January 16

Events

• 27 BCE - Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
• 378 - General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
• 550 - Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
• 929 - Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba.
• 1120 - The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
• 1362 - Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.
• 1412 - The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
• 1492 - The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
• 1547 - Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
• 1556 - Philip II becomes King of Spain.
• 1572 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
• 1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
• 1707 - The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
• 1757 - Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
• 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
• 1786 - Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
• 1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
• 1847 - John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
• 1862 - Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
• 1878 - Russo-Turkish War : Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
• 1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
• 1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
• 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• 1919 - Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
• 1920 - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
• 1920 - The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
• 1921 - The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
• 1942 - Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
• 1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
• 1964 - Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
• 1969 - Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
• 1969 - Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
• 1979 - The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
• 1991 - Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
• 1992 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
• 2001 - Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
• 2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
• 2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
• 2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
• 2006 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
• 2016 - Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
• 2018 - Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
• 2020 - The impeachment of Donald John Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.

  Births

• 972 - Sheng Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty
• 1093 - Isaac Komnenos, son of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos
• 1245 - Edmund Crouchback, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
• 1362 - Robert de Vere, duke of Ireland
• 1409 - René of Anjou, king of Naples
• 1477 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer
• 1501 - Anthony Denny, confidant of Henry VIII of England
• 1516 - Bayinnaung, king of Burma
• 1558 - Jakobea of Baden, Margravine of Baden by birth, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by marriage
• 1616 - François de Vendôme, duke of Beaufort
• 1626 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Belgian painter and educator
• 1630 - Guru Har Rai, Sikh Guru
• 1634 - Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian author and poet
• 1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French soldier and diplomat
• 1691 - Peter Scheemakers, Belgian sculptor and educator
• 1728 - Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer and educator
• 1749 - Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright
• 1757 - Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral and politician, 3rd Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland
• 1807 - Charles Henry Davis, American admiral
• 1815 - Henry Halleck, American lawyer, general, and scholar
• 1821 - John C. Breckinridge, American general and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States
• 1834 - Robert R. Hitt, American lawyer and politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State
• 1836 - Francis II of the Two Sicilies
• 1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist
• 1851 - William Hall-Jones, English-New Zealand politician, 16th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1853 - Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and manager
• 1853 - Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Greek-English general
• 1853 - André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company
• 1870 - Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, State Elder of Estonia
• 1872 - Henri Büsser, French organist, composer, and conductor
• 1874 - Robert W. Service, English-Canadian poet and author
• 1875 - Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physician
• 1876 - Claude Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer
• 1878 - Harry Carey, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1880 - Samuel Jones, American high jumper
• 1882 - Margaret Wilson, American author
