Events

Pre-1600

• 1477 Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.

1601–1900

• 1675 Battle of Colmar: The French army defeats forces from Austria and Brandenburg.

• 1757 Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who becomes the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering (the traditional form of capital punishment used for regicides).

• 1781 American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by former American general Benedict Arnold.

• 1822 The government of Central America votes for total annexation to the First Mexican Empire.

• 1875 The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.

• 1895 Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

• 1900 Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for revolt against British rule.

1901–present

• 1911 Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third-oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.

• 1912 The sixth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.

• 1913 First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.

• 1914 The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.

• 1919 The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.

• 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.

• 1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.

• 1941 Amy Johnson, a 37-year-old pilot and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.

• 1944 The Daily Mail becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

• 1945 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland.

• 1948 The Semiramis Hotel bombing kills at least 23 people.

• 1949 In his State of the Union address, United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.

• 1953 The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.

• 1957 In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.

• 1967 Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is established following the seizure of power from local city officials by revolutionaries.

• 1968 Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".

• 1969 The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from Baikonur.

• 1969 Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes in Fernhill, West Sussex, UK, while on approach to Gatwick Airport, killing 50 people.

• 1970 The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are known to have been killed and about another 26,000 are injured.

• 1970 A Spantax Convair CV-990 Coronado crashes during takeoff from Stockholm Arlanda Airport, killing five people.

• 1972 US President Richard Nixon announces the Space Shuttle program.

• 1975 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.

• 1976 The Khmer Rouge announce that the new Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea is ratified.

• 1976 The Troubles: Gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before.

• 1991 Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–92 South Ossetia War.

• 1991 Somali Civil War: The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after the outbreak of violence in Mogadishu.

• 1993 The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.

• 2003 A suicide bombing at the Tel Aviv central bus station kills 23 people and injures over 100 more.

• 2005 The dwarf planet Eris is discovered by Palomar Observatory-based astronomers, later motivating the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term planet for the first time.

• 2014 A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the GSLV MK.II D5 marks the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic engine.

• 2022 Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismisses Prime Minister Asqar Mamin and declares state of emergency over the 2022 Kazakh unrest.

• 2023 The 2023 Sinaloa unrest begins.

• 2024 Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 makes an emergency landing at Portland International Airport after a door plug blows off the Boeing 737 MAX 9 operating the flight. There are no fatalities, but the accident prompts the 737 MAX to be grounded and renews scrutiny on Boeing's manufacturing and design issues.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1209 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English prince, nominal King of Germany (died 1272)

• 1530 Gaspar de Bono, monk of the Order of the Minims (died 1571)

• 1548 Francisco Suárez, Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian (died 1617)

• 1587 Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer and explorer (died 1641)

• 1592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (died 1666)

1601–1900

• 1620 Miklós Zrínyi, Croatian military commander (died 1664)

• 1640 Paolo Lorenzani, Italian composer (died 1713)

• 1735 Claude Martin, French-English general and explorer (died 1800)

• 1767 Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and academic (died 1832)

• 1779 Stephen Decatur, American commander (died 1820)

• 1779 Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (died 1813)

• 1781 Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three terms mayor of San Antonio, in Spanish Texas (died 1836)

• 1793 Harvey Putnam, American lawyer and politician (died 1855)

• 1808 Anton Füster, Austrian priest and activist (died 1881)

• 1834 William John Wills, English surgeon and explorer (died 1861)

• 1838 Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (died 1922)

• 1846 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1926)

• 1846 Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (died 1878)

• 1855 King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (died 1932)

• 1864 Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and manager (died 1911)

• 1865 Fatima Cates, British Muslim convert and activist (died 1900)

• 1867 Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1922)

• 1871 Frederick Converse, American composer and academic (died 1940)

• 1874 Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)

• 1876 Konrad Adenauer, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of West Germany (died 1967)

• 1879 Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and academic (died 1946)

• 1880 Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (died 1951)

