January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining until the end of the year (351 in leap years).

Events [edit]

• 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
• 1493 – Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.
• 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
• 1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
• 1582 – Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1759 – The British Museum opens.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
• 1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
• 1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
• 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
• 1844 – University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
• 1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
• 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
• 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
• 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m).
• 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
• 1919 – Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
• 1933 – A twelve-year-old girl experiences the first Marian apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.
• 1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
• 1943 – World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
• 1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
• 1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (The "Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
• 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
• 1951 – Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
• 1962 – The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
• 1966 – The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
• 1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
• 1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
• 1970 – Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
• 1970 – Moammar Gadhafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
• 1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
• 1974 – Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
• 1975 – The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
• 1976 – Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
• 1981 – John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Walesa.
• 1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
• 1991 – Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.
• 1992 – The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1993 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as "The Beast", is arrested in Sicily, Italy after three decades as a fugitive.
• 2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
• 2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
• 2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
• 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.

Births [edit]

• 1432 – Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
• 1481 – Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (d. 1511)
• 1538 – Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599)
• 1622 – Molière, French playwright and actor (d. 1673)
• 1671 – Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)
• 1674 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French poet (d. 1762)
• 1716 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1778)
• 1747 – John Aikin, English doctor (d. 1822)
• 1754 – Richard Martin, Irish politician and activist (d. 1834)
• 1791 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian playwright (d. 1872)
• 1795 – Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)
• 1803 – Marjorie Fleming, Scottish poet (d. 1811)
• 1809 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French politician, philosopher, and economist (d. 1865)
• 1812 – Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (d. 1885)
• 1815 – William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, 3rd President of the Church of Jesus Christ (d. 1905)
• 1816 – Marie Lafarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
• 1824 – Marie Duplessis, French courtier (d. 1847)
• 1834 – Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (d. 1911)
• 1841 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, English politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (d. 1908)
• 1842 – Josef Breuer, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1925)
• 1842 – Mary MacKillop, Australian saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (d. 1909)
• 1850 – Leonard Darwin, English soldier and politician (d. 1943)
• 1850 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)
• 1850 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
• 1855 – Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889)
• 1859 – Archibald Peake, Australian politician, 25th Premier of South Australia (d. 1920)
• 1863 – Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
• 1866 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
• 1869 – Ruby Laffoon, American politician, 43rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 1941)
• 1869 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish playwright (d. 1907)
• 1870 – Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954)
• 1872 – Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author (d. 1944)
