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January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 357 days remain until the end of the year (358 in leap years).
Events
Pre-1600
- 307 – Sima Chi becomes emperor of the Jin dynasty in succession to his father, Sima Zhong, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.[1]
- 871 – Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a West Saxon army to repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.[2]
- 1297 – François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.[3]
- 1454 – The papal bull Romanus Pontifex awards the Kingdom of Portugal exclusive trade and colonization rights to all of Africa south of Cape Bojador.[4]
- 1499 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII.[5]
- 1547 – The first Lithuanian-language book, the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, is published in Königsberg.[6]
1601–1900
- 1735 – The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.[7]
- 1746 – Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.[8]
- 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.[9]
- 1806 – The Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes the British Cape Colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.[10]
- 1811 – Charles Deslondes leads an unsuccessful slave revolt in the North American settlements of St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.[11]
- 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.[12]
- 1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.[13]
- 1835 – US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.[14]
- 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.[15]
- 1867 – The United States Congress passes the bill to allow African American men the right to vote in Washington, D.C.[16]
- 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.[17]
- 1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.[18]
- 1900 – President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.[19]
1901–present
- 1912 – The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).[20]
- 1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" as conditions for ending World War I.[21]
- 1920 – The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.[22]
- 1926 – Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuỵ is crowned emperor of Vietnam, the country's last monarch.[23]
- 1926 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.[24]
- 1936 – Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.[25]
- 1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.[26]
- 1945 – World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack invading Japanese Imperial forces.[27]
- 1946 – Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the Finnish Allied Commission, submitted to the Finnish War Criminal Court an interrogation report by General Erich Buschenhagen, a German prisoner of war, on the contacts between Finnish and German military personnel before the Continuation War and a copy of Hitler's Barbarossa plan.[28]
- 1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making first contact.[29]
- 1959 – Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.[30]
- 1961 – In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.[31]
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.[32]
- 1972 – Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.[33]
- 1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.[34]
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.[35]
- 1975 – Ella T. Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.[36]
- 1977 – Three bombs explode in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.[37]
- 1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".[38]
- 1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.[36]
- 1989 – Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.[39]
- 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.[40]
- 1996 – An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 people on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.[41]
- 2002 – President of the United States George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.[42]
- 2003 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.[43]
- 2003 – Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.[44]
- 2004 – The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.[45]
- 2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.[46]
- 2009 – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.[47]
- 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.[48]
- 2011 – Sitting US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords is shot in the head along with 18 others in a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords survived the assassination attempt, but six others died, including John Roll, a federal judge.[49]
- 2016 – Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.[50]
- 2016 – West Air Sweden Flight 294 crashes near the Swedish reservoir of Akkajaure; both pilots, the only people on board, are killed.[51]
- 2020 – Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashes immediately after takeoff at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport; all 176 on board are killed. The plane was shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile.[52]
- 2021 – Twenty-three people are killed in what is described as a police ″massacre″ in La Vega, Caracas, Venezuela.[53]
- 2023 – Supporters of former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian Congress.[54]
