Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1939 - Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese swimmer (d. 2017)
 1940 - Iva Zanicchi, Italian singer
 1940 - Pedro Rodriguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
 1941 – David Ruffin, American singer (d. 1991)
 1943 – Kay Granger, American politician
 1943 - Paul Angelis, English actor (d. 2009)
 1944 – Paul Keating, twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia
 1944 - Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria
 1945 - José Luis Perales, Spanish singer
 1946 – Joseph Deiss, Swiss Federal Councilor
 1946 - Henrique Pereira Rosa, caretaker President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2013)
 1947 – Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
 1949 – Philippe Starck, French designer
 1950 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
 1950 - Michael Tomasello, American anthropologist
1951  1975 
 1951 - Renato Zaccarelli, Italian footballer
 1951 - Bob Latchford, English footballer
 1951 - Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (d. 1982)
 1952 - Michael Angelis, English actor (d. 2020)
 1952 – R. Stevie Moore, American singer, songwriter, and home recording pioneer
 1953 – Brett Hudson, American actor
 1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor
 1955 - Frankie Knuckles, American DJ and producer (d. 2014)
 1955 - Fernando Trueba, Spanish movie director, screenwriter and producer
 1956 – Sharon Mitchell, American actress
 1956 – Tom Bailey, British singer (Thompson Twins)
 1958 - Jeffrey Williams, American astronaut
 1960 - Mark Rylance, British actor
 1960 - Peter Charles, British equestrian
 1961 - Peter Beardsley, English footballer
 1961 - Bobby Hansen, American basketball player
 1961 – Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player
 1961 – Carole Paulson American writer, humor columnist
 1962 – Jeff Yagher, American actor
 1963 - Martin O'Malley, former Governor of Maryland
1963 - Vera Pauw, Dutch footballer and coach
 1963 - Yury Zakharevich, Soviet-Russian weightlifter
 1964 - Richard Dunwoody, British jockey
 1964 – Jane Horrocks, British actress
 1964 - Nadia Sawalha, British television personality
 1965 – Dave Attell, American writer and comedian
 1966 – David Bautista, American professional wrestler
 1967 – Kim Perrot, American basketball player (d. 1999)
 1967 - Ivan Zamorano, Chilean footballer
 1967 - Anjem Choudary, English Islamist preacher
 1969 – Jesse L. Martin, American actor
 1970 – DJ Quik, American rapper
 1971 – Jonathan Davis, American musician (KoЯn)
 1971 – Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
 1971 - Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and football manager
 1972 - Vinod Kambli, Indian cricketer, sportscaster and actor
 1972 – Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
 1973 – Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas and Kula Shaker)
 1973 - Ben Jealous, African American NAACP leader
 1974 – Michael Tunn, Australian television and radio
1974 - Princess Claire of Belgium
 1974 - Devon Odessa, American actress
From 1976 
 1976 - Damian Leith, Irish-born Australian singer
 1976 - Subhrajit Mitra, Indian moviemaker
 1977 - Didier Dinart, French handball player
 1979 – Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
 1979 – Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
 1979 - Willie Collum, Scottish football referee
 1979 - Peter Gionta, American ice hockey player
 1979 - Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player
 1979 - Leo Varadkar, Irish Taoiseach
 1980 - Estelle, English singer and songwriter
 1980 – Julius Peppers, American football player
 1980 – Robert Green, English footballer
 1980 - Jason Segel, American actor, writer and screenwriter
 1981 - Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player
 1982 – Quinn Allman, American musician (The Used)
 1983 – Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
 1984 - Seung-Hui Cho, Korean-American spree killer (d. 2007)
 1985 - Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
 1986 - Marya Roxx, Estonian singer
 1987 - Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
 1988 - Ronnie Day, Australian singer-songwriter
1988 - Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
 1990 - Alex Pietrangelo, Canadian ice hockey player
 1991 - Britt McKillip, Canadian singer and actress
 1991 - Diego Simoes, Brazilian footballer
 1993 - Morgan York, American actress
 1994 - Kang Jiyoung, South Korean singer, rapper and dancer
 1996 - Sarah Gilman, American actress
 1999 - Karan Brar, American actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 52 BC – Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered) (b. 93 BC)
 474 – Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
 1213 – Queen Regnant Tamar of Georgia (b. c. 1160)
 1367 – King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
 1425 – Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
 1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
 1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar, humanist and cardinal (b. 1470)
 1586 – Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
 1664 – Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
 1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
 1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
 1862 – John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
 1873 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English writer (b. 1803)
 1878 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
 1886 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
 1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
 1896 – Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
1901  2000 
 1923 – Wallace Reid, actor (b. 1891)
 1936 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1865)
 1940 – Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
 1949 - Carlo Ponzi, Italian-American criminal, origin of the term Ponzi scheme (b. 1882)
 1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary (b. 1867)
 1952 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
 1954 – Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
