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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
342 days remain until the end of the year (343 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
393 Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his
eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.[1] ·
971 Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. ·
1264 In the conflict
between King Henry III of England and
his rebellious barons led by Simon
de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues
the Mise of Amiens,
a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War. ·
1368 In a coronation
ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends
the throne of China as
the Hongwu Emperor,
initiating Ming dynasty rule
over China that would last for three centuries. ·
1546 Having
published nothing for eleven years, Franηois Rabelais publishes
the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and
Pantagruel. ·
1556 The
deadliest earthquake in
history, the Shaanxi
earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll
may have been as high as 830,000. ·
1570 James
Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland,
is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. ·
1571 The Royal Exchange opens
in London. ·
1579 The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. ·
1656 Blaise Pascal publishes the first of
his Lettres provinciales. ·
1719 The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within
the Holy Roman Empire. ·
1789 Georgetown College,
the first Catholic university in
the United States, is founded in Georgetown,
Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.). ·
1793 Second
Partition of Poland. ·
1795 After an
extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured
14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle
between ships and cavalry. ·
1846 Slavery in Tunisia is
abolished. ·
1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is
awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical
College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States'
first female doctor. ·
1870 In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native
Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as
the Marias Massacre. ·
1879 Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's
Drift ends. ·
1899 The Malolos Constitution is
inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine
Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as
its first President. ·
1900 Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between
the forces of the South African
Republic and the Orange Free State and
British forces ends in a British defeat. ·
1904 Εlesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal
town Εlesund is devastated by fire, leaving
10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds
the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style. ·
1909 RMS Republic,
a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to
use the CQD distress signal after colliding
with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts
coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks
the next day. ·
1912 The International
Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. ·
1920 The Netherlands
refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm
II of Germany to the Allies. ·
1937 The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees
seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to
overthrow Joseph Stalin's
regime. ·
1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies
before the U.S. Congress and
recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. ·
1942 World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences
Japan's invasion of
Australia's Territory of New
Guinea. ·
1943 World War II:
Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the GermanItalian
Panzer Army. ·
1945 World War II:
German admiral Karl Dφnitz launches Operation Hannibal. ·
1950 The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. ·
1957 American
inventor Walter
Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames
it the "Frisbee". ·
1958 After a general
uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pιrez Jimιnez leaves Venezuela. ·
1960 The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks
a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific
Ocean. ·
1961 The Portuguese
luxury cruise ship Santa
Maria is hijacked by
opponents of the Estado Novo regime
with the intention of waging war until dictator Antσnio de
Oliveira Salazar is overthrown. ·
1963 The Guinea-Bissau
War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the
Portuguese army stationed in Tite. ·
1964 The 24th Amendment to the United States
Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in
national elections, is ratified. ·
1967 Diplomatic relations between
the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established. ·
1967 Milton Keynes (England) is founded as
a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to
become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three
existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely
farmland, with evidence of
continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. ·
1968 USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is
attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea. ·
1973 United States
President Richard Nixon announces
that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. ·
1986 The Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. ·
1997 Madeleine Albright becomes
the first woman to serve as United
States Secretary of State. ·
1998 Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release
Communicator code as open source. ·
2001 Five people
attempt to set
themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people
later claim is staged by the Communist Party
of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate
their persecution. ·
2002 U.S.
journalist Daniel Pearl is
kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and
subsequently murdered. ·
2003 A very weak
signal from Pioneer 10 is
detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted. ·
2018 A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs
in the Gulf of Alaska.
It is tied as the sixth-largest
earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of
significant damage or fatalities. ·
2018 A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds
"dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and
civilians, according to local officials.[2] Births[edit]
·
599 Tai Zong,
emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d.
649) ·
1350 Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint
(d. 1419) ·
1378 Louis III,
Elector Palatine (d. 1436) ·
1514 Hai Rui, Chinese politician (d. 1587) ·
1585 Mary Ward, English Catholic Religious Sister
(d. 1645) ·
1622 Abraham Diepraam, Dutch painter (d. 1670) ·
1719 John Landen, English mathematician and
theorist (d. 1790) ·
1737 John Hancock, American general and
politician, 1st Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1793)[3] ·
1745 William Jessop, English engineer, built
the Cromford Canal (d.
