially by the king himself and later by his son, the fu ...
.
*
1368 – In a coronation ceremony,
Zhu Yuanzhang
The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (), courtesy name Guorui (), was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1368 to 1398.
As famine, plagues and peasant revolts i ...
ascends the
throne of China as the
Hongwu Emperor, initiating
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peo ...
rule over China that would last for three centuries.
*
1546
Year 1546 (Roman numerals, MDXLVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* May 19 – The Siege of Kawagoe Castle ends in defeat for the Uesugi cla ...
– Having published nothing for eleven years,
François Rabelais publishes the ''Tiers Livre'', his sequel to ''
Gargantua and Pantagruel''.
*
1556
__NOTOC__
Year 1556 ( MDLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 16 – Charles V, having already abdicated as Holy Roman Emperor, ...
– The deadliest
earthquake in history, the
Shaanxi earthquake, hits
Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
*
1570
__NOTOC__
Year 1570 ( MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 8 – Ivan the Terrible begins the Massacre of Novgorod.
* Janua ...
–
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570) was a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland. A supporter of his half-sister Mary, Queen of Scots, he was the regent of Scotland for hi ...
,
regent for the infant King
James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
*
1571
Year 1571 ( MDLXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 11 – The Austrian nobility are granted freedom of religion.
* January 23 ...
– The
Royal Exchange opens in London.
*
1579
Year 1579 ( MDLXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Monday of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 6 ...
– The
Union of Utrecht
The Union of Utrecht ( nl, Unie van Utrecht) was a treaty signed on 23 January 1579 in Utrecht, Netherlands, unifying the northern provinces of the Netherlands, until then under the control of Habsburg Spain.
History
The Union of Utrecht is r ...
forms a
Protestant
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
republic in the Netherlands.
1601–1900
*
1656 –
Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his ''
Lettres provinciales
The ''Lettres provinciales'' (''Provincial letters'') are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte. Written in the midst of the formulary controversy between ...
''.
*
1719 – The
Principality of
Liechtenstein is created within the
Holy Roman Empire.
*
1789 –
Georgetown College
Georgetown College is a private Christian college in Georgetown, Kentucky. Chartered in 1829, Georgetown was the first Baptist college west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The college offers 38 undergraduate degrees and a Master of Arts in educat ...
, the first
Catholic university in the United States, is founded in
Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) when Bishop
John Carroll, Rev.
Robert Molyneux, and Rev. John Ashton purchase land for the proposed academy for the education of youth.
*
1793
The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I.
Events
January–June
* January 7 – The Ebel riot occurs in Sweden.
* January 9 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fl ...
–
Second Partition of Poland
The 1793 Second Partition of Poland was the second of three partitions (or partial annexations) that ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth by 1795. The second partition occurred in the aftermath of the Polish–Russian W ...
.
*
1795
Events
January–June
* January – Central England records its coldest ever month, in the CET records dating back to 1659.
* January 14 – The University of North Carolina opens to students at Chapel Hill, becoming t ...
– After an extraordinary charge across the frozen
Zuiderzee, the French cavalry
captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry.
*
1846
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom.
* January 13 – The Milan–Venice railway's bridge, over the Venetian Lagoon between ...
–
Slavery in Tunisia
Slavery in Tunisia was a specific manifestation of the Arab slave trade, which was abolished on 23 January 1846 by Ahmed I Bey. Tunisia was in a similar position to that of Algeria, with a geographic position which linked it the main Trans-Sahara ...
is abolished.
*
1849
Events
January–March
* January 1 – France begins issue of the Ceres series, the nation's first postage stamps.
* January 5 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Austrian army, led by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, enters in th ...
–
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 182131 May 1910) was a British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council for the United Ki ...
is awarded her M.D. by the
Geneva Medical College of
Geneva, New York
Geneva is a city in Ontario and Seneca counties in the U.S. state of New York. It is at the northern end of Seneca Lake; all land portions of the city are within Ontario County; the water portions are in Seneca County. The population was 13, ...
, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
*
1870 – In
Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173
Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the
Marias Massacre
The Marias Massacre (also known as the Baker Massacre or the Piegan Massacre) was a massacre of Piegan Blackfeet Native peoples which was committed by the United States Army as part of the Indian Wars. The massacre took place on January 23, 1870 ...
.
*
1879 –
Anglo-Zulu War: The
Battle of Rorke's Drift
The Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879), also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the ...
ends.
*
1899
Events January 1899
* January 1
** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City.
* January 2 –
**Bolivia sets up a c ...
– The
Malolos Constitution
The Political Constitution of 1899 ( es, Constitución Política de 1899), informally known as the Malolos Constitution, was the constitution of the First Philippine Republic. It was written by Felipe Calderón y Roca and Felipe Buencamino as ...
is inaugurated, establishing the
First Philippine Republic
The Philippine Republic ( es, República Filipina), now officially known as the First Philippine Republic, also referred to by historians as the Malolos Republic, was established in Malolos, Bulacan during the Philippine Revolution against ...
.
Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its
first president.
*
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), 2 ...
–
Second Boer War: The
Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the
South African Republic and the
Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
1901–present
*
1904
Events
January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library syst ...
–
Ålesund Fire
The Ålesund fire happened on 23 January 1904 in the Norwegian city of Ålesund. It destroyed almost the whole city centre, built mostly of wood, like the majority of Norwegian towns at the time. The town has since been rebuilt and it is now t ...
: The Norwegian coastal town
Ålesund
Ålesund () sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrativ ...
is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead.
Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in
Jugendstil
''Jugendstil'' ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. It was the German counterpart of ...
style.
*
1909
Events
January–February
* January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
* January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
* Jan ...
– , a passenger ship of the
White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the
CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the
SS ''Florida'', off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The ''Republic'' sinks the next day.
*
1912 – The
International Opium Convention is signed at
The Hague.
*
1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the
Allies.
*
1937 – The
trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with
Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...
's regime.
*
1941 –
Charles Lindbergh testifies before the
U.S. Congress
The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washin ...
and recommends that the United States negotiate a
neutrality pact with
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 ...
.
*
1942 –
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 vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
: The
Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's
invasion
An invasion is a Offensive (military), military offensive in which large numbers of combatants of one geopolitics, geopolitical Legal entity, entity aggressively enter territory (country subdivision), territory owned by another such entity, gen ...
of Australia's
Territory of New Guinea
The Territory of New Guinea was an Australian-administered United Nations trust territory on the island of New Guinea from 1914 until 1975. In 1949, the Territory and the Territory of Papua were established in an administrative union by the na ...
