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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2021
January 9 is the ninth day of the year in
the Gregorian calendar.
356 days remain until the end of the year (357 in leap years).
Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events
·
475 Byzantine
Emperor Zeno is
forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.[1] ·
681 Twelfth Council
of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which
he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.[2] ·
1127 JinSong Wars:
Invading Jurchen soldiers
from the Jin dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of
the Song dynasty of
China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong
of Song and others, ending the Northern Song
dynasty.[3] ·
1349 The Jewish
population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the
cause of the ongoing Black Death,
is rounded up and incinerated.[4] ·
1431 The trial
of Joan of Arc begins
in Rouen.[5] ·
1760 Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats
the Marathas in the Battle
of Barari Ghat.[6] ·
1788 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to
ratify the Constitution. ·
1792 Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed. ·
1793 Jean-Pierre
Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.[7] ·
1799 British
Prime Minister William Pitt the
Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great
Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.[8] ·
1806 Admiral
Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.[9] ·
1816 Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.[10] ·
1822 The Portuguese
prince Pedro I of Brazil decides
to stay in Brazil against the orders of the
Portuguese King Joγo VI,
beginning the Brazilian independence process.[11] ·
1839 The French Academy
of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. ·
1857 The 7.9 Mw Fort Tejon
earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with
a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent).[12] ·
1858 Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas,
commits suicide. ·
1861 American Civil War:
"Star of the West"
incident occurs near Charleston,
South Carolina. ·
1861 Mississippi becomes the second state to
secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. ·
1878 Umberto I becomes
King of Italy. ·
1894 New
England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone
switchboard in Lexington,
Massachusetts. ·
1903 Hallam
Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson,
becomes the second Governor-General
of Australia.[13] ·
1909 Ernest Shackleton,
leading the Nimrod Expedition to
the South Pole, plants the British flag 97
nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at
that time. ·
1914 The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by
African-American students at Howard University in
Washington D.C., United States.[14] ·
1916 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes
with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from
the peninsula.[15] ·
1917 World War I:
The Battle of Rafa is
fought near the Egyptian border
with Palestine.[16] ·
1918 Battle of Bear
Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.[17] ·
1921 Greco-Turkish
War: The First Battle
of İnφnό, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia. ·
1923 Juan de la Cierva makes
the first autogyro flight.[18] ·
1923 Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against
the League of Nations'
decision to leave the area as a mandated region under
French control. ·
1927 A fire at
the Laurier
Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children. ·
1941 World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster. ·
1945 World War II: The Sixth United
States Army begins the invasion of Lingayen
Gulf. ·
1957 British
Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office
following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.[19] ·
1960 President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens
construction on the Aswan Dam by
detonating ten tons of dynamite to
demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. ·
1961 British
authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland Spy Ring in
London. ·
1964 Martyrs' Day:
Several Panamanian youths try to raise the
Panamanian flag in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone,
leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians. ·
1965 The Mirzapur Cadet
College formally opens for academic activities in East
Pakistan (now Bangladesh). ·
1991 Representatives
from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva
Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. ·
1992 The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims
the creation of Republika Srpska,
a new state within Yugoslavia. ·
1992 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by
astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets
orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.[20] ·
1996 First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the
helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a
massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. ·
2004 An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near
the Karaburun
Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements
kills 28. This is the second deadliest marine disaster in Albanian history. ·
2005 Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to
succeed Yasser Arafat as
President of the Palestinian
National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh.[21] ·
2005 The Sudan
People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign
the Comprehensive
Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese
Civil War. ·
2007 Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the
original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco. ·
2011 Iran Air Flight 277 crashes
near Urmia in the northwest of the country,
killing 77 people. ·
2014 An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical
plant in Yokkaichi, Japan,
kills at least five people and injures 17 others. ·
2015 The
perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed
after a hostage situation; a second hostage
situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting,
occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes. ·
2015 A mass
poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was
contaminated with Burkholderia
gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill.[22] Births
·
727 Emperor Daizong
of Tang (d. 779) ·
1418 Juan
Ramσn Folch III de Cardona, Aragonese admiral (d. 1485) ·
1554 Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)[23] ·
1571 Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy,
French commander (d. 1621) ·
1590 Simon Vouet, French painter (d. 1649)[24] ·
1606 William Dugard, English printer (d. 1662)[25] ·
1624 Empress Meishō of
Japan (d. 1696)[26] ·
1645 Sir
William Villiers, 3rd Baronet, English noble and politician (date
baptized;[27] d. 1712) ·
1674 Reinhard Keiser, German composer (d. 1739)[28] ·
1685 Tiberius Hemsterhuis,
Dutch philologist and critic (d. 1766)[29] ·
1728 Thomas Warton, English poet, historian, and
critic (d. 1790) ·
1735 John
Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, English admiral and politician (d.
