Events

Pre-1600

• 98 Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.

• 417 Pope Innocent I declares Pelagius and his follower Caelestius excommunicated unless they return to orthodoxy.

• 532 Nika riots in Constantinople fail.

• 945 The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

• 1186 Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.

• 1302 Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence.

• 1343 Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus, laying out the scriptural justification for indulgences, identifying only the Pope and episcopate as capable of accessing the treasury of merit, and establishing a jubilee year every half century.

1601–1900

• 1606 Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.

• 1695 Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.

• 1726 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72, concluding his third Christmas season in Leipzig on the Third Sunday after Epiphany.

• 1759 Spanish forces clash with indigenous Huillichess of southern Chile in the battle of Río Bueno.

• 1776 American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• 1785 The University of Georgia is founded, the first state-chartered public university in the United States.

• 1820 A Russiann expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.

• 1825 The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".

• 1868 Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi begins, between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions; it will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.

• 1869 Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.

• 1874 Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov premieres in Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg.

• 1880 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.

1901–present

• 1916 World War I: The British government passes the Military Service Act that introduces conscription in the United Kingdom.

• 1918 Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.

• 1924 Six days after his death, Vladimir Lenin's body is carried into a specially erected mausoleum.

• 1927 Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.

• 1928 Bundaberg tragedy: a diphtheria vaccine is contaminated with Staph. aureus bacterium, resulting in the deaths of twelve children in the Australian town of Bundaberg.

• 1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

• 1943 World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.

• 1944 World War II: The 872-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

• 1945 World War II: The Soviet 322nd Rifle Division liberates the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

• 1951 Nuclear testinging at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.

• 1961 The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.

• 1965 South Vietnamese Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương is removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.

• 1967 Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

• 1967 Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.

• 1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.

• 1980 Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.

• 1983 The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.

• 1996 In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.

• 1996 Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

• 2002 An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.

• 2003 The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.

• 2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.

• 2010 Apple announces the iPad.

• 2011 Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sanaa.

• 2011 Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe at 200,000 K, was documented.

• 2013 Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.

• 2014 Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.

• 2017 A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.

• 2023 Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S. after the release of multiple videos by the Memphis Police Department showing officers punching, kicking, and pepper spraying Tyre Nichols as a result of running away from a traffic stop, which resulted him dying in the hospital three days later after the incident.

• 2023 A shooting at a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others.

• 2023 An attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Pasdaran, Tehran, kills one person and injures three others.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1365 Edward of Angoulême, English noble (died 1370)

• 1443 Albert III, Duke of Saxony (died 1500)

• 1546 Joachim III Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1608)

• 1571 Abbas I of Persia (died 1629)

• 1585 Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (died 1634)

1601–1900

• 1603 Sir Harbottle Grimston, 2nd Baronet, English lawyer and politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (died 1685)

• 1603 Humphrey Mackworth, English politician, lawyer and judge (died 1654)

• 1621 Thomas Willis, English physician and anatomist (died 1675)

• 1662 Richard Bentley, English scholar and theologian (died 1742)

• 1663 George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, Royal Navy admiral (died 1733)

• 1687 Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (died 1753)

• 1701 Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (died 1790)

• 1708 Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia (died 1728)

• 1741 Hester Thrale, Welsh author (died 1821)

• 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1791)

• 1775 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German-Swiss philosopher and academic (died 1854)

• 1782 Titumir, Bengali revolutionary (died 1831)

• 1790 Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president (1855) (died 1867)

• 1795 Eli Whitney Blake, American engineer, invented the Mortise lock (died 1886)

• 1803 Eunice Hale Waite Cobb, American writer, public speaker, and activist (died 1880)

• 1805 Maria Anna of Bavaria (died 1877)

• 1805 Samuel Palmer, English painter and etcher (died 1881)

• 1806 Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer and educator (died 1826)

• 1808 David Strauss, German theologian and author (died 1874)

• 1814 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect, designed the Lausanne Cathedral (died 1879)

• 1821 John Chivington, American colonel and pastor (died 1892)

