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• 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
• 533 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
• 1492 – Reconquista: the Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
• 1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
• 1818 – The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
• 1833 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
• 1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
• 1865 – Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as Brazilian and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
• 1871 – Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
• 1900 – American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
• 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China.
• 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
• 1920 – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
• 1927 – Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government.
• 1935 – Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
• 1941 – World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom.
• 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
• 1942 – World War II: Manila, Philippines is captured by Japanese forces.
• 1945 – World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces.
• 1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
• 1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.
• 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.
• 1967 – Ronald Reagan sworn in as Governor of California
• 1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match.
• 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
• 1975 – A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Minister of Railways Lalit Narayan Mishra.
• 1975 – Bangladeshi Marxist leader Siraj Sikder is arrested and dies while in police custody.
• 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, which results in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, resulting in at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.
• 1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
• 1992 – Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia.
• 1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35-100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
• 1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported.
• 2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.
• 2006 – An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition.

Births[edit]

• 1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1693)
• 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (d. 1676)
• 1699 – Osman III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1757)
• 1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
• 1719 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
• 1727 – James Wolfe, English general (d. 1759)
• 1732 – František Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1771)
• 1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
• 1822 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
• 1827 – Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)
• 1833 – Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
• 1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
• 1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917)
• 1837 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1910)
• 1857 – M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (d. 1935)
• 1860 – William Corless Mills, American historian (d. 1928)
• 1860 – Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931)
• 1866 – Gilbert Murray, Australian scholar (d. 1957)
• 1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938)
• 1873 – Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)
• 1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)
• 1877 – Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906)
• 1878 – Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian activist (d. 1970)
• 1879 – Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian discus thrower (d. 1932)
• 1882 – Herbert von Petersdorff, German swimmer (d. 1917)
• 1884 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator, historian and politician (d. 1973)
• 1885 – Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
• 1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer (d. 1959)
• 1886 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
• 1889 – Bertram Stevens, Australian politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and dramatist (d. 1951)
• 1891 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990)
• 1892 – Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
• 1893 – Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
• 1893 – Elmar Reimann, Estonian runner (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
• 1896 – Dziga Vertov, Russian director (d. 1954)
• 1896 – Lawrence Wackett, Australian engineer (d. 1982)
• 1897 – Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975)
• 1898 – Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, American economist, attorney and the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated (d. 1989)
• 1900 – William Haines, American actor and interior designer (d. 1973)
• 1901 – Bob Marshall, American activist (d. 1939)
• 1902 – Dan Keating, Irish soldier (d. 2007)
• 1904 – Truus Klapwijk, Dutch diver and swimmer (d. 1991)
• 1905 – Jainendra Kumar, Indian author (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938)
• 1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
• 1905 – Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
• 1909 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
• 1909 – Barry Goldwater, American general and politician (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, Russian-English SOE agent (d. 1944)
• 1914 – Vivian Stuart, Burmese author (d. 1986)
• 1916 – Zypora Spaisman, Polish-American actress and producer (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer (d. 2003)
• 1918 – Willi Graf, German activist (d. 1943)
• 1920 – Isaac Asimov, American chemist and author (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Jan Slepian, American author
• 1923 – Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author
• 1924 – Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer (d. 2009)
• 1925 – William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat (d. 2007)
• 1925 – Larry Harmon, American clown (d. 2008)
• 1926 – Howard Caine, American director (d. 1993)
• 1927 – Grigoris Varfis, Greek politician
• 1928 – Avie Bennett, Canadian businessman and philanthropist
