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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of January 0475 | EVENT | Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople. |
| 12th of January 1528 | EVENT | Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden. |
| 12th of January 1539 | EVENT | Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. |
| 12th of January 1773 | EVENT | The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina. |
| 12th of January 1777 | EVENT | Mission Santa Clara de Asis is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California. |
| 12th of January 1808 | EVENT | The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh. |
| 12th of January 1848 | EVENT | The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies. |
| 12th of January 1866 | EVENT | The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London. |
| 12th of January 1872 | EVENT | Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years. |
| 12th of January 1875 | EVENT | Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. |
| 12th of January 1895 | EVENT | The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom. |
| 12th of January 1898 | EVENT | Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan. |
| 12th of January 1899 | EVENT | 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued off the coast of England by the Lynmouth Lifeboat. |
| 12th of January 1906 | EVENT | Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election. |
| 12th of January 1908 | EVENT | A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. |
| 12th of January 1911 | EVENT | The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees. |
| 12th of January 1915 | EVENT | The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress. |
| 12th of January 1915 | EVENT | The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. |
| 12th of January 1918 | EVENT | Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens. |
| 12th of January 1921 | EVENT | Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner. |
| 12th of January 1926 | EVENT | Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928. |
| 12th of January 1932 | EVENT | Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate. |
| 12th of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board. |
| 12th of January 1964 | EVENT | Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic. |
| 12th of January 1966 | EVENT | Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. |
| 12th of January 1967 | EVENT | Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. |
| 12th of January 1970 | EVENT | Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. |
| 12th of January 1971 | EVENT | The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C. |
| 12th of January 1976 | EVENT | The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights). |
| 12th of January 1986 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist. |
| 12th of January 1991 | EVENT | Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. |
| 12th of January 1998 | EVENT | Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. |
| 12th of January 2004 | EVENT | The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage. |
| 12th of January 2005 | EVENT | Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket. |
| 12th of January 2006 | EVENT | A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims. |
| 12th of January 2006 | EVENT | Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Agca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II. |
| 12th of January 2006 | EVENT | The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship. |
| 12th of January 2007 | EVENT | Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years. |
| 12th of January 2010 | EVENT | The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince. |
| 12th of January 1483 | BIRTHDAY | Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (d. 1538) |
| 12th of January 1562 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630) |
| 12th of January 1576 | BIRTHDAY | Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (d. 1660) |
| 12th of January 1577 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (d. 1644) |
| 12th of January 1580 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Alexander Ruthven, Scottish nobleman (d. 1600) |
| 12th of January 1591 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652) |
| 12th of January 1597 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643) |
| 12th of January 1628 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Perrault, French folklorist (d. 1703) |
| 12th of January 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Duphly, French composer (d. 1789) |
| 12th of January 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general (d. 1795) |
| 12th of January 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prussian general (d. 1792) |
| 12th of January 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Langdon, American college educator (d. 1797) |
| 12th of January 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher (d. 1797) |
| 12th of January 1737 | BIRTHDAY | John Hancock, American merchant, statesman, & Founding Father; 4th & 13th President of the Continental Congress; and 1st & 3rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1793) |
| 12th of January 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827) |
| 12th of January 1751 | BIRTHDAY | King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825) |
| 12th of January 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Count Mikhail Speransky, Russian reformer (d. 1839) |
| 12th of January 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (d. 1855) |
| 12th of January 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (d. 1841) |
| 12th of January 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician (d. 1873) |
| 12th of January 1810 | BIRTHDAY | King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859) |
| 12th of January 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900) |
| 12th of January 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer (d. 1879) |
| 12th of January 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Beraud, French painter (d. 1935) |
| 12th of January 1856 | BIRTHDAY | John Singer Sargent, American artist (d. 1925) |
| 12th of January 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Swami Vivekananda, Indian philosopher (d. 1902) |
| 12th of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (d. 1940) |
| 12th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Jack London, American author (d. 1916) |
| 12th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (d. 1948) |
| 12th of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Fevzi Cakmak, Turkish Field Marshal and Prime Minister (d. 1950) |
| 12th of January 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Frank J. Corr, American politician (d. 1934) |
| 12th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian writer (d. 1952) |
| 12th of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968) |
| 12th of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (d. 1942) |
| 12th of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Sills, American actor (d. 1930) |
| 12th of January 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933) |
| 12th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1976) |
| 12th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Goring, German Nazi official (d. 1946) |
