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Events
1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1848 – John C. Fremont court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders.
1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark observes the first white dwarf star, a companion of Sirius, through an eighteen inch telescope at Northwestern University.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
1876 – The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1891 – The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breakes out in the northern city of Porto.
1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambuan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
1915 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
1917 – World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1941 – Layforce set sail.
1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 – World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby s Rangers) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1946 – Yugoslavia s new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1950 – President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
1956 – Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 – James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 – Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 – Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon.
1968 – Nauru declares independence from Australia.
1970 – A Saskatchewan Court convicts 17-year-old hippie David Milgaard of murder; he is sentenced to life in prison. He spent 23 years in jail until April 14, 1992 when DNA evidence proves him innocent of all charges.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 Mission – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
1980 – Thirty-nine people burn to death in the occupation of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala.
1990 – The first McDonald s in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1999 – Family Guy debuts on American TV.
2000 – Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
2001 – In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.

Births
877 – Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 943)
1512 – King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580)
1543 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616)
1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (d. 1588)
1597 – John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640)
1624 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
1673 – Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716)
1686 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758)
1752 – Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816)
1759 – François Devienne, French composer (d. 1803)
1797 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
1820 – William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
1835 – William Charles Lunalilo, Monarch of Hawaii (d. 1874)
1857 – George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933)
1865 – Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940)
1865 – Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)
1866 – Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (d. 1938)
1868 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1928)
1872 – Zane Grey, American Western writer (d. 1939)
1881 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
1881 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
1884 – Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963)
1889 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1892 – Eddie Cantor, American actor and singer (d. 1964)
1894 – Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
1902 – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
1902 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1905 – John O Hara, American writer (d. 1970)
1911 – Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981)
1913 – Don Hutson, American football player (d. 1997)
1914 – Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997)
1914 – Sri Daya Mata, Hindu religious figure
1914 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994)
1915 – Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
1915 – Thomas Merton, American author and monk (d. 1968)
1915 – Garry Moore, American comedian (d. 1993)
1919 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (d. 1972)
1921 – John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)
1921 – Carol Channing, American actress and singer
1921 – E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004)
1921 – Mario Lanza, American singer (d. 1959)
1922 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
1923 – Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)
1925 – Benjamin Hooks, American civil rights leader
1926 – Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1928 – Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (d. 1958)
1929 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1929 – Jean Simmons, English actress
1930 – Lynn Carlin, American actress
1930 – Joakim Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)
1931 – Ernie Banks, American baseball player
1931 – Christopher Chataway, English athlete, newscaster and politician
1933 – Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997)
1933 – Bernardo Provenzano , Mafia Boss
1934 – James Franciscus, American actor (d. 1991)
1934 – Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1935 – Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate
1937 – Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
1937 – Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1937 – Philip Glass, American composer
1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
1938 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
1938 – James G. Watt, American politician
1939 – Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter
1940 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby union coach (d. 1998)
1941 – Richard A. Gephardt, American politician
1941 – Jessica Walter, American actress
1942 – Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
1942 – Derek Jarman, British director and writer (d. 1994)
1944 – Charlie Musselwhite, American musician
1945 – Joseph Kosuth, American conceptual artist
1946 – Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (d. 1978)
1947 – Jonathan Banks, American actor
1947 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
1948 – Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
1949 – Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist
1949 – Ken Wilber, American philosopher
1950 – Alexander Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin s bodyguard
1951 – Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer
1951 – Harry Wayne Casey, American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band)
1951 – Phil Manzanera, English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801)
1952 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
1954 – Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch musician (Whitesnake)
1956 – John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.)
1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor
1959 – Kelly Lynch, American actress
1959 – Kelly Moore, American stock car driver
1960 – Grant Morrison, British comic book author
1961 – Lloyd Cole, British singer
1962 – Sophie Muller, Music video director
1964 – Sylvie Bernier, Quebec diver
1964 – Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer)
1964 – Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer
1966 – Dr Umar Alisha, A Sufi Master was Born at Pithapuram.
1967 – Fat Mike, American musician
1967 – Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress
1967 – Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
1968 – Matt King, British actor and comedian
1968 – Patrick Stevens, Belgian athlete
1970 – Minnie Driver, British actress
1971 – Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress
1971 – Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian
1971 – Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer
1973 – Portia de Rossi, Australian actress
1974 – Wil Anderson, Australian comedian
1974 – Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
1975 – Fred Coleman, former National Football League wide receiver
1975 – Jackie O, Australian radio host
1975 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress
1976 – Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer
1976 – Buddy Rice, American race car driver
1977 – Mark Dutiaume, National Hockey League player
1977 – Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
1977 – Jim Kleinsasser, National Football League tight end
1977 – Kate Shindle, American actress
1977 – Kerry Washington, American actress
1978 – Fabián Caballero, Argentine footballer
1978 – Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! champion
1978 – Ray Shah, Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter
1979 – Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant
1980 – James Adomian, American actor
1980 – Ryan Kienle, American musician
1980 – Tiffany Limos, American actress
1981 – Sergio D. Acosta, Chicano Filmmaker
1981 – Julio Arca, Argentinian football player
1981 – Justin Timberlake, American singer
1981 – Amrita Arora, Indian actress
1982 – Yuniesky Betancourt, Major League Baseball shortstop
1982 – Andreas Görlitz, German football player
1982 – Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host
1982 – Elena Paparizou, Greek singer
1982 – Janis Sprukts, National Hockey League player
1982 – Brad Thompson, Major League Baseball player
1983 – James Sutton, British television actor
1983 – Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer
1984 – Jeremy Wariner, American 400m runner
1984 – Vernon Davis, NFL player
1985 – Adam Federici, Australian footballer
1985 – Mario Williams, NFL player
1986 – Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian football goalkeeper
1990 – Kota Yabu, Japanese Actor and Singer

Deaths
1398 – Emperor Suko (b. 1334)
1435 – Xuande, Emperor of China (b. 1398)
1561 – Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
1561 – Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (b. 1496)
1580 – Henry of Portugal (b. 1512)
1606 – Guy Fawkes – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1570)
1606 – Ambrose Rokewood – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. c.1578)
1606 – Thomas Wintour – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1571)
1615 – Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
1632 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
1665 – Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
1686 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (b. c. 1654)
1729 – Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
1736 – Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678)
1788 – Charles Edward Stuart, the exiled Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1720)
1790 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)
1794 – Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
1815 – José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
1828 – Alexander Ypsilantis, Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence (b. 1792)
1836 – John Cheyne (physician), British physician, surgeon and author (b. 1777)
1844 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
1892 – Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
1907 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (b. 1869)
1933 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1942 – Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1942 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
1944 – Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
1945 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
1954 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio (b. 1890)
1955 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
1956 – A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
1966 – General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer (b. 1887)
1967 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
1969 – Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
1970 – Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)
1971 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (b. 1891)
1973 – Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1882)
1976 – Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)
1981 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
1987 – Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907)
1990 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
1995 – George Abbott, American stage director and producer (b. 1887)
1997 – John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
1999 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
1999 – Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler
2000 – Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
2001 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
2002 – Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)
2004 – Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
2006 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
2007 – Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
2007 – Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944)
2007 – Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 – Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929)
2008 – Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)

Holidays and observances
Catholicism – Feast day of St. John Bosco, patron saint of Christian apprentices, editors, and publishers
Saint Pedro Nolasco
Saint Marcella
Saint Geminianus
Blessed Ludovica
January 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Events
1648 – Eighty Years War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
1649 – King Charles I of England is beheaded.
1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.
1790 – The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world s first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.
1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson.
1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco.
1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS MonitorTemplate:WP Ships USS instances is launched.
1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling.
1911 – The destroyer USS Terry (DD-25)Template:WP Ships USS instances makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from Havana, Cuba.
1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
1913 – The United Kingdom s House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill.
1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
1930 – The world s first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1943 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. TheUSS Chicago (CA-29)Template:WP Ships USS instances is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes.
1943 – Holocaust in Letychiv, Ukraine: The Nazi Gestapo commences mass shootings of Jews from Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving Jews from Letychiv slave labor camp are ordered to undress and are shot with a machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7,000 Jews were murdered in Letychiv.
1944 – World War II: United States troops land on Majuro.
1945 – The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.
1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
1945 – World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address, a radio address on the 12th anniversary of his coming to power. (A subsequent address on February 24 was not read by Hitler.)
1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
1956 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
1962 – Two of the high-wire Flying Wallendas are killed when their seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched.
1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
1969 – The Beatles last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1972 – Bloody Sunday: British Paratroopers kill fourteen civil rights/anti internment marchers in Northern Ireland.
1972 – Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1976 – George H. W. Bush becomes the 11th director of the CIA.
1979 – Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called Elk Cloner.
1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.
1995 – Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
1996 – Gino Gallagher, the suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting in line for his unemployment benefit.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
2000 – Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
2003 – Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage.