.
*
1943 – World War II: Troops of the British
Eighth Army capture
Tripoli
Tripoli or Tripolis may refer to:
Cities and other geographic units Greece
*Tripoli, Greece, the capital of Arcadia, Greece
* Tripolis (region of Arcadia), a district in ancient Arcadia, Greece
* Tripolis (Larisaia), an ancient Greek city in ...
in
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
from the
German–Italian Panzer Army.
*
1945 – World War II: German admiral
Karl Dönitz launches
Operation Hannibal
Operation Hannibal was a German naval operation involving the evacuation by sea of German troops and civilians from the Courland Pocket, East Prussia, West Prussia and Pomerania from mid-January to May 1945 as the Red Army advanced during th ...
.
*
1950 – The
Knesset
The Knesset ( he, הַכְּנֶסֶת ; "gathering" or "assembly") is the unicameral legislature of Israel. As the supreme state body, the Knesset is sovereign and thus has complete control of the entirety of the Israeli government (with ...
resolves that
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
is the capital of Israel.
*
1957 – American inventor
Walter Frederick Morrison
Walter Frederick Morrison (January 23, 1920 – February 9, 2010) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the Frisbee.
Early life
Walter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison was born on January 23, 1920 in Richfield, Utah, the son of Dr. Wal ...
sells the rights to his
flying disc
A frisbee (pronounced ), also called a flying disc or simply a disc, is a gliding toy or sporting item that is generally made of injection-molded plastic and roughly in diameter with a pronounced lip. It is used recreationally and competitive ...
to the
Wham-O
Wham-O Inc. is an American toy company based in Carson, California, United States. It is known for creating and marketing many popular toys for nearly 70 years, including the Hula hoop, Frisbee, Slip 'N Slide, Super Ball, Trac-Ball, Silly S ...
toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
*
1958 – After a
general uprising and rioting in the streets,
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez (25 April 1914 – 20 September 2001) was a Venezuelan military and general officer of the Army of Venezuela and the dictator of Venezuela from 1950 to 1958, ruling as member of the military junta from 19 ...
leaves
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
.
*
1960 – The
bathyscaphe USS ''Trieste'' breaks a depth record by descending to in the Pacific Ocean.
*
1961 – The Portuguese luxury
cruise ship
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports-of-call, where passengers may go on tours known as ...
''Santa Maria'' is
hijacked
Hijacking may refer to:
Common usage
Computing and technology
* Bluejacking, the unsolicited transmission of data via Bluetooth
* Brandjacking, the unauthorized use of a company's brand
* Browser hijacking
* Clickjacking (including ''like ...
by opponents of the
Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator
António de Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar (, , ; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the r ...
is overthrown.
*
1963 – The
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when
PAIGC
The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( pt, Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, PAIGC) is a political party in Guinea-Bissau. Originally formed to peacefully campaign for independence from ...
guerrilla fighters attack the
Portuguese Army stationed in
Tite.
*
1964 – The
24th Amendment to the
United States Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the Supremacy Clause, supreme law of the United States, United States of America. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, in 1789. Originally comprising seven ar ...
, prohibiting the use of
poll taxes
A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources.
Head taxes were important sources of revenue for many governments f ...
in national elections, is ratified.
*
1967 –
Diplomatic relations
Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of states (such as leaders and diplomats) intended to influence events in the international system.Ronald Peter Barston, ''Modern diplomacy'', Pearson Education, 2006, p. 1 ...
between the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
and
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
are established.
* 1967 –
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...
(England) is founded as a
new town by
Order in Council
An Order-in-Council is a type of legislation in many countries, especially the Commonwealth realms. In the United Kingdom this legislation is formally made in the name of the monarch by and with the advice and consent of the Privy Council (''Kin ...
, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty-one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with
evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...
.
*
1968 –
USS ''Pueblo'' (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by the
Korean People's Navy
The Korean People's Army Naval Force (KPANF; Korean: 조선인민군 해군; Hanja: 朝鮮人民軍 海軍; ''Chosŏn-inmingun Haegun''; ) or the Korean People's Navy (KPN), is the naval service branch of the Korean People's Army, which contai ...
.
*
1985 –
World Airways Flight 30H
World Airways Flight 30 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF airliner which suffered a fatal accident upon landing at Boston Logan International Airport in Boston after departing Newark International Airport in Newark, New Jersey on January 23, 1 ...
overshoots the runway at
Logan International Airport
General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport , also known as Boston Logan International Airport and commonly as Boston Logan, Logan Airport or simply Logan, is an international airport that is located mostly in East Boston and partial ...
in
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
, and crashes into
Boston Harbor
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the northeastern United States.
History
...
. Two people are presumed dead.
*
1986 – The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), sometimes simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and othe ...
inducts its first members:
Little Richard,
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the " Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into th ...
,
James Brown,
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Ge ...
,
Sam Cooke,
Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American pianist, singer and songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New O ...
,
The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers were an American rock duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (February 1, 1937 – August 21, 2021) and Phillip "Phil" Everly (January 19, 193 ...
,
Buddy Holly,
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935October 28, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock & roll's first great wild man". A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made ...
and
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Elvis Presley, one ...
.
*
1987 –
Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan
Major General Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan ( so, Maxamed Siciid Xirsi Moorgan, ar, محمد سعيد حيرسي مورغان), also known as General Morgan or Colonel Morgan, is a Somali military and faction leader. He was the son-in-law of Siad B ...
sends a "
letter of death" to Somali President
Siad Barre, proposing the genocide of the Isaaq people.
*
1997 –
Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová; May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic ...
becomes the first woman to serve as
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 ...
.
*
1998 –
Netscape announces
Mozilla
Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, w ...
, with the intention to release Communicator code as
open source.
*
2001 – Five people attempt to
set themselves on fire in Beijing's
Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square (; 天安门广场; Pinyin: ''Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng''; Wade–Giles: ''Tʻien1-an1-mên2 Kuang3-chʻang3'') is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the eponymous Tiananmen ...
, an act that many people later claim is staged by the
Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...
to frame
Falun Gong
Falun Gong (, ) or Falun Dafa (; literally, "Dharma Wheel Practice" or "Law Wheel Practice") is a new religious movement.Junker, Andrew. 2019. ''Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora'', pp. 23–24, 33, 119 ...
and thus escalate their
persecution.
