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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 21st of January 1525 | EVENT | The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zurich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union. |
| 21st of January 1643 | EVENT | Abel Tasman becomes the first European to reach Tonga. |
| 21st of January 1720 | EVENT | Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm. |
| 21st of January 1749 | EVENT | The Verona Philharmonic Theatre is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754. |
| 21st of January 1789 | EVENT | The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 21st of January 1793 | EVENT | After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine. |
| 21st of January 1840 | EVENT | Jules Dumont d'Urville discovers Adelie Land, Antarctica. |
| 21st of January 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate. |
| 21st of January 1864 | EVENT | The Tauranga Campaign begins during the Maori Wars. |
| 21st of January 1887 | EVENT | 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city. |
| 21st of January 1893 | EVENT | The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana. |
| 21st of January 1899 | EVENT | Opel manufactures its first automobile. |
| 21st of January 1908 | EVENT | New York City passes the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure vetoed by the mayor. |
| 21st of January 1911 | EVENT | The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place. |
| 21st of January 1915 | EVENT | Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 21st of January 1919 | EVENT | Meeting of the First Dail Eireann in the Mansion House Dublin. Sinn Fein adopts Ireland's first constitution. The first engagement of Irish War of Independence, Sologhead Beg, County Tipperary. |
| 21st of January 1925 | EVENT | Albania declares itself a republic. |
| 21st of January 1931 | EVENT | Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. |
| 21st of January 1948 | EVENT | The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for the first time over the National Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quebec Flag Day. |
| 21st of January 1950 | EVENT | Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. |
| 21st of January 1954 | EVENT | The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States. |
| 21st of January 1958 | EVENT | The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashes, killing the pilot and winch-operator. |
| 21st of January 1960 | EVENT | Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board. |
| 21st of January 1960 | EVENT | Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns upon landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37. It is the worst air disaster in Jamaica's history and the first for Avianca. |
| 21st of January 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh : One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins. |
| 21st of January 1968 | EVENT | A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete. |
| 21st of January 1971 | EVENT | The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts. |
| 21st of January 1976 | EVENT | Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. |
| 21st of January 1977 | EVENT | President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada. |
| 21st of January 1981 | EVENT | Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. |
| 21st of January 1985 | EVENT | The inauguration of President Ronald Reagan to a second term, already postponed a day because January 20 fell on a Sunday, becomes the second inauguration in history moved indoors because of freezing temperatures and high winds. The parade is cancelled altogether. |
| 21st of January 1997 | EVENT | Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct. |
| 21st of January 1999 | EVENT | War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board. |
| 21st of January 2000 | EVENT | Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad. |
| 21st of January 2003 | EVENT | A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless. |
| 21st of January 2004 | EVENT | NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6. |
| 21st of January 2005 | EVENT | In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots. |
| 21st of January 2008 | EVENT | Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 11 September 2001, and Asian stocks drop as much as 14%. |
| 21st of January 1338 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles V of France (d. 1380) |
| 21st of January 1721 | BIRTHDAY | James Murray, British military officer, governor of Quebec (d. 1794) |
| 21st of January 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887) |
| 21st of January 1813 | BIRTHDAY | John C. Fremont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (d. 1890) |
| 21st of January 1815 | BIRTHDAY | John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (d. 1900) |
| 21st of January 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American, Confederate army general (d. 1863) |
| 21st of January 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Imre Madach, Hungarian writer (d. 1864) |
| 21st of January 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900) |
| 21st of January 1829 | BIRTHDAY | King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907) |
| 21st of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933) |
| 21st of January 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915) |
| 21st of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Troje, German politician (d. 1942) |
| 21st of January 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965) |
| 21st of January 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921) |
| 21st of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Arch McCarthy, American baseball player (d. unknown) |
| 21st of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Florensky (O.S. January 9), Russian Orthodox theologian and mathematician (d. 1937) |
| 21st of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929) |
| 21st of January 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician (d. 1964) |
| 21st of January 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981) |
| 21st of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Umberto Nobile, Italian aeronautical engineer (d. 1978) |
| 21st of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Vezina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926) |
| 21st of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972) |