| 12th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946) |
| 12th of January 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975) |
| 12th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor and scholar of Islamic art (d. 1959) |
| 12th of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | David Wechsler, American psychologist (d. 1981) |
| 12th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Bernac, French baritone (d. 1979) |
| 12th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hermann Muller, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965) |
| 12th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (d. 1960) |
| 12th of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Fred McDowell, American blues musician (d. 1972) |
| 12th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997) |
| 12th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Tex Ritter, American country singer and actor (d. 1974) |
| 12th of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (d. 1995) |
| 12th of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966) |
| 12th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Delannoy, French film director (d. 2008) |
| 12th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988) |
| 12th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981) |
| 12th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Luise Rainer, German actress |
| 12th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Jarrico, American writer (d. 1997) |
| 12th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph-Aurele Plourde, Catholic archbishop of Ottawa |
| 12th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Pieter Willem Botha, South African politician (d. 2006) |
| 12th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jay McShann, American musician (d. 2006) |
| 12th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | William Pleeth, British cellist (d. 1999) |
| 12th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritualist (d. 2008) |
| 12th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Skinner, Canadian hockey coach (d. 2007) |
| 12th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Hendl, American conductor (d. 2007) |
| 12th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | James L. Farmer, Jr., American activist (d. 1999) |
| 12th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Prof Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-born Australian sociologist (d. 2009) |
| 12th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Tadeusz Zychiewicz, Polish journalist and art historian (d. 1994) |
| 12th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ira Hayes, US Marine (d. 1955) |
| 12th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998) |
| 12th of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Grethe Holmer, Danish actress (d. 2004) |
| 12th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Burrud, American television host (d. 1990) |
| 12th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Scottie MacGregor, American actress |
| 12th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bodil Udsen, Danish actress (d. 2008) |
| 12th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Morton Feldman, American composer (d. 1987) |
| 12th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Price, American singer |
| 12th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Brown, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 12th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Ruby, American race car driver (d. 2009) |
| 12th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Alasdair MacIntyre, Scottish-born American philosopher |
| 12th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (d. 1974) |
| 12th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Yarborough, American singer |
| 12th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Des O'Connor, British television presenter |
| 12th of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress (d. 1992) |
| 12th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Aspel, English broadcaster |
| 12th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Sullivan, English rugby league footballer |
| 12th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Tomiko Ishii, Japanese actress |
| 12th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Kreskin, American mentalist |
| 12th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Raimonds Pauls, Latvian Composer |
| 12th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Dubois, French actress |
| 12th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Eaton, British actress |
| 12th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (d. 2002) |
| 12th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Fiander, Australian actor |
| 12th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Long John Baldry, British blues singer (d. 2005) |
| 12th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of the radical leftist organization Weather Underground |
| 12th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Henning Atrott, Prussian euthanasia advocate |
| 12th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Frazier, American boxer |
| 12th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Vlastimil Hort, Czechoslovakian chess player |
| 12th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist |
| 12th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Villagran, Mexican actor |
| 12th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Maggie Bell, Scottish singer (Stone the Crows) |
| 12th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Cosgrove, Scottish judiciary figure |
| 12th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | George Duke, American musician |
| 12th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia Robinson, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone) |
| 12th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Dempsey, American football player |
| 12th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Andrews, English actor |
| 12th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia |
| 12th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Allen, English footballer |
| 12th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (d. 2001) |
| 12th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | William Nicholson, English writer |
| 12th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager |
| 12th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007) |
| 12th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Michael W. Vannier, American radiologist |
| 12th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist |
| 12th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born American film director |
| 12th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Goran Lindblad, Swedish politician |
| 12th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila Jackson Lee, American politician |
| 12th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (d. 1992) |
| 12th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bob McEwen, American politician |
| 12th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dorrit Moussaieff, First Lady of Iceland |
| 12th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Kirstie Alley, American actress |
| 12th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Althouse, American law professor |
| 12th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality, author and political commentator |