1823) ·
1745 Caleb Strong, American lawyer and
politician, 6th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1819) ·
1753 Luνsa Todi, Portuguese soprano and actress
(d. 1833)[30] ·
1773 Cassandra Austen, English painter and
illustrator (d. 1845)[31] ·
1778 Hammamizade
İsmail Dede Efendi, Turkish Ney player
and composer (d. 1846)[32] ·
1811 Gilbert Abbott ΰ
Beckett, English journalist and author (d. 1856) ·
1818 Antoine
Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (d. 1881) ·
1819 James Francis, English-Australian
businessman and politician, 9th Premier of Victoria (d.
1884) ·
1822 Carol Benesch, Czech-Romanian architect,
designed the Peleș Castle (d.
1896) ·
1823 Friedrich von
Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (d. 1908) ·
1829 Thomas William
Robertson, English director and playwright (d. 1871) ·
1829 Adolf Schlagintweit,
German botanist and explorer (d. 1857) ·
1832 Fιlix-Gabriel
Marchand, Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Quebec (d.
1900) ·
1839 John Knowles Paine,
American composer and academic (d. 1906) ·
1848 Princess
Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)[33] ·
1849 John Hartley,
English tennis player (d. 1935) ·
1854 Lady Randolph
Churchill, American-born wife of Lord Randolph
Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill (d.
1921) ·
1856 Anton Akerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d.
1912) ·
1859 Carrie Chapman Catt,
American activist, founded the League of Women
Voters and International
Alliance of Women (d. 1947) ·
1864 Vladimir
Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1926) ·
1868 S. P. L. Sψrensen,
Danish chemist and academic (d. 1939)[34] ·
1870 Joseph Strauss,
American engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge (d.
1938) ·
1873 Hayim Nahman Bialik,
Ukrainian-Austrian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1934) ·
1873 Thomas Curtis, American sprinter and hurdler
(d. 1944) ·
1873 John Flanagan,
Irish-American hammer thrower (d. 1938) ·
1875 Gertrude
Vanderbilt Whitney, American sculptor and art collector, founded
the Whitney
Museum of American Art (d. 1942) ·
1879 John B. Watson, American psychologist and
academic (d. 1958) ·
1881 Lascelles
Abercrombie, English poet and critic (d. 1938) ·
1881 Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author,
and poet (d. 1956) ·
1885 Charles Bacon, American runner and hurdler
(d. 1968) ·
1886 Lloyd Loar, American sound engineer and
instrument designer (d. 1943) ·
1889 Vrindavan Lal Verma,
Indian author and playwright (d. 1969) ·
1890 Karel Čapek, Czech author and
playwright (d. 1938) ·
1890 Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist
and author (d. 1935) ·
1891 August Gailit, Estonian journalist and
author (d. 1960) ·
1892 Eva Bowring, American lawyer and politician
(d. 1985) ·
1893 Edwin Baker,
Canadian soldier and educator, co-founded the Canadian
National Institute for the Blind (d. 1968) ·
1896 Warwick Braithwaite,
New Zealand-English conductor and director (d. 1971) ·
1897 Karl Lφwith, German philosopher, author, and
academic (d. 1973) ·
1898 Gracie Fields, English actress and singer
(d. 1979) ·
1899 Harald Tammer, Estonian journalist and
weightlifter (d. 1942) ·
1900 Richard Halliburton,
American journalist and author (d. 1939) ·
1901 Vilma Bαnky, Hungarian-American actress (d.
1991) ·
1901 Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973) ·
1902 Rudolf Bing, American impresario and
businessman (d. 1997) ·
1902 Josemarνa Escrivα,
Spanish priest and saint, founded Opus Dei (d. 1975) ·
1907 Eldred G. Smith, American patriarch (d.
2013) ·
1907 Earl W. Renfroe, African American
orthodontist, educator, and activist (d. 2000) ·
1908 Simone de Beauvoir,
French philosopher and author (d. 1986) ·
1909 Anthony Mamo, Maltese lawyer and politician,
1st President of Malta (d.
