March 4

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 51 &ndash; Nero is given the title of *Princeps Iuventutis* (Head of the Youth).
* 1152 &ndash; Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
* 1226 &ndash; The city of Hamm, in North Rhine-Westphalia, present–day Germany, is founded.
* 1275 &ndash; Chinese astronomers observe a solar eclipse.
* 1351 &ndash; Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
* 1386 &ndash; Wladyslaw II Jagiello (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
* 1461 &ndash; The Lancastrian King Henry VI of England is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, King Edward IV of England.
* 1493 &ndash; Christopher Columbus arrives in Portugal after the voyage that took him to the Caribbean.
* 1519 &ndash; Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico.
* 1628 &ndash; The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a royal charter.
* 1665 &ndash; England's King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands.
* 1675 &ndash; In England, John Flamsteed is appointed as the first Astronomer Royal.
* 1681 &ndash; Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn, to colonise what is now Pennsylvania.
* 1769 &ndash; The Orion Nebula is first observed by Charles Messier.
* 1776 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
* 1789 &ndash; In New York City, the first United States Congress meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
* 1790 &ndash; France is divided into 83 *Departements*.
* 1791 &ndash; Vermont becomes the 14th State of the US.
* 1793 &ndash; John Adams becomes the first US President to be inaugurated on March 4.
* 1794 &ndash; The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed by the United States Congress.
* 1837 &ndash; The city of Chicago is incorporated.
* 1848 &ndash; Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the *Statuto Albertino* that will later represent the Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy.
* 1861 &ndash; Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States. During his time in office, he will be faced with the American Civil War.
* 1861 &ndash; The Stars and Bars Flag of the Confederate States of America is introduced.
* 1865 &ndash; The third national flag of the Confederate States of America is introduced.
* 1882 &ndash; The United Kingdom's first electric trams run in London.
* 1877 &ndash; The ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
* 1890 &ndash; The Forth Rail Bridge is opened in Scotland.
* 1899 &ndash; Cyclone Mahina passes to the north of Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, with 12–metre waves travelling inland by as much as five kilometres, killing 300 people.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1902 &ndash; The American Automobile Club is founded in Cleveland, Ohio.
* 1908 &ndash; The Collinwood School Fire near Cleveland, Ohio kills 174 people.
* 1913 &ndash; The United States Department of Labor is created.
* 1917 &ndash; Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman in the House of Representatives.
* 1918 &ndash; The first case of the Spanish flu pandemic occurs.
* 1918 &ndash; The ship USS *Cyclops* leaves Barbados, never to be seen again. It is one of several disappearances in the so–called Bermuda Triangle.
* 1929 &ndash; Herbert Hoover becomes President of the United States. At the same time, Charles Curtis becomes the first Vice President of the United States of Native American ancestry.
* 1933 &ndash; Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dolfuss begins authoritarian rule by decree.
* 1933 &ndash; Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the last President of the United States to be inaugurated on March 4.
* 1933 &ndash; Frances Perkins becomes the first woman in the United States Cabinet, as she becomes Secretary for Labor.
* 1936 &ndash; The *Hindenburg* airship makes its first test–flight over Lake Constance.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
* 1943 &ndash; World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea ends.
* 1943 &ndash; British passenger steamer *City of Pretoria* is sunk by a German U–boat in the North Atlantic Ocean. No–one on board survives.
* 1945 &ndash; Lapland War: Finland declares war on Germany.
* 1960 &ndash; The French freighter *La Coubre* explodes in Havanna, Cuba.
* 1962 &ndash; A Caledonia Airways Douglas DC–7 crashes shortly after take–off in Cameroon, killing 111 people.
* 1966 &ndash; A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC–8–43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
* 1966 &ndash; John Lennon of The Beatles says that the band is probably "Bigger than Jesus".
* 1970 &ndash; French submarine *Erydice* explodes underwater, killing the entire 57–man crew.
* 1974 &ndash; People magazine is first published in the United States, under the name "People Weekly".
* 1976 &ndash; Northern Ireland is directly ruled from London from this date.
* 1977 &ndash; An earthquake strikes southeastern Europe. Bucharest, Romania, is among the places that suffer damage, as around 1,500 people are killed.
