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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 26 is the 26th day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
339 days remain until the end of the year (340 in leap years). Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is
effectively ended with the assassination of Ali,
the last caliph. ·
945 – The
co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are
overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII,[1] who becomes sole emperor
of the Byzantine Empire. ·
1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes
the first European to set foot on Brazil. ·
1531 – The
6.4–7.1 Mw Lisbon earthquake kills
about thirty thousand people. ·
1564 – The Council of Trent establishes an
official distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. ·
1564 – The Grand Duchy of
Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in
the Battle of Ula during
the Livonian War. ·
1565 – Battle of Talikota,
fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and
the Deccan sultanates,
leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom
in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent. ·
1699 – For the first
time, the Ottoman Empire permanently cedes territory to
the Christian powers. ·
1700 – The
8.7–9.2 Mw Cascadia
earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese
records. ·
1736 – Stanislaus I of
Poland abdicates his throne. ·
1788 – The
British First Fleet, led
by Arthur Phillip,
sails into Port Jackson (Sydney
Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European
settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day. ·
1808 – The Rum Rebellion is the only successful
(albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in New South Wales. ·
1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state. ·
1838 – Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States. ·
1841 – James Bremer takes formal possession
of Hong Kong Island at
what is now Possession Point,
establishing British Hong Kong. ·
1855 – Point No Point
Treaty is signed in Washington Territory. ·
1856 – First Battle of
Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive
off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers. ·
1861 – American Civil War:
The state of Louisiana secedes from the
Union. ·
1863 – American Civil
War: General Ambrose Burnside is
relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after
the disastrous Fredericksburg
campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Governor of
Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives
permission from the Secretary
of War to raise a militia organization for men of African
descent. ·
1870 – Reconstruction Era: Virginia rejoins the Union. ·
1885 – Troops loyal
to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum,
killing the Governor-General Charles George
Gordon. ·
1905 – The world's
largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats
(0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa. ·
1911 – Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane. ·
1915 – The Rocky
Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress. ·
1918 – Finnish Civil War:
A group of Red Guards hangs
a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers'
Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war. ·
1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor
Company which he later sold to his former employer. ·
1926 – The first
demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird. ·
1930 – The Indian National
Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the
day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete
Independence") which occurred 17 years later. ·
1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City. ·
1934 – German–Polish
Non-Aggression Pact is signed. ·
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Catalonia Offensive:
Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona. ·
1942 – World War II: The first United States forces
arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland. ·
1945 – World War II:
The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction
of the 4th Army two months later. ·
1945 – World War II: Audie Murphy displays valor and bravery
in action for which he will later be awarded the Medal of Honor. ·
1949 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under
the direction of Edwin Hubble,
becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976). ·
1950 – The Constitution of
India comes into force,
forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its
first President of India.
Observed as Republic Day in
India. ·
1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters
burn Cairo's central business district, targeting
British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. ·
1956 – Soviet Union
cedes Porkkala back to Finland. ·
1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be the first
woman Physician to
the President. ·
1962 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon.
The space probe later
misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km). ·
1965 – Hindi becomes the official language of
India. ·
1972 – JAT Fight 367 is destroyed by a
terrorist bomb, killing 27 of the 28 people on board the DC-9.
Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survives with
critical injuries.[2] ·
1980 – Egypt–Israel
relations are formally established. ·
1986 – The Ugandan
government of Tito Okello is
overthrown by the National
Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni. ·
1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from
power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and
is succeeded by Ali Mahdi. ·
1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia
will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons. ·
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television,
U.S. President Bill Clinton denies
having had "sexual relations"
with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. ·
2001 – The 7.7 Mw Gujarat
earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead
and about 166,800 injured. ·
2009 – Rioting breaks
out in Antananarivo,
Madagascar, sparking a political
crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina. ·
2015 – An
aircraft crashes at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and
injuring 21 others. ·
2020 – A Sikorsky S-76B flying from John Wayne Airport to Camarillo Airport crashes in Calabasas,
30 miles west of Los Angeles, killing all nine people on board including
former five time NBA champion Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant.[3] Births[edit]
·
183 – Lady Zhen, wife of Cao Pi (d. 221) ·
1436 – Henry
Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, Lancastrian military commander (d.
