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{{For|the A.B. Original and Dan Sultan song|January 26 (song)}} {{pp-move}} {{pp-pc}} {{calendar}} {{This date in recent years}} {{Day}} ==Events== ===Pre-1600=== * [[661]] – The [[Rashidun Caliphate]] is effectively ended with the [[assassination of Ali]], the last caliph.<ref name="Madelung">{{cite book |last=Madelung |first=Wilferd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2QKBUwBUWWkC&pg=PA308 |title=The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-521-64696-3 |pages=308 |author-link=Wilferd Madelung}}</ref> *[[1531]] – The 6.4–7.1 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1531 Lisbon earthquake|Lisbon earthquake]] kills about thirty thousand people.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The 1531 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami |author=Miranda, J. |author2=Batlló, J. |author3=Ferreira, H. |author4=Matias, L.M. |author5=Baptista, M.A. |name-list-style=amp |journal=15 Wcee |year=2012 |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/WCEE2012_0685.pdf |access-date=2021-08-31 |archive-date=2022-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006171252/https://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/WCEE2012_0685.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Bharatdwaj, K. |title=Physical Geography: Introduction To Earth |year=2006 |publisher=Discovery Publishing House |isbn=9788183561631 |page=275 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dC7qhGQpBYkC&pg=PA275}}</ref> *[[1564]] – The [[Council of Trent]] establishes an official distinction between [[Roman Catholicism]] and [[Protestantism]].<ref>Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1914). [https://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc12/htm/ii.ii.htm "Trent, Council of"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928044140/https://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc12/htm/ii.ii.htm |date=2021-09-28 }}. ''[[New Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge]]'' (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.</ref> *[[1564]] – The [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] defeats the [[Tsardom of Russia]] in the [[Battle of Ula]] during the [[Livonian War]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Edvardas |last=Gudavičius |authorlink=Edvardas Gudavičius |editor-first=Jonas |editor-last=Zinkus |encyclopedia=Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija |title=Ulos mūšis |year=1985–1988 |publisher=Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija |volume=4 |location=Vilnius |page=374 |lccn=86232954 |display-editors=etal |language=lt}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1699]] – For the first time, the [[Ottoman Empire]] permanently [[Treaty of Karlowitz|cedes territory]] to the Christian powers.<ref name="Ágoston">{{cite encyclopedia |first=Gábor |last=Ágoston |title=Treaty of Karlowitz |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire |publisher=Infobase Publishing |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QjzYdCxumFcC&pg=PA309 |pages=309–10 |isbn=978-0816-06259-1}}<!-- ISBN refers to 2008 edition; Google Books dates their copy as 2010. --></ref> *[[1700]] – The 8.7–9.2 {{M|w|link=y}} [[1700 Cascadia earthquake|Cascadia earthquake]] takes place off the west coast of [[North America]], as evidenced by Japanese records.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Atwater, Brian F. |title=The orphan tsunami of 1700—Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America |author2=Musumi-Rokkaku, Satoko |author3=Satake, Kenji |author4=Tsuji, Yoshinobu |author5=Ueda, Kazue |author6=Yamaguchi, David K. |date=2015 |publisher=United States Geological Survey |edition=Second |series=Professional Paper |page=146, Japanese |doi=10.3133/pp1707 |bibcode=2015orts.book.....A |hdl=2027/osu.32435085226595 |url=http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1707 |orig-year=2005 |access-date=2021-09-05 |archive-date=2021-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914153500/https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1707 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1765]] – A British naval expedition arrives at and names [[Port Egmont]] in the [[Falkland Islands]], founding a settlement there eight days later. (Arrival was 15 January 1765 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hawkesworth |first1=John |last2=Banks |first2=Joseph |title=An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. Vol. 1 |location=London |publisher=W. Strahan and T. Cadell |date=1773 |oclc=66168420 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ttReAAAAcAAJ |pages=46–47 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Allardyce |first=William Lamond |title=The Story of the Falkland Islands: Being an Account of Their Discovery and Early History, 1500-1842 |location=Falkland Islands |publisher=Government Printing Office |date=1909 |oclc=9669488 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UiBPAQAAMAAJ |page=18 |postscript=none}}; {{cite book |last=Cawley |first=Charles |title=Colonies in Conflict: The History of the British Overseas Territories |location=Newcastle upon Tyne |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |date=2015 |isbn=9781443878111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXnWCgAAQBAJ |page=187}}</ref> *[[1788]] – The British [[First Fleet]], led by [[Arthur Phillip]], sails into [[Port Jackson|Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)]] to establish [[Sydney]], the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as [[Australia Day]].<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528212130/http://www.abc.net.au/australiaday/about_australiaday.htm |archive-date=28 May 2016 |url=http://www.abc.net.au/australiaday/about_australiaday.htm |title=What does Australia Day mean? |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref> *[[1808]] – The [[Rum Rebellion]] is the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in New South Wales.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Rum-Rebellion |title=Rum Rebellion {{!}} Australian history|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2021-03-30|archive-date=2021-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411043454/https://www.britannica.com/event/Rum-Rebellion|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1837]] – [[Michigan]] is admitted as the 26th [[U.S. state]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Today in History: January 26 |url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan26.html |website=loc.gov |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=2021-09-05 |archive-date=2016-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611081338/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan26.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1841]] – [[Gordon Bremer]] takes formal possession of [[Hong Kong Island]] at what is now [[Possession Point]], establishing [[British Hong Kong]].<ref name=lubbock>[http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/041197/base.htm Base closure to end Royal Navy's Far East presence] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210104/http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/041197/base.htm |date=27 September 2007 }}, [[Associated Press]], 4 November 1997</ref> *[[1855]] – [[Point No Point Treaty]] is signed in [[Washington Territory]].<ref name=historylink>{{cite web |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/5637 |title=Treaty of Point No Point, 1855 |date=15 January 2004 |website=HistoryLink.org |access-date=17 April 2019 |archive-date=29 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329223627/https://www.historylink.org/File/5637 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1856]] – First [[Battle of Seattle (1856)|Battle of Seattle]]: Marines from the {{USS|Decatur|1839|6}} drive off American Indian attackers after all-day battle with settlers.<ref name=Crowley-Wilma>[[Walt Crowley]] and David Wilma, [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5208 Native Americans attack Seattle on January 26, 1856] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025054701/http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5208 |date=October 25, 2007 }}, HistoryLink.org, February 15, 2003. Retrieved November 2, 2006.</ref> *[[1861]] – [[American Civil War]]: The state of [[Louisiana]] [[Louisiana secession|secedes from the Union]].<ref>The text of [http://gen.1starnet.com/civilwar/laord.htm Louisiana's Ordinance of Secession] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012190935/http://gen.1starnet.com/civilwar/laord.htm |date=October 12, 2007 }}.</ref> *[[1863]] – American Civil War: General [[Ambrose Burnside]] is relieved of command of the [[Army of the Potomac]] after the disastrous [[Battle of Fredericksburg|Fredericksburg campaign]]. He is replaced by [[Joseph Hooker]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Ambrose Burnside |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ambrose-Burnside |access-date=September 5, 2021 |archive-date=September 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210910090745/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ambrose-Burnside |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1863 – American Civil War: [[Governor of Massachusetts]] [[John Albion Andrew]] receives permission from the [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] to raise a [[militia]] organization for men of African descent.<ref>{{cite book |last=Emilio |first=Luis Fenollosa |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyoffiftyfo00emil |title=History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863–1865 (2nd Edition, Revised and Correct, with Appendix upon Treatment of Colored Prisoners of War) |publisher=The Boston Book Company |year=1891 |location=Boston, MA |pages=2 |author-link=Luis F. Emilio}}</ref> *[[1870]] – [[Reconstruction Era]]: [[Virginia]] is [[History of Virginia#Reconstruction|readmitted to the Union]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Library of Virginia : Civil War Research Guide – Reconstruction |url=https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/civil-war/reconstruction |website=lva.virginia.gov |access-date=2022-12-12 |archive-date=2022-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212204732/https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/civil-war/reconstruction |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1885]] – Troops loyal to [[Muhammad Ahmad|The Mahdi]] conquer [[Siege of Khartoum|Khartoum]], killing the Governor-General [[Charles George Gordon]].<ref name="about1">{{cite web |last=Hickman |first=Kennedy |title=Mahdist War: Siege of Khartoum |publisher=About education |date=18 March 2015 |url=http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/warsofthebritishempire/p/Mahdist-War-Siege-Of-Khartoum.htm |access-date=2016-07-18 |archive-date=2016-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704102704/http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/warsofthebritishempire/p/Mahdist-War-Siege-Of-Khartoum.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1905]] – The world's largest [[diamond]] ever, the [[Cullinan Diamond|Cullinan]], which weighs {{convert|3106.75|carat|kg}}, is found at the [[Premier Mine]] near [[Pretoria]] in South Africa.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bariand |first1=Pierre |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BogKAQAAMAAJ |title=The Larousse Encyclopedia of Precious Gems |last2=Duchamp |first2=Michel |publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-442-30289-4 |pages=97}}</ref> *[[1915]] – The [[Rocky Mountain National Park]] is established by an act of the [[U.S. Congress]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/historyculture/brief.htm |title=Brief Park History |publisher=National Park Service |date=n.d. |access-date=December 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008183733/https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/historyculture/brief.htm |archive-date=October 8, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> *[[1918]] – [[Finnish Civil War]]: A group of [[Red Guards (Finland)|Red Guards]] hangs a red lantern atop the tower of [[Helsinki Workers' Hall]] to symbolically mark the start of the war.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Finnish Civil War 1918: History, Memory, Legacy |date=14 August 2014 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-28071-7 |pages=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xCJBAAAQBAJ}}</ref> *[[1926]] – The first demonstration of the television by [[John Logie Baird]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Historic Figures: John Logie Baird (1888–1946) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml |publisher=BBC |access-date=28 April 2015 |archive-date=8 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008035514/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/baird_logie.shtml |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1930]] – The [[Indian National Congress]] declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for [[Purna Swaraj|Poorna Swaraj]] ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.<ref>{{cite web |title=Declaration of Purna Swaraj (Indian National Congress, 1930) |url=https://www.constitutionofindia.net/historical_constitutions/declaration_of_purna_swaraj__indian_national_congress__1930__26th%20January%201930 |website=Constitution of India |access-date=2021-09-06 |archive-date=2019-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715113407/http://cadindia.clpr.org.in/historical_constitutions/declaration_of_purna_swaraj__indian_national_congress__1930__26th%20January%201930 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1934]] – The [[Apollo Theater]] reopens in [[Harlem]], New York City.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Iain Cameron |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkgIAQAAMAAJ |title=Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall |date=15 September 2002 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-8264-5893-3 |pages=289}}</ref> * 1934 – [[German–Polish declaration of non-aggression]] is signed.