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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of January 0366 | EVENT | The Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire |
| 2nd of January 0533 | EVENT | Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy |
| 2nd of January 1492 | EVENT | Reconquista: the emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders |
| 2nd of January 1777 | EVENT | 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 |
| 2nd of January 1788 | EVENT | Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution |
| 2nd of January 1791 | EVENT | Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War |
| 2nd of January 1818 | EVENT | The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded |
| 2nd of January 1833 | EVENT | Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands. |
| 2nd of January 1860 | EVENT | The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Academie des Sciences in Paris |
| 2nd of January 1871 | EVENT | Amadeus I becomes King of Spain |
| 2nd of January 1900 | EVENT | John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China |
| 2nd of January 1905 | EVENT | Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China |
| 2nd of January 1911 | EVENT | 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 |
| 2nd of January 1920 | EVENT | 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. |
| 2nd of January 1927 | EVENT | Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government. |
| 2nd of January 1935 | EVENT | Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh |
| 2nd of January 1941 | EVENT | World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales |
| 2nd of January 1942 | EVENT | 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 |
| 2nd of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces |
| 2nd of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Nuremberg (in German, Nurnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces |
| 2nd of January 1949 | EVENT | Luis Munoz Marin becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico |
| 2nd of January 1955 | EVENT | Panamanian president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated |
| 2nd of January 1959 | EVENT | Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the U.S.S.R. |
| 2nd of January 1971 | EVENT | The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic football match |
| 2nd of January 1974 | EVENT | 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 |
| 2nd of January 1999 | EVENT | 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 |
| 2nd of January 2001 | EVENT | Sila Calderon becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico |
| 2nd of January 2002 | EVENT | Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly. |
| 2nd of January 2004 | EVENT | Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth. |
| 2nd of January 2006 | EVENT | An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition. |
| 2nd of January 1642 | BIRTHDAY | Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693) |
| 2nd of January 1647 | BIRTHDAY | Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676) |
| 2nd of January 1699 | BIRTHDAY | Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757) |
| 2nd of January 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) |
| 2nd of January 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) |
| 2nd of January 1727 | BIRTHDAY | James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759) |
| 2nd of January 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857) |
| 2nd of January 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888) |
| 2nd of January 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914) |
| 2nd of January 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893) |
| 2nd of January 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885) |
| 2nd of January 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917) |
| 2nd of January 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910) |
| 2nd of January 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Carey Thomas, American educator, suffragist, and second President of Bryn Mawr College (d. 1935) |
| 2nd of January 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Prof. Gilbert Murray, Australian classical scholar (d. 1957) |
| 2nd of January 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938) |
| 2nd of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Therese of Lisieux, French Roman Catholic nun (d. 1897) |
| 2nd of January 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906) |
| 2nd of January 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (d. 1973) |
| 2nd of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918) |
| 2nd of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1959) |
| 2nd of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938) |
| 2nd of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (d. 1965) |
| 2nd of January 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales 1932-39 (d. 1973) |
| 2nd of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962) |
| 2nd of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931) |
| 2nd of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948) |
| 2nd of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954) |
| 2nd of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer (d. 1982) |
| 2nd of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975) |
| 2nd of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Marshall, American conservationist (d. 1939) |
| 2nd of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Keating, Irish republican (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938) |
| 2nd of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998) |
| 2nd of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Zampa, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1991) |
| 2nd of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998) |
| 2nd of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983) |
| 2nd of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004) |
| 2nd of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann, British writer (d. 1986) |
| 2nd of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Zypora Spaisman, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actress and producer (d. 2002) |
| 2nd of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) |