*
2002 – U.S. journalist
Daniel Pearl
Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for ''The Wall Street Journal.'' He was kidnapped and later decapitated by terrorists in Pakistan.'
Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and rais ...
is kidnapped in
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 cap ...
, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
*
2003 – A very weak signal from
Pioneer 10
''Pioneer 10'' (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe, launched in 1972 and weighing , that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Thereafter, ''Pioneer 10'' became the first of five artificial objects to ach ...
is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
*
2018 – A 7.9
earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from ...
occurs in the
Gulf of Alaska
The Gulf of Alaska (Tlingit: ''Yéil T'ooch’'') is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east ...
. It is tied as the
sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
* 2018 – A double car bombing in
Benghazi,
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.
* 2018 – The
China–United States trade war
The China–United States trade war () is an ongoing economic conflict between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. In January 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump began setting tariffs and other trade barriers on Chin ...
begins when President
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
places
tariffs
A tariff is a tax imposed by the government of a country or by a supranational union on imports or exports of goods. Besides being a source of revenue for the government, import duties can also be a form of regulation of foreign trade and po ...
on Chinese solar panels and washing machines.
*
2022 – Mutinying Burkinabè soldiers led by
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (; born January 1981) is a Burkinabé military officer who served as interim president of Burkina Faso from 31 January 2022 to 30 September 2022, when he was removed in a coup d'état, by his own military colleague Ibr ...
depose and detain President
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (; born 25 April 1957) is a Burkinabé banker and politician who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 2015 until he was deposed in 2022. He was the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso between 1994 and 1996 and Pr ...
amid widespread anti-government protests.
Births
Pre-1600
*
1350 –
Vincent Ferrer
Vincent Ferrer, OP ( ca-valencia, Sant Vicent Ferrer , es, San Vicente Ferrer, it, San Vincenzo Ferreri, german: Sankt Vinzenz Ferrer, nl, Sint-Vincent Ferrer, french: Saint Vincent Ferrier; 23 January 1350 – 5 April 1419) was a Kingdom of V ...
, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
*
1378 –
Louis III, Elector Palatine
Louis III (german: Ludwig III. der Ältere or der Bärtige) (23 January 1378 – 30 December 1436), was an Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach in 1410–1436.
Biography
Louis III was the third son of King Rupert of Ge ...
(d. 1436)
*
1514
Year 1514 (Roman numerals, MDXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 10 – A great fire breaks out, in the Rialto of Venice.
* Marc ...
–
Hai Rui
Hai Rui (海瑞; ''Hǎi Ruì'' ; 23 January 1514 – 13 November 1587), courtesy name Ruxian (汝贤), art name Gangfeng (刚峰), was a Chinese scholar-official of the Ming dynasty, remembered as a model of honesty and integrity in office. A p ...
, Chinese politician (d. 1587)
*
1585 –
Mary Ward Mary Ward may refer to:
Scientists and academics
* Mary Ward (nurse) (1884–1972) English nurse to the boat people on the waterways
* Mary Ward (scientist) (née King, 1827–1869) Irish amateur scientist, was killed by an experimental steam car ...
, English Catholic Religious Sister (d. 1645)
1601–1900
*
1622 –
Abraham Diepraam, Dutch painter (d. 1670)
*
1719 –
John Landen
John Landen (23 January 1719 – 15 January 1790) was an English mathematician.
Life
He was born at Peakirk, near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, on 28 January 1719. He was brought up to the business of a surveyor, and acted as land agent to ...
, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1790)
*
1737
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parma a ...
–
John Hancock
John Hancock ( – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of t ...
, American general and politician, first
Governor of Massachusetts
The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the chief executive officer of the government of Massachusetts. The governor is the head of the state cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the commonwealth's military forces.
Massachuset ...
(d. 1793)
*
1745 –
William Jessop
William Jessop (23 January 1745 – 18 November 1814) was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Early life
Jessop was born in Devonport, Devon, the ...
, English engineer, built the
Cromford Canal (d. 1814)
*
1752 –
Muzio Clementi
Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer, who was mostly active in England.
Encourag ...
, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1832)
*
1780 –
Georgios Karaiskakis
Georgios Karaiskakis ( el, Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης), born Georgios Karaiskos ( el, Γεώργιος Καραΐσκος; 1782 – 1827), was a famous Greece, Greek military commander and a leader of the Greek War of Independence.
...
, Greek general (d. 1827)
*
1783 –
Stendhal, French novelist (d. 1842)
*
1786 –
Auguste de Montferrand
Auguste de Montferrand (; January 23, 1786 – July 10, 1858) was a French classicist architect who worked primarily in Russia. His two best known works are the Saint Isaac's Cathedral and the Alexander Column in St. Petersburg.
Early ...
, French-Russian architect, designed
Saint Isaac's Cathedral
Saint Isaac's Cathedral or Isaakievskiy Sobor (russian: Исаа́киевский Собо́р) is a large architectural landmark cathedral that currently functions as a museum with occasional church services in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is ...
and
Alexander Column
The Alexander Column (russian: Алекса́ндровская коло́нна, ''Aleksandrovskaya kolonna'') also known as Alexandrian Column (russian: Александри́йская коло́нна, ''Aleksandriyskaya kolonna''), is the f ...
(d. 1858)
*
1799 –
Alois Negrelli
Nikolaus Alois Maria Vinzenz Negrelli, Ritter von Moldelbe (born Luigi Negrelli; 23 January 1799 – 1 October 1858) was a Tyrolean civil engineer and railroad pioneer mostly active in parts of the Austrian Empire, Switzerland, Germany and ...
, Tyrolean engineer and railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire (d. 1858)
*
1809 –
Surendra Sai
Veer Surendra Sai (23 January 1809 – 28 February 1884) was a native Indian as well as a regional freedom fighter from the Bengal Presidency, now Odisha. He fought against British rule in India after they dethroned the king and queen of Sambal ...
, Indian activist (d. 1884)
*
1813 –
Camilla Collett
Jacobine Camilla Collett (née Wergeland; 23 January 1813 – 6 March 1895) was a Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as bein ...
, Norwegian novelist and activist (d. 1895)
*
1828 –
Saigō Takamori
was a Japanese samurai and nobleman. He was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration. Living during the late Edo and early Meiji periods, he later led the Satsum ...