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cienciala |first1=Anna M. |title=The Significance of the Declaration of Non-Aggression of January 26, 1934, in Polish-German and International Relations: A Reappraisal |journal=East European Quarterly |date=1 March 1967 |volume=1 |issue=1 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1297351025 |access-date=13 February 2021 |id={{ProQuest|1297351025}} |archive-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831003328/https://www.proquest.com/docview/1297351025 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1939]] – [[Spanish Civil War]]: [[Catalonia Offensive]]: Troops loyal to nationalist General [[Francisco Franco]] and aided by [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] take [[Barcelona]].<ref>Preston, Paul. ''Doves of War. Four women of Spain.'' Harper Collins. London. 2002. p. 374</ref> *[[1942]] – [[World War II]]: The first United States forces arrive in Europe, landing in [[Northern Ireland]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Antony |last=Shaw |title=World War II Day By Day |location=Staplehurst |publisher=Spellmount |year=2005 |isbn=1-86227-304-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=American Soldiers Arrive in the United Kingdom 1942 |url=https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-soldiers-arrive-united-kingdom-1942 |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=The National WWII Museum {{!}} New Orleans |date=28 January 2022|archive-date=2022-12-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214185756/https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-soldiers-arrive-united-kingdom-1942 |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1945]] – World War II: [[Audie Murphy]] displays valor and bravery in action for which he will later be awarded the [[Medal of Honor]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Audie Murphy's Medal of Honor Citation |url=https://www.si.edu/object/audie-murphys-medal-honor-citation:nmah_1062079 |access-date=December 14, 2022 |website=Smithsonian Museum of Natural History |archive-date=December 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214185756/https://www.si.edu/object/audie-murphys-medal-honor-citation:nmah_1062079 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1949]] – The [[Hale Telescope]] at [[Palomar Observatory]] sees [[First light (astronomy)|first light]] under the direction of [[Edwin Hubble]], becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until [[BTA-6]] is built in 1976).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/about/telescopes/hale.html |title=The 200-inch Hale Telescope |website=astro.caltech.edu |access-date=2021-08-31 |archive-date=2019-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420110149/http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/about/telescopes/hale.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/997/1/Telescope.pdf |last=Edison |first=Hodge |title=The 200-inch telescope takes its first pictures |journal=Engineering and Science Monthly |volume=12 |issue=8 |date=May 1949 |access-date=2021-08-31 |archive-date=2016-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018223851/http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/997/1/Telescope.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1950]] – The [[Constitution of India]] [[coming into force|comes into force]], forming a republic. [[Rajendra Prasad]] is sworn in as the first [[President of India]]. Observed as [[Republic Day (India)|Republic Day]] in India.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/introd.htm |title=Introduction to Constitution of India |access-date=14 October 2008 |publisher=Ministry of Law and Justice of India |date=29 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022161409/http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/introd.htm |archive-date=22 October 2014}}</ref> *[[1952]] – [[Cairo fire|Black Saturday]] in Egypt: rioters burn [[Cairo]]'s central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hassan |first=Fayza |date=24–30 January 2002 |title=Burning down the house |journal=[[Al-Ahram Weekly]] |issue=570 |access-date=2011-02-06 |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/570/sc3.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108034353/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/570/sc3.htm |archive-date=2009-11-08 |url-status=dead}}</ref> *[[1956]] – Soviet Union cedes [[Porkkala]] back to Finland.<ref>{{cite web |title=55 Years Since Return of Porkkala |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/55_years_since_return_of_porkkala/5312007 |website=Yle Uutiset |date=26 January 2011 |access-date=31 August 2021 |archive-date=30 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830234310/https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/55_years_since_return_of_porkkala/5312007 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1959]] – The {{cvt|41|acre|adj=mid}} [[Chain Island]] is listed for sale by the [[State of California|California]] State Lands Commission, with a minimum bid of $5,226.<ref name="Sacram1959-01-26">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86337102/sale-of-state-land/ |date=26 January 1959 |page=24 |title=Sale of State Land |via=Newspapers.com |newspaper=The Sacramento Bee |location=Sacramento, California |access-date=17 January 2023 |archive-date=17 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117213436/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86337102/sale-of-state-land/ |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1962]] – [[Ranger 3]] is launched to study the [[Moon]]. The [[space probe]] later misses the Moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1962-001A |title=National Space Science Data Center – Ranger 3 |publisher=National Air and Space Administration |access-date=June 19, 2012 |ref=nssdc1962-001A |archive-date=January 8, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108223625/http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1962-001A |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1966]] – The three [[Disappearance of the Beaumont children|Beaumont children disappear]] from a beach in [[Glenelg, South Australia]], resulting in one of the country's largest-ever police investigations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://missingpersons.gov.au/search/sa/grant-beaumont |title=Grant Beaumont |work=Missing persons |publisher=[[Australian Federal Police]] |date=2018 |access-date=10 May 2018 |archive-date=23 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123174202/https://missingpersons.gov.au/search/sa/grant-beaumont |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1972]] – [[JAT Flight 367]] is destroyed by a terrorist bomb, killing 27 of the 28 people on board the [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9|DC-9]]. Flight attendant [[Vesna Vulović]] survives with critical injuries.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 YU-AHT Ceské Kamenice |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19720126-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619142836/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19720126-0 |archive-date=2019-06-19 |access-date=2019-06-21 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref> *[[1974]] – [[Turkish Airlines Flight 301]] crashes during takeoff from Izmir Cumaovası Airport (now [[İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport]]), killing 66 of the 73 people on board the [[Fokker F28 Fellowship]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Fokker F-28 Fellowship 1000 TC-JAO Izmir-Cumaovasi Airport (ADB) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740126-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417194135/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740126-0 |archive-date=2022-04-17 |access-date=2021-01-23 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref> *[[1986]] – The Ugandan government of [[Tito Okello]] is overthrown by the [[National Resistance Army]], led by [[Yoweri Museveni]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/628581-tito-okello--the-president-who-was-kept-on-his-toes.html |title=Tito Okello: The President Who Was Kept on His Toes |access-date=16 February 2015 |date=25 January 2012 |last=Titus Kakembo |first=and Joel Ogwang |newspaper=[[New Vision]] (Kampala) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216223129/http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/628581-tito-okello--the-president-who-was-kept-on-his-toes.html |archive-date=16 February 2015}}</ref> *[[1991]] – [[Siad Barre|Mohamed Siad Barre]] is removed from power in [[Somalia]], ending centralized government, and is succeeded by [[Ali Mahdi Muhammad|Ali Mahdi]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/28/world/insurgents-claiming-victory-in-somalia.html |title=Insurgents Claiming Victory in Somalia |first1=Jane |last1=Perlez |first2=Special to The New York |last2=Times |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 28, 1991 |access-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028200751/http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/28/world/insurgents-claiming-victory-in-somalia.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1998]] – [[Lewinsky scandal]]: On American television, U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] denies having had "sexual relations" with former [[White House]] intern [[Monica Lewinsky]].<ref>Clinton, Bill. [http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3930 Response to the Lewinsky Allegations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223181444/http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3930 |date=February 23, 2009 }}, Miller Center of Public Affairs, January 26, 1998.</ref> *[[2001]] – The 7.7 {{M|w|link=y}} [[2001 Gujarat earthquake|Gujarat earthquake]] shakes [[Western India]], leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.<ref>{{cite web |title=Preliminary Earthquake Report |publisher=United States Geological Survey |department=Earthquake Hazards Program |url=http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2001/eq_010126/ |access-date=21 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120094220/http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/eq_depot/2001/eq_010126/ |archive-date=20 November 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Gujarat to set up quake memorial in Bhuj |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/gujarat-to-set-up-quake-memorial-in-bhuj-104041601028_1.html |first=Joydeep |last=Ray |date=16 April 2004 |newspaper=[[Business Standard]] |access-date=30 August 2021 |archive-date=15 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415011507/https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/gujarat-to-set-up-quake-memorial-in-bhuj-104041601028_1.html |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2001 – Diane Whipple, a lacrosse coach, is [[Death of Diane Whipple|killed in a dog attack]] in San Francisco. The resulting court case clarified the meaning of [[Malice (law)|implied malice murder]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/redzonebehindthe00jone/page/138 |isbn=9780060537791 |title=Red zone : The behind-the-scenes story of the San Francisco dog mauling |year=2003 |last1=Jones |first1=Aphrodite |publisher=HarperCollins}}</ref> *[[2009]] – Rioting breaks out in [[Antananarivo]], Madagascar, sparking a [[2009 Malagasy political crisis|political crisis]] that will result in the replacement of [[President of Madagascar|President]] [[Marc Ravalomanana]] with [[Andry Rajoelina]].<ref name=cpj>{{cite news |title=Anti-government protests burn two TV stations |url=http://cpj.org/2009/01/two-tv-stations-burned-in-anti-government-protests.php |work=[[Committee to Protect Journalists]] |date=26 January 2008 |access-date=1 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215183303/http://cpj.org/2009/01/two-tv-stations-burned-in-anti-government-protests.php |archive-date=15 February 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=bbc-25-03-2009>{{cite news |title=Ousted Madagascar leader defiant |publisher=BBC |date=25 April 2009 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7963622.stm |access-date=14 July 2009 |archive-date=28 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090328175834/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7963622.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2009]] – [[Nadya Suleman]] gives birth to the [[Suleman octuplets|world's first surviving octuplets]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Most children delivered at a single birth to survive |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-children-delivered-at-a-single-birth-to-survive |access-date=2021-04-16 |website=Guinness World Records |archive-date=2021-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425000451/https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-children-delivered-at-a-single-birth-to-survive/ |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2015]] – An aircraft [[2015 Los Llanos Air Base crash|crashes]] at [[Los Llanos Air Base]] in [[Albacete]], Spain, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fighter jet crash kills 10 in Spain |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30991950 |accessdate=14 November 2018 |publisher=BBC News |date=26 January 2015 |archive-date=2 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180602001031/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30991950 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Syrian civil war]]: The [[People's Protection Units]] (YPG) recaptures the city of [[Kobanî]] from the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIL), marking a turning point in the [[Siege of Kobanî]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://syriahr.com/en/2015/01/ypg-retakes-the-entire-city-of-ayn-al-arab-kobani-after-112-days-of-clashes-with-is-militants-2/ |title=YPG retakes the entire city of Ayn al- Arab "Kobani" after 112 days of clashes with IS militants |author=sohranas |work=Syrian Observatory For Human Rights |access-date=27 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016201939/http://www.syriahr.com/en/2015/01/ypg-retakes-the-entire-city-of-ayn-al-arab-kobani-after-112-days-of-clashes-with-is-militants-2/ |archive-date=16 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30991612 |title=Syrian Kurds 'drive Islamic State out of Kobane' |date=26 January 2015 |access-date=26 January 2015 |publisher=BBC News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150126165049/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30991612 |archive-date=26 January 2015}}</ref> *[[2020]] – A [[Sikorsky S-76|Sikorsky S-76B]] flying from [[John Wayne Airport]] to [[Camarillo Airport]] [[2020 Calabasas helicopter crash|crashes in Calabasas]], 30 miles west of [[Los Angeles]], killing all nine people on board, including five-time [[NBA]] champion [[Kobe Bryant]] and his daughter [[Gianna Bryant]].