1814) ·
1752 Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer,
and conductor (d. 1832)[4] ·
1780 Georgios Karaiskakis,
Greek general (d. 1827) ·
1783 Stendhal, French novelist (d. 1842) ·
1786 Auguste de
Montferrand, French-Russian architect, designed Saint Isaac's
Cathedral and Alexander Column (d. 1858) ·
1799 Alois Negrelli, Tyrolean engineer and
railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire (d. 1858) ·
1809 Surendra Sai, Indian activist (d. 1884) ·
1813 Camilla Collett, Norwegian novelist and
activist (d. 1895) ·
1828 Saigō Takamori,
Japanese samurai (d. 1877) ·
1832 Ιdouard Manet, French painter (d. 1883) ·
1833 Muthu Coomaraswamy,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1879) ·
1838 Marianne Cope, German-American nun and saint
(d. 1918) ·
1840 Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer
(d. 1905) ·
1846 Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist and mathematician
(d. 1915) ·
1855 John Browning, American weapons designer,
founded the Browning Arms
Company (d. 1926) ·
1857 Andrija
Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (d.
1936) ·
1862 David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician
and academic (d. 1943) ·
1862 Frank Shuman, American inventor and engineer
(d. 1918) ·
1872 Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic
(d. 1946) ·
1872 Joe Plečnik,
Slovenian architect, designed Plečnik
Parliament (d. 1957) ·
1876 Otto Diels, German chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1954) ·
1878 Rutland Boughton, English composer (d. 1960) ·
1880 Antonio Dνaz
Soto y Gama, Mexican politician (d. 1967) ·
1889 Claribel Kendall, American mathematician
(d.1965)[5] ·
1894 Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author (d. 1988) ·
1896 Alf Blair, Australian rugby league player
and coach (d. 1944) ·
1896 Alf Hall, English-South African cricketer
(d. 1964) ·
1897 Subhas Chandra Bose,
Indian activist and politician (d. 1945) ·
1897 Margarete
Schόtte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000) ·
1897 Ieva
Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author (d. 1978) ·
1897 William Stephenson,
Canadian captain and spy (d. 1989) ·
1898 Georg Kulenkampff,
German violinist (d. 1948) ·
1898 Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987) ·
1898 Freda Utley, English scholar and author (d.
1978) ·
1899 Glen Kidston, English race car driver and
pilot (d. 1931) ·
1900 William Ifor Jones,
Welsh organist and conductor (d. 1988) ·
1901 Arthur Wirtz, American businessman (d. 1983) ·
1903 Jorge Eliιcer Gaitαn,
Colombian lawyer and politician, 16th Minister
of National Education of Colombia (d. 1948) ·
1905 Erich Borchmeyer, German sprinter (d. 2000) ·
1907 Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (d.
1968) ·
1907 Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1981) ·
1910 Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and
composer (d. 1953) ·
1912 Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director and
manager (d. 2009) ·
1913 Jean-Michel Atlan,
Algerian-French painter (d. 1960) ·
1913 Wally Parks, American businessman, founded
the National Hot
Rod Association (d. 2007) ·
1915 Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower and
handball player (d. 2003) ·
1915 W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian
economist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1991) ·
1915 Potter Stewart, American lawyer and judge
(d. 1985) ·
1916 David Douglas Duncan,
American photographer and journalist (d. 2018) ·
1916 Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and
politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (d.
