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1951  2000 
 1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remon is assassinated.
 1955 – The lost Inca city of Paititi is re-discovered by Hans Ertl.
 1957 – San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
 1959 – The Soviet Union launches the Luna 1 spacecraft.
 1959 – CBS Radio cancels four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.
 1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.
 1967 – Ronald Reagan becomes Governor of California.
 1968 – Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the second successful heart transplant.
 1971 – 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland.
 1974 – Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 miles per hour in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, causing flooding on southern North Sea coasts. 82 people are eventually killed.
 1979 – Sid Vicious goes on trial for the murder of Nancy Spungen.
1981 – Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested.
 1983 – The musical Annie is ends its first Broadway run after 2,377 shows at the Uris Theatre.
 1991 – Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, D.C. becoming the first African American woman to lead a city of that size and importance.
 1992 – Paraguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
 1993 – Leaders of the three warring groups in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans.
 1996 – The Akademia Nauk stratovolcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula erupts.
 1998 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to slow inflation and promote confidence.
 1999 – A major snowstorm hits the Midwestern United States, causing  of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and  at Chicago. In Chicago, temperatures drop to , and 68 deaths are reported.
From 2001 
 2002 – Levy Mwanawasa becomes the third President of Zambia.
 2002 – Eduardo Duhalde becomes interim President of Argentina.
 2003 – The spill from the oil tanker Prestige reaches France.
 2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.
 2006 – The roof of an ice rink in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, collapses, killing 15 people.
 2006 – 12 miners are killed in an explosion at a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia.
 2016 – Saudi Arabia executes 47 prisoners in one day, including Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
 2017 – A bomb attack in Baghdad kills at least 35 people.
 2018 – A bus plunges off a cliff near Pasamayo, Peru (to the north of Lima), killing at least 48 people.

Births
Up to 1900 
 869 – Emperor Yozei of Japan (d. 949)
 1462 – Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1521)
 1642 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
 1699 – Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757)
 1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
 1727 – James Wolfe, British general in French and Indian War (d. 1759)
 1752 – Philip Freneau, American poet (d. 1832)
 1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
 1822 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist, contributions to thermodynamics (d. 1888)
 1827 – Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)
 1833 – Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
 1834 – Karl Louis Friedrich Dobermann, German dog breeder (d. 1894)
 1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian writer (d. 1917)
 1836 – Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
 1837 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
 1857 – Martha Carey Thomas, American educator and women's rights activist (d. 1935)
1859 – Anna Sacher, Austrian hotel owner, Hotel Sacher (d. 1930)
 1862 – Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician and inventor (d. 1919)
 1866 – Gilbert Murray, British philologist (d. 1957)
 1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (d. 1938)
 1871 – Nik Welter, Luxembourg professor, writer and statesman (d. 1951)
 1872 – Albert C. Barnes, American physician, writer, collector and philanthropist (d. 1951)
 1873 – Therese of Liseaux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)
 1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer (d. 1960)
 1877 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906)
 1879 – Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian athlete (d. 1932)
 1884 – Oscar Michaux, American writer and movie director (d. 1951)
 1886 – Apsley Cherry-Garrard, British explorer of Antarctica (d. 1959)
 1886 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
 1889 – Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)
 1889 – Tito Schipa, Italian tenor and composer (d. 1965)
1891 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect (d. 1990)
 1892 – Edoardo Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1935)
 1895 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
 1896 – Dziga Vertov, Russian movie maker (d. 1954)
1901  1950 
 1904 – Walter Heitler, German physicist (d. 1981)
 1904 – Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)
 1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
 1905 – Luigi Zampa, Italian movie director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
 1908 – Lawrence Wetherby, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (d. 1994)
 1909 – Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
 1909 – Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
 1912 – Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (d. 1987)
 1913 – Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
 1917 – Vera Zorina, dancer, actress (d. 2003)
 1918 – Willi Graf, German activist (d. 1943)
 1918 – Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, German type designer
 1919 – William Needles, Canadian theatre actor (d. 2016)
 1920 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science fiction writer (d. 1992)
 1920 – Bob Feerick, American basketball player (d. 1976)
 1920 – George Herbig, American astronomer (d. 2013)
 1920 – Anna Langfus, Polish-French writer (d. 1966)
1922 – Maurice Faure, French diplomat and politician (d. 2014)
 1925 – Irina Arkhipova, Russian opera singer (d. 2010)
 1925 – Giacomo Furia, Italian actor (d. 2015)
 1925 – Larry Harmon, American entertainer and television producer (d. 2008)
 1927 – Gino Marchetti, American football player
 1928 – Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer
 1928 – Alberto Zedda, Italian conductor and musicologist (d. 2017)
 1930 – Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
 1931 – Toshiki Kaifu, former Prime Minister of Japan
 1931 – James D. Murray, English mathematician
 1933 – Richard Riley, 111th Governor of North Carolina
