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Pre-1600

* 285 (or 286) – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers. * 473 – Emperor
Leo I The LEO I (Lyons Electronic Office I) was the first computer used for commercial business applications. The prototype LEO I was modelled closely on the Cambridge EDSAC. Its construction was overseen by Oliver Standingford, Raymond Thompson and ...
acclaims his grandson Leo II as ''Caesar'' of the East Roman Empire. *
1147 Year 1147 ( MCXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Second Crusade * Late spring – An expedition of Crusaders, Englishmen together with forc ...
– Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. * 1147 – ''Reconquista'': After a siege of four months, crusader knights reconquer Lisbon. *
1415 Year 1415 ( MCDXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * April 30 – Frederick I becomes Elector of Brandenburg. * June 5 – The Coun ...
– Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.


1601–1900

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1616 Events January–June * January ** Six-year-old António Vieira arrives from Portugal, with his parents, in Bahia (present-day Salvador) in Colonial Brazil, where he will become a diplomat, noted author, leading figure of the Church, an ...
– Dutch sea-captain
Dirk Hartog Dirk Hartog (; baptised 30 October 1580 – buried 11 October 1621) was a 17th-century Dutch sailor and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to record his ...
makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. *
1747 Events January–March * January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. * February 11 – King George's War: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicolas Antoine II Co ...
– War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the
Second Battle of Cape Finisterre The second battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval encounter fought during the War of the Austrian Succession on 25 October 1747 (N.S.). A British fleet of fourteen ships of the line commanded by Rear-Admiral Edward Hawke intercepted a Frenc ...
. *
1760 Events January–March * January 9 – Battle of Barari Ghat: Afghan forces defeat the Marathas. * January 22 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Wandiwash, India: British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the Fr ...
– King
George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather
George II George II or 2 may refer to: People * George II of Antioch (seventh century AD) * George II of Armenia (late ninth century) * George II of Abkhazia (916–960) * Patriarch George II of Alexandria (1021–1051) * George II of Georgia (1072–1089) ...
. * 1812 – War of 1812: The American frigate, , commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate . *
1822 Events January–March * January 1 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. *January 3 - The famous French explorer, Aimé Bonpland, is made prisoner in Paraguay accused of being a spy. ...
– Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins. *
1854 Events January–March * January 4 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the ''Samarang''. * January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is perhaps born. * January 9 – The ...
– The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as ''
The Charge of the Light Brigade The Charge of the Light Brigade was a failed military action involving the British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Lord Raglan had intended to s ...
''. *
1861 Statistically, this year is considered the end of the whale oil industry and (in replacement) the beginning of the petroleum oil industry. Events January–March * January 1 ** Benito Juárez captures Mexico City. ** The first stea ...
– The
Toronto Stock Exchange The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX; french: Bourse de Toronto) is a stock exchange located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the 10th largest exchange in the world and the third largest in North America based on market capitalization. Based in the ...
is created. *
1868 Events January–March * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Jap ...
– The
Uspenski Cathedral russian: Успенский собор sv, Uspenskijkatedralen , native_name_lang = , image = File:Catedral Uspenski, Helsinki, Finlandia, 2012-08-14, DD 03.JPG , coordinates = , location = Helsi ...
, designed by
Aleksey Gornostayev Alexey Maksimovich Gornostaev (russian: link=no, Алексей Максимович Горностаев; February 18, 1808 – December 18, 1862) was a Russian architect, notable as a pioneer in Russian Revival, the builder of Valaam Monastery ...
, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. *
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 ...
– The United Kingdom annexes the
Transvaal Transvaal is a historical geographic term associated with land north of (''i.e.'', beyond) the Vaal River in South Africa. A number of states and administrative divisions have carried the name Transvaal. * South African Republic (1856–1902; af, ...
.


1901–present

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1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...
– The
Xinhai Revolution The 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and led to the establishment of the Republic of China. The revolution was the culmination of a ...
spreads to
Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...
, where the Qing general Feng-shan is assassinated by the
Chinese Assassination Corps The Chinese Assassination Corps (or China Assassination Corps or Sina Assassination Corps, ) was an anarchist group, active in China during the final years of the Qing dynasty. One of the first organized anarchist movements in China and fiercel ...
. *
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Fo ...
Old Style date of the
October Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key mome ...
in Russia. * 1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork,
Terence MacSwiney Terence James MacSwiney (; ga, Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne; 28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920) was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He ...
dies. *
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 holds ...
– The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the ''Daily Mail''; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later. *
1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 ...
– The Italian luxury liner SS ''Principessa Mafalda'' sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314. *
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 Hiro ...
George Lansbury George Lansbury (22 February 1859 – 7 May 1940) was a British politician and social reformer who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Apart from a brief period of ministerial office during the Labour government of 1929–31, he spe ...
became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party. *
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * Januar ...
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army. *
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 Nor ...
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 opposing ...
: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the
Edelweiss Pirates The Edelweiss Pirates (german: Edelweißpiraten ) were a loosely organized group of youths opposed to the status quo of Nazi Germany. They emerged in western Germany out of the German Youth Movement of the late 1930s in response to the strict reg ...
, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. * 1944 – World War II: The under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. * 1944 – World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which Nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat. Events Below, ...
– Fifty years of Japanese administration of
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control. * 1949 – The
Battle of Guningtou The Battle of Kuningtou or Battle of Guningtou (), also known as the Battle of Kinmen (), was a battle fought over Kinmen in the Taiwan Strait during the Chinese Civil War in 1949. The failure of the Communists to take the island left it in t ...
in the Taiwan Strait begins. *
1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...
Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. *
1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Janu ...
– A
Fairchild F-27 The Fairchild F-27 and Fairchild Hiller FH-227 were versions of the Fokker F27 Friendship twin-engined turboprop passenger aircraft manufactured under license by Fairchild Hiller in the United States. The Fairchild F-27 was similar to the standa ...
crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in
Lebanon, New Hampshire Lebanon is a city in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 14,282 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, up from 13,151 at the 2010 census. Lebanon is in western New Hampshire, south of Hanover, New Hampshire, H ...
, killing 32 people. * 1971 – The
People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
'' replaces'' the Republic of China at the United Nations. *
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: ...
– Egypt and Israel accept
United Nations Security Council Resolution 339 United Nations Security Council Resolution 339 was adopted on 23 October 1973 in order to bring a ceasefire in the Yom Kippur War where Resolution 338 two days before had failed. The resolution primarily reaffirmed the terms outlined in Resolu ...
. * 1980 – Proceedings on the
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or Hague Abduction Convention is a multilateral treaty that provides an expeditious method to return a child internationally abducted by a parent from one member countr ...
conclude. *
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
– The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a ''coup d'état''. *
1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...
A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. *
1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
– After a
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 policies ...
, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo. *
1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
– A
Learjet 35 The Learjet Model 35 and Model 36 are a series of American multi-role business jets and military transport aircraft manufactured by Learjet. When used by the United States Air Force they carry the designation C-21A. The aircraft are powered by ...
crashes in Mina near
Aberdeen, South Dakota Aberdeen ( Lakota: ''Ablíla'') is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, South Dakota, United States, located approximately northeast of Pierre. The city population was 28,495 at the 2020 census, making it the third most populous ci ...
, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer
Payne Stewart William Payne Stewart (January 30, 1957 – October 25, 1999) was an American professional golfer who won eleven PGA Tour events, including three major championships, the last of which came just a few months before his death in an airplane acci ...
. * 2001
Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...
releases
Windows XP Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Windows 2000 for high-end and ...
, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems. * 2009 – The
October 2009 Baghdad bombings The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings were attacks in Baghdad, Iraq which killed 155 people and injured at least 721 people. Attack The attack was caused by two suicide car bombs, in a minivan and a 26-seat bus, which targeted the Ministry of Jus ...
kill 155 and wound at least 721. * 2010
Mount Merapi Mount Merapi, ''Gunung Merapi'' (literally Fire Mountain in Indonesian and Javanese), is an active stratovolcano located on the border between the province of Central Java and the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the most acti ...
in
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people. *2010 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's
Mentawai Islands Mentawai may refer to: * Mentawai Islands * Mentawai Strait * Mentawai people * Mentawai language The Mentawai language is an Austronesian language, spoken by the Mentawai people of the Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Dialects Ac ...
, triggering a
tsunami A tsunami ( ; from ja, 津波, lit=harbour wave, ) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater exp ...
that kills at least 400 people.


