Editing 1921 (section)

===January===
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* [[January 1]]
** [[César Baldaccini]], French sculptor (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite book|first1=Alex |last1=Kayser|first2=Andy |last2=Warhol|title=Artists' portraits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IC04AQAAIAAJ|date=August 1981|publisher=H.N. Abrams|isbn=9780810922228}}</ref>{{page needed|date=May 2025}}
** [[Cliff Bourland]], American athlete (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-cliff-bourland-oldest-living-gold-medalist-dies-20180202-story.html|title=Cliff Bourland, America's oldest living gold medalist, dies at 97|date=February 2, 2018 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001215612/https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/olympics/ct-cliff-bourland-oldest-living-gold-medalist-dies-20180202-story.html |archive-date=1 October 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Hossein Wahid Khorasani]], Iranian ayatollah 
** [[Ismail al-Faruqi|Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi]], Palestinian-American Islamic scholar (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095811314 |title=Faruqi, Ismail Raji al- (1986) |work=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam |publisher=Oxford Reference |accessdate=2024-07-04}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] 
** [[Bill Gold]], American graphic designer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Bob Dawson (footballer)|Bob Dawson]], Australian rules footballer (d. [[2023]])
** [[Jean-Louis Koszul]], French mathematician (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.academie-sciences.fr/en/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-K/jean-louis-koszul.html|title=Jean-Louis Koszul|language=fr|website=Academie des sciences|access-date=20 November 2020|archive-date=April 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420203814/https://www.academie-sciences.fr/en/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-K/jean-louis-koszul.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[John Russell (actor)|John Russell]], American actor (d. [[1991]])
** [[Cecil Souders]], American football player (d. [[2021]])
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Pedro Richter Prada]], 115th [[Prime Minister of Peru]] (d. [[2017]])
* [[January 5]]
** [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Swiss writer (d. [[1990]])<ref>{{cite book|author=E. J. Neather|title=Mastering German 2: German Language and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vEVdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA177|date=18 August 1989|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|isbn=978-1-349-20133-4|pages=177}}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
** [[Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg]] (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite web |first1=Brittani |last1=Barger |title=BREAKING: Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg dies at the age of 98 |url=http://royalcentral.co.uk/europe/luxembourg/breaking-grand-duke-jean-of-luxembourg-dies-at-the-age-of-98-119830 |website=Royal Central |access-date=April 23, 2019 |date=April 23, 2019}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Ágnes Keleti]], Hungarian artistic gymnast (d. [[2025]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert |last=Slater|title=Great Jewish Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34NtAAAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Jonathan David Publishers|isbn=978-0-8246-0370-0|page=129}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[T. M. Kaliannan]], Indian politician (d. [[2021]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Juanita M. Kreps]], American government official and businesswoman (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Department of Commerce|title=From Lighthouses to Laserbeams: A History of the U.S. Department of Commerce, 1913-1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_I6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA75|year=1988|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of the Secretary|pages=75}}</ref>
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Muriel Phillips]], American nurse and author (d. [[2022]])
* [[January 14]]
** [[Murray Bookchin]], American libertarian socialist (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite news |last1=Small |first1=Mike |title=Murray Bookchin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/aug/08/guardianobituaries.usa |access-date=June 30, 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=August 8, 2006 |format=Obituary}}</ref>
** [[Roger Carré]], French footballer (d. [[1996]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=Fédération Française de Football – Roger Carré |url=https://www.fff.fr/equipe-nationale/joueur/7856-carre-roger/fiche.html |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=www.fff.fr}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] 
** [[Henry Sayler (Florida politician)|Henry Sayler]], American politician (d. [[2021]])
** [[George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth]], British politician and journalist (d. [[2008]])
** [[Shmuel Toledano]], Israeli politician (d. [[2022]])
* [[January 17]] 
