January 19
January 19 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 19 ) is the 19th day of the Gregorian calendar , leaving 346 days (347 days in leap years) until the end of the year.
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events
politics and world affairs
- 379: The Roman Emperor Gratian promotes the former general Theodosius to the rank of Augustus and makes him co-emperor. Theodosius I receives the dominion in the east .
- 532: Flavius Hypatius , proclaimed anti - emperor in the Nika rebellion , and his brother Flavius Pompeius are executed in Constantinople and their bodies thrown into the Sea of Marmara .
- 1419: During the Hundred Years' War against France , the English King Henry V takes the city of Rouen , Normandy is placed under the English crown .
- 1520: At the Battle of Bogesund , the new king of the Kalmar Union , Christian II , defeats the Swedish regent Sven Sture the Younger , who is mortally wounded in the battle. With that, Sweden comes back under Danish rule.
- 1795: After the conquest by revolutionary France , the Batavian Republic is proclaimed as a French daughter republic in the Netherlands . Thus ends the Republic of the Seven United Provinces .
- 1806: Eleven days after recapturing the Cape Colony from the Batavian Republic , the British also occupy the Cape of Good Hope .
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- 1817: South American revolutionary José de San Martín sets out across the Andes from Argentina with over 5,400 soldiers to liberate Chile and Peru , then Viceroyalty of Peru , from Spanish colonial rule .
- 1861: Georgia becomes the fifth southern state to leave the United States . Two weeks later, Georgia is a co-founder of the Confederate States of America .
- 1871: In the Battle of Buzenval in the Franco-Prussian War , the French units besieged in Paris attempt a sortie in the direction of Versailles . The counter-offensive fails because of the Prussian troops. The advancing French Army of the North is defeated at the Battle of Saint-Quentin on the same day .
- 1883: After a four-month siege, Mahdi rebels under Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad take the Egyptian -held Sudanese provincial capital of El Obeid .
- 1915: German zeppelins bomb the east English towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn , killing four civilians, during World War I. This begins regular air raids on Britain . From May 1915 to 1917 London was also attacked by airships.
- 1917: During World War I , British intelligence intercepts the Zimmermann cable , in which the German diplomat Arthur Zimmermann proposes an alliance with Mexico against the not yet at war USA.
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- 1918: The Bolshevik government of Russia prevents a new meeting of the Russian Constituent Assembly in the Tauride Palace on the second day because the SRs have a majority there.
- 1919: For the election to the German National Assembly , women are given active and passive voting rights for the first time .
- 1926: Poland builds an ammunition hub and military base on Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig . With the attack on this military facility in 1939, the Second World War will begin.
- 1931: The London Conference on Colonial India , boycotted by the Congress Party , ends without result. The British idea of a dominion did not find a majority among the Indian participants.
- 1939: With the Tibet expedition led by Ernst Schäfer , Germans reach the Tibetan capital Lhasa for the first time .
- 1945: During World War II , the Red Army conquers the Polish city of Łódź and liberates the Litzmannstadt ghetto , in which, however, only around 900 of the original 160,000 Polish Jewish prisoners are left after previous mass murders.
- 1966: In India , Congress Party nominee Indira Gandhi is elected first female Prime Minister. She takes over from Lal Bahadur Shastri , who died unexpectedly a few days earlier and in whose cabinet she was Minister of Information. After Sirimavo Bandaranaike in Ceylon, Indira Gandhi is the second head of state in Asia.
- 1977: US President Gerald Ford pardons Japanese-American Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino , who worked as Tokyo Rose , the presenter of a Japanese propaganda program, during World War II and received a certificate of deportation to Japan after her release from prison.
- 1983: Klaus Barbie , former Gestapo chief in Lyon and wanted for Nazi war criminals ( "Butcher of Lyon"), is arrested in Bolivia , where he lived as Klaus Altmann .
- 2002: In the Bürgenstock in Switzerland, representatives of the parties to the conflict in the secession war in South Sudan conclude a ceasefire, the Bürgenstock Agreement . In the talks that followed, three years later, a peace agreement was reached for the Sudanese region, in which South Sudan was granted autonomy rights.
business
- 1915: The United States Patent Office granted Georges Claude a patent on the neon tube .
- 1925: In Älvdalen , Sweden, Albin Hagström founds the Hagström company to manufacture musical instruments .
- 1934: Laurens Hammond applied for patent protection in the USA for an electronic organ he had developed – the Hammond organ .
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- 1955: The first Goggomobil rolls off the assembly line at the Dingolfing Hans-Glas-Werke .
- 1978: The last European-made VW Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Emden .
science and technology
- 1711: The Royal Prussian Society of Sciences hands over the completed Berlin Observatory at its first celebratory meeting .
- 1863: The Wednesday Society , a select discussion group, is founded in August von Bethmann-Hollweg's house in Berlin .
- 1958: The British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs arrives with his team as the fourth expedition to the South Pole as part of the British Commonwealth Transantarctic Expedition .
- 1965: The unmanned Gemini 2 mission launches from Cape Canaveral . In a short ballistic flight, the USA is testing the re-entry of a missile into the earth's atmosphere .
- 2006: NASA 's New Horizons spacecraft embarked on a journey to the dwarf planet Pluto aboard an Atlas V launch vehicle from the Cape Canaveral launch site . It is the first probe of the New Frontiers program .
Culture
- 1786: The world premiere of the tragic opera Gustav Wasa by Johann Gottlieb Naumann takes place at the Royal Opera in Stockholm .
- 1829: A radically changed and edited version of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama Faust compared to the original text. A tragedy. is premiered at the Hof-Theater in Braunschweig by Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann . The title role is played by Eduard Schütz .
- 1838: The Mainzer Carneval-Verein (MCV) is founded as the first carnival association in the city .
- 1853: The opera Il trovatore ( The Troubadour ) by Giuseppe Verdi was first performed at the Teatro Apollo in Rome. The libretto by Salvadore Cammarano is based on the play El trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez .
- 1893: The play Master Builder Solness by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen has its world premiere at the Lessingtheater in Berlin.
- 1953: Leonard Bernstein 's musical Wonderful Town premieres at the Shubert Theater in New Haven.
- 1956: The film comedy Charleys Tante , based on the farce of the same name by Brandon Thomas , premiered in Cologne and starred Heinz Rühmann .
- 1973: The first competition for young dancers, the Prix de Lausanne , begins in Lausanne .
society
- 1348: England's King Edward III. donates the Order of the Garter , the ribbon of which is worn below the left knee.
- 1879: Anna Bates gives birth to the heaviest known newborn in Seville, Ohio . Your child weighs 10.6 kg and is 76 cm tall. It dies eleven hours later.
- 1909: The Kaiserliche Realschule in Windhoek is founded for 12 pupils in the colony of German South West Africa .
- 1999: The German Federal Labor Court approves in a landmark judgment that a general smoking ban by employers in the workplace is legal.
religion
- 973: Benedict VI becomes Emperor Otto I 's candidate. as successor of John XIII. elected Pope in Rome .
- 990: Gerdag succeeds his uncle Osdag , who died the previous year, as Bishop of Hildesheim and is probably consecrated in Heiligenstadt by Archbishop Willigis of Mainz .
- 1759: A decree by King Joseph I orders the confiscation of the assets of the Jesuit order in Portugal . The Jesuits are forbidden to leave their homes and to have contact with the worldly.
disasters
- 1883: The German passenger steamer Cimbria sinks after a collision near Borkum , 437 people die.
- 1942: When the Canadian passenger liner RMS Lady Hawkins is sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of North Carolina , 251 passengers and crew members die.
- 2007: Hurricane Kyrill moves across large parts of Europe during the night. It causes damage of around 10 billion US dollars and 47 people die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1905: The first alpine slalom run is organized by Mathias Zdarsky on the Muckenkogel near Lilienfeld in Lower Austria.
- 1921: The Portuguese football club Sporting Braga is formed.
- 1998: The ice hockey team EHC Munich is founded in Munich.
- 2013: The Frenchman Johan Clarey reaches 161.9 km/h on the Lauberhorn descent in Wengen , the highest speed ever measured in the Alpine Ski World Cup .
Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 399: Aelia Pulcheria , Byzantine princess
- 1232: John Giffard, 1st Baron Giffard , English nobleman and military man
- 1511: Adolf von Schaumburg , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1515: Sebastian Boetius , German Protestant theologian
- 1544: Francis II , French king
- 1568: Bartholomäus von Dobschütz , Silesian landowner, merchant and politician
- 1570: Wolfgang Hirschbach , German legal scholar
- 1601: Guido Cagnacci , Italian painter
- 1611: Francesco Guarini , Italian painter
- 1617: Lucas Faydherbe , Brabant sculptor and architect
- 1619: Johann Caspar von Ampringen , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, High Governor of Silesia and Duke of Freudenthal
- 1624: Kitamura Kigin , Japanese poet
- 1676: John Weldon , English composer and organist
- 1679: Girolamo Chiti , Italian composer
- 1685: Sebastián de Eslava y Lazaga , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Granada
- 1693: Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont , French painter
18th century
- 1716: Johann Friedrich Esaias Steffens , German Protestant theologian
- 1721: Jean-Philippe Baratier , German mathematician, historian and orientalist, linguistic genius
- 1723: Johann Michael Wagner , German organ builder
- 1737: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre , French writer
- 1737: Ferdinand Woldrzich von Ehrenfreund , Bohemian lawyer and university teacher
- 1747: Johann Elert Bode , German astronomer
- 1749: Kasimire of Anhalt-Dessau , Princess of Lippe-Detmold
- 1756: Michel Gaudin , French Minister of Finance
- 1756: Guillaume-Antoine Olivier , French physician and zoologist
- 1757: Auguste Reuss zu Ebersdorf , Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- 1762: Cécile Stanislas de Girardin , French politician
- 1764: Heinrich Julius Friedrich von Schrader , German jurist
- 1772: Friedrich Carl Arndt , German jurist, city judge and mayor
- 1773: Heinrich Dähling , German painter
- 1782: Heinrich August Wilhelm von Bülow , German chief forester
- 1785: Christian Josef Tschuggmall , Austrian mechanic, inventor and showman
- 1790: Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom , Swedish writer and literary historian
- 1791: Eduard von Peucker , Prussian infantry general
- 1793: Karl Wilhelm Göttling , German classical scholar
- 1797: Friedrich von Hagenow , German naturalist and prehistorian
- 1798: Auguste Comte , French mathematician, philosopher and critic of religion, founder of positivism
- 1800: Carl Theodor Ottmer , German master builder
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802: Sylvain van de Weyer , Belgian statesman
- 1805: Karl Heinrich Adelbert Lipsius , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and educator
- 1806: Wenzel Heinrich Veit , Czech composer
- 1807: Robert Edward Lee , American general, commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army during the Civil War
- 1809: Carl Wilhelm Arldt , German draftsman and lithographer
- 1809: Edgar Allan Poe , American writer
- 1813: Henry Bessemer , British engineer and inventor
- 1817: Isaac Wolffson , German politician and jurist
- 1819: William Frith , British painter
- 1821: Ferdinand Gregorovius , German writer and historian