Births
133 – Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (d. 193)
1505 – Thomas Tallis, English composer (d. 1585)
1563 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian (d. 1641)
1615 – Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (d. 1675)
1661 – Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flautist and composer (d. 1773)
1720 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (d. 1778)
1754 – John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
1781 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (d. 1838)
1816 – Nathaniel Prentice Banks, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (d. 1899)
1832 – Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
1841 – Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
1859 – Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (d. 1944)
1861 – Charles Martin Loeffler, German-born composer (d. 1935)
1873 – Georges Ricard-Cordingley, painter (d. 1939)
1878 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940)
1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945)
1889 – Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (d. 1937)
1894 – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
1899 – Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1972)
1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (d. 1959)
1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (d. 1983)
1910 – C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
1911 – Roy Eldridge, American musician (d. 1989)
1912 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
1912 – Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
1913 – Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener (d. 1988)
1914 – John Ireland, Canadian actor (d. 1992)
1914 – David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
1915 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)
1915 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister (d. 2006)
1917 – Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and motorsport journalist (d. 2008)
1918 – David Opatoshu, American television actor (d. 1996)
1919 – Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
1920 – Carwood Lipton, American WWII veteran (d. 2001)
1920 – Delbert Mann, American film director
1922 – Dick Martin, American comedian
1924 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (d. 2007)
1925 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist
1925 – Dorothy Malone, American actress
1927 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986)
1927 – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (d. 2005)
1928 – Hal Prince, American stage producer and director
1929 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian surgeon and international aid worker (d. 1996)
1930 – Sandy Amorós, Cuban baseball player (d. 1992)
1930 – Samuel J. Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (d. 1974)
1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor
1930 – Magnus Malan, South African politician
1931 – John Crosbie, Canadian politician
1931 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
1931 – Shirley Hazzard, Australian-born author
1932 – Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
1933 – Louis Rukeyser, American journalist (d. 2006)
1935 – Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
1936 – F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
1936 – Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
1936 – Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
1937 – Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (d. 2005)
1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player
1938 – Islom Karimov, President of Uzbekistan
1941 – Gregory Benford, American author and scientist
1941 – Dick Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States
1941 – Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
1942 – Marty Balin, American musician
1943 – Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager
1945 – Michael Dorris, American author (d. 1997)
1947 – Les Barker, English poet
1947 – Steve Marriott, English musician (The Small Faces) (d. 1991)
1948 – Nick Broomfield, English film- and documentary-maker
1948 – Paul Magee, Provisional Irish Republican Army member
1949 – Peter Agre, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1950 – Trinidad Silva, American actor (d. 1988)
1951 – Phil Collins, English musician
1951 – Charles S. Dutton, American actor
1951 – Bobby Stokes, English former footballer (d. 1995)
1952 – Doug Falconer, Canadian football player
1955 – Curtis Strange, American golfer
1955 – John Baldacci, American politician, governor of Maine
1955 – Judith Tarr, American author
1956 – Jeremy Gittins, English actor
1956 – Keiichi Tsuchiya, Japanese racing driver
1957 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
1958 – Brett Butler, American actress and comedian
1959 – Mark Eitzel, American singer and musician (American Music Club)
1959 – Jody Watley, American singer
1961 – Dexter Scott King, American actor and son of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
1962 – King Abdullah II of Jordan
1962 – Mary Kay Letourneau, American convicted statutory rapist
1963 – Tina Malone, English actress
1965 – Julie McCullough, American model and actress
1966 – Danielle Goyette, Quebec female ice hockey player
1967 – Jay Gordon, American musician
1968 – Trevor Dunn, American musician (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Secret Chiefs 3)
1968 – Prince Felipe of Spain
1969 – Carolyn Kepcher, American businesswoman and reality TV show star
1971 – Darren Boyd, British actor
1971 – Kimo von Oelhoffen, American football player
1972 – Lupillo Rivera, Mexican singer
1972 – Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Jalen Rose, American basketball player
1974 – Christian Bale, Welsh actor
1974 – Olivia Colman, English actress
1974 – Jemima Khan, English socialite
1975 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
1975 – Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
1976 – Andy Milonakis, American comedian
1977 – Dan Hinote, American ice hockey player
1977 – Deltha O Neal, American football player
1978 – John Patterson, American baseball player
1980 – Leilani Dowding, British glamour model
1980 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
1980 – Pavel Ponomaryov, Russian-Estonian actor
1980 – Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
1981 – Peter Crouch, English footballer
1981 – Josh Kelley, American musician
1981 – Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver
1982 – Jorge Cantu, Mexican baseball player
1984 – Jeremy Hermida, American baseball player
1985 – Aaadietya Pandey, Indian astrologer
1985 – Trae Williams, American football player
1986 – Sam Duckworth, British singer-songwriter
1986 – Nick Evans, American baseball player
1987 – Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
1987 – Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
1988 – Heather Baker, American socialite
1988 – Rob Pinkston, American actor
1989 – Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
1990 – Jake Thomas, American actor
1990 – Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
1990 – Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
2005 – Prince Hashem bin Al Abdullah II, of Jordan

Deaths
1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
1384 – Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
1574 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
1606 – Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
1649 – King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)
1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
1867 – Emperor Komei of Japan (b. 1831)
1869 – William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
1889 – Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)
1926 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
1928 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1929 – La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
1934 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
1948 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869)
1948 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
1958 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
1958 – Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
1962 – Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
1963 – Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
1969 – Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1980 – Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
1982 – Lightnin Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
1991 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
1991 – John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
1994 – Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
1995 – Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
1998 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
1999 – Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
2001 – Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
2001 – Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
2005 – Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
2005 – Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
2006 – Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
2007 – Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (b. 1934)
2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2008 – Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
2008 – Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
2008 – Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances
St. Mutien-Marie Wiaux (+1917)
St. Hippolytus
St. Hyacintha Mariscotti
St. Aldegonde
St. Bathild
St. Martina, Virgin and Martyr, c. 226 AD
St. Savina, martyred under Emperor Diocletian
St. Anthony the Great s feast in the Coptic Church
King Charles the Martyr (Anglicanism)
Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs
This Feast honors the three great Fathers of the Eastern Church –St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom

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Events
904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
1814 – France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1834 – US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1845 – The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published in the New York Evening Mirror.
1850 – Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856 – Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
1861 – Kansas admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 – Bear River Massacre.
1886 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1900 – The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1940 – Three gasoline multiple units carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.
1943 – The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1944 – USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
1944 – World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
1944 – In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid bombing
1963 – First inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1978 – Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
1989 – Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making them the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
1996 – President Jacques Chirac announces a definitive end to French nuclear testing.
1996 – La Fenice, Venice s opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 – In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
2001 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 – In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes regimes that sponsor terror as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 – The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing.

