January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year (364 in leap years).

Events |

Up to 1900 |

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  366 – Many Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine, invading the Roman Empire.


• 
  533 – Mercurius became Pope John II. He was the first pope to use a papal name.


• 
  1492 – Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.


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  1757 – The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.


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  1777 - American Revolutionary War: American forces under command of George Washington hold back a British attack at the Battle of Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.


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  1788 – Georgia becomes the 4th state to ratify the United States Constitution.


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  1793 – Russia and Prussia partition Poland.


• 
  1815 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke, Seaham, County Durham.


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  1818 – British Institution of Civil Engineers formed.


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  1859 – Erastus Beadle publishes The Dime Book of Practical Etiquette.


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  1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan was announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. People later realized that this planet does not exist.


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  1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River, which started on December 31, 1862, ends in a Union victory.


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  1870 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.


• 
  1871 – Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.


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  1872 – Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (25 wives).


• 
  1879 – Fred Spofforth claims the first hat-trick in test cricket. It happens on the Sydney Cricket Ground against England.


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  1882 – John D. Rockefeller unites his oil holdings into the Standard Oil trust.


• 
  1890 – Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the White House.


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  1893 – Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers.


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  1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.


• 
  1900 – The Chicago Canal opens.

1901 – 1950 |

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  1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian fleet surrenders at Port Arthur, China.


• 
  1907 - France officially separates church and state.


• 
  1911 - Two people are killed in a gunfight in East London.


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  1917 – The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank.


• 
  1920 - Under A. Mitchell Palmer, United States Attorney General, United States Department of Justice agents launch raids against people with leftist and anarchist views, in 30 cities across 23 US States.


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  1921 - The Spanish steamship Santa Isabel sinks off the coast of Galicia, killing 213 people. 56 people are rescued.


• 
  1921 – The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) .


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  1921 – The DeYoung Museum opens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.


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  1923 – United States Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal.


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  1929 – Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls.


• 
  1935 – Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.


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  1941 – World War II: German bombing severely damaged the Llandaff Cathedral, built in 1290 on the bank of the River Taff in Cardiff, Wales.


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  1941 – The U.S. government announces its Liberty ship program. They plan to build 200 freighters. Over 2,700 ships were built by the end of the war.


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  1942 – World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.


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  1942 – The United States Navy opens a blimp base at Lakehurst, New Jersey.


• 
  1944 - World War II: US and Australian forces land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat.


• 
  1945 - World War II: Nuremberg is severely bombed by the Allies.


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  1946 – King Zog is unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II. He abdicates but still claims to be King of Albania.


• 
  1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.

1951 – 2000 |

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  1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remon is assassinated.


• 
  1955 - The lost Inca city of Paititi is re-discovered by Hans Ertl.


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  1957 – San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.


• 
  1959 - The Soviet Union launches the Luna 1 spacecraft.


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  1959 – CBS Radio cancels four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.


• 
  1963 - Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac.


• 
  1967 - Ronald Reagan becomes Governor of California.


• 
  1968 – Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the second successful heart transplant.


• 
  1971 – 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland.


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  1974 – Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 miles per hour in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.


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  1976 - The Gale of January 1976 begins, causing flooding on southern North Sea coasts. 82 people are eventually killed.


• 
  1979 – Sid Vicious goes on trial for the murder of Nancy Spungen.


• 
  1981 – Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested.


• 
  1983 – The musical Annie is ends its first Broadway run after 2,377 shows at the Uris Theatre.


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  1991 – Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, D.C. becoming the first African American woman to lead a city of that size and importance.


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  1992 – Paraguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.


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  1993 – Leaders of the three warring groups in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans.


• 
  1996 - The Akademia Nauk stratovolcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula erupts.


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  1998 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to slow inflation and promote confidence.


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  1999 – A major snowstorm hits the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (360 mm) of snow at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 19 inches (480 mm) at Chicago. In Chicago, temperatures drop to −13 °F (−25 °C), and 68 deaths are reported.

From 2001 |

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  2002 – Levy Mwanawasa becomes the third President of Zambia.


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  2002 - Eduardo Duhalde becomes interim President of Argentina.


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  2003 - The spill from the oil tanker Prestige reaches France.


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  2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.


• 
  2006 - The roof of an ice rink in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, collapses, killing 15 people.


• 
  2006 - 12 miners are killed in an explosion at a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia.


• 
  2016 - Saudi Arabia executes 47 prisoners in one day, including Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.


• 
  2017 - A bomb attack in Baghdad kills at least 35 people.


• 
  2018 - A bus plunges off a cliff near Pasamayo, Peru (to the north of Lima), killing at least 48 people.