- 1826: Gustav Hertzberg , German author, ancient and regional historian
- 1827: Emil Hünten , German battle painter
- 1828: Eduard Leonhardi , German landscape painter
- 1830: George Blake Cosby , American general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War
- 1831: Gibson Atherton , American politician
- 1832: Ferdinand Laub , Czech violinist
- 1833: Alfred Clebsch , German mathematician
- 1833: Friedrich August Unger , German physician
- 1836: Gottlieb von Haeseler , Prussian field marshal
- 1837: Carl Hertelt , German painter and art carver
- 1838: Carl Alexander von Martius , German chemist
- 1839: Paul Cézanne , French painter
- 1843: Arnold Bovet , Swiss Blue Cross pioneer
- 1844: Gustav von Bunge , German-Baltic physiologist and professor
- 1845: Richard Buchta , Austrian explorer of Africa
- 1848: Leonid Alexandrovich Arbuzov , Russian historian
- 1848: Matthew Webb , British seaman, first swam across the English Channel
- 1849: Hans Fischer , German librarian
- 1849: Wilhelm Idel , German local historian and poet
- 1850: Augustine Birrell , British writer and politician
1851-1900
- 1851: Esteban Echeverría , Argentine poet
- 1851: David Starr Jordan , American zoologist, botanist, and peace activist
- 1851: Jacobus C. Kapteyn , Dutch astronomer
- 1854: Elisabeth Dauthendey , German writer
- 1856: Clemens von Delbrück , German politician, member of parliament and minister of the Reich
- 1858: Georg von Below , German constitutional and economic historian
- 1860: Erik Åkerberg , Swedish composer
- 1861: George Whitfield Andrews , American composer, organist, and music educator
- 1861: Max Bewer , German poet and writer
- 1861: Bruno Sauer , German archaeologist
- 1863: Tommaso Pio Boggiani , Archbishop of Genoa and cardinal
- 1863: Werner Sombart , German sociologist and economist
- 1865: Valentin Alexandrovich Serov , Russian painter
- 1866: Harry Davenport , American actor
- 1866: Karl Heckmann , German local historian
- 1866: Charlotte Wilhelmine Niels , German painter
- 1866: Carl Theodor Zahle , Prime Minister of Denmark
- 1867: Jean Delville , Belgian painter, occultist and theosophist
- 1867: John Louis Nuelsen , American theologian, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- 1868: Gustav Meyrink , Austrian writer
- 1868: Georg Roemer , German sculptor
- 1869: Hans Soph , German composer, dialect poet and painter
- 1870: Jean-Baptiste Dubois , Canadian cellist, conductor and music teacher
- 1871: Franz Brantzky , German architect and painter
- 1871: Ludwig Maria Hugo , German priest, Bishop of Mainz
- 1872: Heinrich Laufenberg , German historian, journalist and politician
- 1872: Rosina Storchio , Italian opera singer
- 1873: Dr. Owlglass , German physician, writer and lyric poet
- 1873: Thomas Dufferin Pattullo , Canadian politician
- 1874: Bruno Paul , German architect and artisan
- 1874: Hitachiyama Taniemon , Japanese sumō wrestler, 19th yokozuna
- 1876: Milan Begović , Croatian writer
- 1876: Patty Frank (alias of Ernst Tobis), German artist, museologist, Indian researcher
- 1876: Dragotin Kette , Slovenian writer
- 1877: Bruno Bauch , German philosopher, neo-Kantian
- 1877: Fráňa Šrámek , Czech poet, novelist and playwright
- 1878: Herbert Chapman , English football player and coach
- 1879: Guido Fubini , Italian mathematician
- 1879: Simeon Radev , Bulgarian journalist, author and diplomat
- 1880: Julius Perlis , Austrian chess player
- 1882: Pierre Allemane , French footballer
- 1882: Gyula Alpári , Hungarian publicist
- 1883: Hermann Abendroth , German conductor
- 1884: Adalbert Defner , Austrian landscape photographer
- 1885: James Coats Auchincloss , American politician
- 1885: Tadeusz Nalepiński , Polish poet and writer
- 1886: Kurt Heinig , German politician, MdR, writer and journalist
- 1887: Andrei Grigoryevich Shkuro , Russian general
- 1887: Alexander Woollcott , American literary critic
- 1888: Rudolf Droz , German soccer player
- 1888: Ernesto Ruffini , Italian bishop and cardinal
- 1889: Arnold Dyck , Ukrainian-German-Canadian author, editor and publisher
- 1889: Martin Rikli , Swiss director and documentary filmmaker
- 1889: Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Swiss painter, sculptor, textile designer, interior designer and dancer
- 1890: Elmer Niklander , Finnish athlete, Olympic champion
- 1890: Ferruccio Parri , Italian politician
- 1890: Élise Rivet , French nun, refugee helper
- 1890: Guido Schmidt , German judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1892: Maria Leitner , Hungarian journalist and writer
- 1893: Johannes Dieckmann , German journalist, President of the People's Chamber and Deputy Chairman of the Council of State in East Germany
- 1893: Magda Tagliaferro , Brazilian pianist and music teacher
- 1894: Albert von der Aa , Swiss politician and editor
- 1894: Wilhelm Abraham , German politician
- 1894: Kurt Klemm , German lawyer, district president, general commissioner in Zhitomir at the time of National Socialism
- 1895: Ernst Hoferichter , German writer, journalist and actor
- 1897: Leo Adler , Austrian painter and printmaker
- 1897: Karl Kerényi , German classical philologist and religious scholar
- 1897: Emil Maurice , German chauffeur and political companion of Adolf Hitler
- 1897: Max Tau , German-Norwegian writer, editor and publisher
- 1899: Hans Reif , German politician, MdL, MP
- 1900: Mady Christians , Austrian actress
- 1900: Heinrich Hohl , German farmer and politician, MP
- 1900: Leslie White , American anthropologist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Hermann Heimpel , German historian
- 1901: Oswald Adolph Kohut , German politician, MdL, MP
