January 17

## Events
### Up to 1900 
* 395 &ndash; Roman Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan. The Roman Empire is re–divided into West and East.
* 1287 &ndash; King Alfonso III of Aragon invades the island of Menorca.
* 1377 &ndash; Pope Gregory XI moves the Pope's residence (place where he lives) back to Rome from Avignon.
* 1524 &ndash; Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
* 1562 &ndash; France accepted the Huguenots under the Edict of St. Germain.
* 1566 &ndash; On his 62nd birthday, Pope Pius V officially becomes Pope.
* 1595 &ndash; Henry IV of France invades Spain.
* 1648 &ndash; England's Long Parliament agrees with the Vote of No Address, stopping dealing with King Charles I which then started the second part of the English Civil War.
* 1746 &ndash; Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", makes a Hanoverian army lose at Falkirk in his failing campaign to get back the throne for the Jacobite dynasty.
* 1773 &ndash; Captain James Cook becomes the first person to cross the Antarctic Circle.
* 1781 &ndash; Continental troops of Brigadier General Daniel Morgan makes British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton lose at the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina.
* 1799 &ndash; Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with some other patriots, is executed.
* 1811 &ndash; Mexican War of Independence: Battle of Calderon Bridge – A heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries.
* 1813 &ndash; Humphrey Davy creates the electric arc.
* 1819 &ndash; Simón Bolívar creates the Republic of Colombia.
* 1852 &ndash; United Kingdom accepts the freedom of the Boer places of the Transvaal.
* 1873 &ndash; First Battle of the Stronghold in the United States Modoc War.
* 1885 &ndash; A British force makes a large Dervish army lose at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
* 1893 &ndash; American sugar planters led by the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety remove the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
* 1899 &ndash; The United States gets Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1904 &ndash; Anton Chekhov's play *The Cherry Orchard* is performed for the first time, at Moscow Art Theatre.
* 1912 &ndash; Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. The return journey will lead to the deaths of all members of Scott's expedition, including Scott himself.
* 1913 &ndash; Raymond Poincaré becomes President of France.
* 1916 &ndash; The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) starts.
* 1917 &ndash; The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
* 1918 &ndash; Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and White Guards.
* 1929 &ndash; Inayatullah Khan, King of Afghanistan, abdicates (resigns) the throne after only three days.
* 1929 &ndash; Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character made by Elzie Crisler Segar, first seen in a newspaper comic strip.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino, Italy, in an effort to reach Rome. It would take four months and would cost 105,000 Allied lives.
* 1945 &ndash; Soviet forces get the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
* 1945 &ndash; The Nazis begin the process of people leaving the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces surround it.
* 1945 &ndash; Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg disappears in Hungary while the Soviets were in charge of him.
* 1946 &ndash; The United Nations Security Council has its first meeting.
* 1949 &ndash; *The Goldbergs*, the first sitcom on American television, is seen.
* 1950 &ndash; The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 people steal more than $2 million from an secure car in Boston, Massachusetts.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1955 &ndash; Nuclear submarine *Nautilus* starts its first mission.
* 1961 &ndash; Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered, with the governments of both Belgium and the United States suspected of being involved.
* 1966 &ndash; Simon and Garfunkel release their second album, *Sounds of Silence*, on Columbia Records.
* 1966 &ndash; A B-52 bomber slams into a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70–kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
* 1966 &ndash; Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, gets hurt in a way so his leg has to be chopped off.
* 1972 &ndash; Bangladesh receives its current Flag.
* 1973 &ndash; Ferdinand Marcos is declared "President for Life" of the Philippines.
* 1975 &ndash; Bob Dylan puts out *Blood on the Tracks,* often said to be one of his best albums.
* 1977 &ndash; Gary Gilmore is put to death by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten–year delay on being put to death as punishment in the United States.
* 1982 &ndash; " Cold Sunday" in the United States sees temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in many cities.
* 1985 &ndash; British Telecom says that Britain's famous red telephone boxes will no longer exist.
* 1989 &ndash; Cleveland school massacre in Stockton, California: Patrick Purdy kills 5 elementary school children with an assault rifle, as well as one teacher, before killing himself.
* 1991 &ndash; Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq shoots 8 Scud bombs into Israel in a failed attempt to provoke Israel to fight back.
* 1991 &ndash; Harald V becomes King of Norway because his father, Olav V, died.
* 1992 &ndash; Punk rock band Green Day sends out their second full–length album, *Kerplunk*.
* 1994 &ndash; A magnitude 6.7 earthquake happens in Northridge, California.
* 1995 &ndash; A magnitude 7.3 earthquake called the "Great Hanshin earthquake" happens near Kobe, Japan, causing property to be damaged and killing 6,433 people.
* 1996 &ndash; The Czech Republic asks the European Union if they can be a member.
* 1998 &ndash; Paula Jones says she was sexually harassed by President Bill Clinton.