<ref name=kobe>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas |title=Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna among nine dead in helicopter crash in Calabasas |date=January 26, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=January 26, 2020 |archive-date=January 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126212423/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-26/aircraft-slams-into-hillside-explodes-in-flames-near-calabasas |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2021]] – Protesters and farmers [[2021 Farmers' Republic Day violence|storm]] the [[Red Fort]] near [[Delhi]], clashing with police. One protester is killed and more than 80 police officers are injured.<ref>{{cite news |title=Red Fort violence: Delhi police detain 200 after farmer protests |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55817628 |access-date=25 April 2021 |publisher=BBC News |date=27 January 2021 |archive-date=28 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128142010/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55817628 |url-status=live}}</ref> ==Births== ===Pre-1600=== * [[183]] – [[Lady Zhen]], wife of [[Cao Pi]] (d. 221)<ref>(魏書曰： ... 后以漢光和五年十二月丁酉生。) ''Wei Shu'' annotation in ''Sanguozhi'' vol. 5.</ref> *[[1541]] – [[Florent Chrestien]], French poet and translator (d. 1596)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Chrestien, Florent|volume=6}}</ref> *[[1549]] – [[Jakob Ebert]], German theologian (d. 1614)<ref>Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "EBERT, Jakob". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). [https://www.bbkl.de/index.php/frontend/lexicon/E/Ea-Eb/ebert-jakob-55411 ''Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505031414/https://www.bbkl.de/index.php/frontend/lexicon/E/Ea-Eb/ebert-jakob-55411 |date=2022-05-05 }} (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. col. 1446. {{ISBN|3-88309-013-1}}.</ref> *[[1582]] – [[Giovanni Lanfranco]], Italian painter (d. 1647)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chilvers |first1=Ian |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists |date=27 September 2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-102417-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFExDwAAQBAJ |access-date=19 March 2023 |archive-date=16 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016140748/https://books.google.com/books?id=HFExDwAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1657]] – [[William Wake]], Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1737)<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Wake, William |volume=28 |pages=247-248}}</ref> *[[1714]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Pigalle]], French sculptor and educator (d. 1785)<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Pigalle, Jean Baptiste |volume=21}}</ref> *[[1715]] – [[Claude Adrien Helvétius]], French philosopher (d. 1771)<ref>{{cite book |last=Cumming |first=Ian |title=Helvetius: His Life and Place in the History of Educational Thought |location=London, United Kingdom |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |orig-year=1955 |isbn=978-0-415-17765-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HQ9S-xWkIBcC |page=7}}</ref> *[[1716]] – [[George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville]], English general and politician, [[Secretary of State for the Colonies]] (d. 1785)<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Sackville, George, 1st Viscount |volume=23 |pages=975–976}}</ref> *[[1722]] – [[Alexander Carlyle]], Scottish minister and author (d. 1805)<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Carlyle, Alexander |volume=5 |pages=349}}</ref> *[[1763]] – [[Charles XIV John of Sweden]] (d. 1844)<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Charles XIV. |volume=5 |pages=931–932}}</ref> *[[1781]] – [[Ludwig Achim von Arnim]], German poet and author (d. 1831)<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Arnim, Ludwig Achim (Joachim) von |volume=2 |pages=630–631}}</ref> *[[1813]] – [[Juan Pablo Duarte]], Dominican philosopher and poet, founding father of the [[Dominican Republic]] (d. 1876)<ref>{{cite web |title=Biografia de Juan Pablo Duarte |url=http://institutoduartiano.com.do/biografia-de-juan-pablo-duarte/ |website=Instituto Duartiano |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121234624/http://institutoduartiano.com.do/biografia-de-juan-pablo-duarte/ |archive-date=21 January 2019 |language=es |url-status=dead}}</ref> *[[1824]] – [[Emil Czyrniański]], Polish chemist (d. 1888)<ref>{{cite book |title=Leopoldina |year=1888 |url=http://www.archive.org/stream/leopoldina24kais#page/110/mode/2up/search/111 |language=de |page=111 |access-date=27 August 2019}}</ref> *[[1832]] – [[George Shiras, Jr.]], American lawyer and Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)<ref>{{cite web |title=Shiras, George, Jr. |url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/shiras-george-jr |publisher=Federal Judicial Center |access-date=5 February 2024}}</ref> *[[1842]] – [[François Coppée]], French poet and author (d. 1908)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Druilhet |first1=Georges |title=Un poète français : François Coppée |date=1902 |publisher=Paris : A. Lemerre |url=https://archive.org/details/unpotefranai00drui/page/n13/mode/2up}}</ref> *[[1852]] – [[Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza]], Italian-French explorer (d. 1905)<ref>{{cite web |title=Pierre de Brazza |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-de-Brazza |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=13 February 2024 |date=22 January 2024}}</ref> *[[1861]] – [[Louis Anquetin]], French painter (d. 1932)<ref>{{cite web |title=Louis Anquetin |url=https://research.rkd.nl/en/detail/https%3A%2F%2Fdata.rkd.nl%2Fartists%2F1986 |website=RKD Research – Netherlands Institute for Art History |access-date=7 March 2024}}</ref> *[[1863]] – [[Charles Wade]], Australian politician, 17th [[Premier of New South Wales]] (d. 1922)<ref name=dab>{{cite web |first=Percival |last=Serle |title=Wade, Sir Charles Gregory (1863–1922) |via=Project Gutenberg Australia |work=[[Dictionary of Australian Biography]] |url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogWa.html#wade1 |access-date=1 May 2007}}</ref> *[[1864]] – [[József Pusztai]], Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (d. 1934)<ref>{{cite web |title=Pusztai, Jožef (1864–1934) |url=https://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi476435/ |website=Slovenska biografija |access-date=7 March 2024}}</ref> *[[1866]] – [[John Cady (golfer)|John Cady]], American golfer (d. 1933)<ref>{{cite web |work=[[Olympedia]] |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18150 |title=Jack Cady}}</ref> *[[1877]] – [[Kees van Dongen]], Dutch painter (d. 1968)<ref name="Léonore">{{Cite web |url=http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=NOM&VALUE_98=%27VAN-DONGEN%27&DOM=All |title=Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Base Léonore, Archives Nationales, Culture.gouv.fr |access-date=2020-01-26 |archive-date=2017-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820020418/http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/leonore_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=NOM&VALUE_98=%27VAN-DONGEN%27&DOM=All |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1880]] – [[Douglas MacArthur]], American general, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (d. 1964)<ref>{{cite book |last1=MacArthur |first1=Douglas |title=Reminiscences (of) General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur |date=1 January 1964 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Book Co |pages=14 |url=https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofg0000doug/page/14/mode/2up}}</ref> *[[1885]] – [[Harry Ricardo]], English engineer and academic (d. 1974)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hawthorne |first1=W. |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1976.0016 |title=Harry Ralph Ricardo 26 January 1885 -- 18 May 1974 |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume=22 |pages=358–380 |year=1976 |s2cid=72679446}}</ref> * 1885 – [[Per Thorén]], Swedish figure skater (d. 1962)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/98248 |title=Per Thorén |work=Olympedia |access-date=20 September 2024}}</ref> *[[1887]] – [[François Faber]], French-Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1915)<ref>{{cite book |date=2006 |first1=Pascal |isbn=2-296-00847-X |language=fr |last1=Leroy |location=Paris |publisher=[[Éditions L'Harmattan|L'Harmattan]] |series=Espaces et Temps du sport |title=François Faber, du Tour de France au champ d'honneur}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> * 1887 – [[Marc Mitscher]], American admiral and pilot (d. 1947)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=March Mitscher |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marc-A-Mitscher |access-date=20 September 2024}}</ref> *[[1891]] – [[Frank Costello]], Italian-American mob boss (d. 1973)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Katz |first=Leonard |title=Uncle Frank: The Biography of Frank Costello |location=New York |publisher=Drake Publishers |year=1973 |isbn=0-87749-549-1 |lccn=73-5943 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/unclefrankbiogra0000katz |page=31}}</ref> * 1891 – [[August Froehlich]], German priest and martyr (d. 1942)<ref>{{cite web |publisher=German Resistance Memorial Center |title=Biographie |url=https://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/index_of_persons/biographie/view-bio/august-froehlich/}}</ref> * 1891 – [[Wilder Penfield]], American-Canadian neurosurgeon and academic (d. 1976)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Eccles |first1=John |author-link1=John Eccles (neurophysiologist) |last2=Feindel |first2=William |author-link2=William Feindel |year=1978 |title=Wilder Graves Penfield 26 January 1891-5 April 1976 |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume=24 |pages=472–513 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1978.0015 |pmid=11615742 |doi-access=free}}</ref> *[[1892]] – [[Bessie Coleman]], American pilot (d. 1926)<ref>{{cite book |first=Linda |last=Barr |title=Bessie Coleman: Pioneer Pilot |location=Columbus, Ohio |publisher=Zaner-Bloser |year=2004 |page=6 |isbn=978-0-73672-039-7}}</ref> *[[1893]] – [[Giuseppe Genco Russo]], Italian mob boss (d. 1976) *[[1899]] – [[Günther Reindorff]], Russian-Estonian graphic designer and illustrator (d. 1974) *[[1900]] – [[Karl Ristenpart]], German conductor (d. 1967) ===1901–present=== *[[1902]] – [[Menno ter Braak]], Dutch author (d. 1940) *[[1904]] – [[Ancel Keys]], American physiologist and nutritionist (d. 2004) * 1904 – [[Seán MacBride]], Irish lawyer and politician, [[Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade|Irish Minister for External Affairs]] [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1988) *[[1905]] – [[Charles Lane (actor, born 1905)|Charles Lane]], American actor and singer (d. 2007) * 1905 – [[Maria von Trapp]], Austrian-American singer (d. 1987)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |editor=Commire, Anne |title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia |volume=16 |year=2002 |publisher=Yorkin Publications, Gale Group |location=Waterford |isbn=978-0-78764-075-0 |page=77}}</ref> *[[1907]] – [[Rex Connor]], Australian politician (d. 1977)<ref name="adb Lloyd" /> * 1907 – [[Dimitrios Holevas]], Greek priest and philologist (d. 2001) *[[1908]] – [[Jill Esmond]], English actress (d. 1990) * 1908 – [[Rupprecht Geiger]], German painter and sculptor (d. 2009) * 1908 – [[Stéphane Grappelli]], French violinist (d. 1997) * 1908 – [[Robert Halperin]], American yachtsman (d. 1985)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bob Halperin |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/62256 |website=olympedia.org |access-date=20 March 2024}}</ref> *[[1910]] – [[Jean Image]], Hungarian-French animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 1989) *[[1911]] – [[Polykarp Kusch]], German-American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1993) * 1911 – [[Norbert Schultze]], German composer and conductor (d. 2002) *[[1913]] – [[Jimmy Van Heusen]], American pianist and composer (d. 1990) *[[1914]] – [[Dürrüşehvar Sultan]], Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire (d. 2006) *[[1915]] – [[William Hopper]], American actor (d. 1970) *[[1917]] – [[Louis Zamperini]], American runner and captain (d. 2014)<ref name="UPI">{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Jan. 26: David Strathairn, Sasha Banks |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/01/26/Famous-birthdays-for-Jan-26-David-Strathairn-Sasha-Banks/2321674742788/ |publisher=[[UPI]] |access-date=25 January 2024 |date=26 January 2023}}</ref> *[[1918]] – [[Philip José Farmer]], American author (d. 2009)<ref name="UPI"/> *[[1919]] – [[Valentino Mazzola]], Italian footballer (d. 1949) * 1919 – [[Bill Nicholson (footballer)|Bill Nicholson]], English footballer and manager (d. 2004) * 1919 – [[Hyun Soong-jong]], South Korean politician, 24th [[Prime Minister of South Korea]] (d. 2020) *[[1920]] – [[Hans Holzer]], Austrian-American paranormal researcher and author (d. 2009) *[[1921]] – [[Eddie Barclay]], French record producer, founded [[Barclay Records]] (d. 2005) * 1921 – [[Akio Morita]], Japanese businessman, co-founded [[Sony]] (d. 1999) * 1921 – [[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> *[[1922]] – [[Michael Bentine]], English actor and screenwriter (d. 1996) * 1922 – [[Seán Flanagan]], Irish footballer and politician, 7th [[Minister for Health (Ireland)|Irish Minister for Health]] (d. 1993) * 1922 – [[Gil Merrick]], English footballer (d. 2010) *[[1923]] – [[Patrick J. Hannifin]], American admiral (d. 2014) * 1923 – [[Anne Jeffreys]], American actress and singer (d. 2017) *[[1924]] – [[Alice Babs]], Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014)<ref>{{cite web |title=Alice Babs {{!