January 3rd
The Jan. 3 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 3 ) is the third day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 362 (363 in leap years) days until the end of the year.
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Around January 3 (January 2–4) the earth is at its closest point to the sun ( perihelion ).
Events
Politics and world events
- 1777 : The Continental Army of the Thirteen Colonies under General George Washington defeats British and Hessian units under Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton in the American War of Independence .
- 1778 : In the Vienna Convention , Joseph II obtained the cession of Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria by the new Bavarian Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz to Austria in exchange for Upper Austria and substantial monetary compensation. The resistance of other German princes led by Frederick the Great leads to the War of the Bavarian Succession .
- 1795 : Russia and Austria agree to partition Poland again . The third division of the country , with which Poland is removed from the map, will finally come about with the accession of Prussia on October 24th.
- 1833 : Great Britain gains control of the Falkland Islands by setting up a naval base .
- 1848 : Joseph Jenkins Roberts becomes the first president of the newly created independent state of Liberia .
- 1868 : Japan's Emperor Meiji declared in Japan , the restoration of his own power and that of the Shogun over. The resigned Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu considers this illegal and instigates the Boshin War as a result.
- 1871 : The Battle of Bapaume in the Franco-German War ends in a draw. The French Armée du Nord withdraws in the evening.
- 1896 : The German Kaiser Wilhelm II sends a congratulatory telegram to Paul Kruger , President of the Transvaal , after his victory in the Jameson Raid . The simultaneous publication of the Krüger dispatch leads to severe strains on German-British relations.
- 1925 : In a parliamentary speech, Benito Mussolini assumes “full moral, political and historical responsibility” for the murder of the socialist Giacomo Matteotti on June 10 of the previous year and calls on his political opponents to indict him.
- 1945 : The Un-American Activities Committee becomes a standing committee of the US House of Representatives .
- 1958 : The West Indian Federation is founded as an amalgamation of the former British colonies in the Caribbean, which at the same time become independent. The seat of government becomes Port of Spain .
- 1959 : With the entry into force of the Alaska Statehood Act , the previous Alaska territory is incorporated into the United States of America under the name Alaska as the 49th state . The territorial capital of Juneau is also the capital of the newly created state .
- 1980 : In Portugal, the social democrat Francisco Sá Carneiro replaces the country's only female prime minister, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo , in office.
- 1990 : After hiding in the Vatican embassy for eleven days, Manuel Noriega , the former ruler in Panama , surrenders to the US invasion forces .
- 1993 : The German Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economics Jürgen Möllemann resigns as a result of the letterhead affair .
- 1993 : In Moscow, George HW Bush sign the START II treaty for the USA and Boris Yeltsin for the Russian Federation . The successor agreement to START I aims to deactivate all land-based ICBMs with multiple warheads .
- 2012 : Christopher Loeak is elected sixth President of the Republic of Marshall Islands by parliament with 21 to 11 votes .
economy
- 1749 : Kjøbenhavnske Danske Post-Tidender , the forerunner of today's Danish newspaper Berlingske, is published in Copenhagen .
- 1816 : The Prussian government forbids the further publication of the Rheinische Merkurs published in Koblenz by Joseph Görres .
- 1834 : The German Booksellers Association publishes the Börsenblatt for the German book trade for the first time .
- 1871 : Henry Bradley receives a US patent for the manufacture of margarine .
- 1957 : The American Hamilton Watch Company offers customers the first electrically powered wristwatch for sale.
- 1980 : The Deutsche Bundespost introduces eight-minute intervals for local calls on the phone .
science and technology
- 1851 : The French physicist Léon Foucault conducts an experiment with the Foucault pendulum for the first time in the basement of his house , with which he succeeds in proving the earth's rotation .
- 1888 : The 91 cm refractor at Lick Observatory on the summit of Mount Hamilton , California, is put into operation. At this point it is the largest telescope in the world.
- 1956 : The television of the GDR starts its regular broadcasting operations under the name Deutscher Fernsehfunk .
- 1963 : The PAL color television system is presented for the first time in Hanover .
- 1983 : The first office computer with a mouse , Lisa , is introduced by Apple .
- 1999 : The space probe Mars Polar Lander of NASA with the two Deep Space 2 - penetrators Amundsen and Scott starts toward Mars .
- 2009 : The Bitcoin Blockchain was started by Satoshi Nakamoto with the creation of the first 50 Bitcoin.
Culture
- 1799 : The premiere of the opera Falstaff ossia Le tre burle takes place at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna . The opera is an extraordinary success. Numerous numbers have to be repeated, the composer Antonio Salieri is brought before the curtain several times.
- 1814 : The one-act operetta Die Nachtmütze des Prophet Elias by Conradin Kreutzer with the text by August von Kotzebue takes place in Stuttgart .
- 1843 : The comic opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti is premiered at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris . The libretto is by Giovanni Domenico Ruffini .
- 1877 : The operetta Prinz Methusalem by Johann Strauss (son) is premiered at the Carltheater in Vienna .
- 1920 : The German silent film Slaves of Strangers' Will , starring Lee Parry and Bela Lugosi , premieres in Berlin's Schauburg .
- 1941 : In a circular from Martin Bormann , the use of the Fraktur as an alleged "Jewish script " is declared undesirable and the Antiqua is declared the normal script in the National Socialist German Reich .
- 1969 : ZDF begins broadcasting the television series Der Kommissar with Erik Ode in the title role.
- 1987 : Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
society
- 1956 : The transmitting station burns at a height of 276 m on the Eiffel Tower in Paris .
- 1980 : The British-Austrian naturalist and writer Joy Adamson , who became famous for her book Born Free about the rearing of the lioness " Elsa ", is murdered by a former employee in Kenya during an evening hike.
religion
- 936 : Leo VII is elected Pope on the instructions of Prince Alberich II .
