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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
For the play by Ayn Rand, see Night of January 16th.
January 16 is the 16th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar. 349 days remain until the
end of the year (350 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
27 BCE – Gaius Julius
Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate,
marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.[1] ·
378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal,
enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower
Owl of Teotihuacán.[2] ·
550 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths,
under King Totila,
conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.[3] ·
929 – Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba. ·
1120 – The Council of Nablus is held, establishing
the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. ·
1362 – Saint Marcellus's flood kills at
least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.[4] ·
1412 – The Medici family
is appointed official banker of the Papacy. ·
1492 – The first grammar of
the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana)
is presented to Queen Isabella I. ·
1547 – Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes
the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the
264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the
Tsardom of Russia.[5] ·
1556 – Philip II becomes King of Spain. ·
1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is
tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to
restore Catholicism in England. ·
1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso
hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don
Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published
in Madrid, Spain. ·
1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies
the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation
of Great Britain.[6] ·
1757 – Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat
a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in
the Battle of Narela.[7] ·
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.[8] ·
1786 – Virginia enacts
the Statute for Religious Freedom authored
by Thomas Jefferson.[9] ·
1809 – Peninsular War:
The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña. ·
1847 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the
new California Territory. ·
1862 – Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred
and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK
law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent
means of escape.[10] ·
1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr
Burago with a squadron of Russian
Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule. ·
1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act,
establishing the United States Civil Service,
is enacted by Congress.[11] ·
1900 – The United States Senate accepts the
Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims
to the Samoan islands. ·
1909 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the
magnetic South Pole.[12] ·
1919 – Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve
the Eighteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary
three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is
constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.[13] ·
1920 – Zeta Phi Beta Sorority
Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University. ·
1920 – The League of Nations holds its first
council meeting in Paris, France. ·
1921 – The Marxist Left
in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its
founding congress in Ľubochňa. ·
1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3,
killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.[14] ·
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves
into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. ·
1964 – Hello, Dolly! opened on
Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances. ·
1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits
suicide by self-immolation in Prague,
Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets'
crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.[15] ·
1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform
the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit,
the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the
only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk. ·
1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his
family for good and relocates to Egypt.[16] ·
1991 – Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning
the Gulf War. ·
1992 – El Salvador officials
and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City,
Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at
least 75,000 lives. ·
1995 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Súðavík,
destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.[17] ·
2001 – Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is
assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. ·
2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards
former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for
his service in the Spanish–American War. ·
2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously
establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin
Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban. ·
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes
off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on
re-entry. ·
2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in
as Liberia's
new president. She becomes Africa's first female
elected head of state.[18] ·
2016 – Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are
injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on
a hotel and a nearby restaurant. ·
2018 – Myanmar police open fire on
a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and
wounding twelve.[19] ·
2020 – The impeachment of Donald John Trump formally
moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.[20] Births[edit]
·
972 – Sheng Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty
(d. 1031) ·
1093 – Isaac Komnenos, son of
Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (d. 1152) ·
1245 – Edmund Crouchback, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d.
1296)[21] ·
1362 – Robert de Vere, duke of
Ireland (d. 1392) ·
1409 – René of Anjou,
king of Naples (d. 1480) ·
1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and
cartographer (d. 1547) ·
1501 – Anthony Denny,
confidant of Henry VIII of England (d. 1559) ·
1516 – Bayinnaung,
king of Burma (d. 1581) ·
1558 – Jakobea of
Baden, Margravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
by marriage (d. 1597) ·
1616 – François de Vendôme,
duke of Beaufort (d. 1669) ·
1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Belgian painter and
educator (d. 1699) ·
1630 – Guru Har Rai,
Sikh Guru (d. 1661) ·
1634 – Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian
author and poet (d. 1716) ·
1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de
Saint-Simon, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1755) ·
1691 – Peter Scheemakers, Belgian sculptor and educator
(d. 1781) ·
1728 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer and
educator (d. 1800) ·
1749 – Vittorio
Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1803) ·
1757 – Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral
and politician, 3rd Commodore-Governor
of Newfoundland (d. 1834) ·
1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American admiral (d.