1464) ·
1467 – Guillaume Budé,
French scholar (d. 1540) ·
1495 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557) ·
1541 – Florent Chrestien,
French poet and translator (d. 1596) ·
1549 – Jakob Ebert, German theologian (d. 1614) ·
1582 – Giovanni Lanfranco,
Italian painter (d. 1647) ·
1595 – Antonio Maria
Abbatini, Italian composer (d. 1679) ·
1624 – George
William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1705) ·
1657 – William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1737) ·
1708 – William Hayes,
English organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1777) ·
1714 – Jean-Baptiste
Pigalle, French sculptor and educator (d. 1785) ·
1715 – Claude Adrien
Helvétius, French philosopher (d. 1771)[4] ·
1716 – George
Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English general and
politician, Secretary
of State for the Colonies (d. 1785) ·
1722 – Alexander Carlyle,
Scottish minister and author (d. 1805) ·
1763 – Charles XIV
John of Sweden (d. 1844) ·
1781 – Ludwig Achim von
Arnim, German poet and author (d. 1831) ·
1813 – Juan Pablo Duarte,
Dominican philosopher and poet (d. 1876) ·
1824 – Emil
Czyrniański, Polish chemist (d. 1888)[5] ·
1832 – George Shiras, Jr.,
American lawyer and jurist (d. 1924) ·
1842 – François Coppée,
French poet and author (d. 1908) ·
1852 – Pierre
Savorgnan de Brazza, Italian-French explorer (d. 1905) ·
1857 – 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875) ·
1861 – Louis Anquetin, French painter (d. 1932) ·
1864 – József Pusztai,
Slovene-Hungarian poet and journalist (d. 1934) ·
1866 – John Cady,
American golfer (d. 1933) ·
1877 – Kees van Dongen, Dutch painter (d. 1968)[6] ·
1878 – Dave Nourse, English-South African cricketer
and coach (d. 1948) ·
1880 – Douglas MacArthur,
American general, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1964) ·
1885 – Michael Considine,
Irish-Australian politician (d. 1959) ·
1885 – Harry Ricardo, English engineer and academic
(d. 1974) ·
1885 – Per Thorén, Swedish figure skater (d. 1962) ·
1887 – François Faber,
French-Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915) ·
1887 – Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot
(d. 1947) ·
1887 – Dimitris Pikionis,
Greek architect and academic (d. 1968) ·
1891 – Frank Costello, Italian-American mob boss
(d. 1973) ·
1891 – August Froehlich, German priest and martyr
(d. 1942) ·
1891 – Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian
neurosurgeon and academic (d. 1976) ·
1892 – Bessie Coleman, American pilot (d. 1926) ·
1893 – Giuseppe Genco Russo,
Italian mob boss (d. 1976) ·
1899 – Günther Reindorff,
Russian-Estonian graphic designer and illustrator (d. 1974) ·
1900 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967) ·
1902 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (d. 1940) ·
1904 – Ancel Keys, American physiologist and
nutritionist (d. 2004) ·
1904 – Seán MacBride, Irish lawyer and
politician, Irish
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1988) ·
1905 – Charles Lane,
American actor and singer (d. 2007) ·
1905 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer
(d. 1987) ·
1907 – Henry Cotton,
English golfer (d. 1987) ·
1907 – Dimitrios Holevas,
Greek priest and philologist (d. 2001) ·
1908 – Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990) ·
1908 – Rupprecht Geiger, German painter and
sculptor (d. 2009) ·
1908 – Stéphane Grappelli,
French violinist (d. 1997) ·
1910 – Jean Image, Hungarian-French animator,
director, and screenwriter (d. 1989) ·
1911 – Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1993) ·
1911 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and
conductor (d. 2002) ·
1913 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and
composer (d. 1990) ·
1914 – Dürrüşehvar
Sultan, Imperial Princess of the Ottoman Empire (d. 2006) ·
1915 – William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970) ·
1917 – Louis Zamperini, American runner and captain
(d. 2014) ·
1918 – Nicolae
Ceaușescu, Romanian dictator, 1st President of Romania (d.
