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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
347 days remain until the end of the year (348 in leap years). Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
474 –
Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds
his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor.[1] He dies ten months later. ·
532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. ·
1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates
the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong.[2] ·
1486 –
King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York,
daughter of Edward IV uniting
the House of Lancaster and
the House of York.[3] ·
1562 – Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and
final session. ·
1591 –
King Naresuan of Siam kills
Crown Prince Mingyi Swa of Burma in single combat, for which this date is now
observed as Royal Thai Armed
Forces day. ·
1670 – Henry Morgan captures Panama. ·
1701 – Frederick I crowns
himself King of Prussia in Königsberg. ·
1778 – James Cook is the first known European
to discover the Hawaiian Islands,
which he names the "Sandwich Islands". ·
1788 –
The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts
from Great Britain to
Australia arrive at Botany Bay. ·
1806 – Jan Willem Janssens surrenders
the Dutch Cape Colony to
the British. ·
1866 – Wesley College is
established in Melbourne, Australia.[4] ·
1871 – Wilhelm I of Germany is
proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France)
towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War.
Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to
accept the title. ·
1886 –
Modern field hockey is
born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ·
1896 –
An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the
first time by H. L. Smith. ·
1911 – Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of
the USS Pennsylvania anchored
in San Francisco Bay,
the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. ·
1913 – First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of
Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece. ·
1915 –
Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands"
to the Republic of
China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia. ·
1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace
Conference opens in Versailles,
France. ·
1919
– Ignacy Jan
Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent
Poland. ·
1941 – World War II: British troops launch
a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa. ·
1943 – Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. ·
1945 –
World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army. ·
1958 – Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey
League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins. ·
1960 – Capital
Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles
City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third
fatal Capital
Airlines crash in as many years. ·
1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of
numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment. ·
1969 – United
Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32
passengers and six crew members. ·
1974 – A
Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict
on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War. ·
1976 – Lebanese
Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in
Karantina, Beirut. ·
1977 –
Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the
mysterious Legionnaires'
disease. ·
1977
– Australia's worst rail disaster occurs
at Granville,
Sydney killing 83. ·
1977
– SFR
Yugoslavia's Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić,
his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. ·
1978 –
The European
Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government
guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. ·
1981 –
Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the
first two people to BASE jump from
objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and
earth (cliffs). ·
1983 –
The International
Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family. ·
1990 –
Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession
in an FBI sting. ·
1993 – Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in
all 50 US states. ·
2002 –
The Sierra Leone Civil
War is declared over. ·
2003 –
A bushfire kills
four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia. ·
2005 –
The Airbus A380, the
world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France ·
2007 –
The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and
Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with
13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes
at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. ·
2008 –
The Euphronios Krater is
unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by
the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. ·
2018 –
A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan.[5] The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and
two drivers escaping.[6][7][8] Births[edit] ·
1404 – Sir Philip
Courtenay, British noble (d. 1463) ·
1457 – Antonio
Trivulzio, seniore, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1508) ·
1519 – Isabella Jagiellon,
Queen of Hungary (d. 1559) ·
1540 – Catherine,
Duchess of Braganza (d. 1614) ·
1641 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois,
French politician, Secretary
of State for War (d. 1691) ·
1659 – Damaris Cudworth
Masham, English philosopher and theologian (d. 1708) ·
1672 – Antoine Houdar
de la Motte, French author (d. 1731) ·
1688 – Lionel
Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765) ·
1689 – Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher
(d. 1755) ·
1701 – Johann Jakob Moser,
German jurist (d. 1785) ·
1743 – Louis Claude
de Saint-Martin, French mystic and philosopher (d. 1803) ·
1751 – Ferdinand Kauer, Austrian pianist and composer
(d. 1831) ·
1752 – John Nash,
English architect (d. 1835)[9] ·
1764 – Samuel
Whitbread, English politician (d. 1815) ·
1779 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician,
lexicographer, and theologian (d. 1869) ·
1782 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer and
politician, 14th United
States Secretary of State (d. 1852) ·
1793 – Pratap Singh
Bhosle, Chhatrapati of
the Maratha Empire (d.
