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Pre-1600

* 38 BCOctavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea. * 1377Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. * 1524Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean. * 1562 – France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain. * 1595 – During the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.


1601–1900

* 1608 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men. * 1641Reapers' War: The Junta de Braços (parliamentary assembly) of the Principality of Catalonia accepts the proposal of establishment of the Catalan Republic under French protection. * 1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the " Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. * 1649 – The Second Ormonde Peace creates an alliance between the Irish Royalists and Confederates during the War of the Three Kingdoms. The coalition was then decisively defeated during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. * 1773 – Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle. *
1781 Events January–March * January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament of Great Britain, Parliament, aged 21. * January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens ...
American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which Am ...
: Battle of Cowpens: Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina. * 1799Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. * 1811Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries. * 1852 – The United Kingdom signs the Sand River Convention with the South African Republic. * 1873 – A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War. * 1885 – A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan. * 1893Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * 1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.


1901–present

* 1903El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve. * 1904Anton Chekhov's '' The Cherry Orchard'' receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre. * 1912 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. * 1915
Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...
defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of
World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
. * 1917 – The United States pays Denmark 25 million for the Virgin Islands. * 1918Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard. * 1920Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect. * 1941Franco-Thai War: Vichy French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy. * 1943
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel ''Agios Stefanos'' and mans her with part of her crew. * 1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties. * 1945 – World War II: The Vistula–Oder Offensive forces German troops out of
Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
. * 1945 – The '' SS-Totenkopfverbände'' begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as the Red Army closes in. * 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again. *
1946 1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...
– The UN Security Council holds its first session. * 1948 – The Renville Agreement between the
Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
and
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
is ratified. * 1950 – The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in
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. * 1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 79 relating to arms control is adopted. * 1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the " military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending. * 1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States. * 1966Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea. * 1969Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA. * 1977Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah. * 1981President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it. * 1991Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into
Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation. * 1991 – Crown Prince Harald of Norway becomes King Harald V, following the death of his father, King Olav V. * 1992 – During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. * 1994 – The 6.7 Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured. * 1995 – The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of 7, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced. * 1996 – The Czech Republic applies for membership in the
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...
. * 1997Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad. * 1998Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill ClintonMonica Lewinsky affair on his '' Drudge Report'' website. * 2002Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. * 2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing. * 2008British Airways Flight 38 crashes short of the runway at Heathrow Airport, injuring 47. * 2010Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, results in at least 200 deaths. * 2013 – Former cyclist Lance Armstrong confesses to his doping in an airing of '' Oprah's Next Chapter''. * 2013 – Shahzad Luqman is murdered by members of Golden Dawn in Petralona,
Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...
, leading the creation of new measures to combat race-based attacks in Greece. * 2016 – President Barack Obama announces the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement intended to limit Iran's nuclear program. * 2017The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is announced to be suspended. * 2023An avalanche strikes Nyingchi, Tibet, killing 28 people.


Births


Pre-1600

* 1342Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (died 1404) * 1429Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Italian artist (diedc. 1498) * 1463Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (died 1525) * 1463 – Antoine Duprat, French cardinal (died 1535) * 1472Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian captain (died 1508) * 1484George Spalatin, German priest and reformer (died 1545) * 1501Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (died 1566) * 1504Pope Pius V (died 1572) * 1517Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English Duke (died 1554) * 1560Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist, physician, and academic (died 1624) * 1574Robert Fludd, English physician, astrologer, and mathematician (died 1637) * 1593William Backhouse, English alchemist and astrologer (died 1662) * 1600Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright and poet (died 1681)