Births


Pre-1600

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840 __NOTOC__ Year 840 ( DCCCXL) was a leap year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar, the 840th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 840th year of the 1st millennium, the 40th year of the 9th century, and the ...
Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar , title = Amir of the Saffarid dynasty , image = مجسمه یعقوب لیث در زابل.jpg , image_size = 300px , caption = Statue of Ya'qub in Zabol, Iran , reign = 861–879 , coronation = , predece ...
, founder of the
Saffarid dynasty The Saffarid dynasty ( fa, صفاریان, safaryan) was a Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian origin that ruled over parts of Persia, Greater Khorasan, and eastern Makran from 861 to 1003. One of the first indigenous Persian dynasties to eme ...
(d. 879) *
1102 Year 1102 ( MCII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Levant * Spring – A Fatimid expeditionary force (some 20,000 men) invades Palestine and la ...
William Clito William Clito (25 October 110228 July 1128) was a member of the House of Normandy who ruled the County of Flanders from 1127 until his death and unsuccessfully claimed the Duchy of Normandy. As the son of Robert Curthose, the eldest son of William ...
, French son of Sybilla of Conversano (d. 1128) *
1330 Year 1330 ( MCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * July 28 – Battle of Velbazhd: The Bulgarians under Tsar Michael Shishman (who ...
Louis II, Count of Flanders, (d. 1384) *
1453 Year 1453 ( MCDLIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1453rd year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 453rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 15th century, and the ...
Giuliano de' Medici Giuliano de' Medici (25 October 1453 – 26 April 1478) was the second son of Piero de' Medici (the Gouty) and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. As co-ruler of Florence, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemented his brother's image as the ...
(d. 1478) * 1510
Renée of France Renée of France (25 October 1510 – 12 June 1574), was Duchess of Ferrara from 31 October 1534 until 3 October 1559 by marriage to Ercole II d'Este, grandson of Pope Alexander VI. She was the younger surviving child of Louis XII of Fran ...
(d. 1574) *
1574 __NOTOC__ Year 1574 ( MDLXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * February 23 – The fifth War of Religion against the Huguenots begins ...
François de Sourdis François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, Kin ...
, French Catholic prelate (d. 1628) *
1589 Events January–June * War of the Three Henrys: In France, the Catholic League is in rebellion against King Henry III, in revenge for his murder of Henry I, Duke of Guise in December 1588. The King makes peace with his old ri ...
Jan Stanisław Sapieha Jan Stanisław Sapieha ( lt, Jonas Stanislovas Sapiega; 25 October 1589 in Maladziečna - 10 April 1635 in Lyakhavichy) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble, starost of Słonim, Court Marshal of Lithuania from 1617, Great Lithuanian Marshal from 16 ...
, Polish-Lithuanian noble (d. 1635)