• 1823 Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (died 1892)

• 1824 Urbain Johnson, Canadian farmer and political figure (died 1917)

• 1826 Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist and author (died 1889)

• 1826 Richard Taylor, American general, historian, and politician (died 1879)

• 1832 Lewis Carroll, English novelist, poet, and mathematician (died 1898)

• 1832 Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Estonian-Russian geologist and botanist (died 1908)

• 1836 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (died 1895)

• 1842 Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian-Russian painter (died 1910)

• 1848 Tōgō Heihachirō, Japanese admiral (died 1934)

• 1850 John Collier, English painter and author (died 1934)

• 1850 Samuel Gompers, English-American labor leader (died 1924)

• 1850 Edward Smith, English captain (died 1912)

• 1858 Neel Doff, Dutch-Belgian author (died 1942)

• 1859 Wilhelm II, German Emperor during World War I (died 1941)

• 1869 Will Marion Cook, American violinist and composer (died 1944)

• 1878 Dorothy Scarborough, American author (died 1935)

• 1885 Jerome Kern, American composer and songwriter (died 1945)

• 1885 Seison Maeda, Japanese painter (died 1977)

• 1886 Radhabinod Pal, Indian academic and jurist (died 1967)

• 1889 Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist and academic (died 1959)

• 1893 Soong Ching-ling, Chinese politician, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China (died 1981)

• 1895 Joseph Rosenstock, Polish-American conductor and manager (died 1985)

• 1895 Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (died 1974)

• 1900 Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral, leader in the development of nuclear propulsion in the US Navy (died 1986)

1901–present

• 1901 Willy Fritsch, German actor (died 1973)

• 1901 Art Rooney, American football player, coach and owner (died 1988)

• 1903 John Eccles, Australian-Swiss neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)

• 1904 James J. Gibson, American psychologist and academic (died 1979)

• 1905 Howard McNear, American actor (died 1969)

• 1908 William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (died 1993)

• 1910 Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general, economist, and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (died 1979)

• 1912 Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher and environmentalist (died 2009)

• 1912 Francis Rogallo, American engineer, invented the Rogallo wing (died 2009)

• 1913 Michael Ripper, English actor (died 2000)

• 1915 Jules Archer, American historian and author (died 2008)

• 1915 Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (died 1985)

• 1918 Skitch Henderson, American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2005)

• 1918 Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1963)

• 1918 William Seawell, American general (died 2005)

• 1919 Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks (died 1972)

• 1920 Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (died 1944)

• 1920 Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer (died 2002)

• 1921 Donna Reed, American actress (died 1986)

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

• 1924 Brian Rix, English actor, producer, and politician (died 2016)

• 1924 Harvey Shapiro, American poet (died 2013)

• 1926 Fritz Spiegl, Austrian flute player and journalist (died 2003)

• 1926 Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (died 2004)

• 1928 Hans Modrow, Polish-German lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of East Germany (died 2023)

• 1929 Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian-Swiss businessman (died 2023)

• 1929 Michael Craig, Indian-English actor and screenwriter

• 1929 Gastón Suárez, Bolivian author and playwright (died 1984)

• 1930 Bobby Bland, American blues singer-songwriter (died 2013)

• 1931 Mordecai Richler, Canadian author and screenwriter (died 2001)

• 1931 Nigel Vinson, Baron Vinson, English lieutenant and businessman

• 1932 Boris Shakhlin, Russian-Ukrainian gymnast (died 2008)

• 1933 Jerry Buss, American chemist and businessman (died 2013)

• 1934 Édith Cresson, French politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of France

• 1934 George Follmer, American race car driver

• 1935 Steve Demeter, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2013)

• 1936 Troy Donahue, American actor (died 2001)

• 1936 Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1937 Fred Åkerström, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1985)

• 1940 Ahmet Kurtcebe Alptemoçin, Turkish engineer and politician, 35th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs

• 1940 James Cromwell, American actor

• 1940 Terry Harper, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1940 Petru Lucinschi, Romanian activist and politician, 2nd President of Moldova