| 21st of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Iche, French sculptor (d. 1954) |
| 21st of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian born American composer (d. 1977) |
| 21st of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978) |
| 21st of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957) |
| 21st of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978) |
| 21st of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007) |
| 21st of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d. 2004) |
| 21st of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981) |
| 21st of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Rosellini, American politician and 15th Governor of Washington |
| 21st of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000) |
| 21st of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Richard D. Winters, American war hero (d. 2011) |
| 21st of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Chichay, Filipino actress (d. 1993) |
| 21st of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Eric "Winkle" Brown, Scottish test pilot |
| 21st of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Unruh, American mass murderer (d. 2009) |
| 21st of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008) |
| 21st of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 21st of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Lola Flores, Spanish singer (d. 1995) |
| 21st of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Hill, English actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992) |
| 21st of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000) |
| 21st of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995) |
| 21st of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1985) |
| 21st of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Sharp, American political theorist and pacifist |
| 21st of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | John Chaney, American basketball coach |
| 21st of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph W. Eschbach, American doctor (d. 2007) |
| 21st of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Dalton, Irish actress |
| 21st of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Placido Domingo, Spanish tenor |
| 21st of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005) |
| 21st of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria |
| 21st of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfman Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d. 1995) |
| 21st of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John Savident, British actor |
| 21st of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Nicklaus, American golfer |
| 21st of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Stathis Giallelis, Greek actor |
| 21st of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Medavoy, American film producer |
| 21st of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Havens, American musician |
| 21st of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Putski, Polish-born American professional wrestler |
| 21st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003) |
| 21st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mac Davis, American musician |
| 21st of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek actor, songwriter and singer |
| 21st of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Shaw, British actor |
| 21st of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Oates, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004) |
| 21st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer |
| 21st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Eikenberry, American actress |
| 21st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan) |
| 21st of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Ocean, West Indian musician |
| 21st of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Locke, American politician, 21st Governor of Washington, and 36th United States Secretary of Commerce |
| 21st of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Holder, American jurist, and 82nd United States Attorney General |
| 21st of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Camenisch, Swiss environmental activist |
| 21st of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Cyril and Libbye Hellier, identical-twin sopranos |
| 21st of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Menand, American writer and critic |
| 21st of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Allen, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Microsoft |
| 21st of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Thompson, English footballer and coach |
| 21st of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkinabe filmmaker |
| 21st of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Koons, American artist |
| 21st of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Robby Benson, American actor |
| 21st of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Geena Davis, American actress |
| 21st of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Ryan, American soccer coach |
| 21st of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Wincott, Canadian actor |
| 21st of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Ticheli, American composer |
| 21st of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager |
| 21st of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Cowen, American economist |
| 21st of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003) |
| 21st of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born American basketball player |
| 21st of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player |
| 21st of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002) |
| 21st of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Del Naja, English musician |
| 21st of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Candi Milo, American voice actress |
| 21st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess Grandmaster |
| 21st of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician |
| 21st of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Ross, American actress |
| 21st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Karina Lombard, American actress |
| 21st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Hamalainen, Finnish-Belarusian decathlete |
| 21st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist |
| 21st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | M. K. Hobson, American speculative fiction and fantasy writer |
| 21st of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Leung, American actor |
| 21st of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel) |
| 21st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tweet, American singer |
| 21st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player |
| 21st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Weight, American ice hockey player |
| 21st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Benes, American baseball player |
| 21st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Falkvinge, Swedish politician |
| 21st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer |
| 21st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician |
| 21st of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Duane Lee Chapman, II, American bounty hunter |
| 21st of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rove McManus, Australian television host and comedian |
| 21st of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Sperafico, Brazilian racing driver |
| 21st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ito, Spanish footballer |
| 21st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater |
| 21st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Castaignede, French rugby player |
| 21st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Butt, English footballer |
| 21st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver |
| 21st of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls) |
| 21st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Trainor, American comedic actor (iCarly) |
| 21st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Al Baxter, Australian rugby union footballer |
| 21st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Neville, English footballer |
| 21st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Perry, English rugby player |
| 21st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Gilmore, National Football League player |
| 21st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American singer |
| 21st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Stacey, American Idol finalist |
| 21st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete |
| 21st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player |
| 21st of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player |
| 21st of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit |
| 21st of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union footballer |
| 21st of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 21st of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Kitson, English footballer |
| 21st of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mari Possa, Salvadorian-American pornographic actress |
| 21st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Dalrymple, English cricketer |
| 21st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins) |
| 21st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Ergic, Serbian footballer |
| 21st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 21st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa) |
| 21st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Izabella Miko, Polish actress and model |
| 21st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Whitehead, English footballer |
| 21st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Go Shiozaki, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 21st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Rolfes, German footballer |
| 21st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Maryse Ouellet, Canadian model and professional wrestler |
| 21st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Philipakos, American/Greek soccer player |
| 21st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Moritz Volz, German footballer |
| 21st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Ray, American baseball player |
| 21st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Gutierrez, Filipino actor and television host |
| 21st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Gutierrez, Filipino actor and television host |
| 21st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Lewis, English dart player |
| 21st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model |
| 21st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Giunta, Medal of Honor recipient |
| 21st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Unicomb, Australian basketball player |
| 21st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Perez, Spanish footballer |
| 21st of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Peyton Hillis, American football player |
| 21st of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer |
| 21st of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | William C. Woxlin, Swedish composer |
| 21st of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Hessler, Italian model |
| 21st of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Smith, American actor |
| 21st of January 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Robson, Australian/British tennis player |
| 21st of January 1994 | BIRTHDAY | BooBoo Stewart, American actor and singer |
| 21st of January 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Jackson Brundage, American actor. |
| 21st of January 2004 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway |
| 21st of January 0304 | DEATH | Saint Agnes (martyred) (Born 291) |
| 21st of January 0917 | DEATH | Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (Born c. 880) |
| 21st of January 1118 | DEATH | Pope Paschal II |
| 21st of January 1519 | DEATH | Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (Born 1475) |
| 21st of January 1527 | DEATH | Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (Born c. 1489) |
| 21st of January 1546 | DEATH | Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (Born 1491) |
| 21st of January 1609 | DEATH | Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (Born 1540) |
| 21st of January 1638 | DEATH | Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (Born c. 1570) |
| 21st of January 1683 | DEATH | Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (Born 1621) |
| 21st of January 1699 | DEATH | Obadiah Walker, English writer (Born 1616) |
| 21st of January 1706 | DEATH | Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (Born 1649) |
| 21st of January 1710 | DEATH | Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (Born 1638) |