 1935 – Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama (d. 1987)
 1936 – Roger Miller, American country music singer (d. 1992)
 1936 – Kjell Opseth, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)
 1937 – Martin Lauer, German athlete and Schlager singer
 1938 – Goh Kun, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea
 1938 – Ian Brady, British serial killer (d. 2017)
 1938 – Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian writer
1939 – Jim Bakker, American televangelist
 1939 – Konstanze Vernon, dancer
 1940 – Saud bin Faisal, Saudi royal and politician (d. 2015)
 1942 – Dennis Hastert, American politician, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
 1942 – Hugh Shelton, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
 1943 – Baris Manco, Turkish musician (d. 1999)
 1944 – Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
 1944 – Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
 1945 – Slobodan Praljak, Croatian-Bosnian general and politician (d. 2017)
 1946 – Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player (d. 2014)
 1947 – Alexander Yakushev, Russian ice hockey player
 1947 – Calvin Hill, American football player
 1947 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist
 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet
 1947 – Calvin Hill, American football player
 1947 – Alexander Yakushev, Russian ice hockey player
 1948 – Deborah Watling, British actress (d. 2017)
 1948 – Tony Judt, British historian (d. 2010)
 1948 – Judith Miller, American journalist
1951  1975 
 1951 – Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer (d. 2017)
 1952 – Indulis Emsis, biologist and politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
 1952 – Christine Lavin, American singer-songwriter
 1954 – Milovan Rajevac, Serbian footballer and coach
 1954 – Henry Bonilla, American politician
 1954 – Dawn Silva, singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
 1955 – Tex Brashear, American voice actor
 1955 – Vivien Savage, French singer-songwriter
 1959 – Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer
 1960 – Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga artist
 1961 – Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
 1961 – Neil Dudgeon, British actor
 1961 – Todd Haynes, American movie director
 1963 – David Cone, American baseball pitcher
 1964 – Luis Moro, Cuban-American actor, producer and screenwriter
 1964 – Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
 1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress
 1967 – Jon Gnarr, Icelandic actor, comedian and politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
 1967 – Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
1968 – Goichi Suda, Japanese video game designer
 1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor
 1968 – Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage competitor
 1969 – William Fox-Pitt, English equestrian
 1969 – Christy Turlington, American fashion model
 1969 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer (d. 2013)
 1969 – Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
 1969 – Robby Gordon, American racing driver
 1971 – Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
 1972 – Taye Diggs, American actor
 1972 – Rodney MacDonald, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
 1973 – Lucy Davis, English actress
 1974 – Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
 1975 – Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)
 1975 – Dax Shepard, American actor, comedian, writer and director
From 1976 
 1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
 1976 – Phil Radford, Greenpeace Executive Director
 1978 – Kjartan Sveinsson, Icelandic musician
 1978 – Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer and actress
 1979 – Jonathan Greening, English footballer
 1980 – Paulo da Silva, Paraguayan footballer
 1981 – Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
 1981 – Maxi Rodriguez, Argentine footballer
 1981 – Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
 1982 – Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
 1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
 1985 – Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
 1985 – Ivan Dodig, Croatian tennis player
 1986 – Asa Akira, Japanese-American pornographic actress
 1986 – Trombone Shorty, American jazz musician
 1987 – Loïc Rémy, French footballer
 1987 – Shelley Hennig, American model and actress
 1988 – Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer
 1989 – Bianca Knight, American sprinter
 1991 – Davide Santon, Italian footballer
 1991 – Luis Pedro Cavanda, Belgian footballer
1991 – Steele Sidebottom, Australian rules footballer
 1993 – Bryson Tiller, American singer-songwriter
 1995 – Renata Notni, Mexican actress and model
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1512 – Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
 1514 – William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. 1460)
 1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
 1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (b. 1601)
 1726 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
 1850 – Manuel de la Pena y Pena, President of Mexico (b. 1789)
 1861 – Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
 1879 – Caleb Cushing, United States Attorney General (b. 1800)
 1892 – George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
1901  2000 
 1904 – James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
 1913 – Léon-Philippe Teisserenc, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
 1915 – Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
 1917 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
 1922 – Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
 1936 – Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania (b. 1862)
 1939 – Roman Tmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
 1941 – Mischa Levitzki, Russian-born pianist (b. 1898)
 1945 – Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)
 1948 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
 1950 – James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
 1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)
 1951 – William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
 1955 – José Antonio Remon, President of Panama (b. 1908)
 1960 – Fausto Coppi, Italian composer (b. 1919)
 1960 – Paul Sauvé, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
 1960 – Friedrich Adler, Austrian politician and assassin (b. 1897)
1961 – Daniel Chanis Pinzon, President of Panama (b. 1892)
 1963 – Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
 1968 – Cuno Hoffmeister, German astronomer and geophysicist (b. 1892)
