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Pre-1600

* 363Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the
Sasanian Empire The Sasanian Empire (), officially Eranshahr ( , "Empire of the Iranian peoples, Iranians"), was an List of monarchs of Iran, Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651. Enduring for over four centuries, th ...
, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. * 1046Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book '' Safarnama''. * 1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...
. * 1496 – King
Henry VII of England Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509), also known as Henry Tudor, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor. Henr ...
issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.


1601–1900

* 1616Nicolaus Copernicus's book '' On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'' is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. * 1766Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of
Louisiana Louisiana ( ; ; ) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Of the 50 U.S. states, it ranks 31st in area and 25 ...
, arrives in
New Orleans New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 at the 2020 ...
. * 1770Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the
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 ...
(also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. * 1811
Peninsular War The Peninsular War (1808–1814) was fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French ...
: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa. *
1824 Events January–March * January 1 – John Stuart Mill begins publication of The Westminster Review. The first article is by William Johnson Fox * January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of th ...
First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma. * 1825Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities. * 1836Samuel Colt established his first factory to produce recently patented production-model
revolver A revolver is a repeating handgun with at least one barrel and a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold six cartridges before needing to be reloaded, ...
, the .34-caliber "Paterson". * 1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the
Menai Strait The Menai Strait () is a strait which separates the island of Anglesey from Gwynedd, on the mainland of Wales. It is situated between Caernarfon Bay in the south-west and Conwy Bay in the north-east, which are both inlets of the Irish Sea. The s ...
between the island of
Anglesey Anglesey ( ; ) is an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It forms the bulk of the Principal areas of Wales, county known as the Isle of Anglesey, which also includes Holy Island, Anglesey, Holy Island () and some islets and Skerry, sker ...
and the mainland of Wales is opened. * 1860Parma,
Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...
, Modena and Romagna vote in
referendum A referendum, plebiscite, or ballot measure is a Direct democracy, direct vote by the Constituency, electorate (rather than their Representative democracy, representatives) on a proposal, law, or political issue. A referendum may be either bin ...
s to join the Kingdom of Sardinia. * 1868 – '' Mefistofele'', an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala. * 1872George Westinghouse patents the air brake.


