Events

Pre-1600

• 27 BC Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.

• 532 The Nika riots break out, during the racing season at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, as a result of discontent with the rule of the Emperor Justinian I.

• 1435 Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement by the Spanish of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands who had converted, or were converting to, Christianity, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.

• 1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for treason, on the grounds of having quartered his arms to make them similar to those of the King, Henry VIII of England.

1601–1900

• 1793 Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, is lynched by a mob in Rome.

• 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.

• 1815 War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.

• 1822 The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

• 1833 United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President elect Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

• 1840 The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.

• 1842 Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

• 1847 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.

• 1849 Establishment of the Colony of Vancouver Island.

• 1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Chillianwala: British forces retreat from the Sikhs.

• 1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.

• 1893 The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.

• 1893 U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.

• 1895 First Italo-Ethiopian War: The war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.

• 1898 Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.

• 1900 To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Franz Joseph decrees German will be language of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces.

1901–present

• 1908 The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.

• 1915 The 6.7 Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,978 and 32,610.

• 1920 The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history.

• 1935 A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to no more being a "region occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France".

• 1939 The Black Friday bushfires burn of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

• 1942 Henry Ford patents a soybean car, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.

• 1942 World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

• 1950 British submarine collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.

• 1950 Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

• 1951 First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.

• 1953 An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.

• 1958 The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.

• 1963 Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.

• 1964 Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, in response to anti-Hindu riots in East Pakistan. About one hundred people are killed.

• 1964 In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).

• 1966 Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

• 1968 Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.

• 1972 Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.

• 1977 Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045, a Douglas DC-8 jet, crashes onto the runway during takeoff from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, killing five.

• 1978 United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.

• 1982 Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.

• 1985 A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.

• 1986 A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.

• 1988 Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.

• 1990 Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

• 1991 Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1,000 others.

• 1993 Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

• 1993 The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.

• 1993 Operation Southern Watch: U.S.A.F., U.S.N., R.A.F. and French Air Force jets attack AAA and SAM sites in Southern Iraq.

• 1998 Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.

• 2000 A Short 360 aircraft chartered by the Sirte Oil Company crashes off the coast of Brega, Libya, killing 21.

• 2001 An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

• 2003 208996 Achlys was discovered by Chad Trujillo and Michael E. Brown at Palomar Observatory.

• 2004 Uzbekistan Airways Flight 1154 crashes while landing at Tashkent International Airport, killing 37.

• 2012 The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.

• 2018 A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii causes widespread panic in the state.

• 2020 The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirms the first case of COVID-19 outside China.

• 2021 Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.

Births

Pre-1600

• 5 BC Guangwu of Han, Chinese emperor (died 57)

• 101 Lucius Aelius, Roman adopted son of Hadrian (died 138)

• 915 Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (died 976)

• 1334 Henry II, king of Castile and León (died 1379)

• 1338 Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (died 1392)

• 1381 Colette of Corbie, French abbess and saint in the Catholic Church (died 1447)

• 1400 Infante John, Constable of Portugal (died 1442)

• 1477 Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (died 1527)

• 1505 Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1571)

• 1562 Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier (died 1601)

• 1596 Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter and illustrator (died 1656)

1601–1900

• 1610 Maria Anna of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (died 1665)

• 1616 Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic and author (died 1680)

• 1651 Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1694)

• 1672 Lucy Filippini, Italian teacher and saint (died 1732)

• 1683 Christoph Graupner, German harpsichord player and composer (died 1760)

• 1720 Richard Hurd, English bishop (died 1808)

• 1749 Maler Müller, German poet, painter, and playwright (died 1825)

• 1787 John Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1854)

• 1804 Paul Gavarni, French illustrator (died 1866)

• 1805 Thomas Dyer, American lawyer and politician, 18th Mayor of Chicago (died 1862)

• 1808 Salmon P. Chase, American jurist and politician, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1873)

• 1810 Ernestine Rose, American suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker (died 1892)

• 1812 Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (died 1883)

• 1832 Horatio Alger, Jr., American novelist and journalist (died 1899)

• 1845 Félix Tisserand, French astronomer and academic (died 1896)

• 1858 Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian-German biologist and academic (died 1931)

• 1859 Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (died 1943)

• 1861 Max Nonne, German neurologist and academic (died 1959)

• 1864 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)

• 1865 Princess Marie of Orléans (died 1908)

• 1866 Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian bassoon player and composer (died 1901)

• 1869 Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (died 1931)

• 1870 Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist and anatomist (died 1959)