 1974 – Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
 1986 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
 1987 – Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1899)
 1989 – Safdar Hashmi, Indian playwright, writer and director (b. 1954)
 1990 – Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1921)
 1994 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (b. 1915)
 1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician and Governor of Washington (b. 1917)
 1995 – Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
 1997 – Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
 1999 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (b. 1907)
 2000 – Nat Adderley, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1931)
From 2001 
 2001 – William P. Rogers, United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)
 2002 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
 2006 – Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916)
 2007 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
 2008 – Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess, sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (b. 1923)
 2008 – George MacDonald Fraser, British writer (b. 1925)
 2008 – Lee S. Dreyfus, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)
 2009 – Ryuzo Hiraki, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
 2009 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
 2011 – Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
 2011 – Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (b. 1946)
 2011 – Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)
 2012 – William P. Carey, American investment banker and philanthropist (b. 1930)
 2013 – Teresa Toranska, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1944)
 2013 – Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
 2013 – Mamie Rearden, American supercentenarian (b. 1898)
2013 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (b. 1923)
 2014 – Elizabeth Jane Howard, English novelist (b. 1923)
 2014 – Dirk Sager, German journalist (b. 1940)
 2014 – Thomas Kurzhals, German keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1953)
 2014 – Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924)
 2015 – Lam Po-chuen, Hong Kong dubbing artist (b. 1951)
 2015 – Arthur A. Neu, American politician (b. 1933)
 2015 – Little Jimmy Dickens, American country music singer (b. 1920)
 2015 – Noel Cobb, British philosopher, psychologist and writer (b. 1938)
 2015 – Tihomir Novakov, American physicist (b. 1929)
 2015 – Abu Anas al-Libi, Libyan Al-Qaeda member (b. 1964)
 2015 – Basil Hansen, Australian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
 2015 – Danny Dunton, English speedway rider and promoter (b. 1924)
 2015 – Roger Kitter, English actor (b. 1949)
 2016 – Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi cleric (b. 1959)
 2016 – Michel Delpech, French singer (b. 1946)
 2016 – Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian politician (b. 1924)
2016 – Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1935)
 2016 – Gisela Mota Ocampo, Mexican politician (b. 1982)
 2016 – Marcel Barbeau, Canadian artist (b. 1925)
 2016 – Shigeji Kaneko, Japanese boxer (b. 1931)
 2016 – Matt Hobden, English cricketer (b. 1993)
 2017 – John Berger, English art critic, writer and painter (b. 1926)
 2017 – Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1931)
 2017 – Albert Brewer, American politician, 47th Governor of Alabama (b. 1928)
 2017 – Jean Vuarnet, French skier (b. 1933)
 2017 – François Chérèque, French trade unionist (b. 1956)
 2017 – Richard Machowicz, American navy SEAL (b. 1965)
 2017 – René Ballet, French journalist and writer (b. 1928)
 2017 – Tom Harpur, Canadian classicist, journalist, theologian an priest (b. 1929)
 2018 – Frank Buxton, American actor (b. 1930)
 2018 – Rick Hall, American songwriter and recording producer (b. 1932)
 2018 – Ferdinando Imposimato, Italian judge and politician (b. 1936)
2018 – Lawal Kaita, Nigerian politician (b. 1932)
 2018 – Ali Akbar Moinfar, Iranian politician (b. 1928)
 2018 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1927)
 2019 - Daryl Dragon, American songwriter (Captain & Tennille) (b. 1942)
 2019 – Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942)
 2022 - Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician (b. 1944)
Observances 
 New Year's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland)
 Ancestry Day (Haiti)
 Berchtold's Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace)

January 02
Up to 1900 
 1066 – Edward the Confessor, King of England, dies. The resulting crisis leads to the Norman conquest of England later the same year.
 1463 – Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.
 1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed, Burgundy becomes part of France.
 1500 – Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.
 1527 – Martyrdom of Felix Manz, a Swiss Anabaptist.
 1554 – Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
 1675 – Battle of Colmar, French army beats Brandenburg.
 1757 – Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of death penalty used for regicides.
 1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
 1769 – James Watt patents his steam engine.
 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
 1813 – Denmark is declared bankrupt.
1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
 1854 – The San Francisco steamer sinks, 300 dead.
 1895 – Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
 1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
 1900 – Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1901  2000 
 1909 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
 1913 – First Balkan War: During the Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
 1914 – Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
 1919 – The German Workers' Party is founded. It later becomes the Nazi Party.
 1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States.
 1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
 1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
 1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
 1945 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
 1948 – Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl).
 1949 – US President Harry S. Truman unveils his "Fair Deal" program.
1956 – Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel."
 1957 – Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.
 1961 – Television: Mr. Ed debuts.
 1964 – Pope Paul VI meets the Greek patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem, the first meeting of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity leaders since 1439.