1601–1900

* 1612Thomas Fairfax, English general and politician (died 1671) * 1640Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler (died 1724) * 1659Antonio Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1745) * 1666Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (died 1723) * 1686Archibald Bower, Scottish historian and author (died 1766) * 1693Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 1739 – 1742); of Spanish Florida (1749 – 1752); and of Yucatán (Mexico, 1754 – 1758) (died 1761) * 1706Benjamin Franklin, American publisher, inventor, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (died 1790) * 1712John Stanley, English organist and composer (died 1786) * 1719William Vernon, American businessman (died 1806) * 1728Johann Gottfried Müthel, German pianist and composer (died 1788) * 1732Stanisław August Poniatowski, Polish-Lithuanian king (died 1798) * 1734François-Joseph Gossec, French composer and conductor (died 1829) * 1761Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (died 1832) * 1789August Neander, German historian and theologian (died 1850) * 1793Antonio José Martínez, Spanish-American priest, rancher and politician (died 1867) * 1814Ellen Wood, English author (died 1887) * 1820Anne Brontë, English author and poet (died 1849) * 1828Lewis A. Grant, American lawyer and general, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1918) * 1828 – Ede Reményi, Hungarian violinist and composer (died 1898) * 1832Henry Martyn Baird, American historian and academic (died 1906) * 1834August Weismann, German biologist, zoologist, and geneticist (died 1914) * 1850Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Brazilian cardinal (died 1930) * 1850 – Alexander Taneyev, Russian pianist and composer (died 1918) * 1851A. B. Frost, American author and illustrator (died 1928) * 1853Alva Belmont, American suffragist (died 1933) * 1853 – T. Alexander Harrison, American painter and academic (died 1930) * 1857Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1941) * 1857 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American engineer (died 1935) * 1858Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian author (died 1940) * 1860Douglas Hyde, Irish academic and politician, 1st President of Ireland (died 1949) * 1863David Lloyd George, Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1945) * 1863 – Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (died 1938) * 1865Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1951) * 1867Carl Laemmle, German-born American film producer, co-founded Universal Studios (died 1939) * 1867 – Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet, English colonel, pilot, and polo player (died 1934) * 1871David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, English admiral (died 1936) * 1871 – Nicolae Iorga, Romanian historian and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (died 1940) * 1875Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan journalist and playwright (died 1910) * 1876Frank Hague, American lawyer and politician, 30th Mayor of Jersey City (died 1956) * 1877Marie Zdeňka Baborová-Čiháková, Czech botanist and zoologist (died 1937) * 1877 – May Gibbs, English-Australian author and illustrator (died 1969) * 1880Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, and producer (died 1960) * 1881Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (died 1941) * 1881 – Harry Price, English psychologist and author (died 1948) * 1882Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (died 1946) * 1883Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish author, poet, and playwright (died 1972) * 1886Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (died 1955) * 1887Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (died 1975) * 1888Babu Gulabrai, Indian philosopher and author (died 1963) * 1897Marcel Petiot, French physician and serial killer (died 1946) * 1898Lela Mevorah, Serbian librarian (died 1972) * 1899Al Capone, American mob boss (died 1947) * 1899 – Robert Maynard Hutchins, American philosopher and academic (died 1977) * 1899 – Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (died 1960)