• 1878 Lionel Groulx, Canadian priest and historian (died 1967)

• 1881 Essington Lewis, Australian engineer and businessman (died 1961)

• 1883 Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (died 1967)

• 1885 Alfred Fuller, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Fuller Brush Company (died 1973)

• 1886 Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (died 1964)

• 1886 Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer and actress (died 1966)

• 1890 Jüri Uluots, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (died 1945)

• 1892 Ermanno Aebi, Italian-Swiss footballer (died 1976)

• 1893 Charles Arnison, English lieutenant and pilot (died 1974)

• 1893 Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer and coach (died 1963)

• 1893 Clark Ashton Smith, American poet, sculptor, painter, and author (died 1961)

• 1893 Chaïm Soutine, Belarusian-French painter (died 1943)

• 1900 Shimizugawa Motokichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (died 1967)

• 1900 Gertrude Mary Cox, American mathematician (died 1978)

1901–present

• 1901 A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist, screenwriter, historian (died 1991)

• 1901 Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian (died 1978)

• 1902 Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician from the Vienna Circle (died 1985)

• 1904 Richard Addinsell, English composer (died 1977)

• 1904 Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-American violinist and composer (died 1992)

• 1904 Dick Rowley, Irish footballer (died 1984)

• 1905 Kay Francis, American actress (died 1968)

• 1905 Jack London, English sprinter and pianist (died 1966)

• 1906 Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist, sinologist, and academic (died 2017)

• 1909 Helm Glöckler, German race car driver (died 1993)

• 1910 Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter and illustrator (died 1989)

• 1911 Joh Bjelke-Petersen, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 31st Premier of Queensland (died 2005)

• 1914 Osa Massen, Danish-American actress (died 2006)

• 1914 Ted Willis, Baron Willis, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1992)

• 1919 Robert Stack, American actor (died 2003)

• 1921 Necati Cumalı, Greek-Turkish author and poet (died 2001)

• 1921 Dachine Rainer, American-English author and poet (died 2000)

• 1921 Arthur Stevens, English footballer (died 2007)

• 1922 Albert Lamorisse, French director and producer (died 1970)

• 1923 Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (died 1997)

• 1923 Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch runner (died 2003)

• 1923 Jack Watling, English actor (died 2001)

• 1924 Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic (died 1994)

• 1924 Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (died 2011)

• 1925 Rosemary Murphy, American actress (died 2014)

• 1925 Vanita Smythe, American singer and actress (died 1994)

• 1925 Ron Tauranac, Australian engineer and businessman (died 2020)

• 1925 Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (died 2000)

• 1926 Michael Bond, English author, created Paddington Bear (died 2017)

• 1926 Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (died 2003)

• 1926 Melba Liston, American trombonist and composer (died 1999)

• 1927 Brock Adams, American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (died 2004)

• 1927 Liz Anderson, American singer-songwriter (died 2011)

• 1927 Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)

• 1929 Joe Pass, American guitarist and composer (died 1994)

• 1930 Frances Sternhagen, American actress (died 2023)

• 1931 Ian Hendry, English actor (died 1984)

• 1931 Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian, director, game show panelist, and television personality (died 2007)

• 1931 Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (died 2019)

• 1931 Chris Wiggins, English-born Canadian actor (died 2017)

• 1932 Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (died 1994)

• 1933 Tom Gola, American basketball player, coach, and politician (died 2014)

• 1936 Renato Bruson, Italian opera singer

• 1937 Guy Dodson, New Zealand-English biochemist and academic (died 2012)

• 1938 Daevid Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)

• 1938 Richard Anthony, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (died 2015)

• 1938 Charlie Brill, American actor, voice artist, and comedian

• 1938 Cabu, French cartoonist (died 2015)

• 1938 Dave Edwards, American captain and politician (died 2013)

• 1938 Billy Gray, American actor, competitive motorcycle racer and inventor

• 1938 Tord Grip, Swedish footballer and manager

• 1938 Anna Home, English children's television executive and producer

• 1939 Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentinian author, screenwriter, and director (died 2024)

• 1939 Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach

• 1939 Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1940 Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist, and essayist (died 2025)

• 1941 Pasqual Maragall, Spanish academic and politician, 127th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya

• 1941 Meinhard Nehmer, German bobsledder

• 1943 William Duckworth, American composer and author (died 2012)

• 1943 Richard Moll, American actor (died 2023)

• 1945 Gordon McVie, English oncologist and author (died 2021)