 1968 – Alexander Dubček comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
 1970 – Soap opera All My Children premieres.
 1971 – The first one-day international cricket match takes place between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
 1972 – President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
 1973 – Netherlands recognizes East Germany.
 1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six, and damages hundreds of houses.
 1974 – Warmest recorded temperature in Antarctica, at 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit).
 1975 – The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 – Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea.
 1980 – Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer.
 1984 – Richard Stallman starts developing GNU.
 1987 – US President Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
 1991 – Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, beginning the 1991-1992 South Ossetia War.
 1993 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands spilling 84,700 tonnes of oil.
 1993 – Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).
 1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
 1997 – Withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya.
 2000 – The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.
From 2001 
 2002 – Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
 2005 – Scientists discover the dwarf planet Eris, near the edge of the Solar System.
 2008 – Mikheil Saakashvili is re-elected as President of Georgia.
 2012 – Portia Simpson-Miller becomes Prime Minister of Jamaica for a second time.
 2015 – The Euro currency plunges to its lowest value in over nine years, while Asian stock markets also experience difficulties.

Births
Births

Up to 1800 
 1209 – Richard I, Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans (d. 1272)
 1425 – Henry IV of Castile (d. 1474)
 1548 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
 1587 – Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
 1592 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
 1614 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
 1640 – Paolo Lorenzani, Italian composer (d. 1713)
 1667 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d. 1740)
 1679 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian composer, organist and choirmaster (d. 1750)
 1696 – Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect (d. 1757)
 1717 – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
 1744 – Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Asturian statesman, writer and philosopher (d. 1811)
 1762 – Constanze Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
 1767 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (d. 1832)
 1779 – Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (d. 1813)
1801  1900 
 1833 – Sophus Bugge, Norwegian philologist (d. 1907)
 1834 – William John Wills, Australian explorer (d. 1861)
 1838 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
 1846 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (d. 1926)
 1855 – King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
 1864 – Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911)
 1865 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
 1866 – Antonio Maria Baptista, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1920)
 1867 – Dimitrios Gounaris, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922)
 1874 – Joseph Erlanger, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
 1876 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1967)
 1879 – Marcel Tournier, French harpist and composer (d. 1951)
 1879 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)
 1881 – Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter (d. 1934)
 1891 – Bill Cody, American actor (d. 1948)
 1893 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian philosopher and writer (d. 1952)
1895 – Jeannette Piccard, American priest and aeronaut (d. 1981)
 1895 – Elizabeth Cotten, American singer-songwriter (d. 1987)
 1897 – Theodor Mackeben, German pianist (d. 1953)
 1897 – Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher (d. 1945)
 1900 – Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Stella Gibbons, English writer (d. 1989)
 1904 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
 1906 – Kathleen Kenyon, British archaeologist (d. 1978)
 1909 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
 1909 – Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-born American sculptor, muralist and photographer (d. 1995)
 1910 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
 1914 – George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
 1917 – Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat and socialite (d. 2006)
 1917 – Wieland Wagner, German stage director (d. 1996)
 1917 – Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)
 1918 – Dal Richards, Canadian big band leader (d. 2015)
 1919 – Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (d. 1992)
 1921 – Former Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (d. 2019)
 1921 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
 1921 – John H. Reed, 67th Governor of Maine (d. 2012)
 1923 – Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
 1925 – Lou Carnesecca, American basketball coach
1926 – Walther Leisler Kiep, German politician (d. 2016)
 1928 – Alexander Dalgarno, British physicist (d. 2015)
 1928 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1979)
 1928 – Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (d. 2021)
 1928 – Preben Hertoft, Danish sexologist (d. 2017)
 1929 – Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer (d. 2014)
 1931 – Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
 1931 – Alvin Ailey, American choreographer and activist (d. 1989)
 1931 – Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer (d. 2017)
 1931 – Robert Duvall, American actor
 1932 – Umberto Eco, Italian writer and columnist (d. 2016)
 1932 – Raisa Gorbachova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999)
 1932 – Chuck Noll, American football coach (d. 2014)
