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==Events==
=== Up to 1900 ===
* [[69]] – [[Otho]] seizes power in [[Rome]], proclaiming himself [[Emperor]] of [[Rome]], but rules for only three [[month]]s before committing [[suicide]].
* [[1362]] – A [[North Sea]] [[flood]] kills many thousands of people.
* [[1541]] – King [[Francis I of France]] gives [[Jean-Francois Roberval]] a commission to settle the [[Province]] of [[New France]] ([[Canada]]) and provide for the spread of the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic Faith]].
* [[1559]] – Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]] is officially crowned [[Queen of England]].
* [[1582]] – [[Russia]] cedes [[Livonia]] and [[Estonia]] to the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]].
* [[1759]] – The [[British Museum]] is opened.
* [[1777]] – [[American Revolutionary War]]: New Connecticut (present-day [[Vermont]]) declares its independence.
* [[1790]] – The Bounty mutineers, led by [[Fletcher Christian]], arrive on [[Pitcairn Island]].
* [[1815]] – [[War of 1812]]: American [[frigate]] USS ''President'', commanded by [[Stephen Decatur]], is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
* [[1822]] – [[Greek War of Independence]]: [[Demetrios Ypsilantis]] is elected [[President]] of the Legislative [[Assembly]].
* [[1844]] – The [[University of Notre Dame]] receives its charter from the state of [[Indiana]].
* [[1865]] – [[American Civil War]]: Fort Fisher in [[North Carolina]] falls to Union forces.
* [[1870]] – A political [[cartoon]] (by [[Thomas Nast]]) for the first time uses a [[donkey]] as a symbol of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] in the [[United States]].
* [[1876]] – The first [[newspaper]] in [[Afrikaans]], De Afrikaans Patriot, is published.
* [[1885]] – American [[Wilson Bentley]] takes the first photographs of [[snow]]flakes.
* [[1889]] – The [[Coca-Cola]] [[Company]], then-known as the Pemberton [[Medicine]] Company, is incorporated in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[US]].
* [[1892]] – [[James Naismith]] publishes the rules of [[basketball]].

=== 1901–2000 ===
* [[1910]] – [[Building]] work begins ends on the Buffalo Bill [[Dam]] in [[Wyoming]], [[United States]], at 99 meters.
* [[1919]] – German socialist activists [[Rosa Luxemburg]] and [[Karl Liebknecht]] are tortured and executed by the [[Freikorps]].
* [[1919]] – The [[Boston Molasses Disaster]], killing 21 and injuring 150 others.
* [[1933]] – A 12-year-old [[girl]] is said to have experienced the first [[Virgin Mary|Marian]] [[Apparition]] of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, [[Belgium]].
* [[1934]] – A magnitude 8.1 [[earthquake]] on the [[India]]-[[Nepal]] border kills around 10,700 people.
* [[1936]] – The first building to be completely covered in [[glass]], built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company is completed in [[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]], [[Ohio]], [[United States]].
* [[1937]] – [[Spanish Civil War]]: [[Nationalism|Nationalists]] and [[Republicanism|Republicans]] both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the [[Second Battle of the Corunna Road]].
* [[1943]] – [[The Pentagon]] is dedicated in [[Arlington, Virginia]].
* [[1943]] – [[World War II]]: The [[Soviet]] counter-offensive in [[Voronezh]] begins.
* [[1944]] – A magnitude 7.8 [[earthquake]] in [[San Juan, Argentina]], kills around 5,000 people.
* [[1949]] – [[Chinese Civil War]]: The [[Communist]] forces take over [[Tianjin]] from the National [[Government]].
* [[1962]] – The [[Derveni papyrus]], [[Europe]]'s oldest-surviving [[manuscript]] dating back to [[340 BC]], is found in Northern [[Greece]].
* [[1966]] – [[Nigeria]]'s First [[Republic]], led by [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]] is overthrown in [[military]] [[coup d'état]]. 
* [[1967]] – The first-ever [[Super Bowl]] takes place in [[Los Angeles]], as the [[Green Bay Packers]] defeat the [[Kansas City Chiefs]] 35-10.