Births |

Up to 1900 |

• 
  869 - Emperor Yozei of Japan (d. 949)


• 
  1462 - Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1521)


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  1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)


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  1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)


• 
  1699 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757)


• 
  1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)


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  1727 – James Wolfe, British general in French and Indian War (d. 1759)


• 
  1752 - Philip Freneau, American poet (d. 1832)


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  1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)


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  1822 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist, contributions to thermodynamics (d. 1888)


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  1827 - Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914)


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  1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)


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  1834 - Karl Louis Friedrich Dobermann, German dog breeder (d. 1894)


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  1836 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian writer (d. 1917)


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  1836 - Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885)


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  1837 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)


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  1857 - Martha Carey Thomas, American educator and women's rights activist (d. 1935)


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  1859 – Anna Sacher, Austrian hotel owner, Hotel Sacher (d. 1930)


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  1862 - Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Polish-Russian engineer, electrician and inventor (d. 1919)


• 
  1866 - Gilbert Murray, British philologist (d. 1957)


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  1870 – Ernst Barlach, German sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (d. 1938)


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  1871 - Nik Welter, Luxembourg professor, writer and statesman (d. 1951)


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  1872 - Albert C. Barnes, American physician, author, collector and philanthropist (d. 1951)


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  1873 - Therese of Liseaux, French nun and saint (d. 1897)


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  1873 - Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer (d. 1960)


• 
  1877 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906)


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  1879 - Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian athlete (d. 1932)


• 
  1884 - Oscar Michaux, American writer and movie director (d. 1951)


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  1886 - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, British explorer of Antarctica (d. 1959)


• 
  1886 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938)


• 
  1889 - Bertram Stevens, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973)


• 
  1889 - Tito Schipa, Italian tenor and composer (d. 1965)


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  1891 - Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect (d. 1990)


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  1892 - Edoardo Agnelli, Italian industrialist (d. 1935)


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  1895 - Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948)


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  1896 – Dziga Vertov, Russian movie maker (d. 1954)

1901 – 1950 |

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  1904 - Walter Heitler, German physicist (d. 1981)


• 
  1904 – Sally Rand, American fan dancer (d. 1979)


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  1905 – Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998)


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  1905 - Luigi Zampa, Italian movie director and screenwriter (d. 1991)


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  1908 - Lawrence Wetherby, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (d. 1994)


• 
  1909 - Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009)


• 
  1909 - Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)


• 
  1912 – Renato Guttuso, Italian painter (d. 1987)


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  1913 – Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004)


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  1917 – Vera Zorina, dancer, actress (d. 2003)


• 
  1918 - Willi Graf, German activist (d. 1943)


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  1918 – Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, German type designer


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  1919 - William Needles, Canadian theatre actor (d. 2016)


• 
  1920 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American science fiction writer (d. 1992)


• 
  1920 - Bob Feerick, American basketball player (d. 1976)


• 
  1920 - George Herbig, American astronomer (d. 2013)


• 
  1920 - Anna Langfus, Polish-French writer (d. 1966)


• 
  1922 - Maurice Faure, French diplomat and politician (d. 2014)


• 
  1925 - Irina Arkhipova, Russian opera singer (d. 2010)


• 
  1925 - Giacomo Furia, Italian actor (d. 2015)


• 
  1925 - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and television producer (d. 2008)


• 
  1927 - Gino Marchetti, American football player


• 
  1928 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer


• 
  1928 - Alberto Zedda, Italian conductor and musicologist (d. 2017)


• 
  1930 – Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)


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  1931 - Toshiki Kaifu, former Prime Minister of Japan
  


• 
  1931 - James D. Murray, English mathematician
  


• 
  1933 - Richard Riley, 111th Governor of North Carolina
  


• 
  1935 - Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer, stepfather of Barack Obama (d. 1987)


• 
  1936 – Roger Miller, American country music singer (d. 1992)


• 
  1936 - Kjell Opseth, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)


• 
  1937 - Martin Lauer, German athlete and Schlager singer


• 
  1938 - Goh Kun, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea
  


• 
  1938 – Ian Brady, British serial killer (d. 2017)


• 
  1938 – Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian writer


• 
  1939 – Jim Bakker, American televangelist
  


• 
  1939 – Konstanze Vernon, dancer


• 
  1940 - Saud bin Faisal, Saudi royal and politician (d. 2015)


• 
  1942 - Dennis Hastert, American politician, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  


• 
  1942 – Hugh Shelton, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff


• 
  1943 - Baris Manco, Turkish musician (d. 1999)


• 
  1944 – Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician


• 
  1944 - Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor
  


• 
  1945 - Slobodan Praljak, Croatian-Bosnian general and politician (d. 2017)


