Editing 1931 (section)

===January===
[[File:Robert Duvall 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Duvall]]]]
[[File:Caterina Valente 1966.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Caterina Valente]]]]
[[File:James Earl Jones (8516667383).jpg|thumb|100px|[[James Earl Jones]]]]
[[File:Sam_Cooke_billboard.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sam Cooke]]]]
<!--[[File:Accadde al commissariato 16 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lucia Bosè]]]]-->
* [[January 1]] 
** [[Mona Hammond]], Jamaican-born British actress (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/jul/05/mona-hammond-obituary|title=Mona Hammond obituary|date=July 5, 2022|website=the Guardian}}</ref>
** [[Mohammad Ali Samatar]], 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. [[2016]])
* [[January 2]] – [[Toshiki Kaifu]], Prime Minister of Japan (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Japan Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsUwAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP71|year=1989|publisher=Japan Information Center, Consulate General of Japan|pages=71}}</ref>
* [[January 4]]
** [[Guido Messina]], Italian road and track cyclist (d. [[2020]])
** [[William Deane]], 22nd Governor-General of Australia<ref>{{cite book|author=Roger East|title=Whitaker's Almanack World Heads of State, 1998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mCFigy0N6MC|year=1998|publisher=Stationery Office|isbn=978-0-11-702204-1|page=12}}</ref>
** [[Cleopa Msuya]], 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania (d. [[2025]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Raph Uwechue|title=Africa Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9EAOAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Africa Journal Limited|isbn=978-0-903274-17-3|page=1177}}</ref>
* [[January 5]]
** [[Alvin Ailey]], American choreographer (d. [[1989]])<ref>{{cite book | title = Chase's Calendar of Events 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months | publisher = Bernan Press | year = 2018 | isbn = 9781641432641 | page=73}}</ref>
** [[Alfred Brendel]], Austrian pianist<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJIYAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=80}}</ref>
** [[Robert Duvall]], American actor and director<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Jerome|first=Jim|title=Dance Fever|date=April 14, 2003|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|volume=59|issue=14|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139782,00.html|access-date=June 16, 2015|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053945/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139782,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Dave Peterson (ice hockey)|Dave Peterson]], American ice hockey coach (d. [[1997]])<ref>{{cite news|title=A no-frills coach for Team USA|last=Verdi|first=Bob|author-link=Bob Verdi|date=January 5, 1988|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=D1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119549206/peterson-1988/}}; {{cite news|title=Verdi (Continued from Page 1)|last=Verdi|first=Bob|author-link=Bob Verdi|date=January 5, 1988|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=D5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119549337/peterson-1988/}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] – [[E. L. Doctorow]], American author (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joel Shatzky|author2=Michael Taub|author3=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X3HN2tYhR0cC&pg=PA54|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-29462-4|pages=54}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] – [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]], German concert promoter (d. [[1991]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat]], Malaysian politician, Muslim cleric (d. [[2015]]) 
* [[January 12]] – [[Roland Alphonso]], Jamaican musician (d. [[1998]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Caterina Valente]], French singer and actress (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Jancik | first = Wayne | title = The Billboard book of one-hit wonders | publisher = Billboard Books | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780823076222 | page=6}}</ref>
* [[January 16]]
** [[Shuhrat Abbosov]], Uzbek actor, film director, screenwriter, and film producer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Johannes Rau]], [[President of Germany]] (d. [[2006]])
* [[January 17]] – [[James Earl Jones]], African-American actor (d. [[2024]]) 
* [[January 20]] – [[David Lee (physicist)|David Lee]], American physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1996/lee/facts|title=David Lee|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] – [[Sam Cooke]], African-American singer (d. [[1964]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Bobby Womack|author2=Robert Ashton|title=Midnight Mover: My Autobiography: the True Story of the Greatest Soul Singer in the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voA3AQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=John Blake|isbn=978-1-84454-148-5|page=269}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – [[Lars Hörmander]], Swedish mathematician (d. [[2012]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Dean Jones (actor)|Dean Jones]], American actor (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/03/movies/dean-jones-star-of-disneys-the-love-bug-dies-at-84.html?_r=0|title=Dean Jones, Affable Star in 'Love Bug' and a Disney Fixture, Dies at 84|first=Mike|last=Flaherty|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 2, 2015|page=B19}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] – [[Mordecai Richler]], Canadian author (d. [[2001]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Reinhold Kramer|title=Mordecai Richler: Leaving St Urbain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pEZAhyjZPQkC&pg=PA19|date=20 March 2008|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7477-9|pages=19}}</ref>
* [[January 28]] – [[Lucia Bosè]], Italian actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Ferenc Mádl]], [[President of Hungary]] (d. [[2011]])