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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 3 is the third day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
362 days remain until the end of the year (363 in leap years). Perihelion, the point during the year when
the Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs around this date. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
250 Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to make sacrifices to
the Roman gods.[1] ·
1521 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum
Pontificem.[2] ·
1653 By the Coonan Cross Oath,
the Eastern Church in
India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.[3] ·
1749 Benning Wentworth issues
the first of the New Hampshire Grants,
leading to the establishment of Vermont.[4] ·
1749 The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually
operating newspaper, is published.[5] ·
1777 American General George Washington defeats
British General Lord
Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.[6] ·
1815 Austria, the
United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.[7] ·
1833 The United
Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.[8] ·
1848 Joseph Jenkins
Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.[9] ·
1861 American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the
United States.[10] ·
1868 Meiji Restoration in
Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is
abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.[11] ·
1870 Construction work
begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in
New York, United States.[12] ·
1871 In the Battle of
Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War,
General Louis Faidherbe's
forces bring about a Prussian retreat.[13] ·
1885 Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Nϊi Bop[14] ·
1911 A magnitude 7.7
earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.[15] ·
1911 A gun battle in
the East End of London left
two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.[16] ·
1913 An Atlantic
coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading
for a non-tropical system in
the continental
United States.[17] ·
1925 Benito Mussolini announces he is taking
dictatorial powers over Italy.[18] ·
1933 Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman
elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives,
the first woman to hold a Speaker position
anywhere in the United States. ·
1938 The March of Dimes is established as a
foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt. ·
1944 World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is
shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by
Captain Masajiro
Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.[19] ·
1945 World War II:
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is
placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in
preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in
Japan.[20] ·
1946 Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident
during a race; the annual George
Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.[21] ·
1947 Proceedings of
the U.S. Congress are
televised for the first time.[22] ·
1949 The Bangko
Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.[23] ·
1953 Frances P. Bolton and
her son, Oliver from Ohio,
become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.[24] ·
1956 A fire damages
the top part of the Eiffel Tower.[25] ·
1957 The Hamilton Watch
Company introduces the first electric watch. ·
1958 The West Indies
Federation is formed.[26] ·
1959 Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.[27] ·
1961 Cold War: The United States severs
diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's
nationalization of American assets. ·
1961 The SL-1 nuclear
reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor
incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities. ·
1961 A protest by agricultural workers
in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a
revolt, opening the Angolan War
of Independence, the first of the Portuguese
Colonial Wars. ·
1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.[28] ·
1976 The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into
force.[29] ·
1977 Apple Computer is incorporated.[30] ·
1990 United
States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.[31] ·
1993 In Moscow,
Russia, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).[32] ·
1994 More than seven
million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African
citizenship. ·
1994 Baikal
Airlines Flight 130 crashes near Irkutsk, Russia, resulting in 125 deaths.[33] ·
1999 The Mars Polar Lander is
launched by NASA. ·
2000 Final daily
edition of the Peanuts comic strip. ·
2002 IsraeliPalestinian
conflict: Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.[34] ·
2004 Flash Airlines
Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it
one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history. ·
2009 The first block
of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block,
was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.[35] ·
2015 Boko Haram militants raze the
entire town of Baga in
north-east Nigeria, starting