| 12th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Pearson, American football player |
| 12th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Faulkner, American motivational speaker and author |
| 12th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Mosley, American author |
| 12th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Walker, New Zealand middle distance runner |
| 12th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Stern, American radio personality and author |
| 12th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rockne S. O'Bannon, American screenwriter |
| 12th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | John Lasseter, American animation director |
| 12th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Curt Fraser, American ice hockey coach |
| 12th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Christiane Amanpour, American news anchor |
| 12th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) |
| 12th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Per Gessle, Swedish songwriter and musician (Roxette) |
| 12th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Nairn, British celebrity chef |
| 12th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Platt, Canadian actor |
| 12th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Pupo, Cuban American actor |
| 12th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Wilkins, American basketball player |
| 12th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Luna Vachon, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2010) |
| 12th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Nando Reis, Brazilian singer and composer |
| 12th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Girard, French-Canadian film director and screenwriter |
| 12th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Bezos, American entrepreneur |
| 12th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Gildemeister, Argentine tennis player |
| 12th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Clare Holman, British actress |
| 12th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Moore, British record producer |
| 12th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Zombie, American musician and film director (White Zombie, Solo) |
| 12th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier Martinez, French actor |
| 12th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel |
| 12th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Harris, American actress |
| 12th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Anderson, American country music singer-songwriter |
| 12th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Junichi Masuda, Japanese composer |
| 12th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Mills, British activist and model |
| 12th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer |
| 12th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Nagle, American screenwriter and TV producer |
| 12th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Prosinecki, Croatian footballer |
| 12th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mig Ayesa, Australian musician |
| 12th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Raekwon, American rapper |
| 12th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine) |
| 12th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Burrell, American basketball player |
| 12th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player |
| 12th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Rajiv Gandhi |
| 12th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Sklar, American comedian |
| 12th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Sklar, American comedian |
| 12th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Haseltine, American singer (Jars of Clay) |
| 12th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Wong, American musician (Reel Big Fish) |
| 12th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Hande Yener, Turkish singer |
| 12th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Chisholm, British singer (Spice Girls) |
| 12th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Conserva, Chilean television presenter |
| 12th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier |
| 12th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Freese, American musician (Green Day) |
| 12th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Miki Nakatani, Japanese actress and singer |
| 12th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Yoandy Garlobo, Cuban baseball player |
| 12th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor |
| 12th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Cade McNown, American football player |
| 12th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Ayala, Mexican baseball pitcher |
| 12th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bonaventure Kalou, Ivorian footballer |
| 12th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Sa Rang, Korean actress |
| 12th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Camp, American musician |
| 12th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kris Roe, American musician (The Ataris) |
| 12th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Maurizio Zaffiri, Italian rugby player |
| 12th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David Zabriskie, American cyclist |
| 12th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer |
| 12th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model |
| 12th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Marian Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player |
| 12th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Crosby, American baseball player |
| 12th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Paulo, Brazilian footballer |
| 12th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Amerie, American singer |
| 12th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Klecko, American football player |
| 12th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Angus Macdonald, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 12th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Ray, American baseball player |
| 12th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sherzod Abdurahmonov, Uzbekistanian boxer |
| 12th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Van Alphen, Belgian decathlete |
| 12th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitrios Tsiamis, Greek triple jumper |
| 12th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player |
| 12th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player |
| 12th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Olsen, American baseball player |
| 12th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Sepulveda, American football player |
| 12th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Yohana Cobo, Spanish actress |
| 12th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer |
| 12th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Lawson, American football player |
| 12th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Angel Nieto, Spanish footballer |
| 12th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kehoma Brenner, Greman rugby player |
| 12th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kieron Richardson, English actor |
| 12th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Gemma Arterton, English actress |