- 1521 : Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem , with which he excommunicated the German reformer Martin Luther after he failed to comply with the request to revoke his teachings in the Bull Exsurge Domine .
- 1857 : The Parisian Archbishop Auguste Sibour is murdered in the parish church of St-Étienne-du-Mont by the priest Jean-Louis Verger. After his criticism of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception , the perpetrator had been removed from office prior to that .
- 1941 : Marcial Maciel founds the Legionaries of Christ Congregation in Mexico City.
- 1962 : The Cuban head of state Fidel Castro is appointed by Pope John XXIII. excommunicated .
Disasters
- 1117 : A severe earthquake occurs near Verona and hits northern Italy . The Verona earthquake severely damaged the Verona Arena , among other things , and its outer wall was partially destroyed.
- 1934 : 142 miners die in a coal dust explosion at the Nelson III colliery in Ossegg , Bohemia .
- 1976 : The Haseldorfer Marsch is flooded in the hitherto highest storm surge on the German North Sea coast . There is damage in the three-digit million range.
- 1979 : Provisional end of the snow disaster in Northern Germany in 1978 .
- 1994 : A Tupolev Tu-154 of Baikal Air crashes shortly after taking off from Irkutsk in Russia towards Moscow due to engine problems. All 125 people on board and one on the ground die.
- 2004 : On Flash Airlines flight 604 , an Egyptian Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes into the Red Sea. All 148 people on board are killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1908 : The Kaziranga area in Assam, India, is placed under protection as a national park . It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site .
Sports
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 106 BC BC : Marcus Tullius Cicero , Roman statesman, orator and writer
- 1196 : Tsuchimikado , 83rd Emperor of Japan
- 1307 : Otto IV. , Duke of Lower Bavaria
- 1464 : Johannes Varnbuler , Mayor of Lindau
- 1504 : Gian Girolamo Albani , cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1518 : Hermann von Weinsberg , Cologne councilor and writer
- 1530 : David Peifer , Chancellor of Saxony
- 1548 : Jacob Fransz de Witt , Dordrecht patrician and regent
- 1590 : Johannes Fischer , German educator and lawyer
- 1591 : Valentin de Boulogne , French painter
- 1602 : Michael Ludovici , German Lutheran theologian
- 1604 : Jacob Balde , German Jesuit and poet
- 1606 : Daniel von Plessen , German administrative officer and district administrator of Mecklenburg
- 1611 : James Harrington , English philosopher
- 1616 : Caspar Aman , court controller at the imperial court in Vienna
- 1628 : Alvise Mocenigo II , 110th Doge of Venice
- 1639 : Eleonore d'Olbreuse , Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Celle
- 1642 : Diego Morcillo Rubio de Auñón , Spanish cleric, Archbishop of Lima and Viceroy of Peru
- 1680 : Johann Baptist Zimmermann , German painter and plasterer of the Baroque
- 1695 : Franz Ulrich Ries , German Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1698 : Pietro Metastasio , Italian poet and librettist
18th century
- 1701 : Johann Konrad Spörl , German Protestant theologian
- 1710 : Richard Gridley , British-American military engineer
- 1719 : Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal , Archbishop of Mainz
- 1724 : Franz Singer , Austrian master builder
- 1728 : Johann Georg Büsch , German pedagogue and publicist
- 1731 : Georg Besenbeck , German Protestant clergyman and educator
- 1737 : Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg , German writer and poet
- 1737 : Johann Casimir Häffelin , Bavarian diplomat
- 1739 : Karl Wilhelm Hennert , German forester
- 1742 : Jean-Baptiste Treilhard , French politician and member of the board of directors
- 1743 : Joseph-Benoît Suvée , Flemish painter
- 1745 : Ludwig , Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken
- 1750 : Helene von Breuning , Bonn noblewoman and patron of Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1752 : Johannes von Müller , Swiss historian
- 1754 : Daniel Rogers , American politician, governor of Delaware
- 1756 : Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve , leader during the French Revolution
- 1757 : Johann Abraham Sixt , German composer
- 1760 : Niklaus Rudolf von Wattenwyl , Swiss general
- 1763 : Joseph Fesch , French cardinal
- 1775 : Melchior Kirchhofer , Swiss Protestant pastor and church historian
- 1775 : Johann Wilhelm Süvern , teacher and politician
- 1777 : Elisa Bonaparte , sister of Napoleon Bonaparte
- 1777 : Louis Poinsot , French mathematician
- 1778 : Carl Philipp Heinrich Pistor , Prussian civil servant and inventor
- 1779 : Gustav Philipp Zwinger , German painter, etcher and lithographer
- 1780 : Johann Christian Woyzeck , German soldier, model for Georg Büchner's drama Woyzeck
- 1781 : Johann Georg Fellinger , Austrian officer and writer
- 1782 : El Pípila , Mexican miner and national hero
- 1786 : Friedrich Schneider , German composer, organist and Kapellmeister
- 1788 : Enne Heeren Dirksen , Professor of Mathematics
- 1788 : Otto von Erxleben , German officer and landowner
- 1788 : Joseph Pletz , Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman, educator and author
- 1789 : Carl Gustav Carus , German natural scientist and painter