| 2nd of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943) |
| 2nd of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Asimov, American author and biochemistry professor (d. 1992) |
| 2nd of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Evgenios Spatharis, Greek shadow theatre artist (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (d. 2008) |
| 2nd of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | William J. Crowe, American admiral and ambassador (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Grigoris Varfis, Greek politician |
| 2nd of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Avie Bennett, Canadian philanthropist |
| 2nd of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988) |
| 2nd of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer |
| 2nd of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Julius La Rosa, American singer |
| 2nd of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese politician |
| 2nd of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Redgrove, British poet (d. 2003) |
| 2nd of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Seiichi Morimura, Japanese novelist |
| 2nd of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Riley, American politician |
| 2nd of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992) |
| 2nd of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Brady, British serial killer |
| 2nd of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Goh Kun, South Korean politician |
| 2nd of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Herbj?rnsrud, Norwegian author |
| 2nd of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bakker, American televangelist |
| 2nd of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician |
| 2nd of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Hastert, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |
| 2nd of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Shelton, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| 2nd of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bar?s Manco, Turkish singer and television producer (d. 1999) |
| 2nd of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician |
| 2nd of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Eotvos, Hungarian composer and conductor |
| 2nd of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Cole, American tour manager |
| 2nd of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Hanna, American zoologist |
| 2nd of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Hill, American football player |
| 2nd of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic, and art historian |
| 2nd of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Valery Shary, Byelorussian Olympic champion weightlifter |
| 2nd of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Miller, American journalist |
| 2nd of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Durang, American playwright |
| 2nd of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Debora Duarte, Brazilian actress |
| 2nd of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David Shifrin, American classical clarinetist |
| 2nd of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter |
| 2nd of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Essian, American baseball player |
| 2nd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Santiago Baca, American poet and writer |
| 2nd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Strachan, Australian rock singer (Skyhooks) (d. 2001) |
| 2nd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Ftorek, American ice hockey player |
| 2nd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Lavin, American singer-songwriter |
| 2nd of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Racaniello American virologist |
| 2nd of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Manfred Wittke, German footballer |
| 2nd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Bonilla, American politician |
| 2nd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dawn Silva, American singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk) |
| 2nd of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tex Brashear, American voice actor |
| 2nd of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Vivien Savage, French singer |
| 2nd of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Lynda Barry, American cartoonist |
| 2nd of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist |
| 2nd of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Coates, Canadian actor |
| 2nd of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author |
| 2nd of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Haynes, American film director |
| 2nd of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Wexler, American politician |
| 2nd of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle Carteris, American actress |
| 2nd of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Craig James, American football player |
| 2nd of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Martinez, American baseball player |
| 2nd of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | David Cone, American baseball player |
| 2nd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Pernell Whitaker, American boxer |
| 2nd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Luis d'Antin, Spanish motorcycle racer |
| 2nd of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Swindell, American baseball player |
| 2nd of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tia Carrere, American actress |
| 2nd of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Gnarr, Icelandic comedian and the mayor of Iceland's capital city Reykjavik, actor |
| 2nd of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player |
| 2nd of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion |
| 2nd of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor |
| 2nd of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Parke, Jamaican actor |
| 2nd of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Goichi Suda, Japanese video game developer |
| 2nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Robby Gordon, American racing driver |
| 2nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Huard, Quebec actor and comedian |
| 2nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician |
| 2nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer |
| 2nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Morrison, American boxer |
| 2nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Svehla, Slovak ice hockey player |
| 2nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Christy Turlington, American model |
| 2nd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Royce Clayton, American baseball player |
| 2nd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sanda Ladosi, Romanian singer |
| 2nd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Whitacre, American composer |
| 2nd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Hoffmann, German actor (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Taye Diggs, American actor |
| 2nd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Renee Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer |
| 2nd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Harrison, American basketball player |
| 2nd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Yutaka Takenouchi, Japanese actor |
| 2nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mattias Norstrom, Swedish professional ice hockey player |
| 2nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Lennertz, American composer |
| 2nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Elliot, Australian animator |
| 2nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper |
| 2nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney MacDonald, Canadian politician and musician |
| 2nd of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lucy Davis, British actress |
| 2nd of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Will Kirby, American actor |
| 2nd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Moro, Cuban-American actor and filmmaker |
| 2nd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jason de Vos, Canadian footballer |
| 2nd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End) |
| 2nd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank) |
| 2nd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Dax Shepard, American actor |
| 2nd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player |
| 2nd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Suppan, American baseball player |
| 2nd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper |
| 2nd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist |
| 2nd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cletidus Hunt, American football player |
| 2nd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mahee Paiement, Canadian actress |
| 2nd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Paz Vega, Spanish actress |
| 2nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Boucher, American professional ice hockey player |
| 2nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player |
| 2nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ales Pisa, Czech ice hockey player |
| 2nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Proctor, American baseball player |
| 2nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Soultanidis, Greek footballer |
| 2nd of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Megumi Toyoguchi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress) |
| 2nd of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American professional ballroom dancer |
| 2nd of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Greening, British footballer |
| 2nd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Bellemare, Canadian Figure Skater |
| 2nd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mac Danzig, American Mixed martial arts combatant |
| 2nd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Pineau, French cyclist |
| 2nd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Hanno Balitsch, German footballer |
| 2nd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Garko, American baseball player |
| 2nd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player |
| 2nd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Maxi Rodriguez, Argentine footballer |
| 2nd of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker |
| 2nd of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Bosworth, American actress |
| 2nd of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Ebbett, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Otacilio, Brazilian footballer |
| 2nd of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Beza, American musician |
| 2nd of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player |
| 2nd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Andrews, American musician |
| 2nd of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Shelley Hennig, American actress |
| 2nd of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Syesha Mercado, American singer and actress |
| 2nd of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer |
| 2nd of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Tussac, French-born German rugby player |
| 2nd of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Maksims Bogdanovs, Latvian motorcycle racer |
| 2nd of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Abraham, Czech motorcycle racer |
| 2nd of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Davide Santon, Italian footballer |
| 2nd of January 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Barrios Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of January 1512 | DEATH | Svante, Regent of Sweden (Born 1460) |
| 2nd of January 1514 | DEATH | William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (Born c1460) |
| 2nd of January 1557 | DEATH | Pontormo, Italian painter (Born 1494) |
| 2nd of January 1685 | DEATH | Harbottle Grimston, English politician (Born 1603) |
| 2nd of January 1694 | DEATH | Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (Born 1651) |
| 2nd of January 1726 | DEATH | Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (Born 1688) |
| 2nd of January 1861 | DEATH | King Frederick William IV of Prussia (Born 1795) |
| 2nd of January 1892 | DEATH | George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (Born 1801) |
| 2nd of January 1893 | DEATH | John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (Born 1805) |
| 2nd of January 1904 | DEATH | James Longstreet, American Confederate general (Born 1821) |
