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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1st of January 0069 | EVENT | The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Aulus Vitellius Germanicus as emperor. |
| 1st of January 0193 | EVENT | The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman Emperor. |
| 1st of January 1001 | EVENT | Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Silvester II. |
| 1st of January 1259 | EVENT | Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris. |
| 1st of January 1438 | EVENT | Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary. |
| 1st of January 1515 | EVENT | King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne. |
| 1st of January 1527 | EVENT | Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin. |
| 1st of January 1600 | EVENT | Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25. |
| 1st of January 1651 | EVENT | Charles II is crowned King of Scotland. |
| 1st of January 1700 | EVENT | Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire. |
| 1st of January 1707 | EVENT | John V is crowned King of Portugal. |
| 1st of January 1739 | EVENT | Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. |
| 1st of January 1772 | EVENT | The first traveler's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London. |
| 1st of January 1773 | EVENT | The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16 : 17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, England. |
| 1st of January 1781 | EVENT | 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781. |
| 1st of January 1788 | EVENT | First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published. |
| 1st of January 1800 | EVENT | The Dutch East India Company is dissolved. |
| 1st of January 1801 | EVENT | The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 1st of January 1801 | EVENT | The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi. |
| 1st of January 1803 | EVENT | Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tay Son Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Hue, Vietnam. |
| 1st of January 1804 | EVENT | French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and second independent country on the North America after the U.S. |
| 1st of January 1806 | EVENT | The French Republican Calendar is abolished. |
| 1st of January 1808 | EVENT | The importation of slaves into the United States is banned. |
| 1st of January 1810 | EVENT | Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB officially becomes Governor of New South Wales |
| 1st of January 1812 | EVENT | The Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, orders troops from Durham Castle to break up a miners strike in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham |
| 1st of January 1822 | EVENT | The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly of Epidaurus. |
| 1st of January 1833 | EVENT | The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. |
| 1st of January 1845 | EVENT | The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed. |
| 1st of January 1847 | EVENT | The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh by the Sisters of Mercy, the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world. |
| 1st of January 1860 | EVENT | First Polish stamp is issued. |
| 1st of January 1861 | EVENT | Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City. |
| 1st of January 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory. |
| 1st of January 1863 | EVENT | The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska. |
| 1st of January 1873 | EVENT | Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar. |
| 1st of January 1877 | EVENT | Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India. |
| 1st of January 1880 | EVENT | Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal. |
| 1st of January 1885 | EVENT | Twenty-five nations adopt Sanford Fleming's proposal for Standard Time (and also, time zones) |
| 1st of January 1890 | EVENT | Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government. |
| 1st of January 1890 | EVENT | The Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is first held. |
| 1st of January 1892 | EVENT | Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States. |
| 1st of January 1894 | EVENT | The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic. |
| 1st of January 1898 | EVENT | New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs. |
| 1st of January 1899 | EVENT | Spanish rule ends in Cuba. |
| 1st of January 1901 | EVENT | Nigeria becomes a British protectorate. |
| 1st of January 1901 | EVENT | The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister. |
| 1st of January 1902 | EVENT | The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena. |
| 1st of January 1906 | EVENT | British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time. |
| 1st of January 1908 | EVENT | For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight. |
| 1st of January 1909 | EVENT | Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher. |
| 1st of January 1910 | EVENT | Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear Admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson. |
| 1st of January 1911 | EVENT | Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control. |
| 1st of January 1912 | EVENT | The Republic of China is established. |
| 1st of January 1916 | EVENT | German troops abandon Yaounde and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea. |
| 1st of January 1920 | EVENT | The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party. |
| 1st of January 1923 | EVENT | Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS. |
| 1st of January 1927 | EVENT | Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian). |
| 1st of January 1928 | EVENT | Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc. |
| 1st of January 1929 | EVENT | The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver. |
| 1st of January 1932 | EVENT | The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. |
| 1st of January 1934 | EVENT | Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". |
| 1st of January 1934 | EVENT | Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison. |
| 1st of January 1937 | EVENT | Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain. |
| 1st of January 1939 | EVENT | William Hewlett and David Packard found Hewlett-Packard. |
| 1st of January 1939 | EVENT | Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ?C (113 ?F) heat, a record for the city. |
| 1st of January 1942 | EVENT | The Declaration by the United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations. |