1877) ·
1815 – Henry Halleck,
American lawyer, general, and scholar (d. 1872) ·
1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American general and
politician, 14th Vice President of the United States (d.
1875) ·
1834 – Robert R. Hitt,
American lawyer and politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary
of State (d. 1906) ·
1836 – Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d.
1894)[22] ·
1838 – Franz Brentano,
German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917) ·
1851 – William Hall-Jones, English-New Zealand
politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d.
1936) ·
1853 – Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor
and manager (d. 1937) ·
1853 – Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton,
Greek-English general (d. 1947) ·
1853 – André Michelin, French businessman,
co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (d. 1931) ·
1870 – Jüri Jaakson,
Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia (d. 1942) ·
1872 – Henri Büsser,
French organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1973) ·
1874 – Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and
author (d. 1958)[23] ·
1875 – Leonor
Michaelis, German biochemist and physician (d. 1949) ·
1876 – Claude
Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1937) ·
1878 – Harry Carey, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 1947) ·
1880 – Samuel Jones, American high jumper (d.
1954) ·
1882 – Margaret Wilson, American author (d.
1973) ·
1885 – Zhou Zuoren,
Chinese author and translator (d. 1967) ·
1888 – Osip Brik,
Russian avant garde writer and literary critic (d. 1945) ·
1892 – Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist (d.
1949) ·
1893 – Daisy Kennedy,
Australian-English violinist (d. 1981) ·
1894 – Irving Mills,
American publisher (d. 1985) ·
1895 – Evripidis Bakirtzis, Greek soldier and
politician (d. 1947) ·
1895 – T. M. Sabaratnam,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1966) ·
1895 – Nat Schachner,
American lawyer, chemist, and author (d. 1955) ·
1897 – Carlos
Pellicer, Mexican poet and academic (d. 1977) ·
1898 – Margaret Booth,
American producer and editor (d. 2002) ·
1898 – Irving Rapper,
American film director and producer (d. 1999) ·
1900 – Kiku Amino,
Japanese author and translator (d. 1978) [24] ·
1900 – Edith Frank,
German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945) [25] ·
1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and
politician, 9th President of Cuba (d. 1973)[26] ·
1902 – Eric Liddell,
Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary (d. 1945)[27] ·
1903 – William Grover-Williams, English-French
race car driver (d. 1945)[28] ·
1905 – Ernesto
Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989) ·
1906 – Johannes
Brenner, Estonian footballer and pilot (d. 1975) ·
1906 – Diana Wynyard,
English actress (d. 1964) ·
1907 – Alexander Knox,
Canadian-English actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)[29] ·
1907 – Paul Nitze,
American banker and politician, 10th United States Secretary of the Navy (d.
2004) ·
1908 – Sammy Crooks,
English footballer (d. 1981) ·
1908 – Ethel Merman,
American actress and singer (d. 1984) ·
1908 – Günther Prien,
German captain (d. 1941) ·
1909 – Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d.
1994) ·
1910 – Dizzy Dean,
American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1974) ·
1911 – Ivan Barrow,
Jamaican cricketer (d. 1979) ·
1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer
and politician, 28th President of Chile (d. 1982) ·
1911 – Roger Lapébie,
French cyclist (d. 1996) ·
1914 – Roger Wagner,
French-American conductor and educator (d. 1992) ·
1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, American director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
1916 – Eddie Burns,
Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2004) ·
1916 – Philip Lucock,
English-Australian minister and politician (d. 1996) ·
1917 – Carl Karcher,
American businessman, founded Carl's Jr. (d.
2008) ·
1918 – Nel Benschop,
Dutch poet and educator (d. 2005) ·
1918 – Allan Ekelund,
Swedish director, producer, and production manager (d. 2009) ·
1918 – Clem Jones,
Australian surveyor and politician, 8th Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007) ·
1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter
and producer (d. 1996)[30] ·
1919 – Jerome Horwitz,
American chemist and academic (d. 2012) ·
1920 – Alberto Crespo,
Argentinian race car driver (d. 1991) ·
1920 – Elliott Reid,
American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d.
