Editing 1945 (section)

===January===
* [[January 1]]
** [[Pietro Grasso]], Italian politician
** [[Jacky Ickx]], Belgian racing driver
* [[January 3]] – [[Stephen Stills]], American rock singer-songwriter ([[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]])
* [[January 4]]
** [[Sima Bina]], Iranian vocalist
** [[Richard R. Schrock]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[January 5]]
** [[Lynn Di Nino]], American artist
** [[Júlio Isidro]], Portuguese television presenter
** [[Robert Pindyck]], American economist
* [[January 7]] 
** [[Shulamith Firestone]], Canadian American feminist, writer (d. [[2012]])
** [[Raila Odinga]], prime minister of Kenya
* [[January 10]] – Sir [[Rod Stewart]], British rock singer
* [[January 12]] – [[André Bicaba]], Burkinabé sprinter
* [[January 14]] – [[Einar Hákonarson]], Icelandic painter
* [[January 15]]
** [[Vince Foster]], American deputy White House counsel during the first term of President Bill Clinton (d. [[1993]])
** [[Princess Michael of Kent]], German-born member of the British Royal Family
* [[January 17]] – [[Javed Akhtar]], Indian political activist, poet, lyricist and screenwriter
* [[January 20]] – [[Robert Olen Butler]], American writer
* [[January 21]]
** [[Arthur Beetson]], Australian rugby league player and coach (d. [[2011]])
** [[Martin Shaw]], British actor
* [[January 24]] – [[Subhash Ghai]], Indian film director, producer and screenwriter
* [[January 25]] – [[Leigh Taylor-Young]], American actress
* [[January 26]]
** [[Jacqueline du Pré]], English cellist (d. [[1987]])
** [[Graham Williams (rugby union)|Graham Williams]], New Zealand rugby union player (d. [[2018]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Harold Cardinal]], Cree political leader, writer and lawyer (d. [[2005]])
* [[January 28]]
** [[Karen Lynn Gorney]], American actress (''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'')
** [[Chuck Pyle]], American country-folk singer-songwriter (d. [[2015]])
* [[January 29]]
** [[Jim Nicholson (Northern Ireland politician)|Jim Nicholson]], Northern Irish politician
** [[Tom Selleck]], American actor (''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'')
* [[January 31]] – [[Joseph Kosuth]], American artist