| 1st of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne. |
| 1st of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Unternehmen Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow. |
| 1st of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front begins. |
| 1st of January 1947 | EVENT | The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany. |
| 1st of January 1947 | EVENT | The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen. |
| 1st of January 1948 | EVENT | The British railway network is nationalised to form British Railways. |
| 1st of January 1948 | EVENT | The Constitution of Italy comes into force. |
| 1st of January 1949 | EVENT | United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly. |
| 1st of January 1954 | EVENT | NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade , with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers. |
| 1st of January 1956 | EVENT | The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
| 1st of January 1956 | EVENT | A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people. |
| 1st of January 1957 | EVENT | George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 1st of January 1957 | EVENT | An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest. |
| 1st of January 1958 | EVENT | The European Community is established. |
| 1st of January 1959 | EVENT | Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution. |
| 1st of January 1960 | EVENT | The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
| 1st of January 1962 | EVENT | Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa. |
| 1st of January 1962 | EVENT | United States Navy SEALs established. |
| 1st of January 1964 | EVENT | The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia. |
| 1st of January 1965 | EVENT | The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul. |
| 1st of January 1966 | EVENT | A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins. |
| 1st of January 1966 | EVENT | After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic. |
| 1st of January 1970 | EVENT | Unix epoch time begins at 00:00:00 UTC/GMT. |
| 1st of January 1971 | EVENT | Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television. |
| 1st of January 1973 | EVENT | Denmark, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland are admitted into the European Community. |
| 1st of January 1978 | EVENT | Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. |
| 1st of January 1978 | EVENT | The Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes effective. |
| 1st of January 1979 | EVENT | Formal diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. |
| 1st of January 1980 | EVENT | Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden. |
| 1st of January 1981 | EVENT | The Republic of Palau achieves self-government though it is not independent from the United States. |
| 1st of January 1981 | EVENT | The Republic of Greece is admitted into the European Community. |
| 1st of January 1982 | EVENT | Peruvian Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary General of the United Nations. |
| 1st of January 1983 | EVENT | The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. |
| 1st of January 1984 | EVENT | The Sultanate of Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
| 1st of January 1984 | EVENT | The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T. |
| 1st of January 1985 | EVENT | The Internet's Domain Name System is created. |
| 1st of January 1985 | EVENT | The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone. |
| 1st of January 1986 | EVENT | The Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are admitted into the European Community. |
| 1st of January 1986 | EVENT | Aruba becomes independent of Curacao, though it remains in free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. |
| 1st of January 1988 | EVENT | The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. |
| 1st of January 1989 | EVENT | The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer comes into force. |
| 1st of January 1990 | EVENT | David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor. |
| 1st of January 1993 | EVENT | A single market within the European Community is introduced. |
| 1st of January 1993 | EVENT | Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. |
| 1st of January 1994 | EVENT | The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas. |
| 1st of January 1994 | EVENT | The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect. |
| 1st of January 1995 | EVENT | The World Trade Organization goes into effect. |
| 1st of January 1995 | EVENT | The Kingdom of Sweden and the republics of Austria and Finland are admitted into the European Union. |
| 1st of January 1995 | EVENT | The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves. |
| 1st of January 1995 | EVENT | The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. |
| 1st of January 1996 | EVENT | Curacao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. |
| 1st of January 1997 | EVENT | The Republic of Zaire officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Zaire. |
| 1st of January 1997 | EVENT | Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed Secretary General of the United Nations. |
| 1st of January 1998 | EVENT | Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence. |
| 1st of January 1998 | EVENT | The European Central Bank is established. |
| 1st of January 1999 | EVENT | The Euro currency is introduced in 11 countries - members of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden). |
| 1st of January 2002 | EVENT | Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states. |
| 1st of January 2002 | EVENT | The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force. |
| 1st of January 2002 | EVENT | Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei. |
| 1st of January 2004 | EVENT | In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. |
| 1st of January 2006 | EVENT | Sydney, Australia swelters through its hottest New Years Day on record. The thermometer peaked at 45 ?C (113 ?F), sparking bushfires and power outages. (Same as 1939) |
| 1st of January 2007 | EVENT | Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board. |
| 1st of January 2007 | EVENT | Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages. |
| 1st of January 2008 | EVENT | Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency and become the fourteenth and fifteenth Eurozone countries. |