 1963 – Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906)
 1966 – Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
 1967 – Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
 1969 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
 1970 – David O. McKay, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
 1971 – Virgil Finlay, American horror illustrator (b. 1914)
 1971 - Nora Stanton Blatch Barney, American architect and women's rights activist (b. 1883)
 1975 – Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
1977 - Carl Zuckmayer, German writer (b. 1896)
 1977 - Luciano Re Cecconi, Italian footballer (b. 1948)
 1977 - Dzemal Bijedic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1917)
 1978 – Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
 1978 – Carl Betz, American movie and television actor (b. 1921)
 1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
 1980 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
 1982 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (b. 1895)
 1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
 1985 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
 1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
 1990 – Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
 1993 – Eleanor Hibbert, English writer
 1994 - Denis Henry Desty, English scientist and inventor (b. 1923)
 1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1903)
 1995 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1996 – Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923)
 1997 – Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)
 2000 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
From 2001 
 2001 – Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
 2003 – Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1926)
 2005 – Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
 2006 – Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
 2007 – Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
 2008 – Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
 2008 – Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
 2008 – John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
 2009 – Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
 2009 – Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
 2009 – Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
 2009 - Zenonas Petrauskas, Lithuanian politician and lawyer (b. 1950)
 2010 - Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
 2011 - Sargent Shriver, American politician (b. 1915)
 2013 - Walmor Chagas, Brazilian actor (b. 1930)
 2014 - Komla Dumor, Ghanaian journalist (b. 1972)
 2014 - Dennis Frederiksen, American musician (b. 1951)
2014 - Sarah Marshall, British-American actress (b. 1933)
 2015 - Alberto Nisman, Argentine lawyer (b. 1963)
 2015 - Paul O'Grady, Australian politician (b. 1960)
 2015 - Kjell Arnljot Wig, Norwegian media personality (b. 1924)
 2015 - Piet van der Sanden, Dutch politician (b. 1924)
 2015 - Tony Verna, American television producer (b. 1933)
 2015 - José Carrasco, Peruvian politician (b. 1944)
 2016 - Johnny Bach, American basketball player (b. 1924)
 2016 - Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (b. 1948)
 2016 - Michel Tournier, French writer (b. 1924)
 2017 - Peter Abrahams, South African-Jamaican writer (b. 1919)
 2017 - Red Adams, American baseball player (b. 1921)
 2017 - Yosl Bergner, Austrian-Israeli painter (b. 1920)
 2017 - Ion Besoiu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
 2017 - David P. Buckson, American politician, Governor of Delaware (b. 1920)
 2017 - Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer (b. 1939)
 2017 - Johnny Little, Canadian-Scottish footballer (b. 1930)
2017 - William Margold, American pornographic actor and director (b. 1943)
 2017 - Roberta Peters, American soprano (b. 1930)
 2017 - Robert Timlin, American judge (b. 1932)
 2017 - Mike Kellie, English musician and record producer (b. 1947)
 2018 - Ishfaq Ahmad, Pakistani nuclear physicist and professor (b. 1930)
 2018 - Wallis Grahn, Swedish actress (b. 1945)
 2018 - Lucas Mangope, South African politician (b. 1923)
 2018 - Nancy Richler, Canadian novelist (b. 1957)
 2018 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral (b. 1923)
 2018 - Chick Webster, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
 2018 - Borys Yukhymovych Steklyar, Ukrainian military officer (b. 1923)
 2018 - Javiera Muñoz, Swedish singer (b. 1977)
 2019 - John Coughlin, American figure skater (b. 1985)
 2019 - Cees Haast, Dutch racing cyclist (b. 1938)
 2019 - Ivan Vutsov, Bulgarian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
Observances 
 Royal Thai Armed Forces Day
 Revolution Day (Tunisia)
 World Religion Day

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England in England's reconquest of Normandy.
 1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden, is injured in the Battle of Bogesund, leading to his death on February 3.
 1607 - The San Agustin Church in Manila is completed. It is the oldest church in the Philippines still standing.
 1788 - A second group of the First Fleet of convicts from Great Britain arrives at Botany Bay, present-day Sydney, Australia.
 1795 – The Batavian Republic is founded in the Netherlands.
 1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
 1812 - Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington orders British soldiers of the Light and Third Divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
 1817 - An army led by Jose de San Martin crosses the Andes from Argentina to Chile, having already liberated Argentina.
 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 is performed for the first time.
1839 - The British East India Company captures Aden, Yemen.
 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica.
 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is performed for the first time, in Rome.
 1861 - Confederate States of America: Georgia leaves the Union, becoming the 5th state to do so.
 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs, the first important Confederate defeat of the war.
 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Prussia wins in the Battle of Saint Quentin.