1901–present

* 1906Moro Rebellion:
United States Army The United States Army (USA) is the primary Land warfare, land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of th ...
troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors. * 1912
Italo-Turkish War The Italo-Turkish (, "Tripolitanian War", , "War of Libya"), also known as the Turco-Italian War, was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from 29 September 1911 to 18 October 1912. As a result of this conflict, Italy captur ...
: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for
reconnaissance In military operations, military reconnaissance () or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations. In military jargon, reconnai ...
behind Turkish lines. * 1931 – The
British Raj The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani language, Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent, * * lasting from 1858 to 1947. * * It is also called Crown rule ...
: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed. * 1933
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...
's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship. * 1939
Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...
: The National Defence Council seizes control of the republican government in a coup d'etat, with the intention of negotiating an end to the war. * 1940 – Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...
, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre. * 1942
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 ...
: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of
Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...
, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce
battalion A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of up to one thousand soldiers. A battalion is commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into several Company (military unit), companies, each typically commanded by a Major (rank), ...
to Buitenzorg and Bandung. *
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 ...
– World War II: General strike and protest march in Athens against rumours of forced mobilization of Greek workers for work in Germany, resulting in clashes with the Axis occupation forces and collaborationist police. The decree is withdrawn on the next day. * 1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani offensive in the western
Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...
. *
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 ...
Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...
:
Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, ...
delivers his famous " Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College, Missouri. *
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...
, the longest serving leader of the
Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in
Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...
after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier. * 1957Sutton Wick air crash a Blackburn Beverley of 53 Squadron, Royal Air Forces, crashes into the village of Sutton Wick, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) killing most of the crew and passengers and two local residents. * 1960Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members. * 1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee. *1963 – Aeroflot Flight 191 crashes while landing at Aşgabat International Airport, killing 12. *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in
Bahrain Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia. Situated on the Persian Gulf, it comprises a small archipelago of 50 natural islands and an additional 33 artificial islands, centered on Bahrain Island, which mak ...
against the British colonial presence. * 1966BOAC Flight 911, a
Boeing 707 The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range Narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, the initial first flew on Decembe ...
aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into
Mount Fuji is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of . It is the highest mountain in Japan, the second-highest volcano on any Asian island (after Mount Kerinci on the Indonesian island of Sumatra), a ...
,
Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
, killing all 124 people on board. * 1967Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 crashes near Marseilles, Ohio, killing 38. * 1968Air France Flight 212 crashes into La Grande Soufrière, killing all 63 aboard. * 1970 – The
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperatio ...
goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations. *
1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
– An Iberia McDonnell Douglas DC-9 collide in mid-air with a Spantax Convair 990 Coronado over
Nantes Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...
, France, killing all 68 people aboard the DC-9, including music manager Michael Jeffery. * 1974
Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states led by Egypt and S ...
:
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 ...
i forces withdraw from the west bank of the
Suez Canal The Suez Canal (; , ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, Indo-Mediterranean, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest ...
. *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
– The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
. *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
– Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. * 1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British
home computer Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a s ...
, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1 million units around the world. * 1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on
Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is often called Earth's "twin" or "sister" planet for having almost the same size and mass, and the closest orbit to Earth's. While both are rocky planets, Venus has an atmosphere much thicker ...
. * 1991Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45. * 1993Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 crashes at Skopje International Airport in Petrovec, North Macedonia, killing 83. * 2001 – In Mina, Saudi Arabia, 35 pilgrims are killed in a stampede on the Jamaraat Bridge during the
Hajj Hajj (; ; also spelled Hadj, Haj or Haji) is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest city for Muslims. Hajj is a mandatory religious duty for capable Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetim ...
. * 2002 – An
earthquake An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity, from those so weak they ...
in
Mindanao Mindanao ( ) is the List of islands of the Philippines, second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and List of islands by population, seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the ...
, Philippines, kills 15 people and injures more than 100. * 2003 – In
Haifa Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...
, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing. *
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
– An Antonov An-148 crashes in Russia's Alexeyevsky District, Belgorod Oblast during a test flight, killing all seven aboard. * 2012Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through
Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...
. *2012 – Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a hair salon in
Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...
, Romania. * 2018Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin. * 2021
Pope Francis Pope Francis (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until Death and funeral of Pope Francis, his death in 2025. He was the fi ...
begins a historical visit to Iraq amidst the
COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. * 2021 – Twenty people are killed and 30 injured in a suicide car bombing in
Mogadishu Mogadishu, locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and List of cities in Somalia by population, most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia and has ...
, Somalia. * 2023 – The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two centre-right liberal parties gaining an absolute majority for the first time. * 2023 – A group of four prisoners escape from the Nouakchott Civil Prison, before being caught the next day.


Births


Pre-1600

* 1133Henry II of England (died 1189) * 1224 – Saint Kinga of Poland (died 1292) * 1324David II of Scotland (died 1371) * 1326
Louis I of Hungary Louis I, also Louis the Great (; ; ) or Louis the Hungarian (; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of ...
(died 1382) * 1340Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (died 1375) * 1451William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English Earl (died 1491) *
1512 Year 1512 (Roman numerals, MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 2 – Svante Nilsson (regent of Sweden), Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504, dies at the a ...
Gerardus Mercator Gerardus Mercator (; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a Flemish people, Flemish geographer, cosmographer and Cartography, cartographer. He is most renowned for creating the Mercator 1569 world map, 1569 world map based on a new Mercator pr ...
, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (died 1594) * 1523Rodrigo de Castro Osorio, Spanish cardinal (died 1600) * 1527Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (died 1603) * 1539Christoph Pezel, German theologian (died 1604) * 1563John Coke, English civil servant and politician (died 1644) * 1575William Oughtred, English minister and mathematician (died 1660) * 1585John George I, Elector of Saxony (died 1656) * 1585 – Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (died 1638)