}} Discover music on NTS |url=https://www.nts.live/artists/3832-alice-babs |website=NTS Radio |access-date=2 April 2020|archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603012438/https://www.nts.live/artists/3832-alice-babs |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1924 – [[Anahid Ajemian]], American violinist (d. 2016)<ref>{{cite news |last=Fox |first=Margalit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/arts/music/anahid-ajemian-violinist-and-new-music-champion-dies-at-92.html |title=Anahid Ajemian, Violinist and New-Music Champion, Dies at 92 |work=The New York Times |date=30 June 2016 |accessdate=1 July 2016}}</ref> * 1924 – [[Annette Strauss]], American philanthropist and politician, [[Mayor of Dallas]] (d. 1998) *[[1925]] – [[David Jenkins (bishop)|David Jenkins]], English bishop and theologian (d. 2016) * 1925 – [[Joan Leslie]], American actress (d. 2015) * 1925 – [[Paul Newman]], American actor, activist, director, race car driver, and businessman, co-founded [[Newman's Own]] (d. 2008)<ref name="UPI"/> * 1925 – [[Ben Pucci]], American football player and sportscaster (d. 2013) * 1925 – [[Claude Ryan]], Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2004) *[[1926]] – [[Farman Fatehpuri]], Pakistani linguist and scholar (d. 2013) * 1926 – [[Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr.]], American architect and businessman, co-founded the [[Sea Pines Company]] (d. 2014) *[[1927]] – [[José Azcona del Hoyo]], Honduran businessman and politician, [[President of Honduras]] (d. 2005) * 1927 – [[Bob Nieman]], American baseball player and scout (d. 1985) * 1927 – [[Hubert Schieth]], German footballer and manager (d. 2013) *[[1928]] – [[Roger Vadim]], French actor and director (d. 2000) *[[1929]] – [[Jules Feiffer]], American cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and educator (d. 2025)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Webster |first=Andy |date=January 21, 2025 |title=Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/arts/jules-feiffer-dead.html |access-date=January 21, 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="UPI"/> *[[1933]] – [[Donald Sarason]], American mathematician (d. 2017)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/in-memoriam/files/don-sarason.html |title=In Memoriam, Donald E. Sarason |date=2020 |author=Christ, Michael |publisher=University of California |website=senate.universityofcalifornia.edu |access-date=August 8, 2022 |archive-date=December 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204082305/https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/in-memoriam/files/don-sarason.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1934]] – [[Roger Landry]], Canadian businessman and publisher (d. 2020) * 1934 – [[Charles Marowitz]], American director, playwright, and critic (d. 2014) * 1934 – [[Huey "Piano" Smith]], American pianist and songwriter (d. 2023) * 1934 – [[Bob Uecker]], American baseball player, sportscaster and actor (d. 2025)<ref name="UPI"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Li |first=David K. |date=January 16, 2025 |title=Bob Uecker, beloved baseball announcer and 'Major League' actor, dies at 90 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bob-uecker-beloved-baseball-announcer-major-league-actor-dies-90-rcna187969 |access-date=January 17, 2025 |website=[[NBC News]] |language=en}}</ref> *[[1935]] – [[Corrado Augias]], Italian journalist and politician * 1935 – [[Henry Jordan]], American football player (d. 1977) * 1935 – [[Paula Rego]], Portuguese-born British visual artist (d. 2022) *[[1936]] – [[Sal Buscema]], American illustrator *[[1937]] – [[Joseph Saidu Momoh]], Sierra Leonean soldier and politician, 2nd [[President of Sierra Leone]] (d. 2003) *[[1938]] – [[Henry Jaglom]], English-American director and screenwriter *[[1940]] – [[Séamus Hegarty]], Irish bishop (d. 2019) * 1940 – [[Frank Large]], English footballer and cricketer (d. 2003)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fulhamweb.co.uk/player/443/frank-large.aspx |title=Frank Large |website=fulhamweb.co.uk |access-date=25 January 2020 |archive-date=25 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125152917/https://www.fulhamweb.co.uk/player/443/frank-large.aspx |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1943]] – [[César Gutiérrez]], Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2005) * 1943 – [[Jack Warner (football executive)|Jack Warner]], Trinidadian businessman and politician *[[1944]] – [[Angela Davis]], American activist, academic, and author<ref>{{cite web |title=Angela Davis |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/angela-davis |website=Encyclopædia Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=27 July 2021 |date=25 March 2020 |archive-date=4 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604225411/https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/angela-davis |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1944 – [[Jerry Sandusky]], American football coach and criminal *[[1945]] – [[Jacqueline du Pré]], English cellist (d. 1987) * 1945 – [[David Purley]], English race car driver (d. 1985) *[[1946]] – [[Susan Friedlander]], American mathematician * 1946 – [[Christopher Hampton]], Portuguese-English director, screenwriter, and playwright * 1946 – [[Gene Siskel]], American journalist and film critic (d. 1999)<ref name="UPI"/> *[[1947]] – [[Patrick Dewaere]], French actor and composer (d. 1982) * 1947 – [[Les Ebdon]], English chemist and academic * 1947 – [[Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin]], Irish director, producer, and production manager * 1947 – [[Richard Portnow]], American actor<ref name="AP"/> * 1947 – [[Michel Sardou]], French singer-songwriter and actor *[[1948]] – [[Alda Facio]], Costa Rican jurist, writer and teacher * 1948 – [[Corky Laing]], Canadian rock drummer<ref name="AP"/> *[[1949]] – [[Jonathan Carroll]], American author * 1949 – [[David Strathairn]], American actor<ref name="AP">{{cite web |title=Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 21-27 |url=https://apnews.com/article/celebrity-birthdays-january-2024-ridgeley-aa6328b357cba02490472eabae8dd890 |work=Associated Press News |date=16 January 2024}}</ref> *[[1950]] – [[Jörg Haider]], Austrian lawyer and politician, [[List of governors of Carinthia|Governor of Carinthia]] (d. 2008) * 1950 – [[Ivan Hlinka]], Czech ice hockey player and coach (d. 2004)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ivan Hlinka |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/ivan-hlinka-8447868 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> * 1950 – [[Jack Youngblood]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jack Youngblood |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/jack-youngblood/ |publisher=[[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] |access-date=19 January 2023 |archive-date=19 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119183619/https://www.profootballhof.com/players/jack-youngblood/ |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1951]] – [[David Briggs (Australian musician)|David Briggs]], Australian guitarist, songwriter, and producer * 1951 – [[Andy Hummel]], American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2010) * 1951 – [[Anne Mills]], English economist and academic *[[1952]] – [[Tom Henderson (basketball)|Tom Henderson]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tom Henderson |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/76996/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> *[[1953]] – [[Alik L. Alik]], Micronesian politician, 7th [[Vice President of the Federated States of Micronesia]] * 1953 – [[Anders Fogh Rasmussen]], Danish politician and diplomat, 39th [[Prime Minister of Denmark]]<ref name="UPI"/> * 1953 – [[Lucinda Williams]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref name="AP"/> *[[1954]] – [[Kim Hughes]], Australian cricketer *[[1955]] – [[Eddie Van Halen]], Dutch-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2020)<ref name="UPI"/> *[[1957]] – [[Road Warrior Hawk]], American wrestler (d. 2003) *[[1958]] – [[Anita Baker]], American singer-songwriter<ref name="UPI"/> * 1958 – [[Ellen DeGeneres]], American comedian, actress, and talk show host<ref name="AP"/> *[[1960]] – [[Charlie Gillingham]], American musician<ref name="AP"/> *[[1961]] – [[Wayne Gretzky]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach * 1961 – [[Tom Keifer]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist *[[1962]] – [[Guo Jian]], Chinese-Australian painter, sculptor, and photographer * 1962 – [[Tim May]], Australian cricketer * 1962 – [[Oscar Ruggeri]], Argentine footballer and manager *[[1963]] – [[Jazzie B]], British DJ and music producer<ref name="AP"/> * 1963 – [[José Mourinho]], Portuguese footballer and manager * 1963 – [[Simon O'Donnell]], Australian footballer, cricketer, and sportscaster * 1963 – [[Tony Parks]], English footballer and manager * 1963 – [[Andrew Ridgeley]], English singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref name="AP"/> *[[1964]] – [[Adam Crozier]], Scottish businessman * 1964 – [[Paul Johansson]], American-Canadian actor<ref name="AP"/> *[[1965]] – [[Kevin McCarthy]], American politician, 55th [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]]<ref>{{cite web |title=MCCARTHY, Kevin |url=https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/18801 |publisher=[[United States House of Representatives]] |access-date=19 January 2023 |archive-date=19 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119183618/https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/18801 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1965 – [[Thomas Östros]], Swedish businessman and politician * 1965 – [[Natalia Yurchenko]], Russian gymnast and coach *[[1966]] – [[Kazushige Nagashima]], Japanese baseball player and sportscaster *[[1967]] – [[Bryan Callen]], American comedian, actor, and writer<ref name="AP"/> * 1967 – [[Anatoly Komm]], Russian chef and businessman * 1967 – [[Col Needham]], English businessman, co-founded [[Internet Movie Database]] *[[1968]] – [[Jupiter Apple]], Brazilian singer-songwriter, film director, and actor (d. 2015) *[[1969]] – [[George Dikeoulakos]], Greek-Romanian basketball player and coach *[[1970]] – [[Kirk Franklin]], American singer-songwriter and producer<ref name="AP"/> *[[1972]] – [[Nate Mooney]], American actor<ref name="AP"/> *[[1973]] – [[Jennifer Crystal Foley]], American actress<ref name="AP"/> * 1973 – [[Larissa Lowing]], Canadian artistic gymnast<ref>{{cite web |title=Larissa LOWING – Olympic Gymnastics Artistic {{!}} Canada |url=https://www.olympic.org/larissa-lowing |website=International Olympic Committee |access-date=13 January 2020|date=14 June 2016 |archive-date=2 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802180501/https://www.olympic.org/larissa-lowing |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1973 – [[Melvil Poupaud]], French actor, director, and screenwriter * 1973 – [[Brendan Rodgers]], Northern Irish footballer and manager<ref name="UPI"/> * 1973 – [[Mayu Shinjo]], Japanese author and illustrator *[[1976]] – [[Gilles Marini]], French actor<ref name="AP"/> *[[1977]] – [[Vince Carter]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Vince Carter Stats, Video, Bio, Profile |url=http://www.nba.com/playerfile/vince_carter/ |website=NBA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303093127/http://www.nba.com/playerfile/vince_carter/ |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * 1977 – [[Justin Gimelstob]], American tennis player and coach<ref>[https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/G354/overview|Justin Gimestob] at the [[Association of Tennis Professionals]]</ref> *[[1978]] – [[Esteban Germán]], Dominican baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Esteban German |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/esteban-german-407397 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> * 1978 – [[Corina Morariu]], American tennis player and sportscaster<ref name=wta>{{cite news |title=WTA Profile |work=wtatennis.com |access-date=19 March 2012 |url=http://www.wtatennis.com/player/corina-morariu_2257889_5433 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413013633/http://www.wtatennis.com/player/corina-morariu_2257889_5433 |archive-date=13 April 2012}}</ref> * 1978 – [[Andrés Torres (baseball)|Andrés Torres]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Andres Torres |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/andres-torres-400083 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> * [[1979]] – [[Sara Rue]], American actress<ref name="AP"/> *[[1981]] – [[José de Jesús Corona]], Mexican footballer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf |title=2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Mexico |publisher=FIFA |page=18 |date=21 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610174527/https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2019}}</ref> * 1981 – [[Gustavo Dudamel]], Venezuelan violinist, composer, and conductor<ref>{{cite web |last1=Swed |first1=Mark |title=Review: Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-la-phil-review-20170127-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=27 January 2017}}</ref> * 1981 – [[Juan José Haedo]], Argentine cyclist<ref>{{cite web |title=Juan José HAEDO |url=https://www.uci.org/rider-details/22122 |website=UCI |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref> * 1981 – [[Colin O'Donoghue]], Irish actor<ref>{{cite web |title=Colin O'Donoghue on Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/colinodonoghue1 |via=Twitter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022074511/https://twitter.com/colinodonoghue1 |archive-date=22 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Colin-ODonoghues-Rite-of-passage-114192959.html?page=2 |title=Colin O'Donoghue's 'Rite' of Passage |publisher=IrishCentral |date=19 January 2011 |access-date=1 February 2012 |author=O'Doherty, Cahir}}</ref> *[[1983]] – [[Petri Oravainen]], Finnish footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Petri Oravainen |url=https://us.soccerway.com/players/petri-oravainen/31449/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref> * 1983 – [[Eric Werner]], American ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Eric Werner |url=https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/11532/eric-werner |website=Elite Prospects |access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref> *[[1984]] – [[Ryan Hoffman]], Australian rugby league player<ref>{{cite web |title=Official NRL profile of Ryan Hoffman for Melbourne Storm |url=https://www.melbournestorm.com.au/teams/telstra-premiership/melbourne-storm/ryan-hoffman/ |website=Melbourne Storm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305202756/https://www.melbournestorm.com.au/teams/telstra-premiership/melbourne-storm/ryan-hoffman/ |archive-date=5 March 2018}}</ref> * 1984 – [[Iain Turner]], Scottish footballer<ref>{{Soccerbase |id=22030 |name=Iain Turner}}</ref> * 1984 – [[Luo