 1883 - German passenger steamer Cimbria sinks after a collision off the island of Borkum in the North Sea, killing 437 people.
 1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder is performed for the first time, in Berlin.
 1899 - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1901  2000 
 1915 - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
 1915 - World War I: German zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, killing over 20 people.
 1917 – A Munitions Plant Explosion in London kills 73 people.
 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
 1937 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record, by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
 1942 - Canadian passenger steamer RMS Lady Hawkins is sunk by a German U-boat off North Carolina, killing 251 people.
 1945 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Lodz ghetto.
 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo.
 1949 – Cuba recognises Israel as an independent country.
 1953 - Almost 72% of US television sets are tuned in to I Love Lucy, to watch Lucy give birth.
1958 - An expedition led by Vivian Fuchs reaches the South Pole, the fourth expedition to do so.
 1965 - The unmanned spacecraft Gemini 2 is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
 1966 – Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.
 1969 – Czechoslovakian student Jan Palach dies, three days after setting himself on fire in an act of protest.
 1975 - A large earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India.
 1977 - Rare snowfalls occur in Miami, Florida and the Bahamas.
 1977 - Gerald Ford pardons World War II propagandist Iva Toguri D'Aquino.
 1978 - The last Volkswagen Beetle to be produced in Europe runs off the assembly line in Emden, Germany. They continue to be produced in Latin America until 2003.
 1981 - Iran hostage crisis: US and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months in captivity.
 1983 - The Apple Lisa commercial personal computer is announced by Apple Inc.
 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second scud missile into Israel.
 1993 – The Czech Republic and Slovakia join the UN.
 1996 - The North Cape Oil Spill occurs off Rhode Island.
 1997 - Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron, West Bank, after 30 years.
From 2001 
 2006 – NASA's New Horizons probe launches to Pluto.
 2007 – Journalist Hrant Dink is murdered in front of his newspaper office.
 2012 - Wikipedia's English language edition ends its blackout from the previous day, which was a protest action against the SOPA and PIPA laws proposed by the United States Congress.
 2013 - Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan survives an attempt to kill him, when his attacker is stopped by security guards.
 2013 - An EU-wide driving licence is introduced.
 2014 - Anti-government protests escalate in Ukraine, as a new anti-protest law comes into force.
 2014 - A bomb attack on an army convoy in the northern Pakistani city of Bannu kills 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.

Births
Up to 1900 
 399 – Pulcheria, Byzantine Empress (d. 453)
 1544 – Francis II of France (d. 1560)
 1676 - John Weldon, English musician and composer (d. 1736)
 1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
 1737 - Giuseppe Millico, Italian singer, composer and music teacher (d. 1802)
 1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
 1757 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German princess (d. 1831)
 1788 - Pavel Kivelyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
 1798 - Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate General (d. 1870)
 1808 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (d. 1849)
 1813 - Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor (d. 1898)
 1832 - Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
 1833 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
 1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
 1845 - Joseph M. Carey, Governor of Wyoming (d. 1924)
 1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d. 1883)
1851 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
 1866 - Harry Davenport, American actor (d. 1949)
 1871 - Dame Gruev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1906)
 1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1922)
 1876 – Hakashima Gonshiri, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)
 1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
 1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1934)
 1880 - James G. Scrugham, 14th Governor of Nevada (d. 1945)
 1889 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter, sculptor and designer (d. 1943)
 1890 - Elmer Niklander, Finnish sportsman (d. 1942)
 1892 – Olafur Thors, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1964)
 1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian classical pianist (d. 1986)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Hans Moser, Swiss equestrian (d. 1974)
 1905 – Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian movie producer, director and administrator (d. 1991)
 1908 - Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (d. 1971)
 1909 – Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
 1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist (d. 1986)
 1913 - Rudolph Wanderone, American pocket billiards player (d. 1996)
 1917 - John Raitt, American singer and actor (d. 2005)
 1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian UN Secretary-General (d. 2020)
 1920 - Aleksander Jackowski, Polish anthropologist (d. 2018)
 1920 - Roberto M. Levingston, Argentine general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015)
 1920 - Bruce Sundlun, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 2011)
 1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American writer (d. 1995)
 1922 - Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 2015)
 1922 – Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish movie director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007)
 1922 - Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (d. 2013)
 1925 - Nina Bawden, English writer (d. 2012)
 1926 - Fritz Weaver, American actor
 1930 - Tippi Hedren, American actress
 1932 – Richard Lester, British movie director
 1932 - Harry Lonsdale, American scientist and businessman (d. 2014)
 1935 - Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
 1935 – Owsley Stanley, American sound engineer and LSD supplier (d. 2011)
 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