2004) ·
1923 – Gene Feist,
American director and playwright, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company (d.
2014) ·
1923 – Anthony Hecht,
American poet (d. 2004) ·
1924 – Katy Jurado,
Mexican actress (d. 2002) ·
1925 – Peter Hirsch,
German-English metallurgist and academic ·
1925 – James Robinson Risner, American general
and pilot (d. 2013) ·
1928 – William Kennedy, American novelist and
journalist ·
1928 – Pilar Lorengar,
Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1996) ·
1929 – Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan
anthropologist and academic (d. 2014) ·
1930 – Mary Ann McMorrow, American lawyer and judge
(d. 2013) ·
1930 – Norman
Podhoretz, American journalist and author ·
1930 – Paula Tilbrook,
English actress (d. 2019)[31] ·
1931 – John Enderby,
English physicist and academic ·
1931 – Robert L. Park,
American physicist and academic ·
1931 – Johannes Rau,
German journalist and politician, 8th Federal President of Germany (d.
2006) ·
1932 – Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian chess player (d.
1983) ·
1932 – Dian Fossey,
American zoologist and anthropologist (d. 1985) ·
1933 – Susan Sontag,
American novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 2004) ·
1934 – Bob Bogle,
American rock guitarist and bass player (d. 2009) ·
1934 – Marilyn Horne,
American soprano and actress ·
1935 – A. J. Foyt,
American race car driver ·
1935 – Udo Lattek,
German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015) ·
1936 – Michael White, Scottish actor and
producer (d. 2016) ·
1937 – Luiz Bueno,
Brazilian race car driver (d. 2011) ·
1937 – Francis George,
American cardinal (d. 2015) ·
1938 – Marina Vaizey,
American journalist and critic ·
1939 – Ralph Gibson,
American photographer ·
1941 – Christine
Truman, English tennis player and sportscaster ·
1942 – René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager (d.
2016) ·
1942 – Barbara Lynn,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1943 – Gavin Bryars,
English bassist and composer ·
1943 – Ronnie Milsap,
American singer and pianist ·
1944 – Dieter Moebius,
Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (d. 2015) ·
1944 – Jim Stafford,
American singer-songwriter and actor ·
1944 – Jill Tarter,
American astronomer and biologist ·
1944 – Judy Baar Topinka, American journalist and
politician (d. 2014) ·
1945 – Wim Suurbier,
Dutch footballer and manager ·
1946 – Kabir Bedi,
Indian actor ·
1946 – Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano and
actress ·
1947 – Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy, English
academic and politician ·
1947 – Harvey Proctor,
English politician ·
1947 – Laura Schlessinger, American physiologist,
talk show host, and author ·
1948 – John Carpenter,
American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer ·
1948 – Ants Laaneots,
Estonian general ·
1948 – Cliff Thorburn,
Canadian snooker player ·
1948 – Ruth Reichl,
American journalist and critic ·
1949 – Anne F. Beiler,
American businesswoman, founded Auntie Anne's ·
1949 – R. F. Foster, Irish historian and
academic ·
1949 – Andrew
Refshauge, Australian physician and politician, 13th Deputy Premier of New South Wales ·
1950 – Debbie Allen,
American actress, dancer, and choreographer ·
1950 – Robert
Schimmel, American comedian, actor, and producer (d. 2010) ·
1952 – Fuad II,
King of Egypt ·
1952 – Piercarlo Ghinzani, Italian race car driver
and manager ·
1952 – L. Blaine Hammond, American colonel, pilot,
and astronaut ·
1952 – Julie Anne Peters, American engineer and
author ·
1953 – Robert Jay Mathews, American militant,
founded The Order (d. 1984) ·
1954 – Wolfgang
Schmidt, German discus thrower ·
1954 – Vasili
Zhupikov, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2015) ·
1955 – Jerry M. Linenger, American captain,
physician, and astronaut ·
1956 – Wayne Daniel,
Barbadian cricketer ·
1956 – Martin Jol,
Dutch footballer and manager[32] ·
1956 – Greedy Smith,
Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist (d. 2019) ·
1957 – Jurijs
Andrejevs, Latvian footballer and manager ·
1957 – Ricardo Darín,
Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1957 – Mark Pawsey,
English businessman and politician ·
1958 – Anatoli
Boukreev, Russian mountaineer and explorer (d. 1997) ·