Xuejuan]], Chinese swimmer<ref>{{cite web |title=Luo Xuejuan Bio, Stats, and Results |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/luo-xuejuan-1.html |website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417165558/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/luo-xuejuan-1.html |archive-date=17 April 2020}}</ref> *[[1985]] – [[Heather Stanning]], English rower<ref>{{FISA | 30174 | Heather Stanning}}</ref> *[[1986]] – [[Gerald Green]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Gerald Green |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/101123 |website=NBA |access-date=7 July 2023}}</ref> * 1986 – [[Kim Jae-joong]], South Korean singer, songwriter, actor, and director<ref>{{cite web |title=Profile |url=https://jaefans.com/profile |website=J-JUN JAPAN OFFICIAL SITE |access-date=7 July 2023 |language=ja}}</ref> * 1986 – [[Mustapha Yatabaré]], French-Malian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Mustapha Yatabaré |url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/122006/mustapha-yatabare |publisher=ESPN |access-date=7 July 2023}}</ref> *[[1987]] – [[Sebastian Giovinco]], Italian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Sebastian Giovinco |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=48935 |website=soccerbase.com |access-date=7 July 2023}}</ref> * 1987 – [[Héctor Noesí]], Dominican baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Hector Noesí |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/hector-noesi-456051 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> *[[1988]] – [[Dan Bailey (American football)|Dan Bailey]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Dan Bailey |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/14322/dan-bailey |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> * 1988 – [[Dimitrios Chondrokoukis]], Greek high jumper<ref>{{cite web |title=Dimitrios CHONDROKOUKIS |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/_/14195149 |website=World Athletics |access-date=7 July 2023}}</ref> *[[1989]] – [[MarShon Brooks]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=MarShon Brooks |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/202705 |website=NBA |access-date=7 July 2023}}</ref> * 1989 – [[Emily Hughes]], American figure skater<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=100056&mode=I |title=Emily Hughes |publisher=[[IceNetwork.com]] |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519075846/http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/detail.jsp?id=100056&mode=I |archivedate=May 19, 2011 |url-status=unfit}}</ref> * 1989 – [[Torrey Smith]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Torrey Smith |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/14032/torrey-smith |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> *[[1990]] – [[Brandon Bolden]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Brandon Bolden |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/15478/brandon-bolden |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> * 1990 – [[Sergio Pérez]], Mexican race car driver<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Sergio_Perez |title=Sergio Perez |publisher=Racing Reference |access-date=9 October 2018 |archive-date=10 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010011415/https://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Sergio_Perez |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1990 – [[Peter Sagan]], Slovak professional cyclist<ref>{{cite web |title=Peter Sagan {{!}} Team TotalEnergies|url=https://teamtotalenergies.com/coureur/peter-sagan/|language=fr|access-date=27 March 2022}}</ref> *[[1991]] – [[Esteban Andrada]], Argentine footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Esteban Andrada |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/esteban-andrada/116146/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=26 January 2025}}</ref> * 1991 – [[Nicolò Melli]], Italian-American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicolo Melli |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1629740/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> * 1991 – [[Alex Sandro]], Brazilian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Alex Sandro |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/alex-sandro-lobo-silva/78657/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=26 January 2025}}</ref> * 1991 – [[Manti Te'o]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Manti Te'o |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/15867/manti-teo |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=19 January 2023 |archive-date=19 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119183616/https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/15867/manti-teo |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1992]] – [[Mercedes Moné]], American wrestler<ref>{{cite web |title=WWE Profile – Sasha Banks |url=https://www.espn.in/wwe/story/_/id/17173311/wwe-profile-page-sasha-banks |publisher=ESPN |date=26 October 2020 |access-date=18 October 2022 |archive-date=18 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018215542/https://www.espn.in/wwe/story/_/id/17173311/wwe-profile-page-sasha-banks |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1993]] – [[Miguel Borja]], Colombian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Miguel Borja |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/miguel-borja/194812/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=26 January 2025}}</ref> * 1993 – [[Lana Clelland]], Scottish footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Lana Clelland {{!}} Scotland {{!}} Scottish FA |url=https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/players/?pid=119871&lid=2 |website=scottishfa.co.uk |access-date=28 April 2020 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803134758/https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/players/?pid=119871&lid=2 |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1993 – [[Kevin Pangos]], Canadian-Slovenian basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Kevin Pangos |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1630698/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> * 1993 – [[Alice Powell]], British racing driver<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice Powell |url=https://envision-racing.com/alice-powell/ |access-date=2023-01-27 |website=Envision Racing |date=18 February 2020 |archive-date=2023-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127160448/https://envision-racing.com/alice-powell/ |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1993 – [[Florian Thauvin]], French footballer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF |title=FIFA World Cup Russia 2018: List of Players: France |publisher=FIFA |page=11 |date=15 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611000407/https://www.fifadata.com/documents/FWC/2018/pdf/FWC_2018_SQUADLISTS.PDF |archive-date=11 June 2019}}</ref> *[[1994]] – [[Montrezl Harrell]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Montrezl Harrell |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1626149/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> *[[1995]] – [[Jean-Charles Castelletto]], Cameroonian footballer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fdp.fifa.org/assetspublic/ce44/pdf/SquadLists-English.pdf |title=FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Cameroon (CMR) |publisher=[[FIFA]] |page=5 |date=15 November 2022 |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref> * 1995 – [[Sione Katoa (rugby league, born 1995)|Sione Katoa]], New Zealand rugby league player<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/sione-katoa/summary.html |title=Sione Katoa – Career Stats & Summary |publisher=Rugby League Project |date=1995-01-26 |access-date=2016-05-01 |archive-date=2016-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308021422/http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/sione-katoa/summary.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Zakaria Bakkali]], Belgian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Zakaria Bakkali |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/zakaria-bakkali/271091/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=26 January 2025}}</ref> * 1996 – [[Hwang Hee-chan]], South Korean football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Hwang Hee-Chan |url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/20337/Hwang-Hee-Chan/overview |website=[[Premier League]] |access-date=26 January 2025}}</ref> *[[1997]] – [[Gedion Zelalem]], German-born American soccer player<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifadata.com/document/FWYC/2015/pdf/FWYC_2015_SquadLists.pdf |title=FIFA U-20 World Cup New Zealand 2015: List of Players: USA |publisher=FIFA |page=23 |date=June 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414114527/https://www.fifadata.com/document/FWYC/2015/pdf/FWYC_2015_SquadLists.pdf |archive-date=April 14, 2019}}</ref> *[[1998]] – [[Moonbin]], South Korean singer and actor. (d. 2023)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fantagio.kr/musicians/%EB%AC%B8%EB%B9%88/ |title=문빈 |website=Fantagio |access-date=September 30, 2022 |language=ko |archive-date=September 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930144957/http://www.fantagio.kr/musicians/%EB%AC%B8%EB%B9%88/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://enews.imbc.com/News/RetrieveNewsInfo/379633 |title="[속보] "아스트로 문빈, 사망"…소속사 확인 중" |website=iMBC |access-date=April 20, 2023 |language=ko |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419163617/https://enews.imbc.com/News/RetrieveNewsInfo/379633 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1999]] – [[Leonardo Balerdi]], Argentine footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Leonardo Balerdi |url=https://ligue1.com/player-sheet/l1_championship_player_2024_1_91272?tab=profile |website=[[Ligue 1]] |access-date=26 January 2025}}</ref> * 1999 – [[Travis Etienne]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Travis Etienne Jr. |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/4239996/travis-etienne-jr |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> *[[2000]] – [[Ester Expósito]], Spanish actress<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ester_exposito |title=Ester Expósito – Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=24 April 2023}}</ref> * 2000 – [[Darius Garland]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Darius Garland |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1629636/darius-garland |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> *[[2001]] – [[Latalia Bevan]], Welsh artistic gymnast<ref>{{cite web |title=Artistic Gymnastics {{!}} Athlete Profile: Latalia BEVAN – Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/artistic-gymnastics/athlete-profile-n6028281-latalia-bevan.htm |website=results.gc2018.com |access-date=9 January 2020 |archive-date=17 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117205333/https://results.gc2018.com/en/artistic-gymnastics/athlete-profile-n6028281-latalia-bevan.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> * 2001 – [[Isaac Okoro]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Isaac Okoro |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1630171/isaac-okoro |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=25 January 2024}}</ref> *[[2002]] – [[Darya Astakhova]], Russian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Darya Astakhova |url=http://www.espn.com/tennis/player/_/id/6259/darya-astakhova |access-date=2022-10-26 |publisher=ESPN |archive-date=2022-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026215934/http://www.espn.com/tennis/player/_/id/6259/darya-astakhova |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2009]] – [[YaYa Gosselin]], American actress<ref name="Raiford">{{cite web |last=Raiford |first=Tiffany |title=10 Things You Didn't Know about YaYa Gosselin |url=https://www.tvovermind.com/yaya-gosselin |website=TVOvermind |access-date=January 17, 2021 |date=February 16, 2020 |archive-date=January 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129065557/https://www.tvovermind.com/yaya-gosselin/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite instagram |user=yayagosselin <!-- verified --> |postid=B7zqUUzhIjR |date=January 26, 2020 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |title=Thank you so much to all of our friends for coming to celebrate YaYa's 11th Birthday! We had so much fun with you all :) Wishing a very happy birthday to our girl who we love so much. You are all good things YaYa. Love, Mama 🖤 #grateful #thankyouforcoming #happybirthdayyaya Missing: @carson_minniear and @liliana___torres 😘}}</ref> * 2009 – The [[Suleman octuplets]]<ref name="kaiser">{{cite web |date=2009-04-13 |title=Clinical Excellence – Octuplets Born at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif. |url=http://xnet.kp.org/newscenter/clinicalexcellence/2009/012609octuplets.html |access-date=2012-09-01 |work=kp.org |publisher=Kaiser Permanente |archive-date=2013-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130711033651/http://xnet.kp.org/newscenter/clinicalexcellence/2009/012609octuplets.html |url-status=live}}</ref> <!-- Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence. If there are multiple people in the same birth year, put them in alphabetical order. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. --> ==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[738]] – [[John of Dailam]], Syrian monk and saint (b. 660)<ref>{{cite book |title=مار يوحنا الديلمي السرياني |publisher=مكتبة السائح |author=نيسكو, موفق |year=2009}}</ref> *[[1390]] – [[Adolph IX, Count of Holstein-Kiel]] (b.c [[1327]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bremer |first1=Jürgen |title=Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins bis zum Jahre 1848 |date=1864 |publisher=Schröder |page=143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBz7vSCiajoC |language=de}}</ref> *[[1567]] – [[Nicholas Wotton]], English courtier and diplomat (b. 1497)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Wotton, Nicholas |volume= 28 | page = 837 |short= 1}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1620]] – [[Amar Singh I]], ruler of Mewar (b. 1559)<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHnHHwAACAAJ |title=History of Medieval India: 800-1700 |author=Satish Chandra |publisher=Orient BlackSwan |year=2007 |isbn=978-8125032267 |access-date=2020-09-24 |archive-date=2023-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310204403/https://books.google.com/books?id=qHnHHwAACAAJ |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1630]] – [[Henry Briggs (mathematician)|Henry Briggs]], English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1556)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Briggs, Henry|volume=4|noprescript=1}}</ref> *[[1641]] – [[Lawrence Hyde (attorney-general)|Lawrence Hyde]], English lawyer (b. 1562)<ref>"[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp748-784 Horrobin-Hyte] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520043727/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp748-784 |date=2022-05-20 }}," in ''Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714'', ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford: University of Oxford, 1891), 748-784. ''British History Online'', accessed April 26, 2022.