1901–present

* 1901Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-American philosopher and author (died 1973) * 1904Hem Vejakorn, Thai painter and illustrator (died 1969) * 1905Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (died 2005) * 1905 – Peggy Gilbert, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 2007) * 1905 – Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, educator, and critic (died 1950) * 1905 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentinian footballer and manager (died 1966) * 1905 – Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet and translator (died 1960) * 1907Henk Badings, Indonesian-Dutch composer and engineer (died 1987) * 1907 – Alfred Wainwright, British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator (died 1991) * 1908Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager and trainer (died 1985) * 1911Busher Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1966) * 1911 – John S. McCain Jr., American admiral (died 1981) * 1911 – George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991) * 1914Anacleto Angelini, Italian-Chilean businessman (died 2007) * 1914 – Irving Brecher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008) * 1914 – Howard Marion-Crawford, English actor (died 1969) * 1914 – Paul Royle, Australian lieutenant and pilot (died 2015) * 1914 – William Stafford, American poet and author (died 1993) * 1916Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., American lieutenant and politician (died 2011) * 1917M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor, director, and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (died 1987) * 1918Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education (died 1994) * 1918 – George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (died 2013) * 1920Georges Pichard, French author and illustrator (died 2003) * 1921Jackie Henderson, Scottish footballer (died 2005) * 1921 – Asghar Khan, Pakistani general and politician (died 2018) * 1921 – Charlie Mitten, English footballer and manager (died 2002) * 1921 – Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (died 1998) * 1922Luis Echeverría, Mexican academic and politician, 50th President of Mexico (died 2022) * 1922 – Nicholas Katzenbach, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 65th United States Attorney General (died 2012) * 1922 – Betty White, American actress, game show panelist, television personality, and animal rights activist (died 2021) * 1923Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (died 1962) * 1924Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and journalist (died 2013) * 1924 – Jewel Plummer Cobb, American biologist, cancer researcher, and academic (died 2017) * 1925Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect (died 2017) * 1925 – Robert Cormier, American author and journalist (died 2000) * 1925 – Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer and author (died 1996) * 1926Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and politician (died 2023) * 1926 – Moira Shearer, Scottish-English ballerina and actress (died 2006) * 1926 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer (died 2006) * 1927Thomas Anthony Dooley III, American physician and humanitarian (died 1961) * 1927 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (died 2008) * 1927 – Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (died 2014) * 1927 – E. W. Swackhamer, American director and producer (died 1994) * 1928Jean Barraqué, French composer (died 1973) * 1928 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (died 2012) * 1929Philip Latham, British actor (died 2020) * 1929 – Jacques Plante, Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (died 1986) * 1929 – Tan Boon Teik, Malaysian-Singaporean lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of Singapore (died 2012) * 1931James Earl Jones, American actor (died 2024) * 1931 – Douglas Wilder, American sergeant and politician, 66th Governor of Virginia * 1931 – Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2014) * 1932John Cater, English actor (died 2009) * 1932 – Sheree North, American actress and dancer (died 2005) * 1933Dalida, Egyptian-French singer and actress (died 1987) * 1933 – Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-Pakistani diplomat, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (died 2003) * 1933 – Shari Lewis, American actress, puppeteer/ventriloquist, and television host (died 1998) * 1934Donald Cammell, Scottish-American director and screenwriter (died 1996) * 1935Ruth Ann Minner, American businesswoman and politician, 72nd Governor of Delaware (died 2021) * 1936John Boyd, English academic and diplomat, British ambassador to Japan (died 2019) * 1936 – A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (died 1997) * 1937Alain Badiou, French philosopher and academic * 1938John Bellairs, American author and academic (died 1991) * 1938 – Toini Gustafsson, Swedish cross country skier * 1939Christodoulos of Athens, Greek archbishop (died 2008) * 1939 – Maury Povich, American talk show host and producer * 1940Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian-Armenian patriarch (died 2015) * 1940 – Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan athlete * 1940 – Tabaré Vázquez, Uruguayan physician and politician, 39th President of Uruguay (died 2020) * 1941István Horthy, Jr., Hungarian physicist and architect * 1942Muhammad Ali, American boxer and activist (died 2016) * 1942 – Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and author * 1942 – Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist and educator * 1942 – Nigel McCulloch, English bishop * 1943Chris Montez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1943 – René Préval, Haitian agronomist and politician, 52nd President of Haiti (died 2017) * 1944Ann Oakley, English sociologist, author, and academic * 1945Javed Akhtar, Indian poet, playwright, and composer * 1945 – Anne Cutler, Australian psychologist and academic (died 2022) * 1947Joanna David, English actress * 1947 – Jane Elliot, American actress * 1948Davíð Oddsson, Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland * 1949Anita Borg, American computer scientist and academic (died 2003) * 1949 – Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (died 2014) * 1949 – Augustin Dumay, French violinist and conductor * 1949 – Andy Kaufman, American actor and comedian (died 1984) * 1949 – Mick Taylor, English singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1950Luis