1979) ·
1918 Gertrude B. Elion,
American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1999) ·
1918 Florence Rush, American social worker and
theorist (d. 2008) ·
1919 Frances Bay, Canadian-American actress (d.
2011) ·
1919 Hans Hass, Austrian biologist and diver (d.
2013) ·
1919 Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show
host (d. 1962) ·
1919 Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager
(d. 1996) ·
1920 Gottfried Bφhm,
German architect ·
1920 Henry Eriksson, Swedish runner (d. 2000) ·
1920 Walter
Frederick Morrison, American businessman, invented the Frisbee (d. 2010) ·
1922 Leon Golub, American painter and academic
(d. 2004) ·
1922 Tom
Lewis, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of New
South Wales (d. 2016) ·
1923 Horace Ashenfelter,
American runner (d. 2018) ·
1923 Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach
(d. 2013) ·
1923 Walter M. Miller,
Jr., American soldier and author (d. 1996) ·
1924 Frank Lautenberg, American soldier,
businessman, and politician (d. 2013) ·
1925 Marty Paich, American pianist, composer,
producer, and conductor (d. 1995) ·
1926 Bal Thackeray, Indian journalist,
cartoonist, and politician (d. 2012) ·
1927 Lars-Eric Lindblad,
Swedish-American businessman and explorer (d. 1994) ·
1927 Fred Williams,
Australian painter (d. 1982) ·
1928 Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player
and manager (d. 2005) ·
1928 Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017) ·
1929 Myron Cope, American journalist and
sportscaster (d. 2008) ·
1929 Phillip Knightley,
Australian journalist, author, and critic (d. 2016) ·
1929 John Polanyi, German-Canadian chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1930 Filaret,
Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan ·
1930 Mervyn Rose, Australian tennis player (d.
2017) ·
1930 Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and
playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2017) ·
1932 George Allen,
English footballer (d. 2016) ·
1932 Larri Thomas, American actress and dancer
(d. 2013) ·
1933 Bill Hayden, Australian politician,
21st Governor
General of Australia ·
1933 Chita Rivera, American actress, singer, and
dancer ·
1934 Pierre Bourgault, Canadian journalist and
politician (d. 2003) ·
1935 Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (d.
2016) ·
1935 Tom Reamy, American author (d. 1977) ·
1935 Teresa Żylis-Gara,
Polish operatic soprano ·
1936 Brian Howe,
Australian minister and politician, 8th Deputy
Prime Minister of Australia ·
1936 Jerry Kramer, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1936 Cιcile Ousset, French pianist ·
1938 Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler and promoter,
founded All Japan Pro
Wrestling (d. 1999) ·
1938 Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor ·
1939 Ed Roberts,
American disability rights activist (d. 1995) ·
1940 Alan Cheuse, American writer and critic (d.
2015) ·
1940 Joe Dowell, American pop singer (d. 2016) ·
1941 Jock R. Anderson, Australian economist and
academic ·
1941 Joγo Ubaldo Ribeiro,
Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (d. 2014) ·
1942 Laurie Mayne, Australian cricketer ·
1942 Herman Tjeenk
Willink, Dutch judge and politician ·
1942 Phil Clarke,
New Zealand rugby union player[6] ·
1943 Gary Burton, American vibraphone player and
composer ·
1943 Φzhan Canaydın,
Turkish basketball player and businessman (d. 2010) ·
1943 Gil Gerard, American actor and producer ·
1944 Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, director, and
producer (d. 2019) ·
1945 Mike Harris, Canadian politician, 22nd Premier of Ontario ·
1946 Arnoldo Alemαn,
Nicaraguan lawyer and politician, President of
Nicaragua ·
1946 Boris
Berezovsky, Russian-English businessman and mathematician (d.
2013) ·
1946 Zvonko Buić,
Croatian terrorist, hijacker of TWA Flight 355 (d. 2013) ·
1946 Don Whittington, American race car driver ·
1947 Tom Carper, American captain and politician,
71st Governor of Delaware ·
1947 Megawati
Sukarnoputri, Indonesian politician, 5th President of
Indonesia ·
1948 Anita Pointer, American R&B/soul
singer-songwriter ·
1950 Richard Dean
Anderson, American actor, producer, and composer ·
1950 Bill
Cunningham, American bass and keyboard player ·
1950 Guida Maria, Portuguese actress (d. 2018) ·
1950 Suzanne Scotchmer,
American economist and academic (d. 2014) ·
1950 Luis Alberto
Spinetta, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet (d.
