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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 21 is the 21st day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
344 days remain until the end of the year (345 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
763 Following
the Battle of Bakhamra between
Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of
Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.[1] ·
1525 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded
when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others
baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zόrich, breaking a thousand-year tradition
of church-state union.[2] ·
1535 Following
the Affair of the
Placards, the French king leads
an anti-Protestant procession through Paris.[3][4] ·
1720 Sweden
and Prussia sign
the Treaty
of Stockholm.[5] ·
1749 The Teatro Filarmonico in
Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the
box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.[6] ·
1774 Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of
the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. ·
1789 The first
American novel, The Power of
Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown,
is printed in Boston. ·
1793 After being
found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is
executed by guillotine. ·
1854 The RMS Tayleur sinks off Lambay Island on her maiden voyage from
Liverpool to Australia with great loss of life.[7] ·
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate. ·
1893 The Tati Concessions
Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to
the Bechuanaland
Protectorate, now Botswana. ·
1908 New York City
passes the Sullivan Ordinance,
making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to have the measure
vetoed by the mayor. ·
1911 The first Monte Carlo Rally takes
place. ·
1915 Kiwanis
International is founded in Detroit. ·
1919 A revolutionary Irish parliament is
founded and declares
the independence of the Irish Republic. One of the first engagements of
the Irish War of
Independence takes place. ·
1925 Albania declares itself a republic. ·
1931 Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first
Australian-born Governor-General
of Australia. ·
1941 Sparked by the
murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania the day before, members of
the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion
and pogrom killing 125 Jews. ·
1948 The Flag of Quebec is adopted and flown for
the first time over the National
Assembly of Quebec. The day is marked annually as Quιbec Flag Day. ·
1950 American lawyer
and government official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. ·
1954 The first nuclear-powered submarine,
the USS Nautilus,
is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First
Lady of the United States. ·
1960 Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off
from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board. ·
1960 Avianca Flight 671 crashes
at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, killing 37 people. ·
1960 A coal mine
collapses at Holly Country, South Africa, killing 435
miners. ·
1968 Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh:
One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins. ·
1968 A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after
its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for
after the cleanup operation is complete. ·
1971 The
current Emley
Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in
the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts. ·
1976 Commercial
service of Concorde begins
with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. ·
1980 Iran Air Flight 291 crashes
in the Alborz Mountains while on approach
to Mehrabad
International Airport in Tehran, Iran,
killing 128 people.[8] ·
1981 Production of
the iconic DeLorean sports
car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. ·
1985 Galaxy
Airlines Flight 203 crashes near RenoTahoe
International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 people.[9] ·
1997 The U.S. House
of Representatives votes 39528 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations,
making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined. ·
1999 War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug
busts in American history, the United States
Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms
(9,500 lb) of cocaine on board. ·
2000 Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is
seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiιrrez,
Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by
Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad. ·
2003 A 7.6
magnitude earthquake strikes
the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and
leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless. ·
2004 NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit)
ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management
of its flash memory and
is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6. ·
2005 In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the
government's new taxes erupts into riots. ·
2009 Israel
withdraws from the Gaza Strip,
officially ending a three-week war it
had with Hamas. However, intermittent fire by both sides continues in the
weeks to follow. ·
2011 Anti government
demonstrations take place in Tirana, Albania. Five people lose their lives from
gunshots, allegedly fired from armed police protecting the Prime Minister's
office. To date, no one has been held accountable for the deaths. ·
2017 Over 400 cities
across America and 160+ countries worldwide participate in a
large-scale women's march,
on Donald Trump's
first full day as President
of the United States. ·
2018 Rocket Lab's Electron becomes
the first rocket to reach orbit using an electric pump-fed engine and deploys
three CubeSats. Births[edit]
·
1264 Alexander,
Prince of Scotland (d. 1284)[10] ·
1277 Galeazzo I Visconti,
lord of Milan ·
1338 Charles V of France (d.
1380)[11] ·
1493 Giovanni Poggio, Italian cardinal and
diplomat (d. 1556)[12] ·
1598 Matsudaira Tadamasa,
Japanese samurai and daimyō (d. 1645)[13] ·
1612 Henry
Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, count of Nassau-Dietz (d. 1640) ·
1636 Melchiorre Cafΰ,
Maltese Baroque sculptor (baptised;[14] d. 1667) ·
1655 Antonio
Molinari, Italian painter (d. 1704)[15] ·
1659 Adriaen van der
Werff, Dutch painter (d. 1722)[16] ·
1675 Duchess
Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg, Margravine of Baden-Baden (d. 1733)[17] ·
1714 Anna Morandi
Manzolini, Spanish anatomist (d. 1774) ·
1717 Antonio
Marνa de Bucareli y Ursϊa, Spanish military officer and governor
of Cuba (d. 1779) ·
1721 James Murray, Scottish-English general and
politician, Governor of Minorca (d.