Births
Pre-1600
- 1037 – Su Dongpo, Chinese calligrapher and poet (d. 1101)[55]
- 1345 – Kadi Burhan al-Din, poet, kadi, and ruler of Sivas (d. 1398)[56]
- 1529 – John Frederick II, duke of Saxony (d. 1595)[57]
- 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1643)[58]
- 1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1616)[59]
- 1587 – Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1629)[60]
- 1589 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1638)[61]
1601–1900
- 1601 – Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (d. 1658)[62]
- 1626 – Jean Talon, first Intendant of New France (d. 1694)[63]
- 1628 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)[64]
- 1632 – Samuel von Pufendorf, German economist and jurist (d. 1694)[65]
- 1635 – Luis Manuel Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish cardinal (d. 1709)[66]
- 1638 – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1665)[67]
- 1735 – John Carroll, American archbishop, founder of Georgetown University (d. 1815)[68]
- 1763 – Edmond-Charles Genêt, French-American translator and diplomat (d. 1834)[69]
- 1786 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and financier (d. 1844)[70]
- 1788 – Rudolf of Austria, Austrian archduke and archbishop (d. 1831)[71]
- 1792 – Lowell Mason, American composer and educator (d. 1872)[72]
- 1805 – John Bigler, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 3rd Governor of California (d. 1871)[73]
- 1805 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader, 3rd President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (d. 1878)[74]
- 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1871)[75]
- 1817 – Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (d. 1893)[76]
- 1821 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Turkey (d. 1904)[77]
- 1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1913)[78]
- 1824 – Wilkie Collins, English novelist, playwright, and short story writer (d. 1889)[79]
- 1824 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (d. 1861)[80]
- 1830 – Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)[81]
- 1836 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter and academic (d. 1912)[82]
- 1843 – Frederick Abberline, English police officer (d. 1929)[83]
- 1852 – James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931)[84]
- 1859 – Fanny Bullock Workman, American mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1925)[85]
- 1860 – Emma Booth-Tucker, English author (d. 1903)[86]
- 1862 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (d. 1934)[87]
- 1864 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)[88]
- 1865 – Winnaretta Singer, American philanthropist (d. 1943)[89]
- 1866 – William G. Conley, American educator and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1940)[90]
- 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American economist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)[91]
- 1870 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1930)[92]
- 1871 – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Irish captain and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1940)[93]
- 1873 – Iuliu Maniu, Romanian lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1953)[94]
- 1881 – Henrik Shipstead, American dentist and politician (d. 1960)[95]
- 1881 – Linnie Marsh Wolfe, American librarian and author (d. 1945)[96]
- 1883 – Pavel Filonov, Russian painter and poet (d. 1941)[97]
- 1883 – Patrick J. Hurley, American general, politician, and diplomat, 51st United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)
- 1885 – John Curtin, Australian journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1945)[98]
- 1885 – Mór Kóczán, Hungarian javelin thrower and pastor (d. 1972)[99]
- 1885 – A. J. Muste, Dutch-American pastor and activist (d. 1967)[100]
- 1888 – Richard Courant, German-American mathematician and academic (d. 1972)[101]
- 1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)[102]
- 1891 – Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (d. 1986)[103]
- 1891 – Bronislava Nijinska, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1972)[104]
- 1896 – Jaromír Weinberger, Czech-American composer and academic (d. 1967)[105]
- 1897 – Dennis Wheatley, English soldier and author (d. 1977)[106]
- 1899 – S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 1959)
- 1900 – Dorothy Adams, American character actress (d. 1988) [107]
- 1900 – Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter (d. 1969)[108]
1901–present
- 1902 – Carl Rogers, American psychologist and academic (d. 1987)[109]
- 1904 – Karl Brandt, German physician and SS officer (d. 1948)[110]
- 1905 – Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (d. 1997)[111]
- 1908 – William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975)[112]
- 1908 – Fearless Nadia, Australian-Indian actress and stuntwoman (d. 1996)[113]
- 1909 – Ashapoorna Devi, Indian author and poet (d. 1995)[114]
- 1909 – Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (d. 1995)[115]
- 1909 – Evelyn Wood, American author and educator (d. 1995)[116]
- 1910 – Galina Ulanova, Russian actress and ballerina (d. 1998)[117]
- 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and author (d. 1970)[118]
- 1912 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor and director (d. 1992)[119]
- 1912 – Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (d. 2014)[120]