* [[1969]] – The [[Soyuz 5]] spacecraft is launched by the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[1970]] – [[Nigerian Civil War]]: [[Biafra]] surrenders.
* [[1970]] – [[Muammar al-Gaddafi]] is proclaimed [[Premier]] of [[Libya]].
* [[1971]] – The [[Aswan Dam]] in [[Egypt]] is officially opened.
* [[1973]] – [[Vietnam War]]: [[Richard Nixon]] announces the suspension of offensive action in [[North Vietnam]], citing the progress of [[peace]] negotiations.
* [[1975]] – The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the [[Angolan War of Independence]].
* [[1976]] – [[Sara Jane Moore]] is sentenced to life in [[prison]] for attempting to kill President [[Gerald Ford]].
* [[1981]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] receives a delegation from the Polish [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity Trade Union]], led by [[Lech Walesa]].
* [[1991]] – The [[United Nations]] deadline for [[Iraq]]'s withdrawal from [[Kuwait]] expires.
* [[1992]] – The international community recognizes the independence of [[Slovenia]] and [[Croatia]] from [[Yugoslavia]].
* [[1993]] – [[Mafia]] boss [[Salvatore Riina]] is arrested by police.
* [[1996]] – [[Lesotho]]'s King, Moshoeshoe II dies in a car crash. He is succeeded by his son, [[Letsie III of Lesotho|Letsie III]].

=== From 2001 ===
* [[2001]] – [[Wikipedia]] goes online.
* [[2004]] – The [[South Korea]]n Foreign Minister, [[Yoon Young-kwan]] resigns following his support for [[United States|American]] policy towards [[North Korea]].
* [[2005]] – The [[European Space Agency]]'s ''SMART-1'' [[Moon|lunar]] [[orbit]]er discovers elements such as [[calcium]], [[aluminium]], [[silicon]], [[iron]] and other elements on the [[Moon]].
* [[2006]] – [[Michelle Bachelet]] is elected [[President of Chile]]. She becomes Chile's first female president when she takes office on [[March 11]].
* [[2009]] – [[Chesley Sullenberger]], pilot of [[US Airways Flight 1549]], steers the plane to a safe emergency landing on the [[Hudson River]] after experiencing trouble shortly after take off from New York's [[LaGuardia Airport]].
* [[2015]] – Two suspected [[Jihad]]ists are killed in an anti-terror raid in [[Verviers]], [[Belgium]].
* [[2018]] – British [[newspaper]] [[The Guardian]] changes to a [[tabloid]] format.
* [[2018]] – [[Mihai Tudose]] announces his resignation as [[Prime Minister of Romania]] after losing support within his own party.
* [[2018]] – A [[bomb]] attack in [[Baghdad]] kills 38 people.
* [[2019]] – A terrorist attack on a [[hotel]] complex in [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]], results in 21 people being killed.
* [[2019]] – British Prime Minister [[Theresa May]] loses a parliamentary vote in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] by the biggest margin ever for a sitting Prime Minister, losing a vote on her proposed [[Brexit]] deal by 432 votes to 202.
