January 1

January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 153 BC – For the first time, Roman consuls begin their year in office on January 1.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 45 BC – The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Republic, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 42 BC – The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 193 – The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor.<ref name="Birley2012">Template:Cite book</ref>
• 404 – Saint Telemachus tries to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and is stoned to death by the crowd. This act impresses the Christian Emperor Honorius, who issues a historic ban on gladiatorial fights.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 417 – Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his famous general (magister militum) (probable).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 947 – Emperor Taizong of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty captures Daliang, ending the dynasty and empire of the Later Jin.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1001 – Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II (probable).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1068 – Romanos IV Diogenes marries Eudokia Makrembolitissa and is crowned Byzantine Emperor.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1259 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1502 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is first explored by the Portuguese.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1515 – Twenty-year-old Francis, Duke of Brittany, succeeds to the French throne following the death of his father-in-law, Louis XII.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1527 – Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria as King of Croatia in the 1527 election in Cetin.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1600 – Scotland recognises January 1 as the start of the year, instead of March 25.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1601–1900

• 1604 – The Masque of Indian and China Knights is performed by courtiers of James VI and I at Hampton Court.<ref>Martin Butler, The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture (Cambridge, 2008), p. 63.</ref>
• 1651 – Charles II is crowned King of Scotland at Scone Palace.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1700 – Russia begins using the Anno Domini era instead of the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1707 – John V is proclaimed King of Portugal and the Algarves in Lisbon.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1725 – J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41, which features the trumpet fanfares from the beginning also in the end.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1739 – Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1772 – The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, are issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1773 – The hymn that becomes known as "Amazing Grace", previously titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17, Faith's Review and Expectation", is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Burning of Norfolk – Norfolk, Virginia, is burned to the ground by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1776 – General George Washington hoists the first United States flag, the Continental Union Flag, at Prospect Hill.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1788 – The first edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1801 – The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is proclaimed.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1801 – Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1804 – French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in North America after the United States.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1806 – The French Republican Calendar is abolished.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1808 – The United States bans the importation of slaves.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1810 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1818 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (anonymously) publishes the pioneering work of science fiction, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, in London.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1822 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1834 – Most of Germany forms the Zollverein customs union, the first such union between sovereign states.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1845 – The Philippines moves its national calendar to align with other Asian countries' calendars by skipping Tuesday, December 31, 1844. The change has been ordered by Governor–General Narciso Claveria to reform the country's calendar so that it aligns with the rest of Asia. Its territory has been one day behind the rest of Asia for 323 years since the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in the Philippines on March 16, 1521.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1847 – The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, United States, by a group of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
• 1860 – The first Polish postage stamp is issued, replacing the Russian stamps previously in use.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1861 – Liberal forces supporting Benito Juárez enter Mexico City.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1885 – Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1890 – Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1892 – Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1898 – New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
• 1899 – Spanish rule ends in Cuba.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1900 – Nigeria becomes a British protectorate with Frederick Lugard as high commissioner.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1901–present

• 1901 – The Southern Nigeria Protectorate is established within the British Empire.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1901 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1902 – The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1910 – Captain David Beatty is promoted to rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1912 – The Republic of China is established.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1914 – The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1923 – Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1927 – New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1928 – Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran to seek asylum in France. He is the only member of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Soviet Union.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1929 – The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1932 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1934 – Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1934 – A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1942 – The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1945 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed, attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1947 – Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1947 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens.<ref name="Senate1952">Template:Cite book</ref> Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
• 1948 – The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1949 – United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1956 – Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1957 – George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1957 – Lèse majesté in Thailand is strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after the Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.<ref name="CMU">Template:Cite web</ref>Template:Rp
• 1958 – The European Economic Community is established.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1959 – Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1960 – Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1962 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1964 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.<ref>Template:Cite bookTemplate:Dead link</ref>
