Events

Pre-1600

• 379 Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.

• 649 Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.

• 1419 Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.

• 1421 John VIII Palaiologos marries Sophia of Montferrat and is then crowned Byzantine co-emperor to his father Manuel II Palaiologos.

• 1511 The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope.

• 1520 Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.

1601–1900

• 1607 San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.

• 1639 Hämeenlinna () is granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia.

• 1764 John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.

• 1764 Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.

• 1788 The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.

• 1795 The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the Dutch Republic.

• 1817 An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.

• 1829 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.

• 1839 The British East India Company captures Aden.

• 1853 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.

• 1861 American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.

• 1862 American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.

• 1871 Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.

• 1883 The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.

• 1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.

1901–present

• 1901 Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, is stricken with paralysis. She dies three days later at the age of 81.

• 1915 Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.

• 1915 German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.

• 1917 Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.

• 1920 The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.

• 1920 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded.

• 1937 Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.

• 1941 World War II: and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine with all hands northeast of Falkonera.

• 1942 World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.

• 1945 World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, fewer than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.

• 1946 General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.

• 1953 Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.

• 1960 Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty

• 1960 Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 crashes near Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Turkey, killing all 42 aboard.

• 1966 Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister.

• 1969 Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.

• 1977 President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").

• 1978 The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.

• 1981 Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.

• 1988 Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 crashes in Bayfield, Colorado, killing nine.

• 1990 Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency.

• 1991 Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.

• 1993 Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.

• 1995 After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.

• 1996 The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

• 1997 Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.

• 1999 British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.

• 2006 A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes near Hejce, Hungary, killing 42.

• 2007 Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.

• 2007 Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.

• 2012 The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.

• 2014 A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.

• 2024 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's probe lands on the moon, making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.

• 2025 Bytedance and sister companies are banned from the United States for "security concerns".

Births

Pre-1600

• 399 Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (died 453)

• 1200 Dōgen Zenji, founder of Sōtō Zen (died 1253)

• 1544 Francis II of France (died 1560)

1601–1900

• 1617 Lucas Faydherbe, Flemish sculptor and architect (died 1697)

• 1628 Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, English noble (died 1672)

• 1676 John Weldon, English organist and composer (died 1736)

• 1721 Jean-Philippe Baratier, German scholar and author (died 1740)

• 1736 James Watt, Scottish chemist and engineer (died 1819)

• 1737 Giuseppe Millico, Italian soprano, composer, and educator (died 1802)

• 1739 Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall (died 1808)

• 1752 James Morris III, American captain (died 1820)

• 1757 Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (died 1831)

• 1788 Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (died 1874)

• 1790 Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet and academic (died 1855)

• 1798 Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1857)

• 1803 Sarah Helen Whitman, American poet, essayist, and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe (died 1878)

• 1807 Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (died 1870)

• 1808 Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and author (died 1887)

• 1809 Edgar Allan Poe, American short story writer, poet, and critic (died 1849)

• 1810 Talhaiarn, Welsh poet and architect (died 1869)

• 1813 Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (died 1898)

• 1832 Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (died 1875)

• 1833 Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (died 1872)

• 1839 Paul Cézanne, French painter (died 1906)

• 1840 Dethloff Willrodt, American Civil War veteran and politician (died 1932)

• 1848 Arturo Graf, Italian poet, of German ancestry (died 1913)

• 1848 John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1904)

• 1848 Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (died 1883)

• 1851 Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1922)

• 1852 Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (died 1909)

• 1863 Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (died 1941)

• 1866 Harry Davenport, American stage and film actor (died 1949)

• 1871 Dame Gruev, Bulgarian educator and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (died 1906)

• 1874 Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (died 1922)

• 1876 Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (died 1943)

• 1876 Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet and author (died 1899)

• 1878 Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (died 1934)

• 1879 Boris Savinkov, Russian soldier and author (died 1925)

• 1882 John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (died 1957)

• 1883 Hermann Abendroth, German conductor (died 1956)

• 1887 Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (died 1943)

• 1888 – Chick Gandil, American baseball player (died 1970)

• 1889 Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1943)

• 1892 Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Iceland (died 1964)

• 1893 Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (died 1986)

1901–present

• 1901 Dunc Munro, Scottish-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1958)

• 1903 Boris Blacher, German composer and playwright (died 1975)

• 1903 Dyre Vaa, Norwegian sculptor and painter (died 1980)

• 1905 Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (died 1991)

• 1908 Ish Kabibble, American comedian and cornet player (died 1994)

• 1908 Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (died 1971)

• 1911 Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean lawyer and judge (died 2009)

• 1911 Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1966)

• 1912 Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)

• 1913 Rex Ingamells, Australian author and poet (died 1955)

• 1913 Rudolf Wanderone, American professional pocket billiards player (died 1996)

• 1918 John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (died 2005)