2012) ·
1951 Margaret Bailes, American sprinter ·
1951 Chesley Sullenberger,
American captain and pilot ·
1952 Omar Henry, South African cricketer ·
1953 John Luther Adams,
American composer ·
1953 Alister McGrath, Irish priest, historian,
and theologian ·
1953 Antonio Villaraigosa,
American politician, 41st Mayor of Los Angeles ·
1953 Robin Zander, American rock
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1954 Trevor Hohns, Australian cricketer ·
1957 Caroline,
Princess of Hanover ·
1958 Sergey
Litvinov, Russian hammer thrower (d. 2018) ·
1959 Clive Bull, English radio host ·
1960 Jean-Franηois Sauvι,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1960 Greg Ritchie, Australian cricketer ·
1961 Neil Henry, Australian rugby league player
and coach ·
1961 Yelena Sinchukova,
Russian long jumper ·
1962 David Arnold, English composer ·
1962 Aivar Lillevere, Estonian footballer and
coach ·
1962 Elvira Lindo, Spanish journalist and author ·
1964 Jonatha Brooke, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1964 Mariska Hargitay, American actress and
producer ·
1964 Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyanese economist and
politician, 7th President of Guyana ·
1964 Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1965 Louie Clemente, American drummer ·
1966 Damien Hardman, Australian surfer ·
1966 Haywoode Workman, American basketball player
and referee ·
1967 Owen Cunningham, Australian rugby league
player ·
1968 Taro Hakase, Japanese violinist and composer ·
1968 Petr Korda, Czech-Monacan tennis player ·
1969 Andrei Kanchelskis,
Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager ·
1969 Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
and actor ·
1969 Susen Tiedtke, German long jumper ·
1970 Spyridon Vasdekis,
Greek long jumper ·
1971 Scott Gibbs, Welsh-South African rugby
player and sportscaster ·
1971 Kevin Mawae, American football player and
coach ·
1971 Marc Nelson, American singer-songwriter ·
1971 Adam Parore, New Zealand cricketer and
mountaineer ·
1971 Claire Rankin, Canadian actress ·
1971 Lisa Snowdon, English television and radio
presenter and fashion model ·
1972 Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor ·
1973 Tomas Holmstrφm,
Swedish ice hockey player ·
1974 Glen Chapple, English cricketer ·
1974 Rebekah Elmaloglou,
Australian actress ·
1974 Yosvani Pιrez, Cuban baseball player ·
1974 Richard T. Slone, English painter ·
1974 Tiffani Thiessen, American actress ·
1975 Nick Harmer, German musician ·
1975 Phil Dawson, American football player ·
1976 Brandon Duckworth,
American baseball player and scout ·
1976 Anne Margrethe
Hausken, Norwegian orienteering competitor ·
1976 Alex Shaffer,
American skier ·
1979 Larry Hughes, American basketball player ·
1979 Dawn O'Porter, Scottish-English fashion
designer and journalist ·
1979 Juan Rincσn, Venezuelan baseball player and
coach ·
1981 Rob Friend, Canadian soccer player ·
1982 Wily Mo Peρa, Dominican baseball player ·
1982 Oceana Mahlmann, German singer and
songwriter ·
1982 Andrew Rock, American sprinter ·
1983 Irving Saladino, Panamanian long jumper ·
1984 Robbie Farah, Australian rugby league player ·
1984 Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer ·
1985 Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer ·
1985 Doutzen Kroes, Dutch model and actress ·
1985 Yevgeny Lukyanenko,
Russian pole vaulter ·
1985 Aselefech Mergia, Ethiopian runner ·
1985 Jeff Samardzija, American baseball player ·
1985 San E, South Korean rapper ·
1986 Gelete Burka, Ethiopian runner ·
1986 Marc Laird, Scottish footballer ·
1986 Josι Enrique,
Spanish footballer ·
1986 Michael
Stevens, American YouTuber and educator ·
1986 Steven Taylor,
English footballer ·
1986 Sandro Viletta, Swiss skier ·
1987 Leo Komarov, Finnish ice hockey player ·
1988 Shaun Kenny-Dowall,
Australian-New Zealand rugby league player ·
1990 Şener
Φzbayraklı, Turkish footballer ·
1990 Alex Silva,
Canadian wrestler ·
1990 Martyn Waghorn, English footballer ·
1991 Steve Birnbaum, American footballer[7] ·
1992 Reina Triendl, Japanese model and actress ·
1994 Addison Russell, American baseball player ·
1995 Luke Bateman, Australian rugby league player ·
1995 Tuimoala Lolohea, New Zealand rugby league
player ·
1998 XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018) Deaths[edit]
·
667 Ildefonsus, bishop
of Toledo ·
989 Adalbero,