• 1885 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese author and translator
• 1888 - Osip Brik, Russian avant garde writer and literary critic
• 1892 - Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist
• 1893 - Daisy Kennedy, Australian-English violinist
• 1894 - Irving Mills, American publisher
• 1895 - Evripidis Bakirtzis, Greek soldier and politician
• 1895 - T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician
• 1895 - Nat Schachner, American lawyer, chemist, and author
• 1897 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet and academic
• 1898 - Margaret Booth, American producer and editor
• 1898 - Irving Rapper, American film director and producer
• 1900 - Kiku Amino, Japanese author and translator
• 1900 - Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank
• 1901 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba
• 1902 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary
• 1903 - William Grover-Williams, English-French race car driver
• 1905 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor
• 1906 - Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer and pilot
• 1906 - Diana Wynyard, English actress
• 1907 - Alexander Knox, Canadian-English actor and screenwriter
• 1907 - Paul Nitze, American banker and politician, 10th United States Secretary of the Navy
• 1908 - Sammy Crooks, English footballer
• 1908 - Ethel Merman, American actress and singer
• 1908 - Günther Prien, German captain
• 1909 - Clement Greenberg, American art critic
• 1910 - Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1911 - Ivan Barrow, Jamaican cricketer
• 1911 - Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile
• 1911 - Roger Lapébie, French cyclist
• 1914 - Roger Wagner, French-American conductor and educator
• 1915 - Leslie H. Martinson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1916 - Eddie Burns, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1916 - Philip Lucock, English-Australian minister and politician
• 1917 - Carl Karcher, American businessman, founded Carl's Jr.
• 1918 - Nel Benschop, Dutch poet and educator
• 1918 - Allan Ekelund, Swedish director, producer, and production manager
• 1918 - Clem Jones, Australian surveyor and politician, 8th Lord Mayor of Brisbane
• 1918 - Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer
• 1919 - Jerome Horwitz, American chemist and academic
• 1920 - Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver
• 1920 - Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter
• 1921 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer
• 1923 - Gene Feist, American director and playwright, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company
• 1923 - Anthony Hecht, American poet
• 1924 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress
• 1925 - Peter Hirsch, German-English metallurgist and academic
• 1925 - James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot
• 1928 - William Kennedy, American novelist and journalist
• 1928 - Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano and actress
• 1929 - Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic
• 1930 - Mary Ann McMorrow, American lawyer and judge
• 1930 - Norman Podhoretz, American journalist and author
• 1930 - Paula Tilbrook, English actress
• 1931 - John Enderby, English physicist and academic
• 1931 - Robert L. Park, American physicist and academic
• 1931 - Johannes Rau, German journalist and politician, 8th Federal President of Germany
• 1932 - Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian chess player
• 1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist and anthropologist
• 1933 - Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, and critic
• 1934 - Bob Bogle, American rock guitarist and bass player
• 1934 - Marilyn Horne, American soprano and actress
• 1935 - A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
• 1935 - Udo Lattek, German footballer, manager, and sportscaster
• 1936 - Michael White, Scottish actor and producer
• 1937 - Luiz Bueno, Brazilian race car driver
• 1937 - Francis George, American cardinal
• 1938 - Marina Vaizey, American journalist and critic
• 1939 - Ralph Gibson, American photographer
• 1941 - Christine Truman, English tennis player and sportscaster
• 1942 - René Angélil, Canadian singer and manager
• 1942 - Barbara Lynn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 - Gavin Bryars, English bassist and composer
• 1943 - Ronnie Milsap, American singer and pianist
• 1944 - Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German keyboard player and producer
• 1944 - Jim Stafford, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1944 - Jill Tarter, American astronomer and biologist
• 1944 - Judy Baar Topinka, American journalist and politician
• 1945 - Wim Suurbier, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1946 - Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
• 1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano and actress
• 1947 - Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy, English academic and politician
• 1947 - Harvey Proctor, English politician
• 1947 - Laura Schlessinger, American physiologist, talk show host, and author