1989) ·
1918 – Philip José Farmer,
American author (d. 2009) ·
1919 – Valentino Mazzola,
Italian footballer (d. 1949) ·
1919 – Bill
Nicholson, English footballer and manager (d. 2004) ·
1919 – Hyun Soong-jong, South Korean politician,
24th Prime
Minister of South Korea (d. 2020) ·
1920 – Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal
researcher and author (d. 2009) ·
1921 – Eddie Barclay, French record producer,
founded Barclay Records (d.
2005) ·
1921 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman,
co-founded Sony (d. 1999) ·
1922 – Michael Bentine, English actor and
screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1922 – Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and
politician, 7th Irish
Minister for Health (d. 1993) ·
1922 – Gil Merrick, English footballer (d. 2010) ·
1923 – Patrick J. Hannifin,
American admiral (d. 2014) ·
1923 – Anne Jeffreys, American actress and singer
(d. 2017) ·
1924 – Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (b.
1924)[7] ·
1924 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and
politician, Mayor of Dallas (d.
1998) ·
1925 – David Jenkins,
English bishop and theologian (d. 2016) ·
1925 – Joan Leslie, American actress (d. 2015) ·
1925 – Paul Newman, American actor, activist,
director, race car driver, and businessman, co-founded Newman's Own (d. 2008) ·
1925 – Ben Pucci, American football player and
sportscaster (d. 2013) ·
1925 – Claude Ryan, Canadian journalist and
politician (d. 2004) ·
1926 – Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani linguist and
scholar (d. 2013) ·
1926 – Joseph Bacon
Fraser, Jr., American architect and businessman, co-founded
the Sea Pines Company (d.
2014) ·
1927 – José Azcona del Hoyo,
Honduran businessman and politician, President of
Honduras (d. 2005) ·
1927 – Bob Nieman, American baseball player and
scout (d. 1985) ·
1927 – Hubert Schieth, German footballer and
manager (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Roger Vadim, French actor and director (d.
2000) ·
1929 – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist,
playwright, screenwriter, and educator ·
1934 – Roger Landry, Canadian businessman and
publisher (d. 2020) ·
1934 – Charles Marowitz, American director,
playwright, and critic (d. 2014) ·
1934 – Huey
"Piano" Smith, American pianist and songwriter ·
1934 – Bob Uecker, American baseball player,
sportscaster and actor ·
1935 – Corrado Augias, Italian journalist and
politician ·
1935 – Henry Jordan, American football player (d.
1977) ·
1935 – Paula Rego, Portuguese-born British visual
artist ·
1936 – Sal Buscema, American illustrator ·
1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh,
Sierra Leonean soldier and politician, 2nd President of
Sierra Leone (d. 2003) ·
1937 – Francisco Gonzales,
former 1960 Summer Olympics yachting team member and murderer ·
1938 – Henry Jaglom, English-American director and
screenwriter ·
1940 – Séamus Hegarty,
Irish bishop ·
1940 – Frank Large, English footballer, centre
forward and cricketer (d. 2003)[8] ·
1943 – César Gutiérrez,
Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2005) ·
1943 – Jack
Warner, Trinidadian businessman and politician ·
1944 – Angela Davis, American activist, academic,
and author ·
1944 – Jerry Sandusky, American football coach and
criminal ·
1945 – Jacqueline du Pré,
English cellist (d. 1987) ·
1945 – David Purley, English race car driver (d.