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, making about 400,000 people homeless.
* 2007 &ndash; The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes before midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.
* 2008 &ndash; British Airways Flight 38 crash–lands at London Heathrow Airport. All people on board survive.
* 2010 &ndash; Religious riots between Muslims and Christians erupt in Jos, Nigeria, killing more than 200 people.
* 2018 &ndash; A car bomb attack in Bogota, Colombia, kills 21 people.

## Births
### Up to 1850 
* 1463 &ndash; Frederick III of Saxony, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
* 1501 &ndash; Leonhart Fuchs, German scientist (d. 1566)
* 1504 &ndash; Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
* 1574 &ndash; Robert Fludd, English physician, astrologer and mathematician (d. 1637)
* 1600 &ndash; Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
* 1640 &ndash; Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler and ancestor of Barack Obama (d. 1724)
* 1659 &ndash; Antonio Veracini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
* 1706 &ndash; Benjamin Franklin, American writer, inventor and statesman (d. 1790)
* 1712 &ndash; John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786)
* 1732 &ndash; Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland (d. 1798)
* 1734 &ndash; François-Joseph Gossec, Belgian composer (d. 1829)
* 1738 &ndash; James Anderson, Scottish botanist (d. 1809)
* 1746 &ndash; Paul Brigham, Governor of Vermont (d. 1824)
* 1749 &ndash; Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and dramatist (d. 1803)
* 1761 &ndash; Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, Scottish geologist and geophysicist (d. 1832)
* 1789 &ndash; August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
* 1798 &ndash; Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
* 1800 &ndash; Caleb Cushing, American diplomat (d. 1879)
* 1811 &ndash; Emperor Norton, self–declared Emperor of the United States (d. 1880)
* 1820 &ndash; Anne Brontë, English writer (d. 1849)
* 1828 &ndash; Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War general (d. 1918)
* 1829 &ndash; Catherine Booth, English wife of William Booth (d. 1890)
* 1831 &ndash; Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
* 1845 &ndash; Manuel Barillas, President of Guatemala (d. 1907)
* 1847 &ndash; Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky, Russian mathematician and aviator (d. 1921)
* 1850 &ndash; Aleksandr Yaneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918)

### 1851 &ndash; 1900 
* 1856 &ndash; Jens Bratlie, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1939)
* 1860 &ndash; Douglas Hyde, 1st President of Ireland (d. 1949)
* 1863 &ndash; David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
* 1863 &ndash; Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1938)
* 1865 &ndash; Charles Fergusson, Governor–General of New Zealand (d. 1951)
* 1867 &ndash; Carl Laemmle, German–born American movie pioneer (d. 1939)
* 1870 &ndash; Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (d. 1899)
* 1871 &ndash; Nicolae Iorga, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1940)
* 1878 &ndash; Oscar Apfel, American actor, director, screenwriter, producer (d. 1938)
* 1879 &ndash; Burt McKinnie, American golfer (d. 1946)
* 1881 &ndash; Antoni Lamnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
* 1882 &ndash; Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (d. 1946)
* 1883 &ndash; Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (d. 1972)
* 1886 &ndash; Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
* 1887 &ndash; Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
* 1889 &ndash; Ralph Howard Fowler, British astronomer and physicist (d. 1944)
* 1895 &ndash; John Duff, Canadian racing driver (d. 1958)
* 1897 &ndash; Marcel Petiot, French physician and serial killer (d. 1946)
* 1899 &ndash; Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
* 1899 &ndash; Nevil Shute, English writer (d. 1960)