- 1901: Hans Moser , Swiss dressage rider
- 1901: Fred Uhlman , German lawyer, painter and writer
- 1902: Nikolaus Adler , German theologian
- 1902: Max Matern , German anti-fascist and communist
- 1902: David Olère , Polish painter
- 1902: Georg Ostrogorsky , Yugoslav Byzantinist
- 1902: Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien , German writer
- 1902: Helene Schwärzel , German accountant and informer
- 1902: J. Hermann Siemer , German businessman and politician, MdL, MP
- 1903: Boris Blacher , German composer
- 1903: Dyre Vaa , Norwegian sculptor, painter and draftsman
- 1904: Gordon Beecher , US Navy Vice Admiral and composer
- 1905: Max Amann , German swimmer and water polo player
- 1905: Vladimir Horbowski , Georgian piano pedagogue
- 1906: Heinz Ansmann , German banker
- 1906: Lilian Harvey , British-German actress and singer
- 1907: Briggs Cunningham , American racing driver, designer and sailor
- 1908: Alfons Abel , German academic glass painter
- 1908: Busso Peus , German jurist and local politician, Mayor of Munster
- 1909: Hans Hotter , German-Austrian bass-baritone
- 1909: Ewald Kluge , German motorcycle racer
- 1910: Bruno Lettow , German SS officer and government councillor
- 1910: Leonidas Proaño , Ecuadorian Archbishop of Quito and Cardinal
- 1911: Garrett Birkhoff , American mathematician
- 1911: Busher Jackson , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1911: Ken Nelson , American musician
- 1912: Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich , Soviet mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1912: Walter Pongratz , Lower Austrian local historian and librarian
- 1912: Heinz Röthke , German SS officer, jointly responsible for the deportation of the French Jews
- 1914: Erwin Deyhle , German soccer player
- 1914: Bob Gerard , British racing driver
- 1914: Friedrich Hacker , American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- 1917: Rudolf Maros , Hungarian composer
- 1917: Nigel Nicolson , British author, publisher and politician
- 1918: Joseph Cordeiro , Indian Archbishop of Karachi and Cardinal
- 1918: James Halliday , British weightlifter, Olympic medalist
- 1918: John H. Johnson , American media entrepreneur
- 1919 Joan Brossa , Spanish-Catalan poet, novelist, playwright, graphic and plastic artist
- 1920: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , Peruvian politician, Secretary-General of the UN
- 1920: Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda , Argentine military
- 1921: Gunther Baumann , German soccer player
- 1921: Patricia Highsmith , American writer
- 1921: Katrin Höngesberg , German draughtswoman, painter, illustrator and writer
- 1921: Kurt Mühlenhaupt , German painter, sculptor and writer
- 1922: Jerzy Kawalerowicz , Polish film director
- 1922: Miguel Muñoz , Spanish soccer player and coach
- 1922: Bohumil Soudský , Czechoslovak prehistorian
- 1923: Eugénio de Andrade , Portuguese lyric poet
- 1923: Hellmut Lange , German actor
- 1923: Jean Stapleton , American actress
- 1923: Markus Wolf , head of the GDR's foreign intelligence service
- 1924: Friedl Hofbauer , Austrian children's and youth book author
- 1924: Walter Kaufmann , German-Australian writer
- 1924: Georgia Kullmann , German actress
- 1924: Jean-François Revel , French writer and philosopher
- 1925: Asat Sinnatovich Abbasov , Tatar opera singer
- 1925: Nina Bawden , British author
- 1925: Erica Beer , German actress
- 1925: Henry Gray , American blues musician
- 1925: Werner Riegel , German poet and essayist
- 1925: Günter Spielmeyer , judge at the German Federal Social Court
- 1925: Rudolf Wessely , Austrian actor
1926-1950
- 1926: Fritz Göhler , German radio play director
- 1926: José Alfredo Jiménez , Mexican singer and composer
- 1926: Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi , German-Liberian writer and journalist in the United States
- 1926: Fritz Weaver , American film and stage actor
- 1926: Hans Dieter Zeidler , German actor
- 1927: Lothar Dräger , German author
- 1928: Christof Krause , German sculptor
- 1928: Hans Stretz , German boxer
- 1928: Hans Georg Wunderlich , German geologist
- 1929: Edmundo Abaya , Philippine Archbishop
- 1929: Nicholas N. Ambraseys , Greco-British civil engineer, pioneer of soil mechanics and seismology
- 1929: Red Amick , American auto racer
- 1929: Arne Arvidsson , Swedish footballer
- 1930: Albert André , German priest
- 1930: Tippi Hedren , American actress
- 1931: Ingrid Andree , German actress
- 1931: Carl Brashear , United States Navy's first African-American diver
- 1931: Vittorio Ghidella , Italian automobile engineer and CEO of Fiat 's automobile division
- 1931: Richard Lester , American film director, producer and writer
- 1931: Otto Mellies , German film actor and voice actor
- 1932: George MacBeth , Scottish poet and writer
- 1932: John Nevins , American Bishop of Venice
- 1932: Joe Schmidt , American football player
- 1933: August Leidl , German church historian
- 1933: Stu Phillips , American composer
- 1934: Rupert Lake , Antiguan sports official
- 1934: Patsy Rowlands , British actress
- 1935: Philip Agee , American secret agent, book author, and travel entrepreneur
- 1935: Soumitra Chattopadhyay , Indian actor
- 1935: Johnny O'Keefe , Australian rock and roll musician
- 1935: Arnold Schütz , German soccer player
- 1935: Shō Shibata , Japanese writer, translator and Germanist
- 1935: Owsley Stanley , American recording engineer and drug trafficker
- 1935: Herbert Walther , German physicist
- 1936: Peter Abraham , German writer
- 1936: Rainer Brandt , German actor and voice actor
- 1936: Willie Smith , American blues musician
- 1937: David Cass , American economist
