January 13

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 888 &ndash; Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
* 1328 &ndash; Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault.
* 1733 &ndash; James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina.
* 1750 &ndash; Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Madrid to agree on their colonial policy.
* 1822 &ndash; The design of the Flag of Greece is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
* 1830 &ndash; The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
* 1840 &ndash; The steamship *Lexington* burns and sinks 4 miles off Long Island, New York, killing 139 people.
* 1893 &ndash; The independent British Labour Party holds its first meeting.
* 1893 &ndash; United States marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the ship USS *Boston* to prevent Queen Liliuokalani from abandoning the Bayonet Constitution.
* 1898 &ndash; Émile Zola's ''J'accuse'' exposes the Dreyfus affair.

### 1901&ndash;2000 
* 1908 &ndash; The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killing 171 people.
* 1910 &ndash; The first public radio broadcast takes place from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
* 1915 &ndash; An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, kills 29,800 people.
* 1917 &ndash; A train crash near Ciurea, Romania, kills between 600 and 1,000 people.
* 1930 &ndash; An expedition led by Douglas Mawson discovers the Aagaard Islands off Antarctica.
* 1935 &ndash; Most voters in Saarland decide to become part of Germany.
* 1939 &ndash; The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, killing 71 people.
* 1942 &ndash; Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile.
* 1951 &ndash; First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, later ending in French victory.
* 1953 &ndash; Josip Broz Tito is chosen as the President of Yugoslavia.
* 1963 &ndash; A coup in Togo kills the country's first President, Sylvanus Olympio.
* 1964 &ndash; An Anti–Muslim riot in Calcutta leaves 100 people dead.
* 1964 &ndash; Karol Woityla, later Pope John Paul II, becomes archbishop of Krakow.
* 1972 &ndash; A coup occurs in Ghana.
* 1974 &ndash; Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport opens to the public.
* 1982 &ndash; Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge, shortly after take–off, and falls into the Potomac River, killing 74 people on board, and 4 motorists on the bridge.
* 1985 &ndash; Africa's worst rail disaster occurs in Awash, northeastern Ethiopia, when a train plunges into a ravine, killing 428 people.
* 1986 &ndash; Voyager 2 discovers three moons of Uranus: Desdemona, Belinda and Rosalind.
* 1986 &ndash; A civil war begins in Yemen.
* 1990 &ndash; The US' first elected African American state Governor, L. Douglas Wilder, takes office in Virginia.
* 1991 &ndash; Soviet troops crush a pro–independence demonstration in Vilnius, Lithuania, killing 14 people, and wounding over 1,000.
* 1993 &ndash; Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off, as STS-54 launches from Cape Canaveral.
* 1993 &ndash; Erich Honecker and his wife Margot go into exile in Chile.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; An earthquake that was 7.6 on the Richter scale hits all of El Salvador, killing over 800 people.
* 2012 &ndash; The 2012 Winter Youth Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria. These are the first Winter Youth Olympics.
* 2012 &ndash; Italian cruise ship *Costa Concordia* crashes onto rocks off the island of Giglio, off the coast of Tuscany, Italy, killing 32 people.
* 2018 &ndash; 2018 Hawaii false missile alert: An alert falsely claiming there was an incoming missile causes panic in Hawaii.
* 2019 &ndash; Pawel Adamowicz, Mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, is stabbed during a charity event; he dies the next day, aged 53.