1985) ·
1946 – Christopher Hampton,
Portuguese-English director, screenwriter, and playwright ·
1946 – Gene Siskel, American journalist and film
critic (d. 1999) ·
1946 – Susan Friedlander,
American mathematician ·
1947 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor and composer
(d. 1982) ·
1947 – Les Ebdon, English chemist and academic ·
1947 – Redmond
Morris, 4th Baron Killanin, Irish director, producer, and
production manager ·
1947 – Michel Sardou, French singer-songwriter and
actor ·
1948 – Alda Facio, Costa
Rican jurist, writer and teacher ·
1949 – Jonathan Carroll, American author ·
1949 – David Strathairn, American actor ·
1950 – Jörg Haider, Austrian lawyer and
politician, Governor
of Carinthia (d. 2008) ·
1951 – David
Briggs, Australian guitarist, songwriter, and producer ·
1951 – Andy Hummel, American singer-songwriter and
bass player (d. 2010) ·
1951 – Anne Mills, English economist and academic ·
1953 – Alik L. Alik, Micronesian politician,
7th Vice President of the Federated States of Micronesia ·
1953 – Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Danish politician and diplomat, 39th Prime Minister
of Denmark ·
1953 – Lucinda Williams, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1954 – Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer ·
1955 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American guitarist,
songwriter, and producer ·
1957 – Road Warrior Hawk,
American wrestler (d. 2003) ·
1958 – Anita Baker, American singer-songwriter ·
1958 – Ellen DeGeneres, American comedian, actress,
and talk show host ·
1961 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1961 – Tom Keifer, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1962 – Guo Jian, Chinese-Australian painter,
sculptor, and photographer ·
1962 – Tim May, Australian cricketer ·
1962 – Oscar Ruggeri, Argentinian footballer and
manager ·
1963 – José Mourinho, Portuguese footballer and
manager ·
1963 – Simon O'Donnell, Australian footballer,
cricketer, and sportscaster ·
1963 – Tony Parks, English footballer and manager ·
1963 – Andrew Ridgeley, English singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1964 – Adam Crozier, Scottish businessman ·
1965 – Thomas Östros, Swedish businessman and
politician ·
1965 – Natalia Yurchenko,
Russian gymnast and coach ·
1966 – Kazushige Nagashima,
Japanese baseball player and sportscaster ·
1967 – Anatoly Komm, Russian chef and businessman ·
1967 – Col Needham, English businessman,
co-founded Internet Movie
Database ·
1968 – Jupiter Apple, Brazilian singer-songwriter,
film director, and actor (d. 2015) ·
1969 – George Dikeoulakos,
Greek-Romanian basketball player and coach ·
1970 – Kirk Franklin, American singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1973 – Larissa Lowing, Canadian artistic gymnast[9] ·
1973 – Melvil Poupaud, French actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1973 – Brendan Rodgers, Northern Irish footballer
and manager ·
1973 – Mayu Shinjo, Japanese author and illustrator ·
1977 – Vince Carter, American basketball player ·
1977 – Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player and
coach ·
1978 – Corina Morariu, American tennis player and
sportscaster ·
1981 – José de Jesús Corona,
Mexican footballer ·
1981 – Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan violinist,
composer, and conductor ·
1981 – Juan José Haedo,
Argentinian cyclist ·
1981 – Colin O'Donoghue,
Irish actor ·
1982 – Reggie Hodges, American football player ·
1983 – Petri Oravainen, Finnish footballer ·
1983 – Eric Werner, American ice hockey player ·
1984 – Ryan Hoffman, Australian rugby league player ·
1984 – Iain Turner, Scottish footballer ·
1984 – Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer ·
1985 – Heather Stanning, English rower ·
1986 – Gerald Green, American basketball player ·
1986 – Kim Jae-joong, South Korean singer,
songwriter, actor, director and designer. ·
1986 – Mustapha Yatabaré,
French-Malian footballer ·
1987 – Sebastian Giovinco,
Italian footballer ·
1988 – Dimitrios
Chondrokoukis, Greek high jumper ·
1989 – MarShon Brooks, American basketball player ·
1989 – Emily Hughes, American figure skater ·
1990 – Sergio Pérez, Mexican race car driver[10] ·
1990 – Peter Sagan, Slovak professional cyclist ·
1990 – Nina Zander, German tennis player ·
1991 – Tom Meechan, English footballer ·
1992 – Sasha Banks, American professional wrestler ·
1993 – Lana Clelland, Scottish footballer[11] ·
1993 – Florian Thauvin, French footballer ·
1995 – Sione
Katoa, New Zealand rugby league player ·
1997 – Gedion Zelalem, German-born American soccer
player ·
2001 – Latalia Bevan, Welsh artistic gymnast[12] Deaths[edit]
·
724 – Yazid II, Umayyad caliph (b.