1847) ·
1815 – Constantin von
Tischendorf, German theologian and scholar (d. 1874) ·
1835 – César Cui, Russian general, composer, and
critic (d. 1918) ·
1840 – Henry Austin Dobson,
English poet and author (d. 1921) ·
1841 – Emmanuel Chabrier,
French pianist and composer (d. 1894) ·
1842 – A. A. Ames, American physician and
politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (d.
1911) ·
1848 – Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author
(d. 1925) ·
1849 – Edmund Barton, Australian judge and
politician, 1st Prime
Minister of Australia (d. 1920) ·
1850 – Seth Low, American academic and politician,
92nd Mayor of New York
City (d. 1916) ·
1853 – Marthinus Nikolaas
Ras, South African farmer, soldier, and gun-maker (d. 1900) ·
1854 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant
to Alexander Graham
Bell (d. 1934) ·
1856 – Daniel Hale Williams,
American surgeon and cardiologist (d. 1931) ·
1867 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist,
and diplomat (d. 1916) ·
1868 – Kantarō Suzuki,
Japanese admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1948) ·
1877 – Sam Zemurray, Russian-American businessman,
founded the Cuyamel Fruit
Company (d. 1961) ·
1879 – Henri Giraud, French general and politician
(d. 1949) ·
1880 – Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch physicist and
academic (d. 1933) ·
1880
– Alfredo
Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (d. 1954) ·
1881 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher,
founded Éditions Gallimard (d.
1975) ·
1882 – A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and
playwright (d. 1956) ·
1886 – Clara Nordström,
Swedish-German author and translator (d. 1962) ·
1888 – Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player,
sailor, and pilot (d. 1989) ·
1892 – Oliver Hardy, American actor and comedian
(d. 1957) ·
1892
– Bill Meanix, American hurdler and coach (d.
1957) ·
1892
– Paul Rostock,
German surgeon and academic (d. 1956) ·
1893 – Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet, critic, and
academic (d. 1984) ·
1894 – Toots Mondt, American wrestler and promoter
(d. 1976) ·
1896 – C. M. Eddy Jr., American author (d. 1967) ·
1896
– Ville Ritola,
Finnish-American runner (d. 1982) ·
1898 – Albert Kivikas, Estonian journalist and
author (d. 1978) ·
1901 – Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician and
academic (d. 1973) ·
1903 – Berthold Goldschmidt,
German pianist and composer (d. 1996) ·
1904 – Anthony Galla-Rini,
American accordion player and composer (d. 2006) ·
1904
– Cary Grant, English-American actor (d. 1986) ·
1905 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mob boss
(d. 2002) ·
1907 – János Ferencsik,
Hungarian conductor (d. 1984) ·
1908 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English
mathematician, historian, and television host (d. 1974) ·
1910 – Kenneth E. Boulding,
English economist and academic (d. 1993) ·
1911 – José María Arguedas,
Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet (d. 1969) ·
1911
– Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and
dancer (d. 1987) ·
1913 – Carroll Cloar, American artist (d. 1993) ·
1913
– Giannis Papaioannou,
Greek composer (d. 1972) ·
1914 – Arno Schmidt, German author and translator
(d. 1979) ·
1914
– Vitomil Zupan,
Slovene author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987) ·
1915 – Syl Apps, Canadian pole vaulter, ice hockey
player, and politician (d. 1998) ·
1915
– Santiago Carrillo,
Spanish soldier and politician (d. 2012) ·
1915
– Vassilis Tsitsanis,
Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1984) ·
1917 – Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013) ·
1917
– Wang Yung-ching,
Taiwanese-American businessman (d. 2008) ·
1918 – Gustave Gingras, Canadian-English physician
and educator (d. 1996) ·
1919 – Toni Turek, German footballer (d. 1984) ·
1921 – Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2015) ·
1923 – John Graham, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Wales (d.
2012) ·
1923
– Gerrit Voorting,
Dutch cyclist (d. 2015) ·
1925 – Gilles Deleuze, French metaphysician and
philosopher (d. 1995) ·
1925
– John V. Evans,
American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (d.
2014) ·
1925
– Sol Yurick, American soldier and author (d.
2013) ·
1926 – Randolph Bromery, American geologist and
academic (d. 2013) ·
1927 – Sundaram Balachander,
Indian actor, singer, and veena player (d.
