Anniversaries 23 January
Birth
British hymnwriter
1717–1795
American Patriot and statesman during the American Revoluti…
1737–1793
Welsh poet in the English language
1833–1907
German prominent mathematician
1862–1943
Soviet military commander
1881–1969
American sociologist
1889–1968
Indian nationalist leader and politician
1897–1945
American writer
1904–1990
American labor activist
1910–1995
Saint Lucain economist
1915–1991
American biochemist and pharmacologist
1918–1999
American comedian, actor, and writer
1919–1962
British boxer and poet
1922–2007
American fiction writer
1923–1996
U.S. Senator from New Jersey
1924–2013
Hungarian-Canadian chemist
1929
Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright
1930–2017
Canadian politician
1934–2003
American artist
1936–2008
American writer
1938–2010
Russian mathematician
1946–2013
Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop
1949
Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
1951
Northern Irish priest and academic
1953
American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author
1968
Internet personality
1986
Death
philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist from Italy
1668–1744
American politician
1749–1800
British politician
1759–1806
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Comp…
1785–1866
Polish mineralogist and geologist
1802–1889
Irish poet and political figure
1817–1889
English clergyman, historian and novelist
1819–1875
American clergyman and author
1835–1893
British psychiatrist
1835–1918
New Zealnd writer
1859–1929
Norwegian painter and printmaker
1863–1944
Kosovo Albanian guerilla leader
1864–1916
French painter and printmaker
1867–1947
Russian ballet dancer
1881–1931
New Zealand occultist
1886–1983
American critic
1887–1943
Russian physicist
1894–1952
American singer and actor
1898–1976
Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
1912–1991
writer, poet, matematician, fisic
1914–2018
American exercise instructor
1914–2011
American composer
1915–2009
German-Australian photographer
1920–2004
German visual artist
1921–1986
former King of Saudi Arabia
1924–2015
American talk show host and magician
1925–2005
United States Marine
1927–2004
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
1930–2002
American baseball player and coach
1931–2015
Polish historian
1932–2007
American political philosopher
1938–2002
Mormon academic
1952–2020