1794) ·
1724 Louis-Jean-Franηois
Lagrenιe, French rococo painter (d. 1805)[citation
needed] ·
1732 Frederick
II Eugene, Duke of Wόrttemberg, son of Karl
Alexander, Duke of Wόrttemberg, and Princess
Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis (d. 1797) ·
1738 Ethan Allen, American general (d. 1789)[18] ·
1741 Chaim of Volozhin,
Orthodox rabbi (d. 1821) ·
1763 Augustin Robespierre,
younger brother of French Revolutionary leader Maximilien
Robespierre (d. 1794) ·
1775 Manuel Garcia,
Spanish opera singer and composer (d. 1832) ·
1784 Peter De Wint, English painter (d. 1849) ·
1788 William Henry Smyth, Royal Navy officer, hydrographer,
astronomer and numismatist ·
1796 Princess
Marie of Hesse-Kassel, consort of George,
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1880) ·
1797 Joseph Mιry, French author and journalist
(d. 1866) ·
1800 Theodor Fliedner, German Lutheran minister
(d. 1864) ·
1801 John Batman, Australian entrepreneur and
explorer (d. 1839) ·
1804 Moritz von Schwind,
Austrian painter (d. 1871) ·
1808 Juan Crisσstomo
Torrico, 16th President of Peru (d. 1875) ·
1810 Pierre
Louis Charles de Failly, French general (d. 1892) ·
1811 James
Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, British statesman (d. 1885)[19] ·
1813 John C. Frιmont,
American general, explorer, and politician, 5th Territorial
Governor of Arizona (d. 1890) ·
1813 Giuseppe Montanelli,
Italian statesman and author (d. 1862) ·
1814 Johann Georg
Theodor Grδsse, German bibliographer and historian (d. 1885) ·
1815 Horace Wells, American dentist (d. 1848) ·
1820 Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and
illustrator (d. 1899) ·
1820 Egide Walschaerts,
Belgian mechanical engineer (d. 1901) ·
1824 Stonewall Jackson,
American general (d. 1863) ·
1827 Ivan Mikheevich
Pervushin, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1900) ·
1829 Oscar II of Sweden (d.
1907) ·
1839 Caterina Volpicelli,
Italian Roman Catholic nun (d. 1894) ·
1840 Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician and
feminist (d. 1912) ·
1841 Ιdouard Schurι,
French philosopher and author (d. 1929) ·
1843 Ιmile Levassor,
French engineer (d. 1897) ·
1845 Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (d. 1932) ·
1846 Pieter Hendrik
Schoute, Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1923) ·
1846 Albert Lavignac, French music scholar (d.
1916) ·
1847 Joseph Achille Le
Bel, French chemist (d. 1930)[20] ·
1848 Henri Duparc,
French soldier and composer (d. 1933) ·
1851 Giuseppe Allamano,
Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1926) ·
1854 Karl Julius Beloch,
German classical and economic historian (d. 1929) ·
1854 Eusapia Palladino,
Italian Spiritualist (d. 1918) ·
1855 Princess
Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, the youngest daughter of
King Ferdinand
II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1874) ·
1860 Karl Staaff, Swedish lawyer and politician,
11th Prime Minister
of Sweden (d. 1915) ·
1864 Israel Zangwill, British author (d. 1926) ·
1865 Heinrich Albers-Schonberg,
German gynecologist and radiologist (d. 1921) ·
1867 Ludwig Thoma, German paramedic and author
(d. 1921) ·
1867 Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (d.