2008) ·
1909 Patrick Peyton, Irish-American priest,
television personality, and activist (d. 1992) ·
1910 Tom Evenson, English runner (d. 1997) ·
1912 Ralph Tubbs, English architect, designed
the Dome of Discovery (d.
1996) ·
1913 Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer,
and politician, 37th President
of the United States (d. 1994) ·
1914 Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and
bandleader (d. 1985) ·
1915 Anita Louise, American actress (d. 1970) ·
1916 Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor,
singer, and director (d. 1982) ·
1916 Vic Mizzy, American soldier, pianist, and
composer (d. 2009) ·
1918 Alma Ziegler, American baseball player and
golfer (d. 2005) ·
1919 William
Morris Meredith, Jr., American poet and academic (d. 2007)[35] ·
1920 Clive Dunn, English actor (d. 2012) ·
1920 Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and
politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (d.
1998) ·
1921 Αgnes Keleti, Hungarian Olympic gymnast ·
1922 Har Gobind Khorana,
Indian-American biochemist and academic, Nobel
laureate (d. 2011) ·
1922 Ahmed Sιkou Tourι,
Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea (d.
1984) ·
1924 Sergei Parajanov, Georgian-Armenian director
and screenwriter (d. 1990) ·
1925 Len Quested, English footballer defender and
manager (d. 2012)[36] ·
1925 Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)[37] ·
1926 Jean-Pierre Cτtι,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 23rd Lieutenant
Governor of Quebec (d. 2002) ·
1928 Judith Krantz, American novelist (d. 2019) ·
1928 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter,
actor, and politician (d. 1994)[38] ·
1929 Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and
director (d. 2015) ·
1929 Heiner Mόller, German poet, playwright, and
director (d. 1995) ·
1931 Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and
critic (d. 2008) ·
1933 Robert
Garcνa, American soldier and politician (d. 2017) ·
1933 Roy Dwight, English footballer, outside
forward[39] ·
1933 Wilbur Smith, Zambian-English journalist and
author ·
1934 Bart Starr, American football player and
coach (d. 2019) ·
1935 Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005) ·
1935 Dick Enberg, American sportscaster (d. 2017) ·
1935 John Graham,
New Zealand rugby player and educator (d. 2017) ·
1935 Brian Harradine, Australian politician (d.
2014) ·
1936 Anne Rivers Siddons,
American author ·
1936 Marko Veselica, Croatian academic and
politician (d. 2017) ·
1938 Claudette Boyer, Canadian educator and
politician (d. 2013) ·
1939 Susannah York, English actress and activist
(d. 2011) ·
1940 Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993) ·
1940 Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss journalist and
politician, 86th President of the Swiss Confederation ·
1941 Joan Baez, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist and activist ·
1941 Gilles Vaillancourt,
Canadian politician ·
1942 John
Dunning, American author ·
1942 Judy Malloy, American poet and author ·
1943 Robert Drewe, Australian author and
playwright ·
1943 Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian lawyer and
politician (d. 2007) ·
1943 Scott Walker,
American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 2019) ·
1944 Harun Farocki, German filmmaker (d. 2014) ·
1944 Jimmy Page, English guitarist, songwriter,
and producer[40] ·
1944 Mihalis Violaris, Cypriot singer-songwriter
and actor ·
1945 Levon Ter-Petrosyan,
Syrian-Armenian scholar and politician, 1st President of Armenia[41] ·
1946 Mohammad Ishaq Khan,
Indian historian and academic (d. 2013) ·
1946 Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician,
45th Danish
Minister of Foreign Affairs[42] ·
1947 Ronnie Landfield, American painter and
educator ·
1948 Bill Cowsill, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2006) ·
1948 Jan Tomaszewski, Polish footballer, manager,
and politician ·
1950 Alec Jeffreys, English geneticist and
academic ·
1950 David Johansen, American musician and actor ·
1950 Sandy Martin, American actress ·
1951 Crystal Gayle, American singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1952 Kaushik Basu, Indian economist and academic ·
1952 Hugh Bayley, English politician ·
1952 Mike Capuano, American lawyer and politician ·
1953 Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist and
painter ·
1954 Philippa Gregory, Kenyan-English author and