• 1940 Reynaldo Rey, American actor and screenwriter (died 2015)

• 1941 Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (died 1981)

• 1942 Maki Asakawa, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (died 2010)

• 1942 Tasuku Honjo, Japanese immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine

• 1942 John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (died 2019)

• 1942 Kate Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1986)

• 1943 Julia Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, English businesswoman and politician

• 1944 Peter Akinola, Nigerian archbishop

• 1944 Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish activist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1944 Nick Mason, English drummer, songwriter, and producer

• 1945 Harold Cardinal, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2005)

• 1946 Christopher Hum, English academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to China

• 1946 Nedra Talley, American singer

• 1947 Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1999)

• 1947 Vyron Polydoras, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for Public Order

• 1947 Cal Schenkel, American painter and illustrator

• 1947 Philip Sugden, English historian and author (died 2014)

• 1947 Perfecto Yasay Jr., Filipino lawyer and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines (died 2020)

• 1948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor

• 1948 Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist

• 1950 Jiří Bubla, Czech ice hockey player

• 1951 Seth Justman, American keyboard player and songwriter

• 1951 Cees van der Knaap, Dutch soldier and politician

• 1952 Brian Gottfried, American tennis player

• 1952 Billy Johnson, American football player and coach

• 1952 Tam O'Shaughnessy, American tennis player, psychologist, and academic

• 1952 G. E. Smith, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1954 Peter Laird, American author and illustrator

• 1954 Ed Schultz, American talk show host and sportscaster (died 2018)

• 1955 Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1955 John Roberts, American lawyer and judge, 17th Chief Justice of the United States

• 1956 Mimi Rogers, American actress

• 1957 Janick Gers, English guitarist and songwriter

• 1957 Frank Miller, American illustrator, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1958 James Grippando, American lawyer and author

• 1958 Alan Milburn, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

• 1958 Susanna Thompson, American actress

• 1959 Cris Collinsworth, American football player and sportscaster

• 1959 Göran Hägglund, Swedish lawyer and politician, 28th Swedish Minister for Social Affairs

• 1959 Keith Olbermann, American journalist and author

• 1960 Fiona O'Donnell, Canadian-Scottish politician

• 1961 Gillian Gilbert, English musician, songwriter, and singer

• 1961 Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer

• 1961 Margo Timmins, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1962 Roberto Paci Dalò, Italian director and composer

• 1963 George Monbiot, English-Welsh author and activist

• 1964 Bridget Fonda, American actress

• 1964 Jack Haley, American basketball player (died 2015)

• 1964 Patrick van Deurzen, Dutch composer and academic

• 1965 Alan Cumming, Scottish-American actor

• 1965 Mike Newell, English footballer and manager

• 1965 Ignacio Noé, Argentinian author and illustrator

• 1965 Attila Sekerlioglu, Austrian footballer and manager

• 1966 Tamlyn Tomita, Japanese-American actress and singer

• 1967 Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1968 Tracy Lawrence, American country singer

• 1968 Mike Patton, American singer, composer, and voice artist

• 1968 Matt Stover, American football player

• 1968 Tricky, English rapper and producer

• 1969 Michael Kulas, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer

• 1969 Patton Oswalt, American comedian and actor

• 1969 Shane Thomson, New Zealand cricketer

• 1970 Bradley Clyde, Australian rugby league player

• 1970 Dean Headley, English cricketer and coach

• 1971 Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1972 Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress

• 1972 Josh Randall, American actor

• 1972 Bryant Young, American football player and coach

• 1973 Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (died 2014)

• 1974 Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian skier and biathlete

• 1974 Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player and coach

• 1974 Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach

• 1976 Clint Ford, American screenwriter and voice actor

• 1976 Danielle George, American professor

• 1976 Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer

• 1976 Fred Taylor, American football player

• 1977 Tomi Kallio, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1979 Lonny Baxter, American basketball player

• 1979 Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer and coach

• 1980 Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player and coach

• 1980 Marat Safin, Russian tennis player and politician

• 1980 Jiří Welsch, Czech basketball player

• 1981 Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player and sportscaster