• 1928 – Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988)
• 1928 – Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese spiritual leader
• 1929 – Lehri, Pakistani actor and comedian (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Julius La Rosa, American singer
• 1931 – Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1932 – Peter Redgrove, English poet, author, and playwright (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Richard Thorp, English actor (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Seiichi Morimura, Japanese author
• 1933 – Richard Riley, American politician, 111th Governor of South Carolina
• 1933 – Keith Thomas, Welsh historian
• 1935 – David McKee, English author and illustrator
• 1935 – K. Navaratnam, Sri Lankan politician
• 1935 – Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer (d. 1987)
• 1936 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1992)
• 1937 – David Bailey, English photographer
• 1937 – Martin Lauer, German athlete
• 1938 – Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author
• 1938 – Goh Kun, South Korean politician, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea
• 1938 – Robert Smithson, American sculptor and photographer (d. 1973)
• 1940 – Susan Wittig Albert, American author
• 1940 – Jim Bakker, American minister and television host
• 1940 – S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
• 1942 – Dennis Hastert, American politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• 1942 – Ray Moore, English radio host (d. 1989)
• 1942 – Hugh Shelton, American general
• 1943 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1999)
• 1944 – Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
• 1944 – Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
• 1946 – Richard Cole, English talent manager
• 1946 – Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist
• 1947 – Calvin Hill, American football player
• 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, historian, and critic
• 1947 – Valery Shary, Belarusian weightlifter
• 1948 – Judith Miller, American journalist
• 1948 – Tony Woodley, English union leader
• 1949 – Christopher Durang, American playwright
• 1949 – Jean Krier, Luxembourger poet (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Leijn Loevesijn, Dutch cyclist
• 1949 – John Turner, English cricketer (d. 2012)
• 1950 – Débora Duarte, Brazilian actress
• 1950 – David Shifrin, American clarinet player
• 1950 – Anatoli Ushanov, Russian footballer and coach
• 1950 – Yevgeniy Yevsyukov, Russian race walker
• 1951 – Stipe Božić, Croatian mountaineer
• 1951 – Jim Essian, American baseball player
• 1951 – Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter
• 1952 – Jimmy Santiago Baca, American poet and author
• 1952 – Robbie Ftorek, American ice hockey player
• 1952 – Christine Lavin, American singer-songwriter (Four Bitchin' Babes)
• 1952 – Wendy Phillips, American actress
• 1952 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (Skyhooks) (d. 2001)
• 1953 – Vincent Racaniello American virologist, author, and academic
• 1953 – Jacques Tichelaar, Dutch politician and union leader
• 1953 – Manfred Wittke, German footballer
• 1954 – Henry Bonilla, American politician
• 1954 – Dawn Silva, American singer
• 1954 – Glenn Goins, American singer and guitarist with Parliament-Funkadelic (d. 1978)
• 1955 – Tex Brashear, American voice actor
• 1955 – Agathonas Iakovidis, Greek singer
• 1955 – Vivien Savage, French singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Lynda Barry, American cartoonist and author
• 1956 – John Bedford Lloyd, American actor
• 1956 – Jishu Dasgupta, Indian actor and director (d. 2012)
• 1958 – Helen Goodman, English politician
• 1958 – Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist
• 1959 – Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer and politician
• 1959 – Kim Coates, Canadian-American actor
• 1959 – Ines Müller, German shot putter
• 1960 – Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (d. 1998)
• 1960 – Naoki Urasawa, Japanese illustrator
• 1961 – Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
• 1961 – IJsbrand Chardon, Dutch horse rider
• 1961 – Todd Haynes, American director
• 1961 – Craig James, American football player
• 1961 – Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician
• 1963 – David Cone, American baseball player
• 1963 – Edgar Martínez, American baseball player
• 1964 – Luis d'Antin, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1964 – Michael McCann, Scottish politician
• 1964 – Luis Moro, Cuban-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
• 1965 – Greg Swindell, American baseball player
• 1966 – Kate Hodge, American actress and producer
• 1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress and singer
• 1967 – Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician
• 1967 – Robert Liberace, American painter
• 1967 – Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
• 1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor
• 1968 – Evan Parke, Jamaican-American actor
• 1968 – Goichi Suda, Japanese video game designer
• 1968 – Anky van Grunsven, Dutch horse rider
• 1969 – István Bagyula, Hungarian pole vaulter
• 1969 – William Fox-Pitt, English horse rider
• 1969 – Robby Gordon, American race car driver
• 1969 – Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
• 1969 – Patrick Huard, Canadian actor and comedian
• 1969 – Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer
• 1969 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer and actor (d. 2013)
• 1969 – Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1969 – Christy Turlington, American model
• 1970 – Robert John Bardo, American murderer
• 1970 – Royce Clayton, American baseball player
• 1970 – Sanda Ladoși, Romanian singer
• 1970 – Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor
• 1971 – Taye Diggs, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1971 – Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
• 1971 – Lisa Harrison, American basketball player
• 1971 – Markus Hoffmann, German actor (d. 1997)
• 1971 – Yutaka Takenouchi, Japanese actor
• 1972 – Adam Elliot, Australian animator and screenwriter
• 1972 – Paweł Januszewski, Polish hurdler
• 1972 – Rodney MacDonald, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
• 1972 – Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper
• 1972 – Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1973 – Lucy Davis, English actress
• 1974 – Jason de Vos, Canadian soccer player
• 1974 – Ludmila Formanová, Czech middle-distance runner
• 1974 – Tomáš Řepka, Czech footballer