1990) ·
1928 – Alexander Gomelsky,
Soviet and Russian professional basketball coach (d. 2005) ·
1931 – Chun Doo-hwan, South Korean general and
politician, 5th President of
South Korea ·
1932 – Robert Anton Wilson,
American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2007) ·
1933 – Emeka Anyaoku, Nigerian politician,
8th Nigerian
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1933
– David Bellamy,
English botanist, author and academic (d. 2019) ·
1933
– John Boorman,
English director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1933
– Ray Dolby, American engineer and
businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (d.
2013) ·
1933
– William
Goodhart, Baron Goodhart, English lawyer and politician (d. 2017) ·
1933
– Frank McMullen,
New Zealand rugby player (d. 2004) ·
1933
– Jean Vuarnet,
French ski racer (d. 2017) ·
1934 – Raymond Briggs, English author and
illustrator ·
1935 – Albert Millaire, Canadian actor and director
(d. 2018) ·
1935
– Jon Stallworthy,
English poet, critic, and academic (d. 2014) ·
1935
– Gad Yaacobi, Israeli academic and diplomat,
10th Israel
Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2007) ·
1936 – David
Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, English journalist and
politician, Secretary
of State for Transport ·
1937 – John Hume, Northern Irish educator and
politician, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1938 – Curt Flood, American baseball player and
sportscaster (d. 1997) ·
1938
– Anthony Giddens,
English sociologist and academic ·
1938
– Werner Olk, German footballer and manager ·
1938
– Hargus
"Pig" Robbins, American Country
Music Hall of Fame session keyboard and piano player ·
1940 – Pedro
Rodriguez, Mexican race car driver (d. 1971) ·
1941 – Denise Bombardier,
Canadian journalist and author ·
1941
– Bobby Goldsboro,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1941
– David Ruffin,
American singer (The Temptations)
(d. 1991) ·
1943 – Paul Freeman,
English actor ·
1943
– Kay Granger, American educator and
politician ·
1943
– Dave Greenslade,
English keyboard player and composer ·
1943
– Charlie
Wilson, American businessman and politician (d. 2013) ·
1944 – Paul Keating, Australian economist and
politician, 24th Prime
Minister of Australia ·
1944
– Carl Morton, American baseball player (d.
1983) ·
1944
– Kei Ogura, Japanese singer-songwriter and
composer ·
1944
– Alexander Van
der Bellen, President of Austria[10] ·
1945 – Rocco Forte, English businessman and
philanthropist ·
1946 – Perro Aguayo, Mexican wrestler (d. 2019) ·
1946
– Joseph Deiss,
Swiss economist and politician, 156th President
of the Swiss Confederation ·
1946
– Henrique Rosa,
Bissau-Guinean politician, President
of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2013) ·
1947 – Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player
and journalist (d. 2018) ·
1947
– Takeshi Kitano,
Japanese actor and director ·
1949 – Bill Keller, American journalist ·
1949
– Philippe Starck,
French interior designer ·
1950 – Gianfranco
Brancatelli, Italian race car driver ·
1950
– Gilles Villeneuve,
Canadian race car driver (d. 1982) ·
1951 – Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and
activist (d. 1982) ·
1951
– Bob Latchford,
English footballer ·
1952 – Michael Behe, American biochemist, author,
and academic ·
1952
– R. Stevie Moore,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1953 – Brett Hudson, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1953
– Peter Moon,
Australian comedian and actor ·
1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1956 – Paul
Deighton, Baron Deighton, English banker and politician ·
1960 – Mark Rylance, English actor, director, and
playwright ·
1961 – Peter Beardsley, English footballer and
manager ·
1961
– Bob Hansen, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1961
– Mark Messier,
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster ·
1961
– Jeff Yagher, American actor and sculptor ·
1962 – Alison Arngrim, Canadian-American actress ·
1963 – Maxime Bernier, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 7th Minister
of Foreign Affairs for Canada ·
1963
– Ian Crook, English footballer, central
midfielder and manager[11] ·
1963
– Carl McCoy, English singer-songwriter ·