• 1872 – Hugo Rüster, German rower
• 1875 – Thomas Burke, American sprinter (d. 1929)
• 1877 – Lewis Terman, American psychologist (d. 1956)
• 1878 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
• 1879 – Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)
• 1882 – Princess Margaret of Connaught (d. 1920)
• 1885 – Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)
• 1885 – Miles Burke, American boxer (d. 1928)
• 1885 – Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (d. 1968)
• 1885 – Huang Yuanyong, Chinese journalist and author (d. 1915)
• 1890 – Tommy Fleming, American soccer player (d. 1965)
• 1891 – Ray Chapman, American baseball player (d. 1920)
• 1891 – Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938)
• 1892 – Rex Ingram, Irish actor, producer, and director (d. 1950)
• 1893 – Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1951)
• 1894 – Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Romanian soldier (d. 1917)
• 1895 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
• 1899 – Goodman Ace, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1900 – William Heinesen, Faroese poet and author (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
• 1903 – Paul A. Dever, American politician, 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
• 1905 – Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Torin Thatcher, English actor (d. 1981)
• 1908 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist (d. 2003)
• 1909 – Jean Bugatti, German-Italian engineer (d. 1939)
• 1909 – Gene Krupa, American drummer and composer (d. 1973)
• 1912 – Michel Debré, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Eugène Brands, Dutch painter (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Miriam Hyde, Australian composer and pianist (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Alexander Marinesko, Soviet navy officer (d. 1963)
• 1914 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (d. 2003)
• 1918 – João Figueiredo, Brazilian military leader and politician, 30th President of Brazil (d. 1999)
• 1918 – Édouard Gagnon, Canadian cardinal (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian army officer and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (d. 1970)
• 1919 – Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Steve Gromek, American baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1920 – John Joseph O'Connor, American cardinal (d. 2000)
• 1921 – Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician, 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2007)
• 1921 – Frank Thornton, English actor (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Eric Willis, Australian politician, 34th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1999)
• 1923 – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Arthur Quinlan, Irish journalist (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese-Chinese politician, 4th President of the Republic of China
• 1924 – George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist
• 1926 – Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Phyllis Coates, American actress
• 1929 – Earl Hooker, American guitarist (d. 1970)
• 1929 – Queen Ida, American accordion player
• 1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American minster and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1930 – Eddie Graham, American wrestler (d. 1985)
• 1931 – Lee Bontecou, American sculptor
• 1933 – Ernest J. Gaines, American author
• 1934 – V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (d. 2013)
• 1935 – Malcolm Frager, American pianist (d. 1991)
• 1936 – Obo Addy, Ghanaian drummer and dancer (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Margaret O'Brien, American actress
• 1938 – Ashraf Aman, Pakistani engineer and mountaineer
• 1938 – Estrella Blanca, Mexican wrestler
• 1938 – Chuni Goswami, Indian footballer and cricketer
• 1941 – Captain Beefheart, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
• 1942 – Frank Joseph Polozola, American judge (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Barbara Tarbuck, American actress
• 1943 – Stuart E. Eizenstat, American lawyer
• 1943 – Mike Marshall, American baseball player
• 1944 – Jenny Nimmo, English author
• 1945 – Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)
• 1945 – William R. Higgins, American colonel (d. 1990)
• 1945 – Princess Michael of Kent
• 1947 – Andrea Martin, American-Canadian actress
• 1948 – Aldo Zadrima, Albanian Chess player
• 1948 – Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
• 1949 – Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2001)
• 1949 – Alasdair Liddell, English businessman (d. 2012)
• 1949 – Panos Mihalopoulos, Greek actor
• 1950 – Marius Trésor, French footballer
• 1952 – Andrzej Fischer, Polish footballer
• 1953 – Kent Hovind, American evangelist
• 1953 – Ta-Tanisha, American actress
• 1953 – Randy White, American football player
• 1954 – Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino poet, author, and scriptwriter
• 1954 – Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer
• 1955 – Nigel Benson, English author
• 1956 – Mayawati, Indian politician, 23rd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
• 1956 – Miki Fujimura, Japanese singer (Candies)