 1934 – Phil Ramone, South African-born American sound engineer and record producer (d. 2013)
 1935 – David Ryall, English actor (d. 2014)
 1936 – Florence King, American novelist, essayist and columnist (d. 2016)
 1938 – Juan Carlos I, King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
1938 – Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer
 1938 – Terry Davis, British politician
 1940 – Veikko Kankkonen, Finnish ski jumper
 1941 – Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film director, producer, animator and screenwriter
 1941 – Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986)
 1942 – Maurizio Pollini, Italian classical pianist
 1944 – Ed Rendell, 45th Governor of Pennsylvania
 1946 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Japanese royal (d. 2012)
 1946 – Diane Keaton, American actress, movie producer and director
 1947 – Mike DeWine, American politician
 1947 – Kathrine Switzer, American writer, television commentator and marathon runner
 1947 – Rita Kühne, German athlete
 1948 – Ted Lange, American actor
 1948 – Giuseppe Impastato, Italian anti-Mafia campaigner (d. 1978)
 1950 – John Manley, Canadian lawyer and politician
 1950 – Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, English lawyer and politician
 1950 – Ioan P. Culiano, Romanian historian, philosopher and writer (d. 1991)
1951  1975 
 1952 – Uli Hoeness, German footballer
 1953 – Steve Archer, American singer
 1953 – George Tenet, American former CIA director
 1953 – Mike Rann, 44th Premier of South Australia
 1954 – Alex English, American basketball player
 1954 – Pamela Sue Martin, actress
 1955 – Mamata Banerjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
 1955 – Jimmy Mulville, English comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter
 1955 – Douglas Chapman, Scottish politician
 1956 – Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German politician, President of Germany
 1958 – Monica Guerritore, Italian actress
 1959 – Clancy Brown, American actor
 1960 – Otar Korghalidze, Georgian footballer
 1960 – Phil Thornalley, English songwriter, producer and musician
 1962 – Suzy Amis, American actress
 1963 – Ralf Loose, German footballer
 1965 – Vinnie Jones, British footballer and actor
 1967 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
 1968 – DJ BoBo, Swiss DJ, singer-songwriter and producer
1968 – Carrie Anne Inaba, American actress, singer, dancer and choreographer
 1968 – Andrew Golota, Polish boxer
 1969 – Giorgi Baranidze, Georgian politician
 1969 – Marilyn Manson, American rock singer
 1972 – Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer
 1972 – Sascha Schmitz, German singer
 1972 – Luciana Pedraza, Argentine actress, director and screenwriter
 1972 – Philip Davies, English politician
 1973 – Uday Chopra, Indian actor
 1974 – Iwan Thomas, Welsh sprinter
 1975 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
From 1976 
 1976 – Matt Wachter, American bass player
 1978 – Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
 1978 – January Jones, American actress
 1978 – Emilia Rydberg, Swedish singer
 1979 – Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
 1979 – Masami Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
 1979 – Blanca Soto, Mexican actress and model
 1980 – Sebastian Deisler, German footballer
 1980 – Santiago Ventura Bertomeu, Spanish tennis player
 1980 – Chema Rodriguez, Spanish handball player
 1981 – Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby player
 1982 – Janica Kostelic, Croatian skier
 1982 – Darren Mackie, Scottish footballer
 1982 – Jaroslav Plasil, Czech footballer
 1982 – Karel Geraerts, Belgian footballer
 1983 – Sean Dockery, American basketball player
 1984 – Ikechukwu Uche, Nigerian footballer
 1984 – Reinar Hallik, Estonian basketball player
 1984 – Amanda Hearst, American model
 1985 – Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
 1985 – Yoon So-yi, South Korean actress
 1986 – Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
1987 – Kristin Cavallari, American actress
 1988 – Miroslav Raduljica, Serbian basketball player
 1988 – Nikola Kalinic, Croatian footballer
 1989 – Krisztian Nemeth, Hungarian footballer
 1990 – Yang Yo-seok, South Korean singer and dancer
 1990 – Leroy Fer, Dutch footballer
 1991 – Daniel Pacheco, Spanish footballer
 1993 – Franz Drameh, British actor
 1996 – Max Baldry, British actor
 1996 – Emma Bolger, Irish actress
 1999 – Marc Yu, American pianist and cellist
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1066 – Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004)
 1113 – Ulrich I, Duke of Brno, Moravian ruler
 1387 – Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)
 1448 – Christopher III of Bavaria, King of Denmark (b. 1416)
 1465 – Charles, Duke of Orleans (b. 1389)
 1477 – Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433)
 1527 – Felix Manz, Swiss martyr (b. 1498)
 1588 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
 1589 – Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France (b. 1519)
 1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
 1740 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1677)
 1762 – Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
 1771 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
 1816 – George Prevost, British officer and diplomat (b. 1767)
 1858 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
 1891 – Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
1901  2000 
 1904 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
 1910 – Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)
 1910 – Nikolaos Deligiannis, Greek politician (b. 1844)
 1913 – Louis Paul Cailletet, French physicist (b. 1834)
 1919 – Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress (b. 1886)
 1922 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (b. 1874)
 1933 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
 1941 – Amy Johnson, English pilot (b. 1903)
 1942 – Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, revolutionary and political activist (b. 1896)
 1943 – George Washington Carver, American scientist and educator (b. 1864)