archbishop of Reims[8] ·
1002 Otto III,
Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980) ·
1199 Abu Yusuf Yaqub
al-Mansur, Moroccan caliph (b. 1160) ·
1252 Isabella,
Queen of Armenia ·
1297 Florent of Hainaut,
Prince of Achaea (b. c. 1255) ·
1423 Margaret of Bavaria,
Burgundian regent (b. 1363) ·
1516 Ferdinand II of
Aragon (b. 1452)[9] ·
1548 Bernardo Pisano, Italian priest, scholar,
and composer (b. 1490) ·
1549 Johannes Honter, Romanian-Hungarian
cartographer and theologian (b. 1498) ·
1567 Jiajing Emperor of China (b. 1507) ·
1570 James
Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Scottish politician (b. 1531) ·
1620 John Croke, English politician and judge (b.
1553) ·
1622 William Baffin, English explorer and
navigator (b. 1584) ·
1650 Philip
Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke (b. 1584) ·
1744 Giambattista Vico,
Italian historian and philosopher (b. 1668) ·
1785 Matthew
Stewart, Scottish mathematician and academic (b. 1717) ·
1789 Frances Brooke, English author and
playwright (b. 1724) ·
1789 John Cleland, English author (b. 1709) ·
1800 Edward Rutledge, American captain and
politician, 39th Governor of
South Carolina (b. 1749) ·
1803 Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founded Guinness (b. 1725) ·
1805 Claude Chappe, French engineer (b. 1763) ·
1806 William Pitt the
Younger, English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759) ·
1810 Johann Wilhelm
Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776) ·
1812 Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and
politician (b. 1764) ·
1820 Prince
Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767) ·
1833 Edward
Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (b.
1757) ·
1837 John Field,
Irish pianist and composer (b. 1782) ·
1866 Thomas Love Peacock,
English author and poet (b. 1785) ·
1875 Charles Kingsley English priest and
author (b. 1819) ·
1883 Gustave Dorι, French engraver and
illustrator (b. 1832) ·
1893 Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician,
16th United
States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825) ·
1893 Josι Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright
(b. 1817) ·
1921 Mykola Leontovych,
Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877) ·
1922 Renι Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman
(b. 1886) ·
1922 Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and
academic (b. 1855) ·
1923 Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author
(b. 1849) ·
1931 Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b.
1881) ·
1937 Orso Mario Corbino,
Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876) ·
1939 Matthias Sindelar,
Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1903) ·
1943 Alexander Woollcott,
American actor, playwright, and critic (b. 1887) ·
1944 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and
illustrator (b. 1863) ·
1947 Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867) ·
1956 Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director
and producer (b. 1893) ·
1963 Jσzef
Gosławski, Polish sculptor (b. 1908) ·
1966 T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and
politician (d. 1895) ·
1971 Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and
academic (b. 1871) ·
1973 Alexander Onassis,
American-Greek businessman (b. 1948) ·
1973 Kid Ory, American trombonist, composer, and
bandleader (b. 1886) ·
1976 Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and
activist (b. 1898) ·
1977 Toots Shor, American businessman,
founded Toots Shor's
Restaurant (b. 1903) ·
1978 Terry Kath, American guitarist and
songwriter (b. 1946) ·
1978 Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903) ·
1980 Giovanni Michelotti,
Italian engineer (b. 1921) ·
1981 Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer
(b. 1910)[10] ·
1983 Fred Bakewell, English cricketer and coach
(b. 1908) ·
1984 Muin Bseiso, Palestinian-Egyptian poet and
critic (b. 1926) ·
1985 James Beard, American chef and cookbook
author for whom the James Beard
Foundation Awards are named (b.1905)[11] ·
1986 Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and painter
(b. 1921) ·
1988 Charles Glen King,
American biochemist and academic (b. 1896) ·
1989 Salvador Dalν, Spanish painter and sculptor
(b. 1904) ·
1989 Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish race car driver (b.