* [[2024]] – The [[Iran]]ian-backed [[Houthi movement|Houthi]] movement [[Attack on the Gibraltar Eagle|launch an attack on]] the [[Marshall Islands]]-flagged, [[United States]]-owned and operated bulk carrier ''Gibraltar Eagle''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gambrell |first1=Jon |title=Houthi rebels strike a U.S.-owned ship off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions |url=https://apnews.com/article/houthis-us-yemen-israel-palestinians-gaza-fa2aefc86ae002e73081e6ac1b772610 |website=AP News |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |accessdate=15 January 2024 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115165028/https://apnews.com/article/houthis-us-yemen-israel-palestinians-gaza-fa2aefc86ae002e73081e6ac1b772610 |archivedate=15 January 2024 |location=[[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]] |format=[[News]] article |date=15 January 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Births==
=== Up to 1850 ===
* [[5 BC]] – [[Emperor Guang Wu of Han]] in [[China]] (d. [[57]])
* [[1292]] – [[Joan II, Countess of Burgundy]] (d. [[1330]])
* [[1342]] – [[Philip II, Duke of Burgundy]] (d. [[1404]])
* [[1432]] – [[Afonso IV of Portugal]] (d. [[1481]])
* [[1481]] – [[Ashikaga Yoshizuni]], Japanese [[shogun]] (d. [[1511]])
* [[1538]] – [[Maeda Toshiie]], Japanese [[general officer|general]] (d. [[1599]])
* [[1622]] – [[Molière]], French writer and [[philosopher]] (d. [[1673]])
* [[1716]] – [[Philip Livingston]], American founding father (d. [[1778]])
* [[1780]] – [[Cornelius P. Comegus]], American [[politician]], [[Governor]] of [[Delaware]] (d. [[1850]])
* [[1785]] – [[William Prout]], English [[chemist]], [[physician]] and [[theologian]] (d. [[1850]])
* [[1791]] – [[Franz Grillparzer]], Austrian [[writer]] (d. [[1872]])
* [[1795]] – [[Alexander Griboyedov]], Russian [[playwright]] (d. [[1829]])
* [[1803]] – [[Marjorie Fleming]], Scottish [[poet]] (d. [[1811]])
* [[1807]] – [[Hermann Burmeister]], German naturalist (d. [[1892]])
* [[1809]] – [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]], French [[Anarchy|anarchist]] (d. [[1865]])
* [[1815]] – [[William Bickerton]], English-American religious leader (d. [[1905]])
* [[1824]] – [[Marie Duplessis]], French courtesan (d. [[1847]])
* [[1841]] – [[Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby]], [[Governor General of Canada]] (d. [[1908]])
* [[1842]] – [[Mary MacKillop]], Australian saint (d. [[1909]])
* [[1842]] – [[Paul Lafargue]], French [[journalist]], literary critic and activist (d. [[1911]])
* [[1842]] – [[Josef Breuer]], Austrian [[physician]] (d. [[1925]])
* [[1844]] – [[Cole Younger]], American outlaw (d. [[1916]])
* [[1850]] – [[Mihai Eminescu]], [[Romania]]n poet (d. [[1889]])
* [[1850]] – [[Leonard Darwin]], son of [[Charles Darwin]] (d. [[1943]])
* [[1850]] – [[Sofia Kovalevskaya]], Russian [[mathematician]] (d. [[1891]])

=== 1851–1900 ===
* [[1858]] – [[Giovanni Segantini]], Italian painter (d. [[1899]])
* [[1859]] – [[Archibald Peake]], Australian [[politician]], [[Premier]] of [[South Australia]] (d. [[1920]])
* [[1859]] – [[Nathaniel Lord Britton]], American [[Geology|geologist]] and [[Botany|botanist]] (d. [[1934]])
* [[1862]] – [[Loie Fuller]], American [[dance]]r (d. [[1928]])
* [[1863]] – [[Wilhelm Marx]], [[Chancellor of Germany]] (d. [[1946]])
* [[1866]] – [[Nathan Söderblom]], Swedish [[archbishop]] (d. [[1931]])