| 1st of January 2009 | EVENT | 66 die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 1st of January 2010 | EVENT | A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more. |
| 1st of January 0766 | BIRTHDAY | Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818) |
| 1st of January 0871 | BIRTHDAY | King Zwentibold of Lotharingia (d. 900) |
| 1st of January 1431 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503) |
| 1st of January 1449 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenzo de' Medici (d. 1492) |
| 1st of January 1467 | BIRTHDAY | King Sigismund I the Old of Poland (d. 1548) |
| 1st of January 1484 | BIRTHDAY | Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss religious figure (d. 1531) |
| 1st of January 1511 | BIRTHDAY | Henry, Duke of Cornwall (d. 1511) |
| 1st of January 1516 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551) |
| 1st of January 1557 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Istvan Bocskay of Transylvania (d. 1606) |
| 1st of January 1600 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649) |
| 1st of January 1614 | BIRTHDAY | John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672) |
| 1st of January 1618 | BIRTHDAY | Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (baptism) (d. 1682) |
| 1st of January 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685) |
| 1st of January 1648 | BIRTHDAY | Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724) |
| 1st of January 1655 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728) |
| 1st of January 1684 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748) |
| 1st of January 1704 | BIRTHDAY | Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787) |
| 1st of January 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749) |
| 1st of January 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780) |
| 1st of January 1735 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818) |
| 1st of January 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Wayne, American general and statesman (d. 1796) |
| 1st of January 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman and 1st and 3rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1801) |
| 1st of January 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Betsy Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836) |
| 1st of January 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1849) |
| 1st of January 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Marie Constant Dumeril, French zoologist (d. 1860) |
| 1st of January 1779 | BIRTHDAY | William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847) |
| 1st of January 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician (d. 1869) |
| 1st of January 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (d. 1864) |
| 1st of January 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet (d. 1861) |
| 1st of January 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Sandor Petofi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849) |
| 1st of January 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902) |
| 1st of January 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Ludovic Halevy, French playwright (d. 1908) |
| 1st of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924) |
| 1st of January 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene-Anatole Demarcay, French chemist (d. 1904) |
| 1st of January 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941) |
| 1st of January 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Thibaw Min, King of Burma (d. 1916) |
| 1st of January 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre de Coubertin, French aristocrat and founder of the modern Olympic Games (d. 1937) |
| 1st of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (d. 1957) |
| 1st of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946) |
| 1st of January 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (d. 1941) |
| 1st of January 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937) |
| 1st of January 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (d. 1952) |
| 1st of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Knox, American journalist and 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944) |
| 1st of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927) |
| 1st of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933) |
| 1st of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (d. 1929) |
| 1st of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | E. M. Forster, English novelist (d. 1970) |
| 1st of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | William Fox, Hungarian-born American film producer (d. 1952) |
| 1st of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925) |
| 1st of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945) |
| 1st of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Stanotas, Greek cavalry officer (d. 1965) |
| 1st of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | John Garand, American inventor (d. 1974) |
| 1st of January 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Bickford, American film actor (d. 1967) |
| 1st of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966) |
| 1st of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (d. 1958) |
| 1st of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Roxas, Filipino statesman (d. 1948) |
| 1st of January 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007) |
| 1st of January 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974) |
| 1st of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972) |
| 1st of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Xavier Cugat, Spanish musician (d. 1990) |
| 1st of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986) |
| 1st of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977) |
| 1st of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982) |
| 1st of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (d. 1970) |
| 1st of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Mazur, Polish mathematician (d. 1981) |
| 1st of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974) |
| 1st of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Tapia, American musician |
| 1st of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 1st of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959) |
| 1st of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Basil Dearden, British film director (d. 1971) |
| 1st of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986) |
| 1st of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Wurdemann, American poet (d.1960) |
