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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 13 is the 13th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
352 days remain until the end of the year (353 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing
season at the Hippodrome in Constantinople, as a result of discontent
with the rule of the Emperor Justinian I.[1][2] ·
1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement
of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is
promulgated by Pope Eugene IV. ·
1547 – Henry
Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death for treason, on the
grounds of having quartered his arms to make them similar to those of the King, Henry VIII of
England.[3] ·
1793 – Nicolas
Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France,
lynched by a mob in Rome ·
1797 – French
Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between
a French ship of the line and
two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel
running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths. ·
1815 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia,
the only battle of the war to take place in the state. ·
1822 – The design of
the Greek flag is
adopted by the First
National Assembly at Epidaurus. ·
1833 – United States
President Andrew Jackson writes
to Vice
President Martin Van Buren expressing his
opposition to South Carolina's
defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. ·
1840 – The
steamship Lexington burns
and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives. ·
1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the
British East India Company Army
during the First Anglo-Afghan
War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of
an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the
safety of a garrison in Jalalabad,
Afghanistan. ·
1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends
the Mexican–American War in California. ·
1849 – Establishment
of the Colony of
Vancouver Island. ·
1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War – Battle of
Chillianwala: British forces retreat from the Sikhs. ·
1879 – In Mozart
Gardens Brooklyn Ada Anderson completed
a great feat of pedestrianism -
2700 quarter miles in 2700 quarter hours, earning her $8000. ·
1888 – The National
Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. ·
1893 – The Independent
Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting. ·
1893 – U.S. Marines land
in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to
prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet
Constitution. ·
1895 – First
Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian
victory. ·
1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair. ·
1908 – The Rhoads Opera
House fire in Boyertown,
Pennsylvania kills 171 people. ·
1910 – The first
public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the
operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the
airwaves from the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York. ·
1915 – The 6.7 Mw Avezzano
earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in
Italy with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between
29,978–32,610. ·
1920 – The Reichstag Bloodbath
of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history.[4] [5] [6] ·
1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows
that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany. ·
1939 – The Black Friday
bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia,
claiming the lives of 71 people. ·
1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic
automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.[7] ·
1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in
a Heinkel He 280 jet
fighter. ·
1950 – British
submarine HMS Truculent collides
with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men. ·
1950 – Finland forms diplomatic relations with
the People's Republic of China. ·
1951 – First Indochina War:
The Battle of
Vĩnh Yên begins. ·
1953 – An article
appears in Pravda accusing
some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the
Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top
Soviet political and military leadership. ·
1958 – The Moroccan Army
of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera. ·
1963 – Coup d'état in Togo results
in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio. ·
1964 – Anti-Muslim riots
break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths. ·
1964 – In Manchester, New
Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward
Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside
by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New
Hampshire (1971). ·
1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the
first African American Cabinet
member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development. ·
1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison. ·
1972 – Prime
Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and
President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu
Acheampong. ·
1978 – United
States Food and
Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled
"paid" or "volunteer" donors. ·
1982 – Shortly after
takeoff, Air Florida Flight
90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th
Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four
motorists. ·
1985 – A passenger
train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad
disaster in Africa. ·
1986 – A month-long
violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between
supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail,
resulting in thousands of casualties. ·
1988 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President
of the Republic of China. ·
1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first
elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. ·
1991 – Soviet Union
troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters
in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding
around 1000 others. ·
1993 – Space Shuttle
program: Endeavour heads
for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center. ·
1993 – The Chemical
Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.[8] ·
1998 – Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire
in St. Peter's Square,
protesting against homophobia. ·
2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800. ·
2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off
the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's
negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths. ·
2018 – A false
emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike
in Hawaii caused widespread panic in the
state. ·
2020 – Taal Volcano in the Philippines spews lava fountains
while erupting in
the crater. Births[edit]
·
5 BC – Guangwu of Han,
Chinese emperor (d. 57) ·
101 – Lucius Aelius, Roman adopted son of Hadrian (d. 138) ·
915 – Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (d. 976) ·
1334 – Henry II,
king of Castile and León (d. 1379) ·
1338 – Jeong Mong-ju, Korean civil minister,
diplomat and scholar (d. 1392) ·
1400 – Infante
John, Constable of
Portugal (d. 1442) ·
1477 – Henry
Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (d. 1527) ·
1505 – Joachim
II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571) ·
1562 – Mark Alexander Boyd,
Scottish poet and soldier (d. 1601) ·
1596 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter and illustrator
(d. 1656) ·
1610 – Maria Anna of Bavaria, archduchess of Austria (d. 1665) ·
1616 – Antoinette Bourignon,
French-Flemish mystic and author (d. 1680) ·
1651 – Henry
Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English soldier and
politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer (d. 1694) ·
1683 – Christoph Graupner,
German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1760) ·
1720 – Richard Hurd,
English bishop (d. 1808) ·
1749 – Maler Müller, German poet, painter, and
playwright (d. 1825) ·
1787 – John
Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1854) ·
1804 – Paul Gavarni, French illustrator (d. 1866) ·
1805 – Thomas Dyer, American lawyer and politician,
18th Mayor of Chicago (d.