López Nieves, Puerto Rican-American author and academic * 1952Tom Deitz, American author (died 2009) * 1952 – Darrell Porter, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2002) * 1952 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese pianist, composer, and producer (died 2023) * 1953Jeff Berlin, American bass player and educator * 1953 – Carlos Johnson, American singer and guitarist * 1954Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American environmental lawyer, writer, and conspiracy theorist * 1955Steve Earle, American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, author and actor * 1955 – Pietro Parolin, Italian cardinal * 1955 – Steve Javie, American basketball player and referee * 1956Damian Green, English journalist and politician * 1956 – Paul Young, English singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1957Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian, television personality and game show host * 1957 – Ann Nocenti, American journalist and author * 1958Tony Kouzarides, English biologist, cancer researcher * 1959Susanna Hoffs, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress * 1960John Crawford, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1960 – Chili Davis, Jamaican-American baseball player and coach * 1961Brian Helgeland, American director, producer, and screenwriter * 1962Jun Azumi, Japanese broadcaster and politician, 46th Japanese Minister of Finance * 1962 – Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer * 1962 – Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author * 1962 – Denis O'Hare, American actor and singer * 1963Colin Gordon, English footballer, agent, manager and chief executive * 1963 – Kai Hansen, German singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer * 1964
Michelle Obama Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama ( Robinson; born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United Stat ...
, American lawyer and activist, 44th First Lady of the United States * 1964 – John Schuster, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player * 1965
Sylvain Turgeon Joseph Sylvain Dorilla Turgeon (born January 17, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Hartford Whalers, New Jersey Devils, Montreal Canadiens and Ottawa Se ...
, Canadian ice hockey player * 1966Trish Johnson, English golfer * 1966 – Joshua Malina, American actor * 1966 – Shabba Ranks, Jamaican rapper, musician, and songwriter * 1967Richard Hawley, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer * 1968Rowan Pelling, English journalist and author * 1968 – Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch author, poet, and scholar * 1969Naveen Andrews, English actor * 1969 – Lukas Moodysson, Swedish director, screenwriter, and author * 1969 – Tiësto, Dutch DJ and producer * 1970Cássio Alves de Barros, Brazilian footballer * 1970 – Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player and actor * 1970 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-American animator, director, and producer * 1971Giorgos Balogiannis, Greek basketball player * 1971 – Richard Burns, English race car driver (died 2005) * 1971 – Kid Rock, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor * 1971 – Sylvie Testud, French actress, director, and screenwriter * 1973Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer and actor * 1973 – Chris Bowen, Australian politician, 37th Treasurer of Australia * 1973 – Liz Ellis, Australian netball player and sportscaster * 1973 – Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster * 1974Yang Chen, Chinese footballer and manager * 1974 – Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian viola player, composer, and producer * 1974 – Derrick Mason, American football player * 1975Freddy Rodriguez, American actor * 1977Leigh Whannell, Australian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer * 1978Lisa Llorens, Australian Paralympian * 1978 – Ricky Wilson, English singer-songwriter * 1980Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dancer and choreographer * 1980 – Zooey Deschanel, American singer-songwriter and actress * 1980 – Modestas Stonys, Lithuanian footballer * 1981Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer and manager * 1981 – Ray J, American singer, actor, and television personality * 1981 – Michael Zigomanis, Canadian ice hockey player * 1982Dwyane Wade, American basketball player * 1982 – Andrew Webster, Australian rugby league player and coach * 1982 – Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer * 1983Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer * 1983 – Ryan Gage, English actor * 1983 – Johannes Herber, German basketball player * 1983 – Rick Kelly, Australian race car driver * 1983 – Marcelo Garcia, Brazilian martial artist * 1984Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer * 1984 – Dexter Lumis, American wrestler * 1985Pablo Barrientos, Argentinian footballer * 1985 – Simone Simons, Dutch singer-songwriter * 1986Viktor Stålberg, Swedish ice hockey player * 1987Cody Decker, American baseball player * 1987 – Oleksandr Usyk, Ukrainian boxer * 1988Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer (died 2013) * 1988 – Earl Clark, American basketball player * 1988 – Will Genia, Australian rugby player * 1988 – Jonathan Keltz, American actor * 1988 – Héctor Moreno, Mexican footballer * 1989Taylor Jordan, American baseball player * 1989 – Kelly Marie Tran, American actress * 1990Santiago Tréllez, Colombian footballer * 1990 – Tyler Zeller, American basketball player * 1991Trevor Bauer, American baseball player * 1991 – Willa Fitzgerald, American actress * 1991 – Esapekka Lappi, Finnish rally driver * 1991 – Alise Post, American BMX rider * 1992Stanislav Galiev, Russian ice hockey player * 1994Lucy Boynton, American-English actress * 1994 – Mark Steketee, Australian cricketer * 1995Indya Moore, American actor and model * 1996Allonzo Trier, American basketball player * 1997Jake Paul, American boxer, actor, rapper, and social media personality * 1997 – Kyle Tucker, American baseball player * 1998Sophie Molineux, Australian cricketer * 1998 – Jeff Reine-Adélaïde, French footballer *
1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
Isa Briones, American actor and singer * 2000Kang Chan-hee, South Korean singer and actor * 2000 – Devlin DeFrancesco, Canadian race car driver * 2000 – Ayo Dosunmu, American basketball player * 2001Enzo Fernández, Argentinian footballer * 2002Samuel, American singer based in South Korea.


