January 19

### 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.

### 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
- 1967 – Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
- 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

### 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.