Births
1584 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
1632 – Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
1688 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (d. 1772)
1711 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
1715 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
1717 – Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797)
1718 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
1737 – Thomas Paine, English-born American patriot (d. 1809)
1749 – King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
1754 – Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
1756 – Henry Lee III, American General
1761 – Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American United States Secretary of the Treasury
1782 – Daniel Auber, French composer (d. 1871)
1801 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
1810 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
1843 – William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
1846 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
1862 – Frederick Delius, English composer (d. 1934)
1866 – Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1944)
1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
1876 – Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
1877 – Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
1880 – W.C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
1891 – Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
1891 – R. Norris Williams, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968)
1895 – Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
1901 – Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (d. 1965)
1905 – Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
1910 – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
1911 – Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
1913 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
1913 – Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1913 – Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
1915 – John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
1918 – John Forsythe, American actor
1920 – José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
1921 – Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
1922 – Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
1923 – Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (d. 1981)
1923 – Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
1924 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
1924 – Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
1924 – Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002)
1926 – Franco Cerri, Italian musician
1926 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1927 – Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (d. 1989)
1928 – Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer
1930 – Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
1930 – John Junkin, English radio, television and film performer (d. 2006)
1932 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
1932 – George Allen, English footballer
1933 – Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
1933 – Ron Townson, American singer (The 5th Dimension) (d. 2001)
1933 – Paul Sally, American mathematician
1936 – James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
1939 – Germaine Greer, Australian writer
1940 – Katharine Ross, American actress
1940 – Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
1941 – Robin Morgan, American feminist and activist
1942 – Claudine Longet, French singer, dancer and convicted murderer
1944 – Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
1944 – Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge
1945 – Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor
1947 – Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1947 – David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985)
1947 – Marián Varga, Slovak musician
1948 – Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host
1948 – Marc Singer, Canadian-born actor
1948 – Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter & radio host
1950 – Ann Jillian, American actress
1950 – Jody Scheckter, South African race car driver
1951 – Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer
1952 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
1952 – Rupert Hanley, Former South African cricketer
1953 – Paulin Bordeleau, Quebec ice hockey player
1953 – Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
1953 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
1953 – Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1954 – Richard Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5)
1954 – Terry Kinney, American actor
1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host and actress
1954 – Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
1955 – Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and head coach
1955 – Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1957 – Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
1960 – Matthew Ashford, American actor
1960 – Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
1960 – Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
1960 – Greg Louganis, American diver
1960 – Steve Sax, American baseball player
1960 – J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
1962 – Nicholas Turturro, American actor
1963 – Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
1964 – Andre Reed, American football player
1964 – John Habyan, American baseball player
1964 – Roddy Frame, Scottish singer (Aztec Camera)
1964 – Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter
1965 – Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
1965 – Peter Lundgren, Swedish tennis coach
1966 – Romário, Brazilian footballer
1967 – Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player
1967 – Stacey King, American basketball player
1968 – Edward Burns, American actor
1968 – Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger
1968 – Sora Jung, Korean actress
1969 – Hyde, Japanese singer
1970 – Heather Graham, American actress
1970 – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
1970 – Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
1973 – Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
1974 – Koji Wada, Japanese singer and songwriter
1975 – Sara Gilbert, American actress
1976 – Chris Castle, American singer-songwriter
1976 – Charles Divins, American model and actor
1977 – Justin Hartley, American actor
1978 – Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
1978 – Rob Bironas, American football player
1979 – April Scott, American actress and model
1979 – Joseph Todd, Arena Football League player
1979 – Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
1980 – Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
1980 – Ivan Klasnic, Croatian football player
1981 – Jonny Lang, American musician
1981 – Álex Ubago, Spanish musician
1981 – Darío Lopilato, Argentine actor
1982 – Heidi Mueller, American actress
1983 – Nedžad Sinanovic, Bosnian basketball player
1985 – Athina Onassis, French heiress
1985 – Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
1985 – Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1985 – Todd Herzog, American reality-show contestant
1986 – Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
1986 – Mark Howard, English football player
1986 – Simon Vukcevic, Montenegrin football player
1986 – Chris Bourque, American pro hockey player
1987 – Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1987 – Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
1988 – Stephanie Gilmore, Australian professional surfer
1991 – Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Son of the Duke of Westminster
1993 – Michelle Larcher De Brito, Portuguese tennis player
1996 – Megan Jossa, English actress

Deaths
1119 – Pope Gelasius II
1240 – Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. c. 1165)
1342 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
1647 – Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
1678 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1696 – Ivan V, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
1743 – André-Hercule de Fleury, chief minister under Louis XV of France (b. 1653)
1763 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1820 – King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
1871 – Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
1899 – Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
1901 – Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855)
1906 – King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
1918 – Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
1928 – Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
1933 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
1934 – Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)
1941 – Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871)
1946 – Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
1948 – Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
1950 – Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
1951 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
1962 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
1963 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
1966 – Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
1969 – Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
1970 – Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)
1977 – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
1977 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
1986 – Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
1989 – Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
1991 – Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
1992 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
1993 – Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940)
1994 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
1998 – Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
1999 – Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
2002 – Dick Night Train Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
2002 – Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
2003 – Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)
2004 – M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
2004 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
2005 – Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
2005 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924)
2007 – Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
2007 – Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
2008 – Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
2008 – Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)

Holidays and observances
Roman Catholic saints – Valerius of Trèves, Saint Juniper
January 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Gibraltar – Constitution Day

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Events
1077 – Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
1521 – The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 – Henry VIII dies. His nine year old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England.
1573 – Articles of Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1754 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on Saint Kitts.
1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in the Senate decree. It was called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1760 – Pownal, Vermont created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.
1813 – Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1820 – Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
1846 – Battle of Aliwal, India won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1855 – The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.
1871 – Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily, college newspaper in the United States.
1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world s largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
1902 – The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1909 – United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
1915 – An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard.
1916 – Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
1917 – Municipally owned streetcars take to the streets of San Francisco, California.
1918 – Finnish Civil War: Rebels seized control of the capital, Helsinki, and members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1921 – A symbolic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is installed beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to honor the unknown dead of World War I.
1922 – Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C. s biggest snowfall, causes the city s greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater collapses.
1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1933 – The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
1935 – Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1938 – The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by driver Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195.
1941 – French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1958 – The Lego company patented their design of Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

Births
1980 – USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa Florida and capsizes killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1982 – US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity under the Red Brigades.
1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission (Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) – Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard.
2002 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia killing 92.

Deaths
1225 – Saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)
1312 – Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349)
1457 – King Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
1540 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)
1582 – John Barclay, Scottish writer (d. 1621)
1600 – Pope Clement IX (d. 1669)
1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679)
1611 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (d. 1687)
1622 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer (d. 1691)
1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
1706 – John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
1712 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1717 – Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1774)
1719 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
1755 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (d. 1830)
1784 – George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1860)
1818 – George S. Boutwell, 20th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1822 – Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1892)
1833 – Charles George Chinese Gordon, British soldier and administrator (d. 1885)
1841 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born explorer and journalist (d. 1904)
1853 – José Martí, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1895)
1855 – William Seward Burroughs I, American inventor (d. 1898)
1863 – Ernst William Christmas, Australian painter (d. 1918)
1864 – Charles W. Nash, co-founder of Nash Motors, which would become American Motors as well as co-founder of Buick (d. 1948)
1864 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer – inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1928)
1865 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, first president of Finland (d. 1952)
1873 – Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
1874 – Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre director (d. 1940)
1880 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (d. 1970)
1884 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (d. 1962)
1886 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
1887 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish pianist and conductor (d. 1982)
1890 – Robert Stroud, American convict, the Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963)
1891 – Bill Doak, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1892 – Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
1897 – Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (d. 1986)
1899 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (d. 1940)
1900 – Alice Neel, American artist (d. 1984)
1903 – Aleksander Kaminski, Polish writer (d. 1978)
1904 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (d. 1979)
1908 – Paul Misraki, French composer and songwriter (d. 1998)
1909 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
1910 – John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 1973)
1910 – Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
1918 – Harry Corbett, English puppeteer (Sooty) (d. 1989)
1918 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (d. 2004)
1919 – Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (d. 2002)
1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1927 – Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
1929 – Acker Bilk, English jazz clarinetist
1929 – Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
1933 – Jack Hill, American film director
1934 – Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentine racing driver (d. 1990)
1934 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
1935 – David Lodge, English author
1936 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
1936 – Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
1938 – Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
1939 – John M. Fabian, NASA astronaut
1940 – Carlos Slim Helú, Mexican businessman
1941 – Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
1943 – Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1943 – Dick Taylor, English musician (The Rolling Stones and The Pretty Things)
1944 – Susan Howard, American actress
1944 – John Tavener, English composer
1945 – John Perkins, American author and activist
1945 – Robert Wyatt, English musician
1947 – Jeanne Shaheen, American politician
1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
1948 – Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
1949 – Gregg Popovich, NBA Basketball Coach
1950 – Barbi Benton, American actress
1950 – Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, King of Bahrain
1950 – David C. Hilmers, NASA astronaut
1950 – Bob Hay, American songwriter and musician
1951 – Brian Bilbray, American politician
1951 – Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut
1953 – Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
1953 – Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
1954 – Rick Warren, American pastor and author
1955 – Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
1957 – Mark Napier, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 – Frank Skinner English comedian
1959 – Frank Darabont, American filmmaker
1959 – Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer
1959 – Randi Rhodes, Nova M Radio personality
1959 – Dave Sharp, Welsh guitarist (The Alarm)
1960 – Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer
1961 – Normand Rochefort, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – Creflo Dollar, American televangelist
1962 – Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
1962 – Sam Phillips, American singer
1963 – Dan Spitz, American musician, guitarist for Anthrax
1965 – Lynda Boyd, American actress
1967 – Jan Lamb, Hong Kong disc jockey & stand-up comedian
1968 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer and songwriter
1968 – DJ Muggs, American musician (Cypress Hill)
1968 – Rakim, born William Michael Griffin Jr., American rapper
1969 – Kathryn Morris, American actress
1969 – Mo Rocca, American writer and comedian
1969 – Linda Sanchez, American politician
1971 – Anthony Hamilton, American soul singer
1972 – Nicky Southall, English footballer
1974 – Tony Delk, American basketball player
1974 – Jermaine Dye, American baseball player
1974 – Magglio Ordóñez, Venezuelan baseball player
1975 – David Zingler, American writer
1975 – Anne Montminy, Canadian Olympic diver
1975 – Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
1975 – Junior Spivey, American baseball player
1975 – Terri Colombino, American Actress
1976 – Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 – Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
1976 – Lee Ingleby, British actor
1976 – Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
1976 – Emiko Kado, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1977 – Daunte Culpepper, American football player
1977 – Joey Fatone, American singer (*NSYNC)
1977 – Matt DeVries, American guitarist (Chimaira)
1977 – Takuma Sato, Japanese Formula One driver
1977 – Lyle Overbay, American baseball player
1978 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1978 – Jamie Carragher, English footballer
1978 – Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
1979 – Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
1980 – Nick Carter, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1980 – Jesse James Hollywood, American drug dealer and fugitive
1981 – Rick Razzano, American football player
1981 – Elijah Wood, American actor
1984 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
1984 – Stephen Gostkowski, American Football Player
1985 – Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1986 – Jessica Ennis, English heptathlete
1986 – Shruti Haasan, Indian actress
1986 – Alexis Texas, porn star
1988 – Henry Mortensen, American actor

