Editing 1947 (section)

===January===
[[File:David-Bowie Chicago 2002-08-08 photoby Adam-Bielawski-cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Bowie]]]]
[[File:Andrea Martin - Lyceum Theatre 2019.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Andrea Martin]]]]
[[File:President Megawati Sukarnoputri - Indonesia.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Megawati Sukarnoputri]]]]
[[File:Michio Kaku at Miami University in 2020 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michio Kaku]]]]
[[File:Jonathan_Banks_2012_2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jonathan Banks]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[F. R. David]], Tunisian-born French singer<ref>{{cite book |last=Betts |first=Graham |title=Complete UK hit singles 1952-2006 |publisher=Collins |location=London |year=2006 |isbn=9780007200771 |page=210}}</ref>
** [[Vladimir Titov (cosmonaut)|Vladimir Titov]], Russian cosmonaut<ref>{{cite book |title=JPRS Report: Science & technology. USSR. Space |publisher=United States: Foreign Broadcast Information Service |year=1988 |page=1}}</ref>
** [[Frances Yip]], Hong Kong singer
* [[January 2]] – [[Jack Hanna]], American Zookeeper and Television Personality (''[[Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures]]'')
* [[January 6]] 
** [[Sandy Denny]], British singer (d. [[1978]])
** [[Ian Millar]], Canadian dressage rider<ref>{{cite web |url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/ian-millar/ |title=Ian Millar |publisher=Team Canada}}</ref>
* [[January 8]]
** [[David Bowie]], English singer, songwriter, and actor (d. [[2016]])
** [[Samuel Schmid]], Swiss Federal Councillor
* [[January 10]] – [[Peer Steinbrück]], German politician
* [[January 13]] – [[Carles Rexach]], Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
* [[January 15]] – [[Andrea Martin]], Canadian-American actress (''[[Second City Television]]'')
* [[January 16]]
** [[Juliet Berto]], French actress, director and screenwriter (d. [[1990]])
** [[Apasra Hongsakula]], Thai model, [[Miss Universe 1965]]
** [[Harvey Proctor]], British Conservative politician<ref>{{cite book |last=Proctor |first=K. Harvey |title=Credible and True: The Political and Personal Memoir of K. Harvey Proctor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJPGCwAAQBAJ |year=2016 |publisher=Biteback Publishing |isbn=978-1-78590-059-4}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – [[Takeshi Kitano]], Japanese film director, actor
* [[January 20]] – [[Cyrille Guimard]], French road racing cyclist
* [[January 21]] – [[Jill Eikenberry]], American actress
* [[January 22]] – [[Vladimir Oravsky]], Swedish writer
* [[January 23]]
** [[Tom Carper]], American politician
** [[Megawati Sukarnoputri]], 5th [[President of Indonesia]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Megawati Sukarnoputri |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/megawati-sukarnoputri |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=28 July 2021 |language=en |date=25 February 2020}}</ref>
* [[January 24]]
** [[Giorgio Chinaglia]], Italian footballer (d. [[2012]])
** [[Michio Kaku]], American theoretical physicist<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's who Among Asian Americans |publisher=Gale Research Incorporated |year=1994 |page=258}}</ref>
** [[Warren Zevon]], American rock musician (''[[Werewolves of London]]'') (d. [[2003]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Tostão]] (Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade), Brazilian footballer
* [[January 26]] – [[Michel Sardou]], French singer and actor
* [[January 27]] – [[Björn Afzelius]], Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist (''[[Hoola Bandoola Band]]'') (d. [[1999]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Jeanne Shaheen]], US Senator
* [[January 29]] – [[Linda B. Buck]], American biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2004/buck/facts/ |title=Linda B. Buck - Facts |website=Nobel Prizes |access-date=October 12, 2021}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] – [[Steve Marriott]], British rock musician (d. [[1991]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Jonathan Banks]], American actor<ref name="TCM">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124225910/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/9256%7C0/Jonathan-Banks#overview |archive-date=January 24, 2021 |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/9256%7C0/Jonathan-Banks |title=Jonathan Banks |work=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |url-status=live |access-date=November 18, 2018}}</ref>