* 1980 &ndash; Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
* 1983 &ndash; Bertha Wilson becomes the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
* 1985 &ndash; The US Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS.
* 1986 &ndash; The Soviet Vega 1 space probe starts to return images of Halley's Comet, including its nucleus.
* 1987 &ndash; President Ronald Reagan apologizes to the American people on a live televised address about the Iran-Contra affair.
* 1991 &ndash; For the first time since Iraq's invasion, Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah returns to his country.
* 1996 &ndash; A train that has crashed off the tracks in Weyauwega, Wisconsin. causes an emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
* 2000 &ndash; Play Station 2 is released for the first time, in Japan.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; A car bomb explodes outside the BBC television centre, seriously injuring one person.
* 2001 &ndash; A Bridge collapse in northern Portugal kills up to 70 people.
* 2001 &ndash; A majority of voters in Switzerland rejects membership of the European Union.
* 2007 &ndash; In Estonia, approximately 30,000 voters make uses of electronic voting, which had previously never been used in an election, for the Estonian Parliamentary Election.
* 2009 &ndash; The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state for the first time, for Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, President of Sudan, on war crimes charges in relation to the crisis in Darfur.
* 2012 &ndash; More than 100 people are killed in a munitions dump fire in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
* 2012 &ndash; Vladimir Putin declares victory in the Russian Presidential Election, allowing him to become President of Russia for a second time.
* 2014 &ndash; Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansip resigns from office after nine years, being succeeded by Taavi Roivas.
* 2015 &ndash; A mine explosion in Rebel–controlled Eastern Ukraine kills 34 miners.
* 2018 &ndash; The German Social Democrats vote in favour of a new governing coalition under Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU, ending a period of political uncertainty after the Bundestag election over five months earlier.
* 2018 &ndash; Italian general election, 2018: Italy holds its general election, with no party gaining an overall majority and populist and right–wing parties gaining seats.
* 2018 &ndash; Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 895 &ndash; Liu Zhiyuan, Chinese Emperor (d. 948)
* 1188 &ndash; Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
* 1394 &ndash; Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
* 1484 &ndash; George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, follower of Martin Luther (d. 1543)
* 1492 &ndash; Francesco de Loyolle, Italian composer (d. 1540)
* 1525 &ndash; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music (d. 1594)
* 1610 &ndash; William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
* 1645 &ndash; Johann Ambrosius Bach, German musician (d. 1695)
* 1665 &ndash; Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
* 1678 &ndash; Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
* 1702 &ndash; Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
* 1706 &ndash; Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect (d. 1759)
* 1715 &ndash; James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
* 1745 &ndash; Kazimierz Pulaski, Polish–American general (d. 1779)
* 1756 &ndash; Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
* 1770 &ndash; Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher (d. 1840)
* 1782 &ndash; Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
* 1792 &ndash; Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
* 1793 &ndash; Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1808 &ndash; Frederik Stang, Norwegian politician (d. 1884)
* 1811 &ndash; John Lawrence, Irish nobleman and British Viceroy of India (d. 1879)
* 1817 &ndash; Edwards Pierrepoint, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
* 1820 &ndash; Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
* 1826 &ndash; Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887)
* 1838 &ndash; Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920)
* 1847 &ndash; Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
* 1851 &ndash; Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek writer (d. 1911)
* 1852 &ndash; Kristjan Jonsson, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1926)
* 1856 &ndash; Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
* 1862 &ndash; Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
* 1870 &ndash; Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
* 1871 &ndash; Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
* 1873 &ndash; John H. Trumbull, 70th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961)
* 1875 &ndash; Mihaly Karolyi, Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
* 1875 &ndash; Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer, academic, writer and art collector (d. 1961)