• 1881 Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter (died 1934)

• 1882 Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist (died 1958)

• 1882 Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (died 1955)

• 1885 Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant (died 1940)

• 1886 Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer (died 1976)

• 1892 Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse (died 1984)

• 1893 Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian-American guru and philosopher (died 1952)

• 1897 Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher and author (died 1945)

• 1900 Yves Tanguy, French-American painter (died 1955)

1901–present

• 1902 Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist (died 1989)

• 1902 Stella Gibbons, English journalist and author (died 1989)

• 1903 Harold Gatty, Australian pilot and navigator (died 1957)

• 1904 Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic (died 1997)

• 1904 Erika Morini, Austrian violinist (died 1995)

• 1906 Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist and academic (died 1978)

• 1907 Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (died 1969)

• 1908 George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (died 1963)

• 1909 Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-American sculptor, painter, and photographer (died 1995)

• 1909 Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist (died 1994)

• 1910 Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and journalist (died 1949)

• 1911 Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor and screenwriter (died 2001)

• 1914 Doug Deitz, Australian rugby league player (died 1994)

• 1914 George Reeves, American actor and director (died 1959)

• 1915 Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian geographer and cartographer (died 2004)

• 1917 Francis L. Kellogg, American businessman and diplomat (died 2006)

• 1917 Wieland Wagner, German director and producer (died 1966)

• 1917 Jane Wyman, American actress (died 2007)

• 1919 Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and politician (died 2012)

• 1919 Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flute player (died 1992)

• 1920 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist and educator (died 1995)

• 1921 Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (died 1990)

• 1921 Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourgish soldier and aristocrat (died 2019)

• 1921 John H. Reed, American politician and diplomat, 67th Governor of Maine (died 2012)

• 1922 Anthony Synnot, Australian admiral (died 2001)

• 1923 Virginia Halas McCaskey, American football executive (died 2025)

• 1923 Sam Phillips, American radio host and producer, founded Sun Records (died 2003)

• 1925 Lou Carnesecca, American basketball player and coach (died 2024)

• 1926 Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singaporean lawyer and politician (died 2008)

• 1926 Veikko Karvonen, Finnish runner (died 2007)

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

• 1926 Hosea Williams, American businessman and activist (died 2000)

• 1927 Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American guru and author, founded Iraivan Temple (died 2001)

• 1928 Imtiaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (died 2016)

• 1928 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th President of Pakistan (died 1979)

• 1928 Denise Bryer, English actress (died 2021)

• 1928 Walter Mondale, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (died 2021)

• 1929 Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (died 2014)

• 1930 Kevin Considine, Australian rugby league player (died 2023)

• 1931 Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer, founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (died 1989)

• 1931 Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist, poet, and author (died 2025)

• 1931 Walt Davis, American athlete (died 2020)

• 1931 Robert Duvall, American actor and director (died 2026)

• 1932 Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (died 2016)

• 1932 Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (died 2014)

• 1934 Murli Manohar Joshi, Indian politician

• 1934 Phil Ramone, South African-American songwriter and producer, co-founded A & R Recording (died 2013)

• 1936 Florence King, American journalist and memoirist (died 2016)

• 1936 Terry Lineen, New Zealand rugby player (died 2020)

• 1938 Juan Carlos I of Spain

• 1938 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author and playwright (died 2025)

• 1939 M. E. H. Maharoof, Sri Lankan politician (died 1997)

• 1940 Athol Guy, Australian singer-songwriter and bassist

• 1940 Pim de la Parra, Surinamese-Dutch film director (died 2024)

• 1941 Bob Cunis, New Zealand cricketer (died 2008)

• 1941 Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (died 1986)

• 1941 Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter

• 1941 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer and coach (died 2011)

• 1942 Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist and conductor (died 2024)

• 1942 Charlie Rose, American journalist and talk show host

• 1942 Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti royal and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait (died 2024)