the Baga massacre and
killing as many as 2,000 people. ·
2016 Following the
fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends
its diplomatic
relations with Saudi Arabia. ·
2018 For the first
time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are
closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.[36] ·
2019 Chang'e 4 makes the first soft landing
on the far side of the Moon,
deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover.[37] ·
2020 Iranian
General Qasem Soleimani is killed
by an American airstrike near Baghdad
International Airport.[38] Births[edit]
·
106 BC Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and
politician (d. 43 BC)[39] ·
1196 Emperor Tsuchimikado of
Japan (d. 1231)[citation
needed] ·
1509 Gian Girolamo Albani,
Italian cardinal (d. 1591)[40] ·
1611 James
Harrington, English political theorist (d. 1677)[41] ·
1698 Pietro Metastasio,
Italian poet and songwriter (d. 1782)[42] ·
1710 Richard Gridley, American soldier and
engineer (d. 1796)[43] ·
1722 Fredrik Hasselqvist,
Swedish biologist and explorer (d. 1752)[44] ·
1731 Angelo Emo, Venetian admiral and statesman
(d. 1792)[45] ·
1760 Veerapandiya
Kattabomman, Indian ruler (d. 1799)[46] ·
1775 Francis
Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont (d. 1863)[47] ·
1778 Antoni
Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish archbishop (d. 1861)[48] ·
1793 Lucretia Mott, American activist (d. 1880)[49] ·
1802 Charles Pelham
Villiers, English lawyer and politician (d. 1898)[50] ·
1803 Douglas William
Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (d. 1857)[51] ·
1806 Henriette Sontag, German soprano and actress
(d. 1854)[52] ·
1810 Antoine Thomson
d'Abbadie, French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and
astronomer (d. 1897) ·
1816 Samuel C. Pomeroy,
American businessman and politician (d. 1891)[53] ·
1819 Charles Piazzi Smyth,
Italian-Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 1900)[54] ·
1821 Karel Deman, Slovenian archaeologist,
botanist, and politician, Mayor of
Ljubljana (d. 1889) ·
1831 Savitribai Phule, Indian poet, educator, and
activist (d. 1897)[55] ·
1836 Sakamoto Ryōma,
Japanese samurai and rebel leader (d. 1867)[56] ·
1840 Father Damien, Flemish priest and missionary
(d. 1889)[57] ·
1847 Ettore Marchiafava,
Italian physician (d. 1935)[58] ·
1853 Sophie Elkan, Swedish writer (d. 1921)[59] ·
1855 Hubert Bland, English businessman (d. 1914)[60] ·
1861 Ernest Renshaw, English tennis player (d.
1899)[61] ·
1861 William Renshaw, English tennis player (d.
1904)[62] ·
1862 Matthew Nathan, English soldier and
politician, 13th Governor of
Queensland (d. 1939)[63] ·
1865 Henry Lytton, English actor (d. 1936)[64] ·
1870 Henry Handel
Richardson, Australian-English author (d. 1946)[65] ·
1873 Ichizō
Kobayashi, Japanese businessman and art collector, founded
the Hankyu Hanshin
Holdings (d. 1957)[66] ·
1875 Alexandros Diomidis,
Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 1950) ·
1876 Wilhelm Pieck, German carpenter and
politician, 1st President of
the German Democratic Republic (d. 1960)[67] ·
1877 Josephine Hull, American actress (d. 1957)[68] ·
1880 Francis Browne, Irish Jesuit priest and
photographer (d. 1960)[69] ·
1883 Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1967)[70] ·
1883 Duncan Gillis, Canadian discus thrower and
hammer thrower (d. 1963)[71] ·
1884 Raoul Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer
(d. 1948)[72] ·
1885 Harry Elkins Widener,
American businessman (d. 1912)[73] ·
1886 John Gould Fletcher,
American poet and author (d. 1950)[74] ·
1886 Arthur Mailey, Australian cricketer (d. 1967)[75] ·
1887 August Macke, German-French painter (d. 1914)[76] ·
1892 J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, and
philologist (d. 1973)[77] ·
1894 ZaSu Pitts, American actress (d. 1963)[78] ·
1897 Marion Davies, American actress and comedian
(d. 1961)[79] ·
1898 Carolyn Haywood, American author and
illustrator (d. 1990)[80] ·
1898 Carlos Keller, Chilean historian, academic,
and politician (d. 1974) ·
1900 Donald J. Russell,
American businessman (d. 1985)[81] ·
1901 Ngτ Đμnh Diệm,
Vietnamese lawyer and politician, 1st President
of the Republic of Vietnam (d. 1963)[82] ·
1905 Dante Giacosa, Italian engineer (d. 1996) ·
1905 Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961)[83] ·
1907 Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and
director (d. 1986)[84] ·
1909 Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist and
conductor (d. 2000)[85] ·
1910 Frenchy Bordagaray,
American baseball player and manager (d. 2000)[86] ·
1911 John Sturges, American director and producer
(d. 1992)[87] ·
1912 Federico Borrell
Garcνa, Spanish soldier (d. 1936)[88] ·
1912 Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and
politician (d. 2002)[89] ·
1912 Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish actor,
director, and screenwriter (d. 2005)[90] ·
1915 Jack Levine, American painter and soldier
(d. 2010)[91] ·
1916 Betty Furness, American actress and
television journalist (d. 1994)[92] ·
1916 Fred Haas, American golfer (d. 2004)[93] ·
1917 Albert Mol, Dutch author and actor (d. 2002)[94] ·
1917 Vernon A. Walters,
American general and diplomat, 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d.