• 1981 Tony Woodcock, New Zealand rugby player

• 1982 Eva Asderaki, Greek tennis umpire

• 1983 Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1983 Paulo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1983 Gavin Floyd, American baseball player

• 1983 Lee Grant, English footballer

• 1985 Ruben Amorim, Portuguese footballer and manager

• 1986 Johan Petro, French basketball player

• 1987 Katy Rose, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1987 Anton Shunin, Russian footballer

• 1988 Kerlon, Brazilian footballer

• 1989 Alberto Botía, Spanish footballer

• 1990 Tim Beckham, American baseball player

• 1991 Christian Bickel, German footballer

• 1991 Julio Teherán, Colombian baseball player

• 1992 Stefano Pettinari, Italian footballer

• 1994 Desiree Becker, German politician

• 1994 Jack Stephens, English footballer

• 1995 Harrison Reed, English footballer

• 1996 Braeden Lemasters, American actor, musician, and singer

• 1998 Devin Druid, American actor

• 2000 Morgan Gibbs-White, English footballer

• 2000 Aurélien Tchouaméni, French footballer

• 2003 Park Seong-hoon, South Korean footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 98 Nerva, Roman emperor (born 35)

• 457 Marcian, Byzantine emperor (born 392)

• 555 Yuan Di, emperor of the Liang Dynasty (born 508)

• 672 Pope Vitalian

• 847 Pope Sergius II (born 790)

• 906 Liu Can, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

• 931 Ruotger, archbishop of Trier

• 947 Zhang Yanze, Chinese general and governor

• 1062 Adelaide of Hungary, (born c. 1040)

• 1311 Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan

• 1377 Frederick the Simple, King of Sicily

• 1490 Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shōgun (born 1435)

• 1504 Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo (born 1438)

• 1540 Angela Merici, Italian educator and saint, founded the Company of St. Ursula (born 1474)

• 1592 Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (born 1538)

• 1596 Francis Drake, English captain and explorer (born 1540)

1601–1900

• 1629 Hieronymus Praetorius, German organist and composer (born 1560)

• 1638 Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish author and poet (born 1585)

• 1651 Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1566)

• 1688 Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang of China (born 1613)

• 1689 Robert Aske, English merchant and philanthropist (born 1619)

• 1731 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the piano (born 1655)

• 1733 Thomas Woolston, English theologian and author (born 1669)

• 1740 Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (born 1692)

• 1770 Philippe Macquer, French historian (born 1720)

• 1794 Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille, French general (born 1765)

• 1812 John Perkins, Anglo-Jamaican captain

• 1814 Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (born 1762)

• 1816 Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, English admiral and politician (born 1724)

• 1851 John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (born 1789)

• 1852 Paavo Ruotsalainen, Finnish farmer and lay preacher (born 1777)

• 1860 János Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1802)

• 1873 Adam Sedgwick, British geologist, Anglican priest and doctoral advisor to Charles Darwin (born 1785)

• 1880 Edward Middleton Barry, English architect and academic, co-designed the Halifax Town Hall and the Royal Opera House (born 1830)

1901–present

• 1901 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (born 1813)

• 1910 Thomas Crapper, English plumber and businessman (born 1836)

• 1917 Ernst Sars, Norwegian historian (born 1835)

• 1919 Endre Ady, Hungarian poet and journalist (born 1877)

• 1921 Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant (born 1891)

• 1922 Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (born 1864)

• 1927 Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Lithuanian bishop (born 1871)

• 1931 Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (born 1880)

• 1940 Isaac Babel, Russian short story writer, journalist, and playwright (born 1894)

• 1942 Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (born 1888)

• 1951 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Finnish field marshal and politician, 6th President of Finland (born 1867)

• 1956 Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor and director (born 1890)

• 1961 Bernard Friedberg, Austrian scholar and author (born 1876)

• 1963 John Farrow, Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1904)

• 1965 Abraham Walkowitz, American painter (born 1878)