 1937 - Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
 1937 - Princess Birgitta of Sweden
 1939 – Phil Everly, American musician (Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
 1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (d. 1992)
 1940 - Mike Reid, English actor and comedian (d. 2007)
 1941 - Tony Anholt, English actor (d. 2002)
 1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler
 1942 – Michael Crawford, British singer and actor
 1942 - Thom Mayne, American architect
 1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
 1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1944 – Laurie London, British singer
 1944 - Dan Reeves, American football coach
 1945 - Dragan Holcer, Croatian footballer (d. 2015)
 1945 - C. B. Forgotston, American political blogger (d. 2016)
 1945 - Trevor Williams, British musician
 1946 – Julian Barnes, British writer
 1946 – Dolly Parton, American country music singer
 1947 – Rod Evans, British musician (Deep Purple)
 1948 - Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick
 1948 - Amanda Holden, English playwright and composer
 1949 – Dennis Taylor, Northern Irish snooker player
 1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer (d. 2003)
 1949 - Lindsay Roy, Scottish politician
1951  1975 
 1951 - Gerald Tinker, American athlete
 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
 1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
 1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and movie director
 1954 - Katey Sagal, American actress
 1955 – Simon Rattle, British conductor
 1957 - Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician
 1958 - Thomas Kinkade, American painter (d. 2012)
 1960 – Mauro Tassotti, Italian footballer
 1960 - Al Joyner, American athlete
 1961 - Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer
 1963 – Martin Bashir, English journalist
 1963 – John Bercow, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons
 1963 - Michael Adams, American basketball player
 1964 - Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player
 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
 1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
 1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
 1969 - Junior Seau, American football player (d. 2012)
 1969 - Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
 1971 - Shawn Wayans, American actor
1972 - Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and actress
 1972 - Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
 1973 - Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
 1973 - Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor and screenwriter
 1974 - Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
From 1976 
 1979 - Wiley, British rapper
 1979 - Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
 1980 - Pasha Kovalev, Russian-born dancer
 1980 – Jenson Button, British racing driver
 1981 – Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer
 1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
 1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
 1985 - Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
 1986 - Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
 1986 - Loren Geller-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
 1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
 1988 - Alexey Vorobyov, Russian singer and actor
 1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress
 1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
 1992 - Mac Miller, American rapper, producer and actor
 1992 - Logan Lerman, American actor

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 520 - John of Cappadocia, Patriarch of Constantinople
 639 – Dagobert I, king of the Franks
 1526 – Isabella of Burgundy, queen of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
 1576 - Hans Sacher, German meistersinger (b. 1494)
 1661 - Thomas Venner, English Fifth monarchist (b. 1599)
 1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)
 1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
 1847 – Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (b. 1799)
 1851 - Esteban Echeverria, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
 1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
 1869 - Carl Reichenbach, German philosopher and chemist (b. 1788)
 1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
 1878 – Henri Victor Regnault, French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
 1883 - Richard England, British general (b. 1793)
1901  2000 
 1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
 1906 - Bartolomé Mitre, President of Argentina (b. 1821)
 1925 - Maria Sophia of the Two Sicilies (b. 1841)
 1927 - Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1840)
 1930 - Frank Plumpton Ramsey, British philosopher (b. 1903)
 1948 - Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
 1954 - Mohamed Amin Didi, President of the Maldives (b. 1910)
 1957 - Jozsef Dudas, Hungarian-Romanian Resistance fighter (b. 1912)
 1968 – Ray Harroun, first winner of the Indianapolis 500 (b. 1879)
 1969 – Jan Palach, Czech student, political activist (b. 1948)
 1971 – Harry Shields, jazz musician (b. 1899)
 1972 – Michael Rabin, concert violinist (b. 1936)
 1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, painter (b. 1889)
 1979 - Tuffy Leemans, American football player (b. 1912)
 1980 – William O. Douglas, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice (b. 1898)
 1982 - Elis Regina, Brazilian soprano (b. 1945)
 1984 - Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
 1990 – Rajneesh, religious leader (b. 1931)
 1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
 1996 – Don Simpson, American movie producer (b. 1943)
 1997 – James Dickey, poet, novelist (b. 1923)
 1998 – Carl Perkins, guitarist (b. 1932)
 2000 – Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
 2000 – Hedy Lamarr, actress (b. 1914)
2001  2015 
 2003 - Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter and politician (b. 1916)
 2003 - Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974)
 2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
 2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
 2005 – Donald Beardslee, United States murderer, executed in California (b. 1943)
 2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
 2005 – Ricardo Suriñach, Catholic Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico (2000-2003) (b. 1928)
 2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
 2007 – Scott Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961).