## Births
### Up to 1900 
* 5 BC &ndash; Emperor Guangwu of Han, Chinese ruler (d. 57)
* 101 &ndash; Lucius Aelius, adoptive son of Roman Emperor Hadrian (d. 138)
* 1334 &ndash; Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
* 1338 &ndash; Jeong Mong-ju, Korean politician, diplomat and scholar (d. 1392)
* 1505 &ndash; Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)
* 1596 &ndash; Jan van Goyen, Dutch artist (d. 1656)
* 1610 &ndash; Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)
* 1615 &ndash; Henrik Bjelke, Norwegian admiral (d. 1683)
* 1683 &ndash; Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)
* 1698 &ndash; Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
* 1763 &ndash; Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French–Russian general (d. 1831)
* 1777 &ndash; Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1820)
* 1779 &ndash; William Badger, 20th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1852)
* 1787 &ndash; John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
* 1805 &ndash; Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
* 1808 &ndash; Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
* 1812 &ndash; Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
* 1832 &ndash; Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and writer (d. 1899)
* 1836 &ndash; Giuseppe Abbati, Italian painter (d. 1868)
* 1845 &ndash; Félix Tisserand, French astronomer (d. 1896)
* 1855 &ndash; Otto Lehmann, German physicist (d. 1922)
* 1858 &ndash; Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian biologist (d. 1931)
* 1859 &ndash; Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)
* 1861 &ndash; Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
* 1864 &ndash; Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (d. 1928)
* 1865 &ndash; Princess Marie of Orleans, French–Danish princess (d. 1908)
* 1866 &ndash; Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
* 1869 &ndash; Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)
* 1869 &ndash; William G. Bulow, Governor of South Dakota (d. 1960)
* 1870 &ndash; Jedrzej Moraczewski, Polish politician (d. 1944)
* 1870 &ndash; Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959)
* 1880 &ndash; Herbert Brenon, American director, screenwriter and actor (d. 1958)
* 1883 &ndash; Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938)
* 1884 &ndash; Sophie Tucker, Ukrainian–American singer and actress (d. 1966)
* 1885 &ndash; Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 1964)
* 1887 &ndash; George Gurdjieff, Russian–French mystic and philosopher (d. 1949)
* 1887 &ndash; Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (d. 1917)
* 1890 &ndash; Jüri Uluots, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1945)
* 1892 &ndash; Ermanni Aebi, Italian–Swiss footballer (d. 1976)
* 1893 &ndash; Clark Ashton Smith, American sculptor, writer and painter (d. 1961)
* 1893 &ndash; Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer (d. 1963)
* 1898 &ndash; Kaj Munk, Danish pastor, poet and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
* 1898 &ndash; Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
* 1899 &ndash; Lev Kuleshov, Soviet–Russian director (d. 1970)

### 1901&ndash;1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Mieczyslaw Zywczysnki, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)
* 1904 &ndash; Richard Addinsell, British composer (d. 1977)
* 1905 &ndash; Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
* 1906 &ndash; Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist (d. 2017)
* 1908 &ndash; Enrico Paoli, Italian chess player (d. 2005)
* 1908 &ndash; Earle G. Wheeler, American general (d. 1975)
* 1909 &ndash; Danny Barker, American jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1994)
* 1909 &ndash; Martinus van der Lubbe, Dutch Communist (d. 1934)
* 1911 &ndash; Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
* 1911 &ndash; Guido del Mestri, German cardinal (d. 1993)
* 1913 &ndash; Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
* 1916 &ndash; Liselotte Landbeck, Austrian skater (d. 2013)
* 1919 &ndash; Robert Stack, American actor, sportsman and television host (d. 2003)
* 1920 &ndash; Knut Nordahl, Swedish footballer (d. 1984)
* 1922 &ndash; Albert Lamorisse, French movie director and producer (d. 1970)
* 1923 &ndash; Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
* 1923 &ndash; Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch athlete (d. 2003)
* 1924 &ndash; Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
* 1924 &ndash; Roland Petit, French choreographer (d. 2011)
* 1925 &ndash; Rosemary Murphy, German–born American actress (d. 2014)
* 1926 &ndash; Michael Bond, British writer, creator of Paddington Bear (d. 2017)
* 1927 &ndash; Sydney Brenner, South African–British biologist
* 1928 &ndash; Gregory Walcott, American actor (d. 2015)
* 1929 &ndash; Joe Pass, American jazz guitarist (d. 1994)
* 1931 &ndash; Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
* 1932 &ndash; Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (d. 1994)
* 1933 &ndash; Shahnon Ahmad, Malaysian writer (d. 2017)
* 1934 &ndash; Carolyn See, American novelist, professor and critic (d. 2016)
* 1934 &ndash; Rip Taylor, American actor
* 1935 &ndash; Mauro Forghieri, Italian racecar designer
* 1936 &ndash; Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
* 1938 &ndash; Daevid Allen, Australian singer, guitarist and composer (d. 2015)
* 1938 &ndash; Richard Anthony, French singer (d. 2015)
* 1938 &ndash; Cabu, French cartoonist (d. 2015)
* 1938 &ndash; Shivkumar Sharma, Indian composer
* 1939 &ndash; Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer
* 1939 &ndash; Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentine writer, screenwriter and director
* 1941 &ndash; Pascual Maragall i Mira, Catalan politician
* 1942 &ndash; Carol Cleveland, English actress
* 1942 &ndash; Piero Marini, Italian archbishop
* 1943 &ndash; Richard Moll, American actor
* 1947 &ndash; Jacek Majchrowski, Polish politician and Krakow Mayor
* 1947 &ndash; Erland Kolding Nielsen, Danish academic (d. 2017)
* 1947 &ndash; Carles Rexach, Catalan–Spanish footballer
* 1948 &ndash; Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
* 1949 &ndash; Rakesh Sharma, Indian astronaut
* 1950 &ndash; Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer (d. 2014)

