Anniversaries 23 January

Birth

Benjamin Beddome1

British hymnwriter 1717–1795

John Hancock8

American Patriot and statesman during the American Revoluti… 1737–1793

Stendhal50

French writer 1783–1842

Edouard Manet29

French painter 1832–1883

Lewis Morris (poet)11

Welsh poet in the English language 1833–1907

Katharine Tynan1

Irish poet 1859–1931

David Hilbert30

German prominent mathematician 1862–1943

Otto Diels1

German chemist 1876–1954

Kliment Voroshilov8

Soviet military commander 1881–1969

Pitirim Sorokin10

American sociologist 1889–1968

Subhas Chandra Bose10

Indian nationalist leader and politician 1897–1945

Alfred Denning, Baron Denning27

British judge 1899–1999

Anya Seton4

American writer 1904–1990

Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran)9

American labor activist 1910–1995

W. Arthur Lewis2

Saint Lucain economist 1915–1991

Potter Stewart7

American judge 1915–1985

Gertrude B. Elion3

American biochemist and pharmacologist 1918–1999

Ernie Kovacs2

American comedian, actor, and writer 1919–1962

Vernon Scannell33

British boxer and poet 1922–2007

Walter M. Miller, Jr.37

American fiction writer 1923–1996

Frank Lautenberg2

U.S. Senator from New Jersey 1924–2013

John Polanyi5

Hungarian-Canadian chemist 1929

Derek Walcott17

Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright 1930–2017

Pierre Bourgault4

Canadian politician 1934–2003

Willoughby Sharp2

American artist 1936–2008

Hugh Prather10

American writer 1938–2010

Boris Berezovsky4

Russian mathematician 1946–2013

George H. Burgess2

American biologist 1949

Jose Romeo Lazo1

Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop 1949

Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz3

Mexican Roman Catholic bishop 1951

Alister McGrath1

Northern Irish priest and academic 1953

Cathy Hopkins3

English writer 1953

Caroline, Princess of Hanover3

Princess of Monaco 1957

Paul Mason (journalist)11

British journalist 1960

Richard Roxburgh3

Australian actor 1962

James Altucher3

American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author 1968

Karen Abbott1

American writer 1973

Michael Stevens (educator)4

Internet personality 1986

Death

Giambattista Vico3

philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist from Italy 1668–1744

John Cleland6

British writer 1709–1789

Edward Rutledge5

American politician 1749–1800

William Pitt the Younger19

British politician 1759–1806

Thomas Love Peacock10

English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Comp… 1785–1866

Ignacy Domeyko1

Polish mineralogist and geologist 1802–1889

Michael Joseph Barry1

Irish poet and political figure 1817–1889

Charles Kingsley50

English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819–1875

Phillips Brooks16

American clergyman and author 1835–1893

Henry Maudsley1

British psychiatrist 1835–1918

Arthur Desmond16

New Zealnd writer 1859–1929

Edvard Munch29

Norwegian painter and printmaker 1863–1944

Isa Boletini2

Kosovo Albanian guerilla leader 1864–1916

Pierre Bonnard24

French painter and printmaker 1867–1947

Anna Pavlova2

Russian ballet dancer 1881–1931

Geoffrey Hodson13

New Zealand occultist 1886–1983

Alexander Woollcott10

American critic 1887–1943

Yakov Frenkel2

Russian physicist 1894–1952

Paul Robeson22

American singer and actor 1898–1976

Salvador Dalí117

Spanish artist 1904–1989

Northrop Frye137

Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

Nicanor Parra3

writer, poet, matematician, fisic 1914–2018

Jack LaLanne24

American exercise instructor 1914–2011

George Perle11

American composer 1915–2009

Helmut Newton6

German-Australian photographer 1920–2004

Joseph Beuys50

German visual artist 1921–1986

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia9

former King of Saudi Arabia 1924–2015

Douglas Reeman40

British author 1924–2017

Johnny Carson5

American talk show host and magician 1925–2005

Bob Keeshan7

United States Marine 1927–2004

Pierre Bourdieu12

French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher 1930–2002

Ernie Banks9

American baseball player and coach 1931–2015

Ryszard Kapuściński6

Polish historian 1932–2007

Robert Nozick32

American political philosopher 1938–2002

Clayton M. Christensen23

Mormon academic 1952–2020