Anniversaries 1 January
Birth
![Nicole Oresme photo]()
French philosopher
1323–1382
![Pope Alexander VI photo]()
pope of the Catholic Church 1492-1503
1431–1503
![Huldrych Zwingli photo]()
leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and fo…
1484–1531
![Katherine Philips photo]()
Anglo-Welsh poet and translator
1632–1664
![Anthony Wayne photo]()
Continental Army general
1745–1796
![Antoine-Vincent Arnault photo]()
French dramatist
1766–1834
![Pierre Emmanuel Félix Chazal photo]()
Belgian politician (1808-1892)
1808–1892
![Philip Schaff photo]()
American Calvinist theologian
1819–1893
![Sándor Petöfi photo]()
Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
1823–1849
![Paul Hamilton Hayne photo]()
American editor and poet
1830–1886
![Anna Brackett photo]()
American philosopher
1836–1911
![James Ryder Randall photo]()
American journalist
1839–1908
![Ouida photo]()
British novelist
1839–1908
![James Frazer photo]()
Scottish social anthropologist
1854–1941
![Pierre de Coubertin photo]()
Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
1863–1937
![Alfred Stieglitz photo]()
American photographer
1864–1946
![E.M. Forster photo]()
English novelist
1879–1970
![Wilhelm Canaris photo]()
German admiral, head of military intelligence service
1887–1945
![J. Edgar Hoover photo]()
American law enforcement officer and first director of the …
1895–1972
![Haj Amin al-Husseini photo]()
Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader
1895–1974
![Stepan Bandera photo]()
Ukrainian anti-communist
1909–1959
![John Henrik Clarke photo]()
American historian and writer
1915–1998
![Jerome David Salinger photo]()
American writer
1919–2010
![Ernest Hollings photo]()
politician from the United States
1922–2019
![Marek Edelman photo]()
Jewish resistance member
1922–2009
![Ousmane Sembène photo]()
Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor & a…
1923–2007
![Charlie Munger photo]()
American business magnate, lawyer, investor, and philanthro…
1924
![Arthur Danto photo]()
American art critic and philosopher
1924–2013
![Mario Merz photo]()
Italian artist, painter and sculptor
1925–2003
![Joe Orton photo]()
English playwright and author
1933–1967
![Edward Fredkin photo]()
American physicist and computer scientist, a pioneer of dig…
1934
![Benjamin W. Lee photo]()
Korean American physicist
1935–1977
![B. Kliban photo]()
American cartoonist
1935–1990
![Muhammad Alauddin Siddiqui photo]()
Islamic Sufi Scholar
1936–2017
![Arnold Mindell photo]()
American psychologist
1940
![John F. Sowa photo]()
artificial intelligence researcher
1940
![L.A. Meyer photo]()
American writer
1942–2014
![Brian W. Kernighan photo]()
Canadian computer scientist
1942
![Abdul Hamid photo]()
Current President of Bangladesh
1944
![Yusuf Estes photo]()
American Islamic preacher
1944
![Jon Corzine photo]()
New Jersey politician
1947
![Pavel Grachev photo]()
Soviet generals
1948–2012
![Wang Ching-feng photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1952
![Gary Johnson photo]()
American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New …
1953
![Dennis O'Driscoll photo]()
Irish poet, critic
1954–2012
![Mutale Nalumango photo]()
14th Vice-President of Zambia
1955
![John O'Donohue photo]()
Irish writer, priest and philosopher
1956–2008
![Christopher Moore photo]()
American writer of comic fantasy
1957
![Mark Hurd photo]()
American businessman, philanthropist and CEO of Oracle
1957–2019
![Karen Pence photo]()
First Lady of Indiana, schoolteacher
1958
![Hamza Yusuf photo]()
American Islamic scholar
1958
![Brother Yun photo]()
Chinese christian house church leader
1958
![Mehmet Görmez photo]()
Turkish civil servant
1959
![Azali Assoumani photo]()
President of Comoros
1959
![Fintan Gavin photo]()
Irish Roman Catholic prelate (born 1966)
1966
![Spencer Tunick photo]()
American photographer
1967
![Tomonobu Itagaki photo]()
Japanese video game designer
1967
![Mr. Lawrence photo]()
American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, …
1969
![Samukeliso Moyo photo]()
athletics competitor
1974
![Ayman Odeh photo]()
Israeli lawyer and member of the Knesset
1975
![Philip Mulryne photo]()
Northern Irish footballer
1978
![David Daleiden photo]()
American anti-abortion activist
1989
Death
![Filippo Baldinucci photo]()
Italian art historian
1625–1697
![Antonio Cocchi photo]()
Italian physician and naturalist
1695–1758
![Francis Place photo]()
English social reformer
1771–1854
![Louis Auguste Blanqui photo]()
French socialist and political activist
1805–1881
![C. P. Scott photo]()
British journalist, publisher and politician
1846–1932
![Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg photo]()
German chancellor during World War I
1856–1921
![Heinrich Hertz photo]()
German physicist
1857–1894
![Edwin Lutyens photo]()
British architect
1869–1944
![Frank Hague photo]()
Mayor of Jersey City
1876–1956
![J. Gresham Machen photo]()
American theologian
1881–1937
![Yrjö Kallinen photo]()
Finnish politician
1886–1976
![Edward Weston photo]()
American photographer
1886–1958
![Maurice Chevalier photo]()
French actor, singer and entertainer
1888–1972
![Howard Scott photo]()
American engineer
1890–1970
![Herbert M. Shelton photo]()
American medical writer
1895–1985
![Eugene Paul Wigner photo]()
mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning physicist
1902–1995
![Grace Hopper photo]()
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
1906–1992
![Kiro Gligorov photo]()
President of the Republic of Macedonia
1917–2012
![Helen Suzman photo]()
South African politician
1917–2009
![Jean Mayer photo]()
French-American scientist, university administrator
1920–1993
![Alfred Lansing photo]()
American journalist
1921–1975
![Hank Williams photo]()
American country music singer
1923–1953
![Shirley Chisholm photo]()
American politician
1924–2005
![Helmut Koester photo]()
biblical scholar
1926–2016
![Mario Cuomo photo]()
American politician, Governor of New York
1932–2015
![Asher Peres photo]()
Israeli physicist
1934–2005
![Eugene J. Martin photo]()
American artist
1938–2005
![Derek Parfit photo]()
British philosopher
1942–2017
![Townes Van Zandt photo]()
singer-songwriter
1944–1997