1601–1900

* 1637Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and engineer (died 1712) * 1658Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer and politician, 3rd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (died 1730) * 1693Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and scholar (died 1754) * 1696Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (died 1770) * 1703Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (died 1768) * 1713Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (died 1776) * 1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (died 1783) * 1723Princess Mary of Great Britain (died 1773) * 1733Vincenzo Galeotti, Italian-Danish dancer and choreographer (died 1816) * 1739Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and physician (died 1819) * 1748Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist and biologist (died 1810) * 1748 – William Shield, English violinist and composer (died 1829) * 1750Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French scholar and academic (died 1805) * 1751Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator (died 1829) * 1774Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (died 1842) * 1779Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (died 1865) * 1785Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal (died 1841) * 1794Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (died 1872) * 1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist (died 1870) * 1800Georg Friedrich Daumer, German poet and philosopher (died 1875) * 1814Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian and academic (died 1889) * 1815John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (died 1888) * 1817Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (died 1894) * 1830Étienne-Jules Marey, French physiologist and chronophotographer (died 1904) * 1830 – Charles Wyville Thomson, Scottish historian and zoologist (died 1882) * 1834Félix de Blochausen, Luxembourgian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (died 1915) * 1834 – Marietta Piccolomini, Italian soprano (died 1899) * 1853Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (died 1911) * 1862Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (died 1934) * 1867Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (died 1952) * 1869Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (died 1952) * 1870Frank Norris, American journalist and author (died 1902) * 1870 – Evgeny Paton, French-Ukrainian engineer (died 1953) * 1871Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (died 1919) * 1871 – Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general and politician, Minister Governor-General of Macedonia (died 1941) * 1873Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer (died 1961) * 1874Henry Travers, English-American actor (died 1965) * 1875Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (died 1952) * 1876Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, English lawyer and politician, 8th Lord Chief Justice of England (died 1947) * 1876 – Elisabeth Moore, American tennis player (died 1959) * 1879William Beveridge, English economist and academic (died 1963) * 1879 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st
Estonian Minister of War The Minister of Defence () is the senior government minister, minister at the Ministry of Defence (Estonia), Ministry of Defence () in the Council of Ministers of Estonia, Estonian Government. The minister is one of the most important members o ...
(died 1943) * 1880Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic (died 1968) * 1882Dora Marsden, English author and activist (died 1960) * 1883Pauline Sperry, American mathematician (died 1967) * 1885Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (died 1969) *
1886 Events January * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British rule in Burma, British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5–January 9, 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson ...
Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (died 1975) * 1886 – Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer (died 1927) * 1887Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (died 1959) * 1894Henry Daniell, English-American actor (died 1963) * 1898Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st
Premier of the People's Republic of China The premier of China, officially the Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, is the head of government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and leader of the State Council. This post was established in 1911 near the e ...
(died 1976) * 1898 – Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (died 2015) * 1900Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor (died 1944) * 1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (died 1974)