1601–1900

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1612 Events January–June * January 6 – Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden. He persuades the Riksdag of the Estates to grant the Swedish nobility the right and privilege to hold all higher offices of govern ...
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish soldier (d. 1650) *
1667 Events January–March * January 11 – Aurangzeb, monarch of the Mughal Empire, orders the removal of Rao Karan Singh as Maharaja of the Bikaner State (part of the modern-day Rajasthan state of India) because of Karan's dereli ...
Louis Frederick I, Prince of
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was a small historic state in present-day Thuringia, Germany, with its capital at Rudolstadt. History Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was established in 1599 in the course of a resettlement of Schwarzburg dynasty lands. Since t ...
(d. 1718) *
1683 Events January–March * January 5 – The Brandenburger—African Company, of the German state of Brandenburg, signs a treaty with representatives of the Ahanta tribe (in what is now Ghana), to establish the fort and settlement ...
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, (25 October 1683 – 6 May 1757) was an Irish and English politician. Early life He was the only child and heir of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (1663–1690) (an illegitimate son of King Charles ...
, English-Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1757) *
1692 Events January–March * January 24 – At least 75 residents of what is now York, Maine are killed in the Candlemas Massacre, carried out by French soldiers led by missionary Louis-Pierre Thury, along with a larger force of Abenaki a ...
Elisabeth Farnese Elisabeth Farnese ( Italian: ''Elisabetta Farnese'', Spanish: ''Isabel Farnesio''; 25 October 169211 July 1766) was Queen of Spain by marriage to King Philip V. She exerted great influence over Spain's foreign policy and was the ''de facto'' r ...
,
Queen of Spain , coatofarms = File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Spanish_Monarch.svg , coatofarms_article = Coat of arms of the King of Spain , image = Felipe_VI_in_2020_(cropped).jpg , incumbent = Felipe VI , incumbentsince = 19 Ju ...
(d. 1766) *
1709 In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Friday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. Events January–March * January 1 – Battle of St. John's: The French capture St. John' ...
Georg Gebel, German organist and composer (d. 1753) *
1714 Events January–March * January 21 – After being tricked into deserting a battle against India's Mughal Empire by the rebel Sayyid brothers, Prince Azz-ud-din Mirza is blinded on orders of the Emperor Farrukhsiyar as punishment. * Feb ...
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (baptised 25 October 1714; died 26 May 1799) was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics. In 176 ...
, Scottish judge (d. 1799) * 1736
Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry (25 October 1736 – 11 January 1824) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. Biography Mullins was the son of William Mullins and Mary Rowan.Michael C. O'Laughlin, ''Families of Co. Kerry, Ireland'' (Irish Roots ...
, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (d. 1824) *
1743 Events January–March * January 1 – The Verendrye brothers, probably Louis-Joseph and François de La Vérendrye, become the first white people to see the Rocky Mountains from the eastern side (the Spanish conquistadors ...
Friedrich Karl August, Prince of
Waldeck and Pyrmont The County of Waldeck (later the Principality of Waldeck and Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and its successors from the late 12th century until 1929. In 1349 the county gained Imperial immediacy and in 1 ...
(d. 1812) *
1749 Events January–March * January 3 ** Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont. ** The first issue of ''Berlingske'', Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, ...
Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, (25 October 1749, Loddby, Sweden – 9 May 1802, Poligny, France) was a Swedish diplomat, soldier and courtier best known for being Sweden's Ambassador to France during the end of the Ancien Regime and the e ...
, Swedish chamberlain (d. 1802) * 1754
Richard Howell Richard Howell (October 25, 1754April 28, 1802) was the third governor of New Jersey from 1794 to 1801. Early life and military career Howell was born in Newark in the Colony of Delaware. He was a lawyer and soldier of the early United States ...
, 3rd
Governor of New Jersey The governor of New Jersey is the head of government of New Jersey. The office of governor is an elected position with a four-year term. There is a two consecutive term term limit, with no limitation on non-consecutive terms. The official r ...
(d. 1802) *
1755 Events January–March * January 23 (O. S. January 12, Tatiana Day, nowadays celebrated on January 25) – Moscow University is established. * February 13 – The kingdom of Mataram on Java is divided in two, creating th ...
François Joseph Lefebvre François Joseph Lefebvre ( , ; 25 October 1755 – 14 September 1820), Duc de Dantzig, was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and one of the original eighteen Marshals of the Empire created by Napoleon. Ea ...
, French military commander (d. 1820) *
1757 Events January–March * January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. * January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt ...
Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian statesman (d. 1831) *
1759 In Great Britain, this year was known as the ''Annus Mirabilis'', because of British victories in the Seven Years' War. Events January–March * January 6 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis. * January 11 &nda ...
Maria Feodorovna, Russian wife of Paul I of Russia (d. 1828) * 1759 – William Grenville, English academic and politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern ...
(d. 1834) *
1760 Events January–March * January 9 – Battle of Barari Ghat: Afghan forces defeat the Marathas. * January 22 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Wandiwash, India: British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the Fr ...
Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren (25 October 1760, Arbergen6 March 1842, Göttingen) was a German historian. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History. Biography Heeren was born on 25 October 1760 in Arbergen near Bremen, a small village ...
, German historian (d. 1842) *
1767 Events January–March * January 1 – The first annual volume of ''The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris'', produced by British Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, gives navigators the ...
Benjamin Constant Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Franco-Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion. A committed republican from 1795, he backed t ...
, Swiss-French philosopher and politician (d. 1830) *
1768 Events January–March * January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London. * February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House o ...
Frederick William, ruler of
Nassau-Weilburg The House of Nassau-Weilburg, a branch of the House of Nassau, ruled a division of the County of Nassau, which was a state in what is now Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1344 to 1806. On 17 July 1806, upon the dissolution of t ...
(d. 1816) *
1772 Events January–March * January 10 – Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor of India, makes a triumphant return to Delhi 15 years after having been forced to flee. * January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline ...
Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein Marie Louise Victoire de Donnissan de La Rochejaquelein née ''marquise de Lescure'' (25 October 1772 - 15 February 1857), was a French memoirist. She is known for her memoirs, depicting her misfortunes and her part in the Vendée wars. Life She ...
, French memoirist (d. 1857) * 1772 –
Géraud Duroc Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc (born de Michel du Roc; 25 October 1772 – 23 May 1813), 1st Duke of Frioul (''Duc de Frioul''), was a French general and diplomat who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was noted ...
, French general and diplomat (d. 1813) *
1779 Events January–March * January 11 – British troops surrender to the Marathas in Wadgaon, India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since 1773. * January 11 – Ching-Thang Khomba is crowned King of Manip ...
Pedro Velarde y Santillán, Spanish artillery captain (d. 1808) *
1781 Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21. * January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn in E ...
Friedrich von Berchtold Count Friedrich Carl Eugen Vsemir von Berchtold, baron von Ungarschitz ( cz, Bedřich Karel Eugen Všemír Berchtold hrabě z Uherčic; 25 October 1781 – 3 April 1876), was a German-speaking Bohemian physician and botanist from Austrian descent ...
, Bohemian physician and botanist (d. 1876) *
1782 Events January–March * January 7 – The first American commercial bank (Bank of North America) opens. * January 15 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establish ...
Levi Lincoln Jr. Levi Lincoln Jr. (October 25, 1782 – May 29, 1868) was an American lawyer and politician from Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the 13th Governor of Massachusetts (1825–1834) and represented the state in the U.S. Congress (1834–1841). Li ...
, American lawyer and politician, 13th
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. 1868) *
1789 Events January–March * January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet '' What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution. * January 7 – The 1788-89 United States presidential electio ...
Carlos María de Alvear Carlos María de Alvear (October 25, 1789 in Santo Ángel, Rio Grande do Sul – November 3, 1852 in New York), was an Argentine soldier and statesman, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in 1815. Early life H ...
, Argentine soldier and statesman (d. 1852) * 1789 –
Heinrich Schwabe Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (25 October 1789 – 11 April 1875) a German astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. Schwabe was born at Dessau. At first an apothecary, he turned his attention to astronomy, and in 1826 commenced his observatio ...
, German astronomer (d. 1875) *
1790 Events January–March * January 8 – United States President George Washington gives the first State of the Union address, in New York City. * January 11 – The 11 minor states of the Austrian Netherlands, which took ...
Robert Stirling Robert Stirling (25 October 1790 – 6 June 1878) was a Scottish clergyman and engineer. He invented the Stirling engine and was inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014. Early life Robert Stirling was born at Fatal Fiel ...
, Scottish clergyman and inventor (d. 1878) *
1792 Events January–March * January 9 – The Treaty of Jassy ends the Russian Empire's war with the Ottoman Empire over Crimea. * February 18 – Thomas Holcroft produces the comedy '' The Road to Ruin'' in London. * February ...
Jeanne Jugan Jeanne Jugan (October 25, 1792 – August 29, 1879), also known as Sister Mary of the Cross, L.S.P., was a French woman who became known for the dedication of her life to the neediest of the elderly poor. Her service resulted in the establishment ...
, French nun (d. 1879) *
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 ...
John P. Kennedy John Pendleton Kennedy (October 25, 1795 – August 18, 1870) was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Mi ...
, American novelist and Whig politician (d. 1870) *
1800 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 18), 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 12 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 16 ...
Maria Jane Jewsbury, English writer, poet, literary reviewer (d. 1833) * 1800 –
Thomas Babington Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1 ...
, English poet, historian, and politician,
Secretary at War The Secretary at War was a political position in the English and later British government, with some responsibility over the administration and organization of the Army, but not over military policy. The Secretary at War ran the War Office. Afte ...
(d. 1859) * 1800 –
Jacques Paul Migne Jacques Paul Migne (; 25 October 1800 – 24 October 1875) was a French priest who published inexpensive and widely distributed editions of theological works, encyclopedias, and the texts of the Church Fathers, with the goal of providing a ...
, French priest (d. 1875) * 1800 –
Julius von Mohl Julius von Mohl (25 October 1800 – 4 January 1876) was a German Orientalist. Life The brother of Hugo von Mohl and Robert von Mohl, he was born at Stuttgart. He abandoned the idea of entering the Lutheran ministry, and in 1823 went to Pari ...
, German orientalist (d. 1876) *
1802 Events January–March * January 5 – Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens, claiming they were at risk of destruction during the O ...
Richard Parkes Bonington Richard Parkes Bonington (25 October 1802 – 23 September 1828) was an English Romantic landscape painter, who moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English sty ...
, English painter (d. 1828) * 1802 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (d. 1864) *
1803 Events * January 1 – The first edition of Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière's ''Almanach des gourmands'', the first guide to restaurant cooking, is published in Paris. * January 5 – William Symington demonstrates his ...
Maria Doolaeghe Maria Doolaeghe (25 October 1803 – 7 April 1884) was a Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Fl ...
, Flemish novelist (d. 1884) * 1806
Max Stirner Johann Kaspar Schmidt (25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner, was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is often seen a ...
, German philosopher and author (d. 1856) *
1811 Events January–March * January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana. * January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Br ...
Évariste Galois Évariste Galois (; ; 25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832) was a French mathematician and political activist. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, ...
, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1832) *
1814 Events January * January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine. * January 3 ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison ...
Prince Louis,
Duke of Nemours Duke of Nemours was a title in the Peerage of France. The name refers to Nemours in the Île-de-France region of north-central France. History In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Lordship of Nemours, in the Gatinais, France, was a possession of t ...
(d. 1896) * 1815Camillo Sivori, Italian virtuoso violinist and composer (d. 1894) *
1819 Events January–March * January 2 – The Panic of 1819, the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States, begins. * January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia. * January 29 – Si ...
Christian August Friedrich Garcke, German botanist (d. 1904) *
1821 Events January–March * January 21 – Peter I Island in the Antarctic is first sighted, by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. * January 28 – Alexander Island, the largest in Antarctica, is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von B ...
Antonio Ciseri, Swiss-Italian painter (d. 1891) *
1825 Events January–March * January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies in Naples and is succeeded by his son, Francis. * February 3 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula forming westernmost Denmark, becomes a ...
Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1899) * 1825 –
Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (25 October 1825 in Eutin, Germany – 7 February 1884 in Athens, Greece) was a German astronomer and geophysicist. He was the director of the National Observatory of Athens in Greece from 1858 to 1884. Julius Schmi ...
, German astronomer and geophysicist (d. 1884) *
1827 Events January–March * January 5 – The first regatta in Australia is held, taking place on Tasmania (called at the time ''Van Diemen's Land''), on the River Derwent at Hobart. * January 15 – Furman University, founded in 1826, be ...
Marcellin Berthelot Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot (; 25 October 1827 – 18 March 1907) was a French chemist and Republican politician noted for the ThomsenBerthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substa ...
, French chemist and politician (d. 1907) *