1963
– Martin O'Malley,
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 61st Governor of Maryland ·
1964 – Brady Anderson, American baseball player ·
1964
– Richard Dunwoody,
Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster ·
1964
– Virgil Hill, American boxer ·
1964
– Jane Horrocks,
English actress and singer ·
1966 – Alexander Khalifman,
Russian chess player and author ·
1966
– Kazufumi Miyazawa,
Japanese singer ·
1966
– André Ribeiro,
Brazilian race car driver ·
1967 – Dean Bailey, Australian footballer and coach
(d. 2014) ·
1967
– Iván Zamorano,
Chilean footballer ·
1969 – Dave Bautista, American wrestler, mixed
martial artist, and actor ·
1969
– Jesse L. Martin,
American actor and singer ·
1969
– Jim O'Rourke,
American guitarist and producer ·
1970 – Peter Van Petegem,
Belgian cyclist ·
1971 – Amy Barger, American astronomer ·
1971
– Jonathan Davis,
American singer-songwriter ·
1971
– Christian Fittipaldi,
Brazilian race car driver ·
1971
– Pep Guardiola,
Spanish footballer and manager ·
1971
– Binyavanga Wainaina,
Kenyan writer (d. 2019) ·
1972 – Vinod Kambli, Indian cricketer,
sportscaster, and actor ·
1972
– Mike Lieberthal,
American baseball player ·
1972
– Kjersti Plätzer,
Norwegian race walker ·
1973 – Burnie Burns, American actor, director, and
producer, co-founded Rooster Teeth
Productions ·
1973
– Luke Goodwin,
Australian rugby league player and coach ·
1973
– Benjamin Jealous,
American civic leader and activist ·
1973
– Anthony Koutoufides,
Australian footballer ·
1973
– Crispian Mills,
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director ·
1973
– Rolando Schiavi,
Argentinian footballer and coach ·
1974 – Christian Burns, English singer-songwriter ·
1975 – Leslie Knope, Protagonist of Parks and Recreation (fictional) [12] ·
1976 – Laurence Courtois,
Belgian tennis player ·
1976
– Marcelo Gallardo,
Argentinian footballer and coach ·
1976
– Damien Leith,
Irish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1977 – Richard Archer, English singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1978 – Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player ·
1978
– Thor Hushovd,
Norwegian cyclist ·
1978
– Bogdan Lobonț,
Romanian footballer ·
1979 – Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey
player ·
1979
– Paulo Ferreira,
Portuguese footballer ·
1979
– Brian Gionta,
American ice hockey player ·
1979
– Kenyatta Jones,
American football player (d. 2018) ·
1980 – Estelle,
English singer-songwriter and producer ·
1980
– Robert Green,
English footballer ·
1980
– Kert Haavistu,
Estonian footballer and manager ·
1980
– Julius Peppers,
American football player ·
1980
– Jason Segel, American actor and screenwriter ·
1981 – Otgonbayar Ershuu,
Mongolian painter and illustrator ·
1981
– Olivier Rochus,
Belgian tennis player ·
1981
– Khari Stephenson,
Jamaican footballer ·
1981
– Kang Dong-won,
South Korean actor ·
1982 – Quinn Allman, American guitarist and
producer ·
1982
– Mary Jepkosgei
Keitany, Kenyan runner ·
1983 – Amir Blumenfeld, Israeli-American comedian,
actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1983
– Samantha Mumba,
Irish singer-songwriter and actress ·
1984 – Kristy Lee Cook, American singer-songwriter ·
1984
– Ioannis Drymonakos,
Greek swimmer ·
1984
– Makoto Hasebe,
Japanese footballer ·
1984
– Michael Kearney,
American biochemist and academic ·
1984
– Seung-Hui Cho,
South Korean student who perpetrated the 2007 mass shooting
at Virginia Tech (d. 2007) ·
1984
– Benji Schwimmer,
American dancer and choreographer ·
1984
– Viktoria Shklover,
Estonian figure skater ·
1985 – Dale Begg-Smith, Canadian-Australian skier ·
1985
– Mark Briscoe,
American wrestler ·
1985
– Riccardo Montolivo,
Italian footballer ·
1985
– Hyun Woo, South Korean actor ·
1986 – Marya Roxx, Estonian-American
singer-songwriter ·
1986
– Ikusaburo Yamazaki,
Japanese actor and singer ·
1987 – Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer ·
1987
– Christopher Liebig,
German rugby player ·
1987
– Grigoris Makos,
Greek footballer ·
1988 – Ronnie Day, American singer-songwriter ·
1988
– Angelique Kerber,
German tennis player ·
1988
– Anastasios Kissas,
Greek footballer ·
1988
– Boy van Poppel,
Dutch cyclist ·
1989 – Rubén Miño, Spanish footballer ·
1990 – Nacho,
Spanish footballer ·
1990
– Hayle Ibrahimov,
Ethiopian-Azerbaijani runner ·
1990
– Gift Ngoepe, South African baseball player ·
1991 – Diego Simões, Brazilian footballer ·
1992 – Francesco Bardi, Italian footballer ·
1993 – Sean Keenan,
Australian actor ·
1994 – Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer ·
1994
– Ilona Kremen,
Belarusian tennis player ·
1995 – Bryce Alford, American basketball player ·
1998 – Aitana Bonmatí,
Spanish footballer Deaths[edit] ·
52 BC – Publius Clodius
Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 93 BC) ·
474 – Leo I, Byzantine emperor (b. 401) ·
748 – Odilo,
duke of Bavaria ·
896 – Khumarawayh
ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, ruler of the Tulunids, murdered (b. 864) ·
1213 – Tamar of Georgia (b. 1160) ·
1253 –
King Henry I of Cyprus (b.
1217) ·
1271 – Saint
Margaret of Hungary (b. 1242) ·
1326 – Robert
FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter, English baron (b. 1247) ·
1357 – Maria
of Portugal, infanta (b. 1313) ·
1367 – Peter I of Portugal (b.
1320) ·
1411 – Jobst of Moravia, ruler of Moravia, King of the Romans ·
1425 – Edmund
Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391) ·
1471 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of
Japan (b. 1419) ·
1479 – Louis IX, Duke
of Bavaria (b. 1417) ·
1547 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar
(b. 1470) ·
1586 – Margaret of Parma (b.
1522) ·
1589 – Magnus Heinason, Faroese naval hero (b.
1545) ·
1677 – Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch politician,
founded Cape Town (b.
1619) ·
1756 – Francis
George of Schönborn-Buchheim, Archbishop-Elector of Trier (b.
1682) ·
1783 – Jeanne Quinault, French actress and
playwright (b. 1699) ·
1803 – Ippolit Bogdanovich,
Russian poet and academic (b. 1743) ·
1849 – Panoutsos Notaras,
Greek politician (b. 1752) ·
1862 – John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and
politician, 10th President
of the United States (b. 1790) ·
1873 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary
of State for the Colonies (b. 1803) ·
1878 – Antoine César
Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1788) ·
1886 – Baldassare Verazzi,
Italian painter (b. 1819) ·
1892 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader,
23rd Superior
General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819) ·
1896 – Charles Floquet, French lawyer and
politician, 55th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1828) ·
1923 – Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and
screenwriter (b. 1891) ·
1936 – Hermanus Brockmann,
Dutch rower (b. 1871) ·
1936
– Rudyard Kipling,
English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1865) ·
1940 – Kazimierz
Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865) ·
1951 – Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and
humanitarian (b. 1867) ·
1952 – Curly Howard, American actor (b. 1903) ·
1954 – Sydney Greenstreet,
English-American actor (b. 1879) ·
1955 – Saadat Hasan Manto,
Pakistani author and screenwriter (b. 1912) ·
1956 – Makbule Atadan, Turkish lawyer and
politician (b. 1885) ·
1956
– Konstantin Päts,
Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (b.
1874) ·
1963 – Hugh Gaitskell, English academic and
politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer (b. 1906) ·
1966 – Kathleen Norris, American journalist and
author (b. 1880) ·
1967 – Goose Tatum, American basketball player and
soldier (b. 1921) ·
1969 – Hans Freyer, German sociologist and
philosopher (b. 1887) ·
1970 – David O. McKay, American religious leader,
9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (b. 1873) ·
1971 – Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (b.
1914) ·
1973 – Irina
Nikolaevna Levchenko, Russian tank commander (b. 1924) ·
1975 – Gertrude Olmstead,
American actress (b. 1897) ·
1978 – Hasan Askari,
Pakistani philosopher and author (b. 1919) ·
1980 – Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer and
photographer (b. 1904) ·
1984 – Panteleimon
Ponomarenko, Belarusian general and politician (b. 1902) ·
1984
– Vassilis Tsitsanis,
Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915) ·
1989 – Bruce Chatwin, English-French author (b.