1901–present

* 1901Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg (died 1971) * 1901 – Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator (died 1970) * 1904Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (died 1984) * 1905László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (died 1992) * 1908Fritz Fischer, German historian and author (died 1999) * 1908 – Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (died 1990) * 1908 – Rex Harrison, English actor (died 1990) * 1910Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (died 2007) * 1910 – Ennio Flaiano, Italian author, screenwriter, and critic (died 1972) * 1911Subroto Mukerjee, Indian Air Marshall, Father of the Indian Air Force (died 1960) * 1912Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer, and politician, 28th
Prime Minister of New Zealand The prime minister of New Zealand () is the head of government of New Zealand. The prime minister, Christopher Luxon, leader of the New Zealand National Party, took office on 27 November 2023. The prime minister (informally abbreviated to P ...
(died 1988) * 1915Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (died 1990) * 1915 – Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic (died 2002) * 1917Raymond P. Shafer, American attorney and politician, 39th Governor of Pennsylvania (died 2006) *
1918 The ceasefire that effectively ended the World War I, First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people wor ...
Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2017) * 1918 – Red Storey, Canadian football player, referee, and sportscaster (died 2006) * 1918 –
James Tobin James Tobin (March 5, 1918 – March 11, 2002) was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Harvard University, Harvard and Yale Uni ...
, American economist and academic (died 2002) * 1920José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (died 2009) * 1920 – Virginia Christine, American actress (died 1996) * 1920 – Rachel Gurney, English actress (died 2001) * 1920 – Wang Zengqi, Chinese writer (died 1997) * 1921Arthur A. Oliner, American physicist and electrical engineer (died 2013) * 1921 – Elmer Valo, American baseball player and coach (died 1998) * 1922James Noble, American actor (died 2016) * 1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1975) * 1923Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and academic (died 2014) * 1923 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (died 2003) * 1924Roger Marche, French footballer (died 1997) * 1927Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer (died 1976) * 1927 – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish businessman and politician (died 2023) * 1928J. Hillis Miller, American academic and critic (died 2021) * 1929Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (died 2015) * 1929 – J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1967) * 1930John Ashley, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (died 2008) * 1930 – Del Crandall, American baseball player and manager (died 2021) * 1931Fred, French author and illustrator (died 2013) * 1931 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player and educator (died 2020) * 1932Paul Sand, American actor * 1933Walter Kasper, German cardinal and theologian * 1934Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist,
Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...
laureate (died 2024) * 1934 – James B. Sikking, American actor (died 2024) *
1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
Letizia Battaglia, Italian photographer and journalist (died 2022) * 1935 – Philip K. Chapman, Australian-American astronaut and engineer (died 2021) * 1935 – Shamsuddin Qasemi, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (died 1996) * 1936Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003) * 1936 – Dale Douglass, American golfer (died 2022) * 1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor (died 2021) * 1937Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian general and politician, 5th President of Nigeria *
1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...
Paul Evans, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1938 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (died 2011) * 1938 – Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter * 1939Samantha Eggar, English actress * 1939 – Tony Rundle, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (died 2025) * 1939 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian actor and comedian (died 1995) * 1939 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (died 2010) * 1939 – Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef * 1940Tom Butler, English bishop * 1940 – Ken Irvine, Australian rugby league player (died 1990) * 1940 – Graham McRae, New Zealand race car driver (died 2021) * 1940 – Sepp Piontek, German footballer and manager * 1941Des Wilson, New Zealand-English businessman and activist * 1942Felipe González, Spanish lawyer and politician,
Prime Minister of Spain The prime minister of Spain, officially president of the Government (), is the head of government of Spain. The prime minister nominates the Spanish government departments, ministers and chairs the Council of Ministers (Spain), Council of Mini ...
* 1942 – Mike Resnick, American author and editor (died 2020) *
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 ...
Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1998) * 1944Peter Brandes, Danish painter and sculptor * 1944 – Roy Gutman, American journalist and author * 1945Wilf Tranter, English footballer *
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 ...
Richard Bell, Canadian pianist (died 2007) * 1946 – Guerrino Boatto, Italian illustrator and painter (died 2018) * 1946 – Graham Hawkins, English footballer and manager (died 2016) * 1946 – Murray Head, English actor and singer * 1947Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer and actress (died 2025) * 1947 – Kent Tekulve, American baseball player and sportscaster *
1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...
Eddy Grant Edmond Montague Grant (born 5 March 1948) is a Guyanese in the United Kingdom, Guyanese-British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known for his genre-blending sound and socially conscious lyrics; his music has blended elements of p ...
, Guyanese-British singer-songwriter and musician * 1948 – Richard Hickox, English conductor and scholar (died 2008) * 1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress * 1948 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (died 1984) * 1948 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach (died 2011) *
1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis ...
Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector * 1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence * 1949 – Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1951Rodney Hogg, Australian cricketer and coach * 1952Petar Borota, Serbian footballer and coach (died 2010) * 1952 – Alan Clark, English musician and songwriter * 1952 – Robin Hobb, American author * 1952 – Mike Squires, American baseball player and scout *
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
Katarina Frostenson, Swedish poet and author * 1953 – Michael J. Sandel, American philosopher and academic * 1953 – Tokyo Sexwale, South African businessman and politician, 1st Premier of Gauteng * 1954João Lourenço, Angolan politician, 3rd President of Angola * 1954 – Marsha Warfield, American actress * 1955