• 1965 – The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1970 – The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.<ref name="single-unix-spec-4.16">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1973 – Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1976 – A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1978 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea off the coast of Bombay, India, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, killing all 213 people on board.<ref name="ASN">Template:ASN accident</ref>
• 1979 – the Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations and Taiwan Relations Act enter into force. Through the Communiqué, the United States establishes normal diplomatic relations with China.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Through the Act, the United States guarantees military support for Taiwan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1981 – Greece is admitted into the European Community.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1982 – Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1985 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 crashes into Mount Illimani in Bolivia, killing all 29 aboard.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1987 – The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1988 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1989 – The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1990 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1994 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1995 – The World Trade Organization comes into being.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1995 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1998 – Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1998 – Argentinian physicist Juan Maldacena publishes a landmark paper initiating the study of AdS/CFT correspondence, which links string theory and quantum gravity.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• 1999 – The Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>
• 2001 – Greece adopts the Euro, becoming the 12th Eurozone country.<ref name=":0" />
• 2004 – In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2007 – Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.<ref>Enlargement, 3 years after Template:Webarchive, Europa (web portal)</ref>
• 2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes near the Makassar Strait, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 2009 – Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 2010 – A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.<ref name="Times">Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2011 – A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.<ref name="reuters">Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2011 – Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the 17th Eurozone country.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2013 – At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2015 – The Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2017 – An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills 39 people and injures 79 others.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2023 – Croatia officially adopts the Euro, becoming the 20th Eurozone country, and becomes the 27th member of the Schengen Area.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2024 – A 7.5 Template:M earthquake strikes the western coast of Japan, killing more than 500 people and injuring over 1,000 others.<ref name="SANKEI">Template:Cite news</ref> A majority of direct deaths were due to collapsed homes.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2024 – Disney's copyright protection on Steamboat Willie and the original Mickey Mouse expires as they enter the public domain.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2024 – Artsakh ceases to exist.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2025 – 14 people are killed and 35 others injured during a vehicle-ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans, Louisiana.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Births

Pre-1600

• 766 – Ali al-Ridha, 8th Imam of Twelver Shia Islam (died 818)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1431 – Pope Alexander VI (died 1503)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1449 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian politician (died 1492)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1467 – Sigismund I the Old, Polish king (died 1548)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1484 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss pastor and theologian (died 1531)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1511 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, first-born child of Henry VIII of England and Catherine of Aragon (died 1511)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1557 – Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (died 1606)<ref name="auto">Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1600 – Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian and academic (died 1649)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1601–1900

• 1628 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer and theorist (died 1692)<ref name="Don1996">Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1655 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (died 1728)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1684 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch scholar and author (died 1748)<ref name="auto"/>
• 1704 – Soame Jenyns, English author, poet, and politician (died 1787)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1711 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (died 1749)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1714 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian soprano and author (died 1800)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1714 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (died 1780)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1735 – Paul Revere, American silversmith and engraver (died 1818)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1745 – Anthony Wayne, American general and politician (died 1796)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1752 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress, sewed flags for the Pennsylvania Navy during the Revolutionary War (died 1836)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1768 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish author (died 1849)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1769 – Marie-Louise Lachapelle, French obstetrician (died 1821)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1774 – André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and academic (died 1860)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1779 – William Clowes, English publisher (died 1847)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1803 – Edward Dickinson, American politician and father of poet Emily Dickinson (died 1874)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1806 – Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (died 1853)<ref name="Gaige1969">Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1809 – Achille Guenée, French lawyer and entomologist (died 1880)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1813 – George Bliss, American politician (died 1868)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1814 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebellion leader and king (died 1864)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1818 – William Gamble, Irish-born American general (died 1866)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1819 – Arthur Hugh Clough, English-Italian poet and academic (died 1861)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1819 – George Foster Shepley, American general (died 1878)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1823 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and activist (died 1849)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1833 – Robert Lawson, Scottish-New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (died 1902)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1834 – Ludovic Halévy, French author and playwright (died 1908)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1839 – Ouida, English-Italian author and activist (died 1908)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1848 – John W. Goff, Irish-American lawyer and politician (died 1924)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1852 – Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist and academic (died 1904)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1854 – James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist and academic (died 1941)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1854 – Thomas Waddell, Irish-Australian politician, 15th Premier of New South Wales (died 1940)<ref>Template:Australian Dictionary of Biography</ref>