Holidays and observances
814 – Charlemagne (b. 742)
1061 – Duke Spytihnev II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
1271 – Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
1443 – Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
1547 – King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
1599 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1613 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
1621 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
1681 – Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
1672 – Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
1687 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
1697 – John Fenwick, English conspirator
1754 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)
1832 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
1859 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
1864 – Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
1903 – Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
1912 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
1915 – Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
1918 – John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
1935 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
1937 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
1938 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)
1939 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)
1947 – Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (b. 1875)
1947 – Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard, executed (b. 1902)
1947 – Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant, executed (b. 1906)
1949 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
1950 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
1951 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b. 1867)
1953 – James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1953 – Derek Bentley (b. 1933) (executed)
1959 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1960 – Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
1963 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1965 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
1965 – Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
1971 – Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1979 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (b. 1901)
1973 – John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
1975 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
1983 – Billy Fury, British singer (b. 1940)
1983 – Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1986 – Greg Jarvis – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1944)
1986 – Christa McAuliffe – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1948)
1986 – Ronald McNair – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1950)
1986 – Ellison Onizuka – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1946)
1986 – Judith Resnik – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1949)
1986 – Francis R. Scobee – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1939)
1986 – Michael J. Smith – Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1945)
1988 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)
1994 – Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
1996 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (b. 1940)
1996 – Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
1996 – Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
1999 – Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)
2001 – Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
2002 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
2004 – Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)
2004 – Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)
2004 – Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)
2004 – Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
2004 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
2005 – Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2005 – Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973)
2005 – Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
2006 – Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi
2006 – Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
2007 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
2007 – Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
2007 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
2007 – Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
2007 – Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
2007 – Emma Tillman, the world s oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007 (b. 1892)
2008 – Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
2008 – Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (b. 1925)

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Events
98 – Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
661 – Rashidun Caliphate ended with death of Ali.
1142 – Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
1593 – Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.
1695 – Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703.
1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825 – U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the Trail of Tears.
1870 – The first women s fraternity, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
1888 – In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1918 – The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War.
1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1944 – World War II: The 900-days Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on the Frenchman Flats.
1967 – Apollo program: Apollo 1 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1967 – More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1967 – The Doors self titled debut album is released.
1973 – Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict s last recorded American combat casualty.
1974 – Brisbane river floods causing the largest flood to affect Brisbane City in the 20th Century
1983 – Pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world s longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido breaks through.
1987 – Prawn farm massacre, massacre of 83 Tamil prawn farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka by a unit of Sri Lankan Police.
1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
1996 – Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Births
1443 – Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1546 – Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
1585 – Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
1603 – Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
1621 – Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
1662 – Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
1687 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1701 – Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790)
1708 – Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728)
1720 – Samuel Foote, English dramatist (d. 1777)
1741 – Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1805 – Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)
1805 – Sophie of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
1805 – Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
1806 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
1814 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
1821 – John Chivington, American officer, (d. 1892)
1823 – Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892)
1826 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
1826 – Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d. 1879)
1832 – Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1836 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d. 1895)
1841 – Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1848 – Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
1850 – Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (d. 1924)
1850 – Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912)
1859 – Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany (d. 1941)
1885 – Jerome Kern, American composer (d. 1945)
1885 – Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953)
1885 – Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
1891 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d. 1967)
1893 – Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
1895 – Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
1900 – Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
1901 – Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)
1901 – Willy Fritsch, German actor (d. 1973)
1903 – John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel Laureate (d. 1997)
1903 – Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (d. 1979)
1905 – Howard McNear, American actor (d. 1969)
1908 – Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
1908 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (d. 1993)
1912 – Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher
1918 – Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (d. 2005)
1918 – Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963)
1918 – William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
1919 – Ross Bagdasarian, American musician (d. 1972)
1920 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
1920 – John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
1921 – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
1924 – Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (d. 1963)
1924 – Rauf Denktas, Turkish political figure
1926 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
1926 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
1928 – Michael Craig, British actor
1928 – Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany
1929 – Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
1930 – Bobby Blue Bland, American singer
1931 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
1932 – Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast
1933 – Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian billionaire businessman
1934 – George Follmer, American race car driver
1936 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
1936 – Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel Laureate
1937 – John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
1940 – James Cromwell, American actor
1940 – Terry Harper, Canadian ice hockey player
1942 – John Witherspoon, American actor
1942 – Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
1942 – Stewart Raffill, American film director
1944 – Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
1944 – Mairéad Corrigan, Irish activist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1944 – Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
1945 – Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
1946 – Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
1947 – Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
1947 – Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician
1948 – Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist
1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-American dancer
1949 – Ethan Mordden, American author
1950 – Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
1950 – Derek Acorah, English spirit medium
1951 – Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy)
1952 – White Shoes Johnson, American football player
1954 – Ed Schultz, Radio talk show host
1954 – Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
1954 – Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist
1955 – Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – John G. Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1955 – Alexander Stuart, British author
1955 – Koji Ushikubo, Japanese racing driver
1956 – Mimi Rogers, American actress
1957 – Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1957 – Frank Miller, American comic book author and film director
1957 – Frank Skinner, English writer and Comedian
1958 – James Grippando, American novelist
1958 – Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
1958 – Susanna Thompson, American actress
1959 – Keith Olbermann, American news presenter
1959 – Göran Hägglund, Swedish politician
1959 – Cris Collinsworth, American football player
1961 – Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1961 – Dina Bonnevie, Filipino actress
1961 – Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order)
1961 – Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer
1962 – Roberto Paci Dalò, Italian director and composer
1964 – Bridget Fonda, American actress
1965 – Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
1965 – Mike Newell, English football manager
1967 – Bobby Deol, Indian actor
1967 – Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor
1967 – Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Patrick Blondeau, French footballer
1968 – Mike Patton, American singer (Faith No More)
1968 – Tricky, English rapper
1969 – Cornelius, Japanese musician and producer (Flipper s Guitar)
1969 – Michael Kulas, Canadian singer (James)
1969 – Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
1970 – Jon Douglas Rainey, American TV personality
1970 – Emmanuel Pahud, French-Swiss flautist
1971 – Fann Wong, Singapore entertainer (Shanghai Knights)
1971 – Lil Jon, American rapper and producer
1971 – Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Guillermo, Mexican-born American TV personality
1972 – Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
1972 – Mark Owen, English pop singer
1972 – Janine Ilitch, Australian netballer
1974 – Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
1974 – Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player
1974 – ZP Theart, South African-born English singer (Dragonforce)
1976 – Clint Ford, American voice actor
1976 – Ahn Jung-Hwan, Korean football player
1976 – Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 – Zoriah Miller, American photojournalist and war photographer
1976 – Todd MacCulloch, American Basketball Player
1978 – Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
1979 – Mario Fatafehi, American-born Canadian Football League player
1979 – Rosamund Pike, British actress
1979 – Liesbet Van Breedam, Belgian beach volleyball player
1979 – Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
1980 – Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
1980 – Chanda Gunn, ice hockey player
1981 – Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
1983 – Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
1983 – Mike Zagurski, American baseball player
1984 – Davetta Sherwood, American actress
1987 – Lily Donaldson, British model
1987 – Katy Rose, American pop singer
1987 – Zuleidy Spanish porn star
1988 – Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer

Deaths
98 – Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
661 – Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam
1490 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
1540 – Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (b. 1474)
1595 – Sir Francis Drake, European explorer (b. c.1540)
1629 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
1638 – Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian musical instrument maker (b. 1655)
1740 – Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
1814 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
1816 – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
1837 – Alexandr Pushkin, Russian poet
1851 – John James Audubon, French-born naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1789)
1857 – Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (b. 1785)
1860 – János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)
1880 – Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
1910 – Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
1919 – Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
1921 – Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
1922 – Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer (b. 1864)
1927 – Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army
1927 – Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevicius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop
1940 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
1942 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
1956 – Erich Kleiber, Argentine conductor (b. 1890)
1967 – Roger Chaffee – Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1935)
1967 – Virgil Gus Grissom – Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1926)
1967 – Edward White – Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1930)
1967 – Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
1970 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
1971 – Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
1972 – Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
1972 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)
1973 – William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
1975 – Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
1979 – Qalander Ba Ba Auliya, Sufi master (b. 1898)
1983 – Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914)
1986 – Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)
1988 – Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938)
1989 – Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
1989 – Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
1993 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
1994 – Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1918)
1996 – Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
1997 – Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (b. 1900)
2000 – Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
2001 – Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)
2003 – Henryk Jablonski, President of Poland (b. 1909)
2003 – Louis Archambault, Quebec sculptor (b. 1915)
2004 – Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
2004 – Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
2006 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
2006 – Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
2007 – Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 – Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
2008 – Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
2008 – Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
2008 – Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances
UN — International Holocaust Remembrance Day
United Kingdom — Holocaust Memorial Day.
Germany — Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism).
Poland — Dzien Pamieci Ofiar Nazizmu (Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism).
Italy — Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day).
Catholicism — Catholic Schools Week.
Serbia — St. Sava Day.
Denmark — Auschwitzdag (Auschwitz Day; commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocide).
Monaco, day of Saint Devota, patron saint
January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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Events
1340 – King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1531 – Lisbon, Portugal hit by an earthquake–thousands die.
1564 – The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
1589 – Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
1699 – Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 – The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally ceded.
1855 – Point No Point Treaty signed in Washington Territory.
1856 – First Battle of Seattle (1856). Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
1861 – American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
1863 – American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
1870 – American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
1885 – Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
1905 – The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
1911 – Richard Strauss opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1920 – Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1934 – German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
1950 – India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president. Republic Day.
1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: riots burn Cairo s central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
1962 – Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of India.
1966 – The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
1988 – Andrew Lloyd Webber s The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre in New York.
1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed in Somalia, ending centralized government
1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had sexual relations with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2004 – President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
2006 – Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.

Births
1497 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1541 – Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
1716 – George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)
1722 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
1763 – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general (d. 1844)
1781 – Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876)
1826 – Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
1832 – George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
1842 – François Coppée, French poet and novelist (d. 1908)
1852 – Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (d. 1905)
1857 – the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1868 – Juventino Rosas, Mexican composer (d. 1894)
1880 – Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1887 – François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
1887 – Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (d. 1947)
1891 – Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
1891 – Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
1892 – Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
1892 – Bessie Coleman, American pioneer aviator (d. 1926)
1893 – Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
1900 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1901 – Stuart Symington, American politician (d. 1988)
1902 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
1904 – Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
1904 – Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1988)
1905 – Charles Lane, American actor (d. 2007)
1905 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (d. 1987)
1908 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
1908 – Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
1910 – Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
1911 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1993)
1911 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (d. 2002)
1913 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)
1914 – Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)
1915 – William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)
1918 – Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
1918 – Philip José Farmer, American writer
1919 – Bill Nicholson, English footballer and manager for Tottenham Hotspur. (d. 2004)
1919 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
1921 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)
1921 – Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
1922 – Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)
1923 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress
1924 – Rauf Denktas, Cypriot politician
1924 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
1924 – Alice Babs, Swedish singer
1925 – Joan Leslie, American actress
1925 – Paul Newman, American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner (d. 2008)
1925 – Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)
1926 – Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
1927 – Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1928 – Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)
1929 – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and writer
1929 – Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)
1931 – Mary Murphy, American film actress
1932 – Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer
1933 – Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
1934 – Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
1935 – Bob Uecker, American baseball player and broadcaster
1936 – Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)
1941 – Scott Glenn, American actor
1941 – Henry Jaglom, English director
1942 – Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
1943 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1943 – Jean Knight, American singer
1943 – Austin Jack Warner,Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President
1944 – Angela Davis, American feminist and activist
1945 – Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
1946 – Gene Siskel, American film critic (d. 1999)
1947 – Michel Sardou, French singer
1947 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)
1949 – Jonathan Carroll, American author
1949 – David Strathairn, American actor
1950 – Jörg Haider, Austrian far-right politician (d. 2008)
1950 – Janet Lupo, American model
1953 – Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
1953 – Lucinda Williams, American singer
1954 – Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer
1955 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch musician
1958 – Anita Baker, American singer
1958 – Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian
1958 – Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer
1960 – Road Warrior Animal, American professional wrestler
1960 – Charlie Gillingham, American musician (Counting Crows)
1961 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1963 – José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
1963 – Andrew Ridgeley, English musician
1963 – Riddell Akua, Nauruan politician
1964 – Paul Johansson, American actor
1965 – Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
1965 – Thomas Östros, Swedish politician
1967 – Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer
1968 – Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor
1969 – Michael O Hearn, American bodybuilder
1970 – Kirk Franklin, American singer
1970 – Tracy Middendorf, American actress
1971 – Bryan Callen, American actor
1971 – Dorian Gregory, American actor
1973 – Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka
1974 – Shannon Hale, American author
1976 – Frankie Rayder, American model
1976 – Willie Adler, American guitar player
1977 – Vince Carter, American basketball player
1977 – Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player
1978 – Estéban Germán, Dominican baseball player
1978 – Corina Morariu, American tennis player
1978 – Kelly Stables, American actress
1979 – Sara Rue, American actress
1981 – Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist
1984 – Layla Kayleigh, British television personality
1984 – Iain Turner, Scottish footballer
1984 – Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
1986 – Gerald Green, American basketball player
1986 – Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)
1986 – Shantelle Taylor, Canadian professional wrestler
1987 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
1988 – Mia Rose, British-Portuguese singer
1989 – Emily Hughes, American figure skater
1990 – Christopher Massey, American actor
1993 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor

Deaths
946 – Eadgyth, German Queen
1567 – Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 – Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 – Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
1744 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 – Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)
1799 – Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1823 – Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)
1824 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
1855 – Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
1869 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 – Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
1885 – Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)
1885 – Charles George Gordon, British general (b. 1833)
1886 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 – Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)
1893 – Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)
1904 – Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
1926 – John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
1932 – William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (b. 1861)
1933 – Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1942 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
1943 – Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
1943 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)
1946 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
1947 – Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898)
1947 – Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, (b. 1906)
1952 – Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
1953 – Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)
1961 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
1962 – Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)
1968 – Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
1968 – Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
1973 – Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
1973 – Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
1976 – João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)
1979 – Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
1983 – Paul Bear Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)
1990 – Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
1990 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1992 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
1993 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905)
1993 – Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)
1993 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (b. 1912)
1996 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)
1996 – Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
1996 – Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (b. 1932)
1996 – Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
1996 – Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)
1997 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
1998 – Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898)
2000 – Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
2000 – Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
2000 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)
2001 – Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
2003 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete (b. 1942)
2003 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
2003 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
2004 – Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
2006 – Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
2006 – Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
2006 – Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
2007 – Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
2007 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
2008 – Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando (b. 1958)

Holidays and observances
Australia – Australia Day.
Roman Empire – third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra.
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Timothy and Titus
Saint Paula
Saint Alberic
Saint Margaret of Hungary
India – Republic Day – One of only three national holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and a military parade in New Delhi & across Nation.
Uganda – Liberation Day.
January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
World Social Forum marks a Global Call for Action.

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Events
41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
1327 – Edward III becomes King of England.
1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
1554 – Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1755 – Moscow University established on Tatiana Day.
1787 – American Daniel Shays leads rebellion to seize Federal arsenal to protest debtor s prisons.
1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1792 – The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1909 – Richard Strauss opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service.
1917 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.
1918 – The Ukrainian people declare independence from Bolshevik Russia.
1919 – The League of Nations is founded.
1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps), inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1937 – The Guiding Light airs on radio for the first time. Also went to television making this show the longest running broadcast program in United States radio and television history.
1941 – Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942 – World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1945 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge ends.
1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
1955 – Soviet Union ends state of war with Germany.
1959 – Pope John XXIII proclaims upcoming Second Vatican Council.
1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accepted money for playing particular records.
1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1971 – Charles Manson and three female Family members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
1971 – Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda s president.
1971 – Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th Indian state.
1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
1986 – The National Resistance Movement topple the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
1990 – The Burns Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
1990 – Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1990 – Avianca Flight 52 crashes, killing 73 passengers.
1993 – Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.
1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
1995 – The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba Pope John Paul II demands the release of political prisoners and political reforms while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka s Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.
1999 – A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.