1940) ·
1990 – Melanie Appleby, English singer (b. 1966) ·
1990
– Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947) ·
1993 – Dionysios Zakythinos,
Greek historian, academic, and politician (b. 1905) ·
1995 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1903) ·
1995
– Ron Luciano, American baseball player and
umpire (b. 1937) ·
1996 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director,
producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister
of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923) ·
1997 – Paul Tsongas, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1941) ·
1998 – Dan Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager
(b. 1922) ·
2000 – Margarete
Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897) ·
2003 – Ed Farhat, American wrestler and trainer (b.
1924) ·
2003
– Harivansh Rai
Bachchan, Indian poet and author (b. 1907) ·
2005 – Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (b.
1973) ·
2006 – Jan Twardowski, Polish priest and poet (b.
1915) ·
2007 – Brent Liles, American bass player (b. 1963) ·
2008 – Georgia Frontiere,
American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1927) ·
2008
– Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist
(b. 1925) ·
2008
– Lois Nettleton,
American actress (b. 1927) ·
2008
– John Stroger,
American politician (b. 1929) ·
2009 – Tony Hart, English painter and television
host (b. 1925) ·
2009
– Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina
(b. 1931) ·
2009
– Danai Stratigopoulou,
Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1913) ·
2009
– Grigore Vieru,
Romanian poet and author (b. 1935) ·
2010 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian musician and
singer-songwriter (b. 1946) ·
2010
– Robert B. Parker,
American author and academic (b. 1932) ·
2011 – Sargent Shriver, American politician and
diplomat, 21st United
States Ambassador to France (b. 1915) ·
2012 – Anthony Gonsalves,
Indian composer and educator (b. 1927) ·
2012
– Georg Lassen,
German captain (b. 1915) ·
2012
– Yuri Rasovsky,
American playwright and producer, founded The
National Radio Theater of Chicago (b. 1944) ·
2013 – Sean Fallon,
Irish footballer and manager (b. 1922) ·
2013
– Jim Horning, American computer scientist and
academic (b. 1942) ·
2013
– Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player
(b. 1989) ·
2013
– Lewis Marnell,
Australian skateboarder (b. 1982) ·
2013
– Ron Nachman, Israeli lawyer and politician
(b. 1942) ·
2014 – Kathryn Abbe, American photographer and
author (b. 1919) ·
2014
– Michael Botmang,
Nigerian politician, 17th Governor
of Plateau State (b. 1938) ·
2014
– Dennis Frederiksen,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1951) ·
2014
– Andy Graver, English footballer (b. 1927) ·
2014
– Sarah
Marshall, English actress (b. 1933) ·
2014
– Eugenio Cruz Vargas,
Chilean poet and painter (b. 1923) ·
2015 – Alberto Nisman, Argentinian lawyer and
prosecutor (b. 1963) ·
2015
– Christine Valmy,
Romanian cosmetologist and author (b. 1926) ·
2015
– Piet van der Sanden,
Dutch journalist and politician (b. 1924) ·
2015
– Tony Verna, American director and producer,
invented instant replay (b.
1933) ·
2016 – Johnny Bach, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1924) ·
2016
– Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor (b. 1948) ·
2016
– T. S. Sinnathuray,
Judge of the High Court of
Singapore (b. 1930) ·
2016
– Michel Tournier,
French journalist and author (b. 1924) ·
2017 – Peter Abrahams, South African-Jamaican
writer (b. 1919) ·
2017
– David P. Buckson,
American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (b.
1920) ·
2017
– Rachael
Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer,
businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939) ·
2017
– Roberta Peters,
American coloratura soprano (b. 1930) ·
2019 – John
Coughlin, American figure skater (b. 1985)[13] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Amy Carmichael (Church of England) o Athanasius of
Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox
Church) o Confession of Peter (Eastern Orthodox,
some Anglican and Lutheran Churches) o Deicolus o Prisca o January
18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Royal Thai
Armed Forces Day (Thailand) ·
Week
of Prayer for Christian Unity (January 18–25) (Christianity) |
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