• 1945 Peter Simpson, English footballer

• 1946 Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (died 2004)

• 1946 Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish saxophonist, composer, and conductor

• 1947 Jacek Majchrowski, Polish historian, lawyer, and politician

• 1947 Carles Rexach, Spanish footballer and coach

• 1948 Gaj Singh, Indian lawyer and politician

• 1949 Rakesh Sharma, Indian commander, pilot, and cosmonaut

• 1949 Brandon Tartikoff, American screenwriter and producer (died 1997)

• 1950 Clive Betts, English economist and politician

• 1950 Bob Forsch, American baseball player (died 2011)

• 1950 Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (died 2014)

• 1952 Stephen Glover, English journalist, co-founded The Independent

• 1953 Silvana Gallardo, American actress and producer (died 2012)

• 1954 Richard Blackford, English composer

• 1954 Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1955 Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1955 Jay McInerney, American novelist and critic

• 1955 Anne Pringle, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia

• 1957 Claudia Emerson, American poet and academic (died 2014)

• 1957 Mary Glindon, English lawyer and politician

• 1957 Lorrie Moore, American author

• 1957 Mark O'Meara, American golfer

• 1958 Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager

• 1958 Juan Pedro de Miguel, Spanish handball player (died 2016)

• 1959 Winnie Byanyima, Ugandan engineer, politician, and diplomat

• 1960 Kevin Anderson, American actor

• 1960 Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1960 Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director

• 1961 Wayne Coyne, American singer-songwriter and musician

• 1961 Kelly Hrudey, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1961 Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress, comedian, and producer

• 1961 Suggs, English singer-songwriter, musician, and actor

• 1962 Trace Adkins, American singer-songwriter and actor

• 1962 Paul Higgins, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1962 Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player

• 1964 Penelope Ann Miller, American actress

• 1965 Bill Bailey, English musician and comedian

• 1966 Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver

• 1966 Leo Visser, Dutch speed skater and pilot

• 1967 Suzanne Cryer, American actress

• 1968 Traci Bingham, American actress, model, and television personality

• 1968 Mike Whitlow, English footballer and coach

• 1969 Stefania Belmondo, Italian skier

• 1969 Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player and journalist

• 1970 Keith Coogan, American actor

• 1970 Frank Kooiman, Dutch footballer

• 1970 Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (died 2004)

• 1970 Shonda Rhimes, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1972 Mark Bosnich, Australian footballer and sportscaster

• 1972 Nicole Eggert, American actress

• 1972 Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast

• 1973 Gigi Galli, Italian race driver

• 1973 Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player

• 1974 Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player and coach

• 1974 Jason Sasser, American basketball player

• 1975 Rune Eriksen, Norwegian guitarist and composer

• 1975 Mailis Reps, Estonian academic and politician, 31st Estonian Minister of Education and Research

• 1975 Andrew Yang, American entrepreneur, founder of Venture for America, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate

• 1976 Ross McCall, Scottish actor

• 1976 Michael Peña, American actor

• 1976 Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer

• 1977 Orlando Bloom, English actor

• 1977 Mi-Hyun Kim, South Korean golfer

• 1977 Elliot Mason, English trombonist and keyboard player

• 1977 James Posey, American basketball player and coach

• 1978 Mohit Sharma, Indian soldier (died 2009)

• 1978 Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA

• 1979 Katy Brand, English actress and screenwriter

• 1980 Krzysztof Czerwiński, Polish organist and conductor

• 1980 Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer

• 1980 Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer

• 1980 Wolfgang Loitzl, Austrian ski jumper

• 1980 Mirko Soltau, German footballer

• 1980 – Mike Rupp, American ice hockey player

• 1981 Shad Gaspard, American wrestler and actor (died 2020)

• 1982 Kamran Akmal, Pakistani cricketer

• 1982 Guillermo Coria, Argentinian tennis player

• 1982 Constantinos Makrides, Cypriot footballer

• 1982 Ruth Wilson, English actress

• 1983 Ender Arslan, Turkish basketball player

• 1983 Sebastian Kneißl, German footballer

• 1983 Julian Morris, English actor

• 1983 Mauricio Romero, Argentinian footballer

• 1983 Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player

• 1984 Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer

• 1984 Kamghe Gaba, German sprinter

• 1984 Nick Mangold, American football player (died 2025)