- 1792 : Peter Stenger , beer brewer and entrepreneur
- 1793 : Bartolomeo Bosco , Italian magician
- 1793 : Lucretia Mott , American suffragette
- 1794 : Jean Louis Joseph Lebeau , Belgian statesman
- 1800 : Wilhelm Schumacher , German writer and newspaper publisher
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Félix Dupanloup , Catholic Bishop of Orléans
- 1803 : Douglas William Jerrold , English playwright and storyteller
- 1803 : Rudolph Hering , German mountain official
- 1804 : Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz , German botanist
- 1805 : Ludwig Dindorf , German classical philologist
- 1806 : Henriette Sontag , German opera singer (coloratura soprano)
- 1807 : Wilhelm Pape , German classical philologist and lexicographer
- 1809 : Moritz Bauschke , German writer, publisher, bookseller and publicist
- 1810 : Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie , French explorer
- 1811 : Franz von Rinecker , German doctor
- 1812 : Elisha M. Pease , American politician, governor of Texas
- 1816 : Benjamin Eggleston , American politician
- 1817 : Thomas E. Bramlette , American politician
- 1817 : Theodosius Harnack , German theologian
- 1818 : Fritz Anneke , German revolutionary and North American officer
- 1819 : Franziska Schervier , personality of the charitable-social movement
- 1819 : Charles Piazzi Smyth , Scottish astronomer and esotericist
- 1819 : Thomas Hill Watts , American politician
- 1821 : Cesare Bonelli , Italian Minister of War
- 1823 : Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens , Belgian organist and composer
- 1823 : Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach , German botanist
- 1823 : Robert Whitehead , British engineer and designer
- 1824 : Friedrich Carl Mayer , German painter
- 1827 : Michel Rodange , Luxembourgish writer
- 1829 : August Blaas , German local politician
- 1829 : Konrad Duden , German philologist, editor of the first spelling dictionary
- 1831 : Adolf Mützelburg , German writer
- 1835 : Ernst von Zitzewitz , Prussian colonel, landowner and politician
- 1836 : Oscar Bardi de Fourtou , French politician
- 1836 : Sakamoto Ryōma , Japanese samurai
- 1840 : Ludwig von Arco-Zinneberg , German politician
- 1840 : Damian de Veuster , Belgian father and missionary
- 1845 : Dominik Avanzo , German-Austrian architect
- 1846 : Saturnin Arloing , French veterinarian, infectiologist and professor of anatomy and physiology
1851-1900
- 1853 : Marie Arnsburg , Austrian painter
- 1853 : Sophie Elkan , Swedish writer
- 1853 : Iwan Knorr , German composer and music teacher
- 1856 : Clara Anhuth , German writer and librarian
- 1857 : Emma Ihr , German politician and trade unionist
- 1858 : Richard Franck , German composer and pianist
- 1858 : Léon Ringuet , Canadian organist, conductor and composer
- 1858 : Konrad Sturmhoefel , German historian
- 1861 : Ernest Renshaw , British tennis player
- 1861 : William Renshaw , British tennis player
- 1862 : Max Littmann , German architect
- 1862 : Heinrich August Meißner , German engineer and railway builder
- 1862 : Matthew Nathan , British officer and colonial administrator
- 1867 : Carl Arp , German landscape painter
- 1867 : Elsa Asenijeff , Austrian writer
- 1867 : Erland Koch , German marksman
- 1868 : Heinrich Brauns , German politician
- 1869 : Leo Feist , American music publisher
- 1869 : Charles Levadé , French composer
- 1870 : Henry Handel Richardson , Australian writer
- 1871 : Max Kaempfert , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1871 : Nándor Láng , Hungarian archaeologist, historian and classical philologist
- 1872 : Georg Wrba , German sculptor and graphic artist
- 1873 : Joseph Ambühl , Bishop in Basel
- 1874 : Francis Newton , American golfer
- 1876 : Wilhelm Pieck , German politician, President of the GDR
- 1878 : Hugo Chanoch Fuchs , rabbi and Jewish historian
- 1879 : Lina Abarbanell , German soprano and actress
- 1879 : Grace Coolidge , American first lady
- 1880 : Romanus Bange , Catholic priest, Franciscan
- 1880 : Alim Khan , last Emir of Bukhara
- 1881 : Paul Assmann , German geologist and paleontologist
- 1883 : Clement Attlee , British Prime Minister
- 1883 : Sylvie , French actress
- 1884 : Kurt Johnen , German pianist, music teacher and music writer
- 1884 : Rudolf Koppitz , photographer
- 1885 : Ernest Haley , British athlete
- 1886 : Grigori Nikolajewitsch Neuimin , Russian astronomer
- 1887 : Nicolás Fasolino , Archbishop of Santa Fe and Cardinal
- 1887 : August Macke , German painter
- 1887 : Harriet Ellen Siderovna von Rathlef-Keilmann , Russian-German sculptor
- 1888 : Arthur Berry , English football player
- 1888 : George B. Seitz , American film director
- 1890 : Joachim von Kortzfleisch , German officer
- 1891 : Fritz Angerstein , German mass murderer
- 1891 : Albert Bächtold , Swiss writer
- 1891 : Alfred Brinckmann , German chess player and author
- 1891 : Max Götze , German criminal
- 1892 : Herman Johannes Lam , Dutch botanist
- 1892 : JRR Tolkien , British writer and philologist
- 1893 : Pierre Drieu la Rochelle , French writer
- 1893 : Heinrich Träger , German football player
- 1893 : Rudy Wiedoeft , American saxophonist
- 1894 : Benito Canónico , Venezuelan composer
- 1895 : Borys Lyatoschynskyj , Ukrainian composer
- 1897 : Dorothy Arzner , American director
- 1897 : Marion Davies , American actress
