Editing 1936 (section)

=== January ===
[[File:PresidenteSanguinetti.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Julio María Sanguinetti]]]]
[[File:Lebanon.EmileLahoud.01.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Émile Lahoud]]]]
[[File:Alan Alda by Bridget Laudien (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Alan Alda]]]]
* [[January 2]] – [[Roger Miller]], American singer-songwriter, musician and actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[January 6]]
** [[Darlene Hard]], American tennis player (d. [[2021]])
** [[Alejandro Maldonado]], 37th [[President of Guatemala]]
** [[Julio María Sanguinetti]], 2-time President of Uruguay
* [[January 8]] – [[Robert May, Baron May of Oxford|Robert May]], Australian scientist (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/science/robert-may-dead.html|date=12 May 2020|access-date=12 May 2020|title=Robert May, an Uncontainable 'Big Picture' Scientist, Dies at 84|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
* [[January 10]]
** [[Stephen E. Ambrose]], American historian and biographer (d. [[2002]])
** [[Robert Woodrow Wilson|Robert Wilson]], American physicist and radio astronomer, [[Nobel Prize|Nobel]] laureate
* [[January 11]] – [[Eva Hesse]], American sculptor and textile artist (d. [[1970]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Émile Lahoud]], 15th [[President of Lebanon]]
* [[January 14]] – [[Reiner Klimke]], German equestrian (d. [[1999]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Ziaur Rahman]], 7th President of Bangladesh (d. [[1981]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Edward Feigenbaum]], American computer scientist
* [[January 22]]
** [[Alan J. Heeger]], American physicist
** [[Ong Teng Cheong]], 5th President of Singapore (d. [[2002]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Diana Hyland]], American actress (d. [[1977]])
* [[January 27]]
** [[Barry Barish]], American gravitational physicist, Nobel laureate
** [[Troy Donahue]], American actor (d. [[2001]])
** [[Samuel C. C. Ting]], American physicist
* [[January 28]]
** [[Waldyr Boccardo]], Brazilian basketball player (d. [[2018]])
** [[Alan Alda]], American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian and author
** [[Ismail Kadare]], Albanian writer (d. [[2024]])