- Change theme
Search by Keyword
Search by Date
This Day On History
| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15th of January 0069 | EVENT | Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide. |
| 15th of January 1493 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World. |
| 15th of January 1559 | EVENT | Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London. |
| 15th of January 1582 | EVENT | Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish : Lithuanian Commonwealth. |
| 15th of January 1759 | EVENT | The British Museum opens. |
| 15th of January 1777 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence. |
| 15th of January 1782 | EVENT | Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. |
| 15th of January 1815 | EVENT | War of 1812: American frigate USS President (1800), commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates. |
| 15th of January 1822 | EVENT | Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly. |
| 15th of January 1844 | EVENT | University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana. |
| 15th of January 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy. |
| 15th of January 1870 | EVENT | A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly). |
| 15th of January 1889 | EVENT | The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta. |
| 15th of January 1892 | EVENT | James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball. |
| 15th of January 1908 | EVENT | The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women. |
| 15th of January 1910 | EVENT | Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, US, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m). |
| 15th of January 1919 | EVENT | Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. |
| 15th of January 1919 | EVENT | Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others. |
| 15th of January 1936 | EVENT | The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio. |
| 15th of January 1943 | EVENT | World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins. |
| 15th of January 1943 | EVENT | The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 15th of January 1947 | EVENT | The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. |
| 15th of January 1949 | EVENT | Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government. |
| 15th of January 1951 | EVENT | Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany. |
| 15th of January 1966 | EVENT | The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'etat. |
| 15th of January 1967 | EVENT | The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 |
| 15th of January 1969 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5. |
| 15th of January 1970 | EVENT | Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders. |
| 15th of January 1970 | EVENT | Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya. |
| 15th of January 1973 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. |
| 15th of January 1974 | EVENT | Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house. |
| 15th of January 1976 | EVENT | Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison. |
| 15th of January 1977 | EVENT | The Kalvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history. |
| 15th of January 1986 | EVENT | The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida. |
| 15th of January 1990 | EVENT | AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure. |
| 15th of January 1991 | EVENT | Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system. |
| 15th of January 1991 | EVENT | The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm. |
| 15th of January 1992 | EVENT | The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. |
| 15th of January 1993 | EVENT | Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as "The Beast", is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive. |
| 15th of January 1999 | EVENT | The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces. |
| 15th of January 2001 | EVENT | Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online. |
| 15th of January 2005 | EVENT | ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon. |
| 15th of January 2005 | EVENT | An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system. |
| 15th of January 2007 | EVENT | Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq. |
| 15th of January 2009 | EVENT | US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive. |
| 15th of January 1342 | BIRTHDAY | Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404) |
| 15th of January 1432 | BIRTHDAY | King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481) |
| 15th of January 1481 | BIRTHDAY | Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (d. 1511) |
| 15th of January 1538 | BIRTHDAY | Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599) |
| 15th of January 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Moliere, French playwright (d. 1673) |
| 15th of January 1671 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704) |
| 15th of January 1674 | BIRTHDAY | Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, French writer (d. 1762) |
| 15th of January 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Livingston, American founding father (d. 1778) |
| 15th of January 1747 | BIRTHDAY | John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822) |
| 15th of January 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist (d. 1834) |
| 15th of January 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (d. 1872) |
| 15th of January 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829) |
| 15th of January 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Marjory Fleming, Scottish writer and poet (d. 1811) |
| 15th of January 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865) |
| 15th of January 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Christen Asbj?rnsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1885) |
| 15th of January 1815 | BIRTHDAY | William Bickerton, Mormon prophet (d. 1905) |
| 15th of January 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852) |
| 15th of January 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847) |
| 15th of January 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (d. 1911) |
| 15th of January 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor General of Canada (d. 1908) |
| 15th of January 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Mary MacKillop, Australian Saint (d. 1909) |
| 15th of January 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Breuer, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1925) |
| 15th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889) |
| 15th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin (d. 1943) |
| 15th of January 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891) |
| 15th of January 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889) |
| 15th of January 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald Peake, Premier of South Australia (d. 1920) |
| 15th of January 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946) |