- 1937: Rudolf A. Hartmann , German opera singer
- 1937: Herbert Kraus , Austrian economist
- 1937: Günter Litfin , German tailor, first dead at the Berlin Wall
- 1937: Gerhard Moritz Meyer , German politician, MdL, Senator
- 1937: Karlheinz Niclauß , German political scientist
- 1937: Joseph Nye , American political scientist, politician and author
- 1937: Phil Wilson , American jazz trombonist
- 1938: Hartwig Henze , judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1938: Manfred Osten , German author and cultural historian
- 1939: Rüdiger Bahr , German director, actor and voice actor
- 1939: Phil Everly , American musician
- 1939: Ulrich Irmer , German politician, MdB, MEP
- 1940: Paolo Borsellino , Italian judge and mafia hunter
- 1940: Hans Fünfschilling , Swiss politician
- 1940: Otmar Hesse , German Protestant theologian and politician
- 1940: John Siegfried Mehnert , German whistleblower and actor
- 1940: Bernhard Sinkel , German director, writer and producer
- 1940: Edmund White , American writer
- 1941: Tony Anholt , British actor
- 1941: Stan Persky , Canadian writer, media commentator and college lecturer
- 1941: Putter Smith , American jazz bassist and actor
- 1941: Joachim Wahnschaffe , German politician, MdL
- 1942: Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro Escápite , Mexican brigadier general
- 1942: Michael Crawford , British actor
- 1942: Paul-Eerik Rummo , Estonian poet and politician
- 1942: Reiner Schöne , German actor, musician and voice actor
- 1943: Larry Clark , American film director and photographer
- 1943: Margriet of Orange-Nassau , Princess of the Netherlands
- 1943: Volker Fink , German diplomat
- 1943: Janis Joplin , American rock singer
- 1944: Claudia Fraess-Ehrfeld , Austrian author
- 1944: Shelley Fabares , American singer and actress
- 1944: Klaus-Dieter Henkler , German singer
- 1944: Laurie London , British singer
- 1944: Thom Mayne , American architect
- 1944: Burckhard Nedden , German lawyer data protection officer of the state of Lower Saxony
- 1944: Pehr Henrik Nordgren , Finnish composer
- 1945: Jürgen Haase , German track and field athlete
- 1945: Dragan Holcer , Yugoslav footballer
- 1945: Maria Jepsen , German theologian and bishop
- 1945: Franz Keller , German Nordic combined athlete
- 1945: David Marr , British mathematician
- 1945: Ulrich Trottenberg , German mathematician
- 1946: Alexander Kostinsky , Ukrainian Jewish poet, writer and illustrator
- 1946: Julian Barnes , British writer
- 1946: Reinhard Lakomy , German singer and composer
- 1946: Dolly Parton , American country music singer
- 1947: Leszek Balcerowicz , Polish economist and politician
- 1947: Rod Evans , British singer
- 1948: Kenneth Boyd , American murderer
- 1948: Erica Goodman , Canadian harpist
- 1948: Wolfgang Wessels , German political scientist
- 1949: Romuald Ajchler , Polish politician
- 1949: Robert Palmer , British musician
- 1949: Khalil Shaheed , American musician
- 1949: Dennis Taylor , Northern Ireland professional snooker player
- 1950: Werner Jann , German political scientist
1951-1975
- 1951: Charalampos Angourakis , Greek politician
- 1951: Gildo Insfrán , Argentine politician
- 1951: Gerald Tinker , American track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist
- 1953: Klaus Antoni , German Japanologist and cultural scientist
- 1953: Desi Arnaz Jr. , American actor and musician
- 1953: Jürgen Gelsdorf , German football player and coach
- 1953: Carry Goossens , Belgian actor and comedian
- 1953: Cyprian Kizito Lwanga , Ugandan priest, Archbishop of Kampala
- 1953: Holger Rupprecht , German politician, MdL, state minister
- 1954: Joachim Deckarm , German athlete and handball player
- 1954: Evelyne Gebhardt , German politician, MEP
- 1954: Ulrich Werner Grimm , German journalist and author
- 1954: Katey Sagal , American actress
- 1954: Cindy Sherman , American photographer
- 1954: Katharina Thalbach , German actress and director
- 1955: Simon Rattle , British conductor
- 1955: Uwe Reinders , German football player and coach
- 1955: Paul Rodriguez , Mexican-American actor and comedian
- 1955: Wulf-Paul Werner , German local politician
- 1957: Roger Ashton-Griffiths , British-Canadian actor and filmmaker
- 1957: Peter Aude , Danish actor
- 1957: Michel Périn , French rally co-driver
- 1958: Michel De Wolf , Belgian footballer
- 1958: Thomas Gsella , German writer
- 1959: Margarete Bause , German politician, MdL
- 1959: Harold Kreis , German-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1960: Al Joyner , American track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist
- 1960: Mauro Tassotti , Italian footballer
- 1961: Hans-Ludwig Grabowski , German numismatist and specialist author
- 1961: Rose Hudson-Wilkin , Church of England clergyman
- 1961: Ufo Walter , German bass player, arranger and sound designer
- 1962: Jeff Van Gundy , American sportscaster
- 1963: Jay Cochran , American racing driver
- 1963: Harald Sükar , Austrian football official
- 1964: Ricardo Arjona , Guatemalan singer and basketball player
- 1964: Andreas Dorau , German musician
- 1964: Jim Morris , American baseball player
- 1966: Stefan Edberg , Swedish tennis player
- 1966: Antoine Fuqua , American director
- 1966: Lena Philipsson , Swedish singer
- 1966: Aaron Slight , New Zealand motorcycle racer
- 1967: Adrian Borza , Romanian composer and music teacher
- 1967: Javier Cámara , Spanish actor
- 1967: Michael Schjønberg , Danish footballer
- 1967: Christine Tucci , American actress
- 1968: Timo Lange , German footballer
- 1968: Steffi Lemke , German politician, MP
- 1968: Eden Robinson , Canadian writer
- 1969: Edwidge Danticat , American novelist
