January 1st Events in History | |
| 2009 | Czech Republic assumes EU presidency |
| 2009 | Slovakia replaces its national currency, the Slovak koruna, with the Euro |
| 2008 | Cyprus replaces it's currency with the Euro |
| 2008 | Malta replaces it's currency with the Euro |
| 2007 | Bulgaria joins the European Union |
| 2007 | Romania joins the European Union |
| 2007 | Slovenia begins using the Euro as it's currency |
| 2004 | Rose Bowl, USC Trojans beat Michigan Wolverines 28 - 14 |
| 2003 | Rose Bowl, Oklahoma Sooners beat Washington State Cougars 34 - 14 |
| 2002 | Rose Bowl, Miami Hurricanes beat Nebraska Cornhuskers 37 - 14 |
| 2002 | The Euro becomes the official currency for most of Europe |
| 2001 | Rose Bowl, Washington Huskies beat Purdue Boilermakers 34 - 24 |
| 2000 | Rose Bowl, Wisconsin Badgers beat Stanford Cardinals 17 - 9 |
| 2000 | After years of preparation for Y2K, only minor computer-related problems were reported (a problem with Hotmail, with a nuclear power plant in Japan and with apartment heating in Korea) |
| 2000 | Millennial celebrations occurred worldwide without terrorist incidents |
| 1999 | International Year of Elderly |
| 1999 | Rose Bowl, Wisconsin Badgers beat UCLA Bruins 38 - 31 |
| 1998 | All California bars, clubs and card rooms must be smoke-free |
| 1998 | Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week |
| 1998 | U.S. Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733 |
| 1998 | Rose Bowl, Michigan Wolverines beat Washington State Cougars 21 - 16 |
| 1997 | Rose Bowl, Ohio State Buckeyes beat Arizona State Sun Devils 20 - 17 |
| 1996 | After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin |
| 1996 | Curaeao gains limited form of self rule (Status Aparte) |
| 1995 | Glass Menagerie closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 57 performances |
| 1995 | Shadow Box closes at Circle in Square Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| 1995 | Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union |
| 1995 | Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory |
| 1995 | Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as president of Brazil |
| 1995 | International Year of Tolerance |
| 1995 | Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson started in 1980 |
| 1995 | Raman Lamba and Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi |
| 1995 | Tuna Christmas closes at Booth Theater New York City 20 performances |
| 1994 | Flying Karamzov Brothers closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 50 performances |
| 1994 | Grand Night after Singing closes at Criterion New York City after 52 performances |
| 1994 | Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.83) |
| 1994 | Carquest Bowl 4: Boston College beats Virginia, 32-13 |
| 1994 | Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant |
| 1994 | International Year of Family |
| 1994 | Jacobs Field opens with "Gateway's New Year's Eve Countdown to '94" |
| 1994 | Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29) |
| 1994 | North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect |
| 1993 | 12 member European Economic Community sets up vast free trade zone |
| 1993 | Blockbuster Bowl 3: Stanford beats Penn State, 24-3 |
| 1993 | Cigarette advertisements are banned in New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority |
| 1993 | Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Slovakia |
| 1993 | Harry Connick, Jr. arrested at a New York airport for gun possession |
| 1992 | Bush is 1st U.S. President to address Australian Parliament |
| 1992 | Curaeao becomes 1st in Dutch Antilles to have compulsory education |
| 1992 | Europe breaks down trade barriers |
| 1992 | International Space Year begins |
| 1992 | New York City transit fare increases from $1.15 to $1.25 |
| 1991 | 5% sales tax on consumer goods and services goes into effect in U.S.S.R. |
| 1991 | Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak |
| 1991 | Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide |
| 1990 | David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of New York City |
| 1990 | Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ |
| 1990 | New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority stops token redemption at subway stations |
| 1990 | Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV |
| 1990 | FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs |
| 1989 | Actress Kelly McGillis gets married |
| 1989 | New York City transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15 |
| 1989 | Year of the Young Reader begins |
| 1988 | Czechoslovakian born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen |
| 1988 | Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship |
| 1988 | Year of the Reader begins |
| 1987 | 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico |
| 1987 | China's rudimentary civil code in effect |
| 1987 | International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins |
| 1986 | Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curaeao |
| 1986 | Barbra Striesand and Jon Peters relationship breaks up |
| 1986 | International Peace Year begins |
| 1986 | New York City transit fare rises from 90 cents to $1.00 |
| 1986 | Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship |
| 1986 | Spain and Portugal are 11th and 12th to join European Economic Community |
| 1986 | Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game at the Rose Bowl |
| 1985 | Actress Judith Licht (Who's the Boss) marries Robert Desiderio (One Life to Live) |
| 1985 | International Youth Year begins |
| 1985 | US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY) |
| 1985 | VH-1 made its broadcasting debut |
| 1984 | AT&T's 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies |
| 1984 | Brunei becomes independent of U.K. |
| 1984 | New York City transit fare rises from 75 cents to 90 cents |
| 1983 | PGA inaugurates all-exempt tour |
| 1983 | Penn State beats Georgia in Sugar Bowl for college football title |
| 1983 | World Communications Year begins |
| 1982 | 30 Something stars Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig meet, later they marry |
| 1982 | Clemson wins the Orange Bowl for college football championship |
| 1982 | Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes Secretary-General of UN |
| 1982 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority launches a 5 year plan to upgrade the New York City subway system |
| 1982 | Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland |
| 1982 | TA launches 5 year capital program to overhaul New York City subway system |
| 1981 | Georgia beats Notre Dame in Sugar Bowl for college football title |
| 1981 | Greece is 10th country to join European Economic Community |