• 1857 – Tim Keefe, American baseball player (died 1933)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1858 – Heinrich Rauchinger, Kraków-born painter (died 1942)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1859 – Michael Joseph Owens, American inventor (died 1923)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1859 – Thibaw Min, Burmese king (died 1916)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1860 – Michele Lega, Italian cardinal (died 1935)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1863 – Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (died 1937)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1864 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (died 1946)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1864 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (died 1957)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1867 – Mary Acworth Evershed, English astronomer and scholar (died 1949)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1874 – Frank Knox, American publisher and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1944)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1874 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (died 1927)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1877 – Alexander von Staël-Holstein, German sinologist and orientalist (died 1937)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1878 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician, statistician, and engineer (died 1929)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1879 – E. M. Forster, English author and playwright (died 1970)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1879 – William Fox, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer, founded the Fox Film Corporation and Fox Theatres (died 1952)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1883 – William J. Donovan, American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1959)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1883 – Noe Khomeriki, Georgian Social Democrat politician (died 1924)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1884 – Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese lieutenant, engineer, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company (died 1949)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1887 – Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (died 1945)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1888 – Chesley Bonestell, American painter, designer, and illustrator<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1888 – John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle (died 1974)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1888 – Georgios Stanotas, Greek general (died 1965)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Dead link</ref>
• 1889 – Charles Bickford, American actor (died 1967)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1889 – Seabury Quinn, American author (died 1969)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1890 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (died 1966)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1891 – Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Rajasthan (died 1969)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1892 – Mahadev Desai, Indian author and activist (died 1942)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1892 – Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor (died 1958)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1892 – Manuel Roxas, Filipino lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Philippines (died 1948)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1893 – Mordechai Frizis, Greek colonel (died 1940)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1893 – Heinie Miller, American football player and coach (died 1964)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician (died 1974)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1894 – Edward Joseph Hunkeler, American clergyman (died 1970)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 1972)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1899 – Randolfo Pacciardi, centre-left Italian politician (died 1991) <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1900 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese soldier and diplomat (died 1986)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1900 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor (died 1990)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1901–present

• 1902 – Buster Nupen, Norwegian-South African cricketer and lawyer (died 1977)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1902 – Hans von Dohnányi, German jurist and political dissident (died 1945)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1904 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (died 1982)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1905 – Stanisław Mazur, Ukrainian-Polish mathematician and theorist (died 1981)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1905 – Lise Lindbæk, Norwegian journalist and war correspondent (died 1961)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
• 1906 – Manuel Silos, Filipino filmmaker and actor (died 1988)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1907 – Kinue Hitomi, Japanese sprinter and long jumper (died 1931)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1909 – Dana Andrews, American actor (died 1992)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1909 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (died 1959)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1909 – Peggy Dennis, American-Russian journalist, author, and activist (died 1993)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1911 – Basil Dearden, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1971)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1911 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (died 1986)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1911 – Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist and educator (died 2012)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1911 – Audrey Wurdemann, American poet and author (died 1960)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1912 – Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician and historian (died 1995)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1912 – Kim Philby, British spy (died 1988)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1912 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet and academic (died 1991)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, British SOE agent (died 1944)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1917 – Shannon Bolin, American actress and singer (died 2016)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="mblank" />
• 1918 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (died 2000)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1918 – Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (died 1997)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1919 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer and actor (died 1990)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1919 – Carole Landis, American actress (died 1948)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1919 – Sheila Mercier, British actress, Emmerdale Farm (died 2019)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1919 – Bones McKinney, American basketball player (died 1997)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1919 – J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (died 2010)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1919 – Mai Dhai, Pakistani folk singerTemplate:Citation needed