• 1956 – Vitaly Kaloyev, Russian architect
• 1956 – Marc Trestman, American football player and coach
• 1957 – Marty Lyons, American football player
• 1957 – Mario Van Peebles, American actor
• 1958 – Boris Tadić, Serbian politician, 16th President of Serbia
• 1959 – Sister Carol, Jamaican singer
• 1959 – Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian mountaineer and photographer (d. 2008)
• 1959 – Pete Trewavas, English bass player (Kino, Marillion, Transatlantic, and Edison's Children)
• 1960 – Kelly Asbury, American actor and director
• 1960 – Aaron Jay Kernis, American composer
• 1961 – Yves Pelletier, Canadian actor and director
• 1963 – Conrad Lant, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Venom and Cronos)
• 1963 – Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer and author
• 1964 – Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Finnish composer
• 1965 – Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist
• 1965 – Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
• 1965 – Adam Jones, American guitarist and songwriter (Tool and Electric Sheep)
• 1965 – James Nesbitt, Irish actor
• 1966 – Lisa Lisa, American singer (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam)
• 1968 – Barry Buchanan, American wrestler
• 1968 – Chad Lowe, American actor, director, and producer
• 1968 – Iñaki Urdangarin, Duke of Palma de Mallorca
• 1969 – Meret Becker, German actress and singer
• 1969 – Delino DeShields, American baseball player
• 1969 – Huck Seed, American poker player
• 1970 – Shane McMahon, American wrestler and businessman
• 1971 – Regina King, American actress
• 1972 – Christos Kostis, Greek footballer
• 1972 – Ernie Reyes, Jr. American actor, stuntman, and martial artist
• 1972 – Kobe Tai, Taiwanese-American porn actress
• 1972 – Claudia Winkleman, English journalist
• 1973 – Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer
• 1974 – Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio host
• 1974 – Ray King, American baseball player
• 1974 – Tim Shaw, English radio and television host
• 1975 – Marc Cartwright, American photographer
• 1975 – Mary Pierce, French tennis player
• 1975 – 9th Wonder, American rapper and producer (Little Brother)
• 1976 – Corey Chavous, American football player
• 1976 – Doug Gottlieb, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1976 – Scott Murray, Scottish rugby player
• 1976 – Florentin Petre, Romanian footballer
• 1978 – Eddie Cahill, American actor
• 1978 – Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
• 1978 – Ryan Sidebottom, English cricketer
• 1979 – 3Krazy, American rapper and producer
• 1979 – Drew Brees, American football player
• 1979 – Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer and actor (F4)
• 1979 – Michalis Morfis, Cypriot footballer
• 1979 – Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1980 – Matt Holliday, American baseball player
• 1981 – Pitbull, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1981 – Howie Day, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 – El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer
• 1981 – Vanessa Henke, German tennis player
• 1981 – Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby player
• 1982 – Benjamin Agosto, American skater
• 1982 – Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
• 1982 – Emina Jahović, Serbian-Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 – Armando Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1982 – Brett Lebda, Americanice hockey player
• 1982 – Neil Nitin Mukesh, Indian actor
• 1982 – Prince Philip of Yugoslavia
• 1982 – Ari Pulkkinen, Finnish composer
• 1982 – Francis Zé, Cameroonian footballer
• 1983 – Matic Kralj, Slovenian ice hockey player
• 1983 – Jermaine Pennant, English footballer
• 1983 – Hugo Viana, Portuguese footballer
• 1984 – Megan Jendrick, American swimmer
• 1984 – Victor Rasuk, American actor
• 1985 – René Adler, German footballer
• 1985 – Enrico Patrizio, Italian rugby player
• 1985 – Kenneth Emil Petersen, Danish footballer
• 1986 – Fred Davis, American football player
• 1986 – Jessy Schram, American actress
• 1986 – Isaia Toeava, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 – Greg Inglis, Australian rugby player
• 1987 – Tsegaye Kebede, Ethiopian runner
• 1987 – Kelly Kelly, American wrestler and model
• 1987 – David Knight, English footballer
• 1987 – Nicole Matthews, Canadian wrestler
• 1987 – Michael Seater, Canadian actor
• 1988 – Skrillex, American singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer (From First to Last and Dog Blood)
• 1988 – Daniel Caligiuri, German footballer
• 1988 – Jun. K, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (2PM)
• 1989 – Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
• 1989 – Keiffer Hubbell, American ice dancer
• 1990 – Paul Blake, English sprinter
• 1990 – Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Konstantinos Sloukas, Greek basketball player
• 1990 – Sophie Sumner, English model
• 1990 – Catherine Thomas, English model
• 1990 – Robert Trznadel, Polish footballer
• 1991 – Marc Bartra, Spanish footballer
• 1991 – Jahangir Wasim, Pakistani businessman
• 1991 – Nicolai Jørgensen, Danish footballer
• 1992 – Joshua King, Norwegian footballer
• 1994 – Jordy Croux, Belgian footballer