 2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
 2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (b. 1940)
 2008 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
 2009 – Beatrice Farve, American supercentenarian (b. 1895)
 2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (b. 1923)
 2010 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (b. 1939)
 2012 - Sarah Burke, Canadian freestyle skier (b. 1982)
2013 - Stan Musial, American baseball player (b. 1920)
 2013 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (b. 1930)
 2013 - Taiho Koki, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1940)
 2014 - Christopher Chataway, English athlete, broadcaster, politician and businessman (b. 1931)
 2014 - Bert Williams, English footballer (b. 1920)
 2014 - Azaria Alon, Israeli environmentalist (b. 1918)
 2014 - Steven Fromholz, American entertainer, singer and songwriter (b. 1945)
 2015 - Michel Guimond, Canadian politician (b. 1953)
 2015 - Vladimir Kesarev, Russian footballer (b. 1930)
 2015 - Anne Kirkbride, English actress (Coronation Street) (b. 1954)
 2015 - Arthit Kamlang-ek, Thai general (b. 1925)
 2015 - Bob Symes, English inventor and television presenter (b. 1924)
 2015 - Karl H. Pribram, American neuroscientist and educator (b. 1919)
 2015 - Adam Yahiye Gadahn, American Al-Qaeda operative (b. 1978)
From 2016 
 2016 - Yasutaro Koide, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest-living man (b. 1903)
 2016 - Ettore Scola, Italian movie director (b. 1931)
 2016 - M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1947)
 2016 - Robert M. Carter, English paleontologist (b. 1942)
 2016 - Sheila Sim, English actress (b. 1922)
 2016 - Frank Sullivan, American baseball player (b. 1930)
 2016 - Richard Levins, American mathematical ecologist and population geneticist (b. 1930)
 2016 - William Y. Smith, American air force general (b. 1925)
 2017 - Jalal Allakhverdiyev, Azerbaijani mathematician (b. 1929)
 2017 - Wayne Barrett, American journalist (b. 1945)
 2017 - Loalwa Braz, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
 2017 - Miguel Ferrer, American actor (b. 1955)
 2017 - Eddie Filgate, Irish politician (b. 1915)
 2017 - Jan Kruis, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1933)
 2017 - Ger van Mourik, Dutch footballer (b. 1931)
 2017 - Edwin Pope, American journalist (b. 1928)
 2017 - Walt Streuli, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2017 - James S. Vlasto, American public servant (b. 1934)
 2017 - H. Boyd Woodruff, American microbiologist (b. 1917)
 2017 - Teori Zavascki, Brazilian judge (b. 1948)
 2018 - Ute Bock, Austrian educator and humanitarian (b. 1942)
 2018 - Anna Campori, Italian actress (b. 1917)
 2018 - Saqi Farooqi, Pakistani poet (b. 1926)
 2018 - Red Fisher, Canadian sports journalist (b. 1926)
 2018 - Dorothy Malone, American actress (b. 1924)
 2018 - Fredo Santana, American rapper (b. 1990)
 2018 - Allison Shearmur, American film producer (b. 1963)
Observances 
 Epiphany in the Eastern Orthodox Church
 Southern US States commemorate Robert E. Lee on this date.

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 250 - Emperor Decius begins widespread persecution of Christians in Rome
 1265 – The English Parliament conducts its first meeting.
 1320 - Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes King of Poland.
 1356 – Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scotland.
 1523 – Christian III is forced to abdicate the thrones of Denmark and Norway.
 1576 - The city of León in Mexico is founded.
 1649 – King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland goes on trial for treason and 'high crimes'.
 1778 - James Cook lands on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i.
 1783 - Great Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain.
 1788 - The third and main part of the First Fleet of convicts from Great Britain arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides to move the convict colony slightly further along the coast to Port Jackson, present-day Sydney, Australia.
 1801 – John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States.
 1839 – Battle of Yungay: Chile defeats Peru and Bolivia.
1840 – Jules Dumont D'Urville's expedition to Antarctica discovers Adelie Land.
 1841 – Hong Kong comes under British control.
 1855 - LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents the roller coaster.
 1877 - Last day of the Constantinople Conference, which results in an agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
 1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster.
 1887 - Off the Brazilian coast, British immigrant ship Kapunda collides with the barque Ada Melmore, causing it to sink within 5 minutes, killing 297 of the 313 people on board, including all women and children.
 1887 - The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Harbor, Hawaii as a naval base.
 1892 - The first basketball game under rules invented by James Naismith takes place in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1901  2000 
 1905 - The Egyptian Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia, collapses.
 1920 - The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
 1921 – Turkey's first constitution is adopted.
 1929 - In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking movie filmed outdoors, is released.
 1934 – The photography and electronics company Fujimovie is founded in Tokyo.
 1936 – King George V of the United Kingdom dies. His son, Edward VIII, succeeds him.
 1937 – At his second inauguration, Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first US President to be inaugurated on January 20.
 1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to start a third term in office. He starts his fourth term on this date in 1945 and dies shortly after.