</ref> *[[1697]] – [[Georg Mohr]], Danish mathematician and theorist (b. 1640)<ref>{{MacTutor Biography|id=Mohr|title=Georg Mohr}}</ref> *[[1744]] – [[Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller]], Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Khevenhüller, Ludwig Andreas|volume=15|page=776|noprescript=1}}</ref> *[[1750]] – [[Albert Schultens]], Dutch philologist and academic (b. 1686)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Schultens|volume=24|page=382|noprescript=1}}</ref> *[[1795]] – [[Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach]], German [[harpsichord]] player and composer (b. 1732)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bach |first1=Johann Christoph Friedrich |title=Four Late Sinfonias |date=1 January 1988 |publisher=A-R Editions, Inc. |isbn=978-0-89579-226-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=93qDxwV0tXwC&pg=PR7}}</ref> *[[1799]] – [[Gabriel Christie (British Army officer)|Gabriel Christie]], Scottish general (b. 1722)<ref>{{cite DCB |last1=Ouellet |first1=Fernand |title=Christie, Gabriel |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/christie_gabriel_4E.html |volume=4 |access-date=13 April 2022}}</ref> *[[1814]] – [[Manuel do Cenáculo]], Portuguese prelate and antiquarian (b. 1724)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/vilasbcenaculo.html |title=Vilas Boas (D. frei Manuel do Cenáculo) |language=pt |last=Torres |first=João Romano |website=Portugal – Dicionário Histórico, Corográfico, Heráldico, Biográfico, Bibliográfico, Numismático e Artístico, Volume VII |access-date=15 November 2020 |archive-date=6 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806103022/http://www.arqnet.pt/dicionario/vilasbcenaculo.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1823]] – [[Edward Jenner]], English physician and immunologist, creator of the [[smallpox vaccine]] (b. 1749)<ref>{{cite journal |first=Stefan |last=Riedel |pmc=1200696 |title=Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination |journal=Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=21–25 |date=January 2005 |publisher=Baylor University Medical Center |pmid=16200144 |doi=10.1080/08998280.2005.11928028}}</ref> *[[1824]] – [[Théodore Géricault]], French painter and lithographer (b. 1791)<ref name=nie>{{NIE|wstitle=Géricault, Jean-Louis André Théodore|year=1906|inline=1|noprescript=1}}</ref> *[[1830]] – [[Filippo Castagna]], Maltese politician (b. 1765)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schiavone |first1=Michael J. |title=Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. 1 A–F |date=2009 |publisher=Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza |location=[[Pietà, Malta|Pietà]] |isbn=9789993291329 |pages=546–547}}</ref> *[[1849]] – [[Thomas Lovell Beddoes]], English poet, playwright, and physician (b. 1803)<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle=Beddoes, Thomas Lovell |first=Edmund |last=Gosse |volume=4}}</ref> *[[1855]] – [[Gérard de Nerval]], French poet and translator (b. 1808)<ref>{{cite web |title=Gérard de Nerval |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gerard-de-Nerval |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=11 April 2022 |archive-date=12 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312140906/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gerard-de-Nerval |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1860]] – [[Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient]], opera singer (b. 1804)<ref>{{cite book |author1=Richard Wagner |author2=Wagner, Edward |title=Richard Wagner: My Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S243AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA774 |date=17 November 1983 |publisher=CUP Archive |isbn=978-0-521-22929-6 |pages=774}}</ref> *[[1869]] – [[Duncan Gordon Boyes]], English soldier; [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (b. 1846)<ref>{{cite book |last=Izzard |first=Brian |year=2018 |title=Glory and Dishonour: Victoria Cross Heroes Whose Lives Ended in Tragedy or Disgrace |publisher=Amberley |isbn=978-14456-7649-4 |location=Chapter 9: Suicide at Dunedin}}</ref> *[[1885]] – [[Edward Davy]], English-Australian physician and engineer (b. 1806)<ref name="adb Gibberd" /> * 1885 – [[Charles George Gordon]], English general and politician (b. 1833)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hickman |first1=Kennedy |title=Mahdist War: Siege of Khartoum |url=https://www.thoughtco.com/mahdist-war-siege-of-khartoum-2361378 |website=ThoughtCo |access-date=25 March 2022 |date=2 December 2019 |archive-date=25 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325155121/https://www.thoughtco.com/mahdist-war-siege-of-khartoum-2361378 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1886]] – [[David Rice Atchison]], American general and politician (b. 1807)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000322 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620180150/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000322 |archive-date=20 June 2015 |title=Atchison, David Rice (1807-1886) |website=Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress}}</ref> *[[1887]] – [[Anandi Gopal Joshi]], one of the first female Indian physicians (b. 1865)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/lifedranandabai02dallgoog |title=The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee: A Kinswoman of the Pundita Ramabai |last=Dall |first=Caroline Wells Healey |date=1888 |publisher=Roberts Brothers |page=[https://archive.org/details/lifedranandabai02dallgoog/page/n206 13]}}</ref> *[[1891]] – [[Nicolaus Otto]], German engineer, invented the [[Internal combustion engine]] (b. 1833)<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicolaus August Otto |url=http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/nicolaus-august-otto/DE-2086/lido/57c95767d405d6.69524041 |website=Rheinische Geschichte |access-date=22 February 2022 |language=de |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222183032/http://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/nicolaus-august-otto/DE-2086/lido/57c95767d405d6.69524041 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1893]] – [[Abner Doubleday]], American general (b. 1819)<ref>{{cite web |title=Abner Doubleday |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abner-Doubleday |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=22 February 2022 |archive-date=24 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224110139/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abner-Doubleday |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1895]] – [[Arthur Cayley]], English mathematician and academic (b. 1825)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Feldmann |first1=Richard W. |title=I. Arthur Cayley—founder of matrix theory |journal=The Mathematics Teacher |date=October 1962 |volume=55 |issue=6 |pages=482–484 |doi=10.5951/MT.55.6.0482 |jstor=27956657 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27956657 |issn=0025-5769 |access-date=2022-02-22 |archive-date=2022-02-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211180724/https://www.jstor.org/stable/27956657 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1896]] – [[James Edwin Campbell (poet)|James Edwin Campbell]], American educator, school administrator, newspaper editor, poet, and essayist (b. 1867)<ref name="Poetry Foundation 1" /><ref name="The Daily Herald 1" /><ref name="The Richwood Gazette 1" /> ===1901–present=== *[[1904]] – [[Whitaker Wright]], English businessman (b. 1846)<ref>{{cite news |title=WHITAKER WRIGHT COMMITS SUICIDE IN COURT AFTER HEARING SENTENCE CONDEMNING HIM TO PENAL SERVITUDE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19040127.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |work=San Francisco Call |date=27 January 1904 |access-date=22 February 2022 |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222054457/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19040127.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1920]] – [[Jeanne Hébuterne]], French painter and author (b. 1898)<ref>{{cite book |first=William |last=Fifield |title=Modigliani |location=New York |publisher=W. Morrow |year=1976 |page=284 |isbn=978-0-68803-039-1}}</ref> *[[1932]] – [[William Wrigley, Jr.]], American businessman, founded the [[Wrigley Company]] (b. 1861)<ref>{{cite news |title=William Wrigley Dies at Age of 70 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/01/27/archives/william-wrigley-dies-at-age-of-70-chicagoan-who-made-millions-from.html |work=The New York Times |date=27 January 1932 |access-date=22 February 2022 |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222054458/https://www.nytimes.com/1932/01/27/archives/william-wrigley-dies-at-age-of-70-chicagoan-who-made-millions-from.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1943]] – [[Harry H. Laughlin]], American sociologist and eugenicist (b. 1880)<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Harry H. Laughlin; Geneticist and Author, 62, Once With Carnegie Institute, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/01/28/archives/dr-harry-h-laughlin-geneticst-and-author-62-once-with-carnegie.html |website=The New York Times |date=28 January 1943 |access-date=22 February 2022 |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222054457/https://www.nytimes.com/1943/01/28/archives/dr-harry-h-laughlin-geneticst-and-author-62-once-with-carnegie.html |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1943 – [[Nikolai Vavilov]], Russian botanist and geneticist (b. 1887)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Crow |first1=J. F. |title=N. I. Vavilov, martyr to genetic truth |journal=Genetics |volume=134 |issue=1 |pages=1–4 |year=1993 |doi=10.1093/genetics/134.1.1 |pmid=8514123 |pmc=1205417}}</ref> *[[1946]] – [[Adriaan van Maanen]], Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1884)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Seares |first1=Frederick H. |title=Adriaan van Maanen, 1884-1946 |journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |date=April 1946 |volume=58 |issue=341 |pages=89–103 |doi=10.1086/125791 |jstor=40671760 |bibcode=1946PASP...58...89S |s2cid=122629369 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40671760 |issn=0004-6280 |access-date=2022-02-22 |archive-date=2022-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222052745/https://www.jstor.org/stable/40671760 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1947]] – [[Grace Moore]], American soprano and actress (b. 1898)<ref>{{cite news |title=Paris Funeral Service For Grace Moore |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/30510546 |access-date=22 February 2022 |work=The Advertiser |date=4 February 1947 |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222054458/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/30510546 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1947]] – [[India]] adopted its [[Constitution of India|constitution]] and transitioned into a [[republic]] on [[Republic Day (India)|this day]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Republic Day Celebration 2024 – Republic Of India – Know India: National Portal of India |url=https://knowindia.india.gov.in/republic-day-celebration/republic-of-india.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918131437/https://knowindia.india.gov.in/republic-day-celebration/republic-of-india.php |archive-date=2021-09-18 |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=Know India}}</ref> *[[1948]] – [[Fred Conrad Koch]], American biochemist and endocrinologist (b. 1876)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blustein |first1=Bonnie Ellen |title=Koch, Fred Conrad (1876-1948), biochemist |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1300932 |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1300932 |isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |access-date=2019-08-24 |archive-date=2019-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824011221/https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1300932 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1953]] – [[Athanase David]], Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1882)<ref>{{Quebec MNA biography|david-athanase-2771}}</ref> *[[1962]] – [[Lucky Luciano]], Italian-American mob boss (b. 1897)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lucky Luciano Is Dead at 65; Was Facing Arrest in Naples |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/01/27/90129087.pdf |website=The New York Times |access-date=22 February 2022 |date=27 January 1962}}</ref> *[[1968]] – [[Merrill C. Meigs]], American publisher (b. 1883)<ref>{{cite web |title=Merrill Meigs, Publisher, Dead; Ex-Head of Chicago Papers and Aviation Pioneer, 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/01/26/archives/merrill-meigs-publisher-dead-exhead-of-chicago-papers-and-aviation.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=22 February 2022 |date=26 January 1968 |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222054459/https://www.nytimes.com/1968/01/26/archives/merrill-meigs-publisher-dead-exhead-of-chicago-papers-and-aviation.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1973]] – [[Edward G. Robinson]], Romanian-American actor (b. 1893)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Whitman |first1=Alden |title=Edward G. Robinson, 79, Dies; His 'Little Caesar' Set a Style |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/27/archives/edward-g-robinson-79-dies-his-little-caesar-set-a-style-man-of.html |website=The New York Times |date=27 January 1973 |access-date=22 February 2022 |archive-date=11 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311081421/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/27/archives/edward-g-robinson-79-dies-his-little-caesar-set-a-style-man-of.