| 15th of January 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Soderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931) |
| 15th of January 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Wyspianski, Polish dramatist (d. 1907) |
| 15th of January 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Ruby Laffoon, 43rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 1941) |
| 15th of January 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954) |
| 15th of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944) |
| 15th of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929) |
| 15th of January 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Terman, American psychologist (d. 1956) |
| 15th of January 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Johanna Muller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (d. 1941) |
| 15th of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961) |
| 15th of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Margaret of Sweden (d. 1920) |
| 15th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenz Bohler, Austrian physician (d. 1973) |
| 15th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915) |
| 15th of January 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (d. 1968) |
| 15th of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Fleming, American soccer player (d. 1965) |
| 15th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938) |
| 15th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920) |
| 15th of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950) |
| 15th of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Ivor Novello, Welsh composer and actor (d. 1951) |
| 15th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973) |
| 15th of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931) |
| 15th of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Goodman Ace, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 15th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (d. 1991) |
| 15th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969) |
| 15th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Naz?m Hikmet, Turkish poet (d. 1963) |
| 15th of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Paul A. Dever, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958) |
| 15th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Torin Thatcher, English actor (d. 1981) |
| 15th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985) |
| 15th of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975) |
| 15th of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003) |
| 15th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939) |
| 15th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973) |
| 15th of January 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Debre, French politician (d. 1996) |
| 15th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (d. 2005) |
| 15th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff (d. 1963) |
| 15th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 15th of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (d. 2003) |
| 15th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999) |
| 15th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Gagnon, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2007) |
| 15th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970) |
| 15th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer, first to ascend an 8000m peak, Annapurna in 1950 |
| 15th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | John Joseph O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000) |
| 15th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Gromek, American baseball player (d. 2002) |
| 15th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Thornton, English actor |
| 15th of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician (d. 2007) |
| 15th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician (d. 1999) |
| 15th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006) |
| 15th of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician |
| 15th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Slenczynska, U.S. pianist |
| 15th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Schell, Austrian actress (d. 2005) |
| 15th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Phyllis Coates, American actress |
| 15th of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968) |
| 15th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Graham, American professional wrestler (d. 1985) |
| 15th of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Bontecou, American artist |
| 15th of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest J. Gaines, American author |
| 15th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Frager, American pianist |
| 15th of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret O'Brien, American actress |
| 15th of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Chuni Goswami, Indian footballer and cricketer |
| 15th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Bullimore, English sailor and adventurer |
| 15th of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Hazare, Indian social activist. |
| 15th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Captain Beefheart, American musician and visual artist (d. 2010) |
| 15th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart E. Eizenstat, adviser to American Presidents Carter and Clinton |
| 15th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ashraf Aman, first Pakistani to reach the summit of K2 |
| 15th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Marshall, American baseball player |
| 15th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | William R. Higgins, USMC colonel (d. 1990) |
| 15th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Michael of Kent, British royal |
| 15th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993) |
| 15th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Martin, Canadian actress |
| 15th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977) |
| 15th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Panos Mihalopoulos, Greek actor |
| 15th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2001) |
| 15th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Marius Tresor, French footballer |
| 15th of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Andrzej Fischer, Polish footballer |
| 15th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kent Hovind, American evangelist |
| 15th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Randy White, American football player |
| 15th of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ta-Tanisha, American actress |
| 15th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer |
| 15th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer |
| 15th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Benson, English author |
| 15th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Miki Fujimura, Japanese singer |
