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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 12 is the 12th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
353 days remain until the end of the year (354 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is
crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523.[1] ·
1554 – Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble
the largest empire in
the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma. ·
1616 – The city
of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese
captain Francisco
Caldeira Castelo Branco. ·
1808 – John Rennie's
scheme to defend St Mary's
Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour
of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon
architecture and sculpture. ·
1808 – The organizational meeting leading
to the creation of the Wernerian
Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is
held in Edinburgh. ·
1848 – The Palermo
rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of
the Two Sicilies.[2] ·
1866 – The Royal
Aeronautical Society is formed in London. ·
1872 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum,
the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.[3] ·
1895 – The National Trust is founded in the
United Kingdom.[4] ·
1911 – The University
of the Philippines College of Law is formally established;
three future Philippine
presidents are among the first enrollees. ·
1915 – The United
States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require
states to give women the right to vote. ·
1916 – Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial
victories each over Allied aircraft,
receive the German Empire's
highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as
the first German aviators to earn it. ·
1918 – The Minnie Pit Disaster coal
mining accident occurs in Halmer End, Staffordshire, in which 155 men and
boys die.[5] ·
1921 – Acting to
restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal,
Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis is elected as Major League
Baseball's first commissioner. ·
1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman
elected to the United States Senate.[6] ·
1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D.
Roosevelt creates the National
War Labor Board.[7] ·
1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Vistula–Oder
Offensive. ·
1962 – Vietnam War: Operation
Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes
place. ·
1964 – Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as
the Zanzibar Revolution and
proclaim a republic. ·
1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states
that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. ·
1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person
to be cryonically preserved with intent of
future resuscitation. ·
1969 – The New York Jets of the American
Football League defeat the Baltimore
Colts of the National
Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to
be one of the greatest upsets in sports history. ·
1970 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War. ·
1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other
activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow
up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C. ·
1976 – The United
Nations Security Council votes 11–1 to allow the Palestine
Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council
debate (without voting rights). ·
1986 – Space Shuttle
program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts
off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on
mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist. ·
1990 – A seven-day pogrom breaks out
against the Armenian civilian population
of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured,
murdered, and expelled from the city. ·
1991 – Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S.
Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. ·
1998 – Nineteen
European nations agree to forbid human cloning. ·
2001 – Downtown
Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. ·
2004 – The world's
largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its
maiden voyage. ·
2005 – Deep Impact launches
from Cape Canaveral on
a Delta II rocket.[8] ·
2006 – A stampede during
the Stoning of the Devil ritual
on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia,
kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims. ·
2010 – An earthquake in Haiti occurs,
killing between 220,000 and 300,000 people and destroying much of the
capital Port-au-Prince.[9] ·
2012 – Violent protests occur
in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations
continue against President Traian Băsescu's
economic austerity measures.
Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law
enforcement officers. ·
2015 – Government
raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon. ·
2016 – Ten people are
killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near
the Blue Mosque in
Istanbul. ·
2020 – Taal Volcano in the Philippines erupts,
and kills 39 people. Births[edit]
·
1483 – Henry III of
Nassau-Breda (d. 1538) ·
1562 – Charles
Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1630) ·
1576 – Petrus Scriverius,
Dutch historian and scholar (d. 1660) ·
1577 – Jan Baptist van
Helmont, Flemish chemist and physician (d. 1644) ·
1588 – John Winthrop, English lawyer and
politician, 2nd Governor
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1649) ·
1591 – Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652) ·
1597 – François Duquesnoy,
Flemish sculptor and educator (d. 1643) ·
1598 – Jijabai Shahaji
Bhosale, mother of Indian king Shivaji (d. 1674) ·
1628 – Charles Perrault, French author and academic
(d. 1703) ·
1673 – Rosalba Carriera, Italian painter (d. 1757) ·
1694 – Godscall Paleologue,
possibly last member of the Palaiologos dynasty (d. ????)[10] ·
1711 – Gaetano Latilla, Italian composer (d. 1788) ·
1715 – Jacques Duphly, French organist and composer
(d. 1789) ·
1716 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general and
politician, 1st Spanish
Governor of Louisiana (d. 1795) ·
1721 – Duke
Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Prussian field marshal (d.