| 21st of January 1722 | DEATH | Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (Born 1661) |
| 21st of January 1731 | DEATH | Thomas Woolston, English theologian (Born 1669) |
| 21st of January 1766 | DEATH | James Quin, English actor (Born 1693) |
| 21st of January 1773 | DEATH | Alexis Piron, French writer (Born 1689) |
| 21st of January 1774 | DEATH | Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1717) |
| 21st of January 1775 | DEATH | Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel |
| 21st of January 1793 | DEATH | King Louis XVI of France (executed) (Born 1754) |
| 21st of January 1795 | DEATH | Samuel Wallis, English navigator (Born 1728) |
| 21st of January 1809 | DEATH | Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (Born 1729) |
| 21st of January 1814 | DEATH | Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (Born 1737) |
| 21st of January 1823 | DEATH | Cayetano Jose Rodriguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (Born 1761) |
| 21st of January 1831 | DEATH | Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (Born 1781) |
| 21st of January 1851 | DEATH | Albert Lortzing, German composer (Born 1801) |
| 21st of January 1862 | DEATH | Bozena Nemcova, Czech writer (Born 1820) |
| 21st of January 1870 | DEATH | Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (Born 1812) |
| 21st of January 1872 | DEATH | Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (Born 1791) |
| 21st of January 1881 | DEATH | Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (Born 1802) |
| 21st of January 1891 | DEATH | Calixa Lavallee, Canadian composer (Born 1842) |
| 21st of January 1901 | DEATH | Elisha Gray, American inventor (Born 1835) |
| 21st of January 1914 | DEATH | Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (Born 1857) |
| 21st of January 1919 | DEATH | Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (Born 1852) |
| 21st of January 1924 | DEATH | Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (Born 1870) |
| 21st of January 1926 | DEATH | Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1843) |
| 21st of January 1928 | DEATH | George Goethals, American army engineer (Born 1858) |
| 21st of January 1931 | DEATH | Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer (Born 1863) |
| 21st of January 1932 | DEATH | Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (Born 1880) |
| 21st of January 1933 | DEATH | George A. Moore, Irish novelist (Born 1852) |
| 21st of January 1937 | DEATH | Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (Born 1898) |
| 21st of January 1948 | DEATH | Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (Born 1876) |
| 21st of January 1950 | DEATH | George Orwell, British writer (Born 1903) |
| 21st of January 1955 | DEATH | Archie Hahn, American athlete (Born 1880) |
| 21st of January 1956 | DEATH | Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (Born 1883) |
| 21st of January 1959 | DEATH | Cecil B. DeMille, American director (Born 1881) |
| 21st of January 1959 | DEATH | Carl Switzer, American actor (Born 1927) |
| 21st of January 1961 | DEATH | Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (Born 1887) |
| 21st of January 1967 | DEATH | Ann Sheridan, American actress (Born 1915) |
| 21st of January 1968 | DEATH | Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (Born 1914) |
| 21st of January 1977 | DEATH | Sandro Penna, Italian poet (Born 1906) |
| 21st of January 1978 | DEATH | Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (Born 1898) |
| 21st of January 1984 | DEATH | Jackie Wilson, American musician (Born 1934) |
| 21st of January 1984 | DEATH | Giannis Skaribas, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet (Born 1893) |
| 21st of January 1985 | DEATH | James Beard, American chef and author (Born 1903) |
| 21st of January 1985 | DEATH | Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler and promoter (Born 1930) |
| 21st of January 1987 | DEATH | Charles Goodell, American politician (Born 1926) |
| 21st of January 1989 | DEATH | Billy Tipton, American musician (Born 1914) |
| 21st of January 1989 | DEATH | Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (Born 1922) |
| 21st of January 1993 | DEATH | Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (Born 1903) |
| 21st of January 1994 | DEATH | Bassel al-Assad, son of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad (Born 1962) |
| 21st of January 1996 | DEATH | Rene Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (Born 1921) |
| 21st of January 1997 | DEATH | Colonel Tom Parker, American manager of Elvis Presley (Born 1909) |
| 21st of January 1998 | DEATH | Jack Lord, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 21st of January 1999 | DEATH | Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (Born 1920) |
| 21st of January 1999 | DEATH | Susan Strasberg, American actress (Born 1938) |
| 21st of January 2001 | DEATH | Byron De La Beckwith, American white supremacist (Born 1921) |
| 21st of January 2002 | DEATH | Peggy Lee, American singer (Born 1920) |
| 21st of January 2003 | DEATH | Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet (Born 1933) |
| 21st of January 2004 | DEATH | Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (Born 1929) |
| 21st of January 2005 | DEATH | Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (Born 1907) |
| 21st of January 2005 | DEATH | Parveen Babi, Indian actress (Born 1955) |
| 21st of January 2005 | DEATH | John L. Hess, American journalist (Born 1917) |
| 21st of January 2006 | DEATH | Bedanand Jha, Nepalese politician |
| 21st of January 2006 | DEATH | Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (Born 1944) |
| 21st of January 2007 | DEATH | Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (Born 1977) |
| 21st of January 2007 | DEATH | U;Nee, Korean pop artist (Born 1981) |
| 21st of January 2008 | DEATH | Kenneth Parnell, American convicted sex offender (Born 1931) |
| 21st of January 2008 | DEATH | Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (Born 1953) |
| 21st of January 2008 | DEATH | Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (Born 1918) |
| 21st of January 2009 | DEATH | Veatrice Rice, Security guard, television personality on Jimmy Kimmel Live (Born 1949) |
| 21st of January 2010 | DEATH | Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator (Born 1953) |
| 21st of January 2011 | DEATH | E V V Satyanarayana, Indian Film Director, Producer. (Born 1958) |
| 21st of January 2011 | DEATH | Dennis Oppenheim, American conceptual artist (Born1938) |