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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd of January 0393 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor. |
| 23rd of January 0971 | EVENT | In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. |
| 23rd of January 1368 | EVENT | In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. |
| 23rd of January 1510 | EVENT | Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity. |
| 23rd of January 1533 | EVENT | Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant. |
| 23rd of January 1546 | EVENT | Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. |
| 23rd of January 1556 | EVENT | The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. |
| 23rd of January 1571 | EVENT | The Royal Exchange opens in London. |
| 23rd of January 1579 | EVENT | The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. |
| 23rd of January 1656 | EVENT | Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. |
| 23rd of January 1719 | EVENT | The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. |
| 23rd of January 1789 | EVENT | Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) |
| 23rd of January 1793 | EVENT | Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time. |
| 23rd of January 1849 | EVENT | Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. |
| 23rd of January 1855 | EVENT | The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. |
| 23rd of January 1870 | EVENT | In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre. |
| 23rd of January 1879 | EVENT | Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends. |
| 23rd of January 1897 | EVENT | Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction. |
| 23rd of January 1899 | EVENT | Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic. |
| 23rd of January 1900 | EVENT | The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War resulted in a British defeat. |
| 23rd of January 1904 | EVENT | Alesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Alesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style. |
| 23rd of January 1907 | EVENT | Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. |
| 23rd of January 1912 | EVENT | The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. |
| 23rd of January 1920 | EVENT | The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. |
| 23rd of January 1937 | EVENT | In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders. |
| 23rd of January 1941 | EVENT | Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. |
| 23rd of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign. |
| 23rd of January 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army. |
| 23rd of January 1943 | EVENT | Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time. |
| 23rd of January 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression. |
| 23rd of January 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends. |
| 23rd of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Karl Donitz launches Operation Hannibal. |
| 23rd of January 1950 | EVENT | The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. |
| 23rd of January 1958 | EVENT | Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Perez Jimenez |
| 23rd of January 1960 | EVENT | The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean. |
| 23rd of January 1961 | EVENT | The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by foes of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was overthrown. |
| 23rd of January 1963 | EVENT | Guinea-Bissau War of Independence offially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite. |
| 23rd of January 1964 | EVENT | The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified. |
| 23rd of January 1967 | EVENT | Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established. |
| 23rd of January 1968 | EVENT | North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying. |
| 23rd of January 1973 | EVENT | A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland. |
| 23rd of January 1973 | EVENT | President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. |
| 23rd of January 1986 | EVENT | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. |
| 23rd of January 1997 | EVENT | Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others. |
| 23rd of January 1997 | EVENT | Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. |
| 23rd of January 2002 | EVENT | "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody. |
| 23rd of January 2002 | EVENT | Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered . |
| 23rd of January 2003 | EVENT | Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10. |
| 23rd of January 2009 | EVENT | Dendermonde nursery attack in Dendermonde, Belgium. |
| 23rd of January 1350 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419) |
| 23rd of January 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741) |
| 23rd of January 1719 | BIRTHDAY | John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790) |
| 23rd of January 1737 | BIRTHDAY | John Hancock, American patriot (d. 1793) |
| 23rd of January 1745 | BIRTHDAY | William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814) |
| 23rd of January 1783 | BIRTHDAY | Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842) |
| 23rd of January 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858) |
| 23rd of January 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter (d. 1884) |
| 23rd of January 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895) |
| 23rd of January 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Saigo Takamori, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877) |
| 23rd of January 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883) |
| 23rd of January 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905) |
| 23rd of January 1855 | BIRTHDAY | John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926) |
| 23rd of January 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936) |
| 23rd of January 1862 | BIRTHDAY | David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943) |
| 23rd of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946) |
| 23rd of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Joze Plecnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957) |
| 23rd of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954) |
| 23rd of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Luisa Casati, Artist's patroness, muse and fashion icon (d. 1957) |
| 23rd of January 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956) |
| 23rd of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Alf Hall, South African cricketer (d. 1964) |
| 23rd of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985) |
| 23rd of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945) |
| 23rd of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000) |
| 23rd of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989) |
| 23rd of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978) |
| 23rd of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948) |
| 23rd of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 23rd of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931) |
| 23rd of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988) |
| 23rd of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, Colombian politician (d. 1948) |
| 23rd of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968) |
| 23rd of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981) |
| 23rd of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953) |
| 23rd of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (d. 2009) |
| 23rd of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (d. 1960) |
| 23rd of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Parks, American racing executive, founder of the NHRA (d. 2007) |
| 23rd of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985) |
| 23rd of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist |
| 23rd of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1979) |
| 23rd of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999) |
| 23rd of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962) |
| 23rd of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist |
| 23rd of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Paisley, English football player and manager. (d. 1996) |
| 23rd of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach |
| 23rd of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (d. 1996) |
| 23rd of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Lautenberg, American politician |
| 23rd of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bal Thackeray, founder and president of Indian political party Shiv Sena |
| 23rd of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994) |
| 23rd of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Quinlan, Chicago Cubs Broadcaster (d. 1965) |
| 23rd of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanne Moreau, French actress |
| 23rd of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kiev Patriarch |
| 23rd of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 23rd of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel laureate |
| 23rd of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Zylis-Gara, Polish singer |
| 23rd of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer |
| 23rd of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003) |
| 23rd of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Moses, American civil rights activist |
| 23rd of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Kramer, American football player |
| 23rd of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999) |
| 23rd of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor |
| 23rd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Arlene Golonka, American actress |
| 23rd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist |
| 23rd of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Dowell, American singer |
| 23rd of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2001) |
| 23rd of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director |
| 23rd of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist |
| 23rd of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Gerard, American actor |
| 23rd of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor |
| 23rd of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario |
| 23rd of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon |
| 23rd of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Arnoldo Aleman, ex-president of Nicaragua |
| 23rd of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia |
| 23rd of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas R. Carper, American politician, senior senator of Delaware |
| 23rd of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) |
| 23rd of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dean Anderson, American actor |
| 23rd of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health) |
| 23rd of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Chesley Sullenberger, Captain of US Airways Flight 1549, a flight that successfully ditched into the Hudson River |
| 23rd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Henry, South African cricketer |
| 23rd of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Alister E. McGrath, British theologian and scientist |
| 23rd of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Luther Adams, American composer |
| 23rd of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles |
| 23rd of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick) |
| 23rd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter |
| 23rd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Ka-Spel, English musician (Legendary Pink Dots) |
| 23rd of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist |
| 23rd of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Caroline of Monaco |
| 23rd of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Bull, English radio talk show host |
| 23rd of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Francois Sauve, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore's most-wanted terror fugitive |
| 23rd of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist |
| 23rd of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress |
| 23rd of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Gail O'Grady, American actress |
| 23rd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mariska Hargitay, American actress |
| 23rd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana |
| 23rd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Louie Clemente, American drummer (Testament) |
| 23rd of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Haywoode Workman, American basketball player |
| 23rd of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter |
| 23rd of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Petr Korda, Czech tennis player |
| 23rd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress |
| 23rd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer |
| 23rd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tracey Cherelle Jones, American actress |
| 23rd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Spiridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper |
| 23rd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan O'Connor, Irish journalist, satirist |
| 23rd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Gibbs, Welsh rugby player |
| 23rd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Mawae, American football player |
| 23rd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Nelson, American R&B singer and lyricist |
| 23rd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Parore, New Zealand wicketkeeper (cricket) |
| 23rd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Snowdon, British model and TV presenter |
| 23rd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor |
| 23rd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer |
| 23rd of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lanei Chapman, American actress |
| 23rd of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Holmstrom, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 23rd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi) |
| 23rd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress |
| 23rd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Yosvani Perez, Cuban baseball player |
| 23rd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffani Thiessen, American actress |
| 23rd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Richard T. Slone, British artist |
| 23rd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Dawson, American football player |
| 23rd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter |
| 23rd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer |
| 23rd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player |
| 23rd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Lucca, actor, singer and musician |
| 23rd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler |
| 23rd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kamal Heer, Punjabi singer and musician |
| 23rd of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dawn Porter, British television presnter |
| 23rd of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Hughes, American basketball player |
| 23rd of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Rincon, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 23rd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Friend, Canadian footballer |
| 23rd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Jones, Native American actress |
| 23rd of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Wily Mo Pena, Dominican baseball player |
| 23rd of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Levis, American actor |