• 1974 – Deborah Sengl, Austrian painter and artist
• 1975 – Chris Cheney, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (The Living End and The Wrights)
• 1975 – David Sandström, Swedish singer-songwriter and drummer (Refused, AC4 and Final Exit)
• 1975 – Dax Shepard, American actor and director
• 1975 – Jeff Suppan, American baseball player
• 1975 – Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player
• 1976 – Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper
• 1976 – Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist
• 1976 – Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
• 1976 – Phil Radford, American ecologist and environmentalist
• 1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
• 1977 – Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player
• 1977 – Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player
• 1977 – Aleš Píša, Czech ice hockey player
• 1977 – Nikos Soultanidis, Greek footballer
• 1978 – Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer
• 1978 – Kjartan Sveinsson, Icelandic keyboard player (Sigur Rós)
• 1978 – Megumi Toyoguchi, Japanese voice actress
• 1979 – Tim Cruz, American singer (B3 and React)
• 1979 – Jonathan Greening, English footballer
• 1980 – Annie Bellemare, Canadian figure skater
• 1980 – Mac Danzig, American mixed martial artist
• 1980 – Georgios Dedas, Greek basketball player
• 1980 – Melvin Holwijn, Dutch footballer
• 1980 – Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist
• 1981 – Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
• 1981 – Ryan Garko, American baseball player
• 1981 – Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
• 1981 – Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
• 1982 – Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
• 1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
• 1984 – Otacílio Jales, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 – Ivan Dodig, Croatian tennis player
• 1985 – Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
• 1986 – Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Turkish-Bosnian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1986 – Nicolás Bertolo, Argentine footballer
• 1986 – Nathan Cohen, New Zealand rower
• 1986 – Trombone Shorty, American trumpet player
• 1988 – Ruth Bosibori, Kenyan steeplechase runner
• 1988 – Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player
• 1989 – Maksims Bogdanovs, Latvian motorcycle racer
• 1989 – Romain Dedola, French footballer
• 1989 – Bianca Knight, American sprinter
• 1989 – Şeref Osmanoğlu, Ukrainian-Turkish triple jumper
• 1990 – Karel Abraham, Czech motorcycle racer
• 1990 – Maurício Alves Peruchi, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
• 1991 – Katrin Loo, Estonian footballer
• 1991 – Davide Santon, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Steele Sidebottom, Australian footballer
• 1992 – Anna Arina Marenko, Russian tennis player
• 1993 – Kirill Minov, Russian ice dancer
• 2001 – Christopher Barrios, Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007)

Deaths[edit]

• 1512 – Svante Nilsson, Sweden politician (b. 1460)
• 1514 – William Smyth, English bishop (b. 1460)
• 1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
• 1664 – Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (b. 1588)
• 1726 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
• 1861 – Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 – George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
• 1904 – James Longstreet, American general (b. 1821)
• 1913 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 – Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 – Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1921 – Doud Eisenhower, American son of Dwight D. Eisenhower (b. 1917)
• 1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
• 1941 – Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist (b. 1898)
• 1946 – Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1948 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
• 1950 – James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
• 1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1951 – William Campion, English army officer and politician, 21st Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
• 1959 – Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American author (b. 1880)
• 1960 – Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
• 1960 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
• 1963 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (b. 1910)
• 1963 – Dick Powell, American actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1904)
• 1968 – Nikolai Stepulov, Estonian boxer (b. 1913)
• 1971 – E. V. Knox, English poet (b. 1881)
• 1974 – Tex Ritter, American singer and actor (b. 1905)
• 1977 – Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (b. 1921)
• 1983 – Dick Emery, English comedian and actor (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1987 – Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Odisha (b. 1899)
• 1989 – Safdar Hashmi, Indian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1954)
• 1990 – Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Leonhard Merzin, Estonian actor (b. 1934)
• 1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, 17th Governor of Washington (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French businessman (b. 1915)
• 1995 – Siad Barre, Somalian military officer and politician, 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
• 1996 – Karl Rappan, Austrian footballer and coach (b. 1905)
• 1997 – Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spirit and The Blue Flame) (b. 1951)
• 1998 – Frank Muir, English radio host (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss composer (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Patrick O'Brian, English author (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920)
• 2001 – William P. Rogers, American politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish model and singer, Miss Finland 1977 (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Frank Kelly Freas, American illustrator (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino jurist (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Garry Betty, American businessman (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Mauno Jokipii, Finnish academic and author (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician (b. 1911)
• 2007 – Paek Nam-sun, North Korean politician (b. 1929)
• 2007 – A. Richard Newton, Australian-American engineer and academic (b. 1951)