Penn Jillette Penn Fraser Jillette (born March 5, 1955) is an American Magic (illusion), magician, actor, comedian, musician, inventor, television presenter, and author, best known for his work with fellow magician Teller (magician), Teller as half of the t ...
, American magician, actor, and author *
1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress * 1956 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2010) * 1956 – Christopher Snowden, English engineer and academic * 1957Mark E. Smith, English singer, songwriter and musician (died 2018) * 1957 – Ray Suarez, American journalist and author * 1958Volodymyr Bezsonov, Ukrainian footballer and manager * 1958 – Bob Forward, American director, producer, and screenwriter * 1958 – Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1988) * 1959Talia Balsam, American actress * 1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (died 1999) * 1960Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson, English businessman and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology * 1960 – Mike Munchak, American football player and coach * 1963Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and television host * 1964Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter * 1964 – Scott Skiles, American basketball player and coach * 1964 – Gerald Vanenburg, Dutch footballer and manager * 1964 – Reggie Williams, American basketball player and coach *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
José Semedo, Portuguese footballer and coach * 1966Oh Eun-sun, South Korean mountaineer * 1966 – Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach * 1966 – Michael Irvin, American football player, sportscaster, and actor * 1966 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter * 1966 – Zachary Stevens, American singer-songwriter * 1968Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th
Prime Minister of Hungary The prime minister of Hungary () is the head of government of Hungary. The prime minister and the government of Hungary, Cabinet are collectively accountability, accountable for their policies and actions to the National Assembly (Hungary), Par ...
* 1968 – Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland * 1969Paul Blackthorne, English actor and producer * 1969 – Danny King, English author and playwright * 1969 – Moussa Saïb, Algerian footballer and manager * 1969 – M.C. Solaar, Senegalese-French rapper * 1970Mike Brown, American basketball player and coach * 1970 – John Frusciante, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer * 1970 – Yuu Watase, Japanese illustrator * 1970 – Aleksandar Vučić, Serbian president *
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
Greg Berry, English footballer and coach * 1971 – Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player and scout * 1971 – Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter * 1971 – Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian cyclist * 1971 – Mark Protheroe, Australian rugby league player *
1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
Brian Grant, American basketball player *
1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer and manager * 1973 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (died 2009) * 1973 – Juan Esnáider, Argentine footballer and manager * 1973 – Ryan Franklin, American baseball player * 1973 – Nicole Pratt, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster * 1973 – Špela Pretnar, Slovenian skier * 1974Kevin Connolly, American actor and director * 1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer * 1974 – Matt Lucas, English actor, comedian, writer, and television personality * 1974 – Eva Mendes, American model and actress * 1975
Jolene Blalock Jolene Blalock ( ; born March 5, 1975) is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing the Vulcan first officer and science officer T'Pol on the science-fiction series '' Star Trek: Enterprise''. Her other work includes guest-st ...
, American model and actress * 1975 – Luciano Burti, Brazilian race car driver and sportscaster * 1975 – Sasho Petrovski, Australian footballer * 1975 – Chris Silverwood, English cricketer and coach *
1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
Neil Jackson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter * 1976 – Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach * 1976 – Paul Konerko, American baseball player * 1976 – Norm Maxwell, New Zealand rugby player * 1977Taismary Agüero, Cuban-Italian volleyball player * 1977 – Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player * 1977 – Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player and sportscaster *
1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
Jared Crouch, Australian footballer * 1978 – Mike Hessman, American baseball player and coach * 1978 – Kimberly McCullough, American actress, singer, and dancer * 1978 – Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer *
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
Martin Axenrot Erik Martin "Axe" Axenrot (born 5 March 1979 in Linköping, Linköping, Sweden) is a Swedish death metal drummer, best known as the former drummer for progressive metal band Opeth (2005-2021). Since 2004, he is the drummer for Bloodbath. Know ...
, Swedish drummer * 1979 – Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player * 1979 – Lee Mears, English rugby player * 1980Shay Carl, American businessman, co-founded Maker Studios * 1981Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player * 1981 – Paul Martin, American ice hockey player * 1981 – Karolina Wydra, Polish-American actress and model * 1982Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby player * 1982 – Philipp Haastrup, German footballer * 1983Édgar Dueñas, Mexican footballer * 1984Branko Cvetković, Serbian basketball player * 1984 – Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer * 1985David Marshall, Scottish footballer * 1985 – Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor * 1985 – Brad Mills, American baseball player * 1986Alexandre Barthe, French footballer * 1986 – Corey Brewer, American basketball player and coach * 1986 – Matty Fryatt, English footballer * 1986 – Shikabala, Egyptian footballer * 1987Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player * 1987 – Chris Cohen, English footballer * 1988Jovana Brakočević, Serbian volleyball player * 1988 – Liassine Cadamuro-Bentaïba, Algerian footballer * 1989Sterling Knight, American actor, singer, and dancer * 1989 – Jake Lloyd, American actor * 1990Danny Drinkwater, English footballer * 1990 – Mason Plumlee, American basketball player * 1990 – Alex Smithies, English footballer * 1991Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentine footballer * 1991 – Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and composer * 1992Sam Bankman-Fried, American businessman and fraudster * 1993El Hadji Ba, French footballer * 1993 – Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer * 1993 – Fred, Brazilian footballer * 1993 – Ahmed Hassan, Egyptian footballer * 1993 – Harry Maguire, English footballer * 1993 – Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player * 1994Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player * 1994 – MJ, South Korean singer and actor * 1996Taylor Hill, American model * 1996 – Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese-American basketball player * 1997Milena Venega, Cuban rower * 1998Bo Bichette, American baseball player *
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 ...
Madison Beer, American singer-songwriter * 1999 – Justin Fields, American football player * 1999 – Yeri, South Korean singer and actress * 2000Doug Edert, American basketball player * 2007Roman Griffin Davis, English actor