Births
2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
2002 – Wikipedia switches to the new version of its software (Phase II) aka Magnus Manske Day.
2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.
2005 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills at least 258.
2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing, the first cool rocky/icy extrasolar planet around a main-sequence star.

Deaths
750 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine Emperor
1477 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany, wife of Charles VIII of France (d. 1514)
1509 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
1615 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
1627 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist (d. 1691)
1634 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (d. 1688)
1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
1688 – Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (d. 1713)
1736 – Joseph Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (d. 1813)
1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
1741 – Benedict Arnold, American general notorious for treason (d. 1801)
1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
1777 – Karoline Jagemann, German actor (d. 1848)
1794 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (d. 1878)
1796 – William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (d. 1852)
1825 – George Pickett, American Confederate General (d. 1875)
1841 – Jackie Fisher, British First Sea Lord (d. 1920)
1858 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
1860 – Charles Curtis, 31st Vice President of the United States (d. 1936)
1864 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (d. 1934)
1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (d. 1965)
1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born television pioneer (d. 1975)
1882 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (d. 1941)
1885 – Kitahara Hakushu, Japanese poets and children s writers (d. 1942)
1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954)
1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician (d. 1972)
1900 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975)
1900 – Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
1901 – Martin De Alzaga, Argentine racing driver (d. 1982)
1902 – Pablo Antonio, Filipino modernist architect (d. 1975)
1905 – Maurice Roy, French Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (d. 1985)
1913 – Witold Lutoslawski, Polish composer (d. 1994)
1913 – Luis Marden, American photojournalist (d. 2003)
1916 – Frank Pop Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (d. 2003)
1917 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
1917 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (d. 1992)
1918 – Ernie Harwell, American baseball sportscaster
1919 – Edwin Newman, American journalist and writer
1923 – Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (d. 2003)
1923 – Shirley Mason, American psychiatric patient (Commonly known as Sybil) (d. 1998)
1924 – Lou Groza, American football player (d. 2000)
1924 – Speedy West, Country Hall of Fame steel guitar player (d. 2003)
1925 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek musician and songwriter (d. 1992)
1927 – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian musician (d. 1994)
1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia
1928 – Jérôme Choquette, Quebec lawyer and politician
1929 – Benny Golson, American jazz musician
1930 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
1931 – Dean Jones, American actor
1933 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines
1935 – António Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal
1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
1937 – Ange-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic
1937 – Judith Ann Mayotte, American humanitarian, author.
1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
1938 – Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese creator of anime.
1938 – Etta James, American singer
1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet (d. 1980)
1939 – Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
1941 – Buddy Baker, American race car driver
1941 – Gregory Sierra, American actor
1942 – Carl Eller, American football player
1942 – Eusébio, Portuguese footballer
1942 – Shinobu Tsukasa, Japanese kumicho (supreme Godfather) of the largest yakuza organization.
1943 – Tobe Hooper, American film director
1944 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian model
1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
1947 – Tostão, Brazilian footballer
1947 – Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
1948 – Gueorgui Chichkine, Russian painter
1948 – Ros Kelly, Australian politician
1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English punk-poet
1949 – Paul Nurse, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate
1951 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
1952 – Sara Mandiano, French singer and songwriter
1952 – Timothy White, American journalist (d. 2002)
1953 – The Honky Tonk Man, American professional wrestler
1953 – Mark Weil, Uzbek theatre director (d. 2007)
1954 – Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
1954 – Richard Finch, American bass player (KC and the Sunshine Band)
1954 – Kim Gandy, American feminist
1955 – Terry Chimes, English musician (The Clash)
1956 – Andy Cox, English musician (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals)
1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress
1957 – Eskil Erlandsson, Swedish politician
1957 – Andrew P. Harris, American politician
1958 – Dinah Manoff, American actress
1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
1961 – Willie Revillame, Filipino game show host and comedian
1962 – Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
1965 – Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player
1966 – Chet Culver, American politician, governor of Iowa
1967 – Randy McKay, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Mark Bamford, American writer/director
1969 – Kina, American singer
1971 – Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
1971 – China Kantner, American actress
1971 – Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
1973 – Geoff Johns, American comic book writer
1973 – Chris Guy, American professional wrestler
1974 – Robert Budreau, Canadian film director
1975 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
1975 – Tim Montgomery, American athlete
1975 – Dat Phan, Vietnamese stand-up comedian
1976 – Mario Haberfeld, Brazilian racing car driver
1978 – Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
1978 – Jason Roberts, English-born footballer
1978 – Derrick Turnbow, Major League Baseball Player
1979 – Pi Hongyan, French badminton player
1979 – Gabe Jennings, American distance runner
1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1979 – Christine Lakin, American actress
1980 – Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
1980 – Xavi, Catalan Spanish footballer
1980 – Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
1981 – Tose Proeski, Macedonian Singer (d. 2007)
1981 – Francis Jeffers, English footballer
1981 – Alicia Keys, American singer
1982 – Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer and actor
1982 – The-Dream, singer
1982 – Shawna Waldron, American actress
1983 – Andrée Watters, Canadian singer
1984 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Patrick Willis, American Football Linebacker
1985 – Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
1985 – Acie Law IV, National Basketball Association player
1986 – Chris O Grady, English footballer
1986 – Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
1988 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
1989 – Sheryfa Luna, French singer
1989- Patrick Power (tenor), American opera singer

Holidays and observances
389 – Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
477 – Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans
844 – Pope Gregory IV
1067 – Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)
1366 – Henry Suso, German mystic
1431 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1494 – King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
1559 – King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b. 1481)
1573 – Hirate Hirohide, Japanese samurai (b. 1553)
1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
1640 – Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
1670 – Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
1726 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
1733 – Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
1751 – Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)
1881 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
1907 – René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
1908 – Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
1912 – Dmitry Milyutin, Russian Field Marshal (b. 1816)
1925 – Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
1940 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
1947 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
1949 – Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman (b. 1861)
1954 – Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian marxist (b. 1887)
1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1957 – Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
1963 – Wilson Kettle, Guinness World Record holder for most living descendants (b. 1860)
1969 – Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
1970 – Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (Ultraman) (b. 1901)
1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
1976 – Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (b. 1929)
1980 – Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)
1981 – Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)
1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
1996 – Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
1999 – Sarah Sadie Delany, American author (b. 1889)
1999 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
1999 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
2003 – Samuel Weems, Arkansas judge (b. 1936)
2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2005 – Stanislaw Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 – William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
2005 – Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
2005 – Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
2005 – Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2006 – Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
2008 – Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
2008 – Evelyn Barbirolli,English musician (b. 1911)

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Events
41 – Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew.
1438 – The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
1679 – King Charles II of England disbands Parliament.
1742 – Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1776 – Henry Knox arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts with the artillery that he has transported from Fort Ticonderoga.
1826 – Mississippi College is founded in Clinton, becoming the first college in the state of Mississippi.
1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter s Mill near Sacramento.
1857 – The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first full-fledged university in south Asia.
1859 – Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler.
1862 – Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania.
1878 – The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg.
1887 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
1907 – Robert Baden-Powell founds the Boy Scout movement.
1916 – In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
1918 – The Gregorian calendar introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People s Commissars effective from February 14(NS)
1924 – Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
1927 – Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.
1936 – Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.
1966 – An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117.
1972 – Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1977 – Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 – Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 burns up in Earth s atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada s Northwest Territories.
1978 – Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison in the history of the Republic of Ireland.
1984 – The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
1986 – Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus.
1993 – Turkish journalist and writer Ugur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
1996 – Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow.
2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

