Anniversaries 3 January

Birth

Marcus Tullius Cicero180

Roman philosopher and statesman -106–-43 BC

Pietro Metastasio9

Italian poet and librettist (born 3 January 1698, died 12 A… 1698–1782

Nguyễn Du12

Vietnamese poet 1765–1820

Louis Poinsot1

French mathematician and physicist 1777–1859

Douglas William Jerrold16

English dramatist and writer 1803–1857

Richard Franck1

German composer 1858–1938

Ralph Vary Chamberlin8

American biologist (1879-1967) 1879–1967

Clement Attlee95

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1883–1967

E. Stanley Jones1

Methodist missionary and theologian 1884–1973

John Gould Fletcher6

American writer 1886–1950

August Macke8

German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter 1887–1914

James Bridie1

Scottish playwright, screenwriter and surgeon 1888–1951

Herbert Morrison10

British Labour politician 1888–1965

Osip Mandelstam5

Russian poet and essayist 1891–1938

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien78

British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy … 1892–1973

Eric Voegelin13

American philosopher 1901–1985

Victor Borge12

Danish and US-American comedian and musician 1909–2000

Jack Levine2

American artist 1915–2010

Paul E. Meehl2

American psychologist 1920–2003

Gordon Moore5

American businessman, co-founder of Intel and author of the… 1929

Sergio Leone3

Italian film director, screenwriter and producer 1929–1989

Jean Carper1

American journalist 1932

Anne Stevenson1

Poet 1933

Jaswant Singh3

Indian politician and retired army officer 1938–2020

Bobby Hull2

Canadian ice hockey player 1939

Vincent Siew1

Taiwanese politician 1939

Thelma Schoonmaker3

American film editor 1940

Marta Moreno Vega1

Author, professor, arts administrator, expert in Yoruba cul… 1942

Raewyn Connell3

Australian sociologist 1944

Stephen Stills1

American multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter 1945

Charlotte Gray2

Canadian historian 1948

Beth Anderson10

American neo-romantic composer 1950

Ken Bruen2

Irish writer 1951

Esperanza Aguirre4

Spanish politician 1952

Gianfranco Fini14

Italian politician 1952

S. N. Balagangadhara4

Indian philosopher 1952

Jim Ross19

American professional wrestling commentator, professional w… 1952

Robert Olmstead15

American writer 1954

Mel Gibson20

American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter 1956

Michael Schumacher9

German racing driver 1969

Dan Harmon1

American writer and performer 1973

Alisen Down2

Canadian actress 1976

Nithyananda11

Indian guru 1978

Linh Nga4

American-Vietnamese film director, film producer, actress, … 1982

Alex D. Linz2

American actor, filmmaker 1989

Victoria Duffield2

Canadian actor, singer and dancer 1995

Greta Thunberg42

Swedish climate change activist 2003

Kyle Rittenhouse4

former suspect in the killing of two protesters in Kenosha,… 2003

Death

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle2

English soldier and politician 1608–1670

Julius Hare3

British theologian 1795–1855

Джулиус Чарльз Хэар1

1795–1855

Albert Gorton Greene2

American judge 1802–1868

Cora L. V. Scott9

American spiritualist, writer 1840–1923

Joseph Joffre1

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

Edgar Cayce17

Purported clairvoyant healer and psychic 1877–1945

Jaroslav Hašek2

Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist 1883–1923

James Elroy Flecker5

Poet 1884–1915

Edwin Muir6

British poet, novelist and translator 1887–1959

Conrad Hilton1

American hotelier 1887–1979

Gerald Bullett3

British writer 1893–1958

William Joyce19

British fascist and propaganda broadcaster 1906–1946

Carroll Quigley79

American historian 1910–1977

Will Eisner87

American cartoonist 1917–2005

Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao1

Indian archaeologist 1922–2013

Mary Daly7

American radical feminist philosopher and theologian 1928–2010

Terence Ranger2

British historian 1929–2015

George Goodman24

American author and economics commentator 1930–2014

Monique Wittig3

French writer 1935–2003

John O'Donohue44

Irish writer, priest and philosopher 1956–2008

Qasem Soleimani6

Iranian senior military officer 1957–2020