1832 Events January–March * January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. * January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white plant ...
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1909) * 1838Georges Bizet, French pianist and composer (d. 1875) * 1838 –
James Maybrick James Maybrick (25 October 1838 – 11 May 1889) was a Liverpool cotton merchant. After his death, his wife, Florence Maybrick, was convicted of murdering him by poisoning in a sensational trial. The "Aigburth Poisoning" case was widely report ...
, English cotton merchant, victim of the "Aigburth Poisoning" (d. 1889) * 1844
Philip Wicksteed Philip Henry Wicksteed (25 October 1844 – 18 March 1927) is known primarily as an economist. He was also a Georgist, Unitarian theologian, classicist, medievalist, and literary critic. Family background He was the son of Charles Wicksteed ...
, English economist (d. 1927) *
1848 1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the polit ...
Carlo Emery Carlo Emery (25 October 1848, Naples – 11 May 1925) was an Italian entomologist. He is remembered for Emery's rule, which states that insect social parasites are often closely related to their hosts. Early in his career Carlo Emery pursue ...
, Italian entomologist (d. 1925) * 1848 –
Karl Emil Franzos Karl Emil Franzos (25 October 184828 January 1904) was a popular Austrian novelist of the late 19th century. His works, both reportage and fiction, concentrate on the multi-ethnic corner of Galicia, Podolia and Bukovina, now largely in western U ...
, Austrian novelist (d. 1904) *
1852 Events January–March * January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. * January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come tog ...
Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Russian author (d. 1912) *
1853 Events January–March * January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida. * January 8 – Taiping R ...
Karl August Otto Hoffmann Karl August Otto Hoffmann (25 October 1853 in Beeskow – 11 September 1909) was a German botanist and a high school teacher in Berlin. Author of ''Sertum plantarum madagascariensium'', the genus '' Hoffmanniella'' in the family Asteraceae was ...
, German botanist (d. 1909) *
1856 Events January–March * January 8 – Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch in California. * January 23 – American paddle steamer SS ''Pacific'' leaves Liverpool (England) for a transatlantic voya ...
Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger (born October 25, 1856 in Zagreb, died December 24, 1936, Zagreb) was a Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archeologist. Education Dragutin finished his elementary education in Zagreb, Croatia, as well as t ...
, Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archaeologist (d. 1936) *
1858 Events January–March * January – ** Benito Juárez (1806–1872) becomes Liberal President of Mexico. At the same time, conservatives install Félix María Zuloaga (1813–1898) as president. ** William I of Prussia becomes regen ...
Take Ionescu Take or Tache Ionescu (; born Dumitru Ghiță Ioan and also known as Demetriu G. Ionnescu; – 21 June 1922) was a Romanian centrist politician, journalist, lawyer and diplomat, who also enjoyed reputation as a short story author. Starting his ...
, Romanian politician, diplomat, journalist and lawyer (d. 1922) * 1864
John Francis Dodge John Francis Dodge (October 25, 1864 – January 14, 1920) was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company. Biography Dodge was born in Niles, Michigan, where his father ran a foundry and machine s ...
, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company (d. 1920) * 1864 –
Alexander Gretchaninov Alexander Tikhonovich GretchaninovAlso commonly transliterated as ''Aleksandr/Alexandre'' ''Grechaninov/Gretchaninoff/Gretschaninow'' ( rus, Алекса́ндр Ти́хонович Гречани́нов, p=ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɡrʲɪtɕɐˈnʲin ...
, Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 1956) * 1864 – Toktogul Satylganov, Kyrgyz
Akyn Akyns, or aqyns ( kk, ақын, ky, акын, ; both transcribed as ''aqın'' or ''اقىن''), are improvising poets and singers in the Kazakh and Kyrgyz cultures. Akyns differ from the or , who are song performers or epic storytellers. In ...
, poet and singer (d. 1933) *
1866 Events January–March * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman t ...
Thomas Armat Thomas J. Armat (October 25, 1866 – September 30, 1948) was an American mechanic and inventor, a pioneer of cinema best known through the co-invention of the Edison Vitascope. Biography Armat studied at the Mechanics Institute in Richmond, Vir ...
, American mechanic and inventor (d. 1948) * 1866 –
Norbert Klein Norbert Klein (25 October 1866 in Brunzeif, Austrian Silesia – 10 March 1933 in Bruntál, Czechoslovakia) was Bishop of Brno from 1916 to 1926 and 59th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1923 to 1933. Life Klein began his theologica ...
, Bishop of Brno (d. 1933) * 1866 – Georg Schumann, German composer (d. 1952) *
1867 Events January–March * January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...
Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki (Iosif Romanovich while in the Russian military; sometimes also Dowbór-Muśnicki; ; 25 October 1867 – 26 October 1937) was a Russian military officer and Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Poli ...
, Polish general (d. 1937) *
1868 Events January–March * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Jap ...
Dan Burke, American baseball player (d. 1933) * 1868 – Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (d. 1946) * 1874Emma Gramatica, Italian actress (d. 1965) * 1874 – Victor Sonnemans, Belgian water polo player (d. 1962) * 1874 –
Huang Xing Huang Xing or Huang Hsing (; 25 October 1874 – 31 October 1916) was a Chinese revolutionary leader and politician, and the first commander-in-chief of the Republic of China. As one of the founders of the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Republic o ...
, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (d. 1916) *
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 the ...
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (October 25, 1875 – December 23, 1961) was an American children's author. She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Teachers College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1896. She contributed to t ...
, American author and educator (d. 1961) * 1875 – Arthur Birkett, British cricketer (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 ...
Adolf Moller Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in vari ...
, German rower (d. 1968) * 1877 –
Henry Norris Russell Henry Norris Russell ForMemRS HFRSE FRAS (October 25, 1877 – February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he d ...
, American astronomer (d. 1957) * 1879
Fritz Haarmann Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann (25 October 1879 – 15 April 1925) was a German serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemb ...
, German serial killer (d. 1925) *
1880 Events January–March * January 22 – Toowong State School is founded in Queensland, Australia. * January – The international White slave trade affair scandal in Brussels is exposed and attracts international infamy. * February ...
Bohumír Šmeral Bohumír Šmeral (25 October 1880 in Třebíč, Margraviate of Moravia – 8 May 1941 in Moscow) was a Czech politician, leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party, and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Early life ...
, Czech politician (d. 1941) *
1881 Events January–March * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The ...
Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973) *
1882 Events January–March * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in t ...
John T. Flynn, American journalist and author (d. 1964) * 1882 – Tony Jackson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1921) * 1882 – André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien, French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1964) * 1882 – Theodora Agnes Peck, American author and poet (d. 1964) *
1883 Events January–March * January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * Ja ...
Nikolay Krestinsky Nikolay Nikolayevich Krestinsky (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Крести́нский; 13 October 1883 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who served as the Responsible Sec ...
, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1938) *
1884 Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's '' Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price at ...
Maria Czaplicka Maria Antonina Czaplicka (25 October 1884 – 27 May 1921), also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. Czaplicka ...
, Polish cultural anthropologist (d. 1921) * 1885Sam M. Lewis, American singer and lyricist (d. 1959) * 1885 – Xavier Lesage, French equestrian (d. 1968) *
1886 Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
Leo G. Carroll Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor. In a career of more than forty years, he appeared in six Hitchcock films including ''Spellbound'', '' Strangers on a Train'' and ''North by Northwest'' and in thre ...
, English-American actor (d. 1972) * 1886 –
Karl Polanyi Karl Paul Polanyi (; hu, Polányi Károly ; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964),''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2003) vol 9. p. 554 was an Austro-Hungarian economic anthropologist and politician, best known ...
, Austro-Hungarian economist and historian (d. 1964) *
1887 Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl ...
Alexander McCulloch, British rower (d. 1951) *
1888 In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late ...
Richard E. Byrd Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, p ...
, American admiral and pilot (d. 1957) * 1888 –
Nils Dardel Nils Dardel (full name Nils Elias Kristofer von Dardel, sometimes known as ''Nils de Dardel'') was a 20th-century Swedish Post-Impressionist painter, grandson to famous Swedish painter Fritz von Dardel. Biography Dardel was born in Bettna, S ...
, Swedish-American painter (d. 1943) * 1888 –
Jan Palouš Jan Leopold Alois "Koza" Palouš (25 October 1888 – 25 September 1971) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Winter Olympics. He was born in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia and died i ...
, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (d. 1971) * 1888 –
Léon Tom Léon Tom (born 25 October 1888, date of death unknown) was a Belgian épée, foil and sabre fencer and bobsledder. He won two silver medals in the team épée competition at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the bobsleigh e ...
, Belgian fencer and bobsledder *
1889 Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in t ...
Abel Gance, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981) * 1890
Floyd Bennett Floyd Bennett (October 25, 1890 – April 25, 1928) was a United States Naval Aviator, along with then USN Commander Richard E. Byrd, to have made the first flight to the North Pole in May 1926. However, their claim to have reached the pole is d ...
, American aviator (d. 1928) * 1890 – Kōtarō Tanaka, Japanese jurist and politician (d. 1974) *
1891 Events January–March * January 1 ** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany. ** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence. ** Germany takes formal possession of its new Af ...
Charles Coughlin Charles Edward Coughlin ( ; October 25, 1891 – October 27, 1979), commonly known as Father Coughlin, was a Canadian-American Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit. He was the founding priest of the National Shrine of the ...
, Canadian-American priest and radio host (d. 1979) * 1891 – Karl Elmendorff, German conductor (d. 1962) *
1892 Events January–March * January 1 – Ellis Island begins accommodating immigrants to the United States. * February 1 - The historic Enterprise Bar and Grill was established in Rico, Colorado. * February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies fo ...
Nell Shipman Nell Shipman (born Helen Foster-Barham; October 25, 1892 – January 23, 1970) was a Canadian actress, author, screenwriter, producer, director, animal rights activist and animal trainer. Her works often had autobiographical elements to them and ...
, Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1970) *
1894 Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
Claude Cahun, French photographer and sculptor (d. 1954) * 1894 – Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish poet and songwriter (d. 1973) * 1894 – Johan Wilhelm Rangell,
Prime Minister of Finland The prime minister of Finland ( fi, Suomen pääministeri; ) is the leader of the Finnish Government. The prime minister and their cabinet exercise executive authority in the state. The prime minister is formally Finnish order of precedence, r ...
(d. 1982) *
1895 Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...
Levi Eshkol Levi Eshkol ( he, לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל ;‎ 25 October 1895 – 26 February 1969), born Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik ( he, לוי יצחק שקולניק, links=no), was an Israeli statesman who served as the third Prime Minister of Israe ...
, Ukrainian-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd
Prime Minister of Israel The prime minister of Israel ( he, רֹאשׁ הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה, Rosh HaMemshala, Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: he2, רה״מ; ar, رئيس الحكومة, ''Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma'') is the head of government and chief exec ...
(d. 1969) * 1895 –
Vsevolod Merkulov Vsevolod Nikolayevich (Boris) Merkulov (russian: Всеволод Николаевич Меркулов; – 23 December 1953) was the head of NKGB from February to July 1941, and again from April 1943 to March 1946. He was a leading member of ...
, Russian head of the
NKGB The People's Commissariat for State Security (russian: Народный комиссариат государственной безопасности) or NKGB, was the name of the Soviet secret police, intelligence and counter-intelligence fo ...
(d. 1953) * 1895 – Arthur Schmidt, German officer (d. 1987) *
1896 Events January–March * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that ...
Nils Backlund, Swedish water polo player (d. 1964) *
1897 Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puni ...
Erwin von Lahousen Generalmajor Erwin Heinrich René Lahousen, Edler von Vivremont (25 October 1897 – 24 February 1955) was a high-ranking Abwehr official during the Second World War, as well as a member of the German Resistance and a key player in attempts to a ...
, German Abwehr official (d. 1955) * 1897 –
Karl Olivecrona Karl Olivecrona (25 October 1897, in Norrbärke – 1980) was a Swedish lawyer and legal philosopher. He studied law at Uppsala from 1915 to 1920 and was a pupil of Axel Hägerström, the spiritual father of Scandinavian legal realism. One of the i ...
, Swedish lawyer and philosopher (d. 1980) * 1897 –
Luigi Pavese Luigi Pavese (25 October 1897 – 13 December 1969) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Asti, Pavese started his career in 1916 working as a silent film actor at 19 years of age. He then began his theatrical debut in 192 ...
, Italian actor (d. 1969) *
1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...
Karl Anton Karl Anton or Karel Anton (25 October 1898 12 April 1979) was a Bohemian-born German film director, screenwriter and film producer. Biography He was born in Prague on 25 October 1898. His father Wilhelm Anton (1861–1918) was a physician. An ...
, German director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1979) *
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 ...
Armand Thirard, French cinematographer (d. 1973) *
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 ...
Johan Greter Johan Jacob Greter (25 October 1900 in Amsterdam – 29 January 1975 in Ede) was a Dutch equestrian who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he and his horse ''Ernica'' won the silver medal as part of the Dutch show jumping team, af ...
, Dutch equestrian (d. 1975) * 1900 –
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, MON ( /ˌfʊnmiˈlaɪjoʊ ˈrænsəm ˈkuːti/; born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas; 25 October 190013 April 1978), also known as Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suff ...
, Nigerian educator and activist (d. 1978) * 1900 –
William Stevenson William Stevenson may refer to: Government and politics * Sir William Stevenson (colonial administrator) (1805–1863), Governor of Mauritius * William E. Stevenson (1820–1883), American politician, Governor of West Virginia * William Ernest St ...
, American track and fielder (d. 1985)