* [[1867]] – [[Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867-1900)|Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies]] (d. [[1900]])
* [[1869]] – [[Ruby Laffoon]], American [[politician]], 43rd [[Governor]] of [[Kentucky]] (d. [[1941]])
* [[1869]] – [[Stanislaw Wyspianski]], Polish [[dramatist]] (d. [[1907]])
* [[1870]] – [[Pierre S. du Pont]], American industrialist (d. [[1954]])
* [[1875]] – [[Thomas Burke]], American athlete (d. [[1929]])
* [[1878]] – [[Johanna Mueller-Hermann]], Austrian [[composer]] and educator (d. [[1941]])
* [[1882]] – [[Princess Margaret of Connaught]] (d. [[1920]])
* [[1885]] – [[Huang Yuanyong]], Chinese [[writer]] (d. [[1915]])
* [[1891]] – [[Osip Mandelstam]], Russian [[poet]] (d. [[1938]])
* [[1892]] – [[Rex Ingram]], Irish [[Movie director|director]] (d. [[1950]])
* [[1893]] – [[Ivor Novello]], Welsh entertainer and composer (d. [[1951]])
* [[1893]] – [[George, Crown Prince of Saxony]] (d. [[1943]])
* [[1894]] – [[Ecaterina Teodoriu]], Romanian [[World War I]] [[hero]]ine (d. [[1917]])
* [[1895]] – [[Artturi Ilmari Virtanen]], Finnish chemist (d. [[1973]])
* [[1897]] – [[Xu Zhimo]], Chinese [[poet]] (d. [[1931]])
* [[1898]] – [[Erik Byléhn]], Swedish runner (d. [[1986]])
* [[1900]] – [[William Heinesen]], [[Faroe Islands|Faroese]] writer, poet and artist (d. [[1991]])
* [[1900]] – [[Stanley Lucas]], British [[supercentenarian]] (d. [[2010]])

=== 1901–1950 ===
* [[1902]] – King [[Saud of Saudi Arabia|Saud]] of [[Saudi Arabia]] (d. [[1969]])
* [[1903]] – [[Paul A. Dever]], American [[politician]], 58th [[Governor of Massachusetts]] (d. [[1958]])
* [[1906]] – [[Aristotle Onassis]], Greek shipping magnate (d. [[1975]])
* [[1908]] – [[Edward Teller]], Hungarian [[physicist]] (d. [[2003]])
* [[1909]] – [[Jean Bugatti]], German-born [[automobile]] [[design]]er (d. [[1939]])
* [[1909]] – [[Gene Krupa]], American [[automobile]] designer (d. [[1973]])
* [[1912]] – [[Michel Debré]], [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. [[1996]])
* [[1913]] – [[Lloyd Bridges]], American actor (d. [[1998]])
* [[1913]] – [[Alexander Marinesko]], German [[submarine]] [[captain]] (d. [[1963]])
* [[1914]] – [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], British [[historian]] (d. [[2003]])
* [[1916]] – [[Maurice Bavaud]], Swiss [[activist]] (d. [[1941]])
* [[1918]] – [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], [[President]] of [[Egypt]] (d. [[1970]])
* [[1918]] – [[Joao Figueiredo]], [[President of Brazil]] (d. [[1999]])
* [[1918]] – [[David George Kendall]], English [[Statistics|statistician]] and [[mathematician]] (d. [[2007]])
* [[1918]] – [[Vicente de la Mata]], Argentine [[footballer]] (d. [[1980]])
* [[1919]] – [[George Cadle Price]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Belize]] (d. [[2011]])
* [[1919]] – [[Maurice Herzog]], French [[mountain]]eer (d. [[2012]])
* [[1920]] – [[Bob Davies]], American [[basketball]] player (d. [[1990]])
* [[1920]] – [[Pamela Cundell]], English [[actress]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[1920]] – [[John Joseph O'Connor]], American [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] and [[Archbishop]] of [[New York City]] (d. [[2000]])
* [[1921]] – [[Babasaheb Bhasale]], Indian [[politician]], 8th [[Chief Minister]] of [[Maharashtra]] (d. [[2007]])
* [[1923]] – [[Lee Twng-hui]], 4th [[President]] of the [[Republic of China]]