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1976]] – [[João Branco Núncio]], Portuguese bullfighter (b. 1901)<ref>{{cite web |title=João Branco Núncio |url=http://www.cm-alcacerdosal.pt/PT/Concelho/Personalidades/Paginas/JoãoBrancoNúncio.aspx |website=Câmara Municipal de Alcácer do Sal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217064640/http://www.cm-alcacerdosal.pt/PT/Concelho/Personalidades/Paginas/Jo%C3%A3oBrancoN%C3%BAncio.aspx |archive-date=17 December 2014 |language=pt}}</ref> *[[1977]] – [[Dietrich von Hildebrand]], German Catholic philosopher and author (b. 1889)<ref>{{cite news |title=Scholar Dead |url=https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=SLR19770211-01.2.11&srpos=2&e=------197-en-20--1--txt-txIN-Dietrich+von+Hildebrand----1977--- |access-date=1 February 2024 |work=The St. Louis Review |volume=36 |issue=6 |date=11 February 1977}}</ref> *[[1979]] – [[Nelson Rockefeller]], American businessman and politician, 41st [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. 1908)<ref>{{cite web |last1=McFadden |first1=William |title=New York Governor and United States<!-- "State" in original --> Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller dies after a heart attack in 1979 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nelson-rockefeller-dies-heart-attack-1979-article-1.2085034 |website=New York Daily News |access-date=22 February 2022 |date=27 January 1979 |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222054458/https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nelson-rockefeller-dies-heart-attack-1979-article-1.2085034 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1983]] – [[Bear Bryant]], American football player and coach (b. 1913)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Puma |first1=Mike |title=Bear Bryant 'simply the best there ever was' |url=https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Bryant_Bear.html |publisher=ESPN Classic |access-date=February 22, 2022 |archive-date=February 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222054458/https://www.espn.com/classic/biography/s/Bryant_Bear.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1985]] – [[Kenny Clarke]], American jazz drummer and bandleader (b. 1914)<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Clarke, Kenny |first=Barry |last=Kernfeld |author-link=Barry Kernfeld |encyclopedia=[[American National Biography]] |year=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1802594}}</ref> *[[1986]] – [[Ruben Nirvi]], Finnish linguist and professor (b. 1905)<ref>Ellonen, Leena (ed.): ''Suomen professorit 1640–2007'', p. 575. Helsinki: Professoriliitto, 2008. {{ISBN|978-952-99281-1-8}}.</ref> *[[1990]] – [[Lewis Mumford]], American sociologist and historian (b. 1895)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lewis Mumford |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lewis-Mumford |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=20 February 2022 |archive-date=17 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117062148/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lewis-Mumford |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1992]] – [[José Ferrer]], Puerto Rican-American actor (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite web |title=José Ferrer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Ferrer |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=20 February 2022 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603225203/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Ferrer |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1993]] – [[Jan Gies]], Dutch businessman and humanitarian (b. 1905)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jan Gies; Smuggled Food to Help Anne Frank |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-28-mn-2224-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214054031/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-28-mn-2224-story.html |archive-date=14 February 2022 |date=28 January 1993}}</ref> * 1993 – [[Jeanne Sauvé]], Canadian journalist and politician, [[Governor General of Canada]] (b. 1922)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jeanne Sauvé {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jeanne-mathilde-sauve |website=thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=29 January 2021 |archive-date=8 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008181429/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/jeanne-mathilde-sauve |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Harold Brodkey]], American author and academic (b. 1930)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Smith |first1=Dinitia |title=Harold Brodkey, 65, New Yorker Writer And Novelist, Dies of Illness He Wrote About |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/27/us/harold-brodkey-65-new-yorker-writer-and-novelist-dies-of-illness-hewrote-about.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=27 January 1996 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214054402/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/27/us/harold-brodkey-65-new-yorker-writer-and-novelist-dies-of-illness-hewrote-about.html |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1996 – [[Frank Howard (American football)|Frank Howard]], American football player and coach (b. 1909)<ref>{{cite web |title=Frank Howard |url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1735 |website=National Football Foundation |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930023803/http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=50009 |archive-date=30 September 2007}}</ref> * 1996 – [[Henry Lewis (musician)|Henry Lewis]], American bassist and conductor (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gordon |first1=Larry |title=Henry Lewis; Symphony Conductor Broke Racial Barriers |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-01-28-mn-29628-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402110822/http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-28/news/mn-29628_1_henry-lewis |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=live |date=28 January 1996}}</ref> *[[1997]] – [[Jeane Dixon]], American astrologer and psychic (b. 1904)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pace |first1=Eric |title=Jeane Dixon, 79, Astrologer Claiming Psychic Power, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/27/us/jeane-dixon-79-astrologer-claiming-psychic-power-dies.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=27 January 1997 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214051908/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/27/us/jeane-dixon-79-astrologer-claiming-psychic-power-dies.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2000]] – [[Don Budge]], American tennis player and coach (b. 1915)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Finn |first1=Robin |title=Don Budge, First to Win Tennis's Grand Slam, Dies at 84 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/27/sports/don-budge-first-to-win-tennis-s-grand-slam-dies-at-84.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=27 January 2000 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214054401/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/27/sports/don-budge-first-to-win-tennis-s-grand-slam-dies-at-84.html |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2000 – [[Kathleen Hale]], English author and illustrator (b. 1898)<ref>{{cite web |last1=MacCarthy |first1=Fiona |title=Obituary: Kathleen Hale |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jan/28/news.obituaries |website=The Guardian |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=28 January 2000 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214054330/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jan/28/news.obituaries |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2000 – [[A. E. van Vogt]], Canadian-American author (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite web |title=A E van Vogt |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/feb/01/news.obituaries |website=The Guardian |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=31 January 2000 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214051246/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/feb/01/news.obituaries |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2001]] – [[Al McGuire]], American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kupper |first1=Mike |title=Time runs out for McGuire |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ylBWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mesDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6790%2C6309536 |access-date=14 February 2022 |work=Eugene Register-Guard |date=27 January 2001 |archive-date=14 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314093727/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ylBWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mesDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6790,6309536 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2003]] – [[Valeriy Brumel]], Russian high jumper (b. 1942)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mason |first1=Nick |title=Obituary: Valery Brumel |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/feb/06/guardianobituaries.russia |website=The Guardian |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=6 February 2003 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214054332/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/feb/06/guardianobituaries.russia |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2003 – [[Hugh Trevor-Roper]], English historian and academic (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Beran |first1=Michael Knox |title=H. R. Trevor-Roper, R.I.P. |website=[[National Review]] |url=http://nationalreview.com/comment/comment-beran013103.asp |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070419114843/http://nationalreview.com/comment/comment-beran013103.asp |archive-date=19 April 2007 |date=31 January 2003}}</ref> * 2003 – [[George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie]], Scottish banker and politician, [[Secretary of State for Scotland]] (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite web |title=Viscount Younger of Leckie |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/viscount-younger-of-leckie-729988.html |website=The Independent |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304133457/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/viscount-younger-of-leckie-729988.html |archive-date=4 March 2009 |date=27 January 2003}}</ref> *[[2004]] – [[Fred Haas]], American golfer (b. 1916)<ref>{{cite web |agency=Associated Press |title=Fred Haas; Golfer, 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/sports/fred-haas-golfer-88.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=29 January 2004 |archive-date=26 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826044812/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/sports/fred-haas-golfer-88.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2006]] – [[Khan Abdul Wali Khan]], Pakistani politician (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yusufzai |first1=Ashfaq |title=Wali Khan passes away |url=https://www.dawn.com/2006/01/27/top2.htm |newspaper=Dawn |location=Pakistan |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230543/http://www.dawn.com/2006/01/27/top2.htm |archive-date=27 September 2007 |date=27 January 2006}}</ref> *[[2007]] – [[Gump Worsley]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Litsky |first1=Frank |title=Gump Worsley, 77, Hall of Famer Who Won Four Titles, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/sports/hockey/29worsley.html?_r=0 |website=The New York Times |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=29 January 2007 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214054333/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/sports/hockey/29worsley.html?_r=0 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2008]] – [[Viktor Schreckengost]], American sculptor and designer (b. 1906)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Litt |first1=Steven |title=Viktor Schreckengost has died at age 101 |url=https://www.cleveland.com/arts/2008/01/viktor_schreckengost_has_died.html |website=cleveland.com |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=27 January 2008 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214054359/https://www.cleveland.com/arts/2008/01/viktor_schreckengost_has_died.html |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2008 – [[George Habash]], Palestinian politician, founder of the [[PFLP]] (b. 1926)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Andoni |first=Lamis |date=13 July 2009 |title=Habash: The bearer of the dream |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2009/7/13/habash-the-bearer-of-the-dream |access-date=2022-07-06 |publisher=Al Jazeera}}</ref> *[[2010]] – [[Louis Auchincloss]], American novelist and essayist (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Noble |first1=Holcomb B. |last2=McGrath |first2=Charles |title=Louis Auchincloss, Chronicler of New York's Upper Crust, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/nyregion/28auchincloss.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=14 February 2022 |date=27 January 2010 |archive-date=2 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702153415/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/nyregion/28auchincloss.