January 2

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 366 &ndash; Many Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine, invading the Roman Empire.
* 533 &ndash; Mercurius became Pope John II. He was the first pope to use a papal name.
* 1492 &ndash; Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
* 1757 &ndash; The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
* 1777 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: American forces under command of George Washington hold back a British attack at the Battle of Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.
* 1788 &ndash; Georgia becomes the 4th state to ratify the United States Constitution.
* 1793 &ndash; Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
* 1815 &ndash; Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, Seaham, County Durham.
* 1818 &ndash; British Institution of Civil Engineers formed.
* 1859 &ndash; Erastus Beadle publishes *The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette*.
* 1860 &ndash; The discovery of the planet Vulcan was announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. People later realized that this planet does not exist.
* 1863 &ndash; American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River, which started on December 31, 1862, ends in a Union victory.
* 1870 &ndash; Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
* 1871 &ndash; Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
* 1872 &ndash; Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (25 wives).
* 1879 &ndash; Fred Spofforth claims the first hat-trick in test cricket. It happens on the Sydney Cricket Ground against England.
* 1882 &ndash; John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.
* 1890 &ndash; Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the White House.
* 1893 &ndash; Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers.
* 1900 &ndash; John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
* 1900 &ndash; The Chicago Canal opens.

### 1901&ndash;1950 
* 1905 &ndash; Russo-Japanese War: The Russian fleet surrenders at Port Arthur, China.
* 1907 &ndash; France officially separates church and state.
* 1911 &ndash; Two people are killed in a gunfight in East London.
* 1917 &ndash; The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.
* 1920 &ndash; Under A. Mitchell Palmer, United States Attorney General, United States Department of Justice agents launch raids against people with leftist and anarchist views, in 30 cities across 23 US States.
* 1921 &ndash; The Spanish steamship *Santa Isabel* sinks off the coast of Galicia, killing 213 people. 56 people are rescued.
* 1921 &ndash; The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) .
* 1921 &ndash; The DeYoung Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
* 1923 &ndash; United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal.
* 1929 &ndash; Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.
* 1935 &ndash; Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: German bombing severely damaged the Llandaff Cathedral, built in 1290 on the bank of the River Taff in Cardiff, Wales.
* 1941 &ndash; The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program. They plan to build 200 freighters. Over 2,700 ships were built by the end of the war.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.
* 1942 &ndash; The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: US and Australian forces land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: Nuremberg is severely bombed by the Allies.
* 1946 &ndash; King Zog is unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II. He abdicates but still claims to be King of Albania.
* 1949 &ndash; Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

### 1951&ndash;2000 
* 1955 &ndash; Panamanian president José Antonio Remon is assassinated.
* 1955 &ndash; The lost Inca city of Paititi is re–discovered by Hans Ertl.
* 1957 &ndash; San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
* 1959 &ndash; The Soviet Union launches the Luna 1 spacecraft.
* 1959 &ndash; CBS Radio cancels four soap operas: *Backstage Wife*, *Our Gal Sunday*, *Road of Life*, and *This is Nora Drake*.
* 1963 &ndash; Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.
* 1967 &ndash; Ronald Reagan becomes Governor of California.
* 1968 &ndash; Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the second successful heart transplant.
* 1971 &ndash; 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland.
* 1974 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The Gale of January 1976 begins, causing flooding on southern North Sea coasts. 82 people are eventually killed.
* 1979 &ndash; Sid Vicious goes on trial for the murder of Nancy Spungen.
* 1981 &ndash; Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested.
* 1983 &ndash; The musical *Annie* is ends its first Broadway run after 2,377 shows at the Uris Theatre.
* 1991 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Paraguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 1993 &ndash; Leaders of the three warring groups in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans.
* 1996 &ndash; The *Akademia Nauk* stratovolcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula erupts.
* 1998 &ndash; Russia begins to circulate new rubles to slow inflation and promote confidence.