- 1915 – Walker Cooper, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)[121]
- 1917 – Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1994)
- 1920 – Douglas Wilmer, English actor (d. 2016)[122]
- 1922 – Dale D. Myers, American engineer (d. 2015)[123]
- 1923 – Larry Storch, American actor and comedian[124](d. 2022)[125]
- 1923 – Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer and actor (d. 2011)[126]
- 1923 – Johnny Wardle, English cricketer (d. 1985)[127]
- 1923 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American computer scientist and author (d. 2008)[128]
- 1924 – Benjamin Lees, Chinese-American soldier and composer (d. 2010)[129]
- 1924 – Ron Moody, English actor and singer (d. 2015)[130]
- 1925 – Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (d. 1972)[131]
- 1926 – Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (d. 2012)[132]
- 1926 – Kerwin Mathews, American actor (d. 2007)[133]
- 1926 – Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)[134]
- 1926 – Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer[135] (d. 2022)
- 1926 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and actor (d. 2009)[136]
- 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, English poet and academic (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Slade Gorton, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 14th Attorney General of Washington[137] (d. 2020)[138]
- 1929 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor (d. 2015)[139]
- 1931 – Bill Graham, German-American businessman (d. 1991)
- 1931 – Clarence Benjamin Jones, American lawyer and scholar[140]
- 1933 – Charles Osgood, American soldier and journalist (d. 2024)[141]
- 1933 – Jean-Marie Straub, French director and screenwriter (d. 2022)[142]
- 1934 – Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (d. 1987)[143]
- 1934 – Roy Kinnear, British actor (d. 1988)[144]
- 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1977)[145]
- 1936 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-English zoologist, ecologist, and academic (d. 2020)[146]
- 1937 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer[147]
- 1938 – Bob Eubanks, American game show host and producer[148]
- 1939 – Carolina Herrera, Venezuelan-American fashion designer[149]
- 1940 – Cristy Lane, American country and gospel singer[150]
- 1941 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1989)[151]
- 1941 – Boris Vallejo, Peruvian-American painter[152]
- 1942 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (d. 2018)[153]
- 1942 – Junichirō Koizumi, Japanese politician, 56th Prime Minister of Japan[154]
- 1942 – Yvette Mimieux, American actress (d. 2022)[155]
- 1944 – Terry Brooks, American lawyer and author[156]
- 1945 – Phil Beal, English footballer[157]
- 1945 – Nancy Bond, American author and academic[158]
- 1945 – Kathleen Noone, American actress[159]
- 1946 – Robby Krieger, American guitarist and songwriter[160]
- 1946 – Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Mexican drug lord[161]
- 1947 – David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2016)[162]
- 1947 – Antti Kalliomäki, Finnish pole vaulter and politician[163]
- 1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish director and screenwriter[164]
- 1949 – Lawrence Rowe, Jamaican cricketer[165]
- 1951 – Kenny Anthony, Saint Lucian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia[166]
- 1952 – Vladimir Feltsman, Russian-American pianist and educator[167]
- 1952 – Peter McCullagh, Irish mathematician and academic[168]
- 1953 – Marián Šťastný, Slovak ice hockey player[169]
- 1953 – Bruce Sutter, American baseball pitcher (d. 2022)[170]
- 1955 – Harriet Sansom Harris, American actress[159]
- 1955 – Mike Reno, Canadian singer and drummer[171]
- 1957 – Dwight Clark, American football player (d. 2018)[172]
- 1957 – Nacho Duato, Spanish dancer and choreographer[173]
- 1957 – Ron Cephas Jones, American actor (d. 2023)[159]
- 1957 – Calvin Natt, American basketball player[174]
- 1958 – Betsy DeVos, American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education[175]
- 1958 – Rey Misterio, Mexican wrestler, trainer, and actor[176]
- 1959 – Paul Hester, Australian drummer (d. 2005)[177]
- 1960 – Dave Weckl, American drummer[178]
- 1961 – Calvin Smith, American sprinter[179]
- 1964 – Ron Sexsmith, Canadian singer-songwriter[180]
- 1965 – Michelle Forbes, American actress[159]
- 1966 – Maria Pitillo, American actress[159]
- 1966 – Igor Vyazmikin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2009)[181]
- 1966 – Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (d. 1990)[182]
- 1967 – Willie Anderson, American basketball player[183]
- 1967 – R. Kelly, American singer-songwriter, producer, and sex offender[184]
- 1967 – Tom Watson, English politician[185]
- 1971 – Jason Giambi, American baseball player[186]
- 1971 – Pascal Zuberbühler, Swiss footballer and coach[187]
- 1972 – Paul Clement, English footballer, coach, and manager[188]
- 1973 – Mike Cameron, American baseball player[189]
- 1976 – Jenny Lewis, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress[159]
- 1977 – Amber Benson, American actress, writer, director, and producer[190]
- 1978 – Marco Fu, Hong Kongese snooker player[191]
- 1979 – Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer and manager[192]
- 1979 – Windell Middlebrooks, American actor (d. 2015)[193]