1961) ·
1990 Allen Collins, American guitarist and
songwriter (b. 1952) ·
1991 Northrop Frye, Canadian author and critic
(b. 1912) ·
1992 Freddie Bartholomew,
American actor (b. 1924) ·
1993 Keith Laumer, American soldier, author, and
diplomat (b. 1925) ·
1994 Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (b.
1917) ·
1994 Brian Redhead, English journalist and author
(b. 1929) ·
1999 Joe D'Amato, Italian director and
cinematographer (b. 1936) ·
1999 Jay Pritzker, American businessman,
co-founded the Hyatt Corporation (b.
1922) ·
2002 Paul Aars, American race car driver (b.
1934) ·
2002 Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist,
anthropologist, and philosopher (b. 1930) ·
2002 Robert Nozick, American philosopher, author,
and academic (b. 1938) ·
2003 Nell Carter, American actress and singer (b.
1948) ·
2004 Bob Keeshan, American television personality
and producer (b. 1927) ·
2004 Helmut Newton, German-Australian
photographer (b. 1920) ·
2005 Morys
Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, English lieutenant and politician (b.
1921) ·
2005 Johnny Carson, American talk show host,
television personality, and producer (b. 1925) ·
2007 Syed Hussein Alatas,
Malaysian sociologist and politician (b. 1928) ·
2007 E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer
(b. 1918) ·
2007 Ryszard
Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932) ·
2009 Robert W. Scott, American farmer and
politician, 67th Governor of
North Carolina (b. 1929) ·
2010 Kermit Tyler, American colonel and pilot (b.
1913) ·
2010 Earl Wild, American pianist and composer (b.
1915) ·
2011 Jack LaLanne, American fitness instructor,
author, and television host (b. 1914) ·
2012 Wesley E. Brown, American lawyer and jurist
(b. 1907) ·
2012 Maurice Meisner, American historian, author,
and academic (b. 1931) ·
2012 Bingham Ray, American businessman,
co-founded October Films (b.
1954) ·
2013 Jσzef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929) ·
2013 Peter van
der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (b. 1937) ·
2013 Jean-Fιlix-Albert-Marie
Vilnet, French bishop (b. 1922) ·
2014 Yuri Izrael, Russian meteorologist and
journalist (b. 1930) ·
2014 Riz Ortolani, Italian composer and conductor
(b. 1926) ·
2015 Ernie Banks, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1931) ·
2015 Prosper Ego, Dutch activist, founded
the Oud-Strijders
Legioen (b. 1927) ·
2015 Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia (b. 1924) ·
2016 Jimmy Bain, Scottish bassist (b. 1947) ·
2016 Bobby Wanzer, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1921) ·
2017 Bobby Freeman, American singer, songwriter
and record producer (b. 1940) ·
2017 Gorden Kaye, English actor (b. 1941) ·
2018 Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter,
composer and singer (b. 1939) ·
2018 Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914) ·
2018 Wyatt Tee Walker, American civil rights
activist and pastor (b. 1928)[12] ·
2019 Aloysius Pang, Singaporean actor (b. 1990)[13] Holidays and observances[edit]
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Bounty Day (Pitcairn Islands) ·
Christian feast day: o Abakuh o Espousals
of the Blessed Virgin Mary o Ildefonsus of Toledo o Phillips Brooks (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o January
23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose's Jayanti (Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal, India) ·
World Freedom Day (Taiwan and South Korea) |
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