, Japanese samurai (d. 1877)
*
1832 –
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Born ...
, French painter (d. 1883)
*
1833 –
Muthu Coomaraswamy
Sir Muthu Coomaraswamy ( ta, முத்து குமாரசுவாமி; 23 January 1834 – 4 May 1879) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, writer and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon.
Early life and family
Coomaraswamy was born ...
, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1879)
*
1838 –
Marianne Cope
Marianne Cope, also known as Saint Marianne of Molokai, (January 23, 1838 – August 9, 1918) was a German-born American religious sister who was a member of the Sisters of St Francis of Syracuse, New York, and founding leader of its St. Jose ...
, German-American nun and saint (d. 1918)
*
1840 –
Ernst Abbe
Ernst Karl Abbe HonFRMS (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a c ...
, German physicist and engineer (d. 1905)
*
1846
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom.
* January 13 – The Milan–Venice railway's bridge, over the Venetian Lagoon between ...
–
Nikolay Umov
Nikolay Alekseevich Umov (russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич У́мов; January 23, 1846 – January 15, 1915) was a Russian physicist and mathematician known for discovering the concept of Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect.
Bi ...
, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1915)
*
1855 –
John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the
Browning Arms Company (d. 1926)
*
1857 –
Andrija Mohorovičić
Andrija Mohorovičić (23 January 1857 – 18 December 1936) was a Croatian geophysicist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered one of the founders of modern seismology.
Early years
Mohorovičić wa ...
, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (d. 1936)
*
1862 –
David Hilbert, German mathematician and academic (d. 1943)
* 1862 –
Frank Shuman
Frank Shuman (; January 23, 1862 – April 28, 1918) was an American inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer known for his work on solar engines, especially those that used solar energy to heat water that would produce steam.
Career
In 1892 ...
, American inventor and engineer (d. 1918)
*
1872 –
Paul Langevin
Paul Langevin (; ; 23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the ''Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes'', an an ...
, French physicist and academic (d. 1946)
* 1872 –
Jože Plečnik
Jože Plečnik () (23 January 1872 – 7 January 1957) was a Slovene architect who had a major impact on the modern architecture of Vienna, Prague and of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, most notably by designing the iconic Triple Bridge an ...
, Slovenian architect, designed
Plečnik Parliament (d. 1957)
*
1876 –
Otto Diels
Otto Paul Hermann Diels (; 23 January 1876 – 7 March 1954) was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for diene synthesis. The pair was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemis ...
, German chemist 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. 1954)
*
1878 –
Rutland Boughton
Rutland Boughton (23 January 187825 January 1960) was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music. He was also an influential communist activist within the Communist Party of Gre ...
, English composer (d. 1960)
*
1880 –
Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama, Mexican politician (d. 1967)
*
1889 –
Claribel Kendall
Claribel Kendall (January 23, 1889 – April 17, 1965) was an American mathematician.
Education
Born in Denver, Colorado, Kendall received her Bachelor and Bachelor of Education from the University of Colorado in 1912. Kendall also went on to ...
, American mathematician (d.1965)
*
1894 –
Jyotirmoyee Devi
Jyotirmoyee Devi ( bn, জ্যোতির্ময়ী দেবী) (1894–1988) was an Indian writer in the early twentieth century. She wrote predominantly about women in the Rajasthan of her childhood and in what is now West Bengal at ...
, Indian author (d. 1988)
*
1896 –
Alf Blair, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1944)
* 1896 –
Alf Hall
Alfred Ewart Hall (23 January 1896 in Bolton, Lancashire, England – 1 January 1964 in The Hill, South Africa) was a South African cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1923 to 1931.
Alf Hall's appearances in first-class cricket were lim ...
, English-South African cricketer (d. 1964)
*
1897 –
Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian freedom fighter and politician (d. 1945)
* 1897 –
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
Margarete "Grete" Lihotzky (born 23 January 1897 in the Margareten district of Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 18 January 2000) was an Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Austrian resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered tod ...
, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
* 1897 –
Ieva Simonaitytė
Ieva Simonaitytė or Ewa Simoneit (23 January 1897 – 27 August 1978) was a Lithuanian writer. She represented the culture of Lithuania Minor and Klaipėda Region, territories of German East Prussia with historically large, but dwindling, Lith ...
, Lithuanian author (d. 1978)
* 1897 –
William Stephenson
Sir William Samuel Stephenson (23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989), born William Samuel Clouston Stanger, was a Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coord ...
, Canadian captain and spy (d. 1989)
*
1898 –
Georg Kulenkampff
Alwin Georg Kulenkampff-Post (23 January 1898 – 4 October 1948) was a German virtuoso violinist. One of the most popular German concert violinists of the 1930s and 1940s, he was considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century.
Kul ...
, German violinist (d. 1948)
* 1898 –
Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
* 1898 –
Freda Utley
Winifred Utley (23 January 1898 – 21 January 1978), commonly known as Freda Utley, was an English scholar, political activist and best-selling author. After visiting the Soviet Union in 1927 as a trade union activist, she joined the Communist P ...
, English scholar and author (d. 1978)
*
1899
Events January 1899
* January 1
** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City.
* January 2 –
**Bolivia sets up a c ...
–
Glen Kidston, English racing driver and pilot (d. 1931)
*
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), 2 ...
–
William Ifor Jones
William Ifor Jones (January 23, 1900 – November 11, 1988) was a Welsh conductor and organist. Born into a large coal-mining family and raised in Merthyr Tydfil, Jones studied at the Royal Academy of Music as a scholarship student in London f ...
, Welsh organist and conductor (d. 1988)
1901–present
*
1901 –
Arthur Wirtz
Arthur Michael Wirtz (January 23, 1901 – July 21, 1983) was an American entrepreneur. He was the founder of Wirtz Corporation, a holding company that owned Chicago Stadium, the Bismarck Hotel in Chicago, the Chicago Black Hawks, and the Chic ...
, American businessman (d. 1983)
*
1903 –
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian lawyer and politician, 16th
Minister of National Education of Colombia
The Ministry of National Education ( es, Ministerio de Educación Nacional) is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for overseeing the instruction and education of the Colombian people, similar to education mi ...
(d. 1948)
*
1905 –
Erich Borchmeyer
Erich Borchmeyer (23 January 1905 – 17 August 2000) was a German athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres.