### 1951&ndash;1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Bernard Loiseau, French chef (d. 2003)
* 1951 &ndash; Kim Manners, American television producer, director and actor (d. 2009)
* 1951 &ndash; Antoni Szymanowski, Polish footballer
* 1952 &ndash; John Lee Hooker, Jr., American blues singer
* 1954 &ndash; Bruno Coulais, French movie score composer
* 1954 &ndash; Trevor Rabin, South African rock musician and composer
* 1955 &ndash; Huh Jung-Moo, South Korean footballer
* 1955 &ndash; Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter
* 1955 &ndash; Jay McInerney, American writer
* 1955 &ndash; Anne Pringle, English diplomat
* 1955 &ndash; Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean footballer (d. 2015)
* 1956 &ndash; Toshio Nakanishi, Japanese musician (d. 2017)
* 1956 &ndash; Greg Trooper, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
* 1957 &ndash; Claudia Emerson, American poet (d. 2014)
* 1957 &ndash; Mark O'Meara, American golfer
* 1957 &ndash; Daniel Scioli, 33rd Vice President of Argentina
* 1957 &ndash; Mary Glindon, English politician
* 1957 &ndash; Dusan Bukovac, Bulgarian footballer
* 1958 &ndash; Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager
* 1959 &ndash; Jay Lomenzo, American musician
* 1960 &ndash; Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, 2014 Nobel Prize winner
* 1960 &ndash; Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director
* 1961 &ndash; Suggs, English singer (Madness)
* 1961 &ndash; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
* 1961 &ndash; Jeremy Bamber, English murderer
* 1963 &ndash; Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (d. 2011)
* 1965 &ndash; Bill Bailey, British comedian
* 1964 &ndash; Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
* 1964 &ndash; Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer
* 1966 &ndash; Patrick Dempsey, American actor
* 1966 &ndash; Simon Shelton, English actor (d. 2018)
* 1967 &ndash; Viktor Bout, Russian soldier
* 1967 &ndash; Suzzane Cryer, American actress
* 1968 &ndash; Chara, Japanese singer and actress
* 1968 &ndash; Antonio Tartaglia, Italian bobsledder
* 1969 &ndash; Stefania Belmondo, Italian skier
* 1969 &ndash; Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
* 1970 &ndash; Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
* 1970 &ndash; Gavin Whittaker, Australian rugby league player (d. 2017)
* 1970 &ndash; Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter, director and producer
* 1971 &ndash; John Mallory Asher, American movie actor and director
* 1972 &ndash; Nicole Eggert, American actress
* 1972 &ndash; Park Jin-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actor
* 1973 &ndash; Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
* 1974 &ndash; Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player
* 1975 &ndash; Daniel Kehlmann, Austrian–German writer