| 1st of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Totenberg, Polish-born American violinist |
| 1st of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988) |
| 1st of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (d. 1995) |
| 1st of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (d. 1991) |
| 1st of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (d. 1944) |
| 1st of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981) |
| 1st of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004) |
| 1st of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Bay, Canadian actress |
| 1st of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000) |
| 1st of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990) |
| 1st of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Carole Landis, American film actress (d. 1948) |
| 1st of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshio Tabata, Japanese singer |
| 1st of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | J. D. Salinger, American novelist (d. 2010) |
| 1st of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 2009) |
| 1st of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (d. 1986) |
| 1st of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Baldaccini, French sculptor (d. 1998) |
| 1st of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Wadih El Safi, Lebanese singer and songwriter |
| 1st of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Robinson, American comic book artist |
| 1st of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Hollings, American politician, 106th Governor of South Carolina and United States Senator from South Carolina |
| 1st of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999) |
| 1st of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (d. 1992) |
| 1st of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet |
| 1st of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Munger, American philanthropist |
| 1st of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (d. 2005) |
| 1st of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Valentina Cortese, Italian actress |
| 1st of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (d. 1981) |
| 1st of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (d. 2007) |
| 1st of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (d. 2005) |
| 1st of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Bejart, French choreographer (d. 2007) |
| 1st of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Nobel Prize in Economics winner |
| 1st of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Heywood, Scottish actress |
| 1st of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (d. 2001) |
| 1st of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998) |
| 1st of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Tidyman, American writer (d. 1984) |
| 1st of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Weinberg, German-American historian |
| 1st of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Lombardo, American mafioso |
| 1st of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor |
| 1st of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer |
| 1st of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Gaafar al-Nimeiry, Sudanese politician (d. 2009) |
| 1st of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ty Hardin, American film actor |
| 1st of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Wiseman, American documentary filmmaker |
| 1st of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Duprey, French poet and sculptor (d. 1959) |
| 1st of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Patane, Italian opera conductor (d. 1989) |
| 1st of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Parker, American football player (d. 2006) |
| 1st of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Lowy, Canadian educator |
| 1st of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Yemm, Australian actor |
| 1st of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Koo, Chinese composer |
| 1st of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1967) |
| 1st of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | James Hormel, American philanthropist and diplomat |
| 1st of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | B. Kliban, American cartoonist (d. 1990) |
| 1st of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | James Sinegal, American businessman |
| 1st of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Don Nehlen, American football player and coach |
| 1st of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Petros Markaris, Greek writer |
| 1st of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Wisniewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995) |
| 1st of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | John Fuller, English poet |
| 1st of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Robinson, American actor (d. 2002) |
| 1st of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Clay Cole, American television host and producer (d. 2010) |
| 1st of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005) |
| 1st of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Langella, American actor |
| 1st of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Mercier, French actress |
| 1st of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Asrani, Indian actor and comedian |
| 1st of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Goldberg, American musician |
| 1st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Country Joe McDonald, American musician (Country Joe and the Fish) |
| 1st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Gennadi Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2005) |
| 1st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Archer, American politician |
| 1st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Frost, American politician |
| 1st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Alassane Ouattara, former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast |
| 1st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Stone, Australian pop singer |
| 1st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Al Hunt, American reporter and news anchor |
| 1st of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Knowles, American politician and 7th Governor of Alaska |
| 1st of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Clark, American director |
| 1st of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Don Novello, American actor |