 1941 - World War II: A German police officer is murdered in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30 soldiers.
 1942 – Senior Nazi officials meet at the Wannsee Conference, to plan the Holocaust.
1945 – World War II: Hungary agrees to an Armistice with the Allies.
 1945 - World War II: Germany begins with the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia.
 1949 – Harry S. Truman proposes Point Four program to help the world's less developed areas.
 1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United States; he is the first President from the Republican Party since Herbert Hoover left office in 1933.
 1960 - Hendrik Verwoerd announces a vote on whether South Africa should become a Republic.
 1961 – John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States.
 1969 - Richard Nixon becomes President of the United States.
 1972 - Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program.
 1977 - Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States.
 1980 – Jimmy Carter announces that the US will not participate at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
 1981 – The Iran hostage crisis ends within minutes of Ronald Reagan becoming US president.
1985 - President Ronald Reagan is inaugurated for the second time. He becomes the first president in over a decade to serve two terms.
 1986 – In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is marked as a federal holiday for the first time.
 1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
 1989 – George H. W. Bush becomes President of the United States succeeding President Ronald Reagan.
 1990 – Soviet forces kill civilians in Baku, Azerbaijan.
 1991 - Sudan's government imposes Islamic law around the country, worsening the civil war between the mainly Muslim North and mainly Christian South, which would become South Sudan in 2011.
 1992 - Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 87 people.
 1993 – Bill Clinton becomes President of the United States, as the first Democratic President since Jimmy Carter left office in 1981.
1995 - Jean-Claude Juncker becomes Prime Minister of Luxembourg. He is Europe's longest-serving Prime Minister at the time he leaves office on December 4, 2013.
 1996 – Yasser Arafat is elected Palestinian President.
 1999 - The China News Service announces new government limits on internet use.
From 2001 
 2001 – In a coup in the Philippines, Joseph Estrada is replaced as President by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
 2001 – George W. Bush becomes President of the United States.
 2006 - People report seeing a bottlenose whale in the Thames in London. It dies late the next day after failed attempts to lead it back to the sea.
 2007 - A three-man team, only on skis and kites completes a 1759-kilometer (1093-mile) journey to the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, becoming the first people to do this without mechanical help.
 2009 – Barack Obama becomes the first African American President of the United States.
 2013 - Barack Obama starts his second term as President of the United States, becoming the third US president in a row to serve two terms in office.
 2014 - The European Rosetta comet chaser spacecraft is reawakened after a 31-month hibernation on its way to attempt landing on a comet.
 2016 - A terrorist attack is carried out on the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan, killing 21 people.
2016 - Scientists announce that they are "90% certain" of the existence of a 9th planet in the solar system beyond the Kuiper belt.
 2017 – Donald Trump becomes President of the United States.
Up to 1900 
 225 – Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
 1292 - Elisabeth of Bohemia (d. 1330)
 1435 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese Shogun (d. 1490)
 1488 – Sebastian Münster, German humanist and teacher (d. 1552)
 1554 – King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
 1573 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
 1703 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish composer and violinist (d. 1741)
 1716 – King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
 1732 - Richard Henry Lee, American statesman (d. 1794)
 1761 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer (d. 1825)
 1775 – André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
 1783 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
 1798 – Anson Jones, President of Texas (d. 1858)
 1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
 1832 - William Larrabee, 13th Governor of Iowa (d. 1912)
 1834 - George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
 1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
 1867 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1873 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer (d. 1950)
 1876 - Josef Hofmann, Polish inventor, composer and pianist (d. 1957)
 1878 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
 1880 - Walter W. Bacon, American politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (d. 1962)
 1889 - Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
 1891 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 1967)
 1894 - Walter Piston, American composer (d. 1976)
 1894 - Harold Gray, American cartoonist (d. 1968)
 1895 - Gabor Szego, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1985)
 1896 – George Burns, American actor and comedian (d. 1996)
 1896 - Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
 1898 – U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
 1899 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese television pioneer (d. 1990)
 1899 – Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (d. 1972)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993)
 1907 - Paul Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
 1910 – Joy Adamson, Austrian-Czech conservationist (d. 1980)
 1911 - Alfredo Foni, Italian footballer (d. 1985)
 1913 - Cleon Skousen, American writer and political theorist (d. 2006)
 1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
 1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian movie director (d. 1993)
 1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999)
 1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian writer and ski jumper (d. 2006)
 1922 - Ray Anthony, American jazz musician and actor