* 1878 &ndash; P. D. Ouspensky, Russian esoterist and writer (d. 1947)
* 1879 &ndash; Bernhard Kellermann, German writer and poet (d. 1951)
* 1879 &ndash; Josip Murn, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
* 1881 &ndash; Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
* 1882 &ndash; Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat and politician (d. 1941)
* 1883 &ndash; Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
* 1888 &ndash; Knute Rockne, Norwegian–born American football coach (d. 1931)
* 1889 &ndash; Oren E. Long, Territorial Governor of Hawaii and US Senator (d. 1965)
* 1889 &ndash; Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1957)
* 1891 &ndash; Lois W., American co–founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1988)
* 1899 &ndash; Liana Del Balzo, Argentine–Italian actress (d. 1982)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy–French poet (d. 1937)
* 1904 &ndash; Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1973)
* 1908 &ndash; Thomas Shaw, American blues musician (d. 1977)
* 1910 &ndash; Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician (d. 1985)
* 1913 &ndash; John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
* 1914 &ndash; Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
* 1914 &ndash; Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
* 1915 &ndash; Carlos Surinach, Catalan composer and conductor (d. 1997)
* 1915 &ndash; Laszlo Csatary, Hungarian war criminal (d. 2013)
* 1916 &ndash; Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer and poet (d. 2000)
* 1918 &ndash; Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (d. 2012)
* 1921 &ndash; Olev Olesk, Estonian politician
* 1921 &ndash; Kaljo Raid, Estonian cellist, composer and clergyman (d. 2005)
* 1922 &ndash; Iring Fetscher, German political scientist (d. 2014)
* 1922 &ndash; Xenia Stad-de Jong, Dutch athlete (d. 2012)
* 1923 &ndash; Patrick Moore, British astronomer, writer and television presenter (d. 2012)
* 1923 &ndash; Piero D'Inzeo, Italian equestrian show jumper (d. 2014)
* 1925 &ndash; Inezita Barroso, Brazilian folk singer (d. 2015)
* 1926 &ndash; Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
* 1926 &ndash; Fran Warren, American singer and actress (d. 2013)
* 1927 &ndash; Phil Batt, former Governor of Idaho
* 1928 &ndash; Samuel Adler, German–American composer
* 1928 &ndash; Alan Sillitoe, British writer (d. 2010)
* 1929 &ndash; Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist
* 1930 &ndash; John Toohey, Australian judge (d. 2015)
* 1931 &ndash; William H. Keeler, American cardinal (d. 2017)
* 1932 &ndash; Brunella Bovo, Italian actress (d. 2017)
* 1932 &ndash; Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008)
* 1932 &ndash; Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
* 1932 &ndash; Frank Wells, American businessman, president of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1994)
* 1934 &ndash; Mario Davidovsky, Argentine–American composer
* 1934 &ndash; Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident (d. 2014)
* 1935 &ndash; Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
* 1935 &ndash; Prabha Rau, Indian politician (d. 2010)
* 1936 &ndash; Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968)
* 1936 &ndash; Aribert Reimann, German composer
* 1938 &ndash; Paula Prentiss, American actress
* 1938 &ndash; Alpha Condé, Guinean politician
* 1938 &ndash; Angus MacLise, American drummer (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1979)
* 1943 &ndash; Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2012)
* 1944 &ndash; Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
* 1945 &ndash; Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
* 1945 &ndash; Dieter Meier, Swiss musician, singer and artist
* 1945 &ndash; Femi Benussi, Italian actress
* 1946 &ndash; Michael Ashcroft, British politician
* 1947 &ndash; Jan Garbarek, Norwegian jazz saxophonist
* 1947 &ndash; Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic–American actor (d. 2015)
* 1948 &ndash; Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
* 1948 &ndash; Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (Yes) (d. 2015)
* 1948 &ndash; Brian Cummings, American voice actor
* 1948 &ndash; James Elroy, American writer
* 1949 &ndash; Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician (d. 2011)
* 1950 &ndash; Rick Perry, American politician, former Governor of Texas

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
* 1951 &ndash; Zoran Zizic, Montenegrin politician (d. 2013)
* 1952 &ndash; Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
* 1952 &ndash; Svend Robinson, Canadian politician
* 1953 &ndash; Pawel Janas, Polish football manager
* 1953 &ndash; Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
* 1954 &ndash; François Fillon, former Prime Minister of France
* 1954 &ndash; Boris Moiseev, Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer and actor
* 1954 &ndash; Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