1792) ·
1723 – Samuel Langdon, American minister,
theologian, and academic (d. 1797) ·
1724 – Frances Brooke, English author and
playwright (d. 1789) ·
1729 – Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher, academic,
and politician (d. 1797) ·
1746 – Johann
Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss philosopher and educator (d. 1827) ·
1751 – Ferdinand
I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825) ·
1772 – Mikhail Speransky,
Russian academic and politician (d. 1839) ·
1786 – Sir Robert
Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1855) ·
1792 – Johan August
Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (d. 1841) ·
1797 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and
author (d. 1873) ·
1799 – Priscilla Susan Bury,
British botanist (d. 1872) ·
1822 – Étienne Lenoir,
Belgian engineer, designed the internal
combustion engine (d. 1900) ·
1837 – Adolf Jensen, German pianist and composer
(d. 1879) ·
1849 – Jean Béraud, Russian-French painter and
academic (d. 1935) ·
1853 – Gregorio
Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (d. 1925) ·
1856 – John Singer Sargent,
American painter and academic (d. 1925) ·
1863 – Swami Vivekananda,
Indian monk and philosopher (d. 1902) ·
1869 – Bhagwan Das, Indian philosopher, academic,
and politician (d. 1958) ·
1873 – Spyridon Louis, Greek runner (d. 1940) ·
1874 – Laura Adams Armer,
American author and photographer (d. 1963)[11] ·
1876 – Fevzi Çakmak, Turkish field marshal and
politician, Prime
Minister of the Turkish Provisional Government (d. 1950)[12] ·
1876 – Jack London, American novelist and
journalist (d. 1916) ·
1876 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari,
Italian composer and educator (d. 1948) ·
1877 – Frank J. Corr, American lawyer and
politician, 45th Mayor of Chicago (d.
1934) ·
1878 – Ferenc Molnár, Hungarian-American author and
playwright (d. 1952) ·
1879 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver and
engineer (d. 1968)[13] ·
1879 – Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and
politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (d.
1942) ·
1882 – Milton Sills, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 1930) ·
1884 – Texas Guinan, American entertainer and
bootlegger (d. 1933)[14] ·
1889 – Mirza
Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Indian-Pakistani spiritual leader
(d. 1965) ·
1890 – Johannes Vares, Estonian poet, physician,
and politician (d. 1946) ·
1892 – Mikhail
Gurevich, Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Russian Aircraft Corporation (d. 1976) ·
1893 – Hermann Göring,
German commander, pilot, and politician, Minister
President of Prussia (d. 1946) ·
1893 – Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian-German architect
and politician, Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories (d.
1946) ·
1894 – Georges Carpentier,
French boxer and actor (d. 1975) ·
1895 – Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and
academic (d. 1959) ·
1896 – Uberto De Morpurgo,
Italian tennis player (d. 1961)[15] ·
1896 – David Wechsler, Romanian-American
psychologist and author (d. 1981)[16] ·
1899 – Pierre Bernac, French opera singer and
educator (d. 1979) ·
1899 – Paul Hermann Müller,
Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1965) ·
1901 – Karl Künstler, German SS officer
(d. 1945) ·
1903 – Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and
academic (d. 1960) ·
1903 – Andrew J. Transue,
American politician and attorney (Morissette v.
United States) (d. 1995) ·
1904 – Mississippi
Fred McDowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972) ·
1905 – Nihal Atsız, Turkish author, poet, and
philosopher (d. 1975) ·
1905 – James Bennett
Griffin, American archaeologist and academic (d. 1997) ·
1905 – Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (d.
1974) ·
1906 – Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French
historian, philosopher, and academic (d. 1995) ·
1907 – Sergei Korolev, Russian colonel and engineer
(d. 1966) ·
1908 – Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2008) ·
1908 – Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988) ·
1910 – Patsy Kelly, American actress and comedian
(d. 1981) ·
1910 – Luise Rainer, German-English actress (d.
2014) ·
1912 – Richard Kuremaa, Estonian footballer (d.