• 1943 Mary Gaudron, Australian lawyer and judge

• 1943 Murtaz Khurtsilava, Georgian footballer and manager

• 1944 Carolyn McCarthy, American nurse and politician (died 2025)

• 1944 Ed Rendell, American politician, 45th Governor of Pennsylvania

• 1946 Diane Keaton, American actress, director, and businesswoman (died 2025)

• 1947 Mike DeWine, American lawyer and politician, 70th Governor of Ohio

• 1947 Mercury Morris, American football player (died 2024)

• 1948 Ted Lange, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1950 Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian, philosopher, and author (died 1991)

• 1950 Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales

• 1950 John Manley, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

• 1950 Chris Stein, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1952 Uli Hoeneß, German footballer and chairman

• 1953 Pamela Sue Martin, American actress

• 1953 Mike Rann, English-Australian journalist and politician, 44th Premier of South Australia

• 1953 George Tenet, American civil servant and academic, 18th Director of Central Intelligence

• 1954 Alex English, American basketball player and coach

• 1954 László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian author and screenwriter

• 1955 Mamata Banerjee, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal

• 1956 Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German academic and politician, 12th President of Germany

• 1957 Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league player

• 1957 George Moroko, Australian rugby league player

• 1958 Jiří Hrdina, Czech ice hockey player

• 1958 Ron Kittle, American baseball player and manager

• 1959 Clancy Brown, American actor

• 1959 Nancy Delahunt, Canadian curler

• 1960 Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer and sportscaster

• 1961 Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1962 Suzy Amis, American actress and model

• 1962 Danny Jackson, American baseball player and manager

• 1962 Arie Setiabudi Soesilo, Indonesian sociologist

• 1963 Jeff Fassero, American baseball player and coach

• 1965 Vinnie Jones, British footballer and actor

• 1965 Stuart Raper, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1965 Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper

• 1965 – Alfie Turcotte, American ice hockey player

• 1967 Joe Flanigan, American actor

• 1968 Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress, dancer, and choreographer

• 1968 Joé Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player and engineer

• 1969 Marilyn Manson, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director

• 1969 Paul McGillion, Scottish actor

• 1969 Shaun Micheel, American golfer

• 1969 Shea Whigham, American actor

• 1970 Nigel Gaffey, Australian rugby league player

• 1971 Stian Carstensen, Norwegian multi-instrumentalist and composer

• 1972 Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

• 1973 Derek Cecil, American actor

• 1973 Uday Chopra, Indian actor and filmmaker

• 1974 Jessica Chaffin, American actress, comedian, and writer

• 1974 Iwan Thomas, Welsh sprinter and coach

• 1975 Bradley Cooper, American actor and producer

• 1975 Warrick Dunn, American football player

• 1975 Mike Grier, American ice hockey player and scout

• 1976 Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer

• 1977 Gavin Lester, Australian rugby league player

• 1978 January Jones, American actress

• 1979 Jason Basham, American stock car racing driver

• 1979 Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1979 Giuseppe Gibilisco, Italian pole vaulter

• 1979 Scott Kremerskothen, Australian cricketer

• 1980 Luke Bailey, Australian rugby league player

• 1980 Brad Meyers, Australian rugby league player

• 1981 Deadmau5, Canadian musician

• 1981 Brooklyn Sudano, American actress

• 1982 Nori Aoki, Japanese baseball player

• 1982 Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier

• 1984 Derrick Atkins, Bahamian sprinter

• 1984 Matt Ballin, Australian rugby league player

• 1984 Bronx Goodwin, Australian rugby league player

• 1985 Filinga Filiga, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1985 Anthony Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1985 Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer

• 1986 Deepika Padukone, Indian actress

• 1987 Dexter Bean, American race car driver

• 1987 Kristin Cavallari, American television personality

• 1987 Stuart Flanagan, Australian rugby league player

• 1987 Brian Mushana Kwesiga, Ugandan-born entrepreneur, engineer, and civic leader