| 1st of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Perelman, American businessman |
| 1st of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist |
| 1st of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician |
| 1st of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager |
| 1st of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver |
| 1st of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Duncan, Australian politician |
| 1st of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Max Julien, American actor |
| 1st of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Hurst, American actor |
| 1st of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rivelino, Brazilian football player |
| 1st of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician |
| 1st of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Shelby Steele, American author and filmmaker |
| 1st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Corzine, American politician, 54th Governor of New Jersey and former United States Senator from New Jersey |
| 1st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Yip, Hong Kong singer |
| 1st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | James K. Glassman, American journalist and diplomat |
| 1st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer |
| 1st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Thompson, American professional golfer |
| 1st of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Grachev, Russian general |
| 1st of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ashok Saraf, Marathi/Hindi actor |
| 1st of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ismael Zambada Garcia, Mexican drug lord |
| 1st of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Petagno, American artist |
| 1st of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel E Gawthrop, American composer |
| 1st of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Max Azria, French fashion designer |
| 1st of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Borys Tarasyuk, Ukrainian politician |
| 1st of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby league coach |
| 1st of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Fisher, English musician (Mott the Hoople) |
| 1st of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Deepa Mehta, Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter |
| 1st of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet |
| 1st of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor |
| 1st of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver |
| 1st of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Faracy, American actress |
| 1st of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Rosario Marchese, Italian-Canadian politician |
| 1st of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Alpha Blondy, Ivorian reggae singer |
| 1st of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Carmichael, British guitarist (Acoustic Alchemy) |
| 1st of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gary E. Johnson, American politician and 29th Governor of New Mexico |
| 1st of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Jones, American baseball player |
| 1st of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Menendez, American politician and United States Senator from New Jersey |
| 1st of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Edson, American actor and musician |
| 1st of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Yannis Papathanasiou, Greek politician |
| 1st of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | LaMarr Hoyt, American baseball player |
| 1st of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (d. 2000) |
| 1st of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1st of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Mitchell, American basketball player |
| 1st of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Yakusho, Japanese actor |
| 1st of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila McCarthy, Canadian actress |
| 1st of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ziad Rahbani, Lebanese composer |
| 1st of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress |
| 1st of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer and politician |
| 1st of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Hurd, American businessman |
| 1st of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ren Woods, American actress and singer |
| 1st of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian musician |
| 1st of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Silk, American ice hockey player |
| 1st of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Panagiotis Giannakis, Greek basketball player and coach |
| 1st of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Onfray, French philosopher |
| 1st of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Andrews, American tennis player |
| 1st of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghan cosmonaut |
| 1st of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Azali Assoumani, Comorian president |
| 1st of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Seibert, American ice dancer |
| 1st of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rayo de Jalisco, Jr., Mexican wrestler |
| 1st of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Leilani Kai, American wrestler |
| 1st of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Backo, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 1st of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Babayan, American classical pianist |
| 1st of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Palahnuk, American video game designer |
| 1st of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Fiona Phillips, British television presenter |
| 1st of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Wingett, British actor |
| 1st of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ari Up, German musician (The Slits) (d. 2010) |
| 1st of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marc Gounon, French race car driver |
| 1st of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alberigo Evani, Italian footballer |
| 1st of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lina Kaciusyte, Lithuanian swimmer |
| 1st of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Drazen Ladic, Croatian footballer |
| 1st of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress |
| 1st of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Juliana Donald, American actress |
| 1st of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | John Sullivan, American politician |
| 1st of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Valmon, American athlete |
| 1st of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Burke, Australian politician |
| 1st of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tina Landon, Mexican-American choreographer |
| 1st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Digweed, English DJ |
| 1st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Dog, American rapper |
| 1st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish film director |
| 1st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000) |
| 1st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gorsha Sur, Russian ice dancer |
| 1st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Tunick, American artist |
| 1st of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Miki Higashino, Japanese composer |
| 1st of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Davor Suker, Croatian footballer |
| 1st of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Chong, Hong Kong screenwriter |
| 1st of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Stefano, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 1st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Morris Chestnut, American actor |
| 1st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolle Dickson, Australian actress |
| 1st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Christi Paul, American news anchor |
| 1st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Lawrie, Scottish golfer |
| 1st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Verne Troyer, American actor |
| 1st of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa DiMarco, Canadian actress |
| 1st of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly Page, American manager and actress |
| 1st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Riggs, American racing driver |
| 1st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sammie Henson, American wrestler |
| 1st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Carlos Plata, Guatemalan soccer player |
| 1st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Holik, Czech ice hockey player |
| 1st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Potter, American jazz saxophonist |
| 1st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ezra Weisz, American voice actor |
| 1st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Phoebus, Greek songwriter |
| 1st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress |
| 1st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Yermakhan Ibraimov, Kazakh boxer |
| 1st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine McCormack, British actress |
| 1st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Barron Miles, American Canadian football player |
| 1st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Garrett K. Gomez, American horse jockey |
| 1st of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lilian Thuram, French footballer |
| 1st of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Li Fang, Chinese tennis player |
| 1st of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet |
| 1st of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Lloyd, American actor |
| 1st of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Sahlgren, Swedish musician (Lake of Tears) |
| 1st of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Shelda Bede, Brazilian beach volleyball player |
| 1st of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Paradis, Canadian politician |
| 1st of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Hamilton Ricard, Colombian footballer |
| 1st of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Birthistle, Irish actress |
| 1st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Anstey, Australian basketball player |
| 1st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sonali Bendre, Indian model and actress |
| 1st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Cannon, American footballer |
| 1st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist |
| 1st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Becky Kellar-Duke, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Tatis, Dominican baseball player |
| 1st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bengt Saeternes, Norwegian footballer |
| 1st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Hasan Salihamidzic, Bosnian footballer |
| 1st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Roode, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 1st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Leos Friedl, Czech tennis player |
| 1st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer |
| 1st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Stoliarov, Russian tennis player |
| 1st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Maria de la Paz Hernandez, Argentinian field hockey player |
| 1st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Vidya Balan, Indian model and actress |
| 1st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Bott, German actress |
| 1st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer |
| 1st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tarik O'Regan, British composer |
| 1st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mykhaylo Renzhyn, Latvian skier |
| 1st of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brody Dalle, Australian singer (The Distillers) |
| 1st of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist |
| 1st of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Fadi El Khatib, Lebanese basketball player |
| 1st of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lazaros Agadakos, Greek basketball player |
| 1st of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Elin Nordegren, Swedish model |
| 1st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Armstrong, English actor |
| 1st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian racing driver |
| 1st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Abdulkadir Kocak, Turkish boxer |
| 1st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Eden Riegel, American actress |
| 1st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mladen Petric, Croatian footballer |
| 1st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player |
| 1st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Bastian, English actress and model |