| 2nd of January 1913 | DEATH | Leon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (Born 1855) |
| 2nd of January 1915 | DEATH | Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (Born 1830) |
| 2nd of January 1917 | DEATH | Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (Born 1832) |
| 2nd of January 1920 | DEATH | Paul Adam, French novelist (Born 1862) |
| 2nd of January 1924 | DEATH | Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (Born 1834) |
| 2nd of January 1936 | DEATH | Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania (Born 1862) |
| 2nd of January 1939 | DEATH | Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (Born 1864) |
| 2nd of January 1941 | DEATH | Mischa Levitzki, Russian-born pianist (Born 1898) |
| 2nd of January 1945 | DEATH | Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (Born 1883) |
| 2nd of January 1946 | DEATH | Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (Born 1870) |
| 2nd of January 1948 | DEATH | Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (Born 1893) |
| 2nd of January 1950 | DEATH | James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (Born 1877) |
| 2nd of January 1950 | DEATH | Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (Born 1883) |
| 2nd of January 1951 | DEATH | Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (Born 1870) |
| 2nd of January 1959 | DEATH | Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-born writer and novelist (Born 1880) |
| 2nd of January 1960 | DEATH | Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of January 1960 | DEATH | Paul Sauve, Canadian politician (Born 1907) |
| 2nd of January 1963 | DEATH | Jack Carson, American actor (Born 1910) |
| 2nd of January 1963 | DEATH | Dick Powell, American actor (Born 1904) |
| 2nd of January 1971 | DEATH | E. V. Knox, English poet and satirist (Born 1881) |
| 2nd of January 1971 | DEATH | Willard Maas, American poet and filmmaker (Born 1906) |
| 2nd of January 1974 | DEATH | Tex Ritter, American actor (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of January 1977 | DEATH | Errol Garner, American musician (Born 1921) |
| 2nd of January 1983 | DEATH | Dick Emery, English comedian (Born 1915) |
| 2nd of January 1986 | DEATH | Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of January 1986 | DEATH | Una Merkel, American actress (Born 1903) |
| 2nd of January 1986 | DEATH | Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of January 1990 | DEATH | Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician and author (Born 1910) |
| 2nd of January 1990 | DEATH | Alan Hale Jr., American actor (Born 1921) |
| 2nd of January 1994 | DEATH | Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, 17th Governor of Washington (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of January 1994 | DEATH | Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (Born 1915) |
| 2nd of January 1995 | DEATH | Siad Barre, President of Somalia (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of January 1995 | DEATH | Nancy Kelly, American actress (Born 1921) |
| 2nd of January 1996 | DEATH | Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (Born 1915) |
| 2nd of January 1997 | DEATH | Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit) (Born 1951) |
| 2nd of January 1998 | DEATH | Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of January 1999 | DEATH | Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (Born 1907) |
| 2nd of January 2000 | DEATH | Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of January 2000 | DEATH | Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (Born 1931) |
| 2nd of January 2000 | DEATH | Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., American admiral (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of January 2001 | DEATH | Teri Diver, American actress (Born 1971) |
| 2nd of January 2001 | DEATH | William P. Rogers, American politician (Born 1913) |
| 2nd of January 2002 | DEATH | Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (Born 1958) |
| 2nd of January 2003 | DEATH | Eric Jupp, British-born pianist, composer, arranger (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of January 2004 | DEATH | Jess Collins, American artist (Born 1923) |
| 2nd of January 2004 | DEATH | Lynn Cartwright, American actress (Born 1927) |
| 2nd of January 2005 | DEATH | Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (Born 1913) |
| 2nd of January 2005 | DEATH | Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of January 2005 | DEATH | Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (Born 1934) |
| 2nd of January 2005 | DEATH | Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of January 2005 | DEATH | Edo Murtic, Croatian painter (Born 1921) |
| 2nd of January 2006 | DEATH | Cecilia Munoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (Born 1913) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Dan Shaver, American racecar driver (Born 1950) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (Born 1957) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (Born 1941) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and researcher (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (Born 1937) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (Born 1951) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | David Perkins, American geneticist (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (Born 1942) |
| 2nd of January 2008 | DEATH | Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician (Born 1926) |
| 2nd of January 2008 | DEATH | George MacDonald Fraser, British author (Born 1925) |
| 2nd of January 2008 | DEATH | Gerry Staley, American baseball player (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of January 2008 | DEATH | Galyani Vadhana, Princess of Thailand (Born 1923) |
| 2nd of January 2009 | DEATH | Inger Christensen, Danish poet (Born 1935) |
| 2nd of January 2009 | DEATH | Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (Born 1893) |
| 2nd of January 2010 | DEATH | David R. Ross, Scottish author and historian (Born 1958) |
| 2nd of January 2011 | DEATH | Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (Born 1946) |
| 2nd of January 2011 | DEATH | Anne Francis, American actress (Born 1930) |
| 2nd of January 2011 | DEATH | Szeto Wah, Hong Kong politician and educationalist (Born 1931) |
| 2nd of January 2011 | DEATH | Richard D. Winters, American Army officer (Born1918) |