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Bic Runga, New Zealand singer
* 1976 &ndash; Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer
* 1976 &ndash; Tania Vicent, Canadian speed skater
* 1977 &ndash; Orlando Bloom, British actor
* 1978 &ndash; Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician
* 1979 &ndash; Katy Brand, British actress and comedienne
* 1980 &ndash; María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (d. 2013)
* 1980 &ndash; Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
* 1980 &ndash; Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Jason James, Welsh musician
* 1982 &ndash; Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
* 1982 &ndash; Kamran Akmal, Pakistani cricketer
* 1982 &ndash; Ruth Wilson, English actress
* 1983 &ndash; William Hung, Chinese singer
* 1984 &ndash; Raif Badawi, Saudi writer, blogger and activist
* 1984 &ndash; Kamghe Gaba, German athlete
* 1985 &ndash; Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer
* 1986 &ndash; Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
* 1987 &ndash; Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1987 &ndash; Lee Seung-gi, Korean singer & actor
* 1989 &ndash; Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
* 1989 &ndash; Beau Mirchoff, American–Canadian actor
* 1990 &ndash; Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
* 1991 &ndash; Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
* 1992 &ndash; Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
* 1993 &ndash; Max Whitlock, British gymnast
* 1995 &ndash; Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor
* 1995 &ndash; Eros Vlahos, English actor and comedian

## Deaths
### Up to 1900 
* 86 BC &ndash; Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
* 533 &ndash; Saint Remigius, Bishop of Reims (b. 437)
* 614 &ndash; Saint Kentigern (Saint Mungo), patron saint of Glasgow
* 703 &ndash; Empress Jiti of Japan (b. 645)
* 858 &ndash; Ethelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
* 888 &ndash; Charles the Fat, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 839)
* 1138 &ndash; Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
* 1151 &ndash; Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (b. 1081)
* 1177 &ndash; Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
* 1330 &ndash; Frederick I of Austria (b. 1286)
* 1625 &ndash; Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
* 1630 &ndash; Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese military commander (b. 1584)
* 1658 &ndash; Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier (b. 1616)
* 1717 &ndash; Maria Sibylla Merian, German–Swiss entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647) 
* 1766 &ndash; Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
* 1796 &ndash; John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
* 1797 &ndash; Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, consort of Frederick II of Prussia (b. 1715)
* 1832 &ndash; Thomas Lord, English cricketer (b. 1755)
* 1838 &ndash; Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
* 1852 &ndash; Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, German–Russian explorer (b. 1778)
* 1853 &ndash; Theophilus Kairis, Greek revolutionary (b. 1783)
* 1864 &ndash; Stephen Foster, American musician (b. 1826)
* 1885 &ndash; Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)
* 1889 &ndash; Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
* 1897 &ndash; David Schwarz, Austro–Hungarian aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1850)