| 12th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Will Rothhaar, American actor |
| 12th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer |
| 12th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Naya Rivera, American actress |
| 12th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Casement, Irish footballer |
| 12th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ytalo, Brazilian footballer |
| 12th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Lawrence, American actor |
| 12th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player |
| 12th of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Pixie Lott, English singer |
| 12th of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol |
| 12th of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Aika Mitsui, Japanese singer |
| 12th of January 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Laurel McGoff, American reality show contestant |
| 12th of January 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Gamble, American actor |
| 12th of January 0690 | DEATH | Benedict Biscop, saint (Born 628) |
| 12th of January 1167 | DEATH | Ailred of Rievaulx, saint (Born 1110) |
| 12th of January 1321 | DEATH | Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (Born 1256) |
| 12th of January 1519 | DEATH | Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1459) |
| 12th of January 1665 | DEATH | Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (Born 1601) |
| 12th of January 1674 | DEATH | Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (Born 1605) |
| 12th of January 1700 | DEATH | Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (Born 1620) |
| 12th of January 1705 | DEATH | Luca Giordano, Italian artist (Born 1634) |
| 12th of January 1732 | DEATH | John Horsley, British archaeologist (Born 1685) |
| 12th of January 1735 | DEATH | John Eccles, English composer (Born 1668) |
| 12th of January 1759 | DEATH | Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (Born 1709) |
| 12th of January 1765 | DEATH | Johann Melchior Molter, German composer (Born 1696) |
| 12th of January 1777 | DEATH | Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (Born 1726) |
| 12th of January 1781 | DEATH | Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (Born 1691) |
| 12th of January 1817 | DEATH | Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (Born 1740) |
| 12th of January 1829 | DEATH | Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (Born 1772) |
| 12th of January 1833 | DEATH | Marie-Antoine Careme, French chef (Born 1784) |
| 12th of January 1834 | DEATH | William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1759) |
| 12th of January 1856 | DEATH | Ludovit Stur, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (Born 1815) |
| 12th of January 1861 | DEATH | Vaclav Hanka, Czech philologist, (Born 1791) |
| 12th of January 1892 | DEATH | William Reeves, bishop, antiquarian (Born 1815) |
| 12th of January 1897 | DEATH | Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (Born 1813) |
| 12th of January 1899 | DEATH | Hiram Walker, American distiller (Born 1816) |
| 12th of January 1909 | DEATH | Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (Born 1864) |
| 12th of January 1921 | DEATH | Gervase Elwes, English tenor (Born 1866) |
| 12th of January 1926 | DEATH | Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (Born 1864) |
| 12th of January 1934 | DEATH | Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (Born 1887) |
| 12th of January 1938 | DEATH | Gosta Ekman, Swedish actor (Born 1890) |
| 12th of January 1940 | DEATH | Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (Born 1899) |
| 12th of January 1943 | DEATH | Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (Born 1902) |
| 12th of January 1944 | DEATH | Lance C. Wade, American pilot (Born 1915) |
| 12th of January 1956 | DEATH | Norman Kerry, American actor (Born 1894) |
| 12th of January 1958 | DEATH | Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (Born 1875) |
| 12th of January 1960 | DEATH | Nevil Shute, English writer (Born 1899) |
| 12th of January 1962 | DEATH | Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (Born 1869) |
| 12th of January 1965 | DEATH | Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (Born 1936) |
| 12th of January 1974 | DEATH | Princess Patricia of Connaught (Born 1886) |
| 12th of January 1976 | DEATH | Agatha Christie, English writer (Born 1890) |
| 12th of January 1977 | DEATH | Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (Born 1907) |
| 12th of January 1983 | DEATH | Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (Born 1903) |
| 12th of January 1983 | DEATH | Rebop Kwaku Baah, Ghanaian percussionist (Born 1944) |
| 12th of January 1988 | DEATH | Connie Mulder, South African politician (Born 1925) |
| 12th of January 1990 | DEATH | Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator and writer (Born 1919) |
| 12th of January 1996 | DEATH | Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (Born 1926) |
| 12th of January 1997 | DEATH | Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (Born 1936) |
| 12th of January 1997 | DEATH | Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1901) |
| 12th of January 1999 | DEATH | Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (Born 1914) |
| 12th of January 1999 | DEATH | Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1961) |
| 12th of January 2000 | DEATH | Marc Davis, American animator (Born 1913) |
| 12th of January 2000 | DEATH | Bobby Phills, American basketball player (Born 1969) |
| 12th of January 2001 | DEATH | Affirmed, American racehorse (Born 1975) |
| 12th of January 2001 | DEATH | Luiz Bonfa, Brazilian guitarist and composer (Born 1922) |
| 12th of January 2001 | DEATH | William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (Born 1913) |
| 12th of January 2002 | DEATH | Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (Born 1911) |
| 12th of January 2002 | DEATH | Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (Born 1917) |
| 12th of January 2003 | DEATH | Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (Born 1930) |
| 12th of January 2003 | DEATH | Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (Born 1912) |
| 12th of January 2003 | DEATH | Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (Born 1926) |
| 12th of January 2003 | DEATH | Alan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (Born 1911) |
| 12th of January 2003 | DEATH | Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (Born 1949) |
| 12th of January 2004 | DEATH | Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (Born 1921) |
| 12th of January 2004 | DEATH | Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (Born 1955) |
| 12th of January 2005 | DEATH | Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (Born 2003) |
| 12th of January 2005 | DEATH | Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (Born 1914) |
| 12th of January 2005 | DEATH | Amrish Puri, Indian actor (Born 1932) |
| 12th of January 2007 | DEATH | Sir James Killen, Australian politician (Born 1925) |
| 12th of January 2007 | DEATH | Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (Born 1937) |
| 12th of January 2009 | DEATH | Claude Berri, French movie director (Born 1934) |
| 12th of January 2009 | DEATH | Arne Naess, Norwegian philosopher (Born 1912) |
| 12th of January 2010 | DEATH | Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Consolidated Contractors Company (Born 1920) |
| 12th of January 2010 | DEATH | Daniel Bensaid, French philosopher (Born 1946) |