- 1897 : Arthur Hübscher , editor of a complete edition of Arthur Schopenhauer's works
- 1897 : Pola Negri , Polish-American actress and silent film star
- 1897 : Carlos Keller Rueff , German-Chilean journalist and writer
- 1898 : Charles E. Ackerly , American wrestler
- 1898 : John Loder , British-American actor
- 1898 : Luís Carlos Prestes , General Secretary of the Communist Party of Brazil
- 1898 : Josef de Vries , German Jesuit and philosopher
- 1899 : Wilhelm Bluhm , German SS-Sturmbannführer and criminal director
- 1899 : Felka Platek , Polish painter
- 1899 : Adolf Ziegler , German actor
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Ngô Đình Diệm , first president of South Vietnam
- 1901 : George WF Hallgarten , American historian
- 1901 : Josef Schoiswohl , Austrian bishop
- 1901 : Eric Voegelin , German-American political scientist and philosopher
- 1902 : Mario Agustoni , Swiss politician and lawyer
- 1904 : Trude Bechmann , Austrian actress
- 1904 : Caro Lamoureux , Canadian singer
- 1905 : Dante Giacosa , Italian automobile designer
- 1905 : Ray Milland , British film and television actor
- 1905 : Anna May Wong , Chinese-American film actress
- 1906 : Lothar König , German Jesuit and active in the resistance against National Socialism
- 1906 : William Wilson Morgan , American astronomer
- 1907 : Josef Spacil , SS standard leader
- 1908 : Lizzi Holzschuh , Austrian film actress
- 1908 : Dorothea Wieck , German theater and film actress
- 1909 : Victor Borge , Danish pianist and comedian
- 1909 : Friedrich Engel , police chief of Genoa, war criminal
- 1909 : Ruth Engelhard , German athlete
- 1910 : John Sturges , American film director
- 1911 : Julius Angerhausen , German auxiliary bishop
- 1911 : Fritz Huschke von Hanstein , German racing car driver
- 1912 : Wolf von Aichelburg , Romanian-German writer
- 1912 : Federico Borrell García , Spanish Republican soldier during the Civil War
- 1912 : Fritz Linder , German surgeon
- 1913 : Gerhard Steinig , resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1915 : Chetan Anand , Indian film director and producer
- 1915 : Thomas H. Kerr jr. , American composer and music educator
- 1915 : Mady Rahl , German actress and chanson singer
- 1916 : Erik Alfred Ågren , Swedish boxer
- 1916 : Maxene Angelyn Andrews , American singer
- 1916 : Bernard Greenhouse , American cellist and music teacher
- 1917 : Alexander Spoerl , German writer
- 1917 : Vernon A. Walters , American soldier, intelligence officer, and diplomat
- 1919 : Herbie Nichols , American jazz pianist and composer
- 1920 : Siegfried Buback , German lawyer and attorney general at the Federal Court of Justice, murder victim of the RAF
- 1920 : Renato Carosone , Italian musician
- 1920 : Milan Srdoč , Yugoslav actor
- 1922 : Marcel Müller-Wieland , Swiss educator and philosopher
- 1923 : Nell Rankin , American opera singer
- 1923 : Charles Tingwell , Australian actor
- 1924 : Otto Beisheim , German businessman and entrepreneur
- 1924 : André Franquin , Belgian comic artist
- 1925 : Winner Köder , German artist and priest
1926-1950
- 1926 : W. Michael Blumenthal , US Minister, Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- 1926 : George Martin , British musician and record producer
- 1926 : Pedro Mesías , Chilean pianist and conductor
- 1928 : Rob Pronk , Dutch jazz band leader, arranger, pianist and composer
- 1928 : Eberhard Witte , German economist
- 1929 : Gertrud Kückelmann , German actress
- 1929 : Sergio Leone , Italian film director
- 1929 : Gordon Moore , co-founder of Intel and author of Moore's Law
- 1930 : Erich Lampert , German soccer player
- 1930 : Robert Loggia , American actor
- 1931 : Werner Buschmann , Minister for Light Industry in the GDR
- 1932 : Dabney Coleman , American actor
- 1932 : Coo Coo Marlin , American racing driver
- 1932 : Yolanda Montes , Tongolele , American dancer, actress, and singer
- 1932 : Klaus Murmann , German entrepreneur and employer functionary
- 1933 : Hans Purin , Austrian architect
- 1933 : Rolf Steiner , German mercenary
- 1933 : Maxie Wander , German author
- 1934 : Walter Benigni , Austrian art photographer
- 1934 : Mario David , Italian football player and coach
- 1935 : Alfredo del Águila , Mexican football player
- 1935 : Florencio Amarilla , Paraguayan soccer player and actor
- 1935 : Meinhard von Gerkan , German architect
- 1935 : Richard M. Karp , American computer scientist
- 1935 : Giovanni Lajolo , Archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio in Germany
- 1935 : Renate Rasp , German writer
- 1936 : Raúl Garello , Argentinian bandoneonist, orchestra leader and bandoneonist
- 1936 : Georgina Spelvin , American porn actress
- 1937 : Zygmunt Konieczny , Polish composer
- 1937 : Seppo Vainio , Finnish ice hockey player
- 1938 : Ove Andersson , Swedish rally driver
- 1938 : Kel Carruthers , Australian motorcycle racer and world champion
- 1938 : Dan Vadis , American actor
- 1939 : Rüdiger Ahrens , German English and cultural scientist
- 1939 : Arik Einstein , Israeli singer, songwriter and actor
- 1939 : Dieter B. Herrmann , German astronomer and physicist
- 1939 : Bobby Hull , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940 : Thelma Schoonmaker , American film editor
- 1940 : Manfred Vorderwülbecke , German sports journalist and author
- 1941 : Sergio Hualpa , Argentine composer
- 1941 : Horst W. Opaschowski , German educationalist