• 
  1946 - Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player (d. 2014)


• 
  1947 - Alexander Yakushev, Russian ice hockey player


• 
  1947 - Calvin Hill, American football player


• 
  1947 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist
  


• 
  1947 - David Shapiro, American poet
  


• 
  1947 - Calvin Hill, American football player


• 
  1947 - Alexander Yakushev, Russian ice hockey player


• 
  1948 - Deborah Watling, British actress (d. 2017)


• 
  1948 - Tony Judt, British historian (d. 2010)


• 
  1948 - Judith Miller, American journalist
  


• 
  1949 – Christopher Durang, American playwright
  

1951 – 1975 |

• 
  1951 - Waldir Peres, Brazilian footballer (d. 2017)


• 
  1952 - Indulis Emsis, biologist and politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia
  


• 
  1952 - Christine Lavin, American singer-songwriter
  


• 
  1954 - Milovan Rajevac, Serbian footballer and coach
  


• 
  1954 – Henry Bonilla, American politician


• 
  1954 – Dawn Silva, singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk)


• 
  1955 – Tex Brashear, American voice actor


• 
  1955 - Vivien Savage, French singer-songwriter
  


• 
  1959 – Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer
  


• 
  1960 - Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga artist


• 
  1961 – Gabrielle Carteris, American actress


• 
  1961 - Neil Dudgeon, British actor


• 
  1961 – Todd Haynes, American movie director


• 
  1963 – David Cone, American baseball pitcher
  


• 
  1964 - Luis Moro, Cuban-American actor, producer and screenwriter
  


• 
  1964 – Pernell Whitaker, American boxer
  


• 
  1967 – Tia Carrere, American actress


• 
  1967 - Jon Gnarr, Icelandic actor, comedian and politician, Mayor of Reykjavik
  


• 
  1967 - Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player


• 
  1968 - Goichi Suda, Japanese video game designer


• 
  1968 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor


• 
  1968 - Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage competitor


• 
  1969 - William Fox-Pitt, English equestrian
  


• 
  1969 – Christy Turlington, American fashion model
  


• 
  1969 – Tommy Morrison, American boxer (d. 2013)


• 
  1969 - Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician


• 
  1969 - Robby Gordon, American racing driver


• 
  1971 - Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer
  


• 
  1972 – Taye Diggs, American actor


• 
  1972 - Rodney MacDonald, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia
  


• 
  1973 - Lucy Davis, English actress
  


• 
  1974 – Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model


• 
  1975 – Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)


• 
  1975 - Dax Shepard, American actor, comedian, writer and director
  

From 1976 |

• 
  1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress


• 
  1976 - Phil Radford, Greenpeace Executive Director


• 
  1978 - Kjartan Sveinsson, Icelandic musician


• 
  1978 - Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer and actress


• 
  1979 - Jonathan Greening, English footballer
  


• 
  1980 - Paulo da Silva, Paraguayan footballer
  


• 
  1981 - Hanno Balitsch, German footballer
  


• 
  1981 - Maxi Rodriguez, Argentine footballer
  


• 
  1981 - Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player


• 
  1982 - Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
  


• 
  1983 – Kate Bosworth, American actress


• 
  1985 - Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player


• 
  1985 - Ivan Dodig, Croatian tennis player


• 
  1986 - Asa Akira, Japanese-American pornographic actress
  


• 
  1986 - Trombone Shorty, American jazz musician


• 
  1987 - Loïc Rémy, French footballer
  


• 
  1987 - Shelley Hennig, American model and actress


• 
  1988 - Jonny Evans, Northern Irish footballer
  


• 
  1989 - Bianca Knight, American sprinter


• 
  1991 - Davide Santon, Italian footballer
  


• 
  1991 - Luis Pedro Cavanda, Belgian footballer
  


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  1991 - Steele Sidebottom, Australian rules footballer
  


• 
  1993 - Bryson Tiller, American singer-songwriter
  


• 
  1995 - Renata Notni, Mexican actress and model

Deaths |

Up to 1900 |

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  1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)


• 
  1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. 1460)


• 
  1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)


• 
  1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (b. 1601)


• 
  1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)


• 
  1850 - Manuel de la Pena y Pena, President of Mexico (b. 1789)


• 
  1861 - Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)


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  1879 - Caleb Cushing, United States Attorney General (b. 1800)


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  1892 - George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)

1901 – 2000 |

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  1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)


• 
  1913 - Léon-Philippe Teisserenc, French meteorologist (b. 1855)


• 
  1915 - Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)


• 
  1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)


• 
  1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)


• 
  1936 - Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania (b. 1862)


• 
  1939 - Roman Tmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)


• 
  1941 - Mischa Levitzki, Russian-born pianist (b. 1898)