 1945 – Julius Leber, German politician and resistance activist (b. 1891)
 1951 – Seo Jae-pil, Korean journalist and politician (b. 1864)
 1952 – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, British Viceroy of India (b. 1887)
 1952 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1869)
 1956 – Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
1970 – Max Born, German physicist (b. 1882)
 1971 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899)
 1976 – John A. Costello, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1891)
 1976 – Mal Evans, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1935)
 1979 – Charles Mingus, American bassist and composer (b. 1922)
 1981 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist (b. 1893)
 1985 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
 1987 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian cross country skier (b. 1875)
 1991 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
 1993 – Westley Allan Dodd, American murderer (b. 1961)
 1994 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
 1995 - Mansour Sattari, Iranian general (b. 1948)
 1997 – Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
 1997 – Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Swedish royal (b. 1912)
 1998 – Sonny Bono, American musician, actor and politician (b. 1935)
From 2001 
 2003 – Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
 2003 – Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (b. 1918)
 2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (b. 1944)
 2006 – Merlyn Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
 2007 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (b. 1910)
 2009 – Adolf Merckle, German industrialist (b. 1934)
 2010 – Kenneth Noland, American painter (b. 1924)
 2010 – Toni Tecuceanu, Romanian actor (b. 1972)
 2012 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American screenwriter, playwright and writer (b. 1900)
 2013 – Reg Dean, British supercentenarian (b. 1902)
 2013 – Martha Greenhouse, American actress (b. 1921)
 2014 – Eusébio, Portuguese footballer (b. 1942)
 2014 – Simon Hoggart, English journalist (b. 1946)
 2014 – Carmen Zapata, American actress (b. 1927)
 2014 – Alma Muriel, Mexican actress (b. 1951)
 2014 – Mogens E. Pedersen, Danish journalist (b. 1928)
 2014 – Jerry Coleman, American baseball player (b. 1924)
 2015 – Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1912)
2015 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver (b. 1937)
 2015 – Joy Ali, Fijian boxer (b. 1978)
 2015 – Khan Bonfils, English actor (b. 1972)
 2015 – King Sporty, Jamaican-American reggae musician (b. 1943)
 2016 – Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian politician (b. 1938)
 2016 – Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor (b. 1925)
 2016 – Percy Freeman, English footballer (b. 1945)
 2016 – Rudolf Haag, German theoretical physicist and educator (b. 1922)
 2016 – Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov, Russian computer scientist (b. 1926)
 2016 – Michael Purcell, Australian rugby player (b. 1945)
 2017 – Tullio De Mauro, Italian linguist and politician (b. 1932)
 2017 – Jill Saward, English campaigner (b. 1965)
 2017 – Christopher Weeramantry, Sri Lankan judge (b. 1926)
 2017 – Spartak Belyaev, Russian theoretical physicist (b. 1921)
 2017 – Géori Boué, French soprano (b. 1918)
 2017 – Paul Goble, English-American writer and illustrator (b. 1933)
 2017 – John Wightman, American politician (b. 1938)
2018 – Antonio Angelillo, Argentine-Italian footballer (b. 1937)
 2018 – Carlos Heitor Cony, Brazilian journalist and writer (b. 1926)
 2018 – Asghar Khan, Pakistani politician and military officer (b. 1921)
 2018 – Marina Ripa Di Meana, Italian writer, actress and television personality (b. 1941)
 2018 – Jerry Van Dyke, American actor and comedian (b. 1931)
 2018 – John W. Young, American astronaut (b. 1930)
 2019 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer (b. 1937)
 2020 – Hans Tilkowski, German football goalkeeper and manager (b. 1935)
 2021 – Colin Bell, English footballer (b. 1946)
 2022 – Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1925)
Observances 
 Twelfth Night (Western Christianity) – night to January 6

January 05
Since 2021, the terms January 6, January 6th, and 1/6 have been used in the media as a shorthand for the 2021 United States Capitol riots, which occurred on that day

Events
Up to 1900 
 1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
 1118 – Reconquista: Alfonso the Battler conquers Zaragoza.
 1311 – Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Italy.
 1355 – Charles I of Bohemia is crowned King of Italy in Milan.
 1389 – The University of Cologne is opened, with a celebratory church service in Cologne Cathedral on the Feast day of the Three Kings, the city's patron saints.
 1492 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.
 1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
 1612 – Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
 1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
 1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge.
 1781 – Battle of Jersey: Great Britain defeats the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
 1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes.
1839 – Ireland is hit by its most damaging storm in 300 years.
 1853 – US President-elect Franklin Pierce's family are involved in a train accident in Andover, Massachusetts, killing Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin. Pierce and his wife suffer from depression after this incident, and Franklin Pierce turns to alcoholism.
 1870 – Vienna's Musikverein is inaugurated.
 1893 – Washington National Cathedral is chartered by the United States Congress.
 1900 – It is reported that millions are starving in India.
 1900 – Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa – over 1000 people killed.
1901  2000 
 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
 1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
 1912 – Alfred Wegener presents his theory of Continental drift.