- 1969: Luc Longley , Australian basketball player
- 1969: Predrag Mijatović , Serbian footballer
- 1969: Oliver Mommsen , German actor
- 1969: Steve Staunton , Irish footballer
- 1969: Frank Tempel , German politician, MP
- 1970: Steffen Freund , German soccer player
- 1970: Wolfgang Nadvornik , German sports journalist and TV presenter
- 1970: Christoph Sieber , German cabaret artist
- 1971: Assyr Abdulle , Swiss mathematician
- 1971: Sven Scheuer , German footballer
- 1971: Shawn Wayans , American actor and producer, director and screenwriter
- 1972: Drea de Matteo , American actress
- 1972: Ron Killings , American professional wrestler
- 1972: Sascha Ruefer , Swiss TV presenter
- 1973: Ann Kristin Aarønes , Norwegian soccer player
- 1973: Wang Junxia , Chinese long-distance runner, Olympic champion
- 1973: Karen Lancaume , French actress
- 1973: Silvio Meißner , German footballer
- 1973: Guido Rennert , German clarinetist, composer and arranger
- 1973: Yevgeny Viktorovich Sadovy , Russian swimmer
- 1974: Francesco Cozza , Italian footballer
- 1974: Walter Jones , American football player
- 1975: Birger Lüssow , German politician, MdL
1976-2000
- 1976: Greta Galisch de Palma , German actress and voice actress
- 1976: Eugène Kangulungu , Congolese footballer
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- 1976: Christoph Sumann , Austrian biathlete
- 1977: Henrik Andersson , Swedish badminton player
- 1977: Jenny Johansson , Swedish orienteer
- 1977: Lauren Etame Mayer , Cameroonian footballer
- 1977: Timo Pärssinen , Finnish ice hockey player
- 1978: Jelena Mitschke , German actress
- 1978: Philippe Palmiste , French cyclist
- 1978: Michael Prusikin , German chess grandmaster
- 1978: Bernard Williams , American track and field athlete
- 1979: Svetlana Vasilyevna Khorkina , Russian gymnast, Olympic champion
- 1979: Boris Schommers , German football coach
- 1980: Jenson Button , British Formula One racing driver
- 1980: Leonard Scott , American track and field athlete
- 1980: Cai Yun , Chinese badminton player, world champion
- 1981: Ahmed Ammi , Moroccan footballer
- 1981: Spartak Arturovich Gogniyev , Russian footballer
- 1981: Luis González , Argentine footballer
- 1981: Asier del Horno , Spanish footballer
- 1981: Florian Wisotzki , German handball player
- 1982: Jonas Boldt , German football manager
- 1982: Antje Hamer , German actress
- 1982: Andreas Löw , German marksman
- 1982: Robin tom Rink , German musician
- 1982: Maria Solheim , Norwegian musician
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- 1982: Jodie Sweetin , American actress
- 1983: Rasmus Andersen , Danish badminton player
- 1983: Ismael Blanco , Argentine footballer
- 1983: Laurent Groppi , French racing driver
- 1983: Justyna Kowalczyk , Polish cross-country skier
- 1983: David Miesmer , Austrian actor
- 1983: Alexander Studzinski , German swimmer
- 1983: Hikaru Utada , Japanese pop musician
- 1984: Karun Chandhok , Indian automobile racer
- 1984: Nicolás Pareja , Argentine footballer
- 1984: Daniele Rizzo , Italian-German presenter, actor and comedian
- 1984: Hamdi Salihi , Albanian footballer
- 1984: Aljona Savchenko , German figure skater
- 1984: Thomas Vanek , Austrian ice hockey player
- 1985: Pascal Behrenbruch , German decathlete
- 1985: Daniyel Cimen , German footballer
- 1985: Benny Feilhaber , American soccer player
- 1985: Esteban Guerrieri , Argentine racing driver
- 1985: Ulrich Maurer , German ice hockey player
- 1985: Horia Tecău , Romanian tennis player
- 1986: Claudio Marchisio , Italian footballer
- 1986: Yann Schneider , French footballer
- 1986: Mine , German musician & singer
- 1987: Edgar Manucharian , Armenian footballer
- 1988: Dominic Kelm , German handball player
- 1988: JaVale McGee , American basketball player
- 1988: Alexei Vladimirovich Vorobyov , Russian singer and actor
- 1988: Sandra Žigić , Croatian soccer player
- 1989: Augustine Ejangue , Cameroonian soccer player
- 1990: Fabian Römer , German rapper
- 1990: Jakub Kot , Polish ski jumper
- 1991: Erin Sanders , American actress
- 1992: Logan Lerman , American actor
- 1992: Mac Miller , American rapper
- 1992: Stefan Wannenwetsch , German footballer
- 1993: Ricardo Centurión , Argentine footballer
- 1993: João Mário , Portuguese footballer
- 1994: Matthias Ginter , German footballer
- 1994: Alfie Mawson , English footballer
- 1995: Madelaine Smith , British skeleton pilot
- 1996: Mathias Graf , Austrian alpine skier and freestyle skier
- 1996: Marcel Hartel , German soccer player
- 1996: Lyes Hourí , French footballer
- 1996: Breezy Johnson , American alpine skier
- 1998: Semyel Bissig , Swiss alpine skier
- 1998: Lars Rösti , Swiss ski racer
- 1999: Lucas Ribeiro , Brazilian soccer player
- 1999: Kristina Olegovna Tkach , Russian pool player
21st century
- 2001: Niklas Jahn , German soccer player
Died
Before the 19th century
- 532: Flavius Hypatius , Eastern Roman senator and anti-emperor, leader of the Nika rebellion
- 532: Flavius Pompeius , Eastern Roman patrician, leader of the Nika rebellion
- 639: Dagobert I , King of the Franks
- 923: At-Tabarī , Islamic historian
- 985: Eginolfus , Bishop of Lausanne
- 1302: al-Hakim I , Caliph of the Abbasids
- 1341: al-Khāzin al-Baghdādī , Islamic Qur'anic exegete
- 1383: Nicholas Burnell, 1st Baron Burnell , English nobleman
- 1423: Simon de Cramaud , French jurist, diplomat, church politician and pseudo -cardinal
- 1479: John II , King of Aragon, King of Sardinia, King of Navarre by marriage
- 1483: William of Egmond , Flemish nobleman, governor of Gelderland
- 1499: Ulrich Ellenbog , German physician
- 1547: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey , English nobleman and poet