* [[1924]] – [[George Lowe]], New Zealand [[mountain]]eer (d. [[2013]])
* [[1924]] – [[Georg Ratzinger]], brother of [[Pope Benedict XVI]]
* [[1924]] – [[Jean-Bertrand Pontalis]], French philosopher, writer, editor and psychoanalyst (d. [[2013]])
* [[1925]] – [[Ernst Benda]], German politician (d. [[2009]])
* [[1926]] – [[Maria Schell]], Austrian [[actress]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[1926]] – [[Karl-Alfred Jacobsson]], Swedish [[footballer]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[1927]] – [[Phyllis Coates]], American [[actress]]
* [[1928]] – [[M. V. Devan]], Indian [[artist]] and [[writer]] (d. [[2014]])
* [[1928]] – [[W. R. Mitchell]], English writer (d. [[2015]])
* [[1929]] – [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], American [[civil rights]] [[activist]] (d. [[1968]])
* [[1929]] – [[Earl Hooker]], American [[blues]] [[guitar]]ist (d. [[1970]])
* [[1934]] – [[V. S. Ramadevi]], Indian [[politician]], 13th [[Governor]] of [[Karnataka]] (d. [[2013]])
* [[1939]] – [[Per Ahlmark]], Swedish [[journalist]] and [[politician]]
* [[1940]] – [[Arlie Russell Hochschild]], American sociologist and academic
* [[1941]] – [[Captain Beefheart]], American singer (d. [[2010]])
* [[1943]] – [[Ashraf Aman]], Pakistani [[mountain]]eer
* [[1943]] – [[Margaret Beckett]], British politician
* [[1944]] – [[Jenny Nimmo]], British writer
* [[1945]] – [[Princess Michael of Kent]]
* [[1945]] – [[David Pleat]], English [[footballer]]
* [[1945]] – [[Maria Antonia Iglesias]], Spanish [[writer]] (d. [[2014]])
* [[1945]] – [[Ko Chun-hsiung]], Taiwanese [[actor]], [[Movie director|director]] and [[politician]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[1947]] – [[Martin Chalfie]], American [[Biology|biologist]] and [[Nobel Prize]] winner
* [[1947]] – [[Pete Waterman]], English [[songwriter]] and [[producer]]
* [[1948]] – [[Ronnie Van Zant]], American musician ([[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]) (d. [[1977]])
* [[1950]] – [[Bebeto de Freitas]], Brazilian volleyball coach and football manager (d. [[2018]])

=== 1951–1975 ===
* [[1951]] – [[Catherine Trautmann]], French [[politician]]
* [[1954]] – [[Nikos Sarganis]], Greek [[footballer]]
* [[1955]] – JoAnne Good, British radio presenter, television presenter, broadcast journalist and actress
* [[1955]] – [[Khalid Islambouli]], Egyptian assassin (d. [[1982]])
* [[1956]] – [[Mayawati]], Indian [[politician]], 23rd [[Chief Minister]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]]
* [[1957]] – [[Mario Van Peebles]], American actor
* [[1957]] – [[David Ige]], American [[politician]], 8th [[Governor]] of [[Hawaii]]
* [[1958]] – [[Ken Judge]], Australian rules footballer (d. [[2016]])
* [[1958]] – [[Boris Tadic]], former [[President of Serbia]]
* [[1959]] – [[Pavle Kozjek]], [[Slovenia]]n climber (d. [[2008]])
* [[1962]] – [[Margherita Buy]], Italian [[actress]]
* [[1962]] – [[Ken Macintosh]], Scottish politician
* [[1964]] – [[Jackie Baillie]], Scottish politician
* [[1965]] – [[Bernard Hopkins]], American boxer
* [[1965]] – [[James Nesbitt]], Northern Irish actor
* [[1968]] – [[Chad Lorre]], American [[Movie director|director]], [[actor]] and [[producer]]
* [[1968]] – [[Iñaki Urdangarin]], Spanish former [[handball]] player and royal
* [[1970]] – [[Shane McMahon]], American [[professional wrestler]], son of [[WWE]] President [[Vince McMahon]]