• 1920 – Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist (died 2007)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1921 – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (died 1986)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1921 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor and academic (died 1998)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1921 – Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (died 2013)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1921 – Johnny Logan, American basketball player (died 1977)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1922 – Ernest Hollings, American soldier and politician, 106th Governor of South Carolina (died 2019)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1923 – Barbara Baxley, American actress (died 1990)<ref name="mblank">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="nypl">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1923 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (died 2019)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1923 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist and composer (died 1999)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1924 – Francisco Macías Nguema, Equatorial Guinean politician, 1st President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (died 1979)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1925 – Matthew Beard, American child actor (died 1981)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1925 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, 1st Tanzanian Minister of Finance (died 2005)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1926 – Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (died 2008)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1927 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (died 2007)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1927 – James Reeb, American clergyman and political activist (died 1965)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1927 – Vernon L. Smith, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1927 – Doak Walker, American football player and businessman (died 1998)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1928 – Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (died 1984)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1928 – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American historian, author, and academic<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1929 – Larry L. King, American journalist, author, and playwright (died 2012)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="mblank" />
• 1929 – Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor and stuntman, portrayed Godzilla from 1954 to 1972 (died 2017)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1930 – Ty Hardin, American actor (died 2017)<ref name="mblank" />
• 1930 – Frederick Wiseman, American director and producer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1932 – Giuseppe Patanè, Italian conductor (died 1989)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1933 – James Hormel, American philanthropist and diplomat (died 2021)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1933 – Joe Orton, English dramatist (died 1967)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="mblank" />
• 1934 – Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (died 1984)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1934 – Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian politician, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1935 – Om Prakash Chautala, Indian politician (died 2024)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1936 – James Sinegal, American businessman, co-founded Costco<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1938 – Frank Langella, American actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="mblank" />
• 1939 – Michèle Mercier, French actress<ref>Michèle Mercier at the British Film InstituteTemplate:Better source needed</ref>
• 1939 – Phil Read, English motorcycle racer and businessman (died 2022)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1939 – Senfronia Thompson, American politician<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1939 – Younoussi Touré, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (died 2022)<ref>"Assemblée nationale: aux commandes ..."Template:Dead link, L'Essor, number 16,042, 28 September 2007 Template:In lang.</ref>
• 1942 – Dennis Archer, American lawyer and politician, 67th Mayor of Detroit<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1942 – Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn, English dentist and politician<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1942 – Country Joe McDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1942 – Alassane Ouattara, Ivorian economist and politician, President of the Ivory Coast<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1942 – Gennadi Sarafanov, Russian pilot and cosmonaut (died 2005)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1943 – Tony Knowles, American soldier and politician, 7th Governor of Alaska<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1943 – Don Novello, American comedian, screenwriter and producer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="mblank" />
• 1943 – Vladimir Šeks, Croatian lawyer and politician, 16th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1944 – Barry Beath, Australian rugby league player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1944 – Jimmy Hart, American professional wrestling manager<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1944 – Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani field hockey player and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> (died 2020)
• 1944 – Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist and author (died 2013)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1944 – Mati Unt, Estonian author, playwright, and director (died 2005)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1945 – Victor Ashe, American politician and former United States Ambassador to Poland<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1945 – Jacky Ickx, Belgian racing driver<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1945 – Jimmy Jones, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1946 – Rivellino, Brazilian footballer and manager<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1946 – Claude Steele, American social psychologist and academic<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1947 – Jon Corzine, American sergeant and politician, 54th Governor of New Jersey<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1948 – Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish economist, academic, and politician, 57th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1948 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Russian Minister of Defence (died 2012)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1948 – Dick Quax, New Zealand runner and politician (died 2018)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1949 – Borys Tarasyuk, Ukrainian politician and diplomat<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1950 – Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby league player and coach<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1950 – Tony Currie, English footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1952 – Shaji N. Karun, Indian director and cinematographer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1953 – Gary Johnson, American businessman and politician, 29th Governor of New Mexico<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1954 – Richard Edson, American actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1954 – Bob Menendez, American lawyer and politician<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1954 – Dennis O'Driscoll, Irish poet and critic (died 2012)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