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 395Theodosius I, Roman emperor (born 347) * 644Sulpitius the Pious, French bishop and saint * 764Joseph of Freising, German bishop * 1040Mas'ud I of Ghazni, Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire (born 998) * 1156André de Montbard, fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar * 1168Thierry, Count of Flanders (born 1099) * 1229Albert of Riga, German bishop (born 1165) * 1329Saint Roseline, Carthusian nun (born 1263) * 1334John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (born 1266) * 1345Henry of Asti, Greek patriarch * 1345 – Martino Zaccaria, Genoese Lord of Chios * 1369
Peter I of Cyprus Peter I (9 October 1328 – 17 January 1369) was King of Cyprus and titular King of Jerusalem from his father's abdication on 24 November 1358 until his death in 1369. He was invested as titular Count of Tripoli in 1346. As King of Cyprus, ...
(born 1328) * 1456Elisabeth of Lorraine-Vaudémont, French translator (born 1395) * 1468Skanderbeg, Albanian soldier and politician (born 1405) * 1523Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg, German landgravine (born 1466) * 1588Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (born 1528) * 1598Feodor I of Russia (born 1557)


1601–1900

* 1617Fausto Veranzio, Croatian bishop and lexicographer (born 1551) * 1705John Ray, English botanist and historian (born 1627) * 1718Benjamin Church, American colonel (born 1639) * 1737Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (born 1662) * 1738Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (born 1682) * 1751Tomaso Albinoni, Italian violinist and composer (born 1671) * 1826Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish-French composer (born 1806) * 1834Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist and academic (born 1762) * 1850Elizabeth Simcoe, English-Canadian painter and author (born 1762) * 1861Lola Montez, Irish actress and dancer (born 1821) * 1863Horace Vernet, French painter (born 1789) * 1869Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (born 1813) * 1878Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (born 1812) * 1884Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (born 1804) * 1887William Giblin, Australian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (born 1840) * 1888Big Bear, Canadian tribal chief (born 1825) * 1891George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1800) * 1893Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th
President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the Federal government of the United States#Executive branch, executive branch of the Federal government of t ...
(born 1822) * 1896Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, Welsh writer and patron of the arts (born 1802)