 1922 - Don Mankiewicz, German-American screenwriter and inventor (d. 2015)
 1923 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (d. 2015)
 1923 - Slim Whitman, American singer (d. 2013)
 1924 - Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (d. 2010)
 1925 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, politician and activist
 1926 - Vitaly Vorotnikov, Soviet politician (d. 2012)
 1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
1926 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer
 1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American Apollo 11 astronaut
 1931 – David Lee, American physicist
 1931 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist
 1932 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
 1933 - Don Thompson, British athlete (d. 2006)
 1934 – Tom Baker, British actor
 1936 – Frances Shand Kydd (d. 2004), mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
 1939 - Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-British mathematician and astronomer
 1940 - Mande Sidibe, Prime Minister of Mali (d. 2009)
 1941 - Pierre Lalonde, Canadian singer and television presenter
 1943 - Armando Guebuza, President of Mozambique
 1945 - Eric Stewart, British musician and songwriter
 1945 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, British sportscaster and cricket journalist (d. 2013)
 1946 – David Lynch, American movie director
 1946 - Vladimir Merta, Czech singer-songwriter, journalist and writer
 1947 - Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist
 1948 - Mel Pritchard, English musician
1948 - Natan Sharansky, Russian-Israeli physicist and politician
 1948 - Nigel Williams, English novelist
 1949 – Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden
 1950 – Mahamane Ousmane, former President of Niger
 1950 - Liza Goddard, British actress
1951  1975 
 1952 – Ian Hill, British musician
 1952 – Paul Stanley, American musician
 1952 - Ute Hommola, German athlete
 1953 - Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sexual abuser
 1954 - Rudy la Scala, Venezuelan singer-songwriter
 1955 - McKeeva Bush, Cayman Islands politician
 1956 - Bill Maher, American writer, comedian and political activist
 1956 - Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
 1957 - Andy Sheppard, English jazz saxophonist
 1958 - Lorenzo Lamas, American actor
 1959 - R. A. Salvatore, American science fiction writer
 1960 - Apa Sherpa, Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer
1963 - David Baszucki, Founder of Roblox
 1963 - James Denton, American actor
 1964 - Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player
 1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
 1965 – Greg Kriesel, American musician
 1965 – Heather Small, British singer
 1965 – Sophie, Countess of Wessex
 1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor
 1966 - Stacey Dash, American actress
 1969 – Nicky Wire, British musician
1970 - Skeet Ulrich, American actor
 1971 – Gary Barlow, British singer (Take That)
 1971 – Derrick Green, American singer
 1971 - Wakanohana Masaru, Japanese sumo wrestler
 1972 - Nikki Haley, American politician, 116th Governor of South Carolina
 1973 - Stephen Crabb, British politician
 1973 – Mathilde, Queen Consort of Belgium
 1973 – Josh Weston, American gay porn actor (d. 2012)
 1974 - Alvin Harrison, American athlete
From 1976 
 1976 - Kirsty Gallacher, British television presenter
 1977 – Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
 1978 – Sonja Kesselschlaeger, German athlete
 1979 – Will Young, British singer
 1979 – Rob Bourdon, American musician (Linkin Park)
 1980 - Philippe Cousteau, Jr., French-American oceanographer
 1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
 1981 - Freddy Guzman, Dominican baseball player
 1982 - Joe Swash, English actor
 1983 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 1984 – Olivia Hallinan, English actress
 1984 - Lil Scrappy, American rapper
 1984 - Federico Peluso, Italian footballer
 1985 - Johan Erikson, Swedish ski jumper
 1985 - Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress
 1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2011)
 1987 - Evan Peters, American actor
 1991 - Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
 1995 - Joey Badass, American rapper
 1995 - Calum Chambers, English footballer
 1999 - Shannon Tavarez, American actress (d. 2010)

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 250 - Pope Fabian
 842 - Theophilos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 813)
 1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
 1191 - Fredrick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
 1410 - King Martin of Aragon (b. 1356)
 1479 – King John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
 1568 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator
 1612 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
 1639 - Mustafa I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1591)
 1666 – Anna of Austria (b. 1601)
 1745 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1697)
 1770 - Charles Yorke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
 1779 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
 1819 – King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
 1837 - John Soane, English architect (b. 1753)
 1841 – Minh Mang, Vietnamese Emperor (b. 1791)
 1848 – King Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
 1852 - Onomatsu Midorinusuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1794)
 1859 – Bettina von Arnim, German writer (b. 1785)
 1891 – King David Kalakaua of Hawaii (b. 1836)
 1892 – John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1819)
1901  2000 
 1901 - Zenobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
 1913 - Jose Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
 1936 – King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
 1940 - Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
 1957 – James Brendan Connolly, American athlete (b. 1865)
 1971 - Minanogawa Tozo, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1903)
 1971 - Broncho Bill Anderson, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1880)
 1973 – Amilcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1924)
 1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)
 1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