Borchmeyer was born in Münster. He competed for Germany in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the ...
, German sprinter (d. 2000)
*
1907 –
Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea ( , January 23, 1907 – June 7, 1968) was an American actor in film, stage, and television. Known for portraying a vast range of character roles as a villain, he nonetheless had a long career in a wide variety of leading and second ...
, American actor and singer (d. 1968)
* 1907 –
Hideki Yukawa
was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion.
Biography
He was born as Hideki Ogawa in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older sisters, and two yo ...
, Japanese physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 1981)
*
1910 –
Django Reinhardt
Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most ...
, Belgian guitarist and composer (d. 1953)
*
1912 –
Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director and manager (d. 2009)
*
1913 –
Jean-Michel Atlan
Jean-Michel Atlan (January 23, 1913 – February 12, 1960) was a French artist.
Biography
Of Algerian Jewish descent, Atlan was born in Constantine, French Algeria, and moved to Paris in 1930. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He started as ...
, Algerian-French painter (d. 1960)
* 1913 –
Wally Parks
Wallace Gordon Parks (January 23, 1913 – September 28, 2007) was an American writer. He was the founder, president, and chairman of the National Hot Rod Association, better known as NHRA. He was instrumental in establishing drag racing as a le ...
, American businessman, founded the
National Hot Rod Association
The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada. With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorspo ...
(d. 2007)
*
1915 –
Herma Bauma
Hermine "Herma" Bauma (23 January 1915 – 9 February 2003) was an Austrian athlete who competed mainly in the javelin. She also was famous for playing handball.
Bauma competed for Austria at the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Unite ...
, Austrian javelin thrower and handball player (d. 2003)
* 1915 –
W. Arthur Lewis
Sir William Arthur Lewis (23 January 1915 – 15 June 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis was known for his contributions in the field of economic development. I ...
, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist 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. 1991)
* 1915 –
Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an American lawyer and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981. During his tenure, he made major contributions to, among other areas, ...
, American lawyer and judge (d. 1985)
*
1916 –
David Douglas Duncan
David Douglas Duncan (January 23, 1916 – June 7, 2018) was an American photojournalist, known for his dramatic combat photographs, as well as for his extensive domestic photography of Pablo Picasso and his wife Jacqueline.
Childhood and educat ...
, American photographer and journalist (d. 2018)
* 1916 –
Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and politician,
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is a member of the British Shadow Cabinet responsible for the scrutiny of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and their department, the Northern Ireland Office. The post is currently he ...
(d. 1979)
*
1918 –
Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovat ...
, American biochemist and pharmacologist,
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. 1999)
* 1918 –
Florence Rush
Florence Rush (23 January, 1918 – 9 December, 2008) was an American certified social worker (M.S.W. from the University of PennsylvaniaLove, Barbara J. and Nancy F. Cott. ''Feminists Who Changed America, 1963—1975.'' University of Illinois ...
, American social worker and theorist (d. 2008)
*
1919 –
Frances Bay
Frances Evelyn Bay (née Goffman; January 23, 1919 – September 15, 2011) was a Canadian-American character actress. In a career that spanned 35 years, she acted in a variety of roles both in film and television. Bay was inducted in Canada's W ...
, Canadian-American actress (d. 2011)
* 1919 –
Hans Hass
Hans Hass (23 January 1919 – 16 June 2013) was an Austrian biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays, octopuses and sharks. He pioneered the making o ...
, Austrian biologist and diver (d. 2013)
* 1919 –
Ernie Kovacs
Ernest Edward Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was a Hungarian-American comedian, actor, and writer.
Kovacs's visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years aft ...
, American actor and game show host (d. 1962)
* 1919 –
Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager (d. 1996)
*
1920 –
Gottfried Böhm
Gottfried Böhm (; 23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021) was a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne ...
, German architect (d. 2021)
* 1920 –
Henry Eriksson
Knut Henry "Krylbo" Eriksson (23 January 1920 – 8 January 2000) was a Swedish middle-distance runner who specialized in the 1500 m event. In 1946 he finished second behind Lennart Strand, both at the national and European Championships. On 15 ...
, Swedish runner (d. 2000)
* 1920 –
Walter Frederick Morrison
Walter Frederick Morrison (January 23, 1920 – February 9, 2010) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the Frisbee.
Early life
Walter Fredrick "Fred" Morrison was born on January 23, 1920 in Richfield, Utah, the son of Dr. Wal ...
, American businessman, invented the
Frisbee (d. 2010)
*
1922 –
Leon Golub, American painter and academic (d. 2004)
* 1922 –
Tom Lewis, Australian politician, 33rd
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 legislatu ...
(d. 2016)
*
1923 –
Horace Ashenfelter
Horace Ashenfelter III (January 23, 1923 – January 6, 2018) was an American athlete. He competed in international athletics from 1947 to 1956. During his career he won fifteen national AAU titles and three collegiate national titles.
Bi ...
, American runner (d. 2018)
* 1923 –
Cot Deal
Ellis Ferguson "Cot" Deal (January 23, 1923 – May 21, 2013) was a pitcher and coach in Major League Baseball. Listed at , , Deal was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. A native of Arapaho, Oklahoma, he grew up in Oklahoma City and was n ...
, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
* 1923 –
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Walter Michael Miller Jr. (January 23, 1923 – January 9, 1996) was an American science fiction writer. His fix-up novel, ''A Canticle for Leibowitz'' (1959), the only novel published in his lifetime, won the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Pr ...
, American soldier and author (d. 1996)
*
1924 –
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (; January 23, 1924 June 3, 2013) was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as United States Senator from New Jersey from 1982 to 2001, and again from 2003 until his death in 2013. He was ori ...
, American soldier, businessman, and politician (d. 2013)
*
1925 –
Marty Paich
Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor. As a musician and arranger he worked with jazz musicians Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kento ...
, American pianist, composer, producer, and conductor (d. 1995)
*
1926 –
Bal Thackeray
Bal Thackeray (; 23 January 1926 – 17 November 2012), also known as Balasaheb Thackeray, was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing pro- Marathi and Hindu nationalist party active mainly in the state of Maharashtra ...
, Indian journalist, cartoonist, and politician (d. 2012)
*
1927 –
Lars-Eric Lindblad
Lars-Eric Lindblad (January 23, 1927 – July 8, 1994) was a Swedish- American entrepreneur and explorer, who pioneered tourism to many remote and exotic parts of the world. He led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica in 1966 in a chartered ...
, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (d. 1994)
* 1927 –
Fred Williams, Australian painter (d. 1982)
*
1928 –
Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
* 1928 –
Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017)
*
1929 –
Myron Cope
Myron Sidney Kopelman (January 23, 1929 – February 27, 2008), known professionally as Myron Cope, was an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster. He is best known for being " the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers".
Cope ...
, American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2008)
* 1929 –
Phillip Knightley
Phillip George Knightley (23 January 1929 – 7 December 2016) was an Australian journalist, critic, and non-fiction author. He became a visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln, England, and was a media commentator on the ...
, Australian journalist, author, and critic (d. 2016)
* 1929 –
John Polanyi
John Charles Polanyi ( hu, Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics.
Polanyi was born into the prominent Hungari ...
, German-Canadian chemist 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
*
1930 –
Filaret, Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan
* 1930 –
Mervyn Rose
Mervyn Gordon Rose AM (23 January 1930 – 23 July 2017) was an Australian male tennis player who won seven Grand Slam titles (singles, doubles and mixed doubles).
Rose was born in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, and turned professional in 19 ...
, Australian tennis player (d. 2017)
* 1930 –
Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright,
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. 2017)
* 1930 –
Teresa Żylis-Gara
Teresa Żylis-Gara (23 January 1930 – 28 August 2021) was a Polish operatic soprano who enjoyed a major international career from the 1950s through the 1990s.
She made her stage debut at the Opera Krakowska in 1958 in the title role of Moni ...
, Polish operatic soprano
*
1932 –
George Allen George Allen may refer to:
Politics and law
* George E. Allen (1896–1973), American political operative and one-time head coach of the Cumberland University football team
* George Allen (Australian politician) (1800–1877), Mayor of Sydney and ...
, English footballer (d. 2016)
* 1932 –
Larri Thomas
Larri Thomas (January 23, 1932 – October 20, 2013) was an American actress and dancer. She began her career by participating in a string of television commercials and eventually signed a contract with NBC. The network put on her shows includin ...
, American actress and dancer (d. 2013)
*
1933 –
Bill Hayden
William George Hayden (born 23 January 1933) is an Australian politician who served as the 21st governor-general of Australia from 1989 to 1996. He was Leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1977 to 1983, and served as ...
, Australian politician, 21st
Governor General of Australia
The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in Australia.[Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero Anderson; January 23, 1933), is an American actress, singer and dancer best known for originating roles in Broadway musicals including Anita in ''West Side Story'', Velma Kelly in ''Chic ...](_blank)
, American actress, singer, and dancer
*
1934 –
Pierre Bourgault Pierre Bourgault (January 23, 1934 – June 16, 2003) was a politician and essayist, as well as an actor and journalist, from Quebec, Canada. He is most famous as a public speaker who advocated Quebec sovereignty movement, sovereignty for Quebec ...
, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2003)
*
1935 –
Mike Agostini
Michael George Raymond Agostini (23 January 1935 – 12 May 2016) was a Trinidadian track and field athlete. He was the first athlete from his country to win a gold medal at what is now known as the Commonwealth Games, when he won the 100 yar ...
, Trinidadian sprinter (d. 2016)
* 1935 –
Tom Reamy
Tom or TOM may refer to:
* Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name)
Characters
* Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head''
* Tom Beck, a characte ...
, American author (d. 1977)
*
1936 –
Jerry Kramer, American football player and sportscaster
* 1936 –
Cécile Ousset
Cécile Ousset (born 23 January 1936) is a French pianist.
Cécile Ousset was born in Tarbes, France, and gave her first recital at the age of five, subsequently studying at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 10 with Marcel Ciampi (who had fo ...
, French pianist
*
1938 –
Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler and promoter, founded
All Japan Pro Wrestling
(AJPW/AJP) or simply All Japan is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established on October 21, 1972 when Giant Baba split away from the Japanese Wrestling Association and created his own promotion. Many wrestlers had left with Baba ...
(d. 1999)
* 1938 –
Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
*
1939 –
Ed Roberts, American disability rights activist (d. 1995)
*
1940 –
Alan Cheuse
Alan Stuart Cheuse (January 23, 1940 – July 31, 2015) was an American writer, editor, professor of literature, and radio commentator. A longtime NPR book commentator, he was also the author of five novels, five collections of short stories and n ...
, American writer and critic (d. 2015)
* 1940 –
Joe Dowell
Joe Dowell (January 23, 1940 – February 4, 2016) was an American pop singer.
Career
He was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, and moved to Bloomington, Illinois as a child. He first performed at a ninth-grade talent show and later at ...
, American pop singer (d. 2016)
*
1941 –
Jock R. Anderson
Jock Robert Anderson (born 23 January 1941) is an Australian agricultural economist, specialising in agricultural development economics, risk and decision theory, and international rural development policy. Born in Monto, Queensland, he studied ...
, Australian economist and academic
* 1941 –
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
João Ubaldo Ribeiro (January 23, 1941 – July 18, 2014) was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short stories have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Ribeiro was a member of the B ...
, Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (d. 2014)
*
1942 –
Laurie Mayne, Australian cricketer
* 1942 –
Herman Tjeenk Willink
Herman Diederik Tjeenk Willink (born 23 January 1942) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 21 December 2012.
Tjeenk Willink served as a Member of the S ...
, Dutch judge and politician
* 1942 –
Phil Clarke
Philip Clarke (born 16 May 1971) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A Great Britain and England international representative back-rower or , he played his club rugby league in England ...
, New Zealand rugby union player
*
1943 –
Özhan Canaydın
Özhan Canaydın (23 January 1943 – 22 March 2010) was a businessman, basketballer and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.
Biography
Basketball career
Canaydın began to play professional basketball in 1958. In 1957, he be ...
, Turkish basketball player and businessman (d. 2010)
*
1944 –
Rutger Hauer
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (; 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019) was a Dutch actor. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century.
Hauer's career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series ' ...
, Dutch actor, director, and producer (d. 2019)
*
1945 –
Mike Harris
Michael Deane Harris (born January 23, 1945) is a Canadian retired politician who served as the 22nd premier of Ontario from 1995 to 2002 and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC Party) from 1990 to 2002. During his time ...