• 2007 – David Perkins, American geneticist (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Robert C. Solomon, American scholar (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)
• 2008 – George MacDonald Fraser, English journalist and author (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Martinus Tels, Dutch physicist and engineer (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Inger Christensen, Danish poet (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese super-centenarian (b. 1893)
• 2009 – Steven Gilborn, American actor (b. 1936)
• 2010 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and author (b. 1958)
• 2011 – Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Szeto Wah, Hong Kong politician (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Richard Winters, American soldier (b. 1918)
• 2011 – Bali Ram Bhagat, Indian politician, 16th Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Ian Bargh, Scottish-Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1935)
• 2012 – William P. Carey, American businessman and philanthropist, founded W. P. Carey (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Vivi Friedman, Finnish-American director and screenwriter (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Silvana Gallardo, American actress (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Yoshiro Hayashi, Japanese golfer (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Gordon Hirabayashi, American-Canadian sociologist and academic (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Larry Reinhardt, American guitarist (Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond) (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1986)
• 2013 – Jim Boyd, American actor (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Council Cargle, American actor (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Charles Chilton, English radio host and producer (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Merv Hunter, Australian politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Géza Koroknay, Hungarian actor (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and author (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Maulvi Nazir, Pakistani militant leader (b. 1975)
• 2013 – Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, American psychologist and author (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Mamie Rearden, American super-centenarian (b. 1898)
• 2013 – Stephen Resnick, American economist and academic (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist and author (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Anne Dorte of Rosenborg (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Elizabeth Jane Howard, English author and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 2014 – R. Crosby Kemper, Jr., American banker and philanthropist (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Thomas Kurzhals, German keyboard player and songwriter (Karat and Stern-Combo Meißen) (b. 1953)
• 2014 – Michael J. Matthews, American politician, 34th Mayor of Atlantic City (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Yōko Mitsui, Japanese poet (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Harald Nugiseks, Estonian commander (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Arnold A. Saltzman, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916)
• 2014 – Jay Traynor, American singer (The Mystics and Jay and the Americans) (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances[edit]

• Ancestry Day (Haiti)
• Berchtold's Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace)
• Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
• Christian feast day:
  • Basil the Great (Catholic Church and Church of England)
  • Defendens of Thebes
  • Gregory of Nazianzus (Catholic Church)
  • Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe (Lutheran Church)
  • Macarius of Alexandria
  • Seraphim of Sarov (repose)
  • Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah (Episcopal Church)
  • January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7. (southern Colombia)
• The first day of the Carnival of Riosucio, celebrated until January 8 every 2 years. (Riosucio)
• The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
• The second day of New Year (a holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine):
  • New Year Holiday (Scotland), if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3
  • Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town)
• Victory of Armed Forces Day (Cuba)

[edit]

• 1431 – Joan of Arc is defeated by Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
• 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
• 1653 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
• 1749 – Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
• 1777 – American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
• 1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
• 1823 – Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
• 1848 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
• 1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
• 1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
• 1885 – Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
• 1888 – The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
• 1911 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
• 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
• 1925 – Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
• 1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
• 1933 – Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
• 1938 – The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1944 – World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
• 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
• 1946 – Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
• 1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• 1949 – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
• 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• 1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
• 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• 1958 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
• 1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
• 1959 – Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
• 1961 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
• 1961 – A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
• 1961 – In Finland's worst civilian aviation accident an Aero Flight 311 crashes near Kvevlax, resulting in the deaths of all 25 people aboard.
