Anniversaries 5 January

Birth

Shah Jahan14

5th Mughal Emperor 1592–1666

Jacob Bernoulli3

Swiss mathematician 1655–1705

Jean-Baptiste Say72

French economist and businessman 1767–1832

Stephen Decatur1

United States Navy officer 1779–1820

David Macbeth Moir1

Scottish physician and writer 1798–1851

Konrad Adenauer12

German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician… 1876–1967

Humbert Wolfe3

English poet 1885–1940

Bernard Leach1

British studio potter and art teacher 1887–1979

Paramahansa Yogananda65

Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization … 1893–1952

Jeannette Piccard4

American balloonist, scientist, teacher and priest 1895–1981

Stella Gibbons12

British writer 1902–1989

Arthur H. Robinson18

American geographer 1915–2004

Friedrich Dürrenmatt19

Swiss author and dramatist 1921–1990

Sam Hunter2

American art historian 1923–2014

W.D. Snodgrass1

Poet 1926–2009

Alexander Dalgarno1

British physicist 1928–2015

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto41

Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan 1928–1979

Walter Mondale1

42nd Vice President of the United States 1928–2021

Robert K. Massie1

Historian, writer 1929–2019

Alfred Brendel7

Austrian pianist, poet, and author 1931

Umberto Eco120

Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016

Florence King9

American writer 1936–2016

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o4

Kenyan writer 1938

Francisco Ou1

Taiwanese politician 1940

Michael O'Donoghue3

American actor and writer 1940–1994

Hayao Miyazaki34

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka 1941

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi1

Indian cricket player. 1941–2011

Brian Tracy63

American motivational speaker and writer 1944

Kathrine Switzer3

American distance runner 1947

George Tenet2

Director of the CIA 1953

Gerardine DeSanctis3

American organizational theorist 1954–2005

José Ornelas Carvalho1

Portuguese catholic bishop 1954

László Krasznahorkai2

Hungarian novelist and screenwriter 1954

Mamata Banerjee1

Chief Minister of Indian state of West Bengal 1955

Kyōichi Katayama2

Japanese writer 1959

Clancy Brown4

American actor and voice actor 1959

Iris DeMent8

American singer and songwriter 1961

Zhou Fengsuo2

Chinese human rights activist 1967

Carrie Ann Inaba2

American entertainer 1968

Marilyn Manson78

American rock musician and actor 1969

Neamat Imam29

Canadian-Bangladeshi writer 1971

Death

Qi Jiguang3

Ming Dynasty general 1527–1588

Alexander Fraser Tytler3

Scottish advocate, judge, writer and historian 1747–1813

Alexander Smith14

Scottish poet and essayist 1829–1867

Léon Walras2

French mathematical economist 1834–1910

George Washington Carver10

botanist 1864–1943

Calvin Coolidge412

American politician, 30th president of the United States (i… 1872–1933

Ernest Shackleton11

Anglo-Irish polar explorer 1874–1922

Mistinguett1

French actress and singer 1875–1956

Max Born19

physicist 1882–1970

John Rabe4

German businessman 1882–1950

Humbert Wolfe3

English poet 1885–1940

Vincent Starrett1

American writer 1886–1974

Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow7

British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administra… 1887–1952

Leslie Weatherhead81

English theologian 1893–1976

Wei Wu Wei25

writer 1895–1986

Tip O'Neill2

American politician 1912–1994

G. E. M. Anscombe10

British analytic philosopher 1919–2001

Roy Jenkins51

British politician, historian and writer 1920–2003

Charles Mingus18

American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader 1922–1979

Jean Kerr14

Irish-American author and playwright 1922–2003

Kenneth Noland28

American artist 1924–2010

Pierre Boulez3

French composer, conductor, writer, and pianist 1925–2016

Tullio De Mauro1

Italian linguist 1932–2017

Yuri Bezmenov1

Russian journalist and whistleblower 1939–1993

Simon Hoggart5

English journalist and broadcaster 1946–2014