1862) ·
1808 – Salmon P. Chase, American jurist and
politician, 6th Chief
Justice of the United States (d. 1873) ·
1810 – Ernestine Rose, American suffragist,
abolitionist, and freethinker (d. 1892)[9] ·
1812 – Victor de Laprade,
French poet and critic (d. 1883) ·
1832 – Horatio Alger, Jr.,
American novelist and journalist (d. 1899) ·
1845 – Félix Tisserand,
French astronomer and academic (d. 1896) ·
1858 – Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian-German biologist
and academic (d. 1931) ·
1859 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright
(d. 1943) ·
1861 – Max Nonne, German neurologist and academic
(d. 1959) ·
1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1928) ·
1865 – Princess
Marie of Orléans (d. 1908) ·
1866 – Vasily Kalinnikov,
Russian bassoon player and composer (d. 1901) ·
1866 – George Gurdjieff, Russian-French mystic and
philosopher (d. 1949) ·
1869 – Prince
Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (d. 1931) ·
1870 – Ross Granville
Harrison, American biologist and anatomist (d. 1959) ·
1878 – Lionel Groulx, Canadian priest and historian
(d. 1967) ·
1881 – Essington Lewis, Australian engineer and
businessman (d. 1961) ·
1883 – Nathaniel Cartmell,
American runner and coach (d. 1967) ·
1885 – Alfred Fuller, Canadian-American
businessman, founded the Fuller Brush Company (d.
1973) ·
1886 – Art Ross, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and coach (d. 1964) ·
1887 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born American singer
and actress (d. 1966) ·
1890 – Jüri Uluots, Estonian journalist, lawyer,
and politician, 7th Prime Minister
of Estonia (d. 1945) ·
1892 – Ermanno Aebi, Italian-Swiss footballer (d.
1976) ·
1893 – Charles Arnison, English lieutenant and
pilot (d. 1974) ·
1893 – Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer and coach
(d. 1963) ·
1893 – Clark Ashton Smith,
American poet, sculptor, painter, and author (d. 1961) ·
1893 – Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter (d.
1943) ·
1900 – Shimizugawa
Motokichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1967) ·
1900 – Gertrude Mary Cox,
American mathematician (d. 1978)[10] ·
1901 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr.,
American novelist, screenwriter, historian (d. 1991) ·
1901 – Mieczysław
Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian (d. 1978) ·
1902 – Karl Menger, Austrian-American mathematician
from the Vienna Circle (d. 1985) ·
1904 – Richard Addinsell,
English composer (d. 1977) ·
1904 – Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-American
violinist and composer (d. 1992) ·
1904 – Dick Rowley, Irish footballer, centre
forward (d. 1984)[11] ·
1905 – Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968) ·
1905 – Jack London,
English sprinter and pianist (d. 1966) ·
1906 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist, sinologist,
and academic (d. 2017) ·
1909 – Helm Glöckler, German race car driver (d.