1958 – Lena Ek,
Swedish lawyer and politician, 9th Swedish Minister for the
Environment ·
1958 – Andris Šķēle, Latvian
businessman and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Latvia ·
1959 – Lisa Milroy,
Canadian painter and educator ·
1959 – Sade,
Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer ·
1961 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist
and composer (d. 2006) ·
1962 – Joel
Fitzgibbon, Australian electrician and politician, 51st Australian Minister of Defence ·
1962 – Maxine Jones,
American R&B singer–songwriter and actress ·
1963 – James May,
British journalist/co-host of Top Gear[33] ·
1964 – Gail Graham,
Canadian golfer ·
1966 – Jack McDowell,
American baseball player ·
1968 – Rebecca Stead,
American author ·
1969 – Neil Back,
English rugby player and coach ·
1969 – Marinus Bester,
German footballer ·
1969 – Stevie Jackson,
Scottish guitarist and songwriter ·
1969 – Roy Jones Jr.,
American boxer ·
1970 – Ron Villone,
American baseball player and coach ·
1971 – Sergi Bruguera,
Spanish tennis player and coach ·
1971 – Josh Evans, American film producer,
screenwriter and actor ·
1971 – Jonathan
Mangum, American actor ·
1972 – Ruben Bagger,
Danish footballer ·
1972 – Ang Christou,
Australian footballer ·
1972 – Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov, Russian
footballer and manager ·
1972 – Ezra
Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer and manager ·
1972 – Joe Horn,
American football player and coach ·
1974 – Marlon
Anderson, American baseball player and sportscaster ·
1974 – John Hopoate,
Tongan-Australian rugby league player and boxer ·
1974 – Kate Moss,
English model and fashion designer ·
1976 – Viktor Maslov, Russian race car driver ·
1976 – Martina Moravcová, Slovak swimmer ·
1977 – Jeff Foster, American basketball player ·
1978 – Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player ·
1979 – Aaliyah,
American singer and actress (d. 2001) ·
1979 – Brenden Morrow,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1979 – Jason Ward,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1980 – Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor,
playwright, and composer ·
1980 – Albert Pujols,
Dominican-American baseball player ·
1981 – Jamie Lundmark,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1981 – Paul Rofe, Australian cricketer ·
1981 – Bobby Zamora,
English footballer, striker[34] ·
1982 – Preston,
English singer-songwriter ·
1982 – Tuncay, Turkish footballer ·
1983 – Emanuel
Pogatetz, Austrian footballer ·
1983 – Andriy Rusol,
Ukrainian footballer ·
1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer ·
1984 – Miroslav Radović, Serbian
footballer ·
1985 – Joe Flacco,
American football player ·
1985 – Jayde Herrick,
Australian cricketer ·
1985 – Gintaras Januševičius,
Russian-Lithuanian pianist ·
1985 – Twins Jonathan[35] and Simon Richter[36],
Danish-Gambian footballers ·
1985 – Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor ·
1986 – Johannes Rahn,
German footballer ·
1986 – Mark Trumbo,
American baseball player ·
1986 – Reto Ziegler,
Swiss footballer, left back[37] ·
1987 – Jake Epstein,
Canadian actor ·
1987 – Charlotte Henshaw, English swimmer ·
1988 – Nicklas
Bendtner, Danish footballer ·
1988 – Jorge Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer ·
1991 – Matt Duchene,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1993 – Hannes Anier,
Estonian footballer ·
1993 – Amandine Hesse,
French tennis player ·
1994 – Chris Smith, Australian
rugby league player ·
1995 – Mikaela Turik,
Australian-Canadian cricketer ·
1996 – Kim Jennie,
Korean singer[38] ·
1998 – Cameron Murray, Australian rugby league
player[39] ·
2003 – Adriana Hernández, Mexican rhythmic gymnast[40] Deaths[edit]
·
654 – Gao Jifu,
Chinese politician and chancellor (b. 596) ·
957 – Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali
al-Madhara'i, Tulunid vizier (b. 871) ·
970 – Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Byzantine
patriarch (b. 956) ·
1263 – Shinran Shonin,
Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism ·
1289 – Buqa, Mongol minister ·
1327 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine monk, scholar,
and politician (b. 1250) ·
1354 – Joanna of Châtillon, duchess of Athens (b.