1901–present

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1901 Events January * January 1 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton becomes the first Prime Minist ...
Roy Fox Roy Fox (October 25, 1901 – March 20, 1982) was an American-born British dance bandleader who was popular in Britain during the British dance band era. Early life and career Roy Fox was born in Denver, Colorado, United States. He and his ...
, British dance bandleader (d. 1982) *
1902 Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world' ...
Henry Steele Commager Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) was an American historian. As one of the most active and prolific liberal intellectuals of his time, with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, he helped define modern liberalism in the United States. In the 19 ...
, American historian and author (d. 1998) * 1902 –
Carlo Gnocchi Carlo Gnocchi (25 October 190228 February 1956) was an Italian priest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. During World War II, he was a military chaplain of the Alpini, the elite mountain warfare soldiers ...
, Italian priest, educator and writer (d. 1956) * 1902 – Eddie Lang, American jazz guitarist (d. 1933) *
1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having bee ...
Piet van der Horst Petrus "Piet" Michaelis van der Horst (25 October 1903 – 18 February 1983) was a Dutch racing cyclist who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal as part of the Dutch pursuit team. See also * List of Dutch Olympic ...
, Dutch cyclist (d. 1983) *
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 ...
Cemal Reşit Rey Cemal Reşit Rey (; 25 October 1904 – 7 October 1985) was a Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor. He was well known for a string of successful and popular Turkish-language operettas for which his brother Ekrem Reşit Rey (1 ...
, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1985) * 1904 –
Denny Shute Herman Densmore "Denny" Shute (October 25, 1904 – May 13, 1974) was an American professional golfer who won three major championships in the 1930s. Life and career Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Shute was the son of a golf pro from England; Hermon ...
, American golfer (d. 1974) * 1904 –
Bill Tytla Volodymyr Peter "Bill" Tytla (October 25, 1904 - December 30, 1968) was a Ukrainian-American animator known for his work in Walt Disney Animation Studios, Paramount's Famous Studios, and Terrytoons. In his Disney career, Tytla is particularly ...
, Ukrainian-American animator (d. 1968) *
1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia ( Shostakovich's 11th Symphony ...
Bob McPhail Robert Lowe McPhail (25 October 1905 – 24 August 2000) was a Scottish professional footballer, who played for Airdrieonians, Rangers and represented Scotland. Career Airdrieonians Born in Barrhead, McPhail started his career at Glasgow Jun ...
, Scottish footballer (d. 2000) *
1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
Karl Humenberger Karl Humenberger (25 October 1906 – 28 December 1989) was an Austrian association football player and manager, the brother of fellow player Ferdinand Humenberger. Club career Born in Vienna, Humenberger played in Austria for Floridsdorfer AC an ...
, Austrian footballer (d. 1989) *
1908 Events January * January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica. * January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 4 ...
Carmen Dillon, English film and production designer (d. 2000) * 1908 –
Gotthard Handrick Gotthard Handrick (25 October 1908 – 30 May 1978) was a German Olympic athlete and German fighter pilot during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Career Handrick was born on 25 October 1908 in Zittau, at the time in the Kingdom of Saxony ...
, German fighter pilot and Olympic athlete (d. 1978) * 1908 –
Polly Ann Young Polly Ann Young (October 25, 1908 – January 21, 1997) was an American actress. Biography Young was born in Denver, Colorado. Actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane were her sisters. From 1917 to 1941, she was featured in over 40 movies, ...
, American actress (d. 1997) *
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 ...
Whit Bissell Whitner Nutting Bissell (October 25, 1909 – March 5, 1996) was an American character actor. Early life Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell and Helen Nutting Bissell. He was educated at the Allen-S ...
, American actor (d. 1996) * 1909 –
Jean-Paul Le Chanois Jean-Paul Étienne Dreyfus, better known as Jean-Paul Le Chanois (25 October 1909 – 8 July 1985), was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. His film '' ...Sans laisser d'adresse'' won the Golden Bear (Comedies) award at the 1s ...
, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1985) * 1909 –
Ken Domon is one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the 20th century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary. Biography Domon was born in Sakata, Y ...
, Japanese photographer (d. 1990) * 1909 – Edward Flynn, American boxer (d. 1976) *
1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
William Higinbotham William Alfred Higinbotham (October 22, 1910 – November 10, 1994) was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. He also has a place in the his ...
, American physicist and video game designer (d. 1994) * 1910 – Johnny Mauro, American race car driver (d. 2003) * 1910 –
Tyrus Wong Tyrus Wong (October 25, 1910 – December 30, 2016) was a Chinese-born American artist. He was a painter, animator, calligrapher, muralist, ceramicist, lithographer and kite maker, as well as a set designer and storyboard artist. One of the mo ...
, Chinese-American artist (d. 2016) * 1912
Abdelkader Ben Bouali Abdelkader Ben Bouali (25 October 1912 in Sendjas, Chlef Province – 23 February 1997 in Algiers) was a professional French football Association football is the most popular sport in France. The French Football Federation (FFF, Fédéra ...
, French footballer (d. 1997) * 1912 –
Alfred Klingler Alfred Klingler (25 October 1912 in Leipzig – ?) was a German field handball Field handball (also known as outdoor handball or grass handball) was a form of what is now handball and was played at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The ...
, German field handballer * 1912 –
Minnie Pearl Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (1940–1991) and on the television ...
, American entertainer and philanthropist (d. 1996) * 1912 – Luigi Raimondi, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1975) *
1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the ...
Klaus Barbie Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German operative of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primar ...
, German SS captain (d. 1991) * 1913 –
Anton Kochinyan Anton Yervandi Kochinyan ( hy, Անտոն Երվանդի Քոչինյան; 25 October 1913 – 1 December 1990, Yerevan) was a Soviet Armenian politician. He was Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1952 to 1966, and the First Secretary ...
, Soviet-Armenian politician (d. 1990) *
1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...
John Berryman John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in th ...
, American poet and scholar (d. 1972) *
1915 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". * January ...
Ivan M. Niven, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1999) *
1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * J ...
Helge Larsson, Swedish canoeist (d. 1971) *
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Fo ...
Carl Forssell, Swedish fencer (d. 2005) * 1917 –
Dmitry Polyansky Dmitry Stepanovich Polyansky (russian: Дми́трий Степа́нович Поля́нский; – 8 October 2001) was a Soviet statesman who was First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union from 1965 to 1973. F ...
,
First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union The First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union was the deputy head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); despite the title, the office was not necessarily held by a single individual. The office had three different name ...
(d. 2001) * 1918
David Ausubel David Paul Ausubel (October 25, 1918 – July 9, 2008) was an American psychologist. His most significant contribution to the fields of educational psychology, cognitive science, and science education learning was on the development and research o ...
, American psychologist (d. 2008) *
1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the ...
Beate Uhse-Rotermund Beate Uhse-Rotermund (; born Beate Köstlin , 25 October 1919 – 16 July 2001) was a German pilot, entrepreneur and sex pioneer. She was one of the very few female stunt pilots in Germany in the 1930s. During World War II she ferried planes fo ...
, German pilot and entrepreneur (d. 2001) * 1919 – Raoul Remy, French cyclist (d. 2002) * 1920Megan Taylor, British figure skater (d. 1993) * 1921
Michael I of Romania Michael I ( ro, Mihai I ; 25 October 1921 – 5 December 2017) was the last King of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947. Shortly after Michael's ...
(d. 2017) *
1922 Events January * January 7 – 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 Éireann, the day after Éamon de Valera ...
Gloria Lasso Rosa Vicenta Montserrat Coscolín Figueras (28 October 1922 – 4 December 2005) known professionally as Gloria Lasso was a Spanish-born canción melódica singer, long based in France. In the 1950s, she was one of the major competitors to Dali ...
, Spanish singer (d. 2005) *1923 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian prelate (d. 2019) * 1923 – Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (d. 2012) * 1923 – Bobby Thomson, Scottish-American baseball player (d. 2010) *
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 holds ...
– Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000) * 1924 – Earl Palmer, American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame drummer (d. 2008) *1925 – Oralia Dominguez, Mexican operatic mezzo-soprano singer (d. 2013) * 1925 – Joseph Michel (politician), Joseph Michel, Belgian politician (d. 2016) *1926 – Bo Carpelan, Finnish poet and author (d. 2011) * 1926 – Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2020) * 1926 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian-American soprano and actress (d. 2012) *
1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 ...
– Barbara Cook, American singer and actress (d. 2017) * 1927 – Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Uruguay (d. 2016) * 1927 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist and author (d. 1987) * 1927 – Lauretta Masiero, Italian actress and singer (d. 2010) *1928 – Jeanne Cooper, American actress (d. 2013) * 1928 – Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect (d. 2021) * 1928 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006) * 1928 – Adolphe Gesché, Belgian Catholic priest and theologian (d. 2003) * 1928 – Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic (d. 2016) * 1928 – Marion Ross, American actress * 1928 – Yakov Rylsky, History of the Jews in the Soviet Union, Soviet Jewish sabre fencer (d. 1999) *1929 – Michel Knuysen, Belgian rower (d. 2013) * 1929 – Zdravko Milev, Bulgarian chess player (d. 1984) * 1929 – Claude Rouer, French cyclist (d. 2021) * 1929 – Peter Rühmkorf, German writer (d. 2008) *1930 – Harold Brodkey, American author and academic (d. 1996) * 1930 – Karoly Honfi, Hungarian chess player (d. 1996) *1931 – Annie Girardot, French actress and singer (d. 2011) * 1931 – Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 2018) *
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 Hiro ...
– Vitold Fokin, Ukrainian first deputy prime minister * 1932 – Jerzy Pawłowski, Polish fencer and double agent (d. 2005) * 1932 – Theodor Pištěk (costume designer), Theodor Pištěk, Czech costume designer *1933 – René Brodmann, Swiss footballer * 1933 – Martti Mansikka, Finnish gymnast *1934 – Carlos Sherman, Belarusian–Spanish translator, writer, activist (d. 2005) *1935 – Rusty Schweickart, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut *1936 – Martin Gilbert, English historian, author, and academic (d. 2015) * 1936 – Arnfinn Nesset, Norwegian nurse and convicted serial killer * 1936 – Masako Nozawa, Japanese actress and singer *1937 – Vendramino Bariviera, Italian cyclist (d. 2001) * 1937 – Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, Spanish prelate * 1937 – Roberto Menescal, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer *1938 – Bob Webster, American diver *1939 – Zelmo Beaty, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013) * 1939 – Sara Dylan, American actress and model * 1939 – Nikolay Kiselyov (athlete), Nikolay Kiselyov, Soviet Nordic combined athlete (d. 2005) * 1939 – Nikos Nikolaidis, Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007) * 1939 – Dave Simmonds, British motorcycle racer (d. 1972) * 1939 – Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005) *