* 1999 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Levy Mwanawasa becomes the third President of Zambia.
* 2002 &ndash; Eduardo Duhalde becomes interim President of Argentina.
* 2003 &ndash; The spill from the oil tanker *Prestige* reaches France.
* 2004 &ndash; *Stardust* successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.
* 2006 &ndash; The roof of an ice rink in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, collapses, killing 15 people.
* 2006 &ndash; 12 miners are killed in an explosion at a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia.
* 2016 &ndash; Saudi Arabia executes 47 prisoners in one day, including Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
* 2017 &ndash; A bomb attack in Baghdad kills at least 35 people.
* 2018 &ndash; A bus plunges off a cliff near Pasamayo, Peru (to the north of Lima), killing at least 48 people.
* 2024 &ndash; 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision happened in Japan.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 869 &ndash; Emperor Yozei of Japan (d. 949)
* 1462 &ndash; Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1521)
* 1642 &ndash; Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
* 1647 &ndash; Nathaniel Bacon, English–born American colonist (d. 1676)
* 1699 &ndash; Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757)
* 1713 &ndash; Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
* 1727 &ndash; James Wolfe, British general in French and Indian War (d. 1759)
* 1752 &ndash; Philip Freneau, American poet (d. 1832)
* 1777 &ndash; Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
* 1822 &ndash; Rudolf Clausius, German physicist, contributions to thermodynamics (d. 1888)
* 1827 &ndash; Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)
* 1833 &ndash; Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
* 1834 &ndash; Karl Louis Friedrich Dobermann, German dog breeder (d. 1894)
* 1836 &ndash; Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian writer (d. 1917)
* 1836 &ndash; Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)
* 1837 &ndash; Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
* 1857 &ndash; Martha Carey Thomas, American educator and women's rights activist (d. 1935)
* 1859 &ndash; Anna Sacher, Austrian hotel owner, Hotel Sacher (d. 1930)
* 1862 &ndash; Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish–Russian engineer, electrician and inventor (d. 1919)
* 1866 &ndash; Gilbert Murray, British philologist (d. 1957)
* 1870 &ndash; Ernst Barlach, German sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (d. 1938)
* 1871 &ndash; Nik Welter, Luxembourg professor, writer and statesman (d. 1951)
* 1872 &ndash; Albert C. Barnes, American physician, writer, collector and philanthropist (d. 1951)
* 1873 &ndash; Therese of Liseaux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)
* 1873 &ndash; Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer (d. 1960)
* 1877 &ndash; Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906)
* 1879 &ndash; Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian athlete (d. 1932)
* 1884 &ndash; Oscar Michaux, American writer and movie director (d. 1951)
* 1886 &ndash; Apsley Cherry-Garrard, British explorer of Antarctica (d. 1959)
* 1886 &ndash; Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)
* 1889 &ndash; Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)
* 1889 &ndash; Tito Schipa, Italian tenor and composer (d. 1965)
* 1891 &ndash; Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect (d. 1990)
* 1892 &ndash; Edoardo Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1935)
* 1895 &ndash; Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)
* 1896 &ndash; Dziga Vertov, Russian movie maker (d. 1954)

### 1901&ndash;1950 
* 1904 &ndash; Walter Heitler, German physicist (d. 1981)
* 1904 &ndash; Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)
* 1905 &ndash; Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)
* 1905 &ndash; Luigi Zampa, Italian movie director and screenwriter (d. 1991)
* 1908 &ndash; Lawrence Wetherby, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (d. 1994)
* 1909 &ndash; Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)
* 1909 &ndash; Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
* 1912 &ndash; Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (d. 1987)
* 1913 &ndash; Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)
* 1917 &ndash; Vera Zorina, dancer, actress (d. 2003)
* 1918 &ndash; Willi Graf, German activist (d. 1943)