* 1954 &ndash; Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
* 1954 &ndash; Willie Thorne, English snooker player
* 1955 &ndash; Joey Jones, Welsh footballer
* 1955 &ndash; Dominique Pinon, French actor
* 1958 &ndash; Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach
* 1958 &ndash; Patricia Heaton, American actress
* 1960 &ndash; John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
* 1961 &ndash; Ray Mancini, American boxer
* 1962 &ndash; Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
* 1963 &ndash; Jason Newsted, American musician (Metallica)
* 1963 &ndash; Daniel Roebuck, American actor
* 1964 &ndash; Dave Colclough, Welsh computer programmer and poker player
* 1965 &ndash; Khaled Hosseini, Afghan writer and physician
* 1965 &ndash; Yury Loncharov, Russian cosmonaut
* 1966 &ndash; Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and politician
* 1967 &ndash; Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist
* 1967 &ndash; Kubilay Türkyilmaz, Turkish–Swiss footballer
* 1967 &ndash; Tim Vine, British actor and comedian
* 1968 &ndash; Patsy Kensit, British actress
* 1968 &ndash; Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
* 1968 &ndash; Christina McKelvie, Scottish politician
* 1969 &ndash; Chaz Bono, American actor and LGBT activist
* 1969 &ndash; Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian footballer and manager
* 1971 &ndash; Fergal Lawler, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
* 1971 &ndash; Claire Baker, Scottish politician
* 1972 &ndash; Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
* 1972 &ndash; Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
* 1972 &ndash; Ivy Queen, Puerto Rican musician
* 1973 &ndash; Massimo Brambilla, Italian footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Len Wiseman, American movie director and screenwriter
* 1973 &ndash; Penny Mordaunt, English politician
* 1974 &ndash; Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Joaquim Alberto Silva, Angolan footballer (d. 2019)
* 1975 &ndash; Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Gary Shortland, English figure skater
* 1977 &ndash; Christian Jessen, English doctor and television host
* 1977 &ndash; Tonga Lea'aetoa, Tongan–New Zealand rugby player
* 1977 &ndash; Jason Marsalis, American drummer
* 1978 &ndash; Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player
* 1979 &ndash; Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer
* 1980 &ndash; Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Phil McGuire, Scottish footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer
* 1982 &ndash; Elia Rigotto, Italian cyclist
* 1982 &ndash; Ludmila Ezhova, Russian gymnast
* 1982 &ndash; Landon Donovan, American soccer player
* 1983 &ndash; Adam Deacon, English actor, rapper and director
* 1984 &ndash; Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Phillip Inzerillo, American trombone player
* 1985 &ndash; Park Min-young, South Korean actress
* 1985 &ndash; Mathieu Montcourt, French tennis player (d. 2009)
* 1986 &ndash; Manu Vatuvei, New Zealand rugby player
* 1986 &ndash; Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Cody Longo, American actor and singer
* 1989 &ndash; Erin Heatherton, American model
* 1990 &ndash; Andrea Bowen, American actress
* 1992 &ndash; Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Prince Albert II, Prince of Monaco
* 1992 &ndash; Erik Lamela, Argentine footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Jared Sullinger, American basketball player
* 1993 &ndash; Jenna Boyd, American actress
* 1993 &ndash; Bobbi Kristina Brown, American media personality and singer (b. 2015)
* 1995 &ndash; Bill Milner, English actor
* 1997 &ndash; Beatrice Vio, Italian wheelchair foil fencer

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 251 &ndash; Pope Lucius I
* 561 &ndash; Pope Pelagius I
* 1172 &ndash; King Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
* 1193 &ndash; Saladin, Turkish sultan (b. 1137)
* 1238 &ndash; Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland (b. 1210)
* 1238 &ndash; Yuri II of Vladimir (b. 1189)
* 1303 &ndash; Daniel of Moscow, Russian prince and Grand Duke of Muscovy (b. 1261)
* 1484 &ndash; Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
* 1496 &ndash; Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
* 1615 &ndash; Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
* 1619 &ndash; Anne of Denmark, Queen of James VI of Scotland/James I of England (b. 1574)
* 1710 &ndash; Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1668) 
* 1762 &ndash; Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
* 1793 &ndash; Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
* 1795 &ndash; John Collins, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717)
* 1805 &ndash; Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
* 1807 &ndash; Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
* 1832 &ndash; Jean-François Champollion, French scholar and Egyptologist (b. 1790)
* 1852 &ndash; Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
* 1858 &ndash; Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer (b. 1794)