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * Januar ...
– Jimmy Herman, Canadian actor (d. 2013) * 1940 – Bob Knight, American basketball player and coach *1941 – Lynda Benglis, American sculptor and painter * 1941 – Helen Reddy, Australian-American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2020) * 1941 – Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor (d. 2011) * 1941 – Anne Tyler, American author and critic * 1941 – Dave Weill, American discus thrower *1942 – Terumasa Hino, Japanese jazz trumpeter * 1942 – Gloria Katz, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2018) * 1942 – Franklin Loufrani, French President of the Smiley Company *1943 – Orso Maria Guerrini, Italian actor *
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 Nor ...
– Azizan Abdul Razak, Malaysian politician, 10th List of Menteris Besar of Kedah, Menteri Besar of Kedah (d. 2013) * 1944 – Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1944 – James Carville, American lawyer and political consultant * 1944 – Donald Ford, Scottish footballer * 1944 – Fred Housego, Scottish-English taxi driver and game show host * 1944 – Kati Kovács, Hungarian singer-songwriter and actress * 1944 – Ren Zhengfei, Chinese businessman *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which Nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat. Events Below, ...
– Peter Ledger, Australian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1994) * 1945 – Roy Lynes, English keyboardist and singer * 1945 – Yuriy Meshkov, Ukrainian politician and Russian separatist (d. 2019) * 1945 – Phil Volk, Phil "Fang" Volk, American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer * 1945 – Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Polish lawyer, screenwriter and politician * 1945 – Francisco Sá, Argentine footballer * 1945 – David S. Ward, American director and screenwriter * 1945 – Keaton Yamada, Japanese voice actor *1946 – Gail Bird and Yazzie Johnson, Yazzie Johnson, Navajo artist * 1946 – Elías Figueroa, Chilean footballer * 1946 – Peter Lieberson, American composer *1947 – Requena Nozal, Spanish artist * 1947 – Glenn Tipton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist *1948 – Dave Cowens, American basketball player and coach * 1948 – Dan Gable, American wrestler and coach * 1948 – Dan Issel, American basketball player and coach * 1948 – Sigleif Johansen, Norwegian biathlete * 1949 – Réjean Houle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager * 1949 – Walter Hyatt, American singer-songwriter (d. 1996) * 1949 – Brian Kerwin, American actor * 1949 – Wilfried Louis, Haitian footballer *1950 – Anne Alvaro, French actress * 1950 – Fernando Arêas Rifan, Brazilian bishop * 1950 – Roger Davies (footballer), Roger Davies, English footballer * 1950 – John Matuszak, American footballer (d. 1989) * 1950 – Francisco Oscar Lamolina, Argentine football referee * 1950 – Chris Norman, English singer-songwriter *1951 – Richard Lloyd (guitarist), Richard Lloyd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist *1952 – Samir Geagea, Lebanese commander and politician * 1952 – Wendy Hall, English computer scientist, mathematician, and academic * 1952 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2004) * 1952 – Tove Nilsen, Norwegian author *1953 – Daniele Bagnoli, Italian volleyball coach * 1953 – Jasem Yaqoub, Kuwaiti footballer *1954 – Mike Eruzione, American ice hockey player and coach * 1954 – Ed Powers, American founder of Ed Powers Productions *1955 – Glynis Barber, South African-English actress * 1955 – Robin Eubanks, American trombonist and educator * 1955 – Gale Anne Hurd, American producer * 1955 – Matthias Jabs, German guitarist and songwriter * 1955 – Leena Lander, Finnish author * 1955 – Lito Lapid, Filipino actor *1956 – Stephen Leather, British author *1957 – Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress * 1957 – Enrique López Zarza, Mexican footballer * 1957 – Robbie McIntosh, English guitarist * 1957 – Piet Wildschut, Dutch footballer *1958 – Kornelia Ender, East German swimmer * 1958 – Kjell Inge Røkke, Norwegian businessman and philanthropist *1959 – Óscar Aguirregaray, Uruguayan footballer * 1959 – Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2013) *1960 – Hong Sang-soo, South Korean director and screenwriter *1961 – John Sivebæk, Danish footballer * 1961 – Chad Smith, American drummer *
1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...
– David Furnish, Canadian filmmaker * 1962 – Steve Gainer, American cinematographer and director * 1962 – Steve Hodge, English footballer and manager * 1962 – John Stollmeyer, American soccer player *1963 – John Levén, Swedish bass player and songwriter * 1963 – Michael Lynagh, Australian rugby union footballer * 1963 – Melinda McGraw, American actress * 1963 – José Ortiz (basketball), José Ortiz, Puerto Rican basketball player * 1963 – Tracy Nelson (actress), Tracy Nelson, American actress *1964 – Michael Boatman, American actor * 1964 – Johan de Kock, Dutch footballer * 1964 – Nicole (German singer), Nicole, German singer * 1964 – Kevin Michael Richardson, American voice actor and singer *1965 – 2 Cold Scorpio, American wrestler * 1965 – Mathieu Amalric, French actor and director * 1965 – Valdir Benedito, Brazilian footballer * 1965 – Claire Colebrook, Australian philosopher, theorist, and academic * 1965 – Dominique Herr, Swiss footballer * 1965 – Derrick Rostagno, American tennis player * 1965 – Rainer Strecker, German actor *1966 – Zana Briski, British photographer and filmmaker * 1966 – Lionel Charbonnier, French footballer * 1966 – Wendel Clark, Canadian ice hockey player * 1966 – Perry Saturn, American wrestler *1967 – Martin Marinov, Australian canoeist * 1967 – Taiyō Matsumoto, Japanese manga artist * 1967 – Gary Sundgren, Swedish footballer *
1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Janu ...
– Doris Fitschen, German footballer * 1968 – Speech (rapper), Speech, American rapper *1969 – Samantha Bee, Canadian-American comedian and television host * 1969 – Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player and coach * 1969 – Slavko Cicak, Swedish chess Grandmaster * 1969 – Nika Futterman, American voice actress, comedian and singer * 1969 – Ibragim Gasanbekov, Azerbaijani footballer * 1969 – Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer * 1969 – Alex Webster, American bass player *1970 – J. A. Adande, American journalist and academic * 1970 – Peter Aerts, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist * 1970 – Adam Goldberg, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter * 1970 – Damir Mršić, Bosnian basketball player * 1970 – Adam Pascal, American actor and singer * 1970 – Rafael González Robles, Spanish footballer * 1970 – Ed Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer * 1970 – Daniel Scheinhardt, German footballer * 1970 – Chely Wright, American singer-songwriter and actress * 1971 – Simon Charlton, English footballer and manager * 1971 – Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer * 1971 – Neil Fallon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1971 – Midori (violinist), Midori Gotō, Japanese-American violinist and educator * 1971 – Leslie Grossman, American actress * 1971 – Rosie Ledet, American singer-songwriter and accordion player * 1971 – Pedro Martínez, Dominican-American baseball player and sportscaster * 1971 – Craig Robinson (actor), Craig Robinson, American actor and singer * 1971 – Elif Şafak, French-Turkish journalist, author, and academic *1972 – Cristian Dulca, Romanian footballer * 1972 – Rodolfo Falcón, Cuban swimmer * 1972 – Maxi Mounds, American nude big-bust model and pornographic actress * 1972 – Jonathan Torrens, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter * 1972 – Persia White, American actress *
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: ...
– Fırat Aydınus, Turkish football referee * 1973 – Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (d. 2005) * 1973 – Michael Weston, American actor *1974 – Lee Byung-kyu, South Korean baseball player * 1974 – Yoo Yong-sung, South Korean badminton player *1975 – Eirik Glambek Bøe, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1975 – Ryan Clement, American football player * 1975 – Agustín Julio, Colombian footballer * 1975 – Zadie Smith, English author and academic * 1975 – Antony Starr, New Zealand actor *1976 – Deon Burton, Jamaican footballer * 1976 – Ahmed Dokhi, Saudi Arabian footballer * 1976 – Akihisa Ikeda, Japanese manga artist * 1976 – Steve Jones (footballer, born 1976), Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer * 1976 – Brett Kirk, Australian footballer and coach * 1976 – Anton Sikharulidze, Russian pair skater *1977 – The Alchemist (musician), The Alchemist, American rapper, DJ, and producer * 1977 – Yeho, Israeli singer and actor * 1977 – Rodolfo Bodipo, Equatoguinean retired footballer * 1977 – Mitică Pricop, Romanian sprint canoer * 1977 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer and psychologist * 1977 – Rakan Rushaidat, Croatian actor * 1977 – Kateryna Serebrianska, Ukrainian gymnast * 1977 – Mihai Tararache, Romanian footballer *1978 – Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer * 1978 – Zachary Knighton, American actor * 1978 – Bobby Madden, Scottish football referee * 1978 – Robert Mambo Mumba, Kenyan footballer * 1978 – Markus Pöyhönen, Finnish sprinter * 1978 – An Yong-hak, North Korean footballer *1979 – Bat for Lashes, English singer * 1979 – Rob Hulse, English footballer * 1979 – Mariana Klaveno, American actress * 1979 – João Lucas (footballer, born 1979), João Lucas, Portuguese footballer (d. 2015) * 1979 – Rosa Mendes, Canadian-American wrestler and model * 1980 – Mehcad Brooks, American model and actor * 1980 – Félicien Singbo, Beninois footballer *1981 – Hiroshi Aoyama, Japanese motorcycle racer * 1981 – Josh Henderson, American actor and singer * 1981 – Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer *1982 – Victoria Francés, Spanish illustrator * 1982 – Devin Green, American basketball player * 1982 – Guido Grünheid, German basketball player * 1982 – Camilla Jensen, Danish curler * 1982 – Michael Sweetney, American basketball player * 1982 – Mickaël Tavares, Senegalese footballer *
1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
– Princess Yōko of Mikasa * 1983 – Hotaru Akane, Japanese actress and activist * 1983 – Stanislav Bohush, Ukrainian footballer * 1983 – Daniele Mannini, Italian footballer * 1983 – Han Yeo-reum, South Korean actress *1984 – Nicolas Besch, French ice hockey player * 1984 – Ticia Gara, Hungarian chess player * 1984 – Sara Lumholdt, Swedish singer and dancer * 1984 – Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress * 1984 – Iván Ramis, Spanish footballer * 1984 – Karolina Šprem, Croatian tennis player *1985 – Ciara, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress * 1985 – Óscar Granados, Costa Rican footballer * 1985 – Kara Lynn Joyce, American swimmer * 1985 – Daniele Padelli, Italian footballer *1986 – Tweety Carter, American basketball player * 1986 – Roger Espinoza, Honduran footballer * 1986 – Eddie Gaven, American soccer player * 1986 – Kristian Sarkies, Australian footballer * 1986 – Ekaterina Shumilova, Russian biathlete *1987 – Bill Amis, American basketball player * 1987 – Darron Gibson, Irish footballer * 1987 – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast *1988 – Robson Conceição, Brazilian boxer * 1988 – Lewis McGugan, English professional footballer * 1988 – Chandler Parsons, American basketball player * 1988 – Kaz Patafta, Australian footballer * 1988 – Karim Yoda, French footballer *1989 – Filip Grgić, Croatian taekwondo practitioner * 1989 – Sten Grytebust, Norwegian footballer * 1989 – David Hala, Australian rugby league player * 1989 – Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer *1990 – Mattia Cattaneo, Italian cyclist * 1990 – Sara Chafak, Finnish beauty pageant winner * 1990 – Asha Philip, British athlete * 1990 – Milena Rašić, Serbian volleyball player * 1990 – Dzina Sazanavets, Belarusian weightlifter *1991 – Davide Faraoni, Italian footballer * 1991 – Isabella Shinikova, Bulgarian tennis player *1992 – Clarisse Agbegnenou, French judoka * 1992 – Davide Formolo, Italian cyclist * 1992 – Sergey Ridzik, Russian freestyle skier *1993 – Isaiah Austin, American basketball player * 1993 – Iván García (diver), Iván Garcia, Mexican diver *1994 – Richard Jouve, French cross-country skier * 1994 – Jefferson Lerma, Colombian footballer * 1994 – Matteo Lodo, Italian rower * 1994 – Gor Minasyan, Armenian weightlifter * 1994 – Ray Robson, American chess Grandmaster *
1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...
– Conchita Campbell, Canadian actress * 1995 – Patrick McCaw, American basketball player *
1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
– Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer *1998 – Juan Soto, Dominican baseball player *2000 – Vincent Zhou, American figure skater * 2001 – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, Princess Elisabeth, Belgian princess