• 1962 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• 1976 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
• 1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.
• 1990 – Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
• 1993 – In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
• 1994 – More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
• 1996 – The Motorola StarTAC, the first flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
• 1997 – China announces it will spend US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
• 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
• 1999 – Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
• 2000 – The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
• 2002 – Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
• 2004 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
• 2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Births[edit]

• 106 BC – Cicero, Roman politician and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
• 169 – Lü Bu, Chinese general and warlord (d. 199)
• 1196 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (d. 1231)
• 1698 – Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
• 1710 – Richard Gridley, American soldier (d. 1796)
• 1719 – Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
• 1722 – Fredrik Hasselqvist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752)
• 1760 – Veerapandiya Kattabomman, Indian activist (d.1799)
• 1760 – John Storm, American soldier (d. 1835)
• 1778 – Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (d. 1861)
• 1793 – Lucretia Mott, American activist (d. 1880)
• 1802 – Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (d. 1898)
• 1803 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright (d. 1857)
• 1806 – Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
• 1810 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897)
• 1816 – Samuel C. Pomeroy, American businessman and politician (d. 1891)
• 1819 – Charles Piazzi Smyth, Italian astronomer (d. 1900)
• 1821 – Karel Dežman, Slovenian archeologist, botanist, and politician (d. 1889)
• 1831 – Savitribai Phule, Indian educator and activist (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and rebel leader (d. 1867)
• 1840 – Father Damien, Flemish missionary and priest (d. 1889)
• 1855 – Hubert Bland, English educator (d. 1914)
• 1856 – R. C. Lehmann, English journalist and politician (d. 1929)
• 1861 – William Renshaw, English tennis player (d. 1904)
• 1862 – Matthew Nathan, English soldier and politician, 13th Governor of Queensland (d. 1939)
• 1865 – Henry Lytton, English actor and singer (d. 1936)
• 1870 – Henry Handel Richardson, Australian author (d. 1946)
• 1873 – Ichizō Kobayashi, Japanese businessman, founded the Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (d. 1957)
• 1874 – Francis Newton, American golfer (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1950)
• 1876 – Wilhelm Pieck, German politician, 1st President of the German Democratic Republic (d. 1960)
• 1879 – Grace Coolidge, American wife of Calvin Coolidge, 32nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
• 1880 – Francis Browne, Irish photographer (d. 1960)
• 1883 – Clement Attlee, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)
• 1883 – Duncan Gillis, Canadian athlete (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Raoul Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1948)
• 1885 – Harry Elkins Widener, American businessman (d. 1912)
• 1886 – John Gould Fletcher, American poet and author (d. 1950)
• 1886 – Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)
• 1887 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
• 1887 – Helen Parkhurst, American educator and author (d. 1973)
• 1888 – Jacob Bolotin, American physician (d. 1924)
• 1892 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English philologist and author (d. 1973)
• 1894 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Boris Lyatoshinsky, Ukrainian composer and conductor (d. 1968)
• 1897 – Marion Davies, American actress (d. 1961)
• 1898 – Carolyn Haywood, American author (d. 1990)
• 1898 – Carlos Keller, Chilean politician (d. 1974)
• 1900 – Donald J. Russell, American businessman (d. 1985)
• 1901 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)
• 1907 – Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (d. 1986)
• 1909 – Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and comedian (d. 2000)
• 1910 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1911 – John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish soldier (d. 1936)
• 1912 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2002)
• 1912 – Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Jack Levine, American painter (d. 2010)
• 1915 – Mady Rahl, German actress (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
• 1916 – Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
• 1916 – Warren King, American cartoonist (d. 1978)
• 1917 – Albert Mol, Dutch author and actor (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Vernon A. Walters, American military officer and diplomat, 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Ivan Bodiul, Ukrainian-Moldovan politician (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Dorothy Morrison, American actress
• 1919 – Herbie Nichols, American pianist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1920 – Siegfried Buback, German politician, Attorney General of Germany (d. 1977)
• 1920 – Renato Carosone, Italian pianist (d. 2001)