- 1979 – Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer[194]
- 1979 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer[195]
- 1979 – Sarah Polley, Canadian actress and director[196]
- 1980 – Sam Riley, English actor and singer[193]
- 1981 – Genevieve Cortese, American actress[193]
- 1981 – Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player[197]
- 1982 – Gaby Hoffmann, American actress[198]
- 1982 (or 1983, 1984) – Kim Jong Un, North Korean soldier and politician, 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea[199]
- 1983 – Chris Masters, American wrestler[200]
- 1984 – Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player and broadcaster[201]
- 1987 – Chris Douglas-Roberts, American basketball player[202]
- 1987 – Cynthia Erivo, English actress and singer-songwriter[159]
- 1987 – Freddie Stroma, English actor[193]
- 1988 – Adrián López, Spanish footballer[203]
- 1988 – Michael Mancienne, English footballer[204]
- 1988 – Alex Tyus, American-Israeli basketball player[205]
- 1989 – Aaron Cruden, New Zealand rugby player[206]
- 1990 – Blair Walsh, American football player[207]
- 1991 – Josh Hazlewood, Australian cricketer[208]
- 1991 – Stefan Johansen, Norwegian footballer[209]
- 1991 – Stefan Savić, Montenegrin footballer[210]
- 1991 – Greg Smith, American basketball player[211]
- 1992 – Stefanie Dolson, American basketball player[212]
- 1992 – Koke, Spanish footballer[213]
- 1993 – William Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player[214]
- 1993 – Sophie Pascoe, New Zealand swimmer[215]
- 1994 – Glenn Robinson III, American basketball player[216]
- 1998 – Tony Bradley, American basketball player[217]
- 1999 – Ignas Brazdeikis, Lithuanian-Canadian basketball player[218]
- 1999 – Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter[219]
- 2000 – Noah Cyrus, American singer, songwriter, and actress[220]
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 307 – Hui of Jin, Chinese emperor (b. 259)[221]
- 482 – Severinus of Noricum, Italian apostle and saint[222]
- 871 – Bagsecg, Viking warrior and leader[223]
- 926 – Athelm, archbishop of Canterbury[224]
- 1079 – Adèle of France, countess of Flanders (b. 1009)[225]
- 1107 – Edgar, King of Scotland (b. 1074)[226]
- 1198 – Celestine III, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1106)[227]
- 1337 – Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (b. 1266)[228]
- 1354 – Charles de la Cerda, French nobleman (b. 1327)[229]
- 1424 – Stephen Zaccaria, archbishop of Patras[230]
- 1456 – Lawrence Giustiniani, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1381)[231]
- 1538 – Beatrice of Portugal, duchess of Savoy (b. 1504)[232]
- 1557 – Albert Alcibiades, margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (b. 1522)[233]
- 1570 – Philibert de l'Orme, French sculptor and architect, designed the Château d'Anet (b. 1510)[234]
- 1598 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)[235]
1601–1900
- 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564)[236]
- 1707 – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and politician, Scottish Secretary of State (b. 1648)[237]
- 1713 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653)[238]
- 1775 – John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (b. 1706)[239]
- 1789 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. 1703)[240]
- 1794 – Justus Möser, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1720)[241]
- 1815 – Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (b. 1778)[242]
- 1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)[243]
- 1854 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English field marshal and politician, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance (b. 1768)[244]
- 1865 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1779)
- 1874 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French historian and archaeologist (b. 1814)[245]
- 1878 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1821)[246]
- 1880 – Emperor Norton, English-American businessman (b. 1811)[247]
- 1883 – Miska Magyarics, Slovene-Hungarian poet (b. 1825)
- 1896 – William Rainey Marshall, American banker and politician, 5th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
- 1896 – Paul Verlaine, French poet and writer (b. 1844)[248]
1901–present
- 1914 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American general and 30th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1823)[249]
- 1916 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)[250]
- 1916 – Ada Rehan, Irish-American actress (b. 1860)[251]
- 1918 – Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1827)[252]
- 1920 – Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (b. 1852)[253]
- 1925 – George Bellows, American painter (b. 1882)[254]
- 1934 – Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1880)[255]
- 1934 – Alexandre Stavisky, Ukrainian-French financier (b. 1886)[256][257]
- 1938 – Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (b. 1880)[258][259]
- 1941 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general and founder of the Scout movement (b. 1857)[260]
- 1941 – Vladimír Mandl, Czechoslovak lawyer (b. 1899)[261]
- 1942 – Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1869)[262]
- 1943 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (b. 1879)
- 1944 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American lieutenant and sailor (b. 1878)[263]