1965) ·
1868 Felix Hoffmann, German chemist (d. 1946) ·
1869 Grigori Rasputin, Russian Mystic (d. 1916) ·
1871 Olga Preobrajenska,
Russian ballerina (d. 1962) ·
1873 Arturo Labriola, Italian revolutionary
syndicalist (d. 1959) ·
1874 Renι-Louis Baire,
French mathematician (d. 1932) ·
1875 Paul E. Kahle, German orientalist (d. 1964) ·
1877 Baldassarre Negroni,
Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1948) ·
1878 Vahan Tekeyan, Armenian poet and activist
(d. 1948)[21] ·
1879 Joseph Roffo, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (d. 1933) ·
1880 George Van
Biesbroeck, BelgianAmerican astronomer (d. 1974) ·
1881 Ernst Fast, Swedish runner (d. 1959) ·
1881 Andrι Godard, French archaeologist,
architect and historian (d. 1965) ·
1881 Ivan Ribar, Yugoslav politician (d. 1968) ·
1882 Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician and
theologian (d. 1937) ·
1882 Francis Gailey, Australian-American swimmer
(d. 1972) ·
1883 Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and educator
(d. 1929) ·
1883 Mathias Hynes, British tug of war competitor (d. 1926) ·
1885 Duncan Grant, British painter and designer
(d. 1978) ·
1885 Umberto Nobile, Italian engineer and explorer
(d. 1978) ·
1885 Harold A. Wilson, English runner (d. 1932) ·
1886 John M. Stahl, American director and
producer (d. 1950) ·
1887 Wolfgang Kφhler,
German psychologist and phenomenologist (d. 1967) ·
1887 Ernest Holmes, American New Thought writer
(d. 1960) ·
1887 Georges Vιzina,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926) ·
1889 Pitirim Sorokin, American sociologist and
political activist (d. 1968) ·
1891 Albert Battel, German Army lieutenant and
lawyer (d. 1952) ·
1891 Francisco Lαzaro,
Portuguese marathon runner (d. 1912) ·
1895 Cristσbal Balenciaga,
Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (d. 1972)[22] ·
1895 Daniel Chalonge, French astrophysicist and
astronomer (d. 1977) ·
1895 Noe Itō, Japanese anarchist, author and
feminist (d. 1923) ·
1896 Guy Gilpatric, American pilot and journalist
(d. 1950) ·
1896 Paula Hitler, younger sister of Adolf Hitler (d. 1960) ·
1896 J. Carrol Naish, American actor (d. 1973) ·
1896 Masa Perttilδ, Finnish wrestler (d. 1968) ·
1897 Renι Ichι, French sculptor (d. 1954) ·
1898 Rudolph Matι, Polish-Hungarian-American
cinematographer, producer and director (d. 1964) ·
1898 Ahmad Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (d. 1930) ·
1898 Eduard Zintl, German chemist (d. 1941) ·
1899 John Bodkin Adams,
British general practitioner and convict (d. 1983)[23] ·
1899 Gyula Mαndi, Hungarian footballer and
manager (d. 1969)[24] ·
1899 Edith Tolkien, wife and muse of J. R. R. Tolkien (d. 1971) ·
1899 Alexander Tcherepnin,
Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 1977) ·
1900 Elof Ahrle, Swedish actor and director
(d. 1965) ·
1900 Anselm Franz, Austrian engineer (d. 1994)[25] ·
1900 Bernhard Rensch, German evolutionary
biologist (d. 1990) ·
1900 Fernando
Quiroga Palacios, Spanish Cardinal (d. 1971) ·
1901 Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer and
manager (d. 1978) ·
1903 William Lyon,
American film editor (d. 1974) ·
1903 Raymond Suvigny, French weightlifter (d.
1945) ·
1904 Puck van Heel, Dutch footballer (d. 1984) ·
1904 John Porter,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997) ·
1905 Christian Dior, French fashion designer,
founded Christian Dior S.A. (d.
1957) ·
1905 Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and
tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (d.
1978) ·
1906 Leo Halle, Dutch footballer (d. 1992) ·
1906 Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d.
2007) ·
1907 Carlo Cavagnoli, Italian boxer (d. 1991) ·
1907 Jānis Mendriks,
Latvian Catholic priest (d. 1953) ·
1909 Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and
conductor (d. 2004) ·
1909 Teofilo
Spasojević, Serbian footballer (d. 1970) ·
1910 Hideo Shinojima, Japanese footballer (d.
1975) ·
1910 Albert Rosellini, American lawyer and
politician, 15th Governor of
Washington (d. 2011) ·
1910 Rosa Kellner, German athlete (d. 1984) ·
1910 Kαroly Takαcs,
Hungarian shooter (d. 1976) ·
1911 Dick Garrard, Australian wrestler (d. 2003) ·
1911 Lee Yoo-hyung, Korean footballer and manager
(d. 2003) ·
1912 Konrad Emil Bloch,
German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2000) ·
1915 Andrι Lichnerowicz,
French mathematician (d. 1998) ·
1915 Orazio Mariani, Italian sprinter (d. 1981) ·
1916 Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (d. 2006)[26] ·
1916 Zypora Spaisman, Polish midwife; American
and Yiddish-language actress; producer of the Yiddish stage (d. 2002)[27] ·
1917 Erling Persson, H&M founder (d. 2002)[28] ·
1918 Jimmy Hagan, English footballer (d. 1998) ·
1918 Richard Winters, American soldier (d. 2011) ·
1918 Antonio Janigro, Italian cellist and
conductor (d. 1989) ·
1919 Eric Brown,
Scottish-English captain and pilot (d. 2016) ·
1920 Errol Barrow, first Prime Minister of
Barbados (d. 1987) ·
1921 Lincoln Alexander,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 23rd Canadian
Minister of Labour (d. 2012) ·
1922 Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994) ·
1922 Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)[29] ·
1922 Predrag Vranicki, Croatian Marxist Humanist,
and member of the Praxis school in
the 1960s in Yugoslavia (d.
2002) ·
1923 Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer, and
actress (d. 1995) ·
1923 Alberto de Mendoza,
Argentine actor (d. 2011) ·
1923 Pahiρo, Spanish footballer (d. 2012) ·
1924 Benny Hill, English actor, singer, and
screenwriter (d. 1992) ·
1925 Charles Aidman, American actor (d. 1993) ·
1925 Alex Forbes, Scottish footballer (d. 2014) ·
1925 Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-English author (d.