c.1285) ·
1373 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of
Hereford (b. 1342) ·
1391 – Muhammed V of Granada, Nasrid emir (b.
1338) ·
1400 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter,
English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (b. 1352) ·
1443 – Erasmo of
Narni, Italian mercenary (b. 1370) ·
1545 – George
Spalatin, German priest and reformer (b. 1484) ·
1547 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and
cartographer (b. 1477) ·
1554 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish publisher and
scholar (b. 1480) ·
1585 – Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln,
English admiral and politician (b. 1512) ·
1595 – Murad III,
Ottoman sultan (b. 1546) ·
1659 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer
(b. 1580) ·
1710 – Higashiyama, Japanese emperor (b. 1675) ·
1711 – Joseph Vaz,
Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651) ·
1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet
and playwright (b. 1680) ·
1748 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar
(b. 1684) ·
1750 – Ivan
Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667) ·
1752 – Francis Blomefield, English historian and
author (b. 1705) ·
1794 – Edward Gibbon,
English historian and politician (b. 1737) ·
1809 – John Moore, Scottish
general and politician (b. 1761) ·
1817 – Alexander J. Dallas,
Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the
Treasury (b. 1759) ·
1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French
mathematician and academic (b. 1769) ·
1856 – Thaddeus William Harris, American
entomologist and botanist (b. 1795) ·
1864 – Anton
Schindler, Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795) ·
1865 – Edmond François Valentin About, French
journalist and author (b. 1828) ·
1879 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and
bookseller (b. 1827) ·
1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and
academic (b. 1834) ·
1891 – Léo Delibes,
French pianist and composer (b. 1836) ·
1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer
and politician (b. 1802) ·
1901 – Jules Barbier,
French poet and playwright (b. 1825) ·
1901 – Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter and academic
(b. 1827) ·
1901 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, American soldier,
minister, and politician (b. 1822) ·
1906 – Marshall Field,
American businessman and philanthropist, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834) ·
1917 – George Dewey,
American admiral (b. 1837) ·
1919 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves,
Brazilian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848) ·
1933 – Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician (b.
1867) ·
1936 – Albert Fish,
American serial killer, rapist and cannibal (b. 1870) ·
1938 – Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian
author and playwright (b. 1876) ·
1942 – Prince Arthur,
Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850) ·
1942 – Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet
and linguist (b. 1885) ·
1942 – Carole Lombard,
American actress and comedian (b. 1908) ·
1942 – Ernst Scheller,
German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899) ·
1957 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of
Athlone, English general and politician, 16th Governor General of Canada (b.
1874) ·
1957 – Arturo
Toscanini, Italian cellist and conductor (b. 1867) ·
1959 – Phan Khôi,
Vietnamese journalist and author (b. 1887) ·
1960 – Arthur Darby,
English rugby player (b. 1876) ·
1961 – Max Schöne,
German swimmer (b. 1880) ·
1962 – Frank Hurley,
Australian photographer, director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1885) ·
1962 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and
architect, designed the Monument to the Unknown Hero (b.
1883) ·
1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American
physicist and academic (b. 1901) ·
1968 – Bob Jones Sr.,
American evangelist, founded Bob Jones University (b. 1883) ·
1968 – Panagiotis Poulitsas, Greek archaeologist and
judge (b. 1881) ·
1969 – Vernon Duke,
Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903) ·
1971 – Philippe Thys,
Belgian cyclist (b. 1890) ·
1972 – Teller Ammons,
American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895) ·
1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American
singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks (b.