687) ·
738 – John of Dailam, Syrian monk and saint (b.
660) ·
910 – Luo Yin, Chinese statesman and poet ·
946 – Eadgyth, Queen consort of Germany (b.c 910) ·
1186 – Ismat ad-Din Khatun,
wife of Saladin ·
1390 – Adolph
IX, Count of Holstein-Kiel (b.c 1327) ·
1567 – Nicholas Wotton, English courtier and
diplomat (b. 1497) ·
1568 – Lady Catherine Grey,
Countess of Hertford (b. 1540) ·
1620 – Amar Singh I, ruler of Mewar (b. 1559) ·
1630 – Henry Briggs,
English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1556) ·
1636 – Jean
Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552) ·
1641 – Lawrence
Hyde, English lawyer (b. 1562) ·
1697 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician and
theorist (b. 1640) ·
1744 – Ludwig
Andreas von Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683) ·
1750 – Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist and
academic (b. 1686) ·
1779 – Thomas Hudson,
English painter (b. 1701) ·
1795 – Johann
Christoph Friedrich Bach, German harpsichord player and composer (b.
1732) ·
1799 – Gabriel
Christie, Scottish general (b. 1722) ·
1823 – Edward Jenner, English physician and
immunologist (b. 1749) ·
1824 – Théodore Géricault,
French painter and lithographer (b. 1791) ·
1831 – Sangolli Rayanna, Indian soldier (b. 1798) ·
1831 – Anton Delvig, Russian poet and journalist
(b. 1798) ·
1849 – Thomas Lovell
Beddoes, English poet, playwright, and physician (b. 1803) ·
1855 – Gérard de Nerval,
French poet and translator (b. 1808) ·
1860 – Wilhelmine
Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)[13] ·
1869 – Duncan Gordon Boyes,
English soldier; Victoria Cross recipient
(b. 1846) ·
1870 – Victor de
Broglie, French politician, 9th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1785) ·
1885 – Edward Davy, English-Australian physician
and engineer (b. 1806) ·
1885 – Charles George
Gordon, English general and politician (b. 1833) ·
1886 – David Rice Atchison,
American general and politician (b. 1807) ·
1887 – Anandi Gopal Joshi,
One of the first female Indian physicians (b. 1865)[14] ·
1891 – Nicolaus Otto, German engineer, invented
the Internal combustion
engine (b. 1833) ·
1893 – Abner Doubleday, American general (b. 1819) ·
1895 – Arthur Cayley, English mathematician and
academic (b. 1825) ·
1904 – Whitaker Wright, English businessman (b.
1846) ·
1926 – John Flannagan,
American priest and academic (b. 1860) ·
1932 – William Wrigley, Jr.,
American businessman, founded the Wrigley Company (b. 1861) ·
1942 – Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and
academic (b. 1868) ·
1943 – Harry H. Laughlin,
American sociologist and eugenicist (b. 1880) ·
1943 – Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and
geneticist (b. 1887) ·
1946 – Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat
(b. 1868) ·
1946 – Adriaan van Maanen,
Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1884) ·
1947 – Grace Moore, American soprano and actress
(b. 1898) ·
1948 – Kâzım Karabekir,
Turkish general and politician, 5th Speaker
of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1882) ·
1948 – Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and
endocrinologist (born 1876)[15] ·
1948 – John Lomax, American musicologist and
academic (b. 1867) ·
1952 – Khorloogiin
Choibalsan, Mongolian general and politician, 12th Prime
Minister of Mongolia (b. 1895) ·
1953 – Athanase David, Canadian lawyer and
politician (b. 1882) ·
1957 – Helene Costello, American actress (b. 1906) ·
1962 – Lucky Luciano, Italian-American mob boss (b.
1897) ·
1968 – Merrill C. Meigs, American publisher (b.
1883) ·
1973 – Edward G. Robinson,
Romanian-American actor (b. 1893) ·
1975 – Donald Sheldon, American bush pilot (b.