| 1981 | International Year for the Disabled begins |
| 1981 | Palau, Trust Territory of Pacific Islands, becomes self-governing |
| 1981 | Roger Smith becomes CEO of General Motors |
| 1980 | 54th Australian Womens Tennis: Barbara Jordan beats S Walsh (63 63) |
| 1980 | Alabama beats Arkansas in Sugar Bowl for college football championship |
| 1980 | Chrysler U.K. renamed Talbot |
| 1980 | International Decade of Water and Sanitation begins |
| 1980 | Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran |
| 1980 | Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal |
| 1980 | Sweden changes order of succession to throne |
| 1979 | International Year of the Child begins |
| 1979 | Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established |
| 1979 | U.S. and China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations |
| 1978 | Your Arm's Too Short... closes at Lyceum New York City after 429 performances |
| 1978 | Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213 |
| 1978 | President Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909 |
| 1977 | 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means) |
| 1977 | Belgium reapportions 2,359 communities into 596 |
| 1977 | Czechoslovakian intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77 |
| 1977 | Tony Dorsett runs for record 202 yards in the Sugar Bowl |
| 1976 | Musical Jubilee closes at St. James Theater New York City after 92 performances |
| 1976 | Liberty Bell moves to new home behind Independence Hall |
| 1976 | NBC replaces the peacock logo |
| 1976 | Venezuela nationalizes oil fields |
| 1975 | Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Mardian convicted of Watergate crime |
| 1975 | International Women's Year begins |
| 1975 | Sweden adopts constitution |
| 1974 | Lee MacPhail takes over as AL president, succeeding Joe Cronin |
| 1974 | NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead) |
| 1974 | World Population Year begins |
| 1973 | 47th Australian Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Goolagong (64 75) |
| 1973 | Britain, Ireland and Denmark become 7th - 9th members of Common Market |
| 1973 | West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta) |
| 1972 | Company closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 690 performances |
| 1972 | On the Town closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 65 performances |
| 1972 | Promises Promises closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 1281 performances |
| 1972 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1972 | International Book Year begins |
| 1972 | KDSD TV channel 16 in Aberdeen, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | Cigarette advertisements banned on television |
| 1970 | The Epoch (Time 0 for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) |
| 1970 | Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established |
| 1970 | Charles "Chub" Feeney becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1970 | Netherlands Christian Workers Union (NCW) forms |
| 1970 | Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect |
| 1969 | Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's Los Angeles Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee |
| 1968 | ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp and FM) |
| 1968 | Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain |
| 1968 | Netherlands gets color TV |
| 1968 | WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | CRU becomes the CAFA and turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the CFL |
| 1967 | Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs. West Indies cancelled by riots |
| 1967 | FCC requires AM-FM sister stations to be at least 50% different |
| 1967 | Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game |
| 1967 | Kansas City Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game |
| 1967 | St. Helena adopts constitution |
| 1967 | Tonga revises constitution |
| 1967 | WABW TV channel 14 in Pelham, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway |
| 1966 | Military coup by Col Jean-Bedel Bokassa in Central African Republic |
| 1966 | Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 |
| 1966 | All U.S. cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health" |
| 1965 | International Cooperation Year begins |
| 1965 | Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms |
| 1964 | Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolved |
| 1964 | KNMT TV channel 12 in Walker, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank |
| 1963 | WTEV (now WLNE) TV channel 6 in Providence RI begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful |
| 1962 | Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium |
| 1962 | Western Samoa gains independence from New Zealand, Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes co-chief of Western Samoa |
| 1961 | Briggs Stadium is renamed Tigers Stadium |
| 1961 | Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 in AFL championship game |
| 1961 | Largest check issued, National Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion) |
| 1961 | Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11 |
| 1960 | Bank of France issues new franc, worth 20 cents |
| 1960 | French Cameroon gains independence from France |
| 1960 | Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars |
| 1960 | Montserrat adopts constitution |
| 1960 | U.S. census at 179,245,000 |
| 1959 | Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dom Rep |
| 1959 | Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community |
| 1959 | Rohan Kanhai completes 256 vs. India at Calcutta |
| 1958 | BOAC Britannia flies London to New York in a record 7h57m |
| 1958 | European Economic Community, known as the Common Market, starts operation |
| 1958 | Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Loray White |
| 1958 | WMBD TV channel 31 in Peoria, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince and the Pauper," premieres in London |
| 1957 | France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville |
| 1956 | KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt and U.K. |
| 1956 | WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Bhutan issues its 1st postage stamps |
| 1955 | WEAT (now WPEC) TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, Florida (CBS) begins |
| 1954 | KSLA TV channel 12 in Shreveport, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Rose and Cotton Bowl are 1st sports colorcasts |
| 1954 | WWTV TV channel 9 in Cadillac-Traverse City, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1954 | Yugoslav parliament chairman/Vice President Milovan Djilas criticize communism |