• 1987 Jason Mitchell, American actor

• 1987 Alexander Salák, Czech ice hockey player

• 1988 Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian track cyclist

• 1988 Luke Daniels, English footballer

• 1988 Mandip Gill, English actress

• 1988 Nikola Kalinić, Croatian footballer

• 1988 Miroslav Raduljica, Serbian basketball player

• 1989 Eduardo Escobar, Venezuelan-American baseball player

• 1989 Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer

• 1990 C. J. Cron, American baseball player

• 1990 Leroy Fer, Dutch footballer

• 1990 José Iglesias, Cuban-American baseball player

• 1990 Mark Nicholls, Australian rugby league player

• 1990 José Luis Palomino, Argentine footballer

• 1991 Denis Alibec, Romanian footballer

• 1991 Eric Fisher, American football player

• 1992 Mike Faist, American actor, singer, and dancer

• 1992 Suki Waterhouse, English actress, singer-songwriter, and model

• 1993 Phillip Dorsett, American football player

• 1993 Franz Drameh, English actor

• 1993 Stefan Rzadzinski, Canadian race car driver

• 1994 Lachlan Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby league player

• 1994 Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player

• 1994 Matt Grzelcyk, American ice hockey player

• 1994 Tyrone Phillips, Australian rugby league player

• 1994 Gustavo Scarpa, Brazilian footballer

• 1995 Toafofoa Sipley, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1996 James Fisher-Harris, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1996 Nicolás Tripichio, Argentine footballer

• 1996 Tyler Ulis, American basketball player and coach

• 1997 Jesús Vallejo, Spanish footballer

• 1998 Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer

• 1998 Corey Horsburgh, Australian rugby league player

• 1999 Mattias Svanberg, Swedish footballer

• 1999 Filip Ugrinić, Swiss footballer

• 2000 Gastón Martirena, Uruguayan footballer

• 2001 Mykhailo Mudryk, Ukrainian footballer

• 2001 Ellis Simms, English footballer

• 2004 Shane Wright, Canadian ice hockey player

• 2009 Walker Scobell, American actor

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 842 Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (born 796)

• 941 Zhang Yanhan, Chinese chancellor (born 884)

• 1066 Edward the Confessor, King of England (born 1004)

• 1173 Bolesław IV the Curly, High Duke of Poland (born 1120)

• 1382 Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (born 1355)

• 1400 John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (born 1350)

• 1430 Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (born 1394)

• 1477 Charles, Duke of Burgundy (born 1433)

• 1524 Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (born 1450)

• 1527 Felix Manz, Swiss martyr (born 1498)

• 1578 Giulio Clovio, Dalmatian painter (born 1498)

• 1580 Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman (born 1542)

• 1589 Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (born 1519)

1601–1900

• 1713 Jean Chardin, French explorer and author (born 1643)

• 1740 Antonio Lotti, Italian composer and educator (born 1667)

• 1762 Empress Elizabeth of Russia (born 1709)

• 1771 John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1710)

• 1796 Samuel Huntington, American jurist and politician, 18th Governor of Connecticut (born 1731)

• 1823 George Johnston, Scottish-Australian colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales (born 1764)

• 1845 Robert Smirke, English painter and illustrator (born 1753)

• 1846 Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter and illustrator (born 1812)

• 1858 Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (born 1766)

• 1860 John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (born 1811)

• 1883 Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (born 1806)

• 1885 Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (born 1812)

• 1888 Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (born 1803)

• 1889 Konstanty Schmidt-Ciążyński, Polish collector and art connoisseur who donated a large collection to the National Museum in Kraków (born 1818)

• 1899 Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (born 1818)

1901–present

• 1904 Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (born 1839)

• 1910 Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (born 1834)

• 1917 Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (born 1865)

• 1922 Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (born 1874)

• 1933 Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (born 1872)

• 1939 Lisandro de la Torre, Argentine politician (born 1868)

• 1942 Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (born 1896)