academic ·
1955 Michiko Kakutani, American journalist and
critic ·
1955 J.K. Simmons, American actor ·
1956 Waltraud Meier, German soprano and actress ·
1956 Imelda Staunton, English actress and singer ·
1958 Stephen Neale, English philosopher and
academic ·
1959 Mark Martin, American race car driver and
coach ·
1959 Rigoberta Menchϊ,
Guatemalan activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1959 Otis Nixon, American baseball player ·
1960 Lisa Walters, Canadian golfer ·
1961 Didier Camberabero,
French rugby player ·
1961 Henry Omaga-Diaz, Filipino journalist ·
1962 Ray Houghton, Scottish-born footballer ·
1963 Irwin McLean, Northern Irish biologist and
academic ·
1964 Stan Javier, Dominican baseball player and
manager ·
1965 Iain Dowie, English-Northern Irish
footballer and coach ·
1965 Eric Erlandson, American guitarist,
songwriter, and producer ·
1965 Haddaway, Trinidadian-German singer and
musician ·
1965 Andrei Nazarov,
Estonian decathlete and coach ·
1965 Joely Richardson, English actress ·
1966 Stephen
Metcalfe, English politician ·
1967 Matt Bevin, American politician, 62nd
governor of Kentucky ·
1967 Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer ·
1967 Dave Matthews, South African-American
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ·
1967 Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player ·
1968 Jimmy Adams, Jamaican cricketer and coach ·
1968 Joey Lauren Adams,
American actress ·
1968 Mardi Lunn, Australian golfer ·
1968 Giorgos Theofanous,
Greek-Cypriot composer and producer ·
1970 Lara Fabian, Belgian-Italian
singer-songwriter and actress ·
1971 Angie Martinez, American rapper, actress,
and radio host ·
1971 Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author and critic ·
1971 Scott
Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1972 Jay Powell, American baseball player ·
1972 Rawson Stovall, American video game producer
and author ·
1973 Sean Paul, Jamaican rapper,
singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor ·
1975 James Beckford,
Jamaican long jumper ·
1976 Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player ·
1978 Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1978 Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1978 Chad Johnson, American football player and
actor ·
1978 AJ McLean, American singer ·
1980 Ιdgar Αlvarez,
Honduran footballer ·
1980 Sergio Garcνa, Spanish golfer[43] ·
1980 Francisco Pavσn,
Spanish footballer ·
1981 Euzebiusz Smolarek,
Polish footballer and manager ·
1982 Catherine,
Duchess of Cambridge ·
1984 Drew Brown,
American musician and songwriter ·
1984 Benjamin Danso, German rugby player ·
1985 Juan Francisco
Torres, Spanish footballer ·
1986 Jιferson Gomes,
Brazilian footballer ·
1986 Amanda Mynhardt, South African netball
player ·
1987 Lucas Leiva, Brazilian footballer ·
1987 Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer-songwriter and
guitarist[44] ·
1987 Jami Puustinen, Finnish footballer ·
1988 Katherine Copely, American ice dancer ·
1988 Marc Crosas, Spanish footballer ·
1988 Lee Yeon-hee, South Korean actress ·
1989 Michael Beasley, American basketball player ·
1989 Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress[45] ·
1989 Michaλlla Krajicek,
Dutch tennis player ·
1989 Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete ·
1989 Chris Sandow, Australian rugby league player ·
1990 Justin Blackmon, American football player ·
1991 Edon Hasani, Albanian football player ·
1991 Αlvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter ·
1992 Joseph Parker,
Samoan heavyweight boxer[46] ·
1993 Katarina
Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete[47] ·
1999 Shannon Tavarez, American actress (d. 2010)[48] Deaths
·
710 Adrian of Canterbury,
abbot and scholar ·
1150 Emperor Xizong of
Jin (b. 1119) ·
1202 Birger Brosa, Jarl of Sweden ·
1282 Abϋ
'Uthmβn Sa'ξd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, Minorcan ruler (b. 1204) ·
1283 Wen Tianxiang, Chinese general and scholar
(b. 1236) ·
1367 Giulia della Rena,
Italian saint (b. 1319) ·
1450 Adam Moleyns, Bishop of Chichester ·
1463 William
Neville, 1st Earl of Kent, English soldier (b. 1405) ·
1499 John
Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455) ·
1511 Demetrios
Chalkokondyles, Greek scholar and academic (b. 1423) ·
1514 Anne of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of
France and Louis XII of France (b.