1993) ·
1910 – Yannis Tsarouchis,
Greek painter and illustrator (d. 1989) ·
1911 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen,
New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 31st Premier of
Queensland (d. 2005) ·
1914 – Osa Massen, Danish-American actress (d.
2006) ·
1914 – Ted Willis,
Baron Willis, English author, playwright, and screenwriter (d.
1992) ·
1919 – Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003) ·
1921 – Necati Cumalı, Greek-Turkish author and
poet (d. 2001) ·
1921 – Dachine Rainer, American-English author and
poet (d. 2000) ·
1921 – Arthur
Stevens, English footballer, outside right (d. 2007}[12] ·
1922 – Albert Lamorisse, French director and
producer (d. 1970) ·
1923 – Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997) ·
1923 – Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch runner (d. 2003) ·
1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-Swiss philosopher
and academic (d. 1994) ·
1924 – Roland Petit, French dancer and
choreographer (d. 2011) ·
1925 – Rosemary Murphy, American actress (d. 2014) ·
1925 – Vanita Smythe, American singer and actress
(d. 1994) ·
1925 – Ron Tauranac, Australian engineer and
businessman ·
1925 – Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d.
2000) ·
1926 – Michael Bond, English soldier and author,
created Paddington Bear (d.
2017) ·
1926 – Carolyn Gold
Heilbrun, American author and academic (d. 2003) ·
1926 – Melba Liston, American trombonist and
composer (d. 1999) ·
1927 – Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and
politician, 5th United
States Secretary of Transportation (d. 2004) ·
1927 – Liz Anderson, American singer-songwriter (d.
2011) ·
1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2019) ·
1929 – Joe Pass, American guitarist and composer
(d. 1994) ·
1930 – Frances Sternhagen,
American actress ·
1931 – Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984) ·
1931 – Charles Nelson
Reilly, American actor, comedian, director, game show panelist,
and television personality (d. 2007) ·
1932 – Barry Bishop,
American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (d. 1994) ·
1933 – Tom Gola, American basketball player, coach,
and politician (d. 2014) ·
1935 – Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (d.
2019) ·
1936 – Renato Bruson, Italian opera singer ·
1937 – Guy Dodson, New Zealand-English biochemist
and academic (d. 2012) ·
1938 – Cabu,
French cartoonist (d. 2015) ·
1938 – Daevid Allen, Australian singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2015) ·
1938 – Richard Anthony,
Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (d. 2015) ·
1938 – Dave
Edwards, American captain and politician (d. 2013) ·
1938 – Tord Grip, Swedish footballer and manager ·
1938 – Anna Home, English screenwriter and producer ·
1939 – Edgardo Cozarinsky,
Argentinian author, screenwriter, and director ·
1939 – Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach ·
1939 – Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1940 – Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist,
and essayist ·
1941 – Pasqual Maragall, Spanish academic and
politician, 127th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya ·
1941 – Meinhard Nehmer, German bobsledder ·
1943 – William
Duckworth, American composer and author (d. 2012) ·
1943 – Richard Moll, American actor ·
1945 – Gordon McVie, English oncologist and author ·
1945 – Peter
Simpson, English footballer ·
1946 – Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and
academic (d. 2004) ·
1946 – Eero Koivistoinen,
Finnish saxophonist, composer, and conductor ·
1947 – John Lees,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1947 – Jacek Majchrowski,
Polish historian, lawyer, and politician ·
1947 – Carles Rexach, Spanish footballer and coach ·
1948 – Gaj Singh, Indian lawyer and politician ·
1949 – Rakesh Sharma, Indian commander, pilot, and
astronaut ·
1949 – Brandon Tartikoff,
American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997) ·
1950 – Clive Betts, English economist and
politician ·
1950 – Bob Forsch, American baseball player (d.