• 1948 - John Carpenter, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer
• 1948 - Ants Laaneots, Estonian general
• 1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
• 1948 - Ruth Reichl, American journalist and critic
• 1949 - Anne F. Beiler, American businesswoman, founded Auntie Anne's
• 1949 - R. F. Foster, Irish historian and academic
• 1949 - Andrew Refshauge, Australian physician and politician, 13th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
• 1950 - Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1950 - Robert Schimmel, American comedian, actor, and producer
• 1952 - Fuad II, King of Egypt
• 1952 - Piercarlo Ghinzani, Italian race car driver and manager
• 1952 - L. Blaine Hammond, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1952 - Julie Anne Peters, American engineer and author
• 1953 - Robert Jay Mathews, American militant, founded The Order
• 1954 - Wolfgang Schmidt, German discus thrower
• 1954 - Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer and coach
• 1955 - Jerry M. Linenger, American captain, physician, and astronaut
• 1956 - Wayne Daniel, Barbadian cricketer
• 1956 - Martin Jol, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1956 - Greedy Smith, Australian singer-songwriter and keyboardist
• 1957 - Jurijs Andrejevs, Latvian footballer and manager
• 1957 - Ricardo Darín, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 - Mark Pawsey, English businessman and politician
• 1958 - Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountaineer and explorer
• 1958 - Lena Ek, Swedish lawyer and politician, 9th Swedish Minister for the Environment
• 1958 - Andris Šķēle, Latvian businessman and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Latvia
• 1959 - Lisa Milroy, Canadian painter and educator
• 1959 - Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1961 - Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
• 1962 - Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian electrician and politician, 51st Australian Minister of Defence
• 1962 - Maxine Jones, American R&B singer–songwriter and actress
• 1963 - James May, British journalist/co-host of Top Gear
• 1964 - Gail Graham, Canadian golfer
• 1966 - Jack McDowell, American baseball player
• 1968 - Rebecca Stead, American author
• 1969 - Neil Back, English rugby player and coach
• 1969 - Marinus Bester, German footballer
• 1969 - Stevie Jackson, Scottish guitarist and songwriter
• 1969 - Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
• 1970 - Ron Villone, American baseball player and coach
• 1971 - Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player and coach
• 1971 - Josh Evans, American film producer, screenwriter and actor
• 1971 - Jonathan Mangum, American actor
• 1972 - Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer
• 1972 - Ang Christou, Australian footballer
• 1972 - Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov, Russian footballer and manager
• 1972 - Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer and manager
• 1972 - Joe Horn, American football player and coach
• 1974 - Marlon Anderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1974 - John Hopoate, Tongan-Australian rugby league player and boxer
• 1974 - Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer
• 1976 - Viktor Maslov, Russian race car driver
• 1976 - Martina Moravcová, Slovak swimmer
• 1977 - Jeff Foster, American basketball player
• 1978 - Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
• 1979 - Aaliyah, American singer and actress
• 1979 - Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 - Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 - Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, and composer
• 1980 - Albert Pujols, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1981 - Jamie Lundmark, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 - Paul Rofe, Australian cricketer
• 1981 - Bobby Zamora, English footballer, striker
• 1982 - Preston, English singer-songwriter
• 1982 - Tuncay, Turkish footballer
• 1983 - Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
• 1983 - Andriy Rusol, Ukrainian footballer
• 1984 - Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer
• 1984 - Miroslav Radović, Serbian footballer
• 1985 - Joe Flacco, American football player
• 1985 - Jayde Herrick, Australian cricketer
• 1985 - Gintaras Januševičius, Russian-Lithuanian pianist
• 1985 - Twins Jonathan and Simon Richter, Danish-Gambian footballers
• 1985 - Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
• 1986 - Johannes Rahn, German footballer
• 1986 - Mark Trumbo, American baseball player
• 1986 - Reto Ziegler, Swiss footballer, left back
• 1987 - Jake Epstein, Canadian actor
• 1987 - Charlotte Henshaw, English swimmer
• 1988 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
• 1988 - Jorge Torres Nilo, Mexican footballer
• 1991 - Matt Duchene, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1993 - Hannes Anier, Estonian footballer
• 1993 - Amandine Hesse, French tennis player
• 1994 - Chris Smith, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 - Mikaela Turik, Australian-Canadian cricketer
• 1996 - Kim Jennie, Korean singer
• 1998 - Cameron Murray, Australian rugby league player
• 2003 - Adriana Hernández, Mexican rhythmic gymnast

