Editing 1942 (section)

===January===
[[File:Stephen Hawking.StarChild.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Stephen Hawking]]]]
[[File:Junichiro Koizumi 20010426 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Junichiro Koizumi]]]]
[[File:Muhammad Ali NYWTS.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Muhammad Ali]]]]
[[File:Michael Crawford2012.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Crawford]]]]
[[File:Eusebio (1963 version2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Eusébio]]]]
[[File:Tasuku Honjo 201311.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tasuku Honjo]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Adil Abdul-Mahdi]], 49th [[Prime Minister of Iraq]]
** [[Alassane Ouattara]], 5th [[List of heads of state of Ivory Coast|President of the Ivory Coast]]
** [[Gennadi Sarafanov]], Russian cosmonaut (d. [[2005]])
* [[January 3]]
** [[László Sólyom]], [[President of Hungary]] (d. [[2023]])
** [[John Thaw]], English actor (d. [[2002]])
* [[January 4]] 
** [[Bolaji Akinyemi]], Nigerian professor of political science
** [[Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah]], 7th [[List of Prime Ministers of Kuwait|Prime Minister of Kuwait]] (d. [[2024]])
** Dame [[Marcela Contreras]], Chilean-British immunologist and educator
** [[John McLaughlin (musician)|John McLaughlin]], English guitarist, bandleader and composer<ref>{{cite book |author=Peter Lavezzoli |title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OSZKCXtx-wEC&pg=PA332 |date=24 April 2006 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-0-8264-1815-9 |pages=332 |access-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207090521/https://books.google.com/books?id=OSZKCXtx-wEC&pg=PA332#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 5]] 
** [[Maurizio Pollini]], Italian pianist (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Giancarlo Colombo |title=Who's who in Italy 2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wXxmAAAAMAAJ |year=2002 |publisher=Who's Who in Italy |isbn=978-88-85246-48-5 |page=1395 |access-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207090537/https://books.google.com/books?id=wXxmAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Charlie Rose]], American television anchor and talk show host
* [[January 7]] – [[Vasily Alekseyev]], Soviet weightlifter (d. [[2011]])
* [[January 8]]
** [[Fauziyya Hassan]], Maldivian actress (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://raajje.mv/122753|title=Celebrated actress Fauziyya Hassan dies|website=raajje.mv|access-date=September 7, 2022|archive-date=August 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830111450/https://raajje.mv/122753|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Stephen Hawking]], British physicist (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Anita Croy |title=Stephen Hawking |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFkGEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4 |date=24 June 2021 |publisher=Raintree |isbn=978-1-398-20142-2 |pages=4 |access-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207090612/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZFkGEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4 |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Junichiro Koizumi]], 56th [[Prime Minister of Japan]]
* [[January 9]] – [[Lee Kun-hee]], South Korean businessman (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 10]] – [[Walter Hill]], American film director, screenwriter, and producer<ref>{{cite book |author=Geoff Andrew |title=The Film Handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQK1AAAAIAAJ |year=1990 |publisher=G.K. Hall |isbn=978-0-8161-9093-5 |page=130}}</ref>
* [[January 11]]
** [[Clarence Clemons]], African-American saxophonist (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Chase's Annual Events |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ |year=1994 |publisher=Contemporary Books |isbn=978-0-8092-3732-6 |page=63 |access-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-date=September 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901100002/https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Bill Sheridan (basketball)|Bill Sheridan]], American basketball coach (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 12]]
** [[Ramiro de León Carpio]], 31st [[President of Guatemala]] (d. [[2002]])
** [[Michel Mayor]], Swiss astronomer, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]
* [[January 14]] – [[Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal]], [[Chief Justice of India]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[January 16]] 
** [[René Angélil]], Canadian singer and manager (d. [[2016]])
** [[Richard Bohringer]], French actor
** [[Nicole Fontaine]], French politician (d. [[2018]])
**[[Zhao Zhongxiang]], Chinese television host (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 17]]
** [[Muhammad Ali]], African-American boxer, activist, and philanthropist (d. [[2016]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/cassius-clay |title=Cassius Clay |website=Olympic.org |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date= |archive-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402030603/https://www.olympic.org/cassius-clay |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Ita Buttrose]], Australian journalist
** [[Antonio Fraguas de Pablo]], Spanish graphic humorist (d. [[2018]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Michael Crawford]], English actor, singer and entertainer<ref>{{cite book |title=Current Biography Yearbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4gYAAAAIAAJ |year=1992 |publisher=H. W. Wilson Company |page=141}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] – [[Edwin Starr]], singer (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Fred Bronson |title=The Billboard Book of Number One Hits |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RVFLAAAAYAAJ |year=1997 |publisher=Billboard Books |isbn=978-0-8230-7641-3 |page=280}}</ref>
* [[January 22]]
** [[Jaime Humberto Hermosillo]], Mexican film director (d. [[2020]])
** [[Mimis Domazos]], Greek footballer (d. [[2025]])
** [[Amine Gemayel]], 12th President of Lebanon<ref>{{cite book |author1=Alain Gresh |author2=Dominique Vidal |title=An A to Z of the Middle East |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NEksAQAAIAAJ |year=1990 |publisher=Zed Books |isbn=978-0-86232-880-1 |page=50}}</ref>
* [[January 23]]
** [[Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat]], 1st [[President of Mongolia]]
** [[Salim Ahmed Salim]], 4th Prime Minister of Tanzania
* [[January 25]] – [[Eusébio]], Mozambican Portuguese footballer (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Dunmore | first = Tom | title = Historical dictionary of soccer | publisher = Scarecrow Press | location = Lanham, Md | year = 2011 | isbn = 9780810871885 | page=74}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] – [[Árpád Urbán]], Hungarian teacher and politician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parlament.hu/kepv/eletrajz/hu/u390.htm |title=''Biography'' |publisher=[[National Assembly of Hungary|Országgyűlés]]}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] – [[Tasuku Honjo]], Japanese immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine
* [[January 28]] 
** [[Hans Jürgen Bäumler]], German figure skater, actor, pop singer and television host
** [[Sjoukje Dijkstra]], Dutch figure skater (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/sjoukje-dijkstra |title=Sjoukje Dijkstra |website=Olympic.org |publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]] |access-date= |archive-date=March 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326182915/https://www.olympic.org/sjoukje-dijkstra |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Erkki Pohjanheimo]], Finnish TV-producer and director
* [[January 29]] – [[Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez]], Cuban military officer, legislator, and cosmonaut 
* [[January 30]] – [[Marty Balin]], American singer, songwriter, and musician (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book |author1=Norm N. Nite |author2=Wolfman Jack |title=Rock on: The video revolution, 1978-present |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rxwKAQAAMAAJ |year=1982 |publisher=Harper & Row |isbn=978-0-06-181644-4 |page=19}}</ref>
* [[January 31]]
** [[Daniela Bianchi]], Italian actress
** [[Derek Jarman]], English director and writer (d. [[1994]])<ref>Tony Peake, ''Derek Jarman: A Biography'' (Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1999), pp. 12–13.</ref>