2010) ·
1925 Arnold Skaaland, American wrestler and
manager (d. 2007) ·
1926 Clive Donner, British director (d. 2010) ·
1926 Franco
Evangelisti, Italian composer (d. 1980) ·
1926 Steve Reeves, American bodybuilder (d. 2000) ·
1926 Roger Taillibert, French architect (d. 2019) ·
1926 Robert J. White, American neurosurgeon (d.
2010) ·
1927 Rudolf Kraus,
German footballer (d. 2003) ·
1928 Gene Sharp, American political scientist and
academic, founded the Albert
Einstein Institution (d. 2018) ·
1928 Reynaldo Bignone, Argentinian general and
politician, 41st President of Argentina (d. 2018) ·
1929 Radley Metzger, American filmmaker (d. 2017) ·
1930 Mainza Chona, Zambian lawyer and politician,
1st Prime Minister
of Zambia (d. 2001) ·
1931 Yoshiko Kuga, Japanese actress ·
1933 Habib Thiam, Senegalese politician (d. 2017) ·
1933 Tony Marchi, English footballer, wing half[30] ·
1934 Audrey Dalton, Irish actress ·
1934 Antonio Karmany, Spanish cyclist ·
1934 Alfonso Portugal, Mexican footballer
(d. 2016) ·
1934 Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (d. 2017) ·
1936 Dick Davies, American basketball player (d.
2012) ·
1937 Judit
Αgoston-Mendelιnyi, Hungarian fencer (d. 2013) ·
1937 Prince Max,
Duke in Bavaria, the youngest son of Albrecht, Duke
of Bavaria ·
1938 Sandy Barr, American wrestler and referee
(d. 2007) ·
1938 Romano Fogli, Italian footballer ·
1938 Wolfman Jack, American radio host (d. 1995) ·
1938 Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers,
English lawyer and judge, Lord
Chief Justice of England and Wales ·
1939 Paul Genevay, French sprinter ·
1939 Friedel Lutz, German footballer ·
1939 Steve Paxton, American dancer and
choreographer ·
1939 Viacheslav Platonov,
Russian volleyball player and coach (d. 2005) ·
1940 Jack Nicklaus, American golfer and
sportscaster ·
1940 Patrick
Robinson, British novelist ·
1941 Sattam bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (d. 2013) ·
1941 Plαcido Domingo,
Spanish tenor and conductor ·
1941 Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2013) ·
1941 Mike Medavoy, Chinese-American film
producer, co-founded Orion Pictures ·
1941 Ivan Putski, Polish-American wrestler and
bodybuilder ·
1941 Elaine Showalter, American author and critic ·
1942 Freddy Breck, German singer, producer, and
news anchor (d. 2008) ·
1942 Eugθne Camara, Prime Minister of Guinea (d.
2019) ·
1942 Han Pil-hwa, North Korean speed skater ·
1942 Mac Davis, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1942 Edwin Starr, American singer-songwriter (d.
2003) ·
1942 Michael G. Wilson,
American producer and screenwriter ·
1943 Zdravko Hebel, Croatian water polo player
(d. 2017) ·
1943 Arnar Jσnsson,
Icelandic actor ·
1943 Alfons Peeters, Belgian footballer (d. 2015) ·
1943 Kenzo Yokoyama, Japanese footballer ·
1944 Uto Ughi, Italian violinist ·
1945 Pete Kircher, English drummer ·
1945 Martin Shaw, English actor and producer ·
1946 Ichiro Hosotani, Japanese footballer ·
1946 Nella Martinetti, Swiss singer (d. 2011) ·
1946 Tomαs Pineda, El Salvadoran footballer ·
1946 Miguel Reina, Spanish footballer ·
1947 Jill Eikenberry, American actress ·
1947 Andrzej
Bachleda, Polish former alpine skier ·
1947 Dorian M. Goldfeld,
American mathematician ·
1947 Pye Hastings, Scottish singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1947 Michel Jonasz, French singer-songwriter and
actor ·
1947 Joseph Nicolosi, American clinical psychologist
(d. 2017) ·
1947 Giuseppe Savoldi, Italian footballer ·
1947 Roberto Zywica, Argentine footballer ·
1948 Zygmunt Kukla,
Polish footballer (d. 2016) ·
1948 Hugo Tocalli, Argentine footballer ·
1949 Trương
Tấn Sang, Vietnamese politician and 7th President of Vietnam ·
1949 Clifford Ray, American basketball coach and
player ·
1950 Marion Becker, German javelin thrower ·
1950 Gary Locke, American politician and
diplomat, 36th United
States Secretary of Commerce ·
1950 Josι Marνn,
Spanish racewalker ·
1950 Billy Ocean, Trinidadian-English
singer-songwriter ·
1950 Agnes van Ardenne,
Dutch politician and diplomat, Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation ·