1991) ·
1914 – Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and
psychologist (d. 1979) ·
1915 – Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and
producer (d. 1997) ·
1915 – Joseph-Aurèle
Plourde, Canadian archbishop and academic (d. 2013) ·
1916 – Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and
inventor (d. 2013) ·
1916 – Mary
Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, British poet and Spouse of
the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2018) ·
1916 – P. W. Botha, South African politician,
8th Prime
Minister of South Africa (d. 2006) ·
1917 – Walter Hendl, American pianist, composer,
and conductor (d. 2007) ·
1917 – Jimmy Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach (d. 2007) ·
1920 – James Farmer, American activist and
politician, co-founded Congress of
Racial Equality (d. 1999)[17] ·
1920 – Jerzy Zubrzycki, Polish-Australian
sociologist and academic (d. 2009) ·
1922 – Tadeusz
Żychiewicz, Polish journalist and historian (d. 1994) ·
1923 – Ira Hayes, American marine who raised the
U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955)[18] ·
1924 – Olivier Gendebien,
Belgian racing driver and businessman (d. 1998) ·
1925 – Bill Burrud, American television host,
producer, and actor (d. 1990) ·
1926 – Morton Feldman, American composer and
academic (d. 1987) ·
1926 – Ray Price,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)[19] ·
1928 – Ruth Brown, American R&B
singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2006) ·
1929 – Alasdair MacIntyre,
Scottish-American philosopher and academic[20] ·
1929 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and
logician (d. 2015) ·
1930 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and
businessman, founded Tim Hortons (d.
1974) ·
1930 – Jennifer Johnston,
Irish author and playwright ·
1930 – Glenn Yarbrough, American singer and actor
(d. 2016) ·
1933 – Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright
(d. 2013) ·
1934 – Alan Sharp, Scottish-American author and
screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1934 – Mick Sullivan, English rugby player and
coach (d. 2016) ·
1935 – Teresa del Conde, Mexican historian and
critic (d. 2017) ·
1935 – Kreskin, American mentalist ·
1936 – Jennifer
Hilton, Baroness Hilton of Eggardon, English police officer and
politician ·
1936 – Raimonds Pauls, Latvian pianist and composer ·
1936 – Brajanath Ratha, Indian poet and activist
(d. 2014) ·
1936 – Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian
Minister of Home Affairs (d. 2016) ·
1937 – Shirley Eaton, English actress ·
1938 – Qazi Hussain Ahmad,
Pakistani scholar and politician (d. 2013) ·
1940 – Bob Hewitt, Australian-South African tennis
player ·
1940 – Ronald Shannon
Jackson, American drummer and composer (d. 2013) ·
1940 – Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2007) ·
1941 – Long John Baldry, English-Canadian
singer-songwriter and voice actor (d. 2005) ·
1941 – Fiona Caldicott, English psychiatrist and
psychotherapist ·
1941 – Chet Jastremski, American swimmer and
physician (d. 2014) ·
1942 – Bernardine Dohrn, American domestic
terrorist, political activist and academic ·
1944 – Hans Henning Atrott,
German author and theorist ·
1944 – Joe Frazier, American boxer (d. 2011) ·
1944 – Cynthia Robinson, American R&B trumpet
player and singer (d 2015) ·
1945 – Maggie Bell, Scottish singer-songwriter ·
1946 – Hazel
Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, Scottish lawyer and judge ·
1946 – George Duke, American keyboard player,
composer, and educator (d. 2013) ·
1947 – Richard Carwardine,
English historian and academic ·
1947 – Tom Dempsey, American football player and
educator ·
1947 – Sally
Hamwee, Baroness Hamwee, English politician ·
1948 – Kenny Allen,
English footballer ·
1948 – Anthony Andrews, English actor and producer ·
1948 – Gordon Campbell, Canadian educator and
politician, 34th Premier of
British Columbia ·
1948 – Brendan Foster, English runner and
sportscaster ·
1948 – William
Nicholson, English author and screenwriter ·
1949 – Kentarō Haneda,
Japanese pianist and composer (d. 2007) ·
1949 – Ottmar Hitzfeld, German footballer and
manager ·
1949 – Hamadi Jebali, Tunisian engineer,
journalist, and politician, 19th Prime Minister
of Tunisia ·
1949 – Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist,
short-story writer, and essayist ·
1950 – Sheila Jackson Lee,
American lawyer, judge, and politician ·
1950 – Göran Lindblad,
Swedish dentist and politician ·
1950 – Bob McEwen, American businessman and
politician ·
1950 – Dorrit Moussaieff,