- 1942 : Rolf Münzner , German artist
- 1942 : László Sólyom , Hungarian politician, President of Hungary
- 1943 : Heinz Karl Gruber , Austrian composer, chansonnier and conductor
- 1943 : Mouloud Hamrouche , Algerian politician
- 1943 : Reinhold Massag , German author and actor
- 1943 : Van Dyke Parks , American musician, composer and arranger
- 1943 : Michael Zager , American producer, composer and musician ( The Michael Zager Band )
- 1944 : David Atherton , English conductor
- 1944 : Raewyn Connell , Australian sociologist
- 1945 : Luigi Blau , Austrian architect and furniture designer
- 1945 : Stephen Stills , American musician
- 1945 : Udo Thomer , German folk actor
- 1946 : Antoine Audo , Syrian bishop
- 1946 : Rudolf Böhmler , German lawyer and local politician
- 1946 : Rainer Greger , German kidney and transport physiologist
- 1946 : Motohiko Hino , Japanese jazz drummer
- 1946 : John Paul Jones , English rock musician and record producer
- 1946 : Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz , Belarusian archbishop
- 1946 : Olivia Molina , German-Mexican Tango and Schlager singer
- 1947 : Fran Cotton , English rugby player
- 1947 : Seweryn Krajewski , Polish pop musician, singer, guitarist and composer
- 1948 : Angelo Marcello Anile , Italian physicist and mathematician
- 1948 : Manfred Kokot , German athlete and Olympic medalist
- 1949 : Marc Porel , French actor
- 1950 : Beth Anderson , American composer
- 1950 : Christoph Delz , Swiss composer and pianist
- 1950 : Victoria Principal , American actress
- 1950 : Robert Robbers , Dutch rudder
- 1950 : Manfred Steiner , Austrian soccer player
1951-1975
- 1951 : Wilfried Huismann , journalist, author and film director
- 1951 : Andreas Martens , German comic artist and author
- 1951 : Rainer M. Schröder , German writer
- 1952 : Adelheid Arndt , German actress
- 1952 : Gianfranco Fini , Italian Foreign Minister
- 1956 : Mel Gibson , American actor and director
- 1956 : Willy T. Ribbs , American racing driver
- 1956 : Guy Ryder , Chairman of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
- 1957 : Mark Atkins , Australian musician and artist
- 1957 : Bojan Križaj , Slovenian ski racer
- 1958 : Kerry Michelle Armstrong , Australian actress
- 1959 : Alessandro Andrei , Italian athlete
- 1959 : Fyodor Nikolayevich Yurtschichin , Russian cosmonaut
- 1959 : Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor , Malaysian space trainee
- 1960 : Jacqueline Amirfallah , German TV chef
- 1960 : Bruno Bonhuil , French motorcycle racer
- 1960 : Marla Glen , American blues singer
- 1960 : Daniela Schadt , German journalist
- 1960 : Paweł Wojciechowski , Polish economist and politician
- 1961 : Vladimir Olegowitsch Potanin , Russian Vice Prime Minister and millionaire
- 1961 : Susanne Riess , Austrian politician
- 1961 : Thomas Rung , serial killer
- 1962 : Thorsten Assmann , German ecologist and professor of ecology
- 1962 : Uncle Kånkel , actually Håkan Florå , Swedish punk musician
- 1962 : Edward Pursino , American guitarist
- 1962 : Peter Rappenglück , German actor
- 1962 : Ronnie Schöb , German professor of economics
- 1962 : Lane Spina , American freestyle skier
- 1963 : Dawit Gobedschishvili , Georgian wrestler
- 1964 : Andreas Förster , puppeteer
- 1964 : Toshiyuki Horie , Japanese writer and translator
- 1964 : Sven Kivisildnik , Estonian writer
- 1964 : Bruce LaBruce , Canadian writer, filmmaker, and photographer
- 1964 : Leonard , Swiss pop singer and presenter
- 1964 : Cheryl Miller , American basketball player
- 1964 : Jean Reverchon , French carom player and world champion
- 1965 : Aiman Abdallah , Egyptian-German television presenter
- 1965 : Jens Albinus , Danish actor
- 1966 : Holger Kretschmer , German handball player and coach
- 1966 : Peter Schmidt (geophysicist) , German author
- 1967 : Magnus Gustafsson , Swedish tennis player
- 1967 : Lee Eun-chul , South Korean marksman
- 1967 : Martin Rassau , Franconian actor, comedian and theater entrepreneur
- 1968 : Gregor Bloéb , Austrian theater, film and television actor
- 1968 : Kent Carlsson , Swedish tennis player
- 1968 : Effi B. Rolfs , German cabaret artist, author, painter, graphic artist and theater director
- 1969 : Ingo Brosch , German actor
- 1969 : James Carter , American tenor saxophonist
- 1969 : Marie Darrieussecq , French writer
- 1969 : Michael Schumacher , German racing driver, Formula 1 world champion
- 1970 : Jörg Mayr , German ice hockey player
- 1971 : Ueli Gegenschatz , Swiss extreme athlete
- 1971 : Jens Møller , Danish racing car driver
- 1971 : Markus Teutschbein , German conductor
- 1971 : Sarah Alexander , British actress
- 1971 : Tarek Al-Wazir , German politician, MdL
- 1972 : Alisha Klass , American porn actress
- 1973 : Michael Ostrowski , Austrian actor
- 1974 : Alessandro Petacchi , Italian racing cyclist
- 1974 : Mike Ireland , Canadian speed skater
- 1974 : MV Bill , Brazilian rapper
- 1974 : Pablo Thiam , soccer player from Guinea
- 1974 : Robert-Jan Derksen , Dutch golfer
- 1974 : Stefan Ustorf , German ice hockey player
- 1975 : Danica McKellar , American actress and singer
- 1975 : Jason Marsden , American actor
- 1975 : Thomas Bangalter , French musician ( Daft Punk )
- 1975 : Shanta Ghosh , German athlete
- 1975 : Guido Spork , German soccer player
- 1975 : Jakob Vestergaard , Danish handball coach
1976-2000