1951 Eric Holder, American lawyer, judge, and
politician, 82nd United
States Attorney General ·
1952 Marco Camenisch, Swiss activist and murderer ·
1952 Werner Grissmann, Austrian alpine skier ·
1952 Mikhail Umansky, Russian chess player (d.
2010) ·
1953 Paul Allen, American businessman and
philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft (d. 2018)[31] ·
1953 Felipe Yαρez,
Spanish cyclist ·
1954 Thomas de Maiziθre,
German politician of the Christian Democratic Union ·
1954 Idrissa Ouedraogo,
Burkinabι director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
1954 Phil Thompson, English footballer and coach ·
1955 Peter Fleming,
American tennis player ·
1955 Jeff Koons, American painter and sculptor ·
1955 Nello Musumeci, Italian politician and
President of Sicily ·
1956 Robby Benson, American actor and director ·
1956 Geena Davis, American actress and producer ·
1958 Matt Salmon, American politician ·
1958 Hussein Saeed, Iraqi footballer ·
1958 Sergei Walter, Ukrainian politician (d.
2015) ·
1958 Michael Wincott, Canadian actor ·
1959 Sergei Alifirenko,
Russian pistol shooter ·
1959 Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and
manager ·
1960 Sidney Lowe, American basketball player ·
1960 Mike Terrana, American hard rock and heavy
metal drummer ·
1961 Kevin Cramer, American politician ·
1961 Cornelia Prφll,
Austrian alpine skier ·
1961 Ivo Pukanić Croatian journalist
(d. 2008) ·
1961 Gary
Shaw, English footballer ·
1961 Piotr Ugrumov, Russian cyclist ·
1962 Tyler Cowen, American economist and academic ·
1962 Isabelle Nanty, French actress, director and
screenwriter ·
1962 Gabriele Pin, Italian footballer and coach ·
1962 Zoran Thaler, Slovenian politician ·
1962 Erik Verlinde, Dutch theoretical physicist ·
1962 Marie Trintignant,
French actress (d. 2003) ·
1963 Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-American
basketball player ·
1963 Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player
and coach ·
1964 Andreas Bauer,
German ski jumper ·
1964 Tony Dolan, English musician and actor ·
1964 Gιrald Passi, French footballer ·
1964 Ricardo Serna, Spanish footballer ·
1964 Aleksandar otar,
Serbian water polo player ·
1964 Danny Wallace,
English footballer ·
1965 Robert Del Naja, British artist, musician
and singer ·
1965 Jam Master Jay, American DJ, rapper, and
producer (d. 2002) ·
1965 Masahiro Wada, Japanese footballer ·
1967 Artashes Minasian,
Armenian chess player ·
1967 Alfred Jermani,
Slovenian footballer ·
1967 Gorō Miyazaki, Japanese film director
and landscaper ·
1968 Dmitry Fomin, Soviet and Russian volleyball
player ·
1968 Ilya Smirin, Israeli chess Grandmaster ·
1968 Artur Dmitriev, Soviet and Russian ice
skater ·
1968 Sιbastien Lifshitz,
French director ·
1968 Charlotte Ross, American actress ·
1969 John Ducey, American actor ·
1969 Eduard Hδmδlδinen,
Finnish-Belarusian decathlete ·
1969 Karina Lombard, French-American actress and
singer ·
1969 Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese comic artist ·
1970 Alen Bokić, former Croatian footballer ·
1970 Marina Foοs, French actress ·
1970 Ken Leung, American actor ·
1970 Oren Peli, Israeli-American director,
producer and screenwriter ·
1971 Uni Arge, Faroese footballer and entertainer ·
1971 Rafael Berges, Spanish footballer ·
1971 Doug Edwards, American basketball player ·
1971 Dmitri Khlestov, Russian footballer ·
1971 Dylan Kussman, American actor ·
1971 Sergey Klevchenya,
Russian speed skater ·
1971 Doug Weight, American ice hockey player and
coach ·
1972 Billel Dziri, Algerian footballer and
manager ·
1972 Rick Falkvinge, Swedish businessman and
politician ·
1972 Sead
Kapetanović, Bosnian footballer ·
1972 Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer and
producer ·
1972 Cat Power, American singer, musician and
actress ·
1972 Shawn Rojeski, American curler ·
1972 Sabina Valbusa, Italian cross-country skier ·
1973 Rob Hayles, English cyclist ·
1973 Chris Kilmore, American musician and DJ ·
1973 Edvinas Krungolcas,
Lithuanian modern pentathlete ·
1973 Flavio Maestri, Peruvian footballer ·
1974 Malena Alterio, Spanish actress ·
1974 Maxwell Atoms, American animator,
screenwriter and voice actor ·
1974 Kim Dotcom, German-Finnish Internet
entrepreneur and political activist ·
1974 Arthιmon Hatungimana,
Burundian middle distance runner ·
1974 Vincent Laresca, American actor ·
1974 Ulrich Le Pen, French footballer ·
1974 Marco
Zanotti, Italian cyclist ·
1975 Nicky Butt, English footballer and coach ·
1975 Casey FitzRandolph,
American speedskater ·
1975 Yuji Ide, Japanese race car driver ·
1975 Ito,
Spanish footballer and manager ·
1975 Willem Korsten, Dutch footballer, left winger[32] ·
1975 Jason Moran,
American jazz pianist, composer and educator ·
1975 Florin Șerban, Romanian director ·
1975 Alyaksandr
Yermakovich, Belarusian footballer and manager ·
1976 Aivaras
Abromavičius, Lithuanian-Ukrainian banker and politician; 15th Ukrainian Minister of Economic Development ·
1976 Raivis