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 254Pope Lucius I * 824Suppo I, Frankish nobleman * 1239Hermann Balk, German knight * 1410Matthew of Kraków, Polish reformer (born 1335) * 1417Manuel III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (born 1364) * 1534Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter and educator (born 1489) * 1539Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor of Portuguese India (born 1487) * 1599Guido Panciroli, Italian historian and jurist (born 1523)


1601–1900

* 1611Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (born 1533) * 1622Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (born 1569) * 1695Henry Wharton, English writer and librarian (born 1664) * 1726Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1655) * 1770Crispus Attucks, American slave, sailor, and stevedore, generally regarded as the first victim of the Boston Massacre (born 1723) *
1778 Events January–March * January 18 – Third voyage of James Cook: Sea captain, Captain James Cook, with ships HMS Resolution (1771), HMS ''Resolution'' and HMS Discovery (1774), HMS ''Discovery'', first views Oahu, Oʻahu th ...
Thomas Arne, English composer and educator (born 1710) * 1815Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (born 1734) * 1827Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1749) * 1827 –
Alessandro Volta Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (, ; ; 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827) was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and Power (physics), power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery a ...
, Italian physicist and academic (born 1745) * 1829
John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before Presidency of John Adams, his presidency, he was a leader of ...
, English sailor and mutineer (born 1766) * 1849
David Scott David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the List of Apollo astronauts#People who have walked on the Moon, seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the NASA Astronaut ...
, Scottish historical painter (born 1806) * 1876
Marie d'Agoult Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d'Agoult (born de Flavigny; 31 December 18055 March 1876), was a French romanticism, romantic author and historian, known also by her pen name, Daniel Stern. Life Marie was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, w ...
, German-French historian and author (born 1805) * 1889Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor and translator (born 1831) * 1893Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (born 1828) * 1895Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (born 1831) * 1895 – Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (born 1810)