Israeli-Icelandic jewelry designer and businesswoman, 5th First Lady of Iceland ·
1951 – Kirstie Alley, American actress and producer ·
1951 – Chris Bell,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978) ·
1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American talk show host and
author ·
1951 – Drew
Pearson, American football player and sportscaster ·
1952 – Phil Perry, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1952 – Ricky Van Shelton,
American country singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1952 – John Walker,
New Zealand runner and politician ·
1952 – Walter Mosley, American novelist ·
1953 – Mary Harron, Canadian director and
screenwriter ·
1954 – Howard Stern, American radio host, actor,
and author ·
1954 – Martin Kylhammar, Swedish professor of
culture and society ·
1955 – Tom Ardolino, American rock drummer (NRBQ)
(d. 2012) ·
1956 – Nikolai Noskov, Russian rock singer and
singer-songwriter ·
1957 – John Lasseter, American animator, director,
and producer ·
1957 – Jeremy Sams, English director, playwright,
and composer ·
1958 – Christiane Amanpour,
English-born Iranian-American journalist ·
1958 – Curt Fraser, American-Canadian ice hockey
player and coach ·
1959 – B. Brian Blair, American wrestler and
politician ·
1959 – Per Gessle, Swedish singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1960 – Oliver Platt, Canadian-American actor ·
1960 – Dominique Wilkins,
French-American basketball player and manager ·
1961 – Simon Russell Beale,
Malaysia-born English actor and historian ·
1962 – Joe Quesada, American author and illustrator ·
1962 – Richie Richardson,
Antiguan cricketer ·
1962 – Luna Vachon, American-Canadian wrestler and
manager (d. 2010) ·
1963 – François Girard,
Canadian director and screenwriter ·
1963 – Nando Reis, Brazilian singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1964 – Jeff Bezos, American computer scientist and
businessman, founded Amazon.com ·
1965 – Rob Zombie, American singer-songwriter,
producer, actor, and director ·
1966 – Olivier Martinez, French actor ·
1966 – Craig Parry, Australian golfer ·
1967 – Vendela Kirsebom, Norwegian-Swedish model
and actress ·
1968 – Junichi Masuda, Japanese director, producer,
and composer ·
1968 – Heather Mills, English businesswoman,
activist and model ·
1968 – Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer ·
1969 – David Mitchell,
English novelist ·
1969 – Margaret Nagle, American screenwriter and
producer ·
1970 – Raekwon, American rapper and member of East Coast hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan ·
1970 – Zack de la Rocha, American singer-songwriter ·
1971 – Scott Burrell, American basketball player
and coach ·
1972 – Priyanka Gandhi, Indian politician ·
1972 – Espen Knutsen, Norwegian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1972 – Paul Wilson,
Australian cricketer and umpire ·
1973 – Brian Culbertson, American pianist and
producer ·
1973 – Hande Yener, Turkish singer-songwriter,
producer, and actress ·
1974 – Melanie C, English singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1974 – Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian skier ·
1975 – Jason Freese, American saxophonist,
songwriter, and producer ·
1975 – Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1977 – Yoandy Garlobo, Cuban baseball player ·
1978 – Luis Ayala, Mexican baseball player ·
1978 – Maurizio Zaffiri, Italian rugby player ·
1979 – Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player ·
1979 – Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model ·
1979 – Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer ·
1979 – David Zabriskie, American cyclist ·
1980 – Bobby Crosby, American baseball player ·
1981 – Amerie, American singer-songwriter,
producer, and actress ·
1981 – João Paulo Daniel,
Brazilian footballer ·
1981 – Dan Klecko, American football player ·
1981 – Angus
Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player ·
1981 – Luis Ernesto Pérez,
Mexican footballer ·
1982 – Paul-Henri Mathieu,
French tennis player ·
1982 – Hans Van Alphen, Belgian decathlete ·
1982 – Dean Whitehead, English footballer ·
1982 – Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player ·
1984 – Daniel Sepulveda, American football player ·
1984 – Jonathan Zydko, French footballer ·
1985 – Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer ·
1985 – Issa Rae, American actress, writer,
director, producer and web series creator ·
1985 – Borja Valero, Spanish footballer ·
1986 – Kehoma Brenner, German rugby player ·
1986 – Miguel Ángel Nieto,
Spanish footballer ·
1987 – Naya Rivera, American actress and singer (d.