| 1st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Calum Davenport, English footballer |
| 1st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Morrison, English actor |
| 1st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Emi Kobayashi, Japanese model |
| 1st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Park Sung-Hyun, South Korean Olympic archer |
| 1st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer |
| 1st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Pastrello, Italian footballer |
| 1st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Ghaddar, Lebanese footballer |
| 1st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alok Kapali, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 1st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Witt, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 1st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Cheung Kin Fung, Hong Kong footballer |
| 1st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Carter, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer |
| 1st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player |
| 1st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Remya Nambeesan, Indian film actress and dancer |
| 1st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Jeremiah, Indian-Tamil singer and actress |
| 1st of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Davis, American basketball player |
| 1st of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Morgan, Northern Irish actor |
| 1st of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | James Davis, American football player |
| 1st of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sungmin, South Korean singer (Super Junior) |
| 1st of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player |
| 1st of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Brule, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Collins, American actor and comedian |
| 1st of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Devin Setoguchi, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Grzegorz Panfil, Polish tennis player |
| 1st of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Menzel, German rugby player |
| 1st of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Wilshere, English footballer |
| 1st of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | He Kexin, Chinese gymnast |
| 1st of January 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Marlene Lawston, American child actress |
| 1st of January 0379 | DEATH | Saint Basil of Caesarea (Born 330) |
| 1st of January 0404 | DEATH | Saint Telemachus |
| 1st of January 0874 | DEATH | Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (Born 846) |
| 1st of January 0898 | DEATH | Odo, Count of Paris (Born 860) |
| 1st of January 0962 | DEATH | Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (Born c. 940) |
| 1st of January 1204 | DEATH | King Haakon III of Norway (Born c. 1170) |
| 1st of January 1387 | DEATH | King Charles II of Navarre (Born 1332) |
| 1st of January 1515 | DEATH | King Louis XII of France (Born 1462) |
| 1st of January 1554 | DEATH | Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (Born 1500) |
| 1st of January 1559 | DEATH | Christian III of Denmark and Norway (Born 1503) |
| 1st of January 1560 | DEATH | Joachim du Bellay, French poet (Born 1522) |
| 1st of January 1617 | DEATH | Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (Born 1558) |
| 1st of January 1631 | DEATH | Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (Born 1544) |
| 1st of January 1697 | DEATH | Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (Born 1624) |
| 1st of January 1716 | DEATH | William Wycherley, English dramatist (Born 1640) |
| 1st of January 1730 | DEATH | Samuel Sewall, English judge (Born 1652) |
| 1st of January 1742 | DEATH | Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (Born 1686) |
| 1st of January 1748 | DEATH | Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (Born 1667) |
| 1st of January 1759 | DEATH | Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chetardie, French adventurer (Born 1705) |
| 1st of January 1766 | DEATH | James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (Born 1688) |
| 1st of January 1782 | DEATH | Johann Christian Bach, German composer (Born 1735) |
| 1st of January 1789 | DEATH | Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (Born 1716) |
| 1st of January 1793 | DEATH | Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (Born 1712) |
| 1st of January 1796 | DEATH | Alexandre-Theophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (Born 1735) |
| 1st of January 1800 | DEATH | Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (Born 1716) |
| 1st of January 1817 | DEATH | Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (Born 1743) |
| 1st of January 1835 | DEATH | Matyas Godina, writer, teacher and pastor (Born 1768) |
| 1st of January 1852 | DEATH | John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (Born 1777) |
| 1st of January 1853 | DEATH | Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (Born 1778) |
| 1st of January 1862 | DEATH | Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (Born 1801) |
| 1st of January 1869 | DEATH | Martin W. Bates, American politician (Born 1786) |
| 1st of January 1881 | DEATH | Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (Born 1805) |
| 1st of January 1892 | DEATH | Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (Born 1805) |
| 1st of January 1894 | DEATH | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (Born 1857) |
| 1st of January 1896 | DEATH | Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (Born 1826) |
| 1st of January 1906 | DEATH | Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (Born 1835) |
| 1st of January 1918 | DEATH | Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet (Born 1858) |
| 1st of January 1919 | DEATH | Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (Born 1881) |
| 1st of January 1921 | DEATH | Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (Born 1856) |
| 1st of January 1922 | DEATH | Istvan Kuhar, Slovene (Prekmurian) writer and politician (Born 1887) |
| 1st of January 1931 | DEATH | Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (Born 1851) |
| 1st of January 1932 | DEATH | C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (Born 1846) |
| 1st of January 1940 | DEATH | Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (Born 1865) |
| 1st of January 1943 | DEATH | Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (Born 1857) |