Belohvočiks, Latvian cyclist ·
1976 Emma Bunton, English singer ·
1976 Lars Eidinger, German actor ·
1976 Giorgio Frezzolini,
Italian footballer ·
1976 Igors Stepanovs, Latvian footballer ·
1977 Hussein Abdulghani,
Saudi Arabian footballer ·
1977 Bradley Carnell, South African footballer ·
1977 John DeSantis, Canadian actor ·
1977 Kirsten Klose, German hammer thrower ·
1977 Denis Lunghi, Italian cyclist ·
1977 Ulrike Maisch, German runner ·
1977 Phil Neville, English footballer and manager ·
1977 Michael Ruffin, American basketball player ·
1977 Jerry Trainor, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1978 Faris Al-Sultan, German triathlete ·
1978 Peter von Allmen, Swiss cross-country skier ·
1978 Hernαn Rodrigo Lσpez,
Uruguayan footballer ·
1978 Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player ·
1979 Quinton Jacobs, Namibian footballer ·
1979 Byung-hyun Kim, South Korean baseball player ·
1979 Spider Loc, American rapper and actor ·
1979 Melendi, Spanish singer ·
1979 Brian O'Driscoll,
Irish rugby player ·
1979 Sebastian
Schindzielorz, German footballer ·
1980 Troy Dumais, American diver ·
1980 Karsten Forsterling,
Australian rower ·
1980 Dave Kitson, English footballer and manager ·
1980 Lee Kyung-won, South Korean badminton player ·
1980 Kevin McKenna, Canadian soccer player ·
1980 Nana Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and
voice actress ·
1980 Alexander Os, former Norwegian biathlete ·
1980 Xavier Pons, Spanish rally diver ·
1980 Mari Possa, El Salvadoran pornographic
actress ·
1980 Bratislav
Ristić, Serbian footballer ·
1981 Gillian Chung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1981 Ivan Ergić, Serbian footballer ·
1981 Roberto Guana Italian footballer ·
1981 Wu Hanxiong, Chinese fencer ·
1981 Dany Heatley, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1981 Andy Lee,
South Korean singer and actor ·
1981 Izabella Miko, Polish actress, dancer, and
producer ·
1981 Shawn Redhage, American-Australian
basketball player ·
1981 Michel Telσ, Brazilian singer-songwriter ·
1981 Jung Ryeo-won, South Korean actress ·
1981 David F. Sandberg,
Swedish filmmaker ·
1982 Richard Josι Blanco,
Venezuelan footballer ·
1982 Adriano Ferreira
Martins, Brazilian footballer ·
1982 Nicolas Mahut, French tennis player ·
1982 Sarah Ourahmoune, French boxer ·
1982 Simon Rolfes, German footballer ·
1982 Dean Whitehead, English footballer ·
1983 Alex Acker, American basketball player ·
1983 Monique Adamczak, Australian tennis player ·
1983 Victor Leandro Bagy,
Brazilian footballer ·
1983 Ranko
Despotović, Serbian footballer ·
1983 Svetlana
Khodchenkova, Russian actress ·
1983 Marieke van den Ham,
Dutch water polo player ·
1983 Billy Mwanza, Zambian footballer ·
1983 Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian wrestler ·
1983 Αlvaro Quirσs, Spanish
golfer ·
1983 Francesca Segat, Italian swimmer ·
1983 Moritz Volz, German footballer, right back,
football pundit and scout[33] ·
1983 Kelly VanderBeek, Canadian alpine skier ·
1984 Leonardo Buriαn,
Uruguayan footballer ·
1984 Luke Grimes, American actor ·
1984 Amy Hastings, American track and fielder ·
1984 Alex Koslov, Moldovan-American wrestler ·
1984 Dejan
Milovanović, Serbian footballer ·
1984 Wes Morgan, Jamaican footballer ·
1984 Haloti Ngata, American footballer ·
1985 Markus Berger, Austrian footballer ·
1985 Artur Beterbiev, Russian boxer ·
1985 Aura Dione, Danish singer and songwriter ·
1985 Nick Gehlfuss, American actor ·
1985 Salvatore Giunta, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient ·
1985 Yumi Hara, Japanese voice actress and singer ·
1985 Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model and actress ·
1985 Rodrigo San Miguel,
Spanish basketball player ·
1985 Ri Se-gwang, North Korean artistic gymnast ·
1985 Dmitri
Sokolov, Russian basketball player ·
1985 Ryan Suter, American ice hockey player ·
1986 Cιsar Arzo, Spanish footballer ·
1986 Edson Barboza, Brazilian mixed martial
artist ·
1986 Joγo Gomes Jϊnior,
Brazilian swimmer ·
1986 Javi Lσpez, Spanish footballer ·
1986 Gina Mambrϊ, volleyball player from
Dominican Republic ·
1986 Jonathan Quick, American ice hockey player ·
1986 Mike Taylor,
American basketball player ·
1986 Σscar Vνlchez,
Peruvian footballer ·
1986 Sushant Singh Rajput,
Indian actor (d. 2020) ·
1987 Ioannis Athanasoulas,
Greek basketball player ·
1987 Andrei Cojocari, Moldovan footballer ·
1987 Alexander Dercho, German footballer ·
1987 Aida Hadzialic, Swedish politician ·
1987 Shaun Keeling, South African rower ·
1987 Augustine Kiprono
Choge, Kenyan runner ·
1987 Kevin Kratz, German footballer ·
1987 Danny Munyao, Zambian footballer ·
1987 Henrico Drost, Dutch footballer ·
1987 Darren Helm, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1987 Will Johnson,
Canadian footballer ·
1987 Mulopo Kudimbana, Congolese footballer ·
1987 Nyasha Mushekwi, Zimbabwean footballer ·
1987 Dominik Roels, German cyclist ·
1987 Maa Zec
Pekirič, Slovenian tennis player ·