### 1901 &ndash; 1925 
* 1901 &ndash; Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian–born American philosopher (d. 1973)
* 1902 &ndash; Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (d. 1963)
* 1905 &ndash; Guillermo Stabile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
* 1908 &ndash; Cus D'Amato, American boxing coach (d. 1985)
* 1911 &ndash; George Stigler, American economist (d. 1991)
* 1911 &ndash; John S. McCain, Jr., father of John McCain (d. 1981)
* 1914 &ndash; Taizo Kawamoto, Japanese footballer (d. 1985)
* 1914 &ndash; Fang Zhaoling, Chinese artist (d. 2006)
* 1917 &ndash; M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician and actor (d. 1987)
* 1918 &ndash; George M. Leader, former Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
* 1918 &ndash; Keith Joseph, British politician (d. 1994)
* 1921 &ndash; Antonio Prohias, Cuban–born cartoonist (d. 1998)
* 1921 &ndash; Asghar Khan, Pakistani politician and military officer (d. 2018)
* 1922 &ndash; Luis Echeverria Alvarez, former President of Mexico (d. 2022)
* 1922 &ndash; Betty White, American actress (d. 2021)
* 1922 &ndash; Nicholas Katzenbach, 55th United States Attorney General (d. 2012)
* 1925 &ndash; Robert Cormier, American writer (d. 2000)
* 1925 &ndash; Edgar Ray Killen, American criminal (d. 2018)

### 1926 &ndash; 1950 
* 1926 &ndash; Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006)
* 1926 &ndash; Nélida Romero, Argentine actress (d. 2015) 
* 1927 &ndash; Eartha Kitt, American singer (d. 2008)
* 1927 &ndash; Harlan Mathews, United States Senator from Tennessee (d. 2014)
* 1928 &ndash; Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser (d. 2012)
* 1928 &ndash; Chu Shijian, Chinese businessman (d. 2019)
* 1929 &ndash; Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
* 1931 &ndash; James Earl Jones, American actor
* 1931 &ndash; L. Douglas Wilder, American politician, former Governor of Virginia
* 1931 &ndash; Don Zimmer, American baseball coach (d. 2014)
* 1933 &ndash; Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
* 1934 &ndash; Cedar Walton, American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
* 1935 &ndash; Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, former Governor of Delaware (d. 2021)
* 1938 &ndash; Toini Gustafsson, Finnish–Swedish cross–country skier
* 1939 &ndash; Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens (d. 2008)
* 1940 &ndash; Mircea Snegur, former President of Moldova
* 1940 &ndash; Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Egyptian church leader (d. 2015)
* 1940 &ndash; Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
* 1940 &ndash; Tabaré Vazquez, President of Uruguay
* 1942 &ndash; Muhammad Ali, American boxer (d. 2016)
* 1942 &ndash; Forges, Spanish cartoonist (d. 2018)
* 1943 &ndash; René Préval, former President of Haiti (d. 2017)
* 1944 &ndash; Françoise Hardy, French singer
* 1944 &ndash; Jan Guillou, Swedish writer and journalist
* 1945 &ndash; Javed Akhtar, Indian composer, poet and scriptwriter
* 1948 &ndash; Eddie Gray, Scottish footballer
* 1948 &ndash; David Oddson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
* 1949 &ndash; Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
* 1949 &ndash; Mick Taylor, British musician
* 1949 &ndash; Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician (d. 2014)
* 1949 &ndash; Dick Nanninga, Dutch footballer (d. 2015)
* 1949 &ndash; Anita Borg, American computer scientist and activist (d. 2003)
* 1949 &ndash; Heini Hemmi, Swiss skier
* 1950 &ndash; Richard L. Anderson, American sound editor