* 1918 &ndash; Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, German type designer
* 1919 &ndash; William Needles, Canadian theatre actor (d. 2016)
* 1920 &ndash; Isaac Asimov, Russian–born American science fiction writer (d. 1992)
* 1920 &ndash; Bob Feerick, American basketball player (d. 1976)
* 1920 &ndash; George Herbig, American astronomer (d. 2013)
* 1920 &ndash; Anna Langfus, Polish–French writer (d. 1966)
* 1922 &ndash; Maurice Faure, French diplomat and politician (d. 2014)
* 1925 &ndash; Irina Arkhipova, Russian opera singer (d. 2010)
* 1925 &ndash; Giacomo Furia, Italian actor (d. 2015)
* 1925 &ndash; Larry Harmon, American entertainer and television producer (d. 2008)
* 1927 &ndash; Gino Marchetti, American football player
* 1928 &ndash; Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer
* 1928 &ndash; Alberto Zedda, Italian conductor and musicologist (d. 2017)
* 1930 &ndash; Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
* 1931 &ndash; Toshiki Kaifu, former Prime Minister of Japan
* 1931 &ndash; James D. Murray, English mathematician
* 1933 &ndash; Richard Riley, 111th Governor of North Carolina
* 1935 &ndash; Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama (d. 1987)
* 1936 &ndash; Roger Miller, American country music singer (d. 1992)
* 1936 &ndash; Kjell Opseth, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)
* 1937 &ndash; Martin Lauer, German athlete and Schlager singer
* 1938 &ndash; Goh Kun, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea
* 1938 &ndash; Ian Brady, British serial killer (d. 2017)
* 1938 &ndash; Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian writer
* 1939 &ndash; Jim Bakker, American televangelist
* 1939 &ndash; Konstanze Vernon, dancer
* 1940 &ndash; Saud bin Faisal, Saudi royal and politician (d. 2015)
* 1942 &ndash; Dennis Hastert, American politician, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
* 1942 &ndash; Hugh Shelton, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
* 1943 &ndash; Baris Manco, Turkish musician (d. 1999)
* 1944 &ndash; Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician
* 1944 &ndash; Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
* 1945 &ndash; Slobodan Praljak, Croatian–Bosnian general and politician (d. 2017)
* 1946 &ndash; Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player (d. 2014)
* 1947 &ndash; Alexander Yakushev, Russian ice hockey player
* 1947 &ndash; Calvin Hill, American football player
* 1947 &ndash; Jack Hanna, American zoologist
* 1947 &ndash; David Shapiro, American poet
* 1947 &ndash; Calvin Hill, American football player
* 1947 &ndash; Alexander Yakushev, Russian ice hockey player
* 1948 &ndash; Deborah Watling, British actress (d. 2017)
* 1948 &ndash; Tony Judt, British historian (d. 2010)
* 1948 &ndash; Judith Miller, American journalist
* 1949 &ndash; Christopher Durang, American playwright

### 1951&ndash;1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer (d. 2017)
* 1952 &ndash; Indulis Emsis, biologist and politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
* 1952 &ndash; Christine Lavin, American singer-songwriter
* 1954 &ndash; Milovan Rajevac, Serbian footballer and coach
* 1954 &ndash; Henry Bonilla, American politician
* 1954 &ndash; Dawn Silva, singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)
* 1955 &ndash; Tex Brashear, American voice actor
* 1955 &ndash; Vivien Savage, French singer-songwriter
* 1959 &ndash; Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer
* 1960 &ndash; Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga artist
* 1961 &ndash; Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
* 1961 &ndash; Neil Dudgeon, British actor
* 1961 &ndash; Todd Haynes, American movie director
* 1963 &ndash; David Cone, American baseball pitcher
* 1964 &ndash; Luis Moro, Cuban–American actor, producer and screenwriter
* 1964 &ndash; Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
* 1967 &ndash; Tia Carrere, American actress
* 1967 &ndash; Jon Gnarr, Icelandic actor, comedian and politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
* 1967 &ndash; Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player
* 1968 &ndash; Goichi Suda, Japanese video game designer
* 1968 &ndash; Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor
* 1968 &ndash; Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage competitor
* 1969 &ndash; William Fox-Pitt, English equestrian
* 1969 &ndash; Christy Turlington, American fashion model
* 1969 &ndash; Tommy Morrison, American boxer (d. 2013)
