Anniversaries 1 January

Birth

Juvenal24

ancient roman poet 50

Nicole Oresme7

French philosopher 1323–1382

Pope Alexander VI6

pope of the Catholic Church 1492-1503 1431–1503

Huldrych Zwingli18

leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and fo… 1484–1531

Katherine Philips3

Anglo-Welsh poet and translator 1632–1664

Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières1

French writer 1638–1694

Soame Jenyns5

British writer 1704–1787

Anthony Wayne6

Continental Army general 1745–1796

Antoine-Vincent Arnault4

French dramatist 1766–1834

Maria Edgeworth16

Irish writer 1768–1849

Pierre Emmanuel Félix Chazal2

Belgian politician (1808-1892) 1808–1892

Arthur Hugh Clough34

English poet 1819–1861

Philip Schaff21

American Calvinist theologian 1819–1893

Sándor Petöfi1

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary 1823–1849

Paul Hamilton Hayne2

American editor and poet 1830–1886

Charles Bowen20

English judge 1835–1894

Anna Brackett1

American philosopher 1836–1911

James Ryder Randall3

American journalist 1839–1908

Ouida6

British novelist 1839–1908

James Frazer50

Scottish social anthropologist 1854–1941

Pierre de Coubertin5

Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian 1863–1937

George Washington Carver10

botanist 1864–1943

Alfred Stieglitz12

American photographer 1864–1946

E.M. Forster200

English novelist 1879–1970

Wilhelm Canaris7

German admiral, head of military intelligence service 1887–1945

J. Edgar Hoover8

American law enforcement officer and first director of the … 1895–1972

Haj Amin al-Husseini1

Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader 1895–1974

Stepan Bandera6

Ukrainian anti-communist 1909–1959

John Henrik Clarke2

American historian and writer 1915–1998

Jerome David Salinger83

American writer 1919–2010

Ernest Hollings3

politician from the United States 1922–2019

Marek Edelman3

Jewish resistance member 1922–2009

Ousmane Sembène1

Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor & a… 1923–2007

Charlie Munger9

American business magnate, lawyer, investor, and philanthro… 1924

Arthur Danto1

American art critic and philosopher 1924–2013

Mario Merz1

Italian artist, painter and sculptor 1925–2003

Wahiduddin Khan4

Islamic Scholar 1925

Vernon L. Smith20

American economist 1927

Haruo Nakajima12

Japanese actor 1929–2017

Adunis2

Essayist, poet 1930

Shoji Shiba2

Japanese academic 1930

Joe Orton50

English playwright and author 1933–1967

Edward Fredkin2

American physicist and computer scientist, a pioneer of dig… 1934

Benjamin W. Lee1

Korean American physicist 1935–1977

B. Kliban1

American cartoonist 1935–1990

Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui1

Islamic Sufi Scholar 1936–2017

Arnold Mindell1

American psychologist 1940

John F. Sowa9

artificial intelligence researcher 1940

L.A. Meyer9

American writer 1942–2014

Brian W. Kernighan6

Canadian computer scientist 1942

Omar al-Bashir1

Sudanese president 1944

Abdul Hamid1

Current President of Bangladesh 1944

Yusuf Estes1

American Islamic preacher 1944

Johanna Nichols1

American linguist 1945

Jon Corzine1

New Jersey politician 1947

Pavel Grachev3

Soviet generals 1948–2012

James Richardson89

American poet 1950

Ali Younesi1

Iranian politician 1951

Wang Ching-feng1

Taiwanese politician 1952

Gary Johnson34

American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New … 1953

Dennis O'Driscoll30

Irish poet, critic 1954–2012

Mutale Nalumango1

14th Vice-President of Zambia 1955

Mary Beard1

English classicist 1955

Sudhir Ruparelia3

Ugandan businessman 1956

John O'Donohue44

Irish writer, priest and philosopher 1956–2008

Martín Espada3

Puerto Rican poet 1957

Christopher Moore134

American writer of comic fantasy 1957

Mark Hurd7

American businessman, philanthropist and CEO of Oracle 1957–2019

Grandmaster Flash3

musician 1958

Karen Pence2

First Lady of Indiana, schoolteacher 1958

Hamza Yusuf4

American Islamic scholar 1958

Brother Yun3

Chinese christian house church leader 1958

Michel Onfray2

French philosopher 1959

Mehmet Görmez1

Turkish civil servant 1959

Azali Assoumani1

President of Comoros 1959

James O'Barr9

Artist 1960

Fintan Gavin1

Irish Roman Catholic prelate (born 1966) 1966

Ivica Dačić3

Serbian politician 1966

Spencer Tunick4

American photographer 1967

Tomonobu Itagaki1

Japanese video game designer 1967

Charlie Huston7

writer 1968

Mr. Lawrence3

American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, … 1969

Samukeliso Moyo1

athletics competitor 1974

Ally Carter273

American writer 1974

Ayman Odeh5

Israeli lawyer and member of the Knesset 1975

Philip Mulryne1

Northern Irish footballer 1978

Jona Weinhofen1

Australian singer 1983

David Daleiden1

American anti-abortion activist 1989

Death

Filippo Baldinucci2

Italian art historian 1625–1697

Antonio Cocchi3

Italian physician and naturalist 1695–1758

Francis Place7

English social reformer 1771–1854

Louis Auguste Blanqui6

French socialist and political activist 1805–1881

C. P. Scott4

British journalist, publisher and politician 1846–1932

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg14

German chancellor during World War I 1856–1921

Heinrich Hertz4

German physicist 1857–1894

Edwin Lutyens1

British architect 1869–1944

Frank Hague2

Mayor of Jersey City 1876–1956

J. Gresham Machen1

American theologian 1881–1937

Yrjö Kallinen4

Finnish politician 1886–1976

Edward Weston1

American photographer 1886–1958

Maurice Chevalier1

French actor, singer and entertainer 1888–1972

Howard Scott4

American engineer 1890–1970

Herbert M. Shelton3

American medical writer 1895–1985

Eugene Paul Wigner6

mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning physicist 1902–1995

Grace Hopper22

American computer scientist and United States Navy officer 1906–1992

Margaret Sullavan3

actress 1909–1960

Margot Grahame2

actress 1911–1982

Kiro Gligorov2

President of the Republic of Macedonia 1917–2012

Helen Suzman11

South African politician 1917–2009

Jean Mayer4

French-American scientist, university administrator 1920–1993

Alfred Lansing1

American journalist 1921–1975

Hank Williams7

American country music singer 1923–1953

Shirley Chisholm12

American politician 1924–2005

Helmut Koester1

biblical scholar 1926–2016

Mario Cuomo39

American politician, Governor of New York 1932–2015

Asher Peres3

Israeli physicist 1934–2005

Eugene J. Martin41

American artist 1938–2005

Derek Parfit24

British philosopher 1942–2017

Townes Van Zandt7

singer-songwriter 1944–1997