- 1976 : Angelos Basinas , Greek football player
- 1976 : Jung Eun-shin , contemporary composer
- 1976 : Lee Hyung-taik , South Korean tennis player
- 1976 : Nicholas Gonzalez , American actor
- 1976 : Vera Notz-Umberg , Swiss athlete
- 1977 : Mayumi Iizuka , Japanese voice actress
- 1978 : Stefan Adamsson , Swedish cyclist
- 1978 : Mike York , American ice hockey player
- 1980 : Necati Ateş , Turkish football player
- 1980 : Mindaugas Baršauskas , Lithuanian dart player
- 1980 : Bryan Clay , American athlete
- 1980 : Sam Hancock , British racing car driver
- 1980 : Raoul Kouakou , Ivorian football player
- 1980 : Annabelle Leip , German actress
- 1980 : Federico Insúa , Argentine soccer player
- 1980 : Mary Wineberg , American athlete
- 1981 : Cristian Deville , Italian skier
- 1981 : Eli Manning , American football player
- 1981 : Julia Scharf , German television presenter
- 1982 : Eşref Apak , Turkish hammer thrower
- 1982 : Nicky Robinson , Welsh rugby player
- 1983 : Đorđije Ćetković , Montenegrin football player
- 1983 : Therese Klompenhouwer , Dutch carom player
- 1983 : Tyra Misoux , German porn actress
- 1984 : Serkan Atak , German-Turkish soccer player
- 1984 : Andrea Cassarà , Italian foil fencer
- 1984 : Klaus Salmutter , Austrian football player
- 1984 : Mary Muhsal , German actress
- 1984 : Maximilian Mechler , German ski jumper
- 1984 : Stefan Markolf , German soccer player
- 1985 : Burak Akyıldız , Turkish football player
- 1985 : Nicole Beharie , American actress and singer
- 1986 : Dana Hussein Abdulrazak , Iraqi athlete
- 1986 : Silvia Arroyo Camejo , German science writer
- 1986 : Nejc Pečnik , Slovenian football player
- 1987 : Matjaž Rozman , Slovenian football player
- 1988 : Ikechi Anya , Scottish soccer player
- 1988 : JR Hildebrand , American racing driver
- 1989 : Stefano Agostini , Italian road cyclist
- 1989 : Alex D. Linz , American actor
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- 1989 : Kōhei Uchimura , Japanese gymnast
- 1990 : Danny Cruz , American soccer player
- 1990 : Katharina Krüger , German wheelchair tennis player
- 1990 : José Pierre Vunguidica , Angolan football player
- 1991 : Andrew Agozzino , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 : Nina Schiffer , German swimmer
- 1991 : Darius Morris , American basketball player
- 1992 : Halil Akbunar , Turkish football player
- 1992 : Jon Aurtenetxe Borde , Spanish soccer player
- 1992 : Kim Reiter , German handball player
- 1992 : Maxim Zwetkow , Russian biathlete
- 1993 : Christoph Meier , Liechtenstein swimmer
- 1994 : Malin Diaz , Swedish soccer player
- 1994 : Romuald Lacazette , French football player
- 1995 : Jisoo , South Korean singer
- 1995 : Seolhyun , South Korean singer and actress
- 1995 : Tonny Vilhena , Dutch football player
- 1996 : Marko Marić , Austrian football player
- 1996 : Florence Pugh , British actress
- 1997 : Romain Beney , Swiss telemarker
- 1998 : Patrick Cutrone , Italian soccer player
- 1999 : Jonas Meiser , German soccer player
- 1999 : Tuuli , Finnish singer
21st century
2001-2025
- 2003 : Greta Thunberg , Swedish climate protection activist
Died
Before the 16th century
- 236 : Anterus , Pope, saint of the Catholic Church
- 323 : Jin Yuandi , Emperor of the Chinese Jin Dynasty
- 502 : Genoveva of Paris , patron saint of Paris
- 753 : Li Linfu , Chinese official
- 1028 : Fujiwara no Michinaga , Fujiwara regent in Japan
- 1085 : Williram von Ebersberg , German Benedictine abbot, Bible translator
- 1130 : Burchard , Bishop of Cambrai
- 1203 : Wilhelm II , Count of Chalon
- 1225 : Adolf III. , Count of Schauenburg and Holstein; Founder of a settlement on the western bank of the Alster (Hamburg)
- 1241 : Hermann II , Landgrave of Thuringia (1227–1241)
- 1322 : Philip V , King of France
- 1333 : Margaret de Clare , Anglo-Irish nobleman
- 1372 : Eberhard von Randeck , Bishop of Speyer
- 1381 : Marquard I von Randeck , Bishop of Augsburg and Patriarch of Aquileja
- 1432 : Alexandru cel Bun , ruler of the Principality of Moldova
- 1437 : Catherine de Valois Queen of England, wife of Henry V, (secret) wife of Owen Tudor
- 1444 : Hermann III. Köppen , Bishop of Schwerin
- 1449 : Anne Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick , English noblewoman
- 1474 : Pietro Riario , Cardinal of the Roman Church
- 1481 : Johannes von Dorsten , German theologian and Augustinian monk
- 1500 : Christoph von Schachner , Bishop of Passau
16th to 18th century
- 1501 : Mir ʿAli Schir Nawāʾi , Central Asian politician, builder, mystic and poet at the court of the Timurids
- 1536 : Vincens Lunge , Danish and Norwegian councilor
- 1543 : Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , Portuguese explorer in Spanish service
- 1552 : Heinrich von der Pfalz , Prince-Bishop of Worms, Utrecht and Freising
- 1566 : Philip II of Nassau-Idstein , regent of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein
- 1570 : Veit Winsheim , German rhetorician, philologist, medic and Graecist
- 1571 : Joachim II , Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia
- 1631 : Michelangelo Galilei , Italian composer and lutenist of the early Baroque
- 1641 : Jeremiah Horrocks , English astronomer
- 1646 : Francesco Erizzo , 98th Doge of Venice
- 1654 : Matsunaga Teitoku , Japanese poet and scholar
- 1667 : Gottschalk von Wickede , Lübeck mayor
- 1670 : George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle , second son of Sir Thomas Monck