1901–present

* 1903Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (born 1828) * 1908Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1835) * 1909Agathon Meurman, Finnish politician and journalist (born 1826) * 1909 – Francis Smith, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (born 1819) * 1911Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (born 1822) * 1927Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (born 1860) * 1930Gauhar Jaan, One of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India. (born 1873) * 1931Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (born 1864) * 1932Ahmet Derviş, Turkish general (born 1881) * 1932 – Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1893) * 1933Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (born 1848) * 1936Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (born 1885) * 1942Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (born 1884) * 1947Pyotr Krasnov, Russian historian and general (born 1869) * 1947 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (born 1883) * 1951Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Indian poet, playwright, and director (born 1903) * 1952Walter Briggs Sr., American businessman (born 1877) * 1961Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1925) * 1970Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoon player and educator (born 1890) * 1970 – Billy Stewart, American rhythm and blues singer and pianist (born 1937) * 1972Betty Smith, American author and playwright (born 1896) * 1977Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (born 1940) * 1977 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (born 1940) * 1981Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer and lawyer (born 1899) * 1984Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1903) * 1987Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (born 1908) * 1987 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist and author (born 1927) * 1988Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (born 1938) * 1991Olav V of Norway (born 1903) * 1992Frank Pullen, English soldier and businessman (born 1915) * 1993Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian and academic (born 1915) * 1994Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (born 1926) * 1994 – Helen Stephens, American runner, shot putter, and discus thrower (born 1918) * 1996Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (born 1936) * 1996 – Sylvia Lawler, English geneticist (born 1922) * 1997Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (born 1912) * 1997 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (born 1906) * 2000Philip Jones, English trumpet player and educator (born 1928) * 2000 – Ion Rațiu, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1917) * 2002Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916) * 2002 – Roman Personov, Russian physicist and academic (born 1932) *2003 – Richard Crenna, American actor and director (born 1926) *2004 – Raymond Bonham Carter, English banker (born 1929) * 2004 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (born 1914) * 2004 – Ray Stark, American film producer (born 1915) * 2004 – Noble Willingham, American actor (born 1931) *2005 – Charlie Bell (businessman), Charlie Bell, Australian businessman (born 1960) * 2005 – Virginia Mayo, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1920) * 2005 – Albert Schatz (scientist), Albert Schatz, American microbiologist and academic (born 1920) * 2005 – Zhao Ziyang, Chinese politician, 3rd Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1919) *2006 – Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon (born 1925) * 2007 – Art Buchwald, American journalist and author (born 1925) * 2007 – Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian engineer and politician (born 1951) * 2007 – Uwe Nettelbeck, German record producer, journalist and film critic (born 1940) * 2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (born 1943) * 2008 – Ernie Holmes, American football player, wrestler, and actor (born 1948) *2009 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist and historian (born 1943) * 2010 – Gaines Adams, American football player (born 1983) * 2010 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician and 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1914) * 2010 – Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek journalist and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Greece), Foreign Minister of Greece (born 1919) * 2010 – Erich Segal, American author and screenwriter (born 1937) *2011 – Don Kirshner, American songwriter and producer (born 1934) *2012 – Julius Meimberg, German soldier and pilot (born 1917) * 2012 – Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1921) * 2012 – Marty Springstead, American baseball player and umpire (born 1937) * 2013 – Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author (born 1941) * 2013 – Jakob Arjouni, German author (born 1964) * 2013 – Yves Debay, Belgian journalist (born 1954) * 2013 – John Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (born 1934) * 2013 – Lizbeth Webb, English soprano and actress (born 1926) *2014 – Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (born 1915) * 2014 – Francine Lalonde, Canadian educator and politician (born 1940) * 2014 – Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, English businessman and politician (born 1942) * 2014 – John J. McGinty III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1940) * 2014 – Sunanda Pushkar, Indian-Canadian businesswoman (born 1962) * 2014 – Suchitra Sen, Indian film actress (born 1931) *2015 – Ken Furphy, English footballer and manager (born 1931) * 2015 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress and producer (born 1931) * 2015 – Don Harron, Canadian actor and screenwriter (born 1924) * 2016 – Blowfly (musician), Blowfly, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1939) * 2016 – Melvin Day, New Zealand painter and historian (born 1923) * 2016 – V. Rama Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Sikkim (born 1935) * 2016 – Sudhindra Tirtha (Kashi Math), Sudhindra Thirtha, Indian religious leader (born 1926) * 2017 – Tirrel Burton, American football player and coach (born 1929) * 2017 – Colo (gorilla), Colo, American western lowland gorilla, first gorilla born in captivity and oldest recorded (born 1956) *2019 – S. Balakrishnan (composer), S. Balakrishnan, Malayalam movie composer (born 1948) *2020 – Derek Fowlds, British actor (born1937) *2021 – Rasheed Naz, Pakistani film and television actor (born 1948) *2022 – Birju Maharaj, Indian dancer (born 1937) * 2023 – Lucile Randon, French supercentenarian (born 1904) * 2025 – Didier Guillaume, French politician, 25th Minister of State (Monaco), Minister of State of Monaco (born 1959) * 2025 – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and educator (born 1929) * 2025 – Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, Mongolian politician, 1st President of Mongolia (born 1942) * 2025 – Denis Law, Scottish footballer (born 1940)


Holidays and observances

*Christian feast day: **Anthony the Great **Beatification, Blessed Angelo Paoli **Blessed Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch **Charles Gore (Calendar of saints (Church of England), Church of England) **Jenaro Sánchez Delgadillo (one of Saints of the Cristero War) **Mildgyth **Our Lady of Pontmain ** Sulpitius the Pious **January 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *National Day (Menorca, Spain) *The opening ceremony of Patras Carnival, celebrated until Clean Monday. (Patras, Greece)


References


External links


BBC: On This Day
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Historical Events on January 17
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