* 1969 &ndash; Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician
* 1969 &ndash; Robby Gordon, American racing driver
* 1971 &ndash; Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
* 1972 &ndash; Taye Diggs, American actor
* 1972 &ndash; Rodney MacDonald, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
* 1973 &ndash; Lucy Davis, English actress
* 1974 &ndash; Michèle George, Belgian para-equestrian
* 1975 &ndash; Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)
* 1975 &ndash; Dax Shepard, American actor, comedian, writer and director

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Paz Vega, Spanish actress
* 1976 &ndash; Phil Radford, Greenpeace Executive Director
* 1978 &ndash; Kjartan Sveinsson, Icelandic musician
* 1978 &ndash; Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian–American dancer and actress
* 1979 &ndash; Jonathan Greening, English footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Paulo da Silva, Paraguayan footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Maxi Rodriguez, Argentine footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player
* 1982 &ndash; Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
* 1983 &ndash; Kate Bosworth, American actress
* 1985 &ndash; Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
* 1985 &ndash; Ivan Dodig, Croatian tennis player
* 1986 &ndash; Asa Akira, Japanese–American pornographic actress
* 1986 &ndash; Trombone Shorty, American jazz musician
* 1987 &ndash; Loïc Rémy, French footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Shelley Hennig, American model and actress
* 1988 &ndash; Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Bianca Knight, American sprinter
* 1991 &ndash; Davide Santon, Italian footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Luis Pedro Cavanda, Belgian footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Steele Sidebottom, Australian rules footballer
* 1993 &ndash; Bryson Tiller, American singer-songwriter
* 1995 &ndash; Renata Notni, Mexican actress and model

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 1512 &ndash; Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
* 1514 &ndash; William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. 1460)
* 1557 &ndash; Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
* 1665 &ndash; Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (b. 1601)
* 1726 &ndash; Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
* 1850 &ndash; Manuel de la Pena y Pena, President of Mexico (b. 1789)
* 1861 &ndash; Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
* 1879 &ndash; Caleb Cushing, United States Attorney General (b. 1800)
* 1892 &ndash; George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)

### 1901&ndash;2000 
* 1904 &ndash; James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
* 1913 &ndash; Léon-Philippe Teisserenc, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
* 1915 &ndash; Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
* 1917 &ndash; Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
* 1922 &ndash; Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
* 1936 &ndash; Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania (b. 1862)
* 1939 &ndash; Roman Tmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
* 1941 &ndash; Mischa Levitzki, Russian–born pianist (b. 1898)
* 1945 &ndash; Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)
* 1948 &ndash; Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
* 1950 &ndash; James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
* 1950 &ndash; Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)
* 1951 &ndash; William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
* 1955 &ndash; José Antonio Remon, President of Panama (b. 1908)
* 1960 &ndash; Fausto Coppi, Italian composer (b. 1919)
* 1960 &ndash; Paul Sauvé, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
* 1960 &ndash; Friedrich Adler, Austrian politician and assassin (b. 1897)
* 1961 &ndash; Daniel Chanis Pinzon, President of Panama (b. 1892)
* 1963 &ndash; Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
* 1968 &ndash; Cuno Hoffmeister, German astronomer and geophysicist (b. 1892)
* 1974 &ndash; Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
* 1986 &ndash; Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
* 1987 &ndash; Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1899)
* 1989 &ndash; Safdar Hashmi, Indian playwright, writer and director (b. 1954)
* 1990 &ndash; Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1921)