** [[Asghar Khan]], Pakistani politician, first native [[Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force]], the world's youngest Air Vice Marshal at 36 and Air Marshal at 37 years old (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|last1=Khan|first1=Mohammad Asghar|title=Pakistan at the Cross Roads|date=1969|publisher=Ferozsons|location=Lahore, Pakistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RjxuAAAAMAAJ|language=en}}</ref> {{page needed|date=May 2025}}
** [[Epaminondas Stassinopoulos]], Greek astrophysicist (d. [[2022]])
** [[Dan Tolkowsky]], Israeli Air Force commander 
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Yoichiro Nambu]], Japanese-American Nobel physicist (d. [[2015]])<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=Lars |editor-last1=Brink|editor2=Lay Nam Chang |editor3=Moo-young Han |editor4=Kok Khoo Phua |display-editors=1 |chapter=Yoichiro Nambu |first1=Peter G. O. |last1=Freund |first2=Jeffrey |last2=Harvey |author3=Emil Matinec |author4=Pierre Ramond |display-authors=2|title=Memorial Volume For Y. Nambu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VW2DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA37|date=2016|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-310-834-9|pages=37}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] 
** [[Rachel Dror]], German teacher and Holocaust survivor (d. [[2024]])
** [[Patricia Highsmith]], American author (d. [[1995]])<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=Robin W. |editor-last1=Winks|editor-first2=Maureen |editor-last2=Corrigan|title=Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e3SnIItDKh8C|year=1998|publisher=Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-80519-1|page=503}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[John Bai Ningxian]], Chinese Roman Catholic bishop (d. unknown)
* [[January 21]] 
** [[Jaswant Singh Marwah]], Indian soldier, journalist and author
** [[Howard Unruh]], American spree killer (d. [[2009]])<ref name="Nash1989">{{cite book|first=Jay Robert |last=Nash|title=Encyclopedia of World Crime: S-Z; Supplements|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VzQRAQAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=CrimeBooks|isbn=978-0-923582-04-3|page=3016}}</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Eleanor Owen]], American playwright, actress, professor and mental health advocate (d. [[2022]])
* [[January 23]]
** [[Hermann Baumann (wrestler)|Hermann Baumann]], Swiss Olympic freestyle wrestler (d. [[1999]])
** [[Marija Gimbutas]], Lithuanian archaeologist (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ware|first1=Susan|last2=Braukman|first2=Stacy Lorraine|title=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century|year=2004|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]|isbn=978-0-674-01488-6|page=234}}</ref>
** [[Justus Rosenberg]], Polish academic (d. [[2021]])
* [[January 24]] &ndash; [[Beatrice Mintz]], American biologist (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite book |volume=11 |title=Encyclopedia of World Biography |publisher=Gale Research |year=1998 |p=49 |ISBN=0-7876-2221-4}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Josef Holeček (canoeist)|Josef Holeček]], Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2005)
* [[January 26]] 
** [[Elisabeth Kirkby]], English-born Australian actress, politician and radio broadcaster
** [[Akio Morita]], Japanese businessman, co-founder of Sony (d. [[1999]])
** [[Veikko Uusimäki]], Finnish actor and theater councilor (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/muistot/art-2000002624545.html|title=Veikko Uusimäki - Muistot|work=[[Helsingin Sanomat]]|url-access=subscription|date=25 May 2008|access-date=9 July 2023|language=fi}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] 
** [[Raymond E. Peet]], American admiral (d. [[2021]])
** [[Donna Reed]], American actress (d. [[1986]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Brenda Scott |last=Royce|title=Donna Reed: A Bio-bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVZ-1V0vLRUC&pg=PA1|year=1990|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26806-9|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Mustafa Ben Halim]], Former [[Prime Minister of Libya]] (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.libya-al-mostakbal.org/95/1063/كل-يوم-شخصية-ليبية-مشرقة-17-مصطفى-بن-حليم.html|title= Biography of Mustafa Ben Halim|website=Al Mostakbal|language=ar|access-date=7 December 2020}}</ref> 
* [[January 31]]
** [[Carol Channing]], American actress (d. [[2019]])
** [[Abu Sayeed Chowdhury]], 2nd President of Bangladesh (d. [[1987]])
** [[Mario Lanza]], American operatic tenor and actor (d. [[1959]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Roland L. |last=Bessette|title=Mario Lanza: Tenor in Exile|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xlUIAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Amadeus Press|isbn=978-1-57467-044-8|page=15}}</ref>