2002)[95] ·
1917 Roger Williams
Straus, Jr., American journalist and publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus
and Giroux (d. 2004)[96] ·
1919 Herbie Nichols, American pianist and
composer (d. 1963)[97] ·
1920 Siegfried Buback, German lawyer and
politician, Attorney
General of Germany (d. 1977)[98] ·
1920 Renato Carosone, Italian singer-songwriter
and pianist (d. 2001) ·
1921 Chetan Anand,
Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1997) ·
1921 Isabella Bashmakova,
Russian historian of mathematics (d. 2005)[99] ·
1922 Bill Travers, English actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 1994)[100] ·
1923 Hank Stram, American football coach and
sportscaster (d. 2005)[101] ·
1924 Otto Beisheim, German businessman and
philanthropist, founded Metro AG (d.
2013)[102] ·
1924 Andrι Franquin,
Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1997)[103] ·
1924 Nell Rankin, American soprano and educator
(d. 2005)[104] ·
1924 Enzo Cozzolini, Italian football player[105] ·
1925 Jill Balcon, English actress (d. 2009)[106] ·
1926 W. Michael
Blumenthal, American economist and politician, 64th United
States Secretary of the Treasury[107] ·
1926 George Martin, English composer, conductor,
and producer (d. 2016)[108] ·
1928 Abdul Rahman Ya'kub,
Malaysian lawyer and politician, 3rd Chief Minister
of Sarawak (d. 2015)[109] ·
1929 Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1989)[110] ·
1929 Ernst Mahle, German-Brazilian composer and
conductor[111] ·
1929 Gordon Moore, American businessman,
co-founder of Intel Corporation[112] ·
1930 Robert Loggia, American actor and director
(d. 2015)[113] ·
1932 Dabney Coleman, American actor ·
1932 Eeles Landstrφm,
Finnish pole vaulter and politician[114] ·
1933 Geoffrey Bindman, English lawyer[115] ·
1933 Anne Stevenson, American-English poet and
author[116] ·
1934 Marpessa Dawn, American-French actress,
singer, and dancer (d. 2008)[117] ·
1934 Carla Anderson Hills,
American lawyer and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development ·
1935 Raymond Garneau, Canadian businessman and
politician[118] ·
1937 Glen A. Larson, American director, producer,
and screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica (d.
2014)[119] ·
1938 Robin
Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, English academic and politician[120] ·
1938 K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan accountant and
politician, Mayor of Colombo (d.
2006)[121] ·
1939 Arik Einstein, Israeli singer-songwriter and
actor (d. 2013)[122] ·
1939 Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player[123] ·
1940 Leo de Berardinis,
Italian actor and director (d. 2008)[124] ·
1940 Bernard Blaut, Polish footballer and coach
(d. 2007)[125] ·
1941 Malcolm
Dick, New Zealand rugby player[126] ·
1942 John Marsden,
Australian lawyer and activist (d. 2006)[127] ·
1942 John Thaw, English actor and producer,
played Inspector Morse (d.