2020)[21] ·
1987 – Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer ·
1988 – Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1989 – Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka,
German footballer ·
1989 – Axel Witsel, Belgian footballer ·
1991 – Pixie Lott, English singer-songwriter,
dancer, and actress ·
1991 – Matt Srama, Australian rugby league player ·
1992 – Ishak Belfodil, Algerian footballer ·
1992 – Samuele Longo, Italian footballer ·
1993 – Zayn Malik, English singer-songwriter ·
1993 – Simone Pecorini, Italian footballer ·
1993 – Do Kyungsoo,
South Korean singer and member of boy band EXO ·
1995 – Sarah Mehain, Canadian Paralympic swimmer[22] ·
1995 – Alessio Romagnoli,
Italian footballer Deaths[edit]
·
690 – Benedict Biscop, English scholar and saint,
founded the Monkwearmouth–Jarrow
Abbey (b. 628) ·
914 – Ahmad Samani, Samanid emir ·
947 – Sang Weihan, Chinese chief of staff (b. 898) ·
1140 – Louis I,
Landgrave of Thuringia ·
1167 – Aelred of Rievaulx,
English monk and saint (b. 1110) ·
1320 – John Dalderby, bishop of Lincoln ·
1321 – Marie
of Brabant, Queen of France (b. 1256) ·
1405 – Eleanor Maltravers,
English noblewoman (b. 1345) ·
1519 – Maximilian
I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459) ·
1665 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and
lawyer (b. 1601) ·
1674 – Giacomo Carissimi,
Italian priest and composer (b. 1605) ·
1700 – Marguerite Bourgeoys,
French-Canadian nun and saint, founded the Congregation
of Notre Dame of Montreal (b. 1620) ·
1720 – William Ashhurst, English banker and
politician, Lord Mayor of London (b.
1647) ·
1732 – John Horsley,
English-Scottish historian and author (b. 1685) ·
1735 – John Eccles,
English composer (b. 1668) ·
1759 – Anne,
Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709) ·
1765 – Johann Melchior
Molter, German violinist and composer (b. 1696) ·
1777 – Hugh Mercer, Scottish-American general and
physician (b. 1726) ·
1778 – François Bigot,
French politician (b. 1703) ·
1781 – Richard Challoner,
English bishop (b. 1691) ·
1829 – Karl
Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German philosopher, poet, and critic
(b. 1772) ·
1833 – Marie-Antoine Carême,
French chef (b. 1784) ·
1834 – William
Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, English academic and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759) ·
1856 – Ľudovít Štúr,
Slovak philologist and politician (b. 1815) ·
1861 – Václav Hanka, Czech philologist and author
(b. 1791) ·
1892 – James
Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Tyrone (b. 1820) ·
1892 – William Reeves,
Irish bishop and historian (b. 1815) ·
1899 – Hiram Walker, American businessman,
founded Canadian Club (b.
1816) ·
1909 – Hermann Minkowski,
Lithuanian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1864) ·
1911 – Andreas
Papagiannakopoulos, Greek journalist, judge, and politician (b.
1845) ·
1916 – Georgios Theotokis,
Greek lawyer and politician, 80th Prime
Minister of Greece (b. 1844) ·
1921 – Gervase Elwes, English tenor and actor (b.
1866) ·
1926 – Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and
politician, 4th Australian
Minister for Defence (b. 1864) ·
1934 – Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and
composer (b. 1887) ·
1938 – Oscar Florianus
Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1867) ·
1940 – Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (b.
1891) ·
1940 – Edward Smith,
English lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1898) ·
1943 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic (b.
1902) ·
1944 – Lance C. Wade, American commander and pilot
(b. 1915) ·
1958 – Charles Hatfield, American meteorologist (b.
1875) ·
1960 – Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (b.
1899) ·
1962 – Ariadna
Tyrkova-Williams, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1869) ·
1965 – Lorraine Hansberry,
American author, playwright, and director (b. 1936) ·
1967 – Burhan Asaf Belge,
Turkish diplomat (b. 1887) ·
1971 – John Tovey,
1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (b. 1885) ·
1973 – Roy Franklin Nichols,
American historian and academic (b. 1896) ·
1974 – Princess
Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886) ·
1976 – Agatha Christie, English crime novelist,
short story writer, and playwright (b. 1890)[23] ·
1977 – Henri-Georges
Clouzot, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907) ·
1983 – Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and
politician (b. 1903) ·
1988 – Connie Mulder, South African politician (b.