 1921 – Formation of Iraq's Army.
 1926 – Lufthansa, currently Germany's biggest airline, is created.
 1929 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia suspends his country's constitution.
 1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta.
 1930 – The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
 1939 – Al Capone is released early from prison.
 1940 – Mass execution of Polish people by Germans in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
 1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt makes his "Four Freedoms" speech during his State of the Union Address.
 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China ends diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
 1951 – Korean War: Ganghwa massacre.
 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb between New York City and Miami.
 1967 – United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
 1978 – The United States returns the Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary.
 1991 – Jorge Antonio Serrano Elias is elected President of Guatemala, becoming the first Protestant Head of State in Latin America.
 1992 – The United Nations Security Council condemns Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
 1992 – President Zviad Gamsakhurdia leaves Georgia, after a military coup.
 1993 – The Indian Border Security Force kills 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir.
 1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is attacked during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
From 2001 
 2001 – Al Gore, as President of the United States Senate, names George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 United States presidential election.
 2005 – Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights activists.
 2016 – North Korea declares that nuclear weapons testing of hydrogen atom has been done.
 2018 – The "MV Sanchi" oil tanker collides with a Hong Kong-flagged ship near Shanghai, causing an explosion and leaving 32 sailors missing.
 2021 – The 2021 United States Capitol attack, an attack on the United States capitol.

Births
Up to 1850 
 1256 – Gertrude the Great, German mystic and theologian (d. 1302)
 1367 – Richard II of England (d. 1400)
 1412 – Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
 1486 – Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
 1525 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer and physician (d. 1602)
 1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physician (d. 1656)
 1587 – Gaspar de Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
 1617 – Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
 1655 – Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1720)
 1670 – Alexander Gordon, Scottish-Russian general (d. 1752)
 1695 – Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian composer (d. 1750)
 1714 – Percival Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
 1730 – Thomas Crittenden, 1st Governor of Vermont (d. 1797)
 1745 – Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
 1787 – Gaspard Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, 1st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1871)
1793 – James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
 1798 – Melchior von Diepenbrock, Prince-Bishop of Breslau (d. 1853)
 1799 – Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer and writer (d. 1831)
 1801 – Daniel Haines, two-time Governor of New Jersey (d. 1877)
 1803 – Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1888)
 1805 – Charles J. Jenkins, American politician and Governor of Georgia (d. 1883)
 1807 – Joseph Petzval, Slovakian inventor (d. 1891)
 1811 – Charles Sumner, American politician (d. 1874)
 1812 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary figure (d. 1919)
 1819 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
 1822 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
 1826 – Adolf Kirchhoff, German philologist (d. 1908)
 1827 – John C. Brown, American Confederate general and politician, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1889)
 1832 – Gustave Dore, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
 1837 – Juan Lindolfo Cuestas, President of Uruguay (d. 1905)
 1838 – Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
1842 – Clarence King, American geologist, mountaineer and critic (d. 1901)
 1848 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1876)
 1850 – Eduard Bernstein, German politician and political theorist (d. 1932)
 1850 – Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
1851  1900 
 1856 – Giuseppe Martucci, Italian composer (d. 1909)
 1857 – William E. Russell, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
 1857 – Hugh Mahon, Australian politician (d. 1931)
 1859 – Samuel Alexander, Australian-English philosopher (d. 1938)
 1861 – Victor Horta, Belgian architect and designer (d. 1947)
 1862 – August Oetker, German businessman (d. 1918)
 1868 – Stefan Luchian, Romanian painter (d. 1937)
 1868 – Vittorio Monti, Italian composer, conductor and violinist (d. 1922)
 1870 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
 1872 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
 1874 – Fred Niblo, American actor, director and producer (d. 1948)
 1878 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
 1880 – Tom Mix, American actor, director and producer (d. 1940)
 1882 – Sam Rayburn, American politician (d. 1961)
 1882 – Fan S. Noli, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1965)
 1883 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
1899 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile pioneer (d. 1968)
 1900 – Maria of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Helmut Poppendick, German physician (d. 1994)
 1913 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
 1913 – Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
 1915 – Don Edwards, American politician (d. 2015)
 1915 – Alan Watts, English philosopher (d. 1973)
 1920 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
 1920 – Early Wynn, American baseball player