  Deaths

• 654 - Gao Jifu, Chinese politician and chancellor
• 957 - Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i, Tulunid vizier
• 970 - Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch
• 1263 - Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism
• 1289 - Buqa, Mongol minister
• 1327 - Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine monk, scholar, and politician
• 1354 - Joanna of Châtillon, duchess of Athens
• 1373 - Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
• 1391 - Muhammed V of Granada, Nasrid emir
• 1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain
• 1443 - Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary
• 1545 - George Spalatin, German priest and reformer
• 1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer
• 1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish publisher and scholar
• 1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral and politician
• 1595 - Murad III, Ottoman sultan
• 1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer
• 1710 - Higashiyama, Japanese emperor
• 1711 - Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint
• 1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet and playwright
• 1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar
• 1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician
• 1752 - Francis Blomefield, English historian and author
• 1794 - Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician
• 1809 - John Moore, Scottish general and politician
• 1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic
• 1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist
• 1864 - Anton Schindler, Austrian secretary and author
• 1865 - Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author
• 1879 - Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and bookseller
• 1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic
• 1891 - Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer
• 1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician
• 1901 - Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright
• 1901 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter and academic
• 1901 - Hiram Rhodes Revels, American soldier, minister, and politician
• 1906 - Marshall Field, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Marshall Field's
• 1917 - George Dewey, American admiral
• 1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Brazil
• 1933 - Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician
• 1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer, rapist and cannibal
• 1938 - Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright
• 1942 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• 1942 - Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist
• 1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress and comedian
• 1942 - Ernst Scheller, German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg
• 1957 - Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English general and politician, 16th Governor General of Canada
• 1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian cellist and conductor
• 1959 - Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and author
• 1960 - Arthur Darby, English rugby player
• 1961 - Max Schöne, German swimmer
• 1962 - Frank Hurley, Australian photographer, director, producer, and cinematographer
• 1962 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect, designed the Monument to the Unknown Hero
• 1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic
• 1968 - Bob Jones Sr., American evangelist, founded Bob Jones University
• 1968 - Panagiotis Poulitsas, Greek archaeologist and judge
• 1969 - Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter
• 1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist
• 1972 - Teller Ammons, American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado
• 1972 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks
• 1973 - Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer
• 1975 - Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter
• 1978 - A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician
• 1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor
• 1983 - Virginia Mauret, American musician and dancer
• 1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher
• 1987 - Bertram Wainer, Australian physician and activist
• 1988 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, 1st Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia
• 1995 - Eric Mottram, English poet and critic
• 1996 - Marcia Davenport, American author and critic
• 1996 - Kaye Webb, English journalist and publisher
• 1999 - Jim McClelland, Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th Minister for Industry and Science
• 2000 - Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic
• 2001 - Auberon Waugh, English author and journalist
• 2002 - Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist
• 2003 - Richard Wainwright, English politician
• 2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician 34th Prime Minister of Finland
• 2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist and author
• 2006 - Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician
• 2007 - Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 2009 - Joe Erskine, American boxer and runner
• 2009 - John Mortimer, English lawyer and author
• 2009 - Andrew Wyeth, American painter
• 2010 - Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell
• 2010 - Jyoti Basu, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Chief Minister of West Bengal
• 2010 - Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator
• 2012 - Joe Bygraves, Jamaican-English boxer
• 2012 - Jimmy Castor, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist
• 2012 - Sigursteinn Gíslason, Icelandic footballer and manager
• 2012 - Lorna Kesterson, American journalist and politician
• 2012 - Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist
• 2013 - Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach
• 2013 - André Cassagnes, French technician and toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch
• 2013 - Gussie Moran, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 2013 - Pauline Phillips, American journalist and radio host, created Dear Abby
• 2013 - Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta
• 2014 - Gary Arlington, American author and illustrator
• 2014 - Ruth Duccini, American actress
• 2014 - Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor
• 2014 - Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant
• 2015 - Miriam Akavia, Polish-Israeli author and translator
• 2015 - Yao Beina, Chinese singer
• 2016 - Joannis Avramidis, Greek sculptor
• 2016 - Ted Marchibroda, American football player and coach
• 2017 - Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
• 2018 - Ed Doolan, British radio presenter
• 2018 - Oliver Ivanović, Kosovo Serb politician
• 2019 - John C. Bogle, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist
• 2019 - Lorna Doom, American musician
• 2019 - Chris Wilson, Australian musician
• 2020 - Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor

  Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
• *Pope Benjamin
• *Berard of Carbio
• *Blaise
• *Fursey
• *Joseph Vaz
• *Honoratus of Arles
• *Pope Marcellus I
• *Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
• *Titian of Oderzo
• *Eve of Saint Anthony observed with ritual bonfires in San Bartolomé de Pinares
• *January 16
• National Religious Freedom Day
• Teacher's Day
• Teachers' Day