• 1921 – Chetan Anand, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Bill Travers, English actor, screenwriter, and director (d. 1994)
• 1923 – Bud Adams, American businessman (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Hank Stram, American football player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Bud Tingwell, Australian actor (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Otto Beisheim, German businessman, founded Metro AG (d. 2013)
• 1924 – André Franquin, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1997)
• 1924 – Nell Rankin, American soprano (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Jill Balcon, English actress (d. 2009)
• 1926 – W. Michael Blumenthal, American businessman and politician, 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1926 – George Martin, English composer and producer
• 1928 – Michael Barratt, English television presenter
• 1929 – Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
• 1929 – Ernst Mahle, German-Brazilian composer and conductor
• 1930 – Mara Corday, American model and actress
• 1930 – Marcel Dubé, Canadian playwright
• 1930 – Robert Loggia, American actor and director
• 1930 – Barbara Stuart, American actress (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Yashawant Dinkar Phadke, Indian historian and activist (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Dabney Coleman, American actor
• 1932 – Eeles Landström, Finnish pole vaulter
• 1932 – Yolanda "Tongolele" Montes, American-Mexican dancer and actress
• 1933 – Geoffrey Bindman, English solicitor
• 1933 – Anya Linden, English ballerina
• 1933 – Anne Stevenson, American-English poet
• 1934 – Marpessa Dawn, American-French actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2008)
• 1934 – Carla Anderson Hills, American lawyer and civil servant
• 1935 – Raymond Garneau, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1935 – Camil Samson, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Michael Layard, English admiral
• 1937 – Glen A. Larson, American director, producer, and screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, English politician
• 1938 – K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2006)
• 1939 – Arik Einstein, Israeli singer, songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1939 – Ruben Reyes, Filipino jurist
• 1940 – Leo de Berardinis, Italian stage actor and theatre director (d. 2008)
• 1941 – Franklin McCain, American activist (d. 2014)
• 1941 – Van Dyke Parks, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1942 – John Marsden, Australian lawyer and activist (d. 2006)
• 1942 – John Thaw, English actor (d. 2002)
• 1943 – Jarl Alfredius, Swedish journalist (d. 2009)
• 1944 – David Atherton, English conductor
• 1944 – Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian author
• 1945 – David Starkey, English historian
• 1945 – Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Manassas)
• 1946 – John Paul Jones, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (Led Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures)
• 1946 – Cissy King, American singer and dancer
• 1946 – Michalis Kritikopoulos, Greek footballer (d. 2002)
• 1947 – Zulema, American singer-songwriter (Faith Hope and Charity) (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (d. 1965)
• 1949 – Hilary Wainwright, English sociologist, political activist and editor Red Pepper
• 1950 – Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, Russian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
• 1950 – Victoria Principal, American actress
• 1951 – Linda Dobbs, Sierra Leone-born former High Court judge
• 1951 – Gary Nairn, Australian politician
• 1952 – Esperanza Aguirre, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Community of Madrid
• 1952 – Gianfranco Fini, Italian politician
• 1952 – Jim Ross, American wrestler and sportscaster
• 1953 – Justin Fleming, Australian playwright and author
• 1953 – Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Maldivian politician, 5th President of the Maldives
• 1954 – Dean Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1990)
• 1954 – Ned Lamont, American businessman and politician
• 1954 – Ross the Boss, American guitarist and songwriter (The Dictators, Manowar, and Manitoba's Wild Kingdom)
• 1955 – Palmolive, Spanish-English drummer (The Slits, The Raincoats, and The Flowers of Romance)
• 1956 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1956 – Sam Laidlaw, English businessman
• 1956 – Willy T. Ribbs, American race car driver
• 1958 – James J. Greco, American businessman
• 1958 – Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean actor, director, and producer
• 1959 – Alessandro Andrei, Italian shot putter
• 1960 – Russell Spence, English race car driver
• 1963 – Vic Grimes, American wrestler
• 1963 – Stewart Hosie, Scottish politician
• 1963 – New Jack, American wrestler
• 1963 – Alex Wheatle, English author
• 1964 – Bruce LaBruce, Canadian director
• 1967 – Gérald Mossé, French jockey
• 1969 – Jarmo Lehtinen, Finnish rally co-driver
• 1969 – Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
• 1969 – Gerda Weissensteiner, Italian bobsledder
• 1970 – Mahaya Petrosian, Iranian actress
• 1970 – Priit Reiska, Estonian footballer
• 1970 – Matt Ross, American actor
• 1970 – Lee Beom-soo, South Korean actor
• 1971 – Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Janek Kiisman, Estonian footballer
• 1972 – Yoon Chan, South Korean actor
• 1973 – Dan Harmon, American screenwriter and producer