| 15th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Trestman, CFL head coach |
| 15th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mayawati, Indian politician |
| 15th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Dixon, English entrepreneur |
| 15th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Lyons, American football player |
| 15th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Van Peebles, American actor |
| 15th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Tadic, President of Serbia |
| 15th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Trewavas, English musician |
| 15th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian climber (d. 2008) |
| 15th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sister Carol, Jamaican reggae singer |
| 15th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Asbury, American director and actor |
| 15th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Jay Kernis, American composer |
| 15th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Yves P. Pelletier, Canadian comedian and film director |
| 15th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Lant, English musician |
| 15th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, security expert, and writer |
| 15th of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Osmo Tapio Raihala, Finnish composer |
| 15th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist |
| 15th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Hopkins, American boxer |
| 15th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor |
| 15th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Jones, American musician (Tool) |
| 15th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Lisa, American R&B singer |
| 15th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Lowe, American actor |
| 15th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Inaki Urdangarin, Spanish royalty |
| 15th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Meret Becker, German actress and singer |
| 15th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Delino DeShields, American baseball player |
| 15th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Huck Seed, American professional poker player |
| 15th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler |
| 15th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Regina King, American actress |
| 15th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kobe Tai, American porn star |
| 15th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Christos Kostis, Greek footballer |
| 15th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Winkleman, English television presenter |
| 15th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Reyes, Jr. American actor and martial artist |
| 15th of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer |
| 15th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ray King, American baseball player |
| 15th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Shaw, British radio DJ and television presenter |
| 15th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter |
| 15th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Pierce, French tennis player |
| 15th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | 9th Wonder, American producer |
| 15th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Chavous, American football player |
| 15th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Gottlieb, American basketball analyst |
| 15th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Murray, Scotland rugby player |
| 15th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Cahill, American actor |
| 15th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Sidebottom, English Cricketer |
| 15th of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist |
| 15th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer-actor and taichi champ |
| 15th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Young Dro, American rapper |
| 15th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Brees, American football player |
| 15th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michalis Morfis, Cypriot footballer |
| 15th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer |
| 15th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Holliday, American baseball player |
| 15th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Howie Day, American singer |
| 15th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby union footballer |
| 15th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer |
| 15th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Pitbull, American rapper |
| 15th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Armando Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 15th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Lebda, American hockey player |
| 15th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Agosto, American skater |
| 15th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Nitin Mukesh, Indian actor |
| 15th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Philip and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia |
| 15th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Ze, Cameroonian footballer |
| 15th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Viana, Portuguese footballer |
| 15th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jermaine Pennant, English footballer |
| 15th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Megan Jendrick, American swimmer |
| 15th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Rasuk, American actor |
| 15th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Adler, German footballer |
| 15th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico Patrizio, Italian rugby player |
| 15th of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Emil Petersen, Danish footballer |
| 15th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jessy Schram, American actress |
| 15th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Isaia Toeava, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 15th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Davis, American football player |
| 15th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Kelly, American WWE Diva |
| 15th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player |
| 15th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Aria C Jalali, American musician |
| 15th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | David Knight, English footballer |
| 15th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Seater, Canadian actor |
| 15th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Moore (a.k.a Skrillex, American musician (From First to Last) |
| 15th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Cherepanov, Russian hockey player (d. 2008) |
| 15th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Keiffer Hubbell, American ice dancer |
| 15th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer |
| 15th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Trznadel, Polish footballer |