• 1986 Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater

• 1987 Stefano Del Sante, Italian footballer

• 1987 Jack Johnson, American ice hockey player

• 1987 Florica Leonida, Romanian gymnast

• 1987 Steven Michaels, Australian rugby league player

• 1987 Daniel Oss, Italian cyclist

• 1987 Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1988 Josh Freeman, American football player

• 1989 Morgan Burnett, American football player

• 1989 Heath Hembree, American baseball player

• 1989 Doug Martin, American football player (died 2025)

• 1989 Beau Mirchoff, Canadian-American actor

• 1990 Vincenzo Fiorillo, Italian footballer

• 1990 Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor

• 1991 Rob Kiernan, English-Irish footballer

• 1991 Kyle Clifford, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1992 Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer

• 1992 Dinah Pfizenmaier, German tennis player

• 1992 Austin Watson, American ice hockey player

• 1993 Max Whitlock, English artistic gymnast

• 1994 Vasilije Micić, Serbian basketball player

• 1995 Natalia Dyer, American actress

• 1995 Maxim Mamin, Russian ice hockey player

• 1995 Eros Vlahos, English actor and comedian

• 1997 Douglas Augusto, Brazilian footballer

• 1997 Egan Bernal, Colombian cyclist

• 1997 Luis Díaz, Colombian footballer

• 1997 Henry Ellenson, American basketball player

• 1997 Connor McDavid, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1997 Ivan Provorov, Russian ice hockey player

• 2000 Harley Smith-Shields, Australian rugby league player

• 2003 Oksana Selekhmeteva, Russian tennis player

• 2005 Iker Bravo, Spanish footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 86 BC Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (born 157 BC)

• 533 Remigius, French bishop and saint (born 437)

• 614 Mungo, English-Scottish bishop and saint

• 703 Jitō, Japanese empress (born 645)

• 858 Æthelwulf, king of Wessex

• 888 Charles the Fat, Frankish king and emperor (born 839)

• 927 Berno of Cluny, Frankish monk and abbot

• 1001 Fujiwara no Teishi, Japanese empress (born 977)

• 1147 Robert de Craon, Grand Master of the Knights Templar

• 1151 Suger, French historian and politician (born 1081)

• 1177 Henry II, count palatine and duke of Austria (born 1107)

• 1321 Bonacossa Borri, Italian noblewoman (born 1254)

• 1330 Frederick I, duke and king of Germany

• 1363 Meinhard III, German nobleman (born 1344)

• 1400 Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (born 1373)

• 1599 Edmund Spenser, English poet, Chief Secretary for Ireland (born 1552)

1601–1900

• 1612 Jane Dormer, English lady-in-waiting (born 1538)

• 1625 Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (born 1568)

• 1684 Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, English nobleman (born 1628)

• 1691 George Fox, English religious leader, founded the Religious Society of Friends (born 1624)

• 1717 Maria Sibylla Merian, German entomologist and illustrator (born 1647)

• 1775 Johann Georg Walch, German theologian and author (born 1693)

• 1790 Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, French admiral (born 1712)

• 1796 John Anderson, Scottish philosopher and educator (born 1726)

• 1832 Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founded Lord's Cricket Ground (born 1755)

• 1838 Ferdinand Ries, German pianist and composer (born 1784)

• 1860 William Mason, American surgeon and politician (born 1786)

• 1864 Stephen Foster, American composer and songwriter (born 1826)

• 1872 William Scamp, English architect and engineer (born 1801)

• 1882 Juraj Dobrila, Croatian bishop and national revivalist (born 1812)

• 1882 Wilhelm Mauser, German engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company (born 1834)

• 1885 Schuyler Colfax, American journalist and politician, 17th Vice President of the United States (born 1823)

• 1889 Solomon Bundy, American lawyer and politician (born 1823)

1901–present

• 1906 Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (born 1859)

• 1907 Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (born 1839)

• 1915 Mary Slessor, Scottish-Nigerian missionary (born 1848)

• 1916 Victoriano Huerta, Mexican military officer and president, 1913–1914 (born 1850)

• 1923 Alexandre Ribot, French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1842)

• 1924 Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (born 1834)

• 1928 Earle Nelson, American serial killer

• 1929 Wyatt Earp, American police officer (born 1848)

• 1929 H. B. Higgins, Irish-Australian judge and politician, 3rd Attorney-General for Australia (born 1851)

• 1934 Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist and chemist (born 1860)

• 1941 James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1882)

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

• 1949 Aino Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (born 1894)

• 1956 Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (born 1871)

• 1957 A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (born 1878)

• 1958 Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (born 1880)