2002)[128] ·
1943 Van Dyke Parks, American singer-songwriter,
musician, composer, author, and actor[129] ·
1944 Blanche d'Alpuget,
Australian author[130] ·
1945 Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer[131] ·
1946 John Paul
Jones, English bass player, songwriter, and producer[132] ·
1946 Michalis
Kritikopoulos, Greek footballer (d. 2002) ·
1947 Fran Cotton, English rugby player[133] ·
1947 Zulema, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)[134] ·
1948 Ian Nankervis, Australian footballer[135] ·
1950 Victoria Principal,
American actress and businesswoman ·
1950 Linda Steiner, American journalist and
academic[136] ·
1950 Vesna Vulović, Serbian plane crash
survivor and Guinness World
Record holder[137] ·
1951 Linda Dobbs, English lawyer and judge[138] ·
1951 Gary Nairn, Australian surveyor and
politician, 14th Special
Minister of State[139] ·
1952 Esperanza Aguirre,
Spanish civil servant and politician, 3rd President
of the Community of Madrid ·
1952 Gianfranco Fini, Italian journalist and
politician, Italian
Minister of Foreign Affairs[140] ·
1952 Jim Ross, American professional wrestling
commentator[141] ·
1953 Justin Fleming, Australian playwright and
author[142] ·
1953 Mohammed Waheed
Hassan, Maldivian educator and politician, 5th President of
the Maldives ·
1953 Peter
Taylor, English football winger and manager[143] ·
1956 Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor,
director, producer, and screenwriter[144] ·
1958 Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean actor,
director, and producer ·
1960 Russell Spence, English racing driver[145] ·
1962 Darren Daulton, American baseball player (d.
2017)[146] ·
1962 Gavin Hastings, Scottish rugby player[147] ·
1963 Stewart Hosie, Scottish businessman and
politician[148] ·
1963 Aamer Malik, Pakistani cricketer[149] ·
1963 Alex Wheatle, English author and playwright[150] ·
1964 Bruce LaBruce, Canadian director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1964 Cheryl Miller, American basketball player
and coach[151] ·
1966 Chetan Sharma, Indian cricketer[152] ·
1969 Lorenzo Fertitta, American entrepreneur,
casino executive and sports promoter ·
1969 Jarmo Lehtinen, Finnish racing driver[153] ·
1969 Michael Schumacher,
German racing driver[154] ·
1969 Gerda Weissensteiner,
Italian luger and bobsledder[155] ·
1971 Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach[156] ·
1971 Lee Il-hwa, South Korean actress ·
1973 Dan Harmon, American screenwriter and
producer ·
1974 Robert-Jan Derksen,
Dutch golfer[157] ·
1974 Alessandro Petacchi,
Italian cyclist[158] ·
1975 Jason Marsden, American actor[159] ·
1975 Thomas Bangalter, French DJ, musician (Daft Punk), and producer[160] ·
1975 Danica McKellar, American actress, writer,
and mathematician ·
1976 Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer[161] ·
1976 Nicholas Gonzalez,
American actor and producer[162] ·
1977 Lee Bowyer, English footballer and coach[163] ·
1977 A. J. Burnett, American baseball player[164] ·
1977 Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress and
singer[165] ·
1978 Dimitra Kalentzou,
Greek basketball player[166] ·
1978 Dominic Wood, English comedian and former
magician[167] ·
1980 Bryan Clay, American decathlete[168] ·
1980 Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player[169][170] ·
1980 David Tyree, American football player[171] ·
1980 Kurt Vile, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer[172] ·
1980 Mary Wineberg, American sprinter[173] ·
1981 Eli Manning, American football player[174] ·
1982 Peter Clarke,
English footballer[175] ·
1982 Lasse Nilsson, Swedish footballer[176] ·
1982 Park Ji-yoon, South Korean singer and actress[177] ·
1984 Billy Mehmet, English-Irish footballer[178] ·
1985 Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player[179] ·
1985 Evan Moore, American football player[180] ·
1986 Dana Hussain, Iraqi sprinter[181] ·
1986 Greg Nwokolo, Indonesian footballer[182] ·
1986 Dmitry Starodubtsev,
Russian pole vaulter[183] ·
1987 Reto Berra, Swiss professional ice hockey
goaltender[184] ·
1987 Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and singer[185] ·
1988 Ikechi Anya, Scottish-Nigerian footballer[186] ·
1988 Matt Frattin, Canadian ice hockey player[187] ·
1988 J. R. Hildebrand, American racing driver[188] ·
1989 Ben Matulino, New Zealand rugby league player[189] ·
1989 Kōhei Uchimura,
Japanese artistic gymnast[190] ·
1990 Yoichiro Kakitani,
Japanese footballer[191] ·
1991 Jerson Cabral, Dutch footballer[192] ·
1991 Φzgόr Ηek, Turkish
footballer[193] ·
1991 Sιbastien
Faure, French footballer[194] ·
1991 Dane Gagai, Australian rugby league player[195] ·
1994 Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist[196] ·
1997 Kyron McMaster, British Virgin Islands
hurdler[197] ·
2003 Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental
activist[198] Deaths[edit]
·
236 Anterus, pope of the Catholic Church[199] ·
323 Yuan of Yin,
Chinese emperor (b. 276) ·
1027 Fujiwara no Yukinari,
Japanese calligrapher (b. 972) ·
1028 Fujiwara no
Michinaga, Japanese nobleman (b. 966) ·
1098 Walkelin, Norman bishop of Winchester[200] ·
1322 Philip V,
king of France (b. 1292)[201] ·
1437 Catherine of Valois,
queen consort of Henry V (b.