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2011]] – [[David Kato|David Kato Kisule]], Ugandan teacher and LGBT rights activist, considered a father of Uganda's gay rights movement (b. 1964)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/27/ugandan-gay-rights-activist-murdered |title=Ugandan gay rights activist murdered weeks after court victory |first=Xan |last=Rice |date=27 January 2011 |work=The Guardian |location=London |access-date=14 February 2022 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214235047/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/27/ugandan-gay-rights-activist-murdered |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2011 – [[Charlie Louvin]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1927)<ref>{{cite news |last=Frisckis-Warren |first=Bill |date=2011-01-26 |title=Charlie Louvin, Country Singer, Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/arts/music/27louvin.html?mcubz=0 |work=The New York Times |location=New York City |access-date=2017-08-18 |archive-date=2017-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818045314/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/arts/music/27louvin.html?mcubz=0 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2012]] – [[Roberto Mieres]], Argentinian race car driver (b. 1924)<ref>{{cite web |title=Former Maserati grand prix driver Roberto Mieres dies aged 87 |publisher=[[Haymarket Group|Haymarket Publications]] |work=autosport.com |url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/97201 |date=2012-01-27 |accessdate=2012-01-27 |archive-date=2012-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127210011/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/97201 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2013]] – [[Christine M. Jones]], American educator and politician (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite news |last=Weil |first=Martin |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/former-md-state-delegate-christine-jones-dies/2013/01/27/5e54e8de-68f2-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_story.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130217003640/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-27/local/36583605_1_state-delegate-county-fire-physical-education |url-status=live |archive-date=February 17, 2013 |title=Former Md. state delegate Christine Jones dies |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 27, 2013 |access-date=February 1, 2013}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Stefan Kudelski]], Polish-Swiss engineer, inventor of the [[Nagra]] (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/stefan-kudelski-sound-recording-equipment-inventor-dies-at-84.html |title=Stefan Kudelski, Sound-Recording Equipment Inventor, Dies at 84 |author=Thomas Mulier |date=Jan 28, 2013 |publisher=Bloomberg News |access-date=2021-12-19 |archive-date=2015-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109121454/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-29/stefan-kudelski-sound-recording-equipment-inventor-dies-at-84.html |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Padma Kant Shukla]], Indian physicist and academic (b. 1950)<ref name="obit">{{cite web |author=Ruhr-Universitaet-Bochum |url=http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=128027&CultureCode=en |title=The Ruhr-Universität mourns Padma Kant Shukla |publisher=Alphagalileo.org |date=2013-01-29 |accessdate=2013-01-30 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208170445/http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=128027&CultureCode=en |archivedate=February 8, 2013}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Shōtarō Yasuoka]], Japanese author (b. 1920)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/people/AJ201301300061 |title=Postwar literary giant Yasuoka dies at 92 |work=The Asahi Shimbun |author=Staff writer |author-link=Staff writer |date=January 30, 2013 |accessdate=January 31, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205042102/http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/people/AJ201301300061 |archivedate=February 5, 2013}}</ref> *[[2014]] – [[Tom Gola]], American basketball player, coach, and politician (b. 1933)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Frank |last2=Juliano |first2=Joe |title=Philadelphia basketball great Tom Gola dies |newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=January 26, 2014 |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/la_salle/20140127_Philadelphia_basketball_great_Tom_Gola_dies.html |access-date=January 26, 2014 |archive-date=January 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140127202355/http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/colleges/la_salle/20140127_Philadelphia_basketball_great_Tom_Gola_dies.html |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2014 – [[Paula Gruden]], Slovenian-Australian poet and translator (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/knjige/umrla-je-pavla-gruden-pesniski-glas-slovencev-v-avstraliji/328389 |title=Umrla je Pavla Gruden, pesniški glas Slovencev v Avstraliji |publisher=MMC RTV Slovenija |date=27 January 2014 |language=Slovenian |trans-title=Pavla Gruden, the Poetic Voice of the Slovenes in Australia, Dies |access-date=19 December 2021 |archive-date=29 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929021016/http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/knjige/umrla-je-pavla-gruden-pesniski-glas-slovencev-v-avstraliji/328389 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2014 – [[José Emilio Pacheco]], Mexican poet and author (b. 1939)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jose Emilio Pacheco dies at 74; one of Mexico's foremost writers |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jose-emilio-pacheco-20140127-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=January 27, 2014 |access-date=December 19, 2021 |archive-date=December 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219020437/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jose-emilio-pacheco-20140127-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2015]] – [[Cleven "Goodie" Goudeau]], American art director and cartoonist (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_27395442/vallejos-art-icon-goodie-goudeau-dies-at-84 |title=Vallejo's art icon Goodie Goudeau dies at 83 |work=ContraCostaTimes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206225828/http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_27395442/vallejos-art-icon-goodie-goudeau-dies-at-84 |archive-date=2015-02-06}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Tom Uren]], Australian politician (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/27/tom-uren-1921-2015 |title=Tom Uren, 1921–2015 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=27 January 2015 |author=Frank Bongiorno |author-link=Frank Bongiorno |access-date=24 October 2021 |archive-date=26 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826075745/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/27/tom-uren-1921-2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2016]] – [[Sahabzada Yaqub Khan]], Pakistani military leader, foreign minister, and diplomat (b. 1920)<ref name="The New York Times, Pakistan Bureau">{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Pakistani Diplomat, Dies at 95 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/world/asia/sahabzada-yaqub-khan-dies-at-95-pakistani-diplomat-obituary.html?_r=0 |access-date=6 September 2016 |work=The New York Times |date=28 January 2016 |archive-date=2 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202174809/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/world/asia/sahabzada-yaqub-khan-dies-at-95-pakistani-diplomat-obituary.html?_r=0 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2016 – [[Abe Vigoda]], American actor (b. 1921)<ref name=nytobit>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/arts/television/abe-vigoda-actor-of-godfather-fame-dies-at-94.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/arts/television/abe-vigoda-actor-of-godfather-fame-dies-at-94.html |archive-date=2022-01-03 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Abe Vigoda, of 'Godfather' and 'Barney Miller,' dies at 94 |last=Lavietes |first=Stuart |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 26, 2016 |access-date=September 19, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> *[[2017]] – [[Mike Connors]], American actor (b. 1925)<ref name="Grode nytimes">{{cite news |last=Grode |first=Eric |date=January 27, 2017 |title=Mike Connors, Long-Running TV Sleuth in 'Mannix,' Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/mike-connors-mannix-dies.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/arts/mike-connors-mannix-dies.html |archive-date=2022-01-03 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 27, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2017 – [[Tam Dalyell]], Scottish politician (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38764220 |title=Former Labour MP Tam Dalyell dies |date=26 January 2017 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=26 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126191909/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38764220 |archive-date=26 January 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2017 – [[Lindy Delapenha]], Jamaican footballer and sports journalist (b. 1927)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lindy Delapenha is dead |url=https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Lindy-Delapenha-is-dead |website=Jamaica Observer |date=January 26, 2017 |access-date=September 18, 2021 |archive-date=September 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918211226/https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Lindy-Delapenha-is-dead |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2017 – [[Barbara Hale]], American actress (b. 1922)<ref name="BarbaraHale">{{cite web |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/barbara-hale-dead-perry-mason-893891 |title=Barbara Hale, the Loyal Della Street on 'Perry Mason', Dies at 94 |first1=Mike |last1=Barnes |first2=Duane |last2=Byrge |date=January 27, 2017 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=January 29, 2017 |archive-date=January 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128005800/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/barbara-hale-dead-perry-mason-893891 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 2017 – [[Barbara Howard (athlete)|Barbara Howard]], Canadian sprinter and educator (b. 1920)<ref>{{cite web |last=Marshall |first=Tabitha |date=January 26, 2018 |title=Barbara Howard |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/barbara-howard |url-status=live |access-date=2021-04-19 |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia |archive-date=2021-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419003209/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/barbara-howard}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[John Altobelli]], American college baseball coach (b. 1963)<ref name=kobe/> * 2020 – [[Gianna Bryant]], American student-athlete (b. 2006)<ref name=kobe/> * 2020 – [[Kobe Bryant]], American basketball player (b. 1978)<ref name=kobe/> *[[2025]] – [[Suzanne Massie]], American historian (b. 1931)<ref>{{cite web |title=Suzanne Massie, former Reagan advisor known as ‘the woman who ended the Cold War,’ dies at 94 |url=https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/28/suzanne-massie-former-reagan-advisor-known-as-the-woman-who-ended-the-cold-war-dies-at-94 |website=Meduza |access-date=January 28, 2025 |language=en}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.--> ==Holidays and observances== * Christian [[feast day]]: ** [[Alberic of Cîteaux|Saint Alberic of Cîteaux]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1202 |title=St Alberic of Citeaux |website=Catholic Online |access-date=29 January 2021 |archive-date=8 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208175413/https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1202 |url-status=live}}</ref> ** [[Gabriele Allegra|Blessed Gabriele Allegra]]<ref>{{cite book |author1=Cindy Yik-yi Chu |author2=Paul P. Mariani |title=People, Communities, and the Catholic Church in China |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNLHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 |date=2 January 2020 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=9789811516795 |pages=86}}</ref> ** [[Paula of Rome|Saint Paula of Rome]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Saint of the Month: St Paula of Rome {{!}} Galway Cathedral |url=https://www.galwaycathedral.ie/news/saint-month-st-paula-rome |website=www.galwaycathedral.ie |access-date=5 May 2025}}</ref> ** [[January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]] * [[Australia Day]] ([[Australia]])<ref name="nzgovholidays" /> * [[Republic Day (India)]]<ref name="nzgovholidays" /> ==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name="adb Gibberd">{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Gibberd |first=William |year=1966 |id2=davy-edward-1966 |title=Edward Davy |access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref> <ref name="adb Lloyd">{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=C J |last=Lloyd |title=Connor, Reginald Francis Xavier (Rex) (1907–1977) |id2=connor-reginald-francis-rex-9813 |access-date=2021-03-21}}</ref> <ref name="nzgovholidays">{{cite web |title=National days |url=https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/embassies/national-days/ |website=New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |archive-date=26 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126185229/https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/embassies/national-days/ |url-status=live |access-date=17 November 2020}}</ref> <ref name="Poetry Foundation 1">{{cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-edwin-campbell |title=James Edwin Campbell |year=2020 |publisher=[[Poetry Foundation]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200525145119/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-edwin-campbell |archive-date=May 25, 2020 |access-date=May 25, 2020}}</ref> <ref name="The Daily Herald 1">{{cite news |title=Death of a Story Writer |newspaper=The Daily Herald |location=[[Delphos, Ohio]] |date=January 28, 1896 |page=5 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52450044/death-of-a-story-writer/ |via=Newspapers.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531151043/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52450044/death-of-a-story-writer/ |archive-date=May 31, 2020 |access-date=May 30, 2020}}</ref> <ref name="The Richwood Gazette 1">{{cite news |title=Colored Poet Dead |newspaper=The Richwood Gazette |location=[[Richwood, Ohio]] |date=January 30, 1896 |page=1 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52517323/colored-poet-dead/ |via=Newspapers.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531160302/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52517323/colored-poet-dead/ |archive-date=May 31, 2020 |access-date=May 31, 2020}}</ref> }} ==External links== {{commons}} * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/26 BBC: On This Day] * {{NYT On this day|month=1|day=26}} * [https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/26 Historical Events on January 26] {{months}} [[Category:Days of January]]
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