1925) ·
1988 – Piero Taruffi, Italian racing driver and
motorcycle racer (b. 1906) ·
1990 – Laurence J. Peter,
Canadian-American author and educator (b. 1919) ·
1991 – Robert
Jackson, Australian public servant and diplomat (b. 1911) ·
1992 – Kumar Gandharva, a Hindustani classical
singer (b. 1924) ·
1994 – Gustav Naan, Estonian physicist and
philosopher (b. 1919) ·
1996 – Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician and
academic (b. 1926) ·
1997 – Jean-Edern Hallier,
French author (b. 1936) ·
1997 – Charles Brenton
Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1901) ·
1998 – Roger Clark, English racing driver (b. 1939)[24] ·
1999 – Doug Wickenheiser,
Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1961) ·
2000 – Marc Davis,
American animator and screenwriter (b. 1913) ·
2000 – Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b.
1969) ·
2001 – Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer
(b. 1922) ·
2001 – William
Redington Hewlett, American engineer and businessman,
co-founded Hewlett-Packard (b.
1913) ·
2002 – Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician,
57th U.S. Secretary of
State (b. 1917) ·
2003 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist and
author (b. 1912) ·
2003 – Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese actor, director,
and screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
2003 – Leopoldo Galtieri,
Argentine general and politician, 44th President of
Argentina (b. 1926) ·
2003 – Maurice Gibb, Manx-Australian
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1949) ·
2003 – Alan Nunn May, English physicist and spy (b.
1911) ·
2004 – Olga Ladyzhenskaya,
Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1921) ·
2005 – Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932) ·
2006 – Pablita Velarde, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native
American) painter (b. 1918) ·
2007 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and
composer (b. 1937) ·
2007 – James Killen, Australian soldier, lawyer,
and politician, 38th Australian
Minister for Defence (b. 1925) ·
2008 – Max Beck, American intersex advocate (b. 1966)[25] ·
2009 – Claude Berri, French actor, director, and
screenwriter (b. 1934) ·
2010 – Daniel Bensaïd,
French philosopher and author (b. 1946) ·
2010 – Hasib Sabbagh, Palestinian businessman and
philanthropist, co-founded Consolidated
Contractors Company (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Bjørn G. Andersen,
Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1924) ·
2012 – Glenda Dickerson, American director,
choreographer, and educator (b. 1945) ·
2012 – Bill Janklow, American lawyer and
politician, 27th Governor of
South Dakota (b. 1939) ·
2012 – Charles H. Price II,
American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b.
1931) ·
2012 – Jim
Stanley, American football player and coach (b. 1935) ·
2013 – Precious Bryant, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1942) ·
2013 – Eugene Patterson, American journalist and
activist (b. 1923) ·
2014 – Alexandra Bastedo,
English actress (b. 1946)[26] ·
2014 – Connie Binsfeld, American educator and politician,
58th Lieutenant
Governor of Michigan (b. 1924) ·
2014 – George Dement, American soldier,
businessman, and politician (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Trevor Colbourn, American historian and
academic (b. 1927) ·
2015 – Robert Gover, American journalist and author
(b. 1929) ·
2015 – Carl Long,
American baseball player (b. 1935) ·
2015 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and
actress (b. 1939) ·
2015 – Inge Vermeulen, Brazilian-Dutch field hockey
player (b. 1985) ·
2017 – William Peter Blatty,
American writer and filmmaker (b. 1928) ·
2017 – Graham Taylor, former Grimsby Town player
and former manager of the England football
team. (b. 1944) ·
2018 – Keith Jackson, American sports commentator
and journalist (b. 1928) [27] ·
2020 – Sir Roger Scruton, English philosopher and
writer (b. 1944)[28] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Tatiana o January
12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Lee–Jackson Day can
fall while January 18 is the latest, celebrated on the Friday before Martin Luther King
Day. (Commonwealth of
Virginia) ·
Prosecutor
General's Day (Russia) ·
Zanzibar
Revolution Day (Tanzania) |
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