- 1550: Johann Lersner , German legal scholar, judge and university lecturer
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- 1565: Diego Laínez , Spanish Jesuit
- 1571: Paris Bordone , Italian painter
- 1576: Hans Sachs , German shoemaker, singer and poet
- 1592: Johann Rudolf Stumpf , Swiss evangelical clergyman and local historian
- 1598: Heinrich , Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, owner of the Dannenberg dominion
- 1601: Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , English nobleman
- 1609: Kazimierz Lew Sapieha , Polish-Lithuanian statesman
- 1629: Abbas I , Persian ruler of the Safavid dynasty
- 1656: Kazimierz Lew Sapieha , Polish-Lithuanian statesman
- 1661: Thomas Venner , English cooper
- 1709: Elisabetta Querini , Dogaressa of Venice
- 1710: Francesco Cupani , Italian physician, theologian and botanist
- 1720: Eleonore Magdalene of Pfalz-Neuburg , Holy Roman Empress
- 1729: William Congreve , British playwright and poet
- 1729: Jacob Züblin , Mayor of St Gallen
- 1735: Alexander Mack , German Christian reformer and Pietist
- 1748: Ernst August I , Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach
- 1753: André Joseph Panckoucke , French writer and bookseller
- 1760: Giuseppe Belli , Italian soprano castrato
- 1761: Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans , French noblewoman, Duchess of Modena
- 1765: Johan Agrell , Swedish composer and conductor
- 1771: John Burton , English physician and antiquary
- 1775: Johann Adam Löw , German evangelical clergyman
- 1789: Jeremias Majer , English painter of German origin
- 1793: Katsukawa Shunshō , Japanese woodblock print artist and painter
- 1795: Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini , Italian composer and harpsichordist
19th century
- 1814: Karl Friedrich Senf , German Protestant theologian and hymn writer
- 1819: Gerhard Anton von Halem , German jurist and writer of the late Enlightenment
- 1825: Isaac Salomon Anspach , Swiss evangelical clergyman and politician
- 1826: Hermann von Schlagintweit , German naturalist and explorer
- 1830: Wenzel Matiegka , Bohemian composer
- 1833: Friedrich Adrian von Arnstedt , German district administrator
- 1833: Ferdinand Hérold , French composer
- 1839: Ludwig Wilhelm , Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
- 1842: Joseph Jérôme Siméon , French jurist and politician
- 1847: Charles Bent , American politician
- 1847: Antoinette Murat , Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- 1853: Charles Baker Adams , American naturalist
- 1856: Ernst von Seherr-Thoß , German officer and landowner
- 1856: Franz Anton Staudenmaier , German Catholic theologian and professor
- 1857: Franz Limmer , Austrian composer
- 1861: Albert Niemann , German chemist
- 1865: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , French economist, sociologist and anarchist
- 1869: Karl von Reichenbach , German industrialist, chemist, naturalist and philosopher
- 1874: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , German scholar and poet (German national anthem)
- 1879: Eduard Heuchler , German architect and master builder
- 1879: Georg Eduard Steitz , German Protestant theologian and historian
- 1880: Jules Favre , French politician
- 1883: Georg Ferdinand Howaldt , German goldsmith, sculptor and ore founder
- 1887: André-Charles-Victor Reille , French general
- 1888: Anton de Bary , German scientist, physician and botanist
- 1890: Georg Albert , Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and Prussian general
- 1891: Lockroy , French librettist and actor
- 1893: Stefan Augsburger , Austrian poet, priest and politician
- 1895: Moriz Carrière , German writer and philosopher ( Hegelianism, theism )
- 1898: Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg , German entomologist
- 1900: Heinrich Ancker , German politician and entrepreneur
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Bernhard Danckelmann , German forest official and forest scientist
- 1902: August Köhler , German colonial official and governor of Togo
- 1906: Bartolomé Miter , first Argentine president, military leader and publisher
- 1907: Franziska von Wertheimstein , Viennese patron
- 1909: Gustav Ritter von Meyer , German Judicial Councilor and honorary citizen of Bayreuth
- 1909: Umewaka Minoru I , Japanese noh actor
- 1914: Rudolf Genée , German writer
- 1915: Georg Krogmann , German footballer
- 1924: Emil Adam , German painter
- 1924: Francis Chaponnière , Swiss Protestant theologian and university teacher
- 1924: Manuel Magallanes Moure , Chilean writer and literary critic
- 1926: Stephan Ehses , German Roman Catholic minister and church historian
- 1927: Charlotte of Belgium , Princess of Belgium, Empress of Mexico
- 1929: Liang Qichao , Chinese scholar and Qing dynasty reformist
- 1930: Frank Plumpton Ramsey , British mathematician and logician
- 1934: Karl Arnsperger , German administrative officer
- 1935: Christian Huelsen , German archaeologist
- 1938: Rosa Mayreder , Austrian writer and women's rights activist
- 1942: William E. Andrews , American politician
- 1942: Coleman Livingston Blease , American politician
- 1942: Walter Spies , German musician and painter
- 1945: Gustave Mesny , French general, victim of a war crime
- 1946: Johannes Abromeit , German botanist
- 1946: Frank Stephen Meighen , Canadian officer and patron of the arts
- 1949: Herbert Drews , German motorcycle racer
1951-2000
- 1952: Wilhelm Schäfer , German writer
- 1953: Hans Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg , German politician, MP
- 1955: Gus Arnheim , American pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader
- 1956: Charles Dingle , American actor
- 1959: Hans Venatier , German writer
- 1960: Ralph Peer , American musician
- 1961: J. Hervey Germain , Canadian actor and humorist
- 1962: Snub Pollard , Australian actor
- 1963: Théodore Aubert , Swiss politician
- 1964: Firmin Lambot , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1966: Julius Bender , German evangelical theologian and regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Baden
- 1968: Ray Harroun , American racing driver
- 1969: Robert Lusser , German engineer
- 1969: Jan Palach , Czechoslovak philosophy student who immolated himself
- 1969: Carlo Salamano , Italian racing driver
- 1970: Albert Mähl , German writer and journalist
- 1970: Hal March , American comedian, actor, television host and screenwriter
- 1970: LG McKinley , American blues guitarist
- 1973: Marie Adamczyk , Austrian nurse
- 1974: Paul Desmarteaux , Canadian actor
- 1974: Franz Nabl , Austrian writer
- 1977: Émile Gilioli , French sculptor
- 1977: Lothar Zitzmann , German painter
- 1979: Tuffy Leemans , American football player
- 1979: Paul Meurisse , French actor
- 1980: Wanda Chmielowska , Polish pianist and music teacher
- 1981: Francesca Woodman , American photographer
- 1982: Elis Regina , Brazilian singer
- 1982: Leopold Stepper , Polish communist, resistance fighter and publicist
- 1982: Marya Zaturenska , American writer
- 1984: Everhard Bungartz , German businessman and politician, MdL
- 1984: Wolfgang Staudte , German director
- 1985: Eric Voegelin , German-American political scientist and philosopher
- 1986: Ingeborg Bukor , German sculptor
- 1986: Sammy Drechsel , German cabaret artist, journalist and sports reporter
- 1986: Leo Kowalski , German composer and pianist
- 1986: Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen , Danish poet
- 1987: Lawrence Kohlberg , American psychologist and educationalist
- 1988: Yevgeny Alexandrovich Mravinsky , Russian conductor
- 1990: Pierre Barbizet , French pianist and music teacher
- 1990: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh , Indian cult leader
- 1990: Herbert Wehner , German politician, MEP, Member of Parliament and Federal Minister, long-time leader of the parliamentary group
- 1991: Gernot Reinstadler , Austrian alpine skier
- 1995: Hermann Henselmann , German architect
- 1996: Upendranath Ashk , Indian writer, journalist and publisher
- 1996: Ulrich Hausmann , German archaeologist
- 1997: Wilmut Borell , German actor
- 1997: Rolf Sammet , German chemist and company manager
- 1998: Cornelis Kalkman , Dutch botanist
- 1998: Carl Perkins , American musician and pioneer of rockabilly
- 1999: Ortrud Begin , German actress
- 1999: Peter Boschung , Swiss doctor, dialect writer and cultural politician
- 2000: Bettino Craxi , Prime Minister of Italy
- 2000: Hedy Lamarr , Austrian film actress
- 2000: George Ledyard Stebbins , American biologist and botanist
21st century
- 2002: Jeffrey Astle , English footballer
- 2002: Franz Innerhofer , Austrian writer
- 2002: Vavá , Brazilian soccer player
- 2003: Ralf Arnie , German composer
- 2004: Wilhelm Buckermann , German local politician
- 2005: Anita Kulcsár , Hungarian handball player
- 2005: Egon Wagenknecht , German forest and hunting scientist
- 2006: Gábor Agárdi , Hungarian actor
- 2006: Anthony Franciosa , American actor
- 2006: Wilson Pickett , American singer
- 2006: Franz Seitz , German film producer, film director and screenwriter
- 2006: Carola Stern , German publicist and journalist
- 2007: Asger Aaboe , Danish historian of mathematics and astronomy
- 2007: Scott Bigelow , American professional wrestler
- 2007: Gerhard Bronner , Austrian composer and cabaret artist
- 2007: Hrant Dink , Armenian journalist with Turkish nationality
- 2007: Denny Doherty , Canadian singer
- 2008: Karl Diehl , German industrialist
- 2008: Andy Palacio , Belizean musician
- 2008: Suzanne Pleshette , American film actress
- 2008: Albert Pütz , German writer and jurist
- 2008: John Stewart , American singer-songwriter
- 2009: Herbert Adamec , Austrian actor and director
- 2009: Zenonas Petrauskas , Lithuanian international law scholar and politician
- 2010: Ernst Cramer , German publicist and Chairman of the Board of the Axel Springer Foundation
- 2010: Panajot Pano , Albanian footballer
- 2011: Ralf Regitz , German promoter ( Love Parade )
- 2012: Peter Åslin , Swedish ice hockey goalie
- 2012: Sarah Burke , Canadian freestyle skier
- 2013: Taihō Kōki , Japanese sumo wrestler
- 2013: Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi , German-American journalist and writer
- 2015: Arthit Kamlang-ek , Thai military and politician
- 2015: Robert Manzon , French racing driver
- 2015: Ward Swingle , American musician and arranger
- 2016: Andreas Buro , German political scientist
- 2016: Ettore Scola , Italian film director and screenwriter
- 2017: Loalwa Braz , Brazilian singer ( Kaoma )
- 2017: Miguel Ferrer , American actor
- 2017: Gert J. Hödl , Austrian ice and sand artist
- 2019: Uwe-Detlev Jessen , German actor and director
- 2019: Tony Mendez , United States intelligence officer
- 2021: Louis Giani , American wrestler
- 2021: Danial Jahić , Serbian track and field athlete
holidays and commemorations
- Church commemorations
- Johann Michael Hahn , German Pietist community builder (Protestant)
- St. Pia of Carthage , martyr (Catholic)
- St. Henry of Uppsala , messenger of the faith in Finland, martyr, possibly Bishop of Uppsala (Protestant: ELCA , Catholic memorial day is January 20)
The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .
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