Births
76 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
1287 – Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345)
1444 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
1540 – Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
1638 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)
1670 – William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
1674 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735)
1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
1705 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 – King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1724 – Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
1732 – Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1742 – Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808)
1752 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
1754 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
1763 – Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831)
1776 – E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822)
1779 – Elizabeth Alexeievna (Louise of Baden), Russian tsarina (d. 1826)
1848 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
1862 – Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
1864 – Marguerite Durand, French feminist leader (d. 1936)
1872 – Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
1872 – Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
1873 – Leon Czolgosz, American anarchist, assassin of U.S. President William McKinley (d. 1901)
1886 – Henry King, American film director (d. 1982)
1888 – Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960)
1888 – Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958)
1891 – Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1895 – Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976)
1898 – Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939)
1901 – Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
1902 – E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (d. 1965)
1905 – J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (d. 1995)
1907 – Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician (d. 1999)
1909 – Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (d. 2005)
1909 – Ann Todd, English actress (d. 1993)
1910 – Granny D, Doris Haddock, American activist
1913 – Norman Dello Joio, American composer
1915 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991)
1916 – Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
1917 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor
1918 – Oral Roberts, American evangelist
1919 – Coleman Francis, American film director
1920 – Jerry Maren, American actor
1922 – Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
1925 – Maria Tallchief, American ballerina
1926 – Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter
1927 – Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007)
1928 – Desmond Morris, British anthropologist
1928 – Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007)
1934 – Stanislaw Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976)
1935 – Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008)
1936 – Doug Kershaw, American musician
1939 – Ray Stevens, American musician
1941 – Neil Diamond, American singer
1941 – Aaron Neville, American singer
1942 – Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (d. 2008)
1943 – Subhash Ghai, Indian film director
1943 – Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1944 – Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1945 – D. Todd Christofferson, LDS apostle
1945 – John Garamendi, American politician
1946 – Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor
1947 – Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
1947 – Warren Zevon, American musician (d. 2003)
1948 – Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer
1949 – John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
1950 – Daniel Auteuil, French actor
1950 – Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American writer
1951 – Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-born American comedian
1954 – Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1986)
1956 – Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks)
1956 – Lounès Matoub, a famous Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998)
1957 – Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
1958 – Neil Allen, American baseball player
1958 – Jools Holland, British musician
1959 – David Mills, American author
1959 – Vic Reeves, English comedian
1961 – Guido Buchwald, German football player
1961 – Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
1961 – Vince Russo, American writer
1961 – William Van Dijck, Belgian athlete
1963 – Martyn Grimley, English field hockey player
1963 – Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer
1965 – Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1965 – Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian film director
1966 – Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian
1967 – Mark Kozelek, American singer/songwriter (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon)
1967 – Phil LaMarr, American voice actor
1967 – John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater)
1968 – Michael Kiske, German musician
1968 – Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
1969 – Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Icelandic actor
1970 – Matthew Lillard, American actor
1971 – Cory Bailey, American baseball player
1971 – Andrea Mackris, American television producer
1972 – Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer
1972 – Ulla Werbrouck, Belgian judoka and politician
1974 – Ed Helms, American actor
1975 – Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer
1976 – Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer with Victor Kraatz
1976 – Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist
1979 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer
1979 – Tom Kostopoulos, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Rocky Boiman, American football player
1980 – Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress
1981 – Travis Hanson, American baseball player
1983 – Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1983 – Scott Speed, American race car driver
1984 – Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1984 – Witold Kieltyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007)
1986 – Mischa Barton, English-born American actress
1986 – Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor

Deaths
41 – Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12)
772 – Pope Stephen III (b. 720)
1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
1125 – David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
1366 – Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
1376 – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
1473 – Conrad Paumann, German composer
1595 – Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
1626 – Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
1639 – Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)
1666 – Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
1709 – George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
1769 – François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
1856 – Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
1877 – Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
1882 – Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
1883 – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
1911 – David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
1918 – George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
1920 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
1924 – Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
1932 – Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
1939 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
1943 – John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)
1948 – Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912)
1948 – Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
1955 – Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
1960 – Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
1961 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
1962 – Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
1962 – André Lhote, french painter.
1965 – Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1966 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
1970 – Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1971 – Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1973 – J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
1973 – Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (b. 1949)
1975 – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
1978 – Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
1980 – Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress, (b. 1887)
1982 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)
1983 – George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
1986 – Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
1986 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
1988 – Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
1989 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1989 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
1990 – Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
1991 – John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
1992 – Ken Darby, American composer, arranger and conductor (b. 1909)
1992 – Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
1993 – Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
1993 – Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
1994 – Yves Navarre, French writer (b. 1940)
1998 – Walter D. Edmonds, American author (b. 1903)
2000 – Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2002 – Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (b. 1934)
2002 – Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (b. 1956)
2003 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (b. 1921)
2004 – Leônidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1913)
2005 – June Bronhill, Australian singer (b. 1929)
2005 – Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)
2005 – Chalkie White, English rugby union coach (b. 1929)
2006 – Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (b. 1914)
2006 – Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician
2006 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
2007 – Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
2007 – Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
2007 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World s Oldest Military Veteran (b. 1891)
2008 – Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago s CBS 2 News (b. 1963)

Holidays and observances
Roman Empire – first day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra
Roman Catholic Church – Feasts of St. Francis de Sales and Our Lady of Peace
January 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Wales – Saint Cadoc

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Events
393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.
971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. The Southern Han state is forced to submit to the Song Dynasty, ending not only Southern Han rule, but also the first regular war elephant corps employed in a Chinese army that had gained the Southern Han victories throughout the 10th century.
1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1510 – Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.
1533 – Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
1570 – The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
1789 – Georgetown College, first Roman Catholic college in the United States, was founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
1793 – Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States first female doctor.
1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke s Drift ends.
1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin s regime and assassinate its leaders.
1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1943 – World War II: British forces capture Tripoli in Libya from the Nazis.
1943 – Jewish-led Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
1943 – The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
1945 – World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
1958 – Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Pérez Jiménez
1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet)in the Pacific Ocean.
1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1967 – The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast were established.
1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
1973 – A volcano eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
1978 – Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth s ozone layer.
1985 – O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.
1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
1997 – Antonis Daglis, a 23 year old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
2001 – The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
2002 – American Taliban John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in Federal Bureau of Investigation custody.
2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. He was subsequently murdered .
2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10

Births
1350 – Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
1688 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1719 – John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
1737 – John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)
1745 – William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
1783 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
1786 – Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
1809 – Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter
1813 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)
1827 – Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
1832 – Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
1840 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
1855 – John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
1857 – Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
1862 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
1872 – Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans – leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1903)
1872 – Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
1872 – Joze Plecnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
1876 – Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
1884 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
1891 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian political philosopher, (d. 1937)
1896 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
1897 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945)
1897 – Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989)
1897 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
1897 – Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Indian Leader and Freedom Fighter
1898 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
1898 – Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
1898 – Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
1899 – Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
1900 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
1903 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
1907 – Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
1907 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
1910 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
1915 – Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985)
1915 – Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1916 – Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1979)
1916 – David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist
1918 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1919 – Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
1919 – Bob Paisley, English Football player and manager. (d. 1996)
1919 – Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
1923 – Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (d. 1996)
1923 – Cot Deal, major league baseball player and coach
1924 – Bal Thackeray, founder and president of Indian political party Shiv Sena.
1927 – Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
1927 – Jack Quinlan, Chicago Cubs Broadcaster (d. 1965)
1928 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1928 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress
1929 – Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyiv Patriarchate
1929 – John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
1930 – Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel laureate
1930 – Teresa Zylis-Gara, Polish singer
1933 – Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer
1934 – Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
1936 – Jerry Kramer, American football player
1936 – Bob Moses, American educator and 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
1938 – Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1938 – Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
1939 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
1939 – Arlene Golonka, American actress
1940 – Joe Dowell, American singer
1940 – Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1942 – Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
1943 – Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
1943 – Gil Gerard, American actor
1943 – Millie Jackson, American singer
1944 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
1945 – Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
1946 – Arnoldo Alemán, ex-president of Nicaragua
1946 – Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon
1947 – Thomas R. Carper, American politician.
1947 – Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
1948 – Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
1950 – Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)
1950 – John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health)
1952 – Omar Henry, former South African cricketer
1953 – Antonio Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
1953 – Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick)
1953 – Alister E. McGrath, British theologian and scientist
1954 – Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter
1954 – Edward Ka-Spel, English musician (Legendary Pink Dots)
1957 – Princess Caroline of Monaco
1957 – Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist
1959 – Clive Bull, English radio talk show host
1960 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
1960 – Jean-François Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 – Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore s most-wanted terror fugitive
1962 – Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist
1962 – Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress
1963 – Gail O Grady, American actress
1964 – Mariska Hargitay, American actress
1964 – Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Naim Süleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1968 – Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
1969 – Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
1969 – Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1969 – Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Spiridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper
1970 – Tracey Cherelle Jones, American actress
1970 – Brendan O Connor, Irish Journalist, Satirist
1971 – Kevin Mawae, American football player
1971 – Lorne Spicer, British TV presenter
1971 – Marc Nelson, American R&B singer and lyricist
1972 – Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
1972 – Mark Curry, American rapper
1972 – Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
1973 – Lanei Chapman, American actress
1974 – Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
1974 – Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
1974 – Richard T. Slone, British artist
1974 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
1975 – Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter
1976 – Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player
1976 – Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 – Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
1979 – Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player
1979 – Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
1981 – Greg Smith, American UFC fighter
1981 – Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
1982 – Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
1984 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
1985 – Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
1985 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
1986 – Steven Taylor, English footballer
1987 – Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer

