Anniversaries 12 January

Birth

John Winthrop2

Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, author of "C… 1588–1649

Charles Perrault15

French author 1628–1703

Jonathan Richardson5

English painter 1667–1745

Edmund Burke270

Anglo-Irish statesman 1729–1797

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi6

Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer 1746–1827

Томас Джозеф Даннинг1

1799–1873

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon3

Canadian writer 1829–1879

Joseph Joffre1

French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French f… 1852–1931

John Singer Sargent3

American painter 1856–1925

Swami Vivekananda261

Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863–1902

Bhagwan Das3

Indian Theosophist 1869–1958

Jack London77

American author, journalist, and social activist 1876–1916

Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad5

Caliph of the Messiah 1889–1965

Hermann Göring40

German politician and military leader 1893–1946

Alfred Rosenberg17

German architect and politician 1893–1946

Joe E. Lewis1

American singer and comedian 1902–1971

Emmanuel Levinas11

French philosopher 1906–1995

Luise Rainer11

German-born Austrian and American film actress 1910–2014

P. W. Botha52

South African prime minister 1916–2006

Mary Wilson2

British poet, wife of Harold Wilson 1916–2018

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi17

Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician 1917–2008

Ilya Prigogine17

physical chemist 1917–2003

Leonard B. Meyer2

American composer and philosopher 1918–2007

Alice Miller24

Swiss psychologist 1923–2010

Morton Feldman13

American avant-garde composer 1926–1987

Alasdair MacIntyre12

Scottish philosopher 1929

Joe Frazier6

American boxer 1944–2011

Nancy Pearl1

American librarian and writer 1945

Jeff Riggenbach5

1947

William Nicholson18

British screenwriter, playwright and novelist 1948

Khalid Abdul Muhammad9

American activist 1948–2001

Martin de Maat17

American theatre director 1949–2001

Haruki Murakami655

Japanese author, novelist 1949

Dorrit Moussaieff1

First Lady of Iceland 1950

Sheila Jackson Lee4

American politician 1950

Kirstie Alley1

American actress 1951

Rush Limbaugh60

U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and televis… 1951

Walter Mosley11

American writer 1952

Cliff Bentz1

American politician 1952

Howard Stern12

American radio personality 1954

Jeffrey Zeldman1

Internet pioneer 1955

Marie Colvin1

American journalist, war reporter 1956–2012

Antoine Chbeir2

Lebanese cleric, Maronite bishop of Latakia 1961

Kyung-sook Shin2

Korean writer 1963

Jeff Bezos8

American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc. 1964

Jimmy John Liautaud7

Jimmy John's Owner, Founder, & Chairman 1964

Rob Zombie1

American singer 1965

Takehiko Inoue7

Japanese artist 1967

Heather Mills1

former glamour model, activist 1968

David Mitchell68

English novelist 1969

Zack de la Rocha8

American musician, poet rapper and activist best known as t… 1970

A. Lee Martinez3

Author 1973

Melanie C1

British singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman 1974

DJ Paul4

American rapper and record producer 1977

Hannah Gadsby3

Australian comedian 1978

Kris Roe7

American composer and singer 1978

David Zabriskie2

road bicycle racer 1979

Kameron Hurley12

American writer 1980

Jonathan Arnott2

British politician 1981

Issa Rae3

American actress and writer 1985

Edward W. Hardy2

American composer, musician and producer 1992

Zayn Malik13

British singer 1993

Death

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr11

poet 967–1049

Pierre de Fermat5

French mathematician and lawyer 1601–1665

Marguerite Bourgeoys6

French colonist and foundress 1620–1700

Jacob Leupold3

German multidisciplinary scientist 1674–1727

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel67

German poet, critic and scholar 1772–1829

Henry Alford4

English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poe… 1810–1871

Hermann Minkowski11

German mathematician and physicist 1864–1909

William H. P. Blandy1

American admiral 1890–1954

Agatha Christie320

English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

Nevil Shute5

British racing driver 1899–1960

Alberto Giacometti8

Swiss sculptor and painter (1901-1966) 1901–1966

Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter12

Marquess of Exeter 1909–1988

Stanley Unwin (comedian)6

British comedian 1911–2002

Laurence J. Peter26

Canadian eductor 1919–1990

Leopoldo Galtieri20

Argentine military dictator 1926–2003

William Peter Blatty6

American writer and filmmaker 1928–2017

Bo Hi Pak3

South Korean member of the Unification Church 1930–2019

Lorraine Hansberry14

playwright and writer 1930–1965

Roger Corless1

English theologian and academic 1938–2007

Roger Scruton45

English philosopher 1944–2020