2011) ·
1950 – Gholam Hossein
Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (d. 2014) ·
1952 – Stephen Glover,
English journalist, co-founded The Independent ·
1953 – Silvana Gallardo, American actress and
producer (d. 2012) ·
1954 – Richard Blackford,
English composer ·
1954 – Trevor Rabin, South African-American
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1955 – Paul
Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1955 – Jay McInerney, American novelist and critic ·
1955 – Anne Pringle, English diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia ·
1957 – Claudia Emerson, American poet and academic
(d. 2014) ·
1957 – Mary Glindon, English lawyer and politician ·
1957 – Mark O'Meara, American golfer ·
1957 – Lorrie Moore, American short story writer ·
1958 – Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and
manager ·
1958 – Juan Pedro de Miguel,
Spanish handball player (d. 2016) ·
1959 – Winnie Byanyima, Ugandan engineer,
politician, and diplomat ·
1960 – Eric Betzig, American physicist and
chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1960 – Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and
director ·
1961 – Wayne Coyne, American singer-songwriter and
musician ·
1961 – Kelly Hrudey, Canadian ice hockey player and
sportscaster ·
1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
American actress, comedian, and producer ·
1962 – Trace Adkins, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1962 – Paul Higgins,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1964 – Penelope Ann Miller,
American actress ·
1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car
driver ·
1966 – Leo Visser, Dutch speed skater and pilot ·
1968 – Mike Whitlow, English footballer and coach ·
1969 – Stefania Belmondo,
Italian skier ·
1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player and
journalist ·
1970 – Frank Kooiman, Dutch footballer ·
1970 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004) ·
1970 – Shonda Rhimes, American actress, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1972 – Mark Bosnich, Australian footballer and
sportscaster ·
1972 – Nicole Eggert, American actress ·
1972 – Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast ·
1973 – Nikolai Khabibulin,
Russian ice hockey player ·
1973 – Gigi Galli, Italian race driver ·
1974 – Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1975 – Rune Eriksen, Norwegian guitarist and
composer ·
1975 – Mailis Reps, Estonian academic and
politician, 31st Estonian
Minister of Education and Research ·
1975 – Andrew Yang, American entrepreneur, founder
of Venture for America,
and 2020
Democratic presidential candidate[13] ·
1976 – Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer ·
1977 – Orlando Bloom, English actor and producer ·
1977 – Mi-Hyun Kim, South Korean golfer ·
1977 – Elliot Mason, English trombonist and
keyboard player ·
1977 – James Posey, American basketball player and
coach ·
1978 – Nate Silver, American journalist and
statistician, developed PECOTA ·
1979 – Katy Brand, English actress and screenwriter ·
1980 – Krzysztof
Czerwiński, Polish organist and conductor ·
1980 – Nils-Eric Johansson,
Swedish footballer ·
1980 – Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer ·
1980 – Wolfgang Loitzl, Austrian ski jumper ·
1980 – Mirko Soltau, German footballer ·
1981 – Reggie Brown,
American football player ·
1981 – Darrell Rasner, American baseball player ·
1981 – Yujiro Takahashi, Japanese wrestler ·
1982 – Kamran Akmal, Pakistan cricketer ·
1982 – Guillermo Coria, Argentinian tennis player ·
1982 – Constantinos
Makrides, Cypriot footballer ·
1982 – Ruth Wilson, English actress ·
1983 – Ender Arslan, Turkish basketball player ·
1983 – Sebastian Kneißl,
German footballer ·
1983 – Mauricio Martín
Romero, Argentinian footballer ·
1984 – Matteo
Cavagna, Italian footballer ·
1984 – Kamghe Gaba, German sprinter ·
1984 – Nick Mangold, American football player ·
1985 – Luke Robinson,
American wrestler ·
1986 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater ·
1987 – Stefano Del Sante,
Italian footballer ·
1987 – Jack Johnson,
American ice hockey player ·
1987 – Florica Leonida, Romanian gymnast ·
1987 – Steven Michaels, Australian rugby league
player ·
1987 – Daniel Oss, Italian cyclist ·
1987 – Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1987 – Sven Wetzel, German rugby player ·
1988 – Josh Freeman, American football player ·
1989 – Morgan Burnett, American football player ·
1989 – Doug Martin,
American football player ·
1990 – Vincenzo Fiorillo,
Italian footballer ·
1990 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor ·
1991 – Rob Kiernan, English-Irish footballer ·
1992 – Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer ·
1992 – Dinah Pfizenmaier,
German tennis player ·
1993 – Max Whitlock, English artistic gymnast ·
1997 – Micah Hart, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1997 – Connor McDavid, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1997 – Ivan Provorov, Russian ice hockey player ·
1997 – Egan Bernal, Colombian cyclist, winner of
the 2019 Tour de France[14] Deaths[edit]
·
86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician
(b. 157 BC) ·
533 – Remigius, French bishop and saint (b. 437) ·
614 – Mungo, English-Scottish bishop and saint ·
703 – Jitō, Japanese emperor (b. 645)[15] ·
858 – Æthelwulf,
king of Wessex ·
888 – Charles the Fat, Frankish king and emperor
(b. 839) ·
927 – Berno of Cluny, Frankish monk and abbot ·
1001 – Fujiwara no Teishi,
Japanese empress (b. 977) ·
1147 – Robert de Craon, Grand Master of the Knights
Templar ·
1151 – Suger, French historian and politician (b.