* 1994 &ndash; Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (b. 1915)
* 1994 &ndash; Dixy Lee Ray, American politician and Governor of Washington (b. 1917)
* 1995 &ndash; Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
* 1997 &ndash; Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
* 1999 &ndash; Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (b. 1907)
* 2000 &ndash; Nat Adderley, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1931)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; William P. Rogers, United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)
* 2002 &ndash; Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
* 2006 &ndash; Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916)
* 2007 &ndash; Teddy Kollek, Austrian–born Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
* 2008 &ndash; Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess, sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (b. 1923)
* 2008 &ndash; George MacDonald Fraser, British writer (b. 1925)
* 2008 &ndash; Lee S. Dreyfus, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)
* 2009 &ndash; Ryuzo Hiraki, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
* 2009 &ndash; Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
* 2011 &ndash; Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
* 2011 &ndash; Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (b. 1946)
* 2011 &ndash; Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)
* 2012 &ndash; William P. Carey, American investment banker and philanthropist (b. 1930)
* 2013 &ndash; Teresa Toranska, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1944)
* 2013 &ndash; Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)
* 2013 &ndash; Mamie Rearden, American supercentenarian (b. 1898)
* 2013 &ndash; Ned Wertimer, American actor (b. 1923)
* 2014 &ndash; Elizabeth Jane Howard, English novelist (b. 1923)
* 2014 &ndash; Dirk Sager, German journalist (b. 1940)
* 2014 &ndash; Thomas Kurzhals, German keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1953)
* 2014 &ndash; Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924)
* 2015 &ndash; Lam Po-chuen, Hong Kong dubbing artist (b. 1951)
* 2015 &ndash; Arthur A. Neu, American politician (b. 1933)
* 2015 &ndash; Little Jimmy Dickens, American country music singer (b. 1920)
* 2015 &ndash; Noel Cobb, British philosopher, psychologist and writer (b. 1938)
* 2015 &ndash; Tihomir Novakov, American physicist (b. 1929)
* 2015 &ndash; Abu Anas al-Libi, Libyan Al-Qaeda member (b. 1964)
* 2015 &ndash; Basil Hansen, Australian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
* 2015 &ndash; Danny Dunton, English speedway rider and promoter (b. 1924)
* 2015 &ndash; Roger Kitter, English actor (b. 1949)
* 2016 &ndash; Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi cleric (b. 1959)
* 2016 &ndash; Michel Delpech, French singer (b. 1946)
* 2016 &ndash; Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian politician (b. 1924)
* 2016 &ndash; Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1935)
* 2016 &ndash; Gisela Mota Ocampo, Mexican politician (b. 1982)
* 2016 &ndash; Marcel Barbeau, Canadian artist (b. 1925)
* 2016 &ndash; Shigeji Kaneko, Japanese boxer (b. 1931)
* 2016 &ndash; Matt Hobden, English cricketer (b. 1993)
* 2017 &ndash; John Berger, English art critic, writer and painter (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1931)
* 2017 &ndash; Albert Brewer, American politician, 47th Governor of Alabama (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Jean Vuarnet, French skier (b. 1933)
* 2017 &ndash; François Chérèque, French trade unionist (b. 1956)
* 2017 &ndash; Richard Machowicz, American navy SEAL (b. 1965)
* 2017 &ndash; René Ballet, French journalist and writer (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Tom Harpur, Canadian classicist, journalist, theologian an priest (b. 1929)
* 2018 &ndash; Frank Buxton, American actor (b. 1930)
* 2018 &ndash; Rick Hall, American songwriter and recording producer (b. 1932)
* 2018 &ndash; Ferdinando Imposimato, Italian judge and politician (b. 1936)
* 2018 &ndash; Lawal Kaita, Nigerian politician (b. 1932)
* 2018 &ndash; Ali Akbar Moinfar, Iranian politician (b. 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1927)
* 2019 &ndash; Daryl Dragon, American songwriter (Captain & Tennille) (b. 1942)
* 2019 &ndash; Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian (b. 1942)
* 2022 &ndash; 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)