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  1945 - Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)


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  1948 - Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)


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  1950 - James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)


• 
  1950 - Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)


• 
  1951 - William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)


• 
  1955 - José Antonio Remon, President of Panama (b. 1908)


• 
  1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian composer (b. 1919)


• 
  1960 - Paul Sauvé, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)


• 
  1960 - Friedrich Adler, Austrian politician and assassin (b. 1897)


• 
  1961 - Daniel Chanis Pinzon, President of Panama (b. 1892)


• 
  1963 - Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)


• 
  1968 - Cuno Hoffmeister, German astronomer and geophysicist (b. 1892)


• 
  1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)


• 
  1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)


• 
  1987 - Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1899)


• 
  1989 - Safdar Hashmi, Indian playwright, writer and director (b. 1954)


• 
  1990 – Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1921)


• 
  1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (b. 1915)


• 
  1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician and Governor of Washington (b. 1917)


• 
  1995 – Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)


• 
  1997 - Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)


• 
  1999 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (b. 1907)


• 
  2000 - Nat Adderley, American jazz musician and composer (b. 1931)

From 2001 |

• 
  2001 - William P. Rogers, United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)


• 
  2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)


• 
  2006 - Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916)


• 
  2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)


• 
  2008 - Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess, sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (b. 1923)


• 
  2008 - George MacDonald Fraser, British writer (b. 1925)


• 
  2008 - Lee S. Dreyfus, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)


• 
  2009 - Ryuzo Hiraki, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)


• 
  2009 - Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (b. 1893)


• 
  2011 - Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)


• 
  2011 - Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (b. 1946)


• 
  2011 - Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)


• 
  2012 - William P. Carey, American investment banker and philanthropist (b. 1930)


• 
  2013 - Teresa Toranska, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1944)


• 
  2013 - Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945)


• 
  2013 - Mamie Rearden, American supercentenarian (b. 1898)


• 
  2013 - Ned Wertimer, American actor (b. 1923)


• 
  2014 - Elizabeth Jane Howard, English novelist (b. 1923)


• 
  2014 - Dirk Sager, German journalist (b. 1940)


• 
  2014 - Thomas Kurzhals, German keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1953)


• 
  2014 - Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924)


• 
  2015 - Lam Po-chuen, Hong Kong dubbing artist (b. 1951)


• 
  2015 - Arthur A. Neu, American politician (b. 1933)


• 
  2015 - Little Jimmy Dickens, American country music singer (b. 1920)


• 
  2015 - Noel Cobb, British philosopher, psychologist and author (b. 1938)


• 
  2015 - Tihomir Novakov, American physicist (b. 1929)


• 
  2015 - Abu Anas al-Libi, Libyan Al-Qaeda member (b. 1964)


• 
  2015 - Basil Hansen, Australian ice hockey player (b. 1926)


• 
  2015 - Danny Dunton, English speedway rider and promoter (b. 1924)


• 
  2015 - Roger Kitter, English actor (b. 1949)


• 
  2016 - Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi cleric (b. 1959)


• 
  2016 - Michel Delpech, French singer (b. 1946)


• 
  2016 - Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian politician (b. 1924)


• 
  2016 - Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1935)


• 
  2016 - Gisela Mota Ocampo, Mexican politician (b. 1982)


• 
  2016 - Marcel Barbeau, Canadian artist (b. 1925)


• 
  2016 - Shigeji Kaneko, Japanese boxer (b. 1931)


• 
  2016 - Matt Hobden, English cricketer (b. 1993)


• 
  2017 - John Berger, English art critic, writer and painter (b. 1926)


• 
  2017 - Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (b. 1931)


• 
  2017 - Albert Brewer, American politician, 47th Governor of Alabama (b. 1928)


• 
  2017 - Jean Vuarnet, French skier (b. 1933)


• 
  2017 - François Chérèque, French trade unionist (b. 1956)


• 
  2017 - Richard Machowicz, American navy SEAL (b. 1965)


• 
  2017 - René Ballet, French journalist and author (b. 1928)


• 
  2017 - Tom Harpur, Canadian classicist, journalist, theologian an priest (b. 1929)


• 
  2018 - Frank Buxton, American actor (b. 1930)


• 
  2018 - Rick Hall, American songwriter and recording producer (b. 1932)


• 
  2018 - Ferdinando Imposimato, Italian judge and politician (b. 1936)


• 
  2018 - Lawal Kaita, Nigerian politician (b. 1932)


• 
  2018 - Ali Akbar Moinfar, Iranian politician (b. 1928)


• 
  2018 - Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1927)

Observances |

• 
  New Year's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland)


• Ancestry Day (Haiti)


• Berchtold's Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace)