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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 20 is the 20th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
345 days remain until the end of the year (346 in leap years). In
ancient astrology, it is
the cusp day between Capricorn and Aquarius. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events
·
250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during
the Decian persecution.[1] ·
649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza,
crowns his son Recceswinth as
co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. ·
1265 – The first
English parliament to include not only Lords but also
representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of
Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of
Parliament". ·
1320 – Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king
of Poland. ·
1356 – Edward Balliol surrenders his claim to
the Scottish throne to Edward III in
exchange for an English pension. ·
1523 – Christian II is
forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway. ·
1567 – Battle of
Rio de Janeiro: Portuguese forces
under the command of Estácio de Sá definitively
drive the French out of Rio de Janeiro. ·
1576 – The Mexican
city of León is
founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín
Enríquez de Almanza. ·
1649 – The High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I begins
its proceedings. ·
1783 – The Kingdom of
Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with
France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American
Revolutionary War later that year.[2] ·
1785 – Invading Siamese forces
attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at
the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle
of Rạch Gầm-Xoŕi Mút. ·
1788 – The third and
main part of First Fleet arrives
at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable
location for a colony. ·
1839 – In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia. ·
1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the
British. ·
1877 – The last day of
the Constantinople
Conference results in agreement for political reforms in
the Balkans. ·
1887 – The United States Senate allows
the Navy to
lease Pearl Harbor as
a naval base. ·
1921 – The British
K-class submarine HMS K5 sinks in
the English Channel;
all 56 on board die. ·
1921 – The first
Constitution of Turkey is adopted, making fundamental changes
in the source and exercise of sovereignty by consecrating the principle
of national sovereignty. ·
1929 – The first
full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, is released. ·
1936 – King George V
of the United Kingdom dies. His eldest son succeeds to the throne,
becoming Edward VIII. The
title Prince of Wales is not used for another 22 years. ·
1937 – Franklin D.
Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are
sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President;
it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20
since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of
presidential terms. ·
1941 – A German
officer is killed in Bucharest, Romania, sparking a rebellion
and pogrom by the Iron Guard, killing 125 Jews and 30
soldiers. ·
1942 – World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held
in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the
implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question". ·
1945 – World War II:
The provisional government of
Béla Miklós in Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies. ·
1945 – World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of
1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly
two months. ·
1949 – Point Four Program a
program for economic aid to
poor countries announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address for
a full term as President. ·
1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is
inaugurated as the 34th President
of the United States of America. ·
1954 – In the United
States, the National Negro
Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations. ·
1961 – John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the
35th President
of the United States of America, becoming the second youngest man
to take the office, and the first Catholic. ·
1969 – Richard Nixon is inaugurated the
37th President
of the United States of America. ·
1972 – Pakistan
launched its nuclear
weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh
Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani
War of 1971. ·
1977 – Jimmy Carter is inaugurated the
39th President
of the United States of America. ·
1981 – Ronald Reagan is inaugurated the
40th President
of the United States of America. Twenty minutes later, Iran releases
52 American hostages. ·
1986 – In the United
States, Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal
holiday for the first time. ·
1989 – George H. W. Bush is
inaugurated the 41st President
of the United States of America. ·
1990 – Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution
of the Soviet Union. ·
1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening
the civil war between
the country's Muslim north and Christian south. ·
1992 – Air Inter Flight 148,
an Airbus A320-111,
crashes into a mountain near Strasbourg, France killing 87 of the 96
people on board. ·
1993 – Bill Clinton is inaugurated the
42nd President
of the United States of America. ·
2001 – George W. Bush is inaugurated the
43rd President
of the United States of America. ·
2001 – President of
the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day
revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo. ·
2009 – Barack Obama is inaugurated as the
44th President
of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President
of the United States. ·
2009 – A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009
Icelandic financial crisis protests start. ·
2017 – Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President
of the United States of America, becoming the oldest person to
assume the office. ·
2018 – A group of four
or five gunmen attack
The Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour
battle. The attack kills 40 people and injures many others.[3] Births
·
225 – Gordian III, Roman emperor (d. 244)[4] ·
1029 – Alp Arslan, Seljuk sultan (probable;[5] d. 1072) ·
1292 – Elizabeth
of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (d. 1330) ·
1436 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa,
Japanese shōgun (d. 1490) ·
1488 – John
George, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian noble (d. 1533) ·
1488 – Sebastian Münster,
German scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer (d. 1552)[6] ·
1499 – Sebastian Franck, German humanist (probable;[7] d. 1543) ·
1500 – Jean Quintin, French priest, knight and
writer (d. 1561)[8] ·
1502 – Sebastian de
Aparicio, Spanish-Mexican rancher and missionary (d. 1600) ·
1526 – Rafael Bombelli, Italian mathematician (d.
1572) ·
1554 – Sebastian of
Portugal (d. 1578) ·
1569 – Heribert Rosweyde,
Jesuit hagiographer (d. 1629) ·
1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer and academic
(d. 1624) ·
1586 – Johann Hermann
Schein, German composer (d. 1630) ·
1664 – Giovanni
Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (d. 1718) ·
1703 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco,
Flemish violinist and composer (d. 1741) ·
1716 – Jean-Jacques
Barthélemy, French archaeologist and numismatist (d. 1795) ·
1716 – Charles III of Spain (d.
1788) ·
1732 – Richard Henry Lee,
American lawyer and politician, President
of the Continental Congress (d. 1794) ·
1741 – Carl Linnaeus
the Younger, Swedish botanist and author (d. 1783) ·
1755 – Sir
Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet, English admiral (d. 1824) ·
1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de
Momigny, Belgian-French composer and theorist (d. 1842) ·
1775 – André-Marie Ampčre,
French physicist and mathematician (d. 1836) ·
1781 – Joseph
Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, Austrian-German historian and
politician (d. 1848) ·
1783 – Friedrich Dotzauer,
German cellist and composer (d. 1860) ·
1799 – Anson Jones, American physician and
politician, 5th President
of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858) ·
1804 – Eugčne Sue, French author and politician (d.
1857) ·
1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896) ·
1814 – David Wilmot, American politician, sponsor
of Wilmot Proviso (d.
1868) ·
1834 – George D. Robinson,
American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1896) ·
1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899) ·
1856 – Harriot Stanton
Blatch, U.S. suffragist and organizer (d. 1940) ·
1865 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress
(d. 1944) ·
1870 – Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and
composer (d. 1894) ·
1873 – Johannes V. Jensen,
Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1950) ·
1874 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach
(d. 1938) ·
1876 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and
composer (d. 1957) ·
1878 – Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor (d.
1968) ·
1879 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and educator
(d. 1968) ·
1880 – Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and
politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (d.
1962) ·
1882 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mob boss (d.
1957) ·
1883 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (d.
1968) ·
1883 – Forrest Wilson, American journalist and
author (d. 1942) ·
1888 – Lead Belly, American folk/blues musician and
songwriter (d. 1949) ·
1889 – Allan Haines
Loughead, American engineer and businessman, founded the Alco
Hydro-Aeroplane Company (d. 1969) ·
1891 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist
(d. 1967) ·
1893 – Georg Ĺberg, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1946) ·
1894 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist,
created Little Orphan Annie (d.
1968) ·
1894 – Walter Piston, American composer, theorist,
and academic (d. 1976) ·
1895 – Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician
and academic (d. 1985) ·
1896 – George Burns, American actor, comedian, and
producer (d. 1996) ·
1898 – U Razak, Burmese educator and politician (d.
1947) ·
1899 – Clarice Cliff, English potter (d. 1972) ·
1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi,
Japanese engineer (d. 1990) ·
1900 – Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and
muralist (d. 1983) ·
1900 – Colin Clive, English actor (d. 1937) ·
1902 – Leon Ames, American actor (d. 1993) ·
1902 – Kevin Barry, Irish Republican Army volunteer
(d. 1920) ·
1906 – Aristotle Onassis,
Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975) ·
1907 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and producer
(d. 2000) ·
1908 – Fleur Cowles, American author and
illustrator (d. 2009) ·
1909 – Gōgen Yamaguchi,
Japanese martial artist (d. 1989) ·
1910 – Joy Adamson, Austria-born Kenyan painter and
author (d. 1980) ·
1913 – W. Cleon Skousen, American author and
academic (d. 2006) ·
1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan,
Pakistani businessman and politician, 7th President of
Pakistan (d. 2006) ·
1918 – Juan García Esquivel,
Mexican pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2002) ·
1918 – Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (d.
2013) ·
1920 – Federico Fellini, Italian director and
screenwriter (d. 1993) ·
1920 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999) ·
1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup,
Norwegian ski jumper and author (d. 2006) ·
1921 – Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (d. 2006) ·
1922 – Ray Anthony, American trumpet player,
composer, bandleader, and actor ·
1922 – Don Mankiewicz, American author and
screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
1923 – Slim Whitman, American country and western
singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2013) ·
1924 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist and composer
(d. 2010) ·
1925 – Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright,
and critic (d. 2015) ·
1925 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet,
and politician (d. 2020) ·
1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010) ·
1926 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer
(d. 1996) ·
1927 – Qurratulain Hyder,
Indian-Pakistani journalist and academic (d. 2007) ·
1928 – Antonio de
Almeida, French conductor and musicologist (d. 1997) ·
1929 – Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian
(d. 2019) ·
1929 – Masaharu Kawakatsu,
Japanese biologist ·
1929 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver
(d. 1964) ·
1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and
astronaut ·
1931 – David Lee,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1931 – Hachidai Nakamura,
Japanese pianist and composer (d. 1992) ·
1932 – Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 2016) ·
1934 – Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author,
and academic (d. 2014) ·
1934 – Tom Baker, English actor ·
1935 – Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer,
and dancer (d. 2010) ·
1937 – Bailey Howell, American basketball player[9] ·
1938 – Derek Dougan, Irish-English footballer and
journalist (d. 2007) ·
1939 – Paul Coverdell, American captain and
politician (d. 2000) ·
1939 – Chandra
Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and
biologist ·
1940 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater and
actress ·
1940 – Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician ·
1940 – Mandé Sidibé,
Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of
Mali (d. 2009) ·
1942 – Linda Moulton Howe,
American journalist and producer ·
1944 – José Luis Garci,
Spanish director and producer ·
1944 – Farhad Mehrad, Iranian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2002) ·
1944 – Pat Parker, African American poet[10] ·
1945 – Christopher
Martin-Jenkins, English journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013) ·
1945 – Eric Stewart, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1946 – David Lynch, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1946 – Vladimír Merta,
Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist ·
1947 – Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and
sportscaster ·
1948 – Nancy Kress, American author and academic ·
1948 – Natan Sharansky, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist
and politician, Deputy Prime
Minister of Israel ·
1949 – Göran Persson, Swedish lawyer and
politician, 31st Prime Minister
of Sweden ·
1950 – Daniel Benzali, Brazilian-American actor ·
1950 – William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and
politician, 13th Tanzanian
Minister of Finance (d. 2014) ·
1950 – Mahamane Ousmane, Nigerien politician, President of Niger ·
1951 – Iván Fischer, Hungarian conductor and
composer ·
1952 – Nikos Sideris, Greek psychiatrist and poet ·
1952 – Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1952 – John Witherow, South African-English
journalist and author ·
1953 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and
convicted sex offender (d. 2019) ·
1954 – Alison Seabeck, English lawyer and
politician ·
1955 – McKeeva Bush, Caymanian politician, Premier of
the Cayman Islands ·
1956 – Maria Larsson, Swedish educator and
politician, Swedish Minister of Health and Social Affairs ·
1956 – Bill Maher, American comedian, political
commentator, media critic, television host, and producer ·
1956 – John Naber, American swimmer ·
1957 – Andy Sheppard, English saxophonist and
composer ·
1958 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1959 – Tami Hoag, American author ·
1959 – R. A. Salvatore, American author ·
1960 – Apa Sherpa, Nepalese-American mountaineer ·
1960 – Scott Thunes, American bass player ·
1960 – Will Wright,
American video game designer, co-founded Maxis ·
1963 – James Denton, American actor ·
1963 – Mark Ryden, American painter and illustrator ·
1964 – Ozzie Guillén, Venezuelan-American baseball
player and manager ·
1964 – Ron Harper, American basketball player and
coach ·
1964 – Jack Lewis,
American soldier and author ·
1964 – Kazushige Nojima, Japanese screenwriter and
songwriter ·
1964 – Aquilino Pimentel
III, Filipino lawyer and politician ·
1964 – Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist
and author ·
1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer
defender and manager[11] ·
1965 – Sophie,
Countess of Wessex ·
1965 – Warren Joyce, English footballer and manager ·
1965 – John Michael
Montgomery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1965 – Anton Weissenbacher,
Romanian footballer ·
1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor ·
1967 – Stacey Dash, American actress and television
journalist ·
1967 – Kellyanne Conway, American political
strategist and pundit ·
1968 – Nick Anderson, American basketball player
and sportscaster ·
1968 – Junior Murray, Grenadian cricketer ·
1969 – Patrick K. Kroupa,
American computer hacker and activist, co-founded MindVox ·
1969 – Nicky Wire, Welsh singer-songwriter and bass
player ·
1970 – Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1970 – Skeet Ulrich, American actor ·
1971 – Derrick Green, American singer ·
1971 – Gary Barlow, English singer-songwriter,
pianist, and producer ·
1971 – Ger McDonnell, Irish mountaineer and
engineer (d. 2008) ·
1971 – Jung Woong-in, South Korean actor ·
1971 – Questlove, American drummer, DJ, and
producer ·
1971 – Wakanohana Masaru,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 66th Yokozuna ·
1972 – Nikki Haley, American accountant and
politician, 116th Governor of
South Carolina ·
1973 – Stephen Crabb, Scottish-Welsh
politician, Secretary of
State for Wales ·
1973 – Queen Mathilde
of Belgium ·
1974 – David Dei, Italian footballer and coach ·
1975 – Norberto Fontana, Argentinian racing driver ·
1975 – Zac Goldsmith, English journalist and
politician ·
1976 – Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish journalist and
sportscaster ·
1976 – Michael
Myers, American football player ·
1976 – Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater ·
1977 – Paul Adams,
South African cricketer and coach ·
1978 – Salvatore Aronica,
Italian footballer ·
1978 – Sonja Kesselschläger,
German heptathlete ·
1978 – Allan Sřgaard, Danish footballer ·
1979 – Choo Ja-hyun, South Korean actress ·
1979 – Will Young, English singer-songwriter and
actor ·
1980 – Karl Anderson, American wrestler ·
1980 – Philippe Cousteau,
Jr., American-French oceanographer and journalist ·
1980 – Philippe Gagnon,
Canadian swimmer ·
1980 – Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and
actor ·
1980 – Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player ·
1980 – Matthew Tuck, Welsh singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1981 – Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player ·
1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer ·
1981 – Jason Richardson, American basketball player ·
1982 – Ruchi Sanghvi, Indian computer engineer ·
1982 – Fredrik Strřmstad,
Norwegian footballer ·
1983 – Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican-American baseball
player ·
1983 – Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer and actress ·
1984 – Malek Jaziri, Tunisian tennis player ·
1985 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
1985 – Tanel Sokk, Estonian basketball player ·
1987 – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter ·
1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer
(d. 2011) ·
1988 – Uwa Elderson
Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer ·
1988 – Jeffrén Suárez,
Spanish footballer ·
1989 – Nick Foles, American football player ·
1989 – Washington
Santana da Silva, Brazilian footballer ·
1989 – Jared
Waerea-Hargreaves, New Zealand rugby league player ·
1990 – Ray Thompson,
Australian rugby league player ·
1991 – Ciara Hanna, American actress and model ·
1991 – Tom Cairney, Scottish footballer, midfielder[12] ·
1991 – Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player ·
1991 – Jolyon Palmer, English racing driver ·
1992 – Jorge Zárate, Mexican footballer ·
1993 – Lorenzo Crisetig, Italian footballer ·
1994 – Seán Kavanagh, Irish footballer, defender[13] ·
1994 – Lucas Piazon, Brazilian footballer[14] ·
1995 – Joey Badass, American rapper and actor[15] ·
1995 – Calum Chambers, English footballer, defender[16] Deaths
·
820 – Al-Shafi‘i, Arab scholar and jurist (b. 767) ·
842 – Theophilos,
Byzantine emperor (b. 813) ·
882 – Louis the Younger,
king of the East Frankish Kingdom ·
924 – Li Jitao, Chinese general of Later Tang ·
928 – Zhao Guangfeng, Chinese official and chancellor ·
1029 – Heonae, Korean queen and regent (b. 964) ·
1095 – Wulfstan,
bishop of Worcester ·
1156 – Henry,
English bishop and saint ·
1189 – Shi Zong,
Chinese emperor of Jin (b.
1123) ·
1191 – Frederick VI,
duke of Swabia (b. 1167) ·
1191 – Theobald V,
count of Blois (b. 1130) ·
1265 – John Maunsell, English Lord Chancellor ·
1336 – John
de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford (b. 1306) ·
1343 – Robert,
king of Naples (b. 1275) ·
1479 – John II,
king of Sicily (b. 1398) ·
1568 – Myles Coverdale, English bishop and
translator (b. 1488) ·
1612 – Rudolf II,
Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)[17] ·
1663 – Isaac Ambrose, English minister and author
(b. 1604) ·
1666 – Anne of Austria, Queen and regent of France
(b. 1601)[18] ·
1707 – Humphrey Hody, English scholar and
theologian (b. 1659) ·
1709 – François de la
Chaise, French priest (b. 1624) ·
1751 – John
Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665) ·
1770 – Charles Yorke, English lawyer and
politician, Lord Chancellor of Great
Britain (b. 1722) ·
1779 – David Garrick, English actor, producer,
playwright, and manager (b. 1717)[19] ·
1810 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (b.
1721)[20] ·
1819 – Charles IV,
Spanish king (b. 1748)[21] ·
1837 – John Soane, English architect, designed
the Bank of England (b.
1753)[22] ·
1841 – Jřrgen Jřrgensen,
Danish explorer (b. 1780) ·
1841 – Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (b.
1791) ·
1848 – Christian VIII,
Danish king (b. 1786) ·
1850 – Adam Oehlenschläger,
Danish poet and playwright (b. 1779) ·
1852 – Ōnomatsu
Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794) ·
1873 – Basil Moreau, French priest, founded
the Congregation
of Holy Cross (b. 1799) ·
1875 – Jean-François Millet,
French painter and educator (b. 1814) ·
1891 – Kalākaua, king of Hawaii (b. 1836) ·
1900 – John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b.
1819) ·
1901 – Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented
the Gramme machine (b.
1826) ·
1907 – Agnes Mary Clerke,
Irish astronomer and author (b. 1842) ·
1908 – John Ordronaux,
American surgeon and academic (b. 1830) ·
1913 – José Guadalupe
Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852) ·
1915 – Arthur
Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, Irish businessman, philanthropist,
and politician (b. 1840) ·
1920 – Georg Lurich, Estonian-Russian wrestler and
strongman (b. 1876) ·
1921 – Mary Watson Whitney,
American astronomer and academic (b. 1847) ·
1924 – Henry "Ivo" Crapp, Australian
footballer and umpire (b. 1872) ·
1936 – George V of the United Kingdom (b.