• 1958 Edna Purviance, American actress (born 1895)

• 1962 Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show host (born 1919)

• 1963 Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese businessman and politician, President of Togo (born 1902)

• 1967 Anatole de Grunwald, Russian-English screenwriter and producer (born 1910)

• 1971 Robert Still, English composer and educator (born 1910)

• 1973 Sabahattin Eyüboğlu, Turkish screenwriter and producer (born 1908)

• 1974 Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (born 1906)

• 1974 Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet (born 1904)

• 1976 Margaret Leighton, English actress (born 1922)

• 1977 Henri Langlois, Turkish-French historian, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française (born 1914)

• 1978 Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (born 1911)

• 1978 Joe McCarthy, American baseball player and manager (born 1887)

• 1979 Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1945)

• 1979 Marjorie Lawrence, Australian-American soprano (born 1907)

• 1980 Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor (born 1901)

• 1982 Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (born 1912)

• 1983 René Bonnet, French race car driver and engineer (born 1904)

• 1986 Abdul Fattah Ismail, Yemeni educator and politician, 4th President of South Yemen (born 1939)

• 1986 Kevin Longbottom, Australian rugby league player (born 1940)

• 1988 Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China (born 1910)

• 1993 Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer and conductor (born 1907)

• 1995 Max Harris, Australian journalist, poet, and author (born 1921)

• 2002 Frank Shuster, Canadian actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1916)

• 2003 Norman Panama, American director and screenwriter (born 1914)

• 2004 Arne Næss, Jr., Norwegian businessman and mountaineer (born 1937)

• 2005 Earl Cameron, Canadian journalist (born 1915)

• 2005 Nell Rankin, American soprano and actress (born 1924)

• 2006 Frank Fixaris, American journalist and sportscaster (born 1934)

• 2006 Marc Potvin, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1967)

• 2007 Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (born 1949)

• 2007 Danny Oakes, American race car driver (born 1911)

• 2008 Johnny Podres, American baseball player and coach (born 1932)

• 2009 Dai Llewellyn, Welsh socialite and politician (born 1946)

• 2009 Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor, director, and producer (born 1928)

• 2009 Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese poet, composer, and producer (born 1925)

• 2009 W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (born 1926)

• 2009 Nancy Bird Walton, Australian pilot (born 1915)

• 2010 Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (born 1950)

• 2011 Albert Heijn, Dutch businessman (born 1927)

• 2012 Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (born 1924)

• 2012 Guido Dessauer, German physicist and engineer (born 1915)

• 2012 Miljan Miljanić, Serbian footballer and manager (born 1930)

• 2013 Diogenes Allen, American philosopher and theologian (born 1932)

• 2013 Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (born 1924)

• 2013 Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (born 1916)

• 2014 Bobby Collins, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1931)

• 2014 Randal Tye Thomas, American journalist and politician (born 1978)

• 2014 Waldemar von Gazen, German general and lawyer (born 1917)

• 2015 Mark Juddery, Australian journalist and author (born 1971)

• 2015 Robert White, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Paraguay (born 1926)

• 2016 Brian Bedford, English-American actor and director (born 1935)

• 2016 Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian-American director, producer, songwriter, and manager (born 1934)

• 2016 Lawrence Phillips, American football player (born 1975)

• 2017 Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and a former member of the British royal family (born 1930)

• 2017 Dick Gautier, American actor (born 1931)

• 2017 Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (born 1942)

• 2019 Phil Masinga, South African footballer (born 1969)

• 2020 Bryan Monroe, American journalist and educator, (born 1965)

• 2020 Philip Tartaglia, Scottish prelate, Catholic archbishop of Glasgow (born 1951)

• 2024 Joyce Randolph, American actress (born 1924)

• 2025 Oliviero Toscani, Italian photographer (born 1942)

• 2026 Scott Adams, American author and illustrator (born 1957)

• 2026 David Webb, British activist shareholder (born 1965)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Blessed Veronica of Milan

• Elian

• Hilary of Poitiers

• Mungo

• St. Knut's Day or Tjugondag Knut, the last day of Christmas. (Sweden and Finland)

• January 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Constitution Day (Mongolia)

• Democracy Day (Cape Verde)

• Gluten-free diet day

• Liberation Day (Togo)

Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, North Macedonia), and its related observances:

• Malanka (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus)

Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period (see January 14):

• Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu)

• Lohri (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)

• Uruka (Assam)

• Stephen Foster Memorial Day (United States)

• Yennayer (Berbers)

References

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External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on January 13