- 1674 : Ludwig Heinrich , Count Palatine and Duke of Simmern-Kaiserslautern
- 1682 : Olof Verelius Swedish linguist and antiquarian
- 1699 : Mattia Preti , Italian painter and Knight of the Maltese Order
- 1700 : Eva Magdalena von Windhag , first prioress of the Dominican convent Windhaag and sole heiress of Count Joachim Enzmilner
- 1701 : Louis I , Prince of Monaco
- 1705 : Luca Giordano , Italian painter, fresco artist and etcher
- 1714 : Maria Katharina Strozzi , Austrian noblewoman and founder of the Viennese suburb Strozzigrund
- 1719 : Wenzel Norbert Octavian Graf Kinsky , Bohemian governor and president of the appeal
- 1730 : Lukas Schröck , German physician and natural scientist
- 1733 : Cyriak Blödner , Württemberg engineer, officer and cartographer
- 1743 : Ferdinando Galli da Bibiena , Italian scenographer, architect and decorative painter
- 1745 : Jean de Bodt , Saxon general and architect
- 1746 : Jacques Égide Duhan de Jandun , educator of Frederick the Great, Braunschweig librarian in Blankenburg and Prussian privy councilor in the Foreign Affairs Office
- 1761 : Willem de Fesch , Dutch violinist and composer
- 1763 : Josep Antoni Martí , Spanish composer
- 1767 : Sigismund Calles , Austrian Jesuit and historian
- 1767 : Eberhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg , landlord in Treschklingen, Rappenau, Hoffenheim, Bürg and Wolfskehlen, imperial commander of Luxembourg
- 1767 : Luca Antonio Predieri , Italian composer and violinist
- 1775 : Heinrich Gottfried Koch , German actor and theater entrepreneur
- 1776 : Paolo Posi , Italian architect
- 1779 : Claude Bourgelat , founder of the first veterinary school
- 1785 : Baldassare Galuppi , Italian composer
- 1786 : Albert Schulte , Mayor of Hamburg
- 1794 : Giuseppe Paladini , Italian painter
19th century
- 1808 : Johann August Reichardt , German legal scholar
- 1809 : Henri-Pierre Danloux , French painter
- 1815 : Johann Carl Corthum , German gardener and plant breeder
- 1824 : Ludwig Dankegott Cramer , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1826 : Louis Gabriel Suchet , French Marshal, Duke of Albufera
- 1829 : William C. Adamson , American politician
- 1831 : Franz Riepenhausen , painter and engraver
- 1833 : Tommaso Arezzo , Italian cardinal
- 1835 : Johann Melchior Kubli , Swiss politician
- 1837 : Félix Lepeletier , French politician
- 1838 : Maximilian , Crown Prince of Saxony
- 1840 : Karl Ludwig Grave , German clergyman and educator
- 1841 : Andreas Stanislaus von Hatten , Bishop of Warmia
- 1847 : Caroline Friedrich , wife of the painter Caspar David Friedrich
- 1857 : Just Friedrich von Seelhorst , German civil servant
- 1858 : Henry Darcy , French engineer
- 1858 : Rachel , French actress
- 1863 : John Branch , American politician
- 1874 : Theodor von Mörner , German historian and archivist
- 1875 : Pierre Larousse , French writer
- 1877 : John Joseph Abercrombie , American brigadier general
- 1882 : William Harrison Ainsworth , British historical novelist
- 1886 : Theodor Struve , German philologist and educator in Russian service
- 1889 : Philipp Hoffmann , German architect and city builder
- 1889 : Giuseppe dell'Orefice , Italian composer
- 1890 : Ole Andreas Bachke , Norwegian lawyer and politician
- 1890 : Karl von Hase , German theologian
- 1890 : Charles-Marie Panneton , Canadian pianist, music educator and composer
- 1894 : August Kościesza-Żaba , Polish folklorist
- 1897 : Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin , French geographer
- 1897 : Guglielmo Sanfelice D'Acquavella , Italian cardinal
- 1900 : Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Grigorowitsch , Russian writer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Alois Hitler , father of Adolf Hitler
- 1904 : Otto Karlowa , German legal scholar, legal historian and Romanist
- 1905 : Anton Braith , German painter
- 1907 : Josef Foerster , Bohemian composer
- 1912 : Jakob Amsler-Laffon , Swiss mathematician, physicist, engineer and manufacturer
- 1912 : Felix Dahn , German lawyer, writer and historian
- 1918 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Auer , Prussian major general
- 1921 : Arseni Nikolajewitsch Koreschtschenko , Russian composer
- 1922 : Berthold Delbrück , German linguist
- 1922 : Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt , German shoemaker (Captain von Köpenick)
- 1923 : Jaroslav Hašek , Czech author
- 1925 : Nikolai Rasumnikowitsch Kotschetow , Russian composer
- 1927 : Carl Runge , German mathematician
- 1931 : Joseph Joffre , French general, Marshal of France
- 1933 : Gabriel Anton , Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
- 1933 : Frederick S. Armitage , American cameraman, director and film producer
- 1933 : Wilhelm Cuno , German politician, Reich Chancellor in the Weimar Republic
- 1935 : Stefan Großmann , Viennese publicist before the Second World War
- 1936 : Philipp Jakob Mayer , theologian and vicar general in Mainz
- 1942 : July Eduardowitsch Konjus , Russian violinist
- 1944 : Franz Reichleitner , Austrian criminal police officer and SS leader, war criminal
- 1944 : Joseph Hammels , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1946 : Gustav Witt , German astronomer
- 1946 : Karl Maria Wiligut , National Socialist esotericist
- 1946 : William Joyce , British fascist politician