1477) ·
1529 Wang Yangming, Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar
(b. 1472) ·
1534 Johannes Aventinus,
Bavarian historian and philologist (b. 1477) ·
1543 Guillaume du Bellay,
French general and diplomat (b. 1491) ·
1561 Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514) ·
1571 Nicolas
Durand de Villegaignon, French admiral (b. 1510) ·
1598 Jasper Heywood, English poet and scholar (b.
1553) ·
1612 Leonard Holliday, Lord Mayor of London (b.
1550) ·
1622 Alix Le Clerc, French Canoness Regular and
foundress (b. 1576) ·
1757 Bernard
Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French author, poet, and playwright (b.
1657)[49] ·
1762 Antonio de Benavides,
colonial governor of Florida (b. 1678)[50] ·
1766 Thomas Birch, English historian and author
(b. 1705) ·
1799 Maria Gaetana Agnesi,
Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718) ·
1800 Jean Ιtienne
Championnet, French general (b. 1762) ·
1805 Noble Wimberly Jones,
American physician and politician (b. 1723) ·
1843 William Hedley, English engineer (b. 1773) ·
1848 Caroline Herschel,
German-English astronomer (b. 1750)[51] ·
1856 Neophytos Vamvas, Greek cleric and educator
(b. 1770) ·
1858 Anson Jones, American physician and
politician; 4th President
of the Republic of Texas (b. 1798) ·
1873 Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France (b.
1808) ·
1876 Samuel Gridley Howe,
American physician and activist (b. 1801) ·
1878 Victor
Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820) ·
1895 Aaron Lufkin
Dennison, American-English businessman (b. 1812) ·
1901 Richard Copley
Christie, English lawyer and academic (b. 1830) ·
1908 Wilhelm Busch, German poet, illustrator, and
painter (b. 1832) ·
1908 Abraham Goldfaden,
Russian actor, playwright, and author (b. 1840) ·
1911 Edwin Arthur Jones,
American violinist and composer (b. 1853) ·
1911 Edvard Rusjan, Italian-Slovene pilot and
engineer (b. 1886) ·
1917 Luther D. Bradley,
American cartoonist (b. 1853) ·
1918 Charles-Ιmile
Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844) ·
1923 Katherine Mansfield,
New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1888) ·
1924 Ponnambalam
Arunachalam, Sri Lankan civil servant and politician (b. 1853) ·
1927 Houston
Stewart Chamberlain, English-German philosopher and author (b.
1855) ·
1930 Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and
author (b. 1863) ·
1931 Wayne Munn, American football player and
wrestler (b. 1896) ·
1936 John Gilbert,
American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1899) ·
1939 Johann Strauss III,
Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866) ·
1941 Dimitrios Golemis,
Greek runner (b. 1874) ·
1945 Shigekazu Shimazaki,
Japanese admiral and pilot (b. 1908) ·
1945 Jόri Uluots, Estonian journalist and
politician, 7th Prime Minister
of Estonia (b. 1890) ·
1945 Osman Cemal
Kaygılı, Turkish journalist, author, and playwright (b.