1081) ·
1177 – Henry II,
count palatine and duke of Austria (b. 1107) ·
1321 – Bonacossa Borri, Italian noblewoman (b.
1254) ·
1330 – Frederick I,
duke and king of Germany ·
1363 – Meinhard
III, German nobleman (b. 1344) ·
1400 – Thomas
le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (b. 1373) ·
1599 – Edmund Spenser, English poet, Chief
Secretary for Ireland (b. 1552) ·
1612 – Jane Dormer, English lady-in-waiting (b.
1538) ·
1625 – Jan Brueghel the
Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568) ·
1684 – Henry
Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, English nobleman (b. 1628) ·
1691 – George Fox, English religious leader,
founded the Religious
Society of Friends (b. 1624) ·
1717 – Maria Sibylla Merian,
German entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647) ·
1775 – Johann Georg Walch,
German theologian and author (b. 1693) ·
1790 – Luc
Urbain de Bouëxic, French admiral (b. 1712) ·
1796 – John
Anderson, Scottish philosopher and educator (b. 1726) ·
1832 – Thomas Lord, English cricketer,
founded Lord's Cricket
Ground (b. 1755) ·
1838 – Ferdinand Ries, German pianist and composer
(b. 1784) ·
1860 – William
Mason, American surgeon and politician (b. 1786) ·
1864 – Stephen Foster, American composer and
songwriter (b. 1826) ·
1872 – William Scamp, English architect and
engineer (b. 1801)[16] ·
1882 – Wilhelm Mauser, German engineer and
businessman, co-founded the Mauser Company (b. 1834) ·
1885 – Schuyler Colfax, American journalist and
politician, 17th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1823) ·
1889 – Solomon Bundy, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1823) ·
1905 – George Thorn, Australian farmer and
politician, 6th Premier of
Queensland (b. 1838) ·
1906 – Alexander
Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1859) ·
1907 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist
(b. 1839) ·
1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish-Nigerian missionary
(b. 1848) ·
1916 – Victoriano Huerta,
Mexican military officer and president, 1913–1914 (b. 1850)[17] ·
1923 – Alexandre Ribot, French academic and
politician, Prime Minister
of France (b. 1842) ·
1924 – Georg Hermann
Quincke, German physicist and academic (b. 1834) ·
1929 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer (b.
1848) ·
1929 – H. B. Higgins, Irish-Australian judge and
politician, 3rd Attorney-General
for Australia (b. 1851) ·
1934 – Paul Ulrich Villard,
French physicist and chemist (b. 1860) ·
1941 – James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story
writer, and poet (b. 1882) ·
1943 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp,
Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889) ·
1956 – Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter
and illustrator (b. 1871) ·
1957 – A. E. Coppard English poet and short
story writer (b. 1878) ·
1958 – Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer,
co-founded Paramount Pictures (b.
1880) ·
1962 – Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show
host (b. 1919) ·
1963 – Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese businessman and
politician, President of
Togo (b. 1902) ·
1967 – Anatole de Grunwald,
Russian-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1910) ·
1971 – Robert Still, English composer and educator
(b. 1910) ·
1973 – Sabahattin
Eyüboğlu, Turkish screenwriter and producer (b. 1908) ·
1974 – Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (b.