- 1947 : Ernst Hardt , German writer
1951-2000
- 1952 : Luigi Stefano Giarda , Italian composer, cellist and music teacher
- 1954 : Christian Friedrich Lautenschlager , German mechanic and racing car driver
- 1956 : Alexander Tichonowitsch Gretschaninow , Russian composer
- 1956 : Joseph Wirth , German politician and Reich Chancellor
- 1958 : Alexander Meißner , Austrian physicist
- 1959 : Ernst Balzli , Bernese dialect writer and teacher
- 1960 : Victor Sjöström , Swedish director and actor
- 1961 : Maximilian Müller-Jabusch , German journalist
- 1964 : Rowland Pack , Canadian cellist, organist and choir director
- 1966 : Richard Theophil Imanuel Aeckerle , German painter, draftsman, sculptor and lithographer
- 1966 : Ady Berber , Austrian actor
- 1966 : Geoffrey Waddington , Canadian violinist and conductor
- 1967 : Jack Ruby , American night club owner, murderer of the alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
- 1970 : Raúl Aparicio , Cuban journalist and writer
- 1970 : Karl Hepp , German politician
- 1972 : Elisabeth Schiemann , German botanist
- 1972 : Frans Masereel , Belgian painter and graphic artist
- 1974 : Gino Cervi , Italian film actor
- 1975 : Margot Antillano , Venezuelan theater, television and film actress
- 1975 : Walter Linck , Swiss sculptor
- 1975 : Robert Neumann , Austrian writer
- 1975 : Victor Kraft , Austrian scientific theorist, philosopher and State Librarian General
- 1976 : John Ainsworth-Davis , British sprinter
- 1976 : Anton Andergassen , Austrian clergyman and pastor
- 1978 : Alfred Braun , German radio pioneer
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- 1979 : Conrad Nicholson Hilton , American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotel Corporation
- 1980 : Joy Adamson , British-Austrian naturalist, painter and writer
- 1980 : Lucien Buysse , Belgian cyclist
- 1982 : Freddie de Clifford , British racing car driver and peer
- 1982 : Fritz Laband , German soccer player
- 1983 : Jens Rehn , German writer
- 1984 : Taras Borodajkewycz , Austrian National Socialist historian, professor at the University of World Trade in Vienna
- 1985 : Lucien Cailliet , American composer and clarinetist
- 1985 : René Leroy , French flautist and music teacher
- 1985 : Wolfgang Vacano , German-American conductor and music teacher
- 1988 : Joie Chitwood , American racing car driver
- 1988 : Gaston Eyskens , Belgian politician and head of government
- 1988 : Rose Ausländer , German poet
- 1988 : Franz Muxeneder , German-Austrian actor
- 1989 : Lina Prokofjew , Spanish-Russian singer and first wife of Sergei Prokofjew
- 1989 : Robert Thomas , French writer
- 1989 : Sergei Lwowitsch Sobolew , Russian mathematician
- 1990 : Ernst Widmer , Swiss-Brazilian composer
- 1991 : Lucius Benjamin Appling , American baseball player and manager
- 1992 : Judith Anderson , Australian actress
- 1993 : Will Walls , American football player and coach
- 1994 : Leopold Achberger , Evangelical Lutheran Superintendent of Styria
- 1994 : Frank Belknap Long , American author
- 1995 : Tadeáš Salva , Slovak composer
- 1996 : Reinhard Goerdeler , German lawyer and auditor
- 1998 : Hans Sion , Cologne beer brewer
- 1999 : Chuck Parsons , American racing car driver
- 2000 : Henry H. Fowler , American politician
- 2000 : Steffen Mauersberger , German enduro athlete
21st century
- 2002 : Alfred Heineken , Dutch brewer
- 2003 : Sid Gillman , American football player and coach
- 2005 : Jyotindra Nath Dixit , Indian diplomat
- 2005 : Marie Therese Hug , German noblewoman, princess from the House of Hohenzollern
- 2005 : Will Eisner , American comic artist
- 2006 : Urbano Lazzaro , Italian resistance fighter
- 2006 : Angela Salloker , Austrian actress
- 2006 : William Skate , Papua New Guinean politician
- 2006 : Arturo Sergi , American opera tenor
- 2007 : Johann Schröder , German mathematician
- 2007 : Michael Yeats , Irish politician
- 2008 : Alexander Gawriilowitsch Abdulow , Russian actor and director
- 2008 : Werner Dollinger , German politician
- 2010 : Otto Breg , Austrian bobsleigh athlete
- 2010 : Luisito Martí , Dominican musician, actor, film producer and television presenter
- 2011 : Geraldo Flach , Brazilian musician
- 2011 : Eva Strittmatter , German poet and writer
- 2012 : Willi Entenmann , German soccer player and coach
- 2012 : Vicar , Chilean comic artist
- 2013 : Elmar Gunsch , Austrian moderator and author
- 2013 : Burry Stander , African mountain biker
- 2014 : Phil Everly , American singer and musician
- 2014 : Alicia Rhett , American actress
- 2014 : Saul Zaentz , American film producer
- 2015 : Edward Brooke , American politician
- 2016 : Paul Bley , Canadian jazz pianist and composer
- 2016 : Peter Naur , Danish computer scientist
- 2016 : Hans Vontobel , Swiss banker and patron
- 2018 : Konrad Ragossnig , Austrian guitarist and lutenist
- 2020 : Qasem Soleimani , Iranian general
- 2021 : Gerry Marsden , British musician ( Gerry & the Pacemakers )
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus (Catholic; ev. And angl. January 1st)
- St. Gordius , Roman martyr (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Armenian)
- Saint Genoveva of Paris , Frankish virgin and patron saint (Catholic, Orthodox)
- William Alfred Passavant , American pastor (Anglican: TEC )
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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