1890) ·
1946 Countee Cullen, American poet and playwright
(b. 1903) ·
1947 Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist
and academic (b. 1893) ·
1960 Elsie J. Oxenham, English author and
educator (b. 1880) ·
1961 Emily Greene Balch,
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1867) ·
1964 Halide Edib
Adıvar, Turkish author and academic (b. 1884) ·
1971 Elmer Flick, American baseball player and
scout (b. 1876) ·
1972 Ted Shawn, American dancer and choreographer
(b. 1891) ·
1975 Pierre Fresnay, French actor and
screenwriter (b. 1897) ·
1975 Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and
theorist (b. 1901) ·
1979 Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and
architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower (b. 1891) ·
1981 Kazimierz Serocki,
Polish pianist and composer (b. 1922) ·
1984 Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and
television host (b. 1909) ·
1985 Robert
Mayer, German-English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879) ·
1987 Arthur Lake,
American actor (b. 1905) ·
1988 Peter L. Rypdal, Norwegian fiddler and
composer (b. 1909) ·
1989 Bill Terry, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1898) ·
1990 Spud Chandler, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (b. 1907) ·
1990 Cemal Sόreya, Turkish poet and journalist
(b. 1931) ·
1992 Steve Brodie,
American actor (b. 1919) ·
1992 Bill Naughton, English playwright and
screenwriter (b. 1910) ·
1993 Paul Hasluck, Australian historian and
politician, 17th Governor-General
of Australia (b. 1905) ·
1994 Johnny Temple, American baseball player and
sportscaster (b. 1927) ·
1995 Souphanouvong, Laotian politician, 1st President of Laos (b.
1909) ·
1995 Peter Cook, English actor and screenwriter
(b. 1937) ·
1996 Walter M. Miller,
Jr., American soldier and author (b. 1923) ·
1996 Abdullah al-Qasemi,
Saudi atheist, writer, and intellectual (b. 1907) ·
1997 Edward
Osσbka-Morawski, Polish politician, Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1909) ·
1997 Jesse White,
American actor (b. 1917) ·
1998 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1918) ·
1998 Imi Lichtenfeld, Slovakian-Israeli martial
artist, founded Krav Maga (b.
1910) ·
2000 Arnold Alexander
Hall, English engineer and academic (b. 1915) ·
2000 Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author
(b. 1909) ·
2001 Maurice Prather, American photographer and
director (b. 1926) ·
2003 Will McDonough, American journalist (b.
1935) ·
2004 Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and
academic (b. 1909) ·
2006 Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer
(b. 1964) ·
2006 W. Cleon Skousen, American author and
academic (b. 1913) ·
2007 Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer
(b. 1977) ·
2007 Jean-Pierre Vernant,
French anthropologist and historian (b. 1914) ·
2008 Johnny
Grant, American radio host and producer (b. 1923) ·
2008 John Harvey-Jones,
English businessman and television host (b. 1924) ·
2009 Rob Gauntlett, English mountaineer and
explorer (b. 1987) ·
2009 T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet (b.
1914) ·
2011 Makinti Napanangka,
Australian painter (b. 1930) ·
2012 Brian Curvis, Welsh boxer (b. 1937) ·
2012 Augusto
Gansser-Biaggi, Swiss geologist and academic (b. 1910) ·
2012 William G. Roll, German-American
psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1926) ·
2012 Malam Bacai Sanhα,
Guinea-Bissau politician, President of
Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947) ·
2012 Lαszlσ Szekeres,
Hungarian physician and academic (b. 1921) ·
2013 Brigitte Askonas, Austrian-English
immunologist and academic (b. 1923) ·
2013 James M. Buchanan,
American economist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1919) ·
2013 Robert L. Rock, American businessman and
politician, 42nd Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana (b. 1927) ·
2013 John Wise,
Canadian farmer and politician, 23rd Canadian
Minister of Agriculture (b. 1935) ·
2014 Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and
academic (b. 1934) ·
2014 Josep Maria
Castellet, Spanish poet and critic (b. 1926) ·
2014 Paul du Toit, South African painter and
sculptor (b. 1965) ·
2014 Dale T. Mortensen,
American economist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1939) ·
2015 Michel Jeury, French author (b. 1934) ·
2015 Robert V. Keeley, Lebanese-American soldier
and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to Greece (b. 1929) ·
2015 Jσzef Oleksy, Polish economist and
politician, 7th Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1946) ·
2015 Bud Paxson, American broadcaster and
businessman, founded the Home Shopping
Network and Pax TV (b. 1935) ·
2015 Abdul Rahman Ya'kub,
Malaysian politician, 3rd Chief Minister
of Sarawak (b. 1928) ·
2015 Roy Tarpley, American basketball player (b.
1964) ·
2016 John Harvard,
Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Lieutenant
Governor of Manitoba (b. 1938) ·
2016 Angus Scrimm, American actor and author (b.
1926) ·
2017 Zygmunt Bauman, Polish sociologist (b. 1925) ·
2018 Kato Ottio, Papua New Guinean rugby league
player (b. 1994) ·
2019 Verna Bloom, American actress (b. 1938)[52] ·
2019 Paul Koslo, German-Canadian actor (b. 1944)[53] Holidays and observances
·
Christian feast day: o Translation
of the Black Nazarene (Manila, Philippines) o Philip
II, Metropolitan of Moscow o Julia Chester Emery (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o Stephen (old
calendar Eastern Orthodox) o January
9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Start of Hōonkō (Nishi Honganji) January
916 (Jōdo
Shinshū Buddhism) ·
Non-Resident
Indian Day (India) |
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