Anniversaries 21 January

Birth

Ethan Allen40

American general 1738–1789

William Henry Smyth2

English naval officer and hydrographer 1788–1865

John Bingham1

American lawyer and politician 1815–1900

Daniel McCallum25

Canadian engineer and early organizational theorist 1815–1878

Томас «Каменная Стена» Джексон (Стоунволл Джексон)3

1824–1863

Thomas Jackson58

Confederate general 1824–1863

David Lipscomb5

Leader, American Restoration Movement 1831–1917

Helen H. Gardener1

American writer and academic 1853–1925

David Eugene Smith33

American mathematician 1860–1944

Israel Zangwill9

British writer 1864–1926

Grigori Rasputin4

Russian mystic 1869–1916

Roger Nash Baldwin7

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) co-founder 1884–1981

Seishirō Itagaki8

Japanese general 1885–1948

Wolfgang Köhler12

German-American psychologist and phenomenologist 1887–1967

John Bodkin Adams11

general practitionar, fraudster and suspected serial killer 1899–1983

R. P. Blackmur1

American literary critic 1904–1965

Christian Dior35

French fashion designer 1905–1957

Dick Winters3

American military personnel 1918–2011

Paul Scofield11

English actor 1922–2008

Benny Hill1

English comedian and actor 1924–1992

Eva Ibbotson19

British children's writer 1925–2010

János Kornai1

Hungarian economist 1928

Gene Sharp1

American political scientist 1928–2018

Audrey Dalton1

actress 1934

Jerzy Vetulani39

Polish scientist 1936–2017

Jack Nicklaus2

American golfer 1940

Jack Abbott7

Author, criminal 1944–2002

Gretel Ehrlich3

American writer 1946

Thomas Olmsted1

Roman Catholic prelate; 4th Bishop of the Diocese of Phoeni… 1947

Jill Eikenberry1

American actress 1947

Gary Locke8

American politician 1950

Eric Holder41

82nd Attorney General of the United States 1951

Louis Menand1

writer, Pulitzer Prize for History winner 1952

Paul Allen11

American inventor, investor and philanthropist 1953–2018

Jeff Koons9

American artist 1955

Diana Pavlac Glyer1

British writer 1956

Günter Nooke5

German politician 1959

Vasyl Ivasyuk1

1960

Hakeem Olajuwon4

Nigerian–American basketball player 1963

Charlotte Ross2

American actress 1968

M. K. Hobson47

American writer 1969

Michele Bardsley3

American writer 1970

Rickard Falkvinge3

former head of the Swedish Pirate Party 1972

Cat Power3

American singer-songwriter and actress 1972

Marek Forgáč1

Slovak bishop 1974

Johann Hari13

British journalist 1979

Kim Sharma1

Indian actress 1980

Izabella Miko1

Polish actress and dancer 1981

Sasha Pivovarova1

Russian model 1985

Bisola Aiyeola3

Nigerian Actress 1986

Booboo Stewart1

American actor 1994

Chanelle Peloso1

Canadian actress 1994

Death

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury2

English politician and Earl 1621–1683

Bernard Mandeville35

Anglo-Dutch writer and physician 1670–1733

Baron d'Holbach9

French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist 1723–1789

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre3

writer and botanist from France 1737–1814

Matthias Claudius1

German poet 1740–1815

Franz Grillparzer9

austrian dramatic and writer 1791–1872

Elisha Gray7

American electrical engineer 1835–1901

James Daly (Irish Land League)4

Irish nationalist activist with the Irish National Land Lea… 1838–1911

A.W. Bickerton2

British scientist 1842–1929

George Moore (novelist)33

Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoi… 1852–1933

John Kendrick Bangs4

American author, editor and satirist 1862–1922

Vladimir Lenin336

Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870–1924

Lytton Strachey11

British writer 1880–1932

Blaise Cendrars2

French writer of Swiss origin 1887–1961

George Orwell473

English author and journalist 1903–1950

James Beard4

American chef 1903–1985

Will Lang, Jr.2

American journalist 1914–1968

John James Cowperthwaite38

British colonial administrator 1915–2006

Joseph O`Connor1

Anglo-Irish actor and playwright 1916–2001

Russell Baker40

writer and satirst from the United States 1925–2019

Michael Winner3

English film director, film producer, film editor and scree… 1935–2013

Terry Jones7

Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director and auth… 1942–2020

Charles Dodgson (bishop)5

Anglican bishop