* [[1972]] – [[Claudia Winkleman]], English [[television]] presenter
* [[1973]] – [[Essam El-Hadary]], [[Egypt]]ian [[footballer]]
* [[1974]] – [[Edith Bowman]], Scottish [[television]] and [[radio]] presenter
* [[1975]] – [[Mary Pierce]], French [[tennis]] player

=== From 1976 ===
* [[1977]] – [[Giorgia Meloni]], Italian [[politician]]
* [[1978]] – [[Eddie Cahill]], American actor
* [[1978]] – [[Ryan Sidebottom]], English [[cricket]]er
* [[1979]] – [[Martin Petrov]], [[Bulgaria]]n footballer
* [[1979]] – [[Ken Chu]], [[Taiwan]]ese [[singer]], [[actor]] and [[Tai-chi]] champion
* [[1980]] – [[Matt Holliday]], American [[baseball]] player
* [[1981]] – [[El Hadji Diouf]], [[Senegal]]ese footballer
* [[1981]] – [[Sean Lamont]], Scottish [[Rugby football|rugby]] player
* [[1981]] – [[Pitbull (rapper)|Pitbull]], American [[rapper]]
* [[1982]] – [[Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia]]
* [[1982]] – [[Prince Philip of Yugoslavia]]
* [[1983]] – [[Matic Kralj]], [[Slovenia]]n [[ice hockey]] player
* [[1983]] – [[Hugo Viana]], Portuguese [[footballer]]
* [[1983]] – [[Jermaine Pennant]], English [[footballer]]
* [[1985]] – [[René Adler]], German [[footballer]] and [[goalkeeper]]
* [[1985]] – [[Clara Lee]], Swiss-born British-South Korean [[actress]]
* [[1985]] – [[Enrico Patrizio]], Italian [[rugby football|rugby]] player
* [[1986]] – [[Jessie Schram]], American [[actress]]
* [[1987]] – [[Tsegaye Kebede]], [[Ethiopia]]n runner
* [[1987]] – [[Kelly Kelly]], American [[professional wrestler]]
* [[1987]] – [[Michael Seater]], Canadian [[actor]], [[Movie director|director]], [[producer]] and [[screenwriter]]
* [[1988]] – [[Jun. K]], South Korean [[singer]]
* [[1988]] – [[Skrillex]], American [[musician]] and [[producer]]
* [[1989]] – [[Ryan Corr]], Australian [[actor]]
* [[1990]] – [[Paul Blake]], English [[Paralympics|Paralympic]] athlete
* [[1996]] – [[Dove Cameron]], American [[actress]] and [[singer]]

==Deaths==
=== Up to 1900 ===
* [[41]] – [[Caligula]], [[Roman Emperor]] (b. [[12]])
* [[69]] – [[Galba]], Roman Emperor (b. [[3 BC]])
* [[570]] – [[Saint Ides]], Irish nun (b. ca. [[475]])
* [[936]] – King [[Rudolph of France]]
* [[1519]] – [[Vasco Nunez de Balboa]], Spanish explorer (b. [[1475]])
* [[1595]] – [[Murat III]], [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Sultan]] (b. [[1546]])
* [[1623]] – [[Fra Paolo Sarpi]], Italian patriot, scholar, [[scientist]] and [[church]] reformer (b. [[1552]])
* [[1683]] – [[Philip Warwick]], English [[writer]] and [[politician]] (b. [[1609]])
* [[1775]] – [[Giovanni Battista Sammartini]], Italian [[organist]] and [[composer]] (b. [[1700]])
* [[1781]] – [[Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain]], Queen Regent of [[Portugal]] (b. [[1718]])
* [[1815]] – [[Emma, Lady Hamilton]], mistress of [[Horatio Nelson]] (b. [[1765]])
* [[1876]] – [[Eliza Johnson]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1810]])
* [[1893]] – [[Fanny Kemble]], British [[actress]] and [[writer]] (b. [[1809]])
* [[1896]] – [[Mathew Brady]], American [[photograph]]er (b. [[1822]])
* [[1899]] – [[Serafino Dubois]], Italian [[chess]] player (b. [[1817]])

=== 1901–2000 ===
* [[1915]] – [[Mary Slessor]], Scottish Christian [[missionary]] to [[West Africa]] (b. [[1848]])
* [[1916]] – [[Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky]], Russian [[playwright]] (b. [[1850]])