1401)[202] ·
1501 Ali-Shir Nava'i, Turkic poet, linguist, and
mystic (b. 1441)[203] ·
1543 Juan Rodrνguez
Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer and navigator (b. 1499)[204] ·
1571 Joachim
II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)[205] ·
1641 Jeremiah Horrocks,
English astronomer and mathematician (b. 1618)[206] ·
1656 Mathieu Molι, French politician (b. 1584)[207] ·
1670 George
Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English general and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1608)[208] ·
1701 Louis I,
prince of Monaco (b. 1642) ·
1705 Luca Giordano, Italian painter and
illustrator (b. 1634)[209] ·
1743 Ferdinando
Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter and architect (b. 1657)[210] ·
1777 William
Leslie, Scottish captain (b. 1751) ·
1779 Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon and lawyer
(b. 1712) ·
1785 Baldassare Galuppi,
Italian composer (b. 1706)[211] ·
1795 Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founded
the Wedgwood Company (b. 1730)[212] ·
1826 Louis-Gabriel Suchet,
French general (b. 1770) ·
1871 Kuriakose Elias
Chavara, Indian priest and saint (b. 1805)[213] ·
1875 Pierre Larousse, French lexicographer and
publisher (b. 1817)[214] ·
1882 William
Harrison Ainsworth, English author (b. 1805) ·
1895 James Merritt Ives,
American lithographer and businessman, co-founded Currier and Ives (b. 1824)[215] ·
1903 Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (b.