* 1883 &ndash; Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
* 1888 &ndash; Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and writer (b. 1799)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1903 &ndash; Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1854)
* 1906 &ndash; John Schofield, American general and politician (b. 1831)
* 1915 &ndash; William Willett, founder of British Summer Time (b. 1856)
* 1925 &ndash; John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
* 1941 &ndash; Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist (b. 1858)
* 1944 &ndash; Rene Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)
* 1944 &ndash; Louis Capone, Italian–American gangster (b. 1896)
* 1945 &ndash; Mark Sandrich, American movie director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
* 1946 &ndash; Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big–game hunter (b. 1886)
* 1948 &ndash; Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
* 1950 &ndash; Adam Rainer, Austrian dwarf and giant (b. 1899)
* 1952 &ndash; Charles Scott Sherrington, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
* 1960 &ndash; Herbert O'Conor, Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
* 1973 &ndash; Samuel Tolansky, British scientist (b. 1907)
* 1976 &ndash; Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
* 1977 &ndash; Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1897)
* 1978 &ndash; William Bolin, 15th Governor of Arizona (b. 1909)
* 1980 &ndash; Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess player (b. 1905)
* 1981 &ndash; Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German admiral (b. 1900)
* 1986 &ndash; Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
* 1993 &ndash; Richard Sale, American screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
* 1994 &ndash; John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
* 1999 &ndash; Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Glenn Hughes, American singer (b. 1950)
* 2001 &ndash; Jim Rhodes, 61st Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
* 2001 &ndash; Harold Stassen, 25th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1907)
* 2004 &ndash; John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (b. 1955)
* 2006 &ndash; Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
* 2008 &ndash; George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
* 2008 &ndash; Gary Gygax, American games designer who made Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1938).
* 2010 &ndash; Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
* 2011 &ndash; Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist (b. 1925)
* 2011 &ndash; Johnny Preston, American singer (b. 1939)
* 2011 &ndash; Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
* 2012 &ndash; Paul McBride, Scottish lawyer and politician (b. 1965)
* 2013 &ndash; Seki Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)
* 2013 &ndash; Fran Warren, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
* 2014 &ndash; Wu Tianming, Chinese movie director (b. 1939)
* 2014 &ndash; Mark Freidkin, Russian writer (b. 1953)
* 2015 &ndash; Ninan Koshy, Indian thinker, theologian and social analyst (b. 1934)
* 2016 &ndash; Bud Collins, American sports journalist (b. 1929)
* 2016 &ndash; Pat Conroy, American author (b. 1945)
* 2016 &ndash; P. A. Sangma, Indian politician (b. 1947)
* 2016 &ndash; Abbas Vaez-Tabasi, Iranian cleric (b. 1935)
* 2016 &ndash; Morgan F. Murphy, American politician (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Edi Fitzroy, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
* 2017 &ndash; Helen M. Marshall, American politician (b. 1929)
* 2017 &ndash; Clayton Keith Yeutter, American politician (b. 1930)
* 2018 &ndash; Davide Astori, Italian footballer (b. 1987)
* 2018 &ndash; Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, British engineering businessman (b. 1936)
* 2018 &ndash; Farhang Mehr, Iranian–American scholar and writer (b. 1923)
* 2018 &ndash; H. Wayne Norman, Jr., American politician (b. 1955)
* 2018 &ndash; James Luna, American performance artist (b. 1950)
* 2019 &ndash; King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
* 2019 &ndash; Eric Caldow, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
* 2019 &ndash; Juan Corona, Mexican–American serial killer (b. 1934)
* 2019 &ndash; Keith Flint, English singer (The Prodigy) (b. 1969)
* 2019 &ndash; Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
* 2019 &ndash; Klaus Kinkel, German politician (b. 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
* 2019 &ndash; Johnny Romano, American baseball player (b. 1934)
* 2019 &ndash; Jean Starobinski, Swiss literary critic (b. 1920)
* 2022 &ndash; Rod Marsh, Australian cricketer (b. 1947)
* 2022 &ndash; Shane Warne, Australian cricketer (b. 1969)

## Observances 
* Saint Casimir's Day (Poland and Lithuania)

## Historical Significance 
* Inauguration Day of Presidents of the United States from 1793 to 1933. From 1937, the inaugurations take place on January 20.