1906) ·
1974 – Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet
(b. 1904) ·
1976 – Margaret Leighton,
English actress (b. 1922) ·
1977 – Henri Langlois, Turkish-French historian,
co-founded the Cinémathèque
Française (b. 1914) ·
1978 – Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist,
academic, and politician, 38th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1911) ·
1978 – Joe McCarthy,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1887) ·
1979 – Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, and producer (b. 1945) ·
1979 – Marjorie Lawrence,
Australian-American soprano (b. 1907) ·
1980 – Andre Kostelanetz,
Russian-American conductor (b. 1901) ·
1982 – Marcel Camus, French director and
screenwriter (b. 1912) ·
1983 – René Bonnet, French race car driver and
engineer (b. 1904) ·
1986 – Abdul Fattah Ismail,
Yemeni educator and politician, 4th President of
South Yemen (b. 1939) ·
1986 – Kevin Longbottom, Australian rugby league
player (b. 1940) ·
1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, President
of the Republic of China (b. 1910) ·
1993 – Camargo Guarnieri,
Brazilian composer and conductor (b. 1907) ·
1995 – Max Harris,
Australian journalist, poet, and author (b. 1921) ·
2002 – Frank Shuster, Canadian actor, comedian, and
screenwriter (b. 1916) ·
2003 – Norman Panama, American director and screenwriter
(b. 1914) ·
2004 – Arne Næss, Jr.,
Norwegian businessman and mountaineer (b. 1937) ·
2005 – Earl Cameron,
Canadian journalist (b. 1915) ·
2005 – Nell Rankin, American soprano and actress
(b. 1924) ·
2006 – Frank Fixaris, American journalist and
sportscaster (b. 1934) ·
2006 – Marc Potvin, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and coach (b. 1967) ·
2007 – Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and
composer (b. 1949) ·
2007 – Danny Oakes, American race car driver (b.
1911) ·
2008 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1932) ·
2009 – Dai Llewellyn, Welsh humanitarian activist
and politician (b. 1946) ·
2009 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor,
director, and producer (b. 1928) ·
2009 – Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese poet, composer,
and producer (b. 1925) ·
2009 – W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (b. 1926) ·
2009 – Nancy Bird Walton,
Australian pilot (b. 1915) ·
2010 – Teddy Pendergrass,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1950) ·
2011 – Albert Heijn,
Dutch businessman (b. 1927) ·
2012 – Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer
and politician, 1st President of
Northern Cyprus (b. 1924) ·
2012 – Guido Dessauer, German physicist and
engineer (b. 1915) ·
2012 – Miljan Miljanić,
Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1930) ·
2013 – Diogenes Allen, American philosopher and
theologian (b. 1932) ·
2013 – Rodney Mims Cook,
Sr., American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924) ·
2013 – Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American
mathematician and academic (b. 1916) ·
2014 – Bobby Collins,
Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1931) ·
2014 – Randal Tye Thomas,
American journalist and politician (b. 1978) ·
2014 – Waldemar von Gazen,
German general and lawyer (b. 1917) ·
2015 – Mark Juddery, Australian journalist and
author (b. 1971) ·
2015 – Robert White,
American soldier and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to Paraguay (b. 1926) ·
2016 – Brian Bedford, English-American actor and
director (b. 1935) ·
2016 – Giorgio Gomelsky, Georgian-American
director, producer, songwriter, and manager (b. 1934) ·
2016 – Lawrence Phillips,
American football player (b. 1975) ·
2017 – Antony
Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and
sometime member of the British royal family (b. 1930)[18] ·
2017 – Dick Gautier, American actor (b. 1931)[19] ·
2017 – Magic Alex, Greek electronics engineer (b.
1942)[20] ·
2019 – Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b.
1969)[21] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Blessed Veronica of Milan o Elian o Mungo o St. Knut's Day or Tjugondag
Knut, the last day of Christmas. (Sweden and Finland) o January
13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Korean-American
Day (Korean-American community, United States) ·
Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, North Macedonia), and its related
observances: o Malanka (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus) ·
Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South
and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period (see January 14): o Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu) o Lohri (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh) ·
Stephen
Foster Memorial Day (United States) |
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