• 1920 Bernard Dunstan, English painter and educator (died 2017)

• 1920 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian politician and diplomat, 135th Prime Minister of Peru (died 2020)

• 1921 Patricia Highsmith, American novelist and short story writer (died 1995)

• 1922 Guy Madison, American actor (died 1996)

• 1922 Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 2015)

• 1922 Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (died 1990)

• 1923 Dagmar Loe, Norwegian journalist (died 2024)

• 1923 Bob McFadden, American singer, impressionist, and voice-over actor (died 2000)

• 1923 Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (died 2013)

• 1924 Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (died 1985)

• 1924 Jean-François Revel, French philosopher (died 2006)

• 1925 Nina Bawden, English author (died 2012)

• 1926 Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (died 2013)

• 1926 Fritz Weaver, American actor (died 2016)

• 1930 Tippi Hedren, American model, actress, and animal rights-welfare activist

• 1930 John Waite, South African cricketer (died 2011)

• 1931 Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 2024)

• 1932 Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (died 2008)

• 1932 Richard Lester, American-English director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1932 Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (died 2014)

• 1933 George Coyne, American priest, astronomer, and theologian (died 2020)

• 1934 John Richardson, English actor (died 2021)

• 1935 Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (died 1978)

• 1936 Fred J. Lincoln, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)

• 1936 Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi general and politician, seventh President of Bangladesh (died 1981)

• 1936 Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer, harmonica player, and drummer (died 2011)

• 1937 Princess Birgitta of Sweden (died 2024)

• 1937 John Lions, Australian computer scientist and academic (died 1998)

• 1939 Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

• 1940 Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (died 1992)

• 1940 Denise Narcisse-Mair, Canadian musician (died 2010)

• 1941 Tony Anholt, British actor (died 2002)

• 1941 Colin Gunton, English theologian and academic (died 2003)

• 1941 Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler, trainer, and referee (died 2020)

• 1942 Michael Crawford, English actor and singer

• 1943 Larry Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1943 Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (died 1970)

• 1943 Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

• 1944 Shelley Fabares, American actress and singer (died 2026)

• 1944 Thom Mayne, American architect and academic, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower

• 1944 Dan Reeves, American football player and coach (died 2022)

• 1945 Trevor Williams, English singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1946 Julian Barnes, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic

• 1946 Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2026)

• 1947 Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political scientist and academic (died 2017)

• 1947 Paula Deen, American chef and author

• 1947 Rod Evans, English singer-songwriter

• 1948 Nancy Lynch, American computer scientist and academic

• 1948 Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick

• 1948 Mal Reilly, English rugby league player and coach

• 1949 Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio host (died 2012)

• 1949 Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)

• 1950 Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor

• 1950 Jon Matlack, American baseball player

• 1951 Martha Davis, American singer

• 1952 Dewey Bunnell, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1952 Nadiuska, German television actress

• 1952 Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer scientist (died 1999)

• 1953 Desi Arnaz Jr., American actor and singer

• 1953 Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician

• 1953 Wayne Schimmelbusch, Australian footballer and coach

• 1954 Katey Sagal, American actress and singer

• 1954 Cindy Sherman, American photographer and director

• 1954 Esther Shkalim, Israeli poet and Mizrahi feminist

• 1955 Simon Rattle, English-German orchestral conductor

• 1956 Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host (died 2021)

• 1956 Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist

• 1957 Ottis Anderson, American football player and sportscaster

• 1957 Roger Ashton-Griffiths, English actor, screenwriter and film director

• 1957 Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican public servant and politician, 22nd Secretary of State of Puerto Rico

• 1958 Thomas Kinkade, American painter (died 2012)

• 1958 Altemio Sanchez, Puerto Rican serial killer and rapist (died 2023)

• 1959 Danese Cooper, American computer scientist and programmer

• 1959 Jeff Pilson, American bass player, songwriter, and actor

• 1961 Paul McCrane, American actor, director, and singer

• 1961 Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer, co-founded Red or Dead

• 1961 William Ragsdale, American actor

• 1962 Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist

• 1962 Chris Sabo, American baseball player and coach

• 1962 Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach

• 1963 Michael Adams, American basketball player and coach

• 1963 Martin Bashir, English journalist

• 1963 John Bercow, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons

• 1964 Janine Antoni, Bahamian sculptor and photographer

• 1964 Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player

• 1966 Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1966 Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player and coach

• 1966 Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer-songwriter

• 1968 David Bartlett, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of Tasmania

• 1968 Whitfield Crane, American singer-songwriter

• 1968 Matt Hill, Canadian voice actor

• 1969 Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist and short story writer

• 1969 Luc Longley, Australian basketball player and coach

• 1969 Trey Lorenz, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1969 Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer and manager

• 1969 Junior Seau, American football player (died 2012)

• 1969 Steve Staunton, Irish footballer and manager

• 1970 Steffen Freund, German footballer and manager

• 1970 Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete

• 1970 Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer

• 1971 Eric Mangini, American football coach

• 1971 Shawn Wayans, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1971 John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1971 – Phil Nevin, American baseball player and coach

• 1972 Drea de Matteo, American actress

• 1972 Yoon Hae-young, South Korean actress

• 1972 Sergei Zjukin, Estonian chess player and coach

• 1973 Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist

• 1973 Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer and coach

• 1974 Dainius Adomaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach

• 1974 Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

• 1974 Walter Jones, American football player

• 1974 Ian Laperrière, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach

• 1974 Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer and manager

• 1975 Natalie Cook, Australian volleyball player

• 1975 Zdeňka Málková, Czech tennis player

• 1976 Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer

• 1976 Tarso Marques, Brazilian racing driver

• 1976 Drew Powell, American actor

• 1976 Marsha Thomason, English actress

• 1977 Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor, director, and photographer

• 1979 Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast and sportscaster

• 1979 Byung-hyun Kim, South Korean baseball player

• 1979 Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer

• 1979 Wiley, English rapper and producer

• 1980 Jenson Button, English racing driver

• 1980 Pasha Kovalev, Russian-American dancer and choreographer

• 1980 Luke Macfarlane, Canadian-American actor and singer

• 1980 Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player

• 1980 Michael Vandort, Sri Lankan cricketer

• 1981 Paolo Bugia, Filipino basketball player

• 1981 Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer

• 1981 Lucho González, Argentinian footballer

• 1981 Maxime Laisney, French politician

• 1981 Elizabeth Tulloch, American actress

• 1982 Pete Buttigieg, American politician

• 1982 Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player

• 1982 Jodie Sweetin, American actress and singer

• 1982 Robin tom Rink, German singer-songwriter

• 1982 Shane Tronc, Australian rugby league player

• 1982 Kim Yoo-suk, South Korean pole vaulter

• 1983 Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer

• 1984 Johnny Boychuk, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1984 Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer

• 1984 Karun Chandhok, Indian racing driver

• 1984 Elvis Dumervil, American football player

• 1984 Jimmy Kébé, Malian footballer

• 1984 Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player

• 1985 Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete

• 1985 Damien Chazelle, American film director, screenwriter, and producer

• 1985 Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player

• 1985 Esteban Guerrieri, Argentinian racing driver

• 1985 Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and actress

• 1985 Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nikulin, Russian footballer

• 1985 Elliott Ward, English footballer

• 1986 Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer

• 1986 Oleksandr Miroshnychenko, Ukrainian footballer

• 1986 Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer

• 1987 Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer

• 1988 Tyler Breeze, Canadian wrestler

• 1988 JaVale McGee, American basketball player

• 1990 Tatiana Búa, Argentine tennis player

• 1990 Shaunette Renée Wilson, Guyanese-American actress

• 1991 Petra Martić, Croatian tennis player

• 1991 Erin Sanders, American actress

• 1992 Shawn Johnson East, American gymnast

• 1992 Logan Lerman, American actor

• 1992 Mac Miller, American rapper (died 2018)

• 1993 Erick Torres Padilla, Mexican footballer

• 1993 João Mário, Portuguese footballer

• 1993 Ricardo Centurión, Argentine footballer

• 1993 Walter Benítez, Argentine footballer

• 1993 Jack Schlossberg, American writer and political candidate

• 1994 Matthias Ginter, German footballer

• 1994 Alfie Mawson, English footballer

• 1994 Marvelous Nakamba, Zimbabwean footballer

• 1996 Jakub Jankto, Czech footballer

• 1998 Emre Guler, Australian rugby league player

• 1999 Jonathan Taylor, American football player

• 1999 Donyell Malen, Dutch footballer

• 2003 Felix Afena-Gyan, Ghanaian footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 520 John of Cappadocia, patriarch of Constantinople

• 639 Dagobert I, Frankish king (born 603)

• 914 García I, king of León

• 1003 Kilian of Cologne, Irish abbot

• 1302 Al-Hakim I, caliph of Cairo

• 1526 Isabella of Austria, Danish queen (born 1501)

• 1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (born 1516)

• 1565 Diego Laynez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (born 1512)

• 1571 Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (born 1495)

• 1576 Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (born 1494)

• 1597 Maharana Pratap, Hindu Rajput king of Mewar (born1540)

1601–1900

• 1636 Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Flemish painter (born1561)

• 1661 Thomas Venner, English rebel leader

• 1729 William Congreve, English playwright and poet (born 1670)

• 1755 Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (born 1683)

• 1757 Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar and academic (born 1674)

• 1766 Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect and painter (born 1695)

• 1785 Jonathan Toup, English scholar and critic (born 1713)

