Anniversaries 5 January
Birth
![Shah Jahan photo]()
5th Mughal Emperor
1592–1666
![Jacob Bernoulli photo]()
Swiss mathematician
1655–1705
![Jean-Baptiste Say photo]()
French economist and businessman
1767–1832
![Stephen Decatur photo]()
United States Navy officer
1779–1820
![David Macbeth Moir photo]()
Scottish physician and writer
1798–1851
![Konrad Adenauer photo]()
German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician…
1876–1967
![Bernard Leach photo]()
British studio potter and art teacher
1887–1979
![Paramahansa Yogananda photo]()
Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization …
1893–1952
![Jeannette Piccard photo]()
American balloonist, scientist, teacher and priest
1895–1981
![Arthur H. Robinson photo]()
American geographer
1915–2004
![Friedrich Dürrenmatt photo]()
Swiss author and dramatist
1921–1990
![Sam Hunter photo]()
American art historian
1923–2014
![Alexander Dalgarno photo]()
British physicist
1928–2015
![Zulfikar Ali Bhutto photo]()
Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan
1928–1979
![Walter Mondale photo]()
42nd Vice President of the United States
1928–2021
![Robert K. Massie photo]()
Historian, writer
1929–2019
![Alfred Brendel photo]()
Austrian pianist, poet, and author
1931
![Umberto Eco photo]()
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic…
1932–2016
![Florence King photo]()
American writer
1936–2016
![Francisco Ou photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1940
![Michael O'Donoghue photo]()
American actor and writer
1940–1994
![Hayao Miyazaki photo]()
Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka
1941
![Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi photo]()
Indian cricket player.
1941–2011
![Brian Tracy photo]()
American motivational speaker and writer
1944
![Kathrine Switzer photo]()
American distance runner
1947
![Gerardine DeSanctis photo]()
American organizational theorist
1954–2005
![José Ornelas Carvalho photo]()
Portuguese catholic bishop
1954
![László Krasznahorkai photo]()
Hungarian novelist and screenwriter
1954
![Mamata Banerjee photo]()
Chief Minister of Indian state of West Bengal
1955
![Clancy Brown photo]()
American actor and voice actor
1959
![Iris DeMent photo]()
American singer and songwriter
1961
![Zhou Fengsuo photo]()
Chinese human rights activist
1967
![Carrie Ann Inaba photo]()
American entertainer
1968
![Marilyn Manson photo]()
American rock musician and actor
1969
![Neamat Imam photo]()
Canadian-Bangladeshi writer
1971
Death
![Qi Jiguang photo]()
Ming Dynasty general
1527–1588
![Alexander Fraser Tytler photo]()
Scottish advocate, judge, writer and historian
1747–1813
![Alexander Smith photo]()
Scottish poet and essayist
1829–1867
![Léon Walras photo]()
French mathematical economist
1834–1910
![Calvin Coolidge photo]()
American politician, 30th president of the United States (i…
1872–1933
![Ernest Shackleton photo]()
Anglo-Irish polar explorer
1874–1922
![Mistinguett photo]()
French actress and singer
1875–1956
![John Rabe photo]()
German businessman
1882–1950
![Vincent Starrett photo]()
American writer
1886–1974
![Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow photo]()
British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administra…
1887–1952
![Leslie Weatherhead photo]()
English theologian
1893–1976
![Tip O'Neill photo]()
American politician
1912–1994
![G. E. M. Anscombe photo]()
British analytic philosopher
1919–2001
![Roy Jenkins photo]()
British politician, historian and writer
1920–2003
![Charles Mingus photo]()
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader
1922–1979
![Jean Kerr photo]()
Irish-American author and playwright
1922–2003
![Kenneth Noland photo]()
American artist
1924–2010
![Pierre Boulez photo]()
French composer, conductor, writer, and pianist
1925–2016
![Tullio De Mauro photo]()
Italian linguist
1932–2017
![Yuri Bezmenov photo]()
Russian journalist and whistleblower
1939–1993
![Simon Hoggart photo]()
English journalist and broadcaster
1946–2014