• 1954 – Yannis Papathanasiou, Greek engineer and politician, Greek Minister of Finance<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1955 – Mary Beard, English classicist, academic and presenter<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1955 – LaMarr Hoyt, American baseball player (died 2021)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1956 – Sergei Avdeyev, Russian engineer and astronaut<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1956 – Royce Ayliffe, Australian rugby league player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1956 – Christine Lagarde, French lawyer and politician; Managing Director, International Monetary Fund<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1956 – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (died 2011)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1956 – Martin Plaza, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1957 – Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1958 – Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian rapper and DJ <ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1958 – Dave Silk, American ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1959 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghan colonel, pilot, and astronaut<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1959 – Azali Assoumani, Comorian colonel and politician, President of the Comoros<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1959 – Panagiotis Giannakis, Greek basketball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1959 – Adrian Hall, English director and former actor<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1961 – Sam Backo, Australian rugby league player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1962 – Anton Muscatelli, Italian-Scottish economist and academic<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1963 – Jean-Marc Gounon, French racing driver<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1964 – Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1966 – Anna Burke, Australian businesswoman and politician, 28th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives<ref>Template:Cite Au Parliament</ref>
• 1966 – Ivica Dačić, Serbian journalist and politician, 95th Prime Minister of Serbia<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1966 – Tihomir Orešković, Croatian–Canadian businessman, 11th Prime Minister of Croatia<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1967 – Tawera Nikau, New Zealand rugby league player<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1968 – Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer<ref>Template:FIFA player</ref>
• 1969 – Morris Chestnut, American actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1969 – Verne Troyer, American actor (died 2018)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1970 – Sergei Kiriakov, Russian footballer and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1971 – Sammie Henson, American wrestler and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1971 – Bobby Holík, Czech-American ice hockey player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1971 – Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Indian politician<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1972 – Lilian Thuram, French footballer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1974 – Christian Paradis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1975 – Chris Anstey, Australian basketball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1975 – Joe Cannon, American soccer player and sportscaster<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1975 – Becky Kellar-Duke, Canadian ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1975 – Fernando Tatís, Dominican baseball player<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1976 – Tank, American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor<ref name="AP">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1979 – Vidya Balan, Indian actress <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1980 – Elin Nordegren, Swedish-American model<ref name="UPI">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1981 – Jonas Armstrong, Irish-English actor<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1981 – Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian racing driver<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1981 – Mladen Petrić, Croatian footballer<ref name="auto1">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1981 – Eden Riegel, American actress<ref name="AP" />
• 1982 – Egidio Arévalo, Uruguayan footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1982 – David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1983 – Calum Davenport, English footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1983 – Park Sung-hyun, South Korean archer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1984 – Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1984 – Fernando San Emeterio, Spanish basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1984 – Michael Witt, Australian rugby league player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1985 – Jeff Carter, Canadian ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1985 – Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1985 – Kenoh, Japanese professional wrestler<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1985 – Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1986 – Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1986 – Glen Davis, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1986 – Colin Morgan, Northern Irish actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1986 – Lee Sung-min, South Korean singer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1987 – Gia Coppola, American director and screenwriter <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1987 – Gilbert Brulé, Canadian ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1987 – Meryl Davis, American ice dancer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1987 – Patric Hörnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1988 – Marcel Gecov, Czech footballer<ref name="auto1"/>
• 1988 – Dallas Keuchel, American baseball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1989 – Jason Pierre-Paul, American football player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1990 – Julia Glushko, Israeli tennis player<ref>"Julia Glushko," Template:Webarchive wtatennis.com.</ref>
• 1990 – Ali Maâloul, Tunisian football player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1991 – Glen Rice Jr., American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1991 – Darius Slay, American football player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1991 – Xavier Su'a-Filo, American football player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1992 – Nathaniel Peteru, New Zealand rugby league player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1992 – Shane Duffy, Irish footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1993 – Larry Nance Jr., American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1993 – Abdoulaye Doucouré, Malian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1994 – Brendan Elliot, Australian rugby league player<ref name="auto2">Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1994 – LaMonte Wade Jr., American baseball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1995 – Sardar Azmoun, Iranian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1995 – Poppy, American singer and YouTube personality<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1996 – Andreas Pereira, Brazilian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1996 – Mahmoud Dahoud, German footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1996 – Mathias Jensen, Danish footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1997 – Noah Kahan, American singer-songwriter<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
• 1997 – Keegan Hipgrave, Australian rugby league player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1997 – Gonzalo Montiel, Argentine footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1998 – Cristina Bucșa, Moldovan-Spanish tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1998 – Edwuin Cetré, Colombian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1998 – Enock Mwepu, Zambian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1998 – Frank Onyeka, Nigerian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1999 – Tomás Chancalay, Argentine footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1999 – Azmy Qowimuramadhoni, Indonesian-Azerbaijani badminton player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2000 – Nicolas Kühn, German footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2000 – Ice Spice, American rapper<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2001 – Angourie Rice, Australian actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2001 – Winter, South Korean singer<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2002 – Simon Adingra, Ivorian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2003 – Daria Trubnikova, Russian rhythmic gymnast<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2004 – Lamine Camara, Senegalese footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2007 – Ian Subiabre, Argentine footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 138 – Lucius Aelius, adopted son and intended successor of Hadrian (born 101)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 404 – Telemachus, Christian monk and martyr<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 898 – Odo I, Frankish king (born 860)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 951 – Ramiro II, king of León and Galicia<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1031 – William of Volpiano, Italian abbot (born 962)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1189 – Henry of Marcy, Cistercian abbot (born Template:Circa)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1204 – Haakon III, king of Norway (born 1182)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1387 – Charles II, king of Navarre (born 1332)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1496 – Charles d'Orléans, count of Angoulême (born 1459)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1515 – Louis XII, king of France (born 1462)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1559 – Christian III, king of Denmark (born 1503)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1560 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet and critic (born 1522)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1601–1900

• 1617 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1558)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1697 – Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine historian and author (born 1625)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1716 – William Wycherley, English playwright and poet (born 1641)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1748 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and academic (born 1667)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1766 – James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender (born 1688)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1780 – Johann Ludwig Krebs, German organist and composer (born 1713)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1782 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (born 1735)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1789 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English lawyer and politician, British Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1716)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1793 – Francesco Guardi, Italian painter and educator (born 1712)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1817 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (born 1743)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1846 – John Torrington, English sailor and explorer (born 1825)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1853 – Gregory Blaxland, Australian farmer and explorer (born 1778)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1862 – Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian mathematician and physicist (born 1801)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1881 – Louis Auguste Blanqui, French activist (born 1805)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1892 – Roswell B. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 25th Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1894 – Heinrich Hertz, German physicist and academic (born 1857)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1896 – Alfred Ely Beach, American publisher and lawyer, created the Beach Pneumatic Transit (born 1826)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

1901–present

• 1901 – Ignatius L. Donnelly, American politician and promoter of pseudoscience and pseudohistory (born 1831)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1906 – Hugh Nelson, Scottish-Australian farmer and politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (born 1833)<ref>Template:Dictionary of Australian Biography</ref>
• 1918 – William Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet and author (born 1858)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1921 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (born 1856)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1923 – Willie Keeler, American baseball player (born 1872)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1928 – Loie Fuller, American dancer (born 1862)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1929 – Mustafa Necati, Turkish civil servant and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (born 1894)<ref>Mustafa Necati page Template:In lang Template:Webarchive Accessed 2 March 2019</ref>
• 1931 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (born 1851)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1937 – Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (born 1874)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1940 – Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian author and educator (born 1865)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1943 – Jenő Rejtő, Hungarian journalist (born 1905)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1944 – Edwin Lutyens, English architect, designed the Castle Drogo and Thiepval Memorial (born 1869)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1944 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (born 1862)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1953 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1955 – Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian colloid chemist, academic, and scientific administrator (born 1894)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1954 – Duff Cooper, English politician and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1890)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1954 – Leonard Bacon, American poet and critic (born 1887)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1955 – Arthur C. Parker, American archaeologist and historian (born 1881)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1958 – Edward Weston, American photographer (born 1886)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1960 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress (born 1909)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1961 – Alastair Denniston, Scottish cryptologist (born 1881)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1966 – Vincent Auriol, French journalist and politician, 16th President of the French Republic (born 1884)<ref name="Lane1995">Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1969 – Barton MacLane, American actor, playwright and screenwriter (born 1902)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1971 – Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian saint (born 1894)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1972 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (born 1888)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1977 – Roland Hayes, American lyric tenor and composer (born 1887)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1978 – Carle Hessay, German-Canadian painter (born 1911)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1980 – Pietro Nenni, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1891)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1981 – Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Australian pianist (born 1920)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1982 – Victor Buono, American actor (born 1938)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1984 – Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1928)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1984 – Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega, known as "Cagancho", Spanish bullfighter (born 1903)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1988 – Clementine Hunter, American folk artist (born 1886 or 1887)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1992 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (born 1906)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1994 – Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1900)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1994 – Cesar Romero, American actor (born 1907)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 1994 – Edward Arthur Thompson, Irish historian and academic (born 1914)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1995 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1996 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (born 1901)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 1996 – Arthur Rudolph, German-American engineer (born 1906)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 1997 – Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1944)<ref>Kruth, J. (2007) "To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt".</ref>