| 1st of January 1944 | DEATH | Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (Born 1869) |
| 1st of January 1944 | DEATH | Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (Born 1862) |
| 1st of January 1953 | DEATH | Hank Williams, American singer (Born 1923) |
| 1st of January 1954 | DEATH | Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (Born 1890) |
| 1st of January 1955 | DEATH | Arthur C. Parker, American archaeologist, folklorist, and historian (Born 1881) |
| 1st of January 1957 | DEATH | Sean South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid |
| 1st of January 1958 | DEATH | Edward Weston, American photographer (Born 1886) |
| 1st of January 1960 | DEATH | Margaret Sullavan, American actress, screenwriter (Born 1909) |
| 1st of January 1964 | DEATH | Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (Born 1890) |
| 1st of January 1966 | DEATH | Vincent Auriol, French politician (Born 1884) |
| 1st of January 1969 | DEATH | Barton MacLane, American actor (Born 1902) |
| 1st of January 1969 | DEATH | Bruno Soderstrom, Swedish athlete (Born 1888) |
| 1st of January 1971 | DEATH | Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (Born 1894) |
| 1st of January 1972 | DEATH | Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (Born 1888) |
| 1st of January 1973 | DEATH | Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent (Born 1951) |
| 1st of January 1980 | DEATH | Adolph Deutsch, American composer and arranger (Born 1897) |
| 1st of January 1980 | DEATH | Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist politician (Born 1891) |
| 1st of January 1981 | DEATH | Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (Born 1920) |
| 1st of January 1982 | DEATH | Victor Buono, American actor (Born 1938) |
| 1st of January 1984 | DEATH | Alexis Korner, British blues musician (Born 1928) |
| 1st of January 1985 | DEATH | Sigerson Clifford, Irish poet and writer (Born 1913) |
| 1st of January 1985 | DEATH | Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (Born 1905) |
| 1st of January 1986 | DEATH | Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (Born 1902) |
| 1st of January 1986 | DEATH | Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (Born 1924) |
| 1st of January 1989 | DEATH | Aleka Stratigou, Greek actress (Born 1926) |
| 1st of January 1991 | DEATH | Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters) (Born 1907) |
| 1st of January 1992 | DEATH | Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (Born 1906) |
| 1st of January 1994 | DEATH | Cesar Romero, American actor (Born 1907) |
| 1st of January 1994 | DEATH | Lord Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (Born 1900) |
| 1st of January 1994 | DEATH | Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (Born 1914) |
| 1st of January 1995 | DEATH | Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (Born 1941) |
| 1st of January 1995 | DEATH | Eugene Wigner, Hungarian American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1902) |
| 1st of January 1996 | DEATH | Arleigh Burke, American admiral (Born 1901) |
| 1st of January 1996 | DEATH | Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (Born 1906) |
| 1st of January 1997 | DEATH | Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (Born 1937) |
| 1st of January 1997 | DEATH | Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (Born 1945) |
| 1st of January 1997 | DEATH | Townes Van Zandt, American musician (Born 1944) |
| 1st of January 1998 | DEATH | Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (Born 1905) |
| 1st of January 2000 | DEATH | Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (Born 1931) |
| 1st of January 2001 | DEATH | Ray Walston, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 1st of January 2002 | DEATH | Julia Phillips, American film producer (Born 1944) |
| 1st of January 2003 | DEATH | Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient and AFL Commissioner (Born 1915) |
| 1st of January 2003 | DEATH | Cyril Shaps, English actor (Born 1923) |
| 1st of January 2003 | DEATH | F. William Free, American advertising executive (Born 1928) |
| 1st of January 2005 | DEATH | Shirley Chisholm, American politician (Born 1924) |
| 1st of January 2005 | DEATH | Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (Born 1931) |
| 1st of January 2005 | DEATH | Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (Born 1938) |
| 1st of January 2005 | DEATH | Bob Matsui, American politician (Born 1941) |
| 1st of January 2006 | DEATH | Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (Born 1927) |
| 1st of January 2006 | DEATH | Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (Born 1956) |
| 1st of January 2006 | DEATH | Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (Born 1913) |
| 1st of January 2006 | DEATH | Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (Born 1918) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (Born 1908) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (Born 1922) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | Julius Hegyi, American conductor (Born 1923) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | Ernie Koy, American baseball player (Born 1909) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (Born 1951) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (Born 1943) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (Born 1952) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | Tillie Olsen, American writer (Born 1912) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | Del Reeves, American country singer (Born 1932) |
| 1st of January 2007 | DEATH | Darrent Williams, American football player (Born 1982) |
| 1st of January 2008 | DEATH | Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonanno (Born 1932) |
| 1st of January 2008 | DEATH | Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (Born 1949) |
| 1st of January 2008 | DEATH | Pratap Chandra Chunder, Union minister of India (Born 1919) |
| 1st of January 2008 | DEATH | Harold Corsini, American photographer (Born 1919) |
| 1st of January 2009 | DEATH | Nizar Rayan, Hamas leader (Born 1962) |
| 1st of January 2009 | DEATH | Aarne Arvonen, Finnish supercentenerian (Born1897) |
| 1st of January 2009 | DEATH | Claiborne Pell, U.S. senator (Born 1918) |
| 1st of January 2010 | DEATH | Lhasa de Sela, Mexican-American singer (Born 1972) |
| 1st of January 2011 | DEATH | Marin Constantin, Romanian composer and conductor (Born 1925) |
| 1st of January 2011 | DEATH | Reynaldo Dagsa, Filipino politician |
| 1st of January 2011 | DEATH | Flemming J?rgensen, Danish singer (Born 1947) |