1919) ·
1973 – Edgar Sampson,
American musician and composer (b. 1907) ·
1975 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter
(b. 1888) ·
1978 – A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist,
lawyer, and politician (b. 1890) ·
1981 – Bernard Lee,
English actor (b. 1908)[41] ·
1983 – Virginia
Mauret, American musician and dancer ·
1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist,
author, and publisher (b. 1892) ·
1987 – Bertram Wainer,
Australian physician and activist (b. 1928) ·
1988 – Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician,
war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, 1st Minister of
Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1899) ·
1995 – Eric Mottram,
English poet and critic (b. 1924) ·
1996 – Marcia
Davenport, American author and critic (b. 1903) ·
1996 – Kaye Webb,
English journalist and publisher (b. 1914) ·
1999 – Jim McClelland,
Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th Minister for Industry and Science (b.
1915) ·
2000 – Robert R.
Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914) ·
2001 – Auberon Waugh,
English author and journalist (b. 1939) ·
2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and
physicist (b. 1916) ·
2003 – Richard Wainwright,
English politician (b. 1918) ·
2004 – Kalevi Sorsa,
Finnish politician 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930) ·
2005 – Marjorie Williams, American journalist and
author (b. 1958) ·
2006 – Stanley Biber,
American soldier and physician (b. 1923) ·
2007 – Benny Parsons,
American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1941) ·
2009 – Joe Erskine, American boxer and runner
(b. 1930) ·
2009 – John Mortimer,
English lawyer and author (b. 1923) ·
2009 – Andrew Wyeth,
American painter (b. 1917) ·
2010 – Glen Bell,
American businessman, founded Taco Bell (b.
1923) ·
2010 – Jyoti Basu,
Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal (b.
1914) ·
2010 – Takumi Shibano,
Japanese author and translator (b. 1926) ·
2012 – Joe Bygraves,
Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931) ·
2012 – Jimmy Castor,
American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1940) ·
2012 – Sigursteinn Gíslason, Icelandic footballer
and manager (b. 1968) ·
2012 – Lorna
Kesterson, American journalist and politician (b. 1925) ·
2012 – Gustav
Leonhardt, Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1928) ·
2013 – Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player
and coach (b. 1930) ·
2013 – André Cassagnes, French technician and toy
maker, created the Etch A Sketch (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Gussie Moran,
American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1923) ·
2013 – Pauline
Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby (b.
1918) ·
2013 – Glen P.
Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (b. 1923) ·
2014 – Gary Arlington,
American author and illustrator (b. 1938) ·
2014 – Ruth Duccini,
American actress (b. 1918) ·
2014 – Dave Madden,
Canadian-American actor (b. 1931) ·
2014 – Hiroo Onoda,
Japanese lieutenant (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Miriam Akavia,
Polish-Israeli author and translator (b. 1927) ·
2015 – Yao Beina,
Chinese singer (b. 1981) ·
2016 – Joannis Avramidis, Greek sculptor (b. 1922) ·
2016 – Ted
Marchibroda, American football player and coach (b. 1931) ·
2017 – Eugene Cernan,
American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934) ·
2018 – Ed Doolan,
British radio presenter (b. 1941)[42] ·
2018 – Oliver Ivanović, Kosovo Serb politician
(b. 1953)[43] ·
2019 – John C. Bogle,
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (b. 1929)[44] ·
2019 – Lorna Doom,
American musician (b. 1958)[45] ·
2019 – Chris Wilson, Australian
musician (b. 1956)[46] ·
2020 – Christopher Tolkien, British academic and
editor (died 2020)[47] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Pope Benjamin (Coptic) o Fursey o Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Coptic Church) o Eve
of Saint Anthony observed with ritual
bonfires in San Bartolomé de Pinares o January 16 (Eastern Orthodox
liturgics) ·
National Religious Freedom Day (United States) |
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