Editing 1946 (section)

===January===
[[File:John-Paul-Jones2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]]]]
[[File:Diane Keaton 2012-1 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Diane Keaton]]]]
[[File:Dolly Parton accepting Liseberg Applause Award 2010 portrait.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dolly Parton]]]]
[[File:David Lynch (1990).jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Lynch]]]]
[[File:Conferencia_1998.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Arnoldo Alemán]]]]
[[File:Gene Siskel at the 61st Academy Awards cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gene Siskel]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Alfonso Caruana]], Italian mobster
** [[Rivellino]], Brazilian football player
* [[January 3]]
** [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]], English rock bassist ([[Led Zeppelin]], [[Them Crooked Vultures]])
** [[Cissy King]], American dancer, singer
* [[January 4]] 
** [[Diana Ewing]], American actress
** [[Lisa Appignanesi]], Polish-born British-Canadian writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression
* [[January 5]] – [[Diane Keaton]], American actress, film director (''[[Annie Hall]]'')
* [[January 6]] – [[Syd Barrett]], English rock guitarist, singer and songwriter ([[Pink Floyd]]) (d. [[2006]])
* [[January 8]] – [[Robby Krieger]], American rock musician ([[The Doors]])
* [[January 9]] 
** [[Levon Ter-Petrosyan]], [[President of Armenia]]
** [[Mogens Lykketoft]], Danish politician
* [[January 10]]
** [[Kalidas Karmakar]], Bangladeshi artist
** [[Ha Yu (actor)|Ha Yu]], Hong Kong actor
* [[January 12]] – [[George Duke]], African-American musician (d. [[2013]])
* [[January 14]]
** [[Feró Nagy]], Hungarian singer
** [[Harold Shipman]], British serial killer (d. [[2004]])
* [[January 16]]
** [[Kabir Bedi]], Indian actor
** [[Michael Coats]], American astronaut
** [[Katia Ricciarelli]], Italian singer
* [[January 17]] – [[Frank Bey]], American blues singer (d. [[2020]])
* [[January 18]]
** [[Paul Shmyr]], Canadian National Hockey League player (d. [[2004]])
** [[Joseph Deiss]], Swiss Federal Councillor
* [[January 19]]
** [[Julian Barnes]], English novelist
** [[Dolly Parton]], American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist
* [[January 20]] – [[David Lynch]], American film director (d. [[2025]])
* [[January 22]]
** [[Malcolm McLaren]], English singer-songwriter, musician and music manager (d. [[2010]])
** [[Serge Savard]], Canadian hockey player, executive
* [[January 23]] – [[Arnoldo Alemán]], [[President of Nicaragua]]
* [[January 24]] – [[Michael Ontkean]], Canadian actor (''[[The Rookies]]'')
* [[January 25]] – [[Géza Bereményi]], Hungarian writer, screenwriter and film director
* [[January 26]]
** [[Gene Siskel]], American film critic (''[[Sneak Previews]]'') (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-02-21-9902210326-story.html |title=He Changed The Way We Look at Movies |work=Chicago Tribune |date=February 21, 1999 |access-date=October 11, 2021}}</ref>
** [[Michel Delpech]], French singer-songwriter and actor (d. [[2016]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Nedra Talley]], African-American singer ([[The Ronettes]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Bettye LaVette]], African-American soul singer-songwriter
* [[January 30]] – [[John Bird, Baron Bird]], British [[social entrepreneur]] and [[life peer]]
* [[January 31]] – [[Terry Kath]], American rock musician ([[Chicago (band)|Chicago]]) (d. [[1978]])