1987 Ikumi Yoshimatsu, Japanese actress ·
1988 Glaiza de Castro, Filipino actress and
singer ·
1988 Ashton Eaton, American decathlete ·
1988 Rolands Freimanis,
Latvian basketball player ·
1988 Vanessa Hessler, Italian-American model and
actress ·
1988 Aleksandar Lazevski,
Macedonian footballer ·
1988 Αngel Mena, Ecuadorian footballer ·
1988 Valιrie Tιtreault,
Canadian tennis player ·
1988 Pieter Timmers, Belgian swimmer ·
1988 Nemanja Tomić, Serbian footballer ·
1988 Ben Turner,
English footballer ·
1989 Doğuş
Balbay, Turkish basketball player ·
1989 Kayla Banwarth, American indoor volleyball
player ·
1989 Fιrιbory Dorι,
Congolese footballer ·
1989 Sergey Fesikov, Russian swimmer ·
1989 Henrikh Mkhitaryan,
Armenian footballer ·
1989 Matteo Pelucchi, Italian cyclist ·
1989 Zhang Shuai,
Chinese tennis player ·
1990 Arash Afshin, Iranian footballer ·
1990 Diogo Amado, Portuguese footballer ·
1990 Andriy Bohdanov, Ukrainian footballer ·
1990 Kelly Rohrbach, American model and actress ·
1990 Andrι
Martins, Portuguese footballer ·
1990 Knowledge Musona, Zimbabwean footballer ·
1990 Jacob Smith,
American actor ·
1990 Doni Tata Pradita,
Indonesian motorcycle racer ·
1991 Ali Al-Busaidi, Omani footballer ·
1991 Mohammad Ghadir, Arab-Israeli footballer ·
1991 Jan Hirt, Czech cyclist ·
1991 Mateusz Mika, Polish volleyball player ·
1991 Alfredo Ortuρo,
Spanish footballer ·
1991 Marta Pagnini, Italian gymnast ·
1991 Craig Roberts, Welsh actor and director ·
1991 Luis Alfonso
Rodrνguez, Mexican footballer ·
1992 Verσnica Cepede Royg,
Paraguayan tennis player ·
1992 Sven Erik Bystrψm,
Norwegian cyclist ·
1992 James Duckworth,
Australian tennis player ·
1992 Kwame Karikari, Ghanaian footballer ·
1992 Nicolαs Mezquida,
Uruguayan footballer ·
1992 Roland Szolnoki, Hungarian footballer ·
1993 Muralha, Brazilian footballer ·
1994 Amin Affane, Swedish footballer ·
1994 Laura Robson, Australian-English tennis
player ·
1994 Nils Allen "Booboo" Stewart Jr.,
American actor ·
1995 Yulia Belorukova, Russian cross-country
skier ·
1995 Nguyễn
Cτng Phượng, Vietnamese footballer ·
1995 Marine Johannes, French basketball player ·
1995 Alanna Kennedy, Australian footballer player ·
1996 Marco Asensio, Spanish footballer ·
1996 Cristian Pavσn,
Argentine footballer ·
1997 Jeremy Shada, American actor, musician and
singer ·
1999 Rubina Ali, Indian actress ·
2003 Natalie Garcia,
rhythmic gymnast[34] ·
2004 Princess
Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, 2nd in line for the Norwegian throne[35] Deaths[edit]
·
420 Yazdegerd I, king of the Sassanid Empire ·
496 Epiphanius of Pavia,
Italian bishop and saint (b. 438) ·
917 Erchanger, Duke
of Swabia (b. 880) ·
918 Liu Zhijun,
Chinese general ·
939 Yang Pu, Chinese emperor (b. 900) ·
942 An Chongrong, Chinese general (Five Dynasties) ·
945 Yang Tan, Chinese general and governor ·
1118 Pope Paschal II (b. 1050) ·
1203 Agnes II,
Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1139) ·
1320 Αrni Helgason,
Icelandic bishop (b. c. 1260) ·
1527 Juan de Grijalva, Spanish explorer (b. 1489) ·
1546 Azai Sukemasa, Japanese daimyō (b.
1491) ·
1609 Joseph Justus
Scaliger, French historian and scholar (b. 1540) ·
1638 Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. 1570) ·
1670 Claude Duval, French highwayman (b. 1643) ·
1683 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury,
English politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer (b. 1621) ·
1699 Obadiah Walker, English historian and
academic (b. 1616) ·
1706 Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic
(b. 1649) ·
1710 Johann Georg Gichtel,
German mystic and critic (b. 1638) ·
1722 Charles
Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1661) ·
1731 Ignjat
Đurđević, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1675) ·
1773 Alexis Piron, French playwright and author
(b. 1689) ·
1774 Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1717) ·
1775 Yemelyan Pugachev,
Russian rebel (b. 1742) ·
1789 Baron d'Holbach, French-German philosopher
and author (b. 1723) ·
1793 Louis XVI of France (b.
1754) ·
1795 Samuel Wallis, English navigator and
explorer (b. 1728) ·
1809 Josiah Hornblower,
American engineer and politician (b. 1729) ·
1814 Jacques-Henri
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French botanist and author (b. 1737) ·
1823 Cayetano Josι
Rodrνguez, Argentinian cleric, journalist, and poet (b. 1761) ·
1831 Ludwig Achim von
Arnim, German poet and author (b. 1781) ·
1851 Albert Lortzing, German actor and composer
(b. 1801) ·
1862 Boena Němcovα,
Austrian-Czech author and poet (b. 1820) ·
1870 Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher and
author (b. 1812) ·
1872 Franz Grillparzer,
Austrian playwright and poet (b. 1791) ·
1881 Wilhelm Matthias
Naeff, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1802) ·
1891 Calixa Lavallιe,
Canadian-American lieutenant and composer (b. 1842) ·
1901 Elisha Gray, American engineer,
co-founded Western Electric (b.