• 1833 Ferdinand Hérold, French pianist and composer (born 1791)

• 1847 Charles Bent, American soldier and politician, first Governor of New Mexico (born 1799)

• 1847 Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (born 1772)

• 1851 Esteban Echeverría, Argentinian poet and author (born 1805)

• 1853 Karl Faber, German historian and academic (born 1773)

• 1862 Felix Zollicoffer, American newspaperman, politician, and Confederate general (born 1812)

• 1865 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and politician (born 1809)

• 1869 Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (born 1788)

• 1874 August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (born 1798)

• 1878 Henri Victor Regnault, French physicist and chemist (born 1810)

• 1895 António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra, Portuguese magistrate and politician (born 1798)

1901–present

• 1906 Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian historian and politician, sixth President of Argentina (born 1821)

• 1915 Ernest de Munck, Belgian cellist and composer (born 1840)

• 1929 Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (born 1873)

• 1930 Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (born 1903)

• 1938 Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (born 1864)

• 1945 Gustave Mesny, French general (born 1886)

• 1948 Tony Garnier, French architect and urban planner, designed the Stade de Gerland (born 1869)

• 1954 Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (born 1885)

• 1957 József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (born 1912)

• 1963 Clement Smoot, American golfer (born 1884)

• 1964 Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (born 1886)

• 1965 Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (born 1905)

• 1968 Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (born 1879)

• 1972 Michael Rabin, American violinist (born 1936)

• 1973 Max Adrian, Irish-English actor (born 1903)

• 1975 Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator (born 1889)

• 1976 Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (born 1886)

• 1979 Moritz Jahn, German novelist and poet (born 1884)

• 1980 William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist, US Supreme Court associate justice (born 1898)

• 1981 Francesca Woodman, American photographer (born 1958)

• 1982 Elis Regina, Brazilian soprano (born 1945)

• 1983 Ham, chimpanzee and animal astronaut, first hominid in space (born 1957)

• 1984 Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1920)

• 1990 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru and mystic (born 1931)

• 1990 Alberto Semprini, English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1908)

• 1990 Herbert Wehner, German politician, sixth Minister of Intra-German Relations (born 1906)

• 1991 Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist and journalist (born 1918)

• 1995 Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1938)

• 1996 Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1943)

• 1997 James Dickey, American poet and novelist (born 1923)

• 1998 Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1932)

• 1999 Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (born 1967)

• 1999 – Robert Eugene Brashers, American serial killer and rapist (born 1958)

• 2000 Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, a Baháʼí Faith Hand of the Cause of God and wife of Shoghi Effendi (born 1910)

• 2000 Bettino Craxi, Italian lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1934)

• 2000 Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, singer, and mathematician (born 1914)

• 2002 Vavá, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1934)

• 2003 Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (born 1974)

• 2003 Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician, French Minister of Culture (born 1916)

• 2004 Harry E. Claiborne, American lawyer and judge (born 1917)

• 2004 David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1955)

• 2005 K. Sello Duiker, South African author and screenwriter (born 1974)

• 2006 Anthony Franciosa, American actor (born 1928)

• 2006 Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

• 2007 Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist and activist (born 1954)

• 2007 Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1940)

• 2007 Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1969)

• 2008 Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (born 1937)

• 2008 John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)

• 2008 Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (born 1936)

• 2010 Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (born 1923)

• 2012 Peter Åslin, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1962)

• 2012 Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (born 1982)

• 2012 Winston Riley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1943)

• 2012 Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1933)

• 2013 Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (born 1940)

• 2013 Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (born 1920)

• 2013 Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (born 1926)

• 2013 Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (born 1930)

• 2013 Toktamış Ateş, Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer (born 1944)

• 2014 Azaria Alon, Ukrainian-Israeli environmentalist, co-founded the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (born 1918)

• 2014 Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (born 1931)

• 2015 Justin Capră, Romanian engineer and academic (born 1933)

• 2015 Michel Guimond, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1953)

• 2015 Ward Swingle, American-French singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1927)

• 2016 Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (born 1930)

• 2016 Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1931)

• 2016 Sheila Sim (Lady Attenborough), English actress (born 1922)

• 2017 Miguel Ferrer, American actor (born 1955)

• 2025 Jeff Torborg, American baseball player and manager (born 1941)

• 2026 Valentino, Italian fashion designer, founder of Valentino (born 1932)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Bassianus of Lodi

• Faustina and Liberata of Como

• Henry of Uppsala

• Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum

• Mark of Ephesus (Eastern Orthodox Church)

• Pontianus of Spoleto

• Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester

• January 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), and its related observance:

• Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi)

• Husband's Day (Iceland)

• Kokborok Day (Tripura, India)

Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy), and its related observances:

• Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year (Ethiopian Orthodox)

• Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (North Macedonia)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on January 19