| 15th of January 0069 | DEATH | Galba, Roman Emperor (Born 3 BC) |
| 15th of January 0570 | DEATH | Saint Ita, Irish nun (Born 475) |
| 15th of January 0936 | DEATH | King Rudolph of France |
| 15th of January 1345 | DEATH | Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler |
| 15th of January 1595 | DEATH | Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1546) |
| 15th of January 1623 | DEATH | Fra Paolo Sarpi, Italian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer (Born 1552) |
| 15th of January 1672 | DEATH | John Cosin, English clergyman (Born 1594) |
| 15th of January 1683 | DEATH | Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (Born 1609) |
| 15th of January 1775 | DEATH | Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian composer |
| 15th of January 1781 | DEATH | Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain, queen regent of Portugal (Born 1718) |
| 15th of January 1790 | DEATH | John Landen, English mathematician (Born 1719) |
| 15th of January 1804 | DEATH | Dru Drury, English entomologist (Born 1725) |
| 15th of January 1815 | DEATH | Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (Born 1761) |
| 15th of January 1864 | DEATH | Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (Born 1792) |
| 15th of January 1876 | DEATH | Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (Born 1810) |
| 15th of January 1885 | DEATH | Leopold Damrosch, German-American orchestral conductor (Born 1832) |
| 15th of January 1893 | DEATH | Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (Born 1809) |
| 15th of January 1896 | DEATH | Mathew Brady, U.S. photographer (Born 1822) |
| 15th of January 1909 | DEATH | Arnold Janssen, German missionary (Born 1837) |
| 15th of January 1916 | DEATH | Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (Born 1850) |
| 15th of January 1919 | DEATH | Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (Born 1870) |
| 15th of January 1919 | DEATH | Karl Liebknecht, German politician (Born 1871) |
| 15th of January 1926 | DEATH | August Sedlacek, Czech historian (Born 1843) |
| 15th of January 1926 | DEATH | Enrico Toselli, Italian composer (Born 1883) |
| 15th of January 1936 | DEATH | Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Governor-General of Australia (Born 1866) |
| 15th of January 1944 | DEATH | Robert J. Kirby, Warden of New York's Sing Sing Prison (Born 1890) |
| 15th of January 1945 | DEATH | Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (Born 1865) |
| 15th of January 1947 | DEATH | Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (Born 1924) |
| 15th of January 1950 | DEATH | Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (Born 1886) |
| 15th of January 1952 | DEATH | Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (Born 1887) |
| 15th of January 1955 | DEATH | Yves Tanguy, French painter (Born 1900) |
| 15th of January 1964 | DEATH | Jack Teagarden, American musician (Born 1905) |
| 15th of January 1967 | DEATH | David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (Born 1882) |
| 15th of January 1968 | DEATH | Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1938) |
| 15th of January 1970 | DEATH | William T. Piper, American aircraft designer (Born 1881) |
| 15th of January 1972 | DEATH | Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (Born 1881) |
| 15th of January 1973 | DEATH | Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (Born 1901) |
| 15th of January 1973 | DEATH | Coleman Francis, American film director (Born 1919) |
| 15th of January 1983 | DEATH | Shepperd Strudwick, American actor (Born 1907) |
| 15th of January 1983 | DEATH | Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (Born 1902) |
| 15th of January 1987 | DEATH | Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (Born 1904) |
| 15th of January 1988 | DEATH | Sean MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1904) |
| 15th of January 1990 | DEATH | Dame Peggy van Praagh, British ballet dancer, choreographer, director (Born 1910) |
| 15th of January 1992 | DEATH | Dee Murray, English bassist (Born 1946) |
| 15th of January 1993 | DEATH | Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (Born 1913) |
| 15th of January 1994 | DEATH | Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati-Indian Author, Poet, Astrologist (Born 1916) |
| 15th of January 1994 | DEATH | Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (Born 1921) |
| 15th of January 1994 | DEATH | Harry Nilsson, American musician (Born 1941) |
| 15th of January 1995 | DEATH | Vera Maxwell, American fashion designer (Born 1901) |
| 15th of January 1996 | DEATH | Minnesota Fats, American billiards player (Born 1913) |
| 15th of January 1996 | DEATH | Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (Born 1938) |
| 15th of January 1996 | DEATH | Les Baxter, American musician and composer (Born 1922) |
| 15th of January 1998 | DEATH | Junior Wells, American musician (Born 1934) |
| 15th of January 1999 | DEATH | Betty Box, British film producer (Born 1915) |
| 15th of January 2000 | DEATH | Georges-Henri Levesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (Born 1903) |
| 15th of January 2000 | DEATH | Fran Ryan, American actress (Born 1916) |
| 15th of January 2000 | DEATH | Zeljko Raznatovic, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (Born 1952) |
| 15th of January 2001 | DEATH | Ted Mann, American screenwriter (Born 1916) |
| 15th of January 2001 | DEATH | Leo Marks, English cryptographer, screenwriter and playwright (Born 1920) |
| 15th of January 2002 | DEATH | Steve Gromek, American baseball player (Born 1920) |
| 15th of January 2003 | DEATH | Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (Born 1915) |
| 15th of January 2005 | DEATH | Elizabeth Janeway, American author (Born 1913) |
| 15th of January 2005 | DEATH | Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (Born 1923) |
| 15th of January 2005 | DEATH | Walter Ernsting, German author (Born 1920) |
| 15th of January 2005 | DEATH | Ruth Warrick, American actress (Born 1915) |
| 15th of January 2005 | DEATH | Dan Lee, Canadian animator (Born 1969) |
| 15th of January 2006 | DEATH | Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (Born 1926) |
| 15th of January 2007 | DEATH | Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (Born 1908) |
| 15th of January 2007 | DEATH | James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (Born 1915) |
| 15th of January 2007 | DEATH | Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (Born 1945) (executed) |
| 15th of January 2007 | DEATH | Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (Born 1951) (executed) |
| 15th of January 2007 | DEATH | David Vanole, American soccer player (Born 1963) |
| 15th of January 2007 | DEATH | Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (Born 1905) |
| 15th of January 2008 | DEATH | Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (Born 1964) |
| 15th of January 2008 | DEATH | Brad Renfro, American actor (Born 1982) |
| 15th of January 2011 | DEATH | Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (Born 1925) |