 1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
 1989 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1938)
 1990 - Hayedeh, Iranian singer (b. 1942)
 1990 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
 1993 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress (b. 1929)
 1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1909)
 1996 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)
1997 - Curt Flood, American baseball player (b. 1938)
 1998 – Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
From 2001 
 2003 - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903)
 2005 – Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
 2005 – Miriam Rothschild, English conservationist (b. 1908)
 2008 - Louis de Cazenave, French World War I veteran and supercentenarian (b. 1897)
 2009 – Stephanos II Ghattas, Patriarch of the Egyptian Coptic Church (b. 1920)
 2011 - Sexy Cora, German pornographic actress (b. 1987)
 2012 - Jiri Raska, Czech ski jumper (b. 1941)
 2012 – Etta James, American singer (b. 1938)
 2014 - Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
 2014 - Vern Benson, American baseball player (b. 1924)
 2015 - Anatol Hrytskievich, Belarussian historian (b. 1929)
 2015 - Hitoshi Saito, Japanese gymnast (b. 1961)
 2015 - Edgar Froese, German musician (b. 1944)
 2015 - Ricardo dos Santos, Brazilian surfer (b. 1990)
 2015 - James Walker, Australian television writer (b. 1973)
 2016 - Edmonde Charles-Roux, French writer (b. 1920)
2016 - George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, Austrian-British publisher, philanthropist and newspaper columnist (b. 1919)
 2016 - Ronald Greenwald, American rabbi and activist (b. 1934)
 2016 - David G. Hartwell, American editor, publisher and critic (b. 1941)
Observances 
 Armed Forces Day (Mali)
 Martyrs' Day (Azerbaijan)
 Inauguration Day (United States) every four years, last in 2013 and next in 2017. Public inauguration of the US president is on January 21 if the 20th is a Sunday (like in 2013).

US Presidents inaugurated on January 20
 1937 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
 1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
 1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
 1949 – Harry S. Truman
 1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower
 1957 – Dwight D. Eisenhower
 1961 – John F. Kennedy
 1965 – Lyndon B. Johnson
 1969 – Richard Nixon
 1973 – Richard Nixon
 1977 – Jimmy Carter
 1981 – Ronald Reagan
 1985 – Ronald Reagan
 1989 – George H. W. Bush
 1993 – Bill Clinton
 1997 – Bill Clinton
 2001 – George W. Bush
 2005 – George W. Bush
 2009 – Barack Obama
 2013 - Barack Obama
 2017 - Donald Trump
 2021 - Joe Biden

Days of the year
Up to 1900 
 1189 – Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
 1276 – Innocent V becomes Pope.
 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
 1643 – Abel Tasman discovers Tonga.
 1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
 1749 - The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, northern Italy, is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.
 1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
 1793 – After being found guilty for treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
 1793 – Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
 1840 - Adelie Land in Antarctica is discovered.
 1853 – Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope-folding machine.
1854 - Iron clipper RMS Tayleur of the White Star Line sinks in the Irish Sea during its first voyage, killing 362 people.
 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
 1864 – The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
 1887 – The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
 1899 – Opel Motors opens for business.
1901  2000 
 1904 - Oprera Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček first performed. 
 1908 – New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
 1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally.
 1915 – Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan.
 1917 - An earthquake in Bali kills 15,000 people.
 1919 – Meeting in the Mansion House Dublin, the Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution.
 1924 – Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
 1925 – Albania declares itself a republic.
 1931 - Isaac Isaacs becomes the first Governor-General of Australia who was born in Australia.
 1940 - Off the Mediterranean Sea coast of France, an explosion occurs on Italian passenger ship Orazio, causing a fire on board, before the ship sinks, killing 106 people.
 1941 – World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
1948 - The Flag of Quebec is flown over the National Assembly of Quebec for the first time.
 1950 – Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
 1951 - The Lamington volcano erupts on the island of New Guinea, killing 3,000 people.
 1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
 1960 - Avianca Flight 671 crashes and burns while landing in Montego Bay, Jamaica, killing 37 people.
 1961 - 435 workers are buried alive when a mine in Coalbrook, South Africa, collapses.
 1968 – Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate. It quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy Award for Best Original Score.
 1969 – An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
 1976 – The first commercial service Concorde flights take off from London and Paris.
1977 – President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders.
 1980 - The Great Wall of China is placed under protection.
 1980 - A plane crash during a snowstorm in Tehran kills 128 people.
 1985 - After being moved to this date because January 20 was a Sunday, Ronald Reagan's second inauguration as President of the United States is held indoors, because of cold and windy weather.
 1994 – Lorena Bobbitt is found not-guilty by reason of temporary insanity for severing the penis of her husband John Bobbitt.
 1997 – Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
 1998 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit Cuba.
 1999 – War on Drugs: In one of the one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard stops a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.
 2000 - Jamil Mahuad is removed as President of Ecuador in a coup led by Lucio Gutiérrez.