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1954 &ndash; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and activist
* 1956 &ndash; Paul Young, English musician
* 1956 &ndash; Damian Green, British politician
* 1957 &ndash; Keith Chegwin, British television presenter (d. 2017)
* 1957 &ndash; Steve Harvey, American comedian and actor
* 1959 &ndash; Susanna Hoffs, American musician
* 1959 &ndash; Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
* 1960 &ndash; John Crawford, American musician
* 1960 &ndash; Chili Davis, Jamaican baseball player
* 1961 &ndash; Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player
* 1961 &ndash; Brian Helgeland, American screenwriter, director and movie producer
* 1962 &ndash; Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
* 1963 &ndash; Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist
* 1963 &ndash; Cyrus Chestnut, American jazz musician
* 1964 &ndash; Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States
* 1964 &ndash; Andy Rourke, English guitarist
* 1965 &ndash; Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1966 &ndash; Nobuyuki Kojima, Japanese footballer
* 1966 &ndash; Joshua Malina, American actor
* 1967 &ndash; Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
* 1968 &ndash; Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete
* 1969 &ndash; Lukas Moodysson, Swedish writer and director
* 1971 &ndash; Leslie Benzies, Scottish video game producer
* 1971 &ndash; Leonardo Ciampi, Italian–American singer and musician
* 1971 &ndash; Kid Rock, American singer
* 1971 &ndash; Richard Burns, English rally driver (d. 2005)
* 1971 &ndash; Sylvie Testud, French actress
* 1972 &ndash; Ken Hirai, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer and actor
* 1973 &ndash; Chris Bowen, Australian politician
* 1973 &ndash; Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Danny Bhoy, Scottish comedian
* 1974 &ndash; Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
* 1975 &ndash; Freddy Rodriguez, American actor

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Tonique Williams-Darling, Bahamian athlete
* 1978 &ndash; Ricky Wilson, English singer (Kaiser Chiefs)
* 1979 &ndash; Ricardo Cabanas, Swiss footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Zooey Deschanel, American actress
* 1981 &ndash; Daniel Diges, Spanish singer
* 1981 &ndash; Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Ray J, American singer and actor
* 1981 &ndash; Stefan Petzner, Austrian politician
* 1982 &ndash; Hwanhee, South Korean actor and singer
* 1982 &ndash; Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
* 1983 &ndash; Alvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Yelle, French singer and songwriter
* 1984 &ndash; Calvin Harris, Scottish singer and musician
* 1985 &ndash; Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer
* 1985 &ndash; Simone Simons, Dutch singer
* 1985 &ndash; Pablo Barrientos, Argentine footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Viktor Stalberg, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1986 &ndash; Max Adler, American actor
* 1988 &ndash; Earl Clark, American basketball player
* 1988 &ndash; Héctor Moreno, Mexican footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Björn Dreyer, German footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Taylor Jordan, American baseball player
* 1991 &ndash; Lee Kiseop, South Korean actor and singer
* 1992 &ndash; Nate Hartley, American actor
* 1992 &ndash; Frankie Cocozza, English singer