• 1998 – Helen Wills, American tennis player and coach (born 1905)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2001 – Ray Walston, American actor (born 1914)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2002 – Julia Phillips, American film producer and author (born 1944)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2003 – Joe Foss, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 20th Governor of South Dakota (born 1915)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2005 – Shirley Chisholm, American educator and politician (born 1924)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2005 – Ngo Van, Vietnamese revolutionary (born 1913)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2006 – Harry Magdoff, American economist and journalist (born 1913)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2007 – Roland Levinsky, South African-English biochemist and academic (born 1943)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2007 – Tillie Olsen, American short story writer (born 1912)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2007 – Darrent Williams, American football player (born 1982)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2008 – Pratap Chandra Chunder, Indian educator and politician (born 1919)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• 2009 – Claiborne Pell, American politician (born 1918)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2009 – Helen Suzman, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician (born 1917)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2010 – Lhasa de Sela, American-Mexican singer-songwriter (born 1972)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
• 2012 – Bob Anderson, English fencer (born 1922)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2012 – Kiro Gligorov, Macedonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (born 1917)<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
• 2012 – Nay Win Maung, Burmese physician, businessman, and activist (born 1962)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2012 – Tommy Mont, American football player and coach (born 1922)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2013 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, English journalist (born 1945)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2013 – Patti Page, American singer and actress (born 1927)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2014 – Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (born 1910)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2014 – William Mgimwa, Tanzanian banker and politician, 13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance (born 1950)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2014 – Juanita Moore, American actress (born 1914)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2015 – Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (born 1944)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2015 – Mario Cuomo, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New York (born 1932)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2015 – Donna Douglas, American actress (born 1932)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2015 – Omar Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Lebanon (born 1934)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2015 – Boris Morukov, Russian physician and astronaut (born 1950)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2015 – William Lloyd Standish, United States District Judge (born 1930)<ref>Template:FJC Bio</ref>
• 2016 – Fazu Aliyeva, Russian poet and journalist (born 1932)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2016 – Dale Bumpers, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 38th Governor of Arkansas (born 1925)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2016 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer and producer (born 1930)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2017 – Tony Atkinson, British economist (born 1944)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2017 – Yvon Dupuis, Canadian politician (born 1926)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2018 – Robert Mann, American violinist (born 1920)<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
• 2018 – Jon Paul Steuer, American actor (born 1984)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2019 – Paul Neville, Australian politician (born 1940)<ref>Reid, Emma (1 January 2019) Tributes flow for former MP Paul Neville Template:Webarchive, NewsMail. Retrieved 3 March 2020.</ref>
• 2019 – Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (born 1952) <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2019 – George, last known Achatinella apexfulva (born Template:Circa)<ref name=Atlantic>Ed Yong (2019) "The Last of Its Kind" Template:Webarchive The Atlantic, July 2019. Accessed June 26, 2023.</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2020 – Lexii Alijai, American rapper (born 1998)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2020 – Alexander Frater, British travel writer and journalist (born 1937)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2020 – Don Larsen, American baseball player (born 1929)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2020 – Barry McDonald, Australian rugby union player (born 1940)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2020 – David Stern, American lawyer and businessman (born 1942)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2021 – Carlos do Carmo, Portuguese fado singer (born 1939)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2021 – Mark Eden, English actor (born 1928)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2021 – Elmira Minita Gordon, Belizean educator and psychologist (born 1930)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2021 – Floyd Little, American football player (born 1942)
• 2022 – Gary Burgess, British broadcaster and journalist (born 1975)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2022 – Dan Reeves, American football player and coach (born 1944)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 2023 – Fred White, American musician and songwriter (born 1955)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2024 – Lynja, American celebrity chef and YouTuber (born 1956)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2025 – David Lodge, English author and critic (born 1935)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2025 – Chad Morgan, Australian musician (born 1933)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 2025 – Wayne Osmond, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1951)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Basil the Great (Eastern Orthodox Church)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Feast of the Circumcision of Christ<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
    • Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church)<ref name=Crump>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Fulgentius of Ruspe<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God;<ref name=Crump /> and its related observances:
    • World Day of Peace<ref name=Crump />
  • January 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• The last day of Kwanzaa (African Americans)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The eighth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Global Family Day<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Jump-up Day (Montserrat)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• New Year's Day (Gregorian calendar)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • Japanese New Year<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Novy God Day (Russia)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Polar Bear Swim Day<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Public Domain Day (multiple countries)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Triumph of the Revolution (Cuba)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

External links

• BBC: On This Day Template:Webarchive
• Template:NYT On this day
• Historical Events on January 1 Template:Webarchive