Deaths [edit]

• 69 – Galba, Roman emperor (b. 3 BC)
• 570 – Íte of Killeedy, Irish nun and saint (b. 475)
• 849 – Theophylact (b. 793)
• 936 – Rudolph of France (b. 880)
• 1345 – Martino Zaccaria, Greek ruler
• 1568 – Nicolaus Olahus, Romanian archbishop (b. 1493)
• 1595 – Murat III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1546)
• 1623 – Paolo Sarpi, Italian scientist and scholar (b. 1552)
• 1672 – John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
• 1683 – Philip Warwick, English politician (b. 1609)
• 1775 – Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1700)
• 1781 – Mariana Victoria of Spain (b. 1718)
• 1790 – John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
• 1804 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
• 1813 – Anton Bernolák, Slovak linguist and priest (b. 1762)
• 1815 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (b. 1761)
• 1855 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1780)
• 1864 – Isaac Nathan, English-Australian composer and journalist (b. 1792)
• 1876 – Eliza McCardle Johnson, American wife of Andrew Johnson, 18th First Lady of the United States (b. 1810)
• 1885 – Leopold Damrosch, German-American conductor (b. 1832)
• 1893 – Fanny Kemble, English-American actress and author (b. 1809)
• 1896 – Mathew Brady, American photographer (b. 1822)
• 1909 – Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 – Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright (b. 1850)
• 1919 – Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg, German theorist, philosopher, and economist (b. 1871)
• 1926 – Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1936 – Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, English politician, 7th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1937 – Anton Holban, Romanian author (b. 1902)
• 1944 – Robert J. Kirby, American police officer (b. 1890)
• 1945 – Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)
• 1946 – Karl Nabersberg, German youth leader (b. 1908)
• 1947 – Black Dahlia, American murder victim (b. 1924)
• 1948 – Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1862)
• 1950 – Henry H. Arnold, American general (b. 1886)
• 1952 – Ned Hanlon, Australian politician, 26th Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
• 1955 – Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
• 1964 – Jack Teagarden, American singer-songwriter and trombone player (b. 1905)
• 1967 – David Burliuk, Ukrainian author and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1968 – Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• 1970 – William T. Piper, American businessman, founded Piper Aircraft (b. 1881)
• 1972 – Daisy Ashford, English author (b. 1881)
• 1973 – Coleman Francis, American director (b. 1919)
• 1973 – Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
• 1983 – Meyer Lansky, Russian-American gangster (b. 1902)
• 1983 – Shepperd Strudwick, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1987 – Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Seán MacBride, French-Irish politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Peggy van Praagh, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (b. 1910)
• 1992 – Dee Murray, English bass player (The Mirage, Procol Harum, and The Spencer Davis Group) (b. 1946)
• 1993 – Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1994 – Harilal Upadhyay, Indian author, poet, and astrologist (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Vera Maxwell, American fashion designer (b. 1901)
• 1996 – Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
• 1996 – Rudolf Wanderone, American billiards player (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian economist and politician, Prime Minister of India (b. 1898)
• 1998 – Junior Wells, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (The Aces) (b. 1934)
• 1999 – Betty Box, English film producer (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian-Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Željko Ražnatović, Serbian criminal (b. 1952)
• 2000 – Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Ted Mann, American businessman (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Leo Marks, English cryptographer and scriptwriter (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Michael Anthony Bilandic, American politician, American politician, 49th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Eugène Brands, Dutch painter (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Doris Fisher, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Terje Bakken, Norwegian singer-songwriter (Windir) (b. 1978)
• 2004 – Olivia Goldsmith, American author (b. 1949)
• 2005 – Victoria de los Ángeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
• 2005 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Saudi Arabian Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
• 2006 – El Texano, Mexican wrestler (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (b. 1945)
• 2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi intelligence officer (b. 1951)
• 2007 – James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist, inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino diplomat (b. 1905)
• 2007 – David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
• 2007 – Bo Yibo, Chinese military leader and politician (b. 1908)
• 2008 – Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, English video game designer (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
• 2009 – Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Carlo Fruttero, Italian author and journalist (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Generous, Irish horse (b. 1988)
• 2013 – Eifan Saadoun Al Issawi, Iraqi politician (b. 1970)
• 2013 – Yang Baibing, Chinese general and politician (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Chucho Castillo, Mexican boxer (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Daniel Edelman, American publicist, founded Edelman (b. 1920)
• 2013 – George Gund III, American businessman (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Balthazar Korab, Hungarian-American photographer (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Princess Margarita of Baden (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Zurab Popkhadze, Georgian footballer (b. 1972)
• 2013 – Robert Gordon Robertson, Canadian civil servant (b. 1917)
• 2013 – John Thomas, American high jumper (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian conductor and cellist (b. 1939)

Holidays and observances [edit]

• Armed Forces Day (Nigeria)
• Army Day (India)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Abeluzius (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
  • Ita
  • Macarius of Egypt (Western Christianity)
  • Paul the Hermit
  • January 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which International Fetish Day can fall, while January 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Friday in January.
• Earliest day on which Martin Luther King, Jr. Day can fall, while January 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in January. (United States)
• John Chilembwe Day (Malawi)
• Korean Alphabet Day (North Korea)
• One of the two Carmentalia, in honor of Carmenta. (Roman Empire)
• The second day of the sidereal winter solstice festivals in India (see January 14):
  • Maatu Pongal, celebrated by performing Jallikattu (Tamil)
• Tree Planting Day (Egypt)

External links [edit]

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