, Canadian politician, 22nd
Premier of Ontario
*
1946 –
Arnoldo Alemán, Nicaraguan lawyer and politician,
President of Nicaragua
The president of Nicaragua ( es, Presidente de Nicaragua), officially known as the president of the Republic of Nicaragua ( es, Presidente de la República de Nicaragua), is the head of state and head of government of Nicaragua. The office was ...
* 1946 –
Boris Berezovsky, Russian-English businessman and mathematician (d. 2013)
*
1947 –
Tom Carper
Thomas Richard Carper (born January 23, 1947) is an American politician and former military officer serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, having held the seat since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Carper served i ...
, American captain and politician, 71st
Governor of Delaware
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
* 1947 –
Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesian politician,
President of Indonesia
The President of the Republic of Indonesia ( id, Presiden Republik Indonesia) is both the head of state and the head of government of the Republic of Indonesia. The president leads the executive branch of the Indonesian government and i ...
*
1948 –
Anita Pointer
Anita Marie Pointer (January 23, 1948December 31, 2022) was an American singer-songwriter, best known as a founding member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters. She co-wrote and was the lead singer on their hit song "Fairytale", which garnere ...
, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter
*
1950 –
Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson (born January 23, 1950) is a retired American actor and producer. He began his television career in 1976, playing Jeff Webber in the American soap opera series '' General Hospital'', and then rose to prominence as the lead ...
, American actor, producer, and composer
* 1950 –
Guida Maria
Guida Maria (23 January 1950 – 2 January 2018) was a Portuguese actress. Her career spanned 60 years and included appearances on stage, in film and on television.
Early life
Maria was born in 1950 in Campo de Ourique, Lisbon. Her father, Luis ...
, Portuguese actress (d. 2018)
* 1950 –
Suzanne Scotchmer, American economist and academic (d. 2014)
* 1950 –
Luis Alberto Spinetta
Luis Alberto Spinetta (23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012), nicknamed "El Flaco" (Spanish for "skinny"), was an Argentine singer, guitarist, composer and poet. One of the most influential rock musicians of Argentina, he is regarded as one of ...
, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet (d. 2012)
*
1951 –
Chesley Sullenberger
Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III (born January 23, 1951) is a retired American fighter pilot, diplomat, and airline pilot best known for his heroism as captain of US Airways Flight 1549 that he ditched in the Hudson River in 2009 af ...
, American airline pilot and safety expert
*1952 – Omar Henry, South African cricketer
*1953 – John Luther Adams, American composer
* 1953 – Alister McGrath, Irish priest, historian, and theologian
* 1953 – Antonio Villaraigosa, American politician, 41st Mayor of Los Angeles
* 1953 – Robin Zander, American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
*1954 – Trevor Hohns, Australian cricketer
*
1957 – Caroline, Princess of Hanover
*
1958 – Sergey Litvinov (athlete, born 1958), Sergey Litvinov, Russian hammer thrower (d. 2018)
*1959 – Clive Bull, English radio host
*
1960 – Jean-François Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1960 – Greg Ritchie, Australian cricketer
*
1961 – Neil Henry, Australian rugby league player and coach
* 1961 – Yelena Sinchukova, Russian long jumper
*1962 – David Arnold, English composer
* 1962 – Aivar Lillevere, Estonian footballer and coach
* 1962 – Elvira Lindo, Spanish journalist and author
*
1964 – Jonatha Brooke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1964 – Mariska Hargitay, American actress and producer
* 1964 – Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyanese economist and politician, seventh President of Guyana
* 1964 – Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
*1965 – Louie Clemente, American drummer
*1966 – Damien Hardman, Australian surfer
* 1966 – Haywoode Workman, American basketball player and referee
*
1967 – Owen Cunningham, Australian rugby league player
*
1968 – Taro Hakase, Japanese violinist and composer
* 1968 – Petr Korda, Czech-Monacan tennis player
*1969 – Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager
* 1969 – Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player and actor
* 1969 – Susen Tiedtke, German long jumper
*1970 – Spyridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper
*1971 – Scott Gibbs, Welsh-South African rugby player and sportscaster
* 1971 – Adam Parore, New Zealand cricketer and mountaineer
* 1971 – Claire Rankin, Canadian actress
*1972 – Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
*1973 – Tomas Holmström, Swedish ice hockey player
*1974 – Glen Chapple, English cricketer
* 1974 – Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
* 1974 – Jack Michaels, American ice hockey commentator
* 1974 – Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
* 1974 – Richard T. Slone, English painter
* 1974 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
*1975 – Nick Harmer, German musician
* 1975 – Phil Dawson, American football player
*1976 – Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player and scout
* 1976 – Anne Margrethe Hausken, Norwegian orienteering competitor
* 1976 – Alex Shaffer (alpine skier), Alex Shaffer, American skier
*1979 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player
* 1979 – Dawn O'Porter, Scottish-English fashion designer and journalist
* 1979 – Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
*1981 – Rob Friend, Canadian soccer player
* 1981 – Julia Jones, American actress
*1982 – Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
* 1982 – Oceana Mahlmann, German singer and songwriter
* 1982 – Andrew Rock, American sprinter
*1983 – Irving Saladino, Panamanian long jumper
*1984 – Robbie Farah, Australian rugby league player
* 1984 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
*
1985 – Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
* 1985 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch model and actress
* 1985 – Yevgeny Lukyanenko, Russian pole vaulter
* 1985 – Aselefech Mergia, Ethiopian runner
* 1985 – Jeff Samardzija, American baseball player
* 1985 – San E, South Korean rapper
*
1986 – Gelete Burka, Ethiopian runner
* 1986 – Marc Laird, Scottish footballer
* 1986 – José Enrique (footballer), José Enrique, Spanish footballer
* 1986 – Steven Taylor (footballer), Steven Taylor, English footballer
* 1986 – Sandro Viletta, Swiss skier
*
1987 – Leo Komarov, Finnish ice hockey player
*1988 – Shaun Kenny-Dowall, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
*1990 – Alex Silva (wrestler), Alex Silva, Canadian wrestler
*1991 – Steve Birnbaum, American footballer
*1992 – Reina Triendl, Japanese model and actress
*1994 – Addison Russell, American baseball player
*1995 – Luke Bateman, Australian rugby league player
* 1995 – Tuimoala Lolohea, New Zealand rugby league player
*
1998 – XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
*
2001 – Olga Danilović, Serbian tennis player
Deaths
Pre-1600
* 667 – Ildefonsus, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toledo, bishop of Toledo
* 989 – Adalbero (archbishop of Reims), Adalbero, archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims, Reims
*1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
*1199 – Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, Moroccan caliph (b. 1160)
*1252 – Isabella, Queen of Armenia
*1297 – Florent of Hainaut, Prince of Achaea (b. c. 1255)
*1423 – Margaret of Bavaria, Burgundian regent (b. 1363)
*1516 – Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
*1548 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian priest, scholar, and composer (b. 1490)
*1549 – Johannes Honter, Romanian-Hungarian cartographer and theologian (b. 1498)
*1567 – Jiajing Emperor of China (b. 1507)
*
1570
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Year 1570 ( MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 8 – Ivan the Terrible begins the Massacre of Novgorod.