• 1943 George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (born 1864)

• 1951 Soh Jaipil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (born 1864)

• 1951 Andrei Platonov, Russian journalist and author (born 1899)

• 1952 Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish colonel and politician, 46th Governor-General of India (born 1887)

• 1952 Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian-Italian physician and activist (born 1869)

• 1954 Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (born 1891)

• 1956 Mistinguett, French actress and singer (born 1875)

• 1963 Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1896)

• 1970 Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)

• 1970 Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (born 1896)

• 1971 Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (born 1899)

• 1974 Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (born 1907)

• 1976 John A. Costello, Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (born 1891)

• 1978 Wyatt Emory Cooper, American author and screenwriter (born 1927)

• 1979 Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (born 1894)

• 1979 Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, bandleader (born 1922)

• 1981 Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)

• 1981 Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet and philosopher (born 1901)

• 1982 Hans Conried, American actor (born 1917)

• 1982 Edmund Herring, Australian general and politician, 7th Chief Justice of Victoria (born 1892)

• 1985 Eithne Coyle, Irish Republican, President of Cumann na mBan (born 1897)

• 1985 Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (born 1906)

• 1987 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (born 1926)

• 1987 Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (born 1875)

• 1990 Arthur Kennedy, American actor (born 1914)

• 1991 Vasko Popa, Serbian poet and academic (born 1922)

• 1994 Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1912)

• 1996 Thung Sin Nio, Dutch–Indonesian activist (born 1902)

• 1997 André Franquin, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1924)

• 1997 Burton Lane, American composer and songwriter (born 1912)

• 1998 Sonny Bono, American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and politician (born 1935)

• 2000 Kumar Ponnambalam, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (born 1938)

• 2003 Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1920)

• 2003 Félix Loustau, Argentine footballer (born 1922)

• 2004 Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin (born 1911)

• 2006 Merlyn Rees, Welsh educator and politician, Home Secretary (born 1920)

• 2007 Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman and inventor, founded Nissin Foods (born 1910)

• 2009 Griffin Bell, American lawyer and politician, 72nd United States Attorney General (born 1918)

• 2010 Willie Mitchell, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer (born 1928)

• 2010 Kenneth Noland, American painter (born 1924)

• 2012 Isaac Díaz Pardo, Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1920)

• 2012 Frederica Sagor Maas, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1900)

• 2013 Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (born 1938)

• 2014 Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer and manager (born 1942)

• 2014 Carmen Zapata, American actress (born 1927)

• 2015 Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver and motorcycle racer (born 1937)

• 2015 Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop (born 1912)

• 2016 Pierre Boulez, French pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1925)

• 2017 Jill Saward, English rape victim and activist (born 1965)

• 2018 Asghar Khan, Pakistani three star general and politician (born 1921)

• 2018 Thomas Bopp, American astronomer best known as the co-discoverer of comet Hale–Bopp (born 1949)

• 2018 Karin von Aroldingen, German ballerina (born 1941)

• 2019 Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist (born 1928)

• 2019 Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (born 1937)

• 2020 Tafazzul Haque Habiganji, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (born 1938)

• 2021 Colin Bell, English footballer (born 1946)

• 2021 John Georgiadis, English violinist and composer (born 1939)

• 2022 Kim Mi-soo, South Korean actress and model (born 1992)

• 2024 Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and executive editor of The New York Times (born 1937)

• 2024 Mário Zagallo, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1931)

• 2025 Mike Rinder, Australian-American former Scientologist, critic (born 1955)

• 2025 Costas Simitis, Greek economist, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (born 1936)

Holidays and observances

Christian Feast day:

• Charles of Mount Argus

• John Neumann (Catholic Church)

• Pope Telesphorus

• Simeon Stylites (Latin Church)

• January 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Harbin, China)

• Joma Shinji (Japan)

• National Bird Day (United States)

• The Twelfth day of Christmas and the Twelfth Night of Christmas. (Western Christianity)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on January 5