• 1973 – Rory Stewart, British academic, writer and politician
• 1974 – Robert-Jan Derksen, Dutch golfer
• 1974 – Alessandro Petacchi, Italian cyclist
• 1975 – Thomas Bangalter, French DJ and producer (Daft Punk, Stardust, Together, and Darlin')
• 1975 – Jun Maeda, Japanese video game writer
• 1975 – Jason Marsden, American actor
• 1975 – Danica McKellar, American actress
• 1975 – Lisa Misipeka, American Samoan hammer thrower
• 1976 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Dinara Drukarova, Russian actress
• 1976 – Nicholas Gonzalez, American actor and producer
• 1977 – Lee Bowyer, English footballer
• 1977 – A. J. Burnett, American baseball player
• 1977 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1978 – Dimitra Kalentzou, Greek basketball player
• 1978 – Liya Kebede, Ethiopian-American model, actress, and fashion designer
• 1978 – Kimberley Locke, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
• 1978 – Mike York, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Chris Geddes, Canadian volleyball player
• 1979 – Rie Tanaka, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1979 – Dina Tersago, Belgian model and television host, Miss Belgium 2001
• 1979 – Koit Toome, Estonian singer
• 1980 – Bryan Clay, American decathlete
• 1980 – Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – David Tyree, American football player
• 1980 – Kurt Vile, American musician
• 1980 – Mary Wineberg, American sprinter
• 1981 – Naresh Iyer, Indian singer
• 1981 – Eli Manning, American football player
• 1982 – Peter Clarke, English footballer
• 1982 – Lasse Nilsson, Swedish footballer
• 1983 – Antti Arst, Estonian footballer
• 1984 – Miloš Juhász, Slovak footballer
• 1984 – Billy Mehmet, Irish footballer
• 1984 – Arif Suyono, Indonesian footballer
• 1985 – Nicole Beharie, American actress
• 1985 – John David Booty, American football player
• 1985 – Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1985 – Evan Moore, American football player
• 1986 – Dana Hussain, Iraqi sprinter
• 1986 – Greg Nwokolo, Indonesian footballer
• 1986 – Jessica O'Rourke, American footballer
• 1986 – Dmitry Starodubtsev, Russian pole vaulter
• 1986 – Jacob Timpano, Australian footballer
• 1987 – Anchal Joseph Indian-American model and actress
• 1987 – Leonidas Panagopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Ikechi Anya, Scottish-Nigerian footballer
• 1988 – Rodrigo de la Cadena, Mexican singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Jonny Evans, Irish footballer
• 1988 – Matt Frattin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – J. R. Hildebrand American race car driver
• 1989 – Adas Juškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1989 – Alex D. Linz, American actor
• 1989 – Anya Rozova, Russian-American model
• 1989 – Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast
• 1989 – Ayaka Umeda, Japanese singer (AKB48 and Diva)
• 1991 – Jerson Cabral, Dutch footballer
• 1991 – Özgür Çek, Turkish professional footballer
• 1992 – Sandra Zaniewska, Polish tennis player
• 1993 – Kevin Ware, American basketball player

Deaths[edit]

• 236 – Pope Anterus
• 323 – Emperor Yuan of Jin (b. 276)
• 492 – Pope Felix III
• 661 – Pope Benjamin I of Alexandria
• 1098 – Walkelin, French bishop
• 1322 – Philip V of France (b. 1292)
• 1437 – Catherine of France (b. 1401)
• 1543 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
• 1571 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
• 1641 – Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
• 1656 – Mathieu Molé, French politician (b. 1584)
• 1670 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (b. 1608)
• 1690 – Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
• 1701 – Louis I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1642)
• 1705 – Luca Giordano, Italian painter (b. 1634)
• 1743 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
• 1779 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon (b. 1712)
• 1785 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
• 1795 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founder of the Wedgwood Company (b. 1730)
• 1813 – Bennelong, Aborigine interlocutor (b. 1764)
• 1826 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
• 1871 – Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian saint (b. 1805)
• 1875 – Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer (b. 1817)
• 1882 – William Harrison Ainsworth, English author (b. 1805)
• 1895 – James Merritt Ives, American lithographer and businessman, co-founded Currier and Ives (b. 1824)
• 1903 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (b. 1837)
• 1911 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
• 1915 – James Elroy Flecker, English poet, author, and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1916 – Grenville M. Dodge, American General (b. 1831)
• 1922 – Wilhelm Voigt, German military impostor (b. 1849)
• 1923 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech author (b. 1883)
• 1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
• 1933 – Wilhelm Cuno, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1933 – Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
• 1943 – André Fauquet-Lemaître, French polo player (b. 1862)
• 1943 – Walter James, Australian politician, 5th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
• 1944 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
• 1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
• 1945 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1946 – William Joyce, American-English politician (b. 1906)
