Editing 1954 (section)

===January===
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[[File:Kailash Satyarthi March 2015.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kailash Satyarthi]]]]
[[File:Howard Stern.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Howard Stern]]]]
[[File:Katey Sagal by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Katey Sagal]]]]
[[File:Oprah in 2014.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Oprah Winfrey]]]]
* [[January 1]]
** [[Thomas Aisu]], Ugandan physician, educator (d. [[2018]])
** [[Djimrangar Dadnadji]], 16th prime minister of Chad (d. [[2019]])
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Ross the Boss]], American heavy metal/punk guitarist
* [[January 4]]
** [[Tina Knowles]], African-American fashion designer; mother of R&B singers [[Beyoncé]] and [[Solange Knowles]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ2W-77LL |title=Person Details for Celestine Knowles, "United States Public Records, 1970-2009" |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[FamilySearch.org]] |access-date=August 27, 2017}}</ref>
** [[Dave Ulliott|Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott]], English professional poker player
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[Alex English]], American basketball player
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Anthony Minghella]], British film, theatre director (d. [[2008]])
* [[January 7]]
** [[Jodi Long]], American actress
** [[José María Vitier]], [[Cuba]]n music composer, pianist
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Julieta Castellanos]], Honduran sociologist
* [[January 11]] – [[Kailash Satyarthi]], Indian activist, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate
* [[January 11]] – [[Balachandra Menon]], Indian Malayalam film director and actor
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Howard Stern]], American radio host
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Trevor Rabin]], South African–American musician
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Masanobu Fuchi]], Japanese professional wrestler
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Morten P. Meldal]], Danish chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite press release|title=Press release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022|date=October 5, 2022|publisher=The Nobel Prize|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2022/press-release/|accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]], environmental lawyer, [[2024 United States presidential election]] candidate 
* [[January 19]]
** [[Ted DiBiase]], American professional wrestler<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/t/ted-dibiase.html|title=Ted DiBiase's OWW Profile|access-date=October 14, 2007 |publisher=Online World of Wrestling}}</ref>
** [[Katey Sagal]], American actress and singer<ref>{{cite news |last=Cathcart |first=Rebecca |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/television/09cath.html |title=Out From Under All That Big kik |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 7, 2008}}</ref> 
** [[Katharina Thalbach]], German actress
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Thomas de Maizière]], German politician
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Peter Pilz]], Austrian politician
* [[January 23]]
** [[Franco De Vita]], Venezuelan singer, songwriter
** [[Edward Ka-Spel]], British/Dutch singer and songwriter ([[The Legendary Pink Dots]])
* [[January 28]]
** [[Peter Lampe]], German theologian, historian
** [[Bruno Metsu]], French football coach (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur17403.html |title=Fiche de Bruno Metsu (???), l'actu le palmares et les stats de Bruno Metsu |website=[[L'Équipe]] |access-date=April 11, 2025}}</ref>
** [[Kaneto Shiozawa]], Japanese voice actor (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018139233.html |title=Shiozawa, Kaneto, 1954-2000 |website=[[Library of Congress]] |department=LC Name Authority File (LCNAF) |access-date=November 5, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Willy Telavi]], 11th prime minister of Tuvalu
* [[January 29]]
** [[Yukinobu Hoshino]], Japanese cartoonist<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Jonathan |last=Clements |author-link=Jonathan Clements |title=Hoshino Yukinobu |encyclopedia=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]] |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clute |editor1-link=John Clute |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-link=David Langford |publisher=SFE Ltd/[[Ansible Editions]] |date=September 12, 2022 |edition=Web |access-date=November 4, 2022 |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/hoshino_yukinobu}}</ref>
** [[Oprah Winfrey]], African-American actress, talk show hostess, producer and publisher<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13529332g |title=Notice de personne "Winfrey, Oprah (1954-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Winfrey, Oprah (1954-....)" |language=fr |date=December 2, 2010 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=November 4, 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 31]] – [[Mark Slavin]], Israeli wrestler (d. [[1972]])