1921) ·
1976 – João Branco Núncio,
Portuguese bullfighter (b. 1901) ·
1977 – Filopimin Finos, Greek production manager
and producer, founded Finos Film (b.
1908) ·
1979 – Nelson Rockefeller,
American businessman and politician, 41st Vice
President of the United States (b. 1908) ·
1980 – Simon Kapwepwe, Zambian politician,
2nd Vice President
of Zambia (b. 1922) ·
1983 – Bear Bryant, American football player and
coach (b. 1913) ·
1985 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and
bandleader (b. 1914) ·
1990 – Bob Gerard, English race car driver and
businessman (b. 1914) ·
1990 – Lewis Mumford, American sociologist and
historian (b. 1895) ·
1992 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor (b.
1912) ·
1993 – Jan Gies, Dutch businessman and humanitarian
(b. 1905) ·
1993 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter
(b. 1912) ·
1993 – Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and
politician, 23rd Governor
General of Canada (b. 1922) ·
1996 – Georg
Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1921) ·
1996 – Harold Brodkey, American author and academic
(b. 1930) ·
1996 – Frank
Howard, American football player and coach (b. 1909) ·
1996 – Henry Lewis,
American bassist and conductor (b. 1932) ·
1997 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic
(b. 1904) ·
2000 – Don Budge, American tennis player and coach
(b. 1915) ·
2000 – Kathleen Hale, English author and
illustrator (b. 1898) ·
2000 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (b.
1912) ·
2001 – Al McGuire, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1928) ·
2003 – Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (b.
1942) ·
2003 – Hugh Trevor-Roper,
English historian and academic (b. 1917) ·
2003 – George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie,
Scottish banker and politician, Secretary
of State for Scotland (b. 1931) ·
2004 – Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916) ·
2006 – Khan Abdul Wali Khan,
Pakistani politician (b. 1917) ·
2007 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1929) ·
2008 – Viktor Schreckengost,
American sculptor and designer (b. 1906) ·
2010 – Louis Auchincloss,
American novelist and essayist (b. 1917) ·
2011 – David Kato Kisule, Ugandan teacher and LGBT
rights activist, considered a father of Uganda's gay rights movement (b.
1964) ·
2011 – Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1927) ·
2012 – Roberto Mieres, Argentinian race car driver
(b. 1924) ·
2013 – Christine M. Jones,
American educator and politician (b. 1929) ·
2013 – Stefan Kudelski, Polish-Swiss engineer,
invented the Nagra (b. 1929) ·
2013 – Padma Kant Shukla,
Indian physicist and academic (b. 1950) ·
2013 – Shōtarō
Yasuoka, Japanese author (b. 1920) ·
2014 – Tom Gola, American basketball player, coach,
and politician (b. 1933) ·
2014 – Paula Gruden, Slovenian-Australian poet and
translator (b. 1921) ·
2014 – José Emilio Pacheco,
Mexican poet and author (b. 1939) ·
2014 – Ralph T. Troy, American banker and
politician (b. 1935) ·
2015 – Cleven
"Goodie" Goudeau, American art director and cartoonist
(b. 1932) ·
2015 – Tom Uren, Australian soldier and politician
(b. 1921) ·
2016 – Sahabzada Yaqub Khan,
Pakistani politician and diplomat, 14th Pakistani
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1920) ·
2016 – Abe Vigoda, American actor (b. 1921) ·
2017 – Mike Connors, American actor (b. 1925) ·
2017 – Tam Dalyell, Scottish politician (b. 1932) ·
2017 – Lindy Delapenha, Jamaican footballer and
sports journalist (b. 1927) ·
2017 – Barbara Hale, American actress (b. 1922) ·
2020 – John Altobelli, American college baseball
coach (b. 1963)[3] ·
2020 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (b.
1978)[3] Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Alberic o Founders of Cîteaux (Alberic of Cîteaux, Robert of Molesme, Stephen Harding) o Paula o January
26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Duarte Day (Dominican Republic) ·
Engineer's Day (Panama) ·
Liberation Day (Uganda) |
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