1835) ·
1914 Theodor Kittelsen,
Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1857) ·
1918 Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music
teacher (b. 1857)[36] ·
1919 Gojong of Korea (b. 1852) ·
1919 Ahmed Muhtar Pasha,
Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839) ·
1924 Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and
politician (b. 1870) ·
1926 Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and
pathologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1843) ·
1928 George
Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858) ·
1931 Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1863) ·
1932 Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic
(b. 1880) ·
1933 George Moore,
Irish author, poet, and critic (b. 1852) ·
1937 Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and
singer (b. 1898) ·
1938 Georges Mιliθs,
French actor, director, and producer (b. 1861) ·
1945 Rash Behari Bose, Indian soldier and
engineer (b. 1886) ·
1948 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari,
Italian composer and educator (b. 1876) ·
1950 George Orwell, British novelist, essayist,
and critic (b. 1903) ·
1955 Archie Hahn, German-American runner and
coach (b. 1880) ·
1956 Sam Langford, Canadian-American boxer (b.
1883) ·
1959 Cecil B. DeMille, American director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1881) ·
1959 Frances Gertrude
McGill, pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist (b.
1882)[37] ·
1959 Carl Switzer, American child actor and
hunting guide (b. 1927) ·
1960 Matt Moore,
Irish-American actor and director (b. 1888) ·
1961 Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet (b.
1887) ·
1963 Acharya Shivpujan
Sahay, Indian author, poet, and academic (b. 1893) ·
1963 Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter (b.
1881) ·
1965 Gwynne Evans, American swimmer and water
polo player (b. 1880) ·
1967 Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915) ·
1968 Will Lang, Jr., American journalist (b.
1914) ·
1977 Sandro Penna, Italian poet and journalist
(b. 1906) ·
1978 Freda Utley, English scholar and author (b.
1898) ·
1983 Lamar Williams, American bass player (b.
1949) ·
1984 Giannis Skarimpas,
Greek playwright and poet (b. 1893) ·
1984 Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934) ·
1985 James Beard, American chef and author (b.
1903) ·
1985 Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter
(b. 1930) ·
1987 Charles Goodell, American lieutenant,
lawyer, and politician (b. 1926) ·
1988 Vincent Lingiari, Australian Aboriginal
rights activist (b. 1919) ·
1989 Carl Furillo, American baseball player (b.
1922) ·
1989 Billy Tipton, American pianist and
saxophonist (b. 1914) ·
1993 Charlie Gehringer,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1903) ·
1994 Bassel al-Assad, Son of the former President
of the Syrian Arab Republic Hafez al-Assad (b. 1962) ·
1998 Jack Lord, American actor, director, and
producer (b. 1920) ·
1999 Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938) ·
2002 Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920) ·
2003 Paul Haines,
American-Canadian poet and songwriter (b. 1933) ·
2003 Paul Kuusberg, Estonian journalist and
author (b. 1916) ·
2004 Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and
playwright (b. 1929) ·
2005 Theun de Vries, Dutch author and poet (b.
1907) ·
2005 John L. Hess, American journalist and critic
(b. 1917) ·
2005 Kaljo Raid, Estonian cellist, composer, and
pastor (b. 1921) ·
2006 Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo journalist and
politician, 1st President of Kosovo (b.
1944) ·
2009 Krista Kilvet, Estonian journalist,
politician and diplomat (b. 1946) ·
2010 Paul Quarrington, Canadian author,
playwright, guitarist, and composer (b. 1953) ·
2011 Theoni V. Aldredge,
Greek-American costume designer (b. 1922) ·
2011 Dennis Oppenheim, American sculptor and
photographer (b. 1938) ·
2011 E. V. V.
Satyanarayana, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b.
1958) ·
2013 Ahmet Mete
Işıkara, Turkish geophysicist and academic (b. 1941) ·
2013 Chumpol Silpa-archa,
Thai academic and politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1940) ·
2013 Michael Winner, English director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1935) ·
2015 Marcus Borg, American scholar, theologian,
and author (b. 1942) ·
2015 Leon Brittan, English lawyer and
politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b.
1939) ·
2015 Johnnie Lewis, Liberian lawyer and
politician, 18th Chief Justice of
Liberia (b. 1946) ·
2016 Bill Johnson,
American skier (b. 1960) ·
2016 Mrinalini Sarabhai,
a 1992-Padma Bhushan award
winner Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor. (b. 1918) ·
2019 Kaye Ballard, American actress (b. 1925)[38] ·
2019 Henri,
Count of Paris, Head of the House of Orlιans (b. 1933)[39] ·
2019 Emiliano Sala, Argentine footballer
(b. 1990)[40] ·
2019 Harris Wofford, American politician, author
and civil rights activist (b. 1926)[41] ·
2020 Terry Jones, Welsh actor, director, and
screenwriter (b. 1942)[42] ·
2020 Morgan Wootten, American high school
basketball coach (b. 1931)[43] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Birthday of
Princess Ingrid Alexandra (Norway) ·
Christian feast day: o Agnes o Demiana (Coptic Church) o John Yi Yun-il (one of The Korean Martyrs) o January
21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Lady of Altagracia
Day (Dominican Republic) ·
Lincoln Alexander Day (Canada) |
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