1967 crew of Apollo 1

• Roger B. Chaffee, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (born 1935)

• Gus Grissom, American pilot and astronaut (born 1926)

• Ed White, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1930)

• 1967 Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (born 1888)

• 1970 Rocco D'Assunta, Italian actor, comedian and playwright (born 1904)

• 1970 Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic (born 1894)

• 1971 Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (born 1913)

• 1972 Mahalia Jackson, American singer (born 1911)

• 1973 William Nolde, American colonel (born 1929)

• 1974 Georgios Grivas, Cypriot general (born 1898)

• 1975 Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (born 1913)

• 1979 Victoria Ocampo. Argentine writer (born 1890)

• 1982 Trần Văn Hương, South Vietnamese politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam, 3rd Vice President of South Vietnam, and 3rd Prime Minister of South Vietnam (born 1902)

• 1983 Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (born 1914)

• 1986 Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (born 1914)

• 1987 Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator and director (born 1914)

• 1988 Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian historian, author, and playwright (born 1938)

• 1989 Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player and pilot (born 1888)

• 1993 André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (born 1946)

• 1994 Claude Akins, American actor (born 1918)

• 1996 Ralph Yarborough, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1903)

• 2000 Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and composer (born 1930)

• 2003 Henryk Jabłoński, Polish historian and politician, President of Poland (born 1909)

• 2004 Salvador Laurel, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th Vice President of the Philippines (born 1928)

• 2004 Jack Paar, American talk show host and author (born 1918)

• 2006 Gene McFadden, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)

• 2006 Johannes Rau, German journalist and politician, 8th President of Germany (born 1931)

• 2007 Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese decathlete, long jumper, and hurdler (born 1933)

• 2008 Suharto, Indonesian general and politician, 2nd President of Indonesia (born 1921)

• 2008 Gordon B. Hinckley, American religious leader and author, 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1910)

• 2008 Louie Welch, American businessman and politician, 54th Mayor of Houston (born 1918)

• 2009 John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (born 1932)

• 2009 R. Venkataraman, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th President of India (born 1910)

• 2010 Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (born 1933)

• 2010 J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (born 1919)

• 2010 Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and activist (born 1922)

• 2011 Charlie Callas, American comedian and musician (born 1927)

• 2012 Greg Cook, American football player and sportscaster (born 1946)

• 2012 Ted Dicks, English composer and screenwriter (born 1928)

• 2012 Jeannette Hamby, American nurse and politician (born 1933)

• 2012 Kevin White, American politician, 51st Mayor of Boston (born 1929)

• 2013 Ivan Bodiul, Ukrainian-Russian politician (born 1918)

• 2013 Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian (born 1925)

• 2014 Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist (born 1919)

• 2014 Epimaco Velasco, Filipino lawyer and politician, Governor of Cavite (born 1935)

• 2014 Paul Zorner, German soldier and pilot (born 1920)

• 2015 Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach (born 1927)

• 2015 David Landau, English-Israeli journalist (born 1947)

• 2015 Joseph Rotman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1935)

• 2015 Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)

• 2015 Larry Winters, American wrestler and trainer (born 1956)

• 2016 Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (born 1930)

• 2017 Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (born 1927)

• 2017 Arthur H. Rosenfeld, American physicist (born 1926)

• 2018 Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA (born 1926)

• 2018 Mort Walker, American cartoonist (born 1923)

• 2019 Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau, German socialite (born 1958)

• 2020 Lina Ben Mhenni, Tunisian Internet activist and blogger (born 1983)

• 2021 Cloris Leachman, American actress and comedian (born 1926)

• 2021 Nunuk Nuraini, Indonesian food scientist (born 1961)

• 2022 Andy Devine, British TV actor (born 1942)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Angela Merici

• Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini

• Devota (Monaco)

• Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló

• John Chrysostom (translation of relics) (Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)

• Sava (Serbia)

• January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia)

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances:

• Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

• International Holocaust Remembrance Day

• Memorial Day (Italy)

• Other Holocaust Memorial Days observances

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on January 27