• 1950 – Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
• 1956 – Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
• 1956 – Dimitrios Vergos, Greek wrestler, weightlifter, and shot putter (b. 1886)
• 1956 – Joseph Wirth, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, author, and translator (b. 1887)
• 1960 – Eric P. Kelly, American children's author (b. 1884)
• 1962 – Hermann Lux, German footballer (b. 1893)
• 1967 – Mary Garden, Scottish soprano (b. 1874)
• 1967 – Jack Ruby, American murderer (b. 1911)
• 1969 – Jean Focas, Greek-French astronomer (b. 1909)
• 1969 – Tzavalas Karousos, Greek actor (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Gladys Aylward, English missionary (b. 1902)
• 1972 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (b. 1925)
• 1974 – Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
• 1975 – James McCormack, American army officer (b. 1910)
• 1979 – Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (b. 1887)
• 1980 – Joy Adamson, Czech author (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
• 1980 – George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 1980 – Ivan Triesault, Estonian-American actor (b. 1898)
• 1981 – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883)
• 1988 – Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
• 1988 – Joie Chitwood, American race car driver and stuntman (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
• 1991 – Kleanthis Maropoulos, Greek footballer (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
• 1993 – Johnny Most, American sportscaster (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (b.1920)
• 2003 – Sid Gillman, American football player and coach (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Des Corcoran, Australian politician, 37th Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and diplomat (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Jyotindra Nath Dixit, Indian diplomat (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Will Eisner, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Steve Rogers, Australian rugby player (b. 1954)
• 2006 – Bill Skate, Papua New Guinean politician, 5th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
• 2007 – János Fürst, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
• 2007 – William Verity, Jr., American businessman (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Cecil Walker, Irish politician (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Werner Dollinger, German economist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
• 2010 – Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Mary Daly, American theologian and scholar (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Takis Michalos, Greek water polo player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2011 – Fadil Hadžić, Croatian director (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Suchitra Mitra, Indian singer and composer (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Vicar, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Charles W. Bailey, American journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Gene Bartow, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Robert L. Carter, American lawyer and judge (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Selorm Kuadey, Ukrainian-English rugby player (b. 1987)
• 2012 – Winifred Milius Lubell, American author and illustrator (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Joaquín Martínez, Mexican-American actor (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Jenny Tomasin, English actress (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Bob Weston, English guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Harold Zirin, American astronomer and academic (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Alfie Fripp, English soldier and pilot (b. 1913)
• 2013 – M. S. Gopalakrishnan, Indian violinist (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Kanang anak Langkau, Malaysian soldier (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Ivan Mackerle, Czech cryptozoologist, explorer, and author (b. 1942)
• 2013 – William Maxson, American general (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Andrew P. O'Rourke, American judge and politician (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao, Indian archeologist (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Patty Shepard, American-Spanish actress (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Burry Stander, South African cyclist (b. 1987)
• 2014 – Leon de Wolff, Dutch journalist (b. 1948)
• 2014 – Phil Everly, American singer and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (b. 1939)
• 2014 – George Goodman, American economist and author (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Michael Neubert, English politician (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Alicia Rhett, American actress and painter (b. 1915)
• 2014 – Yashiki Takajin, Japanese singer-songwriter and television host (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Saul Zaentz, American film producer (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances[edit]

• Christian feast day:
  • Genevieve
  • William Passavant (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • January 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka)
• The tenth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
• First day of school at schools in Malaysia and Singapore