Deaths
1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
1199 – Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
1548 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
1549 – Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
1567 – Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)
1570 – James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated)
1622 – William Baffin, English explorer (b. 1584)
1744 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
1785 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
1789 – Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
1789 – John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
1800 – Edward Rutledge, American statesman (b. 1749)
1803 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
1805 – Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
1806 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1810 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
1812 – Robert Craufurd, British general (b. 1764)
1820 – Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
1833 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
1837 – John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
1866 – Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
1875 – Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819)
1883 – Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
1893 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
1922 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
1923 – Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
1931 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
1937 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
1939 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
1943 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
1944 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
1944 – Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
1956 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (b. 1893)
1958 – Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
1971 – Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
1973 – Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
1973 – Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1976 – Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
1976 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (b. 1898)
1977 – Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (b. 1903)
1978 – Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
1978 – Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
1978 – Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
1981 – Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
1983 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1984 – Mu in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
1986 – Joseph Beuys, German artist (b. 1921)
1988 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist (b. 1896)
1989 – Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
1990 – Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
1991 – Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
1992 – Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b. 1924)
1993 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer (b. 1899)
1994 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (b. 1917)
1994 – Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
1997 – Richard Berry, American composer and musician (b. 1935)
1999 – Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
1999 – Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
2002 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
2002 – Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
2002 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
2003 – Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
2004 – Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
2004 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
2005 – Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
2005 – Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
2006 – Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
2007 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
2007 – Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
2007 – Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances
St. Abakuh, an Egyptian Christian martyr
January 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Bounty Day, celebrating the burning of the Bounty in 1790, Pitcairn Island
St. Emerentiana, virgin and martyr, d. 305 (Roman Catholic calendar of saints)
Blessed Marianne of Molokai

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Events
565 – Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican.
1521 – Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
1771 – Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England.
1824 – Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1863 – The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.
1877 – Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops defeat British troops.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke s Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
1889 – Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 – The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
1901 – Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies.
1905 – Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for peace without victory in Europe.
1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People s Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
1927 – First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, bewtween Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.
1944 – World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle which was an assault on Anzio, Italy.
1946 – Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people s Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president; Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
1952 – The first Jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, enters service for BOAC.
1957 – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
1957 – The New York City Mad Bomber, George P. Metesky, was arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and was charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1962 – The Organization of American States suspends Cuba s membership.
1963 – The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1968 – Apollo 5 lifted off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, allowing abortion
1973 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria killing 176.
1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous 1984 television commercial.
1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
1990 – Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
1991 – Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
1992 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire s national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government s resignation.
1992 – Space Shuttle program: STS-42 Mission – Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
1995 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In central Israel, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2002 – Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2003 – Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.
2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country s first indigenous president.
Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant scored 81 points against the Toronto Raptors at Staples Center which is the second most points in a single-game in NBA history, only behind Wilt Chamberlain s 100 points in 1962.
2007 – The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada s worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

Births
1263 – Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
1440 – Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
1553 – Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
1561 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
1570 – Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
1592 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
1654 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
1690 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
1729 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
1733 – Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer
1781 – François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
1788 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (d. 1824)
1796 – Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
1797 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
1799 – Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
1820 – Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
1840 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
1849 – August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
1858 – Beatrice Webb, English economist (d. 1943)
1869 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
1874 – Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
1874 – Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924)
1875 – D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
1876 – Warren McLaughlin, American baseball player (d. 1923)
1877 – Tom Jones, American baseball player (d. 1923)
1879 – Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
1880 – Bill O Neill, American baseball player (d. 1920)
1881 – Ira Thomas, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1882 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
1886 – Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)
1887 – Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
1889 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
1889 – Amos Strunk, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1890 – Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
1890 – Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
1892 – Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986)
1893 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
1897 – Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
1900 – Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
1902 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
1903 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
1904 – George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
1904 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian children s writer (d. 1941)
1904 – John Milligan, American baseball player (d. 1972)
1906 – Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
1906 – Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
1907 – Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
1907 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907 – Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
1908 – Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1908 – Prince Oana, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1909 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
1909 – Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
1909 – U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
1911 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
1913 – William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
1913 – Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
1914 – Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
1915 – Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)
1916 – Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
1916 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer
1916 – Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist (Gujarat is a State of India) (d. 1994)
1917 – Huck Geary, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1918 – Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
1919 – Diomedes Olivo, Dominican Republic baseball player (d. 1977)
1920 – Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
1922 – Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
1924 – J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
1925 – Johnny Bucha, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1925 – Bobby Young, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1927 – Lou Creekmur, American football player
1928 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
1931 – Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
1932 – Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
1932 – Piper Laurie, American actress
1934 – Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
1934 – Graham Kerr, British-born chef
1935 – Seymour Cassel, American actor
1936 – Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1936 – Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
1937 – Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
1937 – Joseph Wambaugh, American author
1938 – Altair, Brazilian footballer
1939 – Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
1939 – J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
1940 – Addie Micki Harris, singer (Shirelles) (d. 1982)
1940 – John Hurt, English actor
1940 – George Seifert, American football coach
1942 – Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
1943 – Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
1945 – Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
1946 – Malcolm McLaren, English impresario, musician and self-publicist
1946 – Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
1948 – Gilbert Levine, American conductor
1948 – Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
1949 – Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
1949 – Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole)
1949 – Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey)
1951 – Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
1951 – Leon Roberts, American baseball player
1952 – Ramón Avilés, Puerto Rican baseball player
1952 – Teddy Gentry, American musician (Alabama)
1952 – Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
1953 – Jim Jarmusch, American director
1953 – Myung-Whun Chung,South Korean Conductor and pianist
1954 – Tully Blanchard, American professional wrestler
1954 – Chris Lemmon, American actor
1954 – Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
1955 – Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
1955 – Thomas David Jones, NASA astronaut
1956 – Steve Riley, American drummer
1956 – John Wesley Shipp, American actor
1957 – Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 – Brian Dayett, American baseball player
1957 – Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
1957 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
1957 – Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
1958 – Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
1959 – Linda Blair, American actress
1960 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997)
1961 – Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and artist
1962 – Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
1962 – Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1963 – Javier Ortiz, American baseball player
1963 – Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
1963 – Jeff Treadway, American baseball player
1964 – Wayne Kirby, American baseball player
1965 – Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N Roses)
1965 – DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
1965 – Diane Lane, American actress
1965 – Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
1965 – Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter
1965 – Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
1967 – Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
1967 – Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer-songwriter
1967 – Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Heath, Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan)
1968 – Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
1968 – Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
1969 – Olivia d Abo, English actress
1969 – Keith Gordon, American baseball player
1969 – John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist
1970 – Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
1970 – Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come)
1971 – Stan Collymore, English footballer
1972 – Gabriel Macht, American actor
1972 – Romi Paku, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1972 – Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
1972 – Namrata Shirodkar, Indian actress
1973 – Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
1974 – Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver
1975 – Balthazar Getty, American actor
1975 – Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
1975 – David Výborný, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Jimmy Anderson, American baseball player
1976 – James Dearth, American football player
1976 – Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice hockey player
1977 – Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1977 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
1977 – Aaron Rakers, American baseball player
1978 – Chone Figgins, American baseball player
1979 – Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
1980 – Jake Grove, American football player
1980 – Christopher Masterson, American actor
1980 – Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1980 – Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1980 – Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese Writer
1981 – Willa Ford, American singer
1981 – Beverley Mitchell, American actress
1981 – Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
1982 – Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
1982 – Jason Peters, American football player
1983 – Shaun Cody, American football player
1983 – Robert Steinhäuser, German perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002)
1984 – Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 – Ubaldo Jimenez, Dominican Republic baseball player
1984 – Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
1984 – Leon Powe, American basketball player
1984 – Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
1985 – Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
1986 – Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
1986 – Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor, reality television personality (d. 2006)
1987 – Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
1988 – Greg Oden, American basketball player

Deaths
1536 – Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
1599 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1666 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
1750 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
1763 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
1779 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
1779 – Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1892 – Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
1900 – David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
1901 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
1921 – Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
1922 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
1922 – Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
1922 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
1931 – Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
1945 – Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1949 – William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
1950 – Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
1950 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
1951 – Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
1959 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
1966 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
1967 – Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
1968 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
1973 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
1975 – Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
1978 – Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
1978 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
1981 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
1982 – Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
1982 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)
1985 – Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
1987 – Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
1988 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
1991 – Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
1991 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
1993 – Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
1994 – Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
1994 – Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
1994 – Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
1995 – Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
1995 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family (b. 1890)
1997 – Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
1997 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
1997 – Wally Whyton, English musician (b. 1929)
1999 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
2000 – Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
2000 – Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
2001 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2001 – Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
2002 – Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
2003 – Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
2004 – Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
2004 – Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
2004 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
2005 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
2005 – Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
2005 – Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
2007 – Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
2007 – Ngô Quang Tru?ng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
2007 – Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
2008 – Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
2008 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
2008 – Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances
Christianity – Feast day of St. Vincent, Anastasius of Persia.
January 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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