- 1945 – Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer and author (b. 1900)[264]
- 1948 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter and graphic designer (b. 1887)[265]
- 1950 – Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and academic (b. 1883)[266]
- 1952 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866)[267]
- 1953 – Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)[268]
- 1954 – Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1898)[269]
- 1958 – Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869)[270]
- 1961 – Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player and coach (b. 1910)[271]
- 1963 – Kay Sage, American painter (b. 1898)[272]
- 1975 – Richard Tucker, American operatic tenor (b. 1913)[273]
- 1976 – Zhou Enlai, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)[274]
- 1980 – John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907)[275]
- 1982 – Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)[276]
- 1983 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (b. 1919)[277]
- 1986 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906)[278]
- 1990 – Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919)
- 1990 – Terry-Thomas, English actor and comedian (b. 1911)[279]
- 1991 – Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)[280]
- 1994 – Pat Buttram, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)[281]
- 1994 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player and coach (b. 1925)[282]
- 1996 – Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968)[283]
- 1996 – François Mitterrand, French sergeant and politician, 21st President of France (b. 1916)[284]
- 1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)[285]
- 1998 – Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)[286]
- 2000 – Hilary Smart, American sailor (b. 1925)[287]
- 2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)[288]
- 2002 – Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (b. 1932)[289]
- 2003 – Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)[290]
- 2006 – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern Irish broadcaster and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (b. 1943)[291]
- 2007 – Jane Bolin, American lawyer and judge (b. 1908)[292]
- 2007 – Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1916)[293]
- 2007 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1922)[294]
- 2007 – David Ervine, Northern Irish politician and activist (b. 1953)[295]
- 2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1925)[296]
- 2008 – George Moore, Australian jockey and trainer (b. 1923)[297]
- 2009 – Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1958)[298]
- 2010 – Art Clokey, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)[299]
- 2011 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1937)[300]
- 2011 – Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)[301]
- 2012 – Dave Alexander, American singer and pianist (b. 1938)[302]
- 2012 – T. J. Hamblin, English haematologist and academic (b. 1943)[303]
- 2012 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (b. 1929)[304]
- 2013 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1927)[305]
- 2013 – Jeanne Manford, American educator and activist, co-founded PFLAG (b. 1920)[306]
- 2013 – Alasdair Milne, Indian-English director and producer (b. 1930)[307]
- 2014 – Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch-Australian swimmer (b. 1925)[308]
- 2014 – Antonino P. Roman, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1939)[309]
- 2015 – Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (b. 1942)[310]
- 2015 – Kep Enderby, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 23rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1926)[311]
- 2015 – Patsy Garrett, American actress and singer (b. 1921)[312]
- 2016 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926)[313]
- 2016 – German Moreno, Filipino television host, actor, comedian and talent manager (b. 1933)[314]
- 2017 – Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925)[315]
- 2017 – James Mancham, Seychellois politician, President 1976-77 (b. 1939)[316]
- 2017 – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian politician (b. 1934)[317]
- 2017 – Peter Sarstedt, Indian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)[318]
- 2020 – Pat Dalton, Australian footballer (b. 1942)[319]
- 2020 – Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1930)[320]
- 2021 – Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)[321][322]
- 2022 – Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (b. 1944)[323]
- 2024 – Adan Canto, Mexican actor (b. 1981)[324]
Holidays and observances
- Babinden (Belarus, Russia)
- Christian feast day:
- Abo of Tiflis
- Apollinaris Claudius
- Blessed Eurosia Fabris
- Gauchito Gil (Folk Catholicism)
- Gudula
- Harriet Bedell (Episcopal Church (USA))
- Lawrence Giustiniani
- Lucian of Beauvais
- Maximus of Pavia
- Our Lady of Prompt Succor (Roman Catholic Church)
- Pega (Anglican and Roman Catholic churches)
- Severinus of Noricum
- Thorfinn of Hamar
- January 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Commonwealth Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
- Earliest day on which Children's Day can fall, while January 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Saturday in January. (Thailand)
- Typing Day (International observance)
References
External links
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