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 625 – Pope Boniface V * 912 – Rudolph I of Burgundy, Rudolph I, king of Upper Burgundy, Burgundy (b. 859) *1047 – Magnus the Good, Norwegian king (b. 1024) *1053 – Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu *1154 – Stephen, King of England *1180 – John of Salisbury, French bishop (b. c. 1120) *1200 – Conrad of Wittelsbach, German cardinal (b. 1120) *1230 – Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1180) *1292 – Robert Burnell, Lord Chancellor of England *1349 – James III of Majorca (b. 1315) *1359 – Beatrice of Castile (1293–1359), Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal (b. 1293) *1400 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English philosopher, poet, and author (b. c.1343) *
1415 Year 1415 ( MCDXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * April 30 – Frederick I becomes Elector of Brandenburg. * June 5 – The Coun ...
– Charles I of Albret * 1415 – Philip II, Count of Nevers (b. 1389) * 1415 – Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont (b. 1371) * 1415 – Jean I, Duke of Alençon (b. 1385) * 1415 – Anthony, Duke of Brabant (b. 1384) * 1415 – Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, English soldier (b. 1394) * 1415 – Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, English politician (b. 1373) * 1415 – Dafydd Gam, Welsh nobleman (b. c. 1380) *1478 – Catherine of Bosnia (b. 1425) *1492 – Thaddeus McCarthy, Irish bishop (b. 1455) *1495 – John II of Portugal (b. 1455) *1514 – William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and academic, founded University of Aberdeen (b. 1431) *1557 – William Cavendish (courtier), William Cavendish, English courtier and civil servant (b. 1505)