1865) ·
1940 – Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861) ·
1944 – James McKeen Cattell,
American psychologist and academic (b. 1860) ·
1947 – Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b.
1911) ·
1947 – Andrew Volstead, American member of the
United States House of Representatives (b. 1860) ·
1954 – Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (b.
1882) ·
1954 – Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (b.
1890) ·
1955 – Robert P. T. Coffin,
American author and poet (b. 1892) ·
1962 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet and
philosopher (b. 1887) ·
1965 – Alan Freed, American radio host (b. 1922) ·
1971 – Broncho Billy
Anderson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b.
1880) ·
1971 – Minanogawa
Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903) ·
1973 – Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and surgeon
(b. 1885) ·
1973 – Amílcar Cabral,
Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924) ·
1977 – Dimitrios
Kiousopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, 151st Prime
Minister of Greece (b. 1892) ·
1980 – William Roberts,
English soldier and painter (b. 1895) ·
1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933) ·
1984 – Johnny Weissmuller,
American swimmer and actor (b. 1904) ·
1988 – Khan Abdul
Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist and politician (b. 1890) ·
1988 – Dora Stratou, Greek dancer and choreographer
(b. 1903) ·
1989 – Alamgir Kabir,
Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938) ·
1990 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907) ·
1993 – Audrey Hepburn, British actress and
humanitarian activist (b. 1929) ·
1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and coach
(b. 1909) ·
1994 – Jaramogi Oginga
Odinga, first Kenyan Vice-President (b. 1911) ·
1996 – Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist and
composer (b. 1927) ·
2002 – Carrie Hamilton, American actress and singer
(b. 1963) ·
2003 – Al Hirschfeld, American painter and
illustrator (b. 1903)[23] ·
2003 – Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908) ·
2004 – Alan Brown,
English racing driver (b. 1919) ·
2004 – T. Nadaraja, Sri Lankan lawyer and academic
(b. 1917) ·
2005 – Per Borten, Norwegian lawyer and politician,
18th Prime Minister
of Norway (b. 1913) ·
2005 – Jan
Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist and politician (b. 1913) ·
2005 – Miriam Rothschild,
English zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908) ·
2009 – Stéphanos II Ghattas,
Egyptian patriarch (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Etta James, American singer-songwriter (b.
1938)[24] ·
2012 – John Levy,
American bassist and manager (b. 1912) ·
2012 – Ioannis
Kefalogiannis, Greek politician, Greek
Minister of the Interior (b. 1933) ·
2012 – Alejandro
Rodriguez, Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist (b.
1918)[25] ·
2013 – Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright
(b. 1933) ·
2013 – Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet and author (b.
1911) ·
2014 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933) ·
2014 – Otis G. Pike, American judge and politician
(b. 1921) ·
2014 – Jonas Trinkūnas,
Lithuanian ethnologist and academic (b. 1939) ·
2015 – Edgar Froese, Russian-German keyboard player
and songwriter (b. 1944) ·
2016 – Mykolas
Burokevičius, Lithuanian carpenter and politician (b. 1927) ·
2016 – Edmonde Charles-Roux,
French journalist and author (b. 1920) ·
2018 – Paul Bocuse, French chef (b. 1926)[26] ·
2018 – Naomi Parker Fraley,
American naval machiner (b. 1921)[27] ·
2020 – Jaroslav Kubera, Czech politician (b. 1947)[28] ·
2020 – Tom Fisher Railsback, American politician,
member of the Illinois and U.S.
House of Representatives [29] Holidays and observances
·
Christian feast day: o Abadios o Fabian o Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception Brando o Richard Rolle (Church of England) o Stephen Min Kuk-ka (one
of The Korean Martyrs) o January
20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Inauguration
Day, held every four years in odd-numbered years immediately
following years divisible by 4, except for the public ceremony when January
20 falls on Sunday (the public ceremony is held the following day; however,
the terms of offices still begin on the 20th) (United States of America, not
a federal holiday for all government employees but only for those working in
the Capital region) |
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