 1922 – George Carroll, American lawyer and politician (d. 2016)
 1923 – Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
 1924 – Earl Scruggs, American musician (d. 2012)
 1925 – John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman (d. 2005)
 1925 – Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 2010)
 1925 – Ari Rath, Austrian-Israeli journalist (d. 2017)
 1926 – Ralph Branca, American baseball player (d. 2016)
 1926 – Pat Flaherty, American racing driver (d. 2002)
 1926 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
 1927 – Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 2014)
1928 – Capucine, American actress (d. 1990)
 1928 – Derek Saunders, English footballer (d. 2018)
 1929 – Babrak Karmal, Afghan politician (d. 1996)
 1931 – E. L. Doctorow, American writer (d. 2015)
 1931 – Dickie Moore, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
 1932 – José Saraiva Martins, Portuguese cardinal
 1932 – Max Streibl, German politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (d. 1998)
 1933 – Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
 1933 – Leszek Drogosz, Polish boxer (d. 2012)
 1933 – Emil Steinberger, Swiss actor, director and screenwriter
 1934 – Sylvia Sims, English actress
 1935 – Margarita of Bulgaria
 1935 – Claude Steiner, French-born American psychologist and writer (d. 2017)
 1935 – Gerald R. Molen, American film producer
 1936 – Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre, 49th President of Guatemala
 1936 – Julio Maria Sanguinetti, former President of Uruguay
 1937 – Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2011)
 1937 – Paolo Conte, Italian singer-songwriter, jazz musician and composer
1938 – Adriano Celentano, Italian singer-songwriter, actor and director
 1939 – Murray Rose, British-born Australian swimmer (d. 2012)
 1939 – Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2002)
 1941 – Philippe Busquin, Belgian politician
 1942 – Vicki Lansky, American writer and publisher (d. 2017)
 1943 – Hak Ja Han, South Korean church leader
 1943 – Terry Venables, English football manager
 1944 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress (d. 2013)
 1944 – Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist
 1945 – Barry John, Welsh rugby player
 1946 – Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pink Floyd) (d. 2006)
 1948 – Guy Gardner, American air force officer and astronaut
 1949 – Carolyn D. Wright, American poet (d. 2016)
 1950 – Louis Freeh, 10th Director of the FBI
1951  1975 
 1951 – Kim Wilson, American musician
 1953 – Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter, actor and director (d. 2017)
 1953 – Manfred Kaltz, German footballer
 1954 – Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
 1954 – Anthony Minghella, English movie director (d. 2008)
 1954 – Trudie Styler, English actress
 1955 – Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
 1956 – Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter
 1956 – Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
 1956 – Clive Woodward, English rugby player and coach
 1957 – Michael Foale, British-American astronaut
 1959 – Kathy Sledge, American actress
 1960 – Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
 1960 – Paul Azinger, American golfer
 1960 – Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
 1961 – Fergal Keane, Irish-British journalist and BBC News correspondent
 1964 – Henry Maske, German boxer
 1964 – Mark O'Toole, English musician
 1964 – Anthony Scaramucci, American financier, entrepreneur and political figure
1964 – Yuri, Mexican singer
 1965 – Christine Wachtel, German middle-distance runner
 1966 – Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer
 1968 – John Singleton, American director (d. 2018)
 1969 – Norman Reedus, American actor
 1971 – Karin Slaughter, American crime fiction writer
 1972 – Nek, Italian singer
 1973 – Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
 1974 – Daniel Cordone, Argentine footballer
From 1976 
 1976 – Richard Zednik, Slovakian ice hockey player
 1976 – Judith Rakers, German newsreader
 1976 – David Di Michele, Italian footballer
 1978 – Bubba Franks, American football player
 1980 – Travis Dodd, Australian footballer
 1980 – Steed Malbranque, French footballer
 1981 – Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
 1981 – Asante Samuel, American football player
 1982 – Eddie Redmayne, English actor
 1983 – Adam Burish, American ice hockey player
 1985 – Ben Haenow, English singer
 1985 – Callum McCaig, Scottish politician
 1985 – Inge Vermeulen, Brazilian-Dutch field hockey player (d. 2015)
 1986 – Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
 1986 – Paul McShane, Irish footballer
 1986 – Petter Northug, Norwegian skier
 1986 – Irina Shayk, Russian model
 1987 – Gemma Gibbons, English judoka
 1987 – Zhang Lin, Chinese swimmer
 1987 – Bongani Khumalo, South African footballer
 1989 – Andy Carroll, English footballer
 1989 – James Durbin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1990 – Sandro Cortese, German motorcycle racer
 1996 – Courtney Eaton, Australian actress and model
 2003 – Matty BRaps, American rapper
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 429 – Honoratus, French archbishop (b. 350)
 768 – Abo of Tiflis, Christian saint
 1088 – Berengar of Tours, French theologian (b. 999)
 1537 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
 1537 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
 1646 – Elias Holl, German architect (b. 1573)
 1689 – Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
 1693 – Mehmed IV, ex-Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
 1829 – Josef Dobrovsky, Czech philologist and theologian (b. 1753)
 1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
 1840 – Fanny Burney, English writer (b. 1752)
 1852 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind, inventor of Braille (b. 1809)
 1855 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
 1882 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)
 1884 – Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
 1896 – Thomas W. Knox, American writer and journalist (b. 1835)