1837)[216] ·
1911 Alexandros
Papadiamantis, Greek author and poet (b. 1851) ·
1915 James Elroy Flecker,
English poet, author, and playwright (b. 1884) ·
1916 Grenville M. Dodge,
American general and politician (b. 1831)[217] ·
1922 Wilhelm Voigt, German criminal (b. 1849) ·
1923 Jaroslav Haek,
Czech journalist and author (b. 1883) ·
1927 Carl David Tolmι
Runge, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1856) ·
1931 Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852) ·
1933 Wilhelm Cuno, German lawyer and
politician, Chancellor of
Germany (b. 1876) ·
1933 Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor, director,
and producer (b. 1896) ·
1943 Walter James, Australian lawyer and
politician, 5th Premier of
Western Australia (b. 1863)[218] ·
1944 Jurgis Baltruaitis,
Lithuanian poet, critic, and translator (b. 1873) ·
1945 Edgar Cayce, American psychic and author (b.
1877) ·
1945 Ferdynand
Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and explorer (b. 1879) ·
1946 William Joyce, American-British pro-Axis
propaganda broadcaster (b. 1906) ·
1956 Alexander
Gretchaninov, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1864) ·
1956 Dimitrios Vergos, Greek wrestler, weightlifter,
and shot putter (b. 1886) ·
1956 Joseph Wirth, German educator and
politician, Chancellor of
Germany (b. 1876) ·
1958 Cafer Tayyar
Eğilmez, Turkish general (b. 1877) ·
1959 Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, author, and
translator (b. 1887) ·
1960 Eric P. Kelly, American journalist, author,
and academic (b. 1884) ·
1962 Hermann Lux,
German footballer and manager (b. 1893) ·
1965 Milton Avery, American painter (b. 1885) ·
1966 Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights
activist (b. 1944) ·
1967 Mary Garden, Scottish-American soprano and
actress (b. 1874)[219] ·
1967 Reginald Punnett, British scientist (b.
1875) ·
1967 Jack Ruby, American businessman and murderer
(b. 1911)[220] ·
1969 Jean Focas, Greek-French astronomer (b.
1909) ·
1969 Tzavalas Karousos,
Greek-French actor (b. 1904) ·
1970 Gladys Aylward, English missionary and
humanitarian (b. 1902)[221] ·
1972 Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright
(b. 1925) ·
1975 Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the
Vienna Circle (b. 1880) ·
1975 James McCormack, American general (b. 1910) ·
1977 William Gropper, American lithographer,
cartoonist, and painter (b. 1897) ·
1979 Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded
the Hilton Hotels
& Resorts (b. 1887)[222] ·
1980 Joy Adamson, Austrian-Kenyan author (b.
1910) ·
1980 George
Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915) ·
1981 Princess
Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883) ·
1988 Rose Auslδnder,
Ukrainian-German poet and author (b. 1901)[223] ·
1989 Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and
academic (b. 1909) ·
1992 Judith Anderson, British actress (b. 1897)[224] ·
2002 Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (b. 1920) ·
2003 Jimmy
Stewart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1931) ·
2005 Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and
diplomat (b. 1917) ·
2005 Egidio Galea, Maltese Roman Catholic priest,
missionary, and educator (b. 1918) ·
2005 Jyotindra Nath Dixit,
Indian diplomat, 2nd Indian
National Security Adviser (b. 1936)[225] ·
2006 Steve Rogers,
Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1954) ·
2006 Bill Skate, Papua New Guinean politician,
5th Prime
Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954) ·
2007 Jαnos Fόrst, Hungarian violinist and
conductor (b. 1935) ·
2007 William Verity, Jr.,
American businessman and politician, 27th United
States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1917)[226] ·
2008 Choi Yo-sam, South Korean boxer (b. 1972)[227] ·
2009 Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and
photographer (b. 1921)[228] ·
2009 Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1923)[229] ·
2009 Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b.
1969)[230] ·
2010 Gustavo
Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean-German composer and academic (b. 1925)[231] ·
2010 Mary Daly, American theologian and scholar
(b. 1928)[232] ·
2012 Vicar,
Chilean cartoonist (b. 1934)[233] ·
2012 Robert L. Carter, American lawyer and judge
(b. 1917)[234] ·
2012 Winifred Milius
Lubell, American author and illustrator (b. 1914)[235] ·
2012 Josef kvoreckύ,
Czech-Canadian author and publisher (b. 1924)[236] ·
2012 Bob Weston,
English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)[237] ·
2013 Alfie Fripp, English soldier and pilot (b.
1913)[238] ·
2013 Ivan Mackerle, Czech cryptozoologist,
explorer, and author (b. 1942)[239] ·
2013 William Maxson, American general (b. 1930)[240] ·
2013 Sergiu Nicolaescu,
Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)[241] ·
2014 Phil Everly, American singer and guitarist
(b. 1939)[242] ·
2014 George Goodman, American economist and
author (b. 1930)[243] ·
2014 Saul Zaentz, American film producer (b. 1921)[244] ·
2015 Martin Anderson,
American economist and academic (b. 1936)[245] ·
2015 Edward Brooke, American captain and politician,
47th Massachusetts
Attorney General (b. 1919)[246] ·
2016 Paul Bley, Canadian-American pianist and
composer (b. 1932)[247] ·
2016 Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist,
astronomer, and academic (b. 1928)[248] ·
2016 Bill Plager, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1945)[249] ·
2016 Igor Sergun, Russian general and diplomat
(b. 1957)[250] ·
2017 H. S. Mahadeva
Prasad, Indian politician (b. 1958)[251] ·
2018 Colin Brumby, Australian composer (b. 1933)[252] ·
2019 Herb Kelleher, American businessman,
co-founder of Southwest Airlines (b.
1931)[253] ·
2020 Qasem Soleimani, Iranian major general,
commander of the Iranian Quds Force (b. 1957)[254] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Anniversary
of the 1966 Coup d'ιtat (Burkina Faso) ·
Christian feast day: o Kuriakose Elias
Chavara (Syro-Malabar
Catholic Church) o William Passavant (Episcopal
Church) o January
3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Ministry of
Religious Affairs Day (Indonesia) ·
Tamaseseri Festival (Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan) ·
The first day of Nakhatsenendyan
toner, celebrated until January 5 (Armenia). ·
The tenth of the Twelve Days of
Christmas (Western Christianity) |
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