## Deaths
### Up to 1900 
* 395 &ndash; Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (a kind of leader)
* 1229 &ndash; Albert of Buxhoeveden (b. 1165)
* 1369 &ndash; Peter I of Cyprus (b. 1328)
* 1468 &ndash; Skanderbeg, Albanian leader against the Ottoman Empire (b. 1405)
* 1598 &ndash; Fyodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
* 1617 &ndash; Faust Vrancic, Croatian inventor of the Parachute (b. 1551)
* 1705 &ndash; John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
* 1738 &ndash; Jean-François Dandrieu, French organist and composer (b. 1682)
* 1751 &ndash; Tomaso Albinoni, Italian song maker (b. 1671)
* 1799 &ndash; Dun Mikiel Xerri, Maltese patriot (b. 1739)
* 1834 &ndash; Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
* 1861 &ndash; Lola Montez, adventurer (b. 1821)
* 1863 &ndash; Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
* 1874 &ndash; Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (b. 1811)
* 1884 &ndash; Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
* 1886 &ndash; Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (b. 1834)
* 1887 &ndash; William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
* 1893 &ndash; Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1908 &ndash; Ferdinand IV of Tuscany (b. 1835)
* 1909 &ndash; Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)
* 1911 &ndash; Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist (b. 1822)
* 1927 &ndash; Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
* 1931 &ndash; Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864)
* 1933 &ndash; Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
* 1947 &ndash; Pyotr Krasnov, Russian general (b. 1869)
* 1947 &ndash; Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (b. 1883)
* 1951 &ndash; Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright and movie maker (b. 1903)
* 1956 &ndash; Blind Alfred Reed, American musician (b. 1880)
* 1961 &ndash; Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
* 1963 &ndash; Henri Masson, French fencer (b. 1872)
* 1964 &ndash; T.H. White, writer (b. 1906)
* 1967 &ndash; Evelyn Nesbit, actress, also known as "The Girl In The Red Velvet Swing" (b. 1884)
* 1972 &ndash; Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
* 1975 &ndash; Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, President of Colombia (b. 1900)
* 1977 &ndash; Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
* 1977 &ndash; Gary Gilmore, American murderer (executed by firing squad) (b. 1940)
* 1991 &ndash; King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
* 1993 &ndash; Albert Hourani, historian (b. 1915)
* 1994 &ndash; Yevgeni Ivanov, Soviet spy (b. 1926)
* 1996 &ndash; Amber Hagerman, American murder victim (b. 1986)
* 1996 &ndash; Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
* 1997 &ndash; Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
* 2002 &ndash; Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1989 (b. 1916)
* 2003 &ndash; Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
* 2004 &ndash; Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
* 2004 &ndash; Rafael Churumba Cordero, mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico (b. 1942)
* 2004 &ndash; Ray Stark, American movie producer, produced *Funny Girl* in 1968 (b. 1915)
* 2005 &ndash; Charlie Bell, former chief executive officer of McDonald's (b. 1960)
* 2005 &ndash; Virginia Mayo, American actress of the 1940s and 1950s (b. 1920)
* 2005 &ndash; Albert Schatz, microbiologist, discoverer of streptomycin (b. 1920)
* 2005 &ndash; Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1917)
* 2008 &ndash; Bobby Fischer, American–born Icelandic chess player (b. 1943)
* 2009 &ndash; Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer and historian (b. 1943)
* 2010 &ndash; Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
* 2010 &ndash; Erich Segal, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1937)
* 2011 &ndash; Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934)
* 2012 &ndash; Johnny Otis, American singer and musician (b. 1921)
* 2013 &ndash; Jakob Arjouni, German writer (b. 1964)
* 2013 &ndash; Sophiya Haque, British actress (b. 1971)
* 2013 &ndash; John Nkomo, Vice President of Zimbabwe (b. 1934)
* 2014 &ndash; Suchitra Sen, Indian actress (b. 1931)
* 2014 &ndash; Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian Islamic leader (b. 1915)
* 2014 &ndash; Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, English politician (b. 1941)
* 2015 &ndash; Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (b. 1931)
* 2015 &ndash; Bill Sykes, English chaplain and writer (b. 1939)
* 2015 &ndash; Don Harron, Canadian comedian, actor and writer (b. 1924)
* 2015 &ndash; Origa, Russian singer (b. 1970)
* 2016 &ndash; Blowfly, American musician and producer (b. 1939)
* 2016 &ndash; Bob Harkey, American racing driver (b. 1930)
* 2016 &ndash; Gottfried Honegger, Swiss artist and graphic designer (b. 1917)
* 2016 &ndash; V. Rama Rao, Indian politician, former Governor of Sikkim (b. 1935)
* 2017 &ndash; M. M. Ruhul Amin, Bangladeshi judge (b. 1942)
* 2017 &ndash; Brenda C. Barnes, American businesswoman (b. 1953)
* 2017 &ndash; Philip Bond, British actor (b. 1934)
* 2017 &ndash; Colo, American–bred Western gorilla (b. 1956)
* 2017 &ndash; Mario Fasino, Italian politician, President of Sicily (b. 1920)
* 2017 &ndash; Heng Freylinger, Luxembourgish wrestler (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Steven Plaut, American–Israeli economist and academic (b. 1951)
* 2017 &ndash; Robert Timlin, American judge (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Daniel Vischer, Swiss politician (b. 1950)
* 2018 &ndash; Simon Shelton, English actor (b. 1966)
* 2018 &ndash; Jessica Falkholt, Australian actress (b. 1988)
* 2018 &ndash; Augusto Polo Campos, Peruvian composer (b. 1932)
* 2019 &ndash; Babiker Awadalla, Prime minister of Sudan (b. 1917)
* 2019 &ndash; Windsor Davies, British actor (b. 1930)
* 2019 &ndash; Mary Oliver, American poet (b. 1935)
* 2019 &ndash; Reggie Young, American guitarist (b. 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; Horst Stern, German science journalist, filmmaker and writer (b. 1922)

## Observances
* Ancient Latvia – Zirgu Diena observed
* Catholicism – Feast day of St. Anthony.
* Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States when this day falls on a Monday.
* National Day of Menorca

## Other websites
* BBC: On This Day