| 23rd of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer |
| 23rd of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer |
| 23rd of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel |
| 23rd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Foy, British children's television presenter |
| 23rd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Taylor, English footballer |
| 23rd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Griesert, German footballer |
| 23rd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Enrique Sanchez, Spanish footballer |
| 23rd of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Felicia Brandstrom, Swedish singer |
| 23rd of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Power, Irish footballer |
| 23rd of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | April Pearson, British actress |
| 23rd of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Martyn Waghorn, English footballer |
| 23rd of January 1002 | DEATH | Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 980) |
| 23rd of January 1199 | DEATH | Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (Born 1160) |
| 23rd of January 1548 | DEATH | Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (Born 1490) |
| 23rd of January 1549 | DEATH | Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (Born 1498) |
| 23rd of January 1567 | DEATH | Jiajing, Emperor of China (Born 1507) |
| 23rd of January 1570 | DEATH | James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated) |
| 23rd of January 1622 | DEATH | William Baffin, English explorer |
| 23rd of January 1744 | DEATH | Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (Born 1668) |
| 23rd of January 1785 | DEATH | Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (Born 1717) |
| 23rd of January 1789 | DEATH | Frances Brooke, English writer (Born 1724) |
| 23rd of January 1789 | DEATH | John Cleland, English novelist (Born 1709) |
| 23rd of January 1800 | DEATH | Edward Rutledge, American statesman (Born 1749) |
| 23rd of January 1803 | DEATH | Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (Born 1725) |
| 23rd of January 1805 | DEATH | Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (Born 1763) |
| 23rd of January 1806 | DEATH | William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1759) |
| 23rd of January 1810 | DEATH | Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (Born 1776) |
| 23rd of January 1812 | DEATH | Robert Craufurd, British general (Born 1764) |
| 23rd of January 1820 | DEATH | Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (Born 1767) |
| 23rd of January 1833 | DEATH | Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (Born 1757) |
| 23rd of January 1837 | DEATH | John Field, Irish composer (Born 1782) |
| 23rd of January 1866 | DEATH | Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (Born 1785) |
| 23rd of January 1875 | DEATH | Charles Kingsley English writer (Born 1819) |
| 23rd of January 1883 | DEATH | Gustave Dore, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (Born 1832) |
| 23rd of January 1893 | DEATH | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Born 1825) |
| 23rd of January 1921 | DEATH | Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer (Born 1877) |
| 23rd of January 1922 | DEATH | Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (Born 1855) |
| 23rd of January 1923 | DEATH | Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (Born 1849) |
| 23rd of January 1931 | DEATH | Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Born 1881) |
| 23rd of January 1937 | DEATH | Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (Born 1876) |
| 23rd of January 1939 | DEATH | Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (Born 1903) |
| 23rd of January 1943 | DEATH | Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant (Born 1887) |
| 23rd of January 1944 | DEATH | Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (Born 1863) |
| 23rd of January 1944 | DEATH | Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (Born 1909) |
| 23rd of January 1956 | DEATH | Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (Born 1893) |
| 23rd of January 1958 | DEATH | Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (Born 1880) |
| 23rd of January 1963 | DEATH | Jozef Gos?awski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (Born 1908) |
| 23rd of January 1971 | DEATH | Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (Born 1871) |
| 23rd of January 1973 | DEATH | Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (Born 1948) |
| 23rd of January 1973 | DEATH | Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (Born 1886) |
| 23rd of January 1976 | DEATH | Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (Born 1913) |
| 23rd of January 1976 | DEATH | Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (Born 1898) |
| 23rd of January 1977 | DEATH | Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (Born 1903) |
| 23rd of January 1978 | DEATH | Jack Oakie, American actor (Born 1903) |
| 23rd of January 1978 | DEATH | Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (Born 1946) |
| 23rd of January 1978 | DEATH | Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (Born 1925) |
| 23rd of January 1981 | DEATH | Samuel Barber, American composer (Born 1910) |
| 23rd of January 1983 | DEATH | Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (Born 1908) |
| 23rd of January 1984 | DEATH | Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (Born 1926) |
| 23rd of January 1986 | DEATH | Joseph Beuys, German artist (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of January 1988 | DEATH | Charles Glen King, American biochemist (Born 1896) |
| 23rd of January 1989 | DEATH | Salvador Dali, Catalan artist (Born 1904) |
| 23rd of January 1990 | DEATH | Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (Born 1952) |
| 23rd of January 1991 | DEATH | Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (Born 1912) |
| 23rd of January 1992 | DEATH | Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (Born 1924) |
| 23rd of January 1993 | DEATH | Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer (Born 1899) |
| 23rd of January 1994 | DEATH | Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (Born 1929) |
| 23rd of January 1994 | DEATH | Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (Born 1917) |
| 23rd of January 1997 | DEATH | Richard Berry, American composer and musician (Born 1935) |
| 23rd of January 1999 | DEATH | Joe D'Amato, Italian director (Born 1936) |
| 23rd of January 1999 | DEATH | Jay Pritzker, American businessman (Born 1922) |
| 23rd of January 1999 | DEATH | Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (Born 1949) |
| 23rd of January 2002 | DEATH | Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (Born 1930) |
| 23rd of January 2002 | DEATH | Paul Aars, American racecar driver (Born 1934) |
| 23rd of January 2002 | DEATH | Robert Nozick, American philosopher (Born 1938) |
| 23rd of January 2003 | DEATH | Nell Carter, American singer and actress (Born 1948) |
| 23rd of January 2004 | DEATH | Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (Born 1920) |
| 23rd of January 2004 | DEATH | Bob Keeshan, American actor (Born 1927) |
| 23rd of January 2005 | DEATH | Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of January 2005 | DEATH | Johnny Carson, American television host (Born 1925) |
| 23rd of January 2006 | DEATH | Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (Born 1967) |
| 23rd of January 2007 | DEATH | E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of January 2007 | DEATH | Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and writer (Born 1932) |
| 23rd of January 2007 | DEATH | Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (Born 1928) |
| 23rd of January 2009 | DEATH | Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (Born 1929) |
| 23rd of January 2011 | DEATH | Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert (Born 1914) |