1601–1900

*1647 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (b. 1608) *1651 – Saint Job of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian saint (b. 1551) *
1683 Events January–March * January 5 – The Brandenburger—African Company, of the German state of Brandenburg, signs a treaty with representatives of the Ahanta tribe (in what is now Ghana), to establish the fort and settlement ...
– William Scroggs, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (b. 1623) *1733 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667) *
1757 Events January–March * January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. * January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt ...
– Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (b. 1672) *
1760 Events January–March * January 9 – Battle of Barari Ghat: Afghan forces defeat the Marathas. * January 22 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Wandiwash, India: British general Sir Eyre Coote is victorious over the Fr ...
– George II of Great Britain (b. 1683) * 1806 – Henry Knox, American general and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of War (b. 1750) *1826 – Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (b. 1745) *1833 – Abbas Mirza, Persian prince (b. 1789) *
1852 Events January–March * January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. * January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come tog ...
– John C. Clark, American lawyer and politician (b. 1793) *
1889 Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in t ...
– Émile Augier, French playwright (b. 1820) *
1895 Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...
– Charles Hallé, German-English pianist and conductor (b. 1819)


1901–present

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1902 Events January * January 1 ** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world' ...
– Frank Norris, American journalist and novelist (b. 1870) *
1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
– Willie Anderson (golfer), Willie Anderson, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1878) *
1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * J ...
– William Merritt Chase, American painter and educator (b. 1849) *
1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the ...
– William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland (b. 1849) * 1920 – Alexander of Greece (b. 1893) * 1920 –
Terence MacSwiney Terence James MacSwiney (; ga, Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne; 28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920) was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He ...
, Irish playwright, politician, Lord Mayor of Cork and hunger striker (b. 1879) * 1920 – Joe Murphy (Irish republican) died during the 1920 Cork hunger strike * 1921 – Bat Masterson, American lawman, buffalo hunter, and sport writer (b. 1853) *
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 holds ...
– Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet, and activist (b. 1876) *1938 – Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author (b. 1892) *
1940 A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * Januar ...
– Thomas Waddell, Irish-Australian politician, 15th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1854) *1941 – Franz von Werra, Swiss-German captain and pilot (b. 1914) *
1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which Nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have been used in combat. Events Below, ...
– Robert Ley, German politician (b. 1890) * 1949 – Mary Ackworth Orr Evershed, English astronomer and Dante scholar (b. 1867) *1953 – Holger Pedersen (linguist), Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (b. 1867) *1954 – Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, Indian jeweller and namesake of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers (b. 1874) *1955 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese girl (b. 1943) *1956 – Risto Ryti, Finnish lawyer, politician and Governor of the Bank of Finland; 5th President of Finland (b. 1889) *1957 – Albert Anastasia, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902) * 1957 – Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, English-Irish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878) *1960 – Harry Ferguson, Irish-English engineer, founded the Ferguson Company (b. 1884) *1963 – Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (b. 1898) *1967 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright (b. 1886) *1969 – Ellinor Aiki, Estonian painter (b. 1893) *1970 – Ülo Sooster, Estonian painter (b. 1924) * 1971 – Mikhail Yangel, Soviet missile designer (b. 1911) *1972 – Johnny Mantz, American race car driver (b. 1918) *
1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: ...
– Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (b. 1932) * 1973 – Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928) * 1973 – Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (b. 1891) *1975 – Vladimir Herzog, Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1937) *1976 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and author (b. 1903) *1977 – Félix Gouin, French politician (b. 1884) *1979 – Gerald Templer, English field marshal and politician, List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Malaya, British High Commissioner in Malaya (b. 1898) * 1980 – Virgil Fox, American organist and educator (b. 1912) * 1980 – Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (b. 1948) * 1980 – Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1921) *1982 – Bill Eckersley, English footballer (b. 1925) * 1982 – Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver (b. 1901) *1985 – Gary Holton, English singer-songwriter (b. 1952) *1986 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (b. 1919) *1989 – Mary McCarthy (author), Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (b. 1912) *1990 – Alberto da Costa Pereira, Portuguese footballer (b. 1929) *1991 – Bill Graham (promoter), Bill Graham, German-American concert promoter (b. 1931) *1992 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936) * 1992 – Richard Pousette-Dart, American painter and educator (b. 1916) *1993 – Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1958) * 1993 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911) *1994 – Kara Hultgreen, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1965) * 1994 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905) *
1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...
– Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920) * 1995 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918) *
1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
– Leonard Boyle, Irish and Canadian palaeographer and medievalist (b. 1923) * 1999 –
Payne Stewart William Payne Stewart (January 30, 1957 – October 25, 1999) was an American professional golfer who won eleven PGA Tour events, including three major championships, the last of which came just a few months before his death in an airplane acci ...
, American golfer (b. 1957) *2000 – Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (b. 1909) *2002 – Richard Harris, Irish actor and singer (b. 1930) * 2002 – René Thom, French mathematician and biologist (b. 1923) * 2002 – Paul Wellstone, American academic and politician (b. 1944) *2003 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian spiritual leader and philosopher (b. 1920) * 2003 – Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician (b. 1925) *2004 – John Peel, English radio host and producer (b. 1939) * 2010 – Lisa Blount, American actress (b. 1957) * 2010 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (b. 1951) * 2010 – Vesna Parun, Croatian poet and author (b. 1922) *2012 – Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (b. 1907) * 2012 – Jaspal Bhatti, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955) * 2012 – John Connelly (footballer, born 1938), John Connelly, English footballer (b. 1938) * 2012 – Emanuel Steward, American boxer, trainer, and sportscaster (b. 1944) *2013 – Ron Ackland, New Zealand rugby player and coach (b. 1934) * 2013 – Arthur Danto, American philosopher and critic (b. 1924) * 2013 – Nicholas Hunt, Welsh-English admiral (b. 1930) * 2013 – Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931) * 2013 – Paul Reichmann, Austrian-Canadian businessman, founded Olympia and York (b. 1930) * 2013 – Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926) * 2013 – Marcia Wallace, American actress and comedian (b. 1942) *2014 – Jack Bruce, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1943) * 2014 – Carlos Morales Troncoso, Dominican lawyer and politician, 34th List of Vice Presidents of the Dominican Republic, Vice President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1940) *2015 – David Cesarani, English historian and author (b. 1956) * 2015 – Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (b. 1944) * 2015 – Cecil Lolo, South African footballer (b. 1988) * 2015 – Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955) *2016 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian football player and manager (b. 1944) * 2016 – Bob Hoover, USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (b. 1922) *2018 – Thomas Keating, an American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (b. 1923)Rev. Thomas Keating, Pioneer in Contemplative Movement, Dies at 95
by Katharine Q. Seelye (The New York Times, Oct. 28, 2018) *2019 – Dilip Parikh, Indian politician (b. 1937)


Holidays and observances

*Armed Forces Day (Romania) *Christian feast day: **Bernat Calbó, Bernat Calbó (Bernard of Calvo) **Pope Boniface I **Saint Canna, Canna **Beatification, Blessed
Carlo Gnocchi Carlo Gnocchi (25 October 190228 February 1956) was an Italian priest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church. During World War II, he was a military chaplain of the Alpini, the elite mountain warfare soldiers ...
**Saints Chrysanthus and Daria, Crysanthus and Daria (Western Christianity) **Crispin and Crispinian **Saint Fructus, Fructus **Gaudentius of Brescia **Goeznovius **Minias of Florence **Mar Nestorius (in the Church of the East, Nestorian churches) **Dorcas, Tabitha (Dorcas) **Tegulus **Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy **Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, The Six Welsh Martyrs and companions (in Wales) **The Hallowing of Nestorius **October 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *Earliest day on which Nevada Day can fall, while October 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Friday in October. (Nevada) *Earliest day on which October Holiday can fall, while October 31 is the latest; observed on last Monday in October. (Republic of Ireland, Ireland) *Earliest day on which Teacher's Day (Australia) can fall, while October 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Friday in October. (Australia) *Public holidays in Russia, Customs Officer's Day (Russia) *National Day, Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country) *Retrocession Day (Taiwan) *Sovereignty Day (Slovenia) *Thanksgiving Day (Grenada)


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External links

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