* [[1919]] – [[Rosa Luxemburg]], German politician and activist (b. [[1870]])
* [[1919]] – [[Karl Liebknecht]], German politician and activist (b. [[1871]])
* [[1926]] – [[Enrico Toselli]], Italian [[composer]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[1927]] – [[David R. Francis]], American [[politician]], [[Governor]] of [[Missouri]] (b. [[1850]])
* [[1936]] – [[Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster]], [[Governor-General of Australia]] (b. [[1866]])
* [[1947]] – Elizabeth Short, AKA [[The Black Dahlia]], murder victim (b. [[1924]])
* [[1948]] – [[Josephus Daniels]], American publisher and [[diplomat]] (b. [[1862]])
* [[1952]] – [[Ned Hanlon]], Australian [[politician]], [[Premier]] of [[Queensland]] (b. [[1866]])
* [[1955]] – [[Yves Tanguy]], French [[Surrealist]] painter (b. [[1900]])
* [[1964]] – [[Jack Teagarden]], musician (b. [[1905]])
* [[1968]] – [[William Masterton]], Canadian [[ice hockey]] player (b. [[1938]])
* [[1983]] – [[Meyer Lansky]], [[mobster]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[1987]] – [[Ray Bolger]], actor, singer, dancer (b. [[1904]])
* [[1988]] – [[Sean MacBride]], Irish politician (b. [[1904]])
* [[1990]] – [[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]], Scottish  movie and TV actor; best known as the butler "Hudson" on ''Upstairs Downstairs'' (b. [[1923]])
* [[1993]] – [[Sammy Cahn]], songwriter (b. [[1913]])
* [[1994]] – [[Harry Nilsson]], American musician (b. [[1941]])
* [[1994]] – [[Georges Cziffra]], Hungarian-French [[pianist]] (b. [[1921]])
* [[1996]] – King [[Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho|Moshoeshoe II]] of [[Lesotho]] (b. [[1938]])
* [[1998]] – [[Gulzarilal Nanda]], Indian politician (b. [[1898]])
* [[2000]] – [[Zeljko Raznatovic]], Serbian leader (b. [[1952]])

=== From 2001 ===
* [[2003]] – [[Doris Fisher]], singer and songwriter (b. [[1915]])
* [[2005]] – [[Victoria de los Angeles]], Catalan [[soprano]] (b. [[1923]])
* [[2005]] – [[Walter Ernsting]], German science fiction writer (''[[Perry Rhodan]]'') (b. [[1920]])
* [[2005]] – [[Elizabeth Janeway]], [[United States]] feminist writer (b. [[1913]])
* [[2005]] – [[Dan Lee]], animator for movie [[Finding Nemo]] (b. [[1969]])
* [[2005]] – [[Ruth Warrick]], [[United States]] actress best known for ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' and ''[[All My Children]]'' (b. [[1915]])
* [[2006]] – [[Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah]], Emir of [[Kuwait]] (b. [[1926]])
* [[2007]] – [[James Hiller]], Canadian inventor (b. [[1915]])
* [[2008]] – [[Brad Renfro]], American actor (b. [[1982]])
* [[2009]] – [[Said Seyam]], Palestinian military commander (b. [[1959]])
* [[2010]] – [[Marshall Warren Nirenberg]], [[USA|American]] [[biochemist]], won the 1968 [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1927]])
* [[2011]] – [[Nat Lofthouse]], English footballer (b. [[1925]])
* [[2011]] – [[Susannah York]], English actress (b. [[1939]])
* [[2012]] – [[Manuel Fraga Iribarne]], former [[Prime Minister]] of [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] (b. [[1922]])
* [[2012]] – [[Ed Derwinski]], American [[politician]] (b. [[1926]])
* [[2013]] – [[Nagisa Oshima]], Japanese [[movie director]] and [[screenwriter]] (b. [[1932]])
* [[2013]] – [[Jean-Bertrand Pontalis]], French philosopher, writer, editor and psychoanalyst (b. [[1924]])