* Janua ...
–
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570) was a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland. A supporter of his half-sister Mary, Queen of Scots, he was the regent of Scotland for hi ...
, Scottish politician (b. 1531)
1601–1900
*1620 – John Croke, English politician and judge (b. 1553)
*
1622 – William Baffin, English explorer and navigator (b. 1584)
*1650 – Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (b. 1584)
*1744 – Giambattista Vico, Italian historian and philosopher (b. 1668)
*1785 – Matthew Stewart (mathematician), Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician and academic (b. 1717)
*
1789 – Frances Brooke, English author and playwright (b. 1724)
* 1789 – John Cleland, English author (b. 1709)
*1800 – Edward Rutledge, American captain and politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1749)
*1803 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founded Guinness (b. 1725)
*1805 – Claude Chappe, French engineer (b. 1763)
*1806 – William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
*1810 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
*1812 – Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (b. 1764)
*1820 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
*
1833 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (b. 1757)
*1837 – John Field (composer), John Field, Irish pianist and composer (b. 1782)
*1866 – Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
*1875 – Charles Kingsley, English priest and author (b. 1819)
*1883 – Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
*1893 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
* 1893 – William Price (physician), William Price, Welsh physician, Chartist, and neo-Druid (b. 1800)
* 1893 – José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
1901–present
*1921 – Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
*
1922 – René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
* 1922 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
*
1923 – Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
*1931 – Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)
*
1937 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876)
*
1939 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1903)
*
1943 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (b. 1887)
*
1944 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1863)
*
1947 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867)
*1956 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director and producer (b. 1893)
*
1963 – Józef Gosławski (sculptor), Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor (b. 1908)
*1966 – T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1895)
*1971 – Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (b. 1871)
*1973 – Alexander Onassis, American-Greek businessman (b. 1948)
* 1973 – Kid Ory, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1886)
*1976 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and activist (b. 1898)
*1977 – Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (b. 1903)
*1978 – Terry Kath, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1946)
* 1978 – Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
*1980 – Giovanni Michelotti, Italian engineer (b. 1921)
*1981 – Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
*1983 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer and coach (b. 1908)
*1984 – Muin Bseiso, Palestinian-Egyptian poet and critic (b. 1926)
*
1985 – James Beard, American chef and cookbook author for whom the James Beard Foundation Awards are named (b.1905)
*
1986 – Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and painter (b. 1921)
*1988 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (b. 1896)
*1989 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1904)
* 1989 – Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish race car driver (b. 1961)
*1990 – Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1952)
*1991 – Northrop Frye, Canadian author and critic (b. 1912)
*1992 – Freddie Bartholomew, American actor (b. 1924)
*1993 – Keith Laumer, American soldier, author, and diplomat (b. 1925)
*1994 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (b. 1917)
* 1994 – Brian Redhead, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
*1999 – Joe D'Amato, Italian director and cinematographer (b. 1936)
* 1999 – Jay Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded the Hyatt, Hyatt Corporation (b. 1922)
*
2002 – Paul Aars, American race car driver (b. 1934)
* 2002 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (b. 1930)
* 2002 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1938)
*
2003 – Nell Carter, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
*2004 – Bob Keeshan, American television personality and producer (b. 1927)
* 2004 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (b. 1920)
*2005 – Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1921)
* 2005 – Johnny Carson, American talk show host, television personality, and producer (b. 1925)
*2007 – Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian sociologist and politician (b. 1928)
* 2007 – E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer (b. 1918)
* 2007 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
*2009 – Robert W. Scott, American farmer and politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1929)
*2010 – Kermit Tyler, American colonel and pilot (b. 1913)
* 2010 – Earl Wild, American pianist and composer (b. 1915)
*2011 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness instructor, author, and television host (b. 1914)
*2012 – Wesley E. Brown, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1907)
* 2012 – Maurice Meisner, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1931)
* 2012 – Bingham Ray, American businessman, co-founded October Films (b. 1954)
*2013 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)
* 2013 – Peter van der Merwe (cricketer), Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (b. 1937)
* 2013 – Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet, French bishop (b. 1922)
*2014 – Yuri Izrael, Russian meteorologist and journalist (b. 1930)
* 2014 – Riz Ortolani, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1926)
*2015 – Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1931)
* 2015 – Prosper Ego, Dutch activist, founded the Oud-Strijders Legioen (b. 1927)
* 2015 – Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (b. 1924)
*2016 – Jimmy Bain, Scottish bassist (b. 1947)
* 2016 – Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and coach (b. 1921)
*2017 – Bobby Freeman, American singer, songwriter and record producer (b. 1940)
* 2017 – Gorden Kaye, English actor (b. 1941)
*
2018 – Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, composer and singer (b. 1939)
* 2018 – Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914)
* 2018 – Wyatt Tee Walker, American civil rights activist and pastor (b. 1928)
*2019 – Aloysius Pang, Singaporean actor (b. 1990)
* 2019 – Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean Afro Jazz musician (b. 1952)
*2021 – Hal Holbrook, American actor and director (b. 1925)
* 2021 – Larry King, American journalist and talk show host (b. 1933)
* 2021 – Song Yoo-jung, South Korean actress and model (b. 1994)
Holidays and observances
*Bounty Day (Pitcairn Islands)
*Christian feast day:
**Abakuh
**Marianne Cope, Marianne of Molokai
**Emerentiana
**Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary
**Ildefonsus of Toledo
**Phillips Brooks (Episcopal Church (USA))
**January 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Netaji Jayanti, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's Jayanti (Orissa, India, Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal, India)
*World Freedom Day (Taiwan and South Korea)
References
External links
BBC: On This Day*
Historical Events on January 23
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Days of the year
January