1901–present

* 1907Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (born 1843) * 1925Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (born 1859) * 1927Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (born 1840) * 1929David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (born 1854) * 1934Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (born 1893) *
1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (born 1877) * 1940Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (born 1868) * 1942George Plant, executed Irish Republican (born 1904) * 1944Max Jacob, French poet and author (born 1876) * 1945Lena Baker,
African American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...
held captive post slavery-era (born 1900) * 1947Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1883) * 1950Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, author, and playwright (born 1868) * 1950 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (born 1907) *
1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (born 1897) * 1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1891) * 1953 –
Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...
, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (born 1878) * 1955Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lithuania (born 1888) * 1963Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (born 1932) * 1963 – Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1913) * 1963 – Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1921) *
1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
Chen Cheng, Chinese general and politician, 27th Premier of the Republic of China (born 1897) * 1965 – Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (born 1904) * 1966Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (born 1889) * 1967Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (born 1905) * 1967 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian political scientist and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran (born 1882) * 1967 – Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th
Governor General of Canada The governor general of Canada () is the federal representative of the . The monarch of Canada is also sovereign and head of state of 14 other Commonwealth realms and resides in the United Kingdom. The monarch, on the Advice (constitutional la ...
(born 1888) *
1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
Allan Nevins, American journalist and author (born 1890) *
1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
Robert C. O'Brien, American journalist and author (born 1918) * 1974John Samuel Bourque, Canadian colonel and politician (born 1894) * 1974 – Billy De Wolfe, American actor (born 1907) * 1974 – Sol Hurok, Ukrainian-American businessman (born 1888) *
1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (born 1889) * 1977Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (born 1949) * 1980
Jay Silverheels Jay Silverheels (born Harold Jay Smith; May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a First Nations in Canada, First Nations and Mohawk people, Mohawk actor and athlete, descended from three Iroquois nations. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the ...
, Canadian-American actor (born 1912) * 1981Yip Harburg, American songwriter and composer (born 1896) * 1982John Belushi, American actor (born 1949) * 1984Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (born 1913) * 1984 – William Powell, American actor (born 1892) * 1988Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (born 1933) * 1990Gary Merrill, American actor and director (born 1915) * 1995Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter and musician (born 1943) * 1996Whit Bissell, American character actor (born 1909) * 1997Samm Sinclair Baker, American writer (born 1909) * 1997 – Jean Dréville, French director and screenwriter (born 1906) *
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 ...
Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (born 1922) * 2000Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, actress and singer (born 1963) *
2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (born 1929) * 2008Joseph Weizenbaum, German computer scientist and author (born 1923) * 2010Charles B. Pierce, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1938) * 2010 – Richard Stapley, British actor and writer (born 1923) *
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter (born 1945) * 2012Paul Haines, New Zealand-Australian author (born 1970) * 2012 – Philip Madoc, Welsh-English actor (born 1934) * 2012 – William O. Wooldridge, American sergeant (born 1922) *
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (born 1954) * 2013 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, List of Presidents of Venezuela, President of Venezuela (born 1954) * 2013 – Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (born 1921) *2014 – Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host (born 1931) * 2014 – Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (born 1963) * 2014 – Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet and translator (born 1948) * 2014 – Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1931) *2015 – Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1958) * 2015 – Edward Egan, American cardinal and former Archbishop of New York (born 1932) *2016 – Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese activist and politician (born 1932) * 2016 – Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer and engineer (born 1941) * 2016 – Al Wistert, American football player and coach (born 1920) *2017 – Kurt Moll, German opera singer (born 1938)


Holidays and observances

*Christian feast day: **Ciarán of Saigir **John Joseph of the Cross **Saint Piran, Piran **Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea ** Thietmar of Minden **March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *Learn from Lei Feng Day (China) *St Piran's Day (Cornwall)


References


External links


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