* [[2014]] – [[Roger Lloyd-Pack]], English [[actor]] (b. [[1944]])
* [[2014]] – [[John Dobson]], American [[astronomer]] (b. [[1915]])
* [[2015]] – [[Ervin Drake]], American [[songwriter]] (b. [[1919]])
* [[2015]] – [[Kim Fowley]], American [[record producer]] (b. [[1939]])
* [[2015]] – [[Val Holten]], Australian [[cricket]]er (b. [[1927]])
* [[2015]] – [[Ethel Lang (supercentenarian)|Ethel Lang]], British [[supercentenarian]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[2015]] – [[Jean-Claude Baker]], French-American restaurateur (b. [[1943]])
* [[2015]] – [[Joseph Mukasa Zuza]], [[Malawi]]an [[bishop]] (b. [[1955]]) 
* [[2015]] – [[Rameshwar Thakur]], Indian [[politician]] (b. [[1927]])
* [[2016]] – [[Ken Judge]], Australian rules footballer (b. [[1958]])
* [[2016]] – [[Dan Haggerty]], American [[actor]] (b. [[1941]])
* [[2016]] – [[Oleksandr Shevchenko]], Ukrainian [[scientist]], jurist and [[politician]] (b. [[1937]])
* [[2016]] – [[P. J. Mara]], Irish public affairs consultant and senator (b. [[1942]])
* [[2016]] – [[Noreen Corcoran]], American actress (b. [[1943]])
* [[2016]] – [[Aristide von Bienefeldt]], Dutch writer (b. [[1959]])
* [[2017]] – [[Ciel Bergman]], American painter (b. [[1938]])
* [[2017]] – [[Babette Cole]], English children's writer (b. [[1949]])
* [[2017]] – [[Richard Divall]], Australian conductor and musicologist (b. [[1945]])
* [[2017]] – [[Aleksandr Ezhevsky]], Russian [[engineer]] and [[statesman]] (b. [[1915]])
* [[2017]] – [[Dermot Gallagher]], Irish civil servant and diplomat (b. [[1944]])
* [[2017]] – [[Han Peixin]], Chinese politician (b. [[1921]])
* [[2017]] – [[Kozo Kinomoto]], Japanese [[footballer]] (b. [[1949]])
* [[2017]] – [[Vicki Lansky]], American writer and publisher (b. [[1942]])
* [[2017]] – [[Eddie Long]], American pastor (b. [[1953]])
* [[2017]] – [[David Poythress]], American military officer and politician (b. [[1943]])
* [[2017]] – [[Jimmy Snuka]], Fijian-American [[professional wrestler]] (b. [[1943]])
* [[2017]] – [[Greg Trooper]], American [[singer-songwriter]] (b. [[1956]])
* [[2018]] – [[Viktor Anpilov]], Russian political activist and trade unionist (b. [[1945]])
* [[2018]] – [[Joe Frank]], American radio personality (b. [[1938]])
* [[2018]] – [[Dolores O'Riordan]], Irish singer-songwriter and musician (b. [[1971]])
* [[2018]] – [[John Spellman]], American politician, former [[Governor of Washington]] (b. [[1926]])
* [[2018]] – [[Edwin Hawkins]], American musician (b. [[1943]])
* [[2018]] – [[Peter Wyngarde]], British actor (b. [[1927]])
* [[2018]] – [[Carl Emil Christiansen]], Danish [[footballer]] (b. [[1937]])
* [[2018]] – [[Romana Acosta Bañuelos]], American public servant (b. [[1925]])
* [[2018]] – [[Dick King (politician)|Dick King]], American politician (b. [[1934]])
* [[2018]] – [[Mathilde Krim]], Italian-American [[HIV]] researcher (b. [[1926]])
* [[2018]] – [[Karl-Heinz Kunde]], German racing cyclist (b. [[1938]])
* [[2018]] – [[Roderick Rijnders]], Dutch rower (b. [[1941]])
* [[2019]] – [[Carol Channing]], American actress and singer (b. [[1921]])

==Observances==
* Earliest day that [[Martin Luther King, Jr. Day]] can fall, while [[January 21]] is the latest, on the third [[Monday]] in [[January]] ([[United States]])
* Armed Forces Day ([[Nigeria]])
* Army Day ([[India]])
* Tree Planting Day ([[Egypt]])

==References==
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