### 1901&ndash;2000 
* 1905 &ndash; George Thorn, Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
* 1915 &ndash; Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
* 1916 &ndash; Victoriano Huerta, President of Mexico (b. 1850)
* 1923 &ndash; Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
* 1928 &ndash; Mara Buneva, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1902)
* 1929 &ndash; Wyatt Earp, American Western figure (b. 1848)
* 1932 &ndash; Sophia of Prussia, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1870)
* 1934 &ndash; Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
* 1941 &ndash; James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
* 1943 &ndash; Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss artist (b. 1889)
* 1949 &ndash; Aino Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (b. 1894)
* 1958 &ndash; Jesse L. Lasky, American movie producer (b. 1910)
* 1961 &ndash; Herman Glass, American gymnast (b. 1880)
* 1962 &ndash; Ernie Kovacs, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
* 1963 &ndash; Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo (b. 1902)
* 1969 &ndash; Li Zongren, Chinese politician (b. 1890)
* 1974 &ndash; Salvador Novo, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1904)
* 1978 &ndash; Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
* 1980 &ndash; Andre Kostelanetz, Russian–born music conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
* 1982 &ndash; Marcel Camus, French movie director (b. 1912)
* 1982 &ndash; Arland D. Williams, Jr., American airline passenger (b. 1935)
* 1986 &ndash; Abdul Fattah Ismail, 4th President of South Yemen (b. 1939)
* 1988 &ndash; Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
* 1993 &ndash; Camargo Guarneri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
* 2000 &ndash; Thelma Rogers, English actress (b. 1924)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman (b. 1897)
* 2002 &ndash; Paul J. Fannin, Governor of Arizona (b. 1907)
* 2004 &ndash; Harold Shipman, British doctor and serial killer (b. 1946)
* 2006 &ndash; Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
* 2007 &ndash; Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
* 2008 &ndash; Sergej Larin, Latvian–Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
* 2009 &ndash; Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
* 2010 &ndash; Teddy Pendergrass, American singer–songwriter (b. 1950)
* 2011 &ndash; Charles Muscat, Maltese footballer (b. 1963)
* 2012 &ndash; Rauf Denktas, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
* 2012 &ndash; Lefter Küçükonyadis, Turkish footballer (b. 1925)
* 2013 &ndash; Bille Brown, Australian actor (b. 1952)
* 2014 &ndash; Menachem Zilberman, Israeli comedian and songwriter (b. 1946)
* 2014 &ndash; Anjali Devi, Indian actress and movie producer (b. 1927)
* 2014 &ndash; Mihai Fotino, Romanian actor (b. 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Mark Juddery, Australian writer and journalist (b. 1971)
* 2015 &ndash; Keith Wright, Australian politician (b. 1942)
* 2015 &ndash; Hara Patnaik, Indian actor and movie director (b. 1958)
* 2015 &ndash; Jack Hayward, English businessman (b. 1923)
* 2015 &ndash; Robert White, American diplomat (b. 1926)
* 2015 &ndash; Trevor Colbourn, Australian educator and academic (b. 1927)
* 2016 &ndash; J. F. R. Jacob, Indian military officer (b. 1923)
* 2016 &ndash; Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian filmmaker, songwriter and record producer (b. 1934)
* 2016 &ndash; Brian Bedford, British actor (b. 1935)
* 2016 &ndash; William Craig, American philosopher (b. 1918)
* 2016 &ndash; Bern Herbolsheimer, American composer (b. 1948)
* 2016 &ndash; Conrad Phillips, British actor (b. 1925)
* 2016 &ndash; Lawrence Phillips, American football player (b. 1975)
* 2016 &ndash; Jim Simpson, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
* 2016 &ndash; Tera Wray, American pornographic actress (b. 1982)
* 2017 &ndash; Gilberto Agustoni, Swiss cardinal (b. 1922)
* 2017 &ndash; Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (b. 1930)
* 2017 &ndash; Mark Fisher, British writer (b. 1968)
* 2017 &ndash; Horacio Guarany, Argentine singer and writer (b. 1925)
* 2017 &ndash; John Jacobs, English golfer (b. 1925)
* 2017 &ndash; Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b. 1942)
* 2017 &ndash; David Modell, American businessman (b. 1960)
* 2017 &ndash; Anton Nanut, Slovenian conductor (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Ari Rath, Austrian–Israeli journalist (b. 1925)
* 2017 &ndash; Udo Ulfkotte, German journalist (b. 1960)
* 2018 &ndash; Doug Harvey, American baseball umpire (b. 1930)
* 2018 &ndash; Tzimis Panousis, Greek rock musician and comedian (b. 1954)
* 2018 &ndash; Jean Porter, American actress (b. 1922)
* 2018 &ndash; Eliyahu Winograd, Israel judge (b. 1926)
* 2018 &ndash; Byron Langley, American politician (b. 1926)
* 2019 &ndash; Bonnie Guitar, American country singer–songwriter and musician (b. 1923)
* 2019 &ndash; Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
* 2019 &ndash; Alfred K. Newman, American Navajo code talker (b. 1924)
* 2019 &ndash; Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player (b. 1941)

## Observances
* Korean American Day
* Old New Year (parts of Eastern Europe)
* Saint Knut's Day, end of the Christmas period (Finland, Norway, Sweden)
* Constitution Day (Mongolia)
* Democracy Day (Cape Verde)
* Liberation Day (Togo)