| 1953 | Ernest Blochs "Suite Hebraique," premieres |
| 1953 | WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, Pennsylvania (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1952 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 5th string quartet |
| 1951 | Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines |
| 1950 | Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China |
| 1949 | KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, California (MET) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | Tokelau (Union) Islands declared part of New Zealand |
| 1948 | 1st color newsreel filmed in Pasadena, California |
| 1948 | Bradman scores 132 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test vs. India |
| 1948 | Britain nationalizes its railways |
| 1948 | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade effective |
| 1948 | Italy adopts constitution |
| 1948 | Orissa province accedes to India |
| 1947 | Benelux agress to work related issues |
| 1947 | Britain nationalizes its coal industry |
| 1947 | WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, D.C. (MET) begins broadcasting |
| 1946 | ENIAC, U.S. 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert |
| 1946 | Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god |
| 1946 | National Assembly proclaims Hungary a republic |
| 1945 | France joins the UN |
| 1945 | German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels |
| 1944 | 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City |
| 1944 | Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa |
| 1944 | General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army |
| 1943 | Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to Lt-colonel |
| 1942 | Rose Bowl played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat, Oregon - 20, Duke - 16 |
| 1942 | U.S. and 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis |
| 1941 | Netherlands begins taxing wages |
| 1941 | Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff |
| 1937 | Anastasio Somoza becomes president of Nicaragua |
| 1937 | Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to captain |
| 1937 | U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio |
| 1936 | 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, New York Herald Tribune |
| 1935 | 1st Sugar Bowl and 1st Orange Bowl |
| 1935 | Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto |
| 1935 | Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as General Manager |
| 1935 | President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey" |
| 1934 | Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison |
| 1934 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, FDIC, U.S. bank guarantor, effective |
| 1934 | International Telecommunication Union established |
| 1932 | Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio |
| 1932 | Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws |
| 1930 | Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant |
| 1930 | Jurgens and Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever |
| 1929 | Roy Riegels runs 60 yards the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery |
| 1928 | 1st U.S. air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio |
| 1928 | Algemeene Vereeniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) begins broadcasting (Netherlands) |
| 1927 | Communist uprising in West Java |
| 1927 | Dodgers announce release of future Hall of Fame Zack Wheat |
| 1926 | Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne |
| 1925 | Norway's capital Christiania changes name to Oslo |
| 1924 | Grossdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft/Volkische Block replaces NSDAP |
| 1923 | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established |
| 1922 | Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road |
| 1919 | Belorussian SSR established |
| 1918 | Last day of the Julian calendar in Finland |
| 1916 | 1st football game in Rose Bowl, Washington State vs. Brown |
| 1915 | DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview |
| 1915 | Jews of Laibach Austria expelled |
| 1914 | 1st scheduled airline flight, St. Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot) |
| 1914 | Klaas ter Laan becomes Netherlands 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam) |
| 1914 | Northern and Southern Nigeria united in British colony of Nigeria |
| 1913 | Post office begins parcel post deliveries |
| 1912 | 1st running of San Francisco's famed "Bay to Breakers" race, 7.63 miles / 12.3 km |
| 1912 | Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic |
| 1911 | Belgian Mining law introduces 9 -hour work day |
| 1911 | South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government |
| 1910 | Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs |
| 1909 | Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4) |
| 1908 | 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square |
| 1908 | Jack Hobbs makes his Test debut at the MCG (83 and 28) |
| 1907 | President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day |
| 1906 | Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory |
| 1905 | 9 hour work day for diamond miners |
| 1904 | Netherlands Indies colony begins opium production |
| 1902 | 1st Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, California, University of Michigan - 49, Sanford - 0 |
| 1902 | Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn |
| 1901 | Australia declares independence from federation of U.K. colonies |
| 1901 | Commonwealth of Australia established |
| 1900 | 1st date in John dos Passos' USA trilogy (The 42nd Parallel) |
| 1900 | British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria established |
| 1900 | Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect |
| 1899 | Cuba liberated from Spain by U.S., known as National Day, U.S. occupies until 1902 |
| 1898 | Lightship replaces whistling buoy at mouth of San Francisco Bay |
| 1898 | d'Annunzio's "Sogno d'un mattino di primavera," premieres in Rome |
| 1897 | 1st football game between black colleges-Atlanta U 10, Tuskegee 0 |
| 1897 | Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York |
| 1896 | Wilhelm Rontgen announces his discovery of x-rays |
| 1895 | Norway adopts Mid-European time |
| 1894 | Denmark adopts Mid-European time |
| 1894 | Manchester Ship Canal in England opens to traffic |
| 1893 | 1st U.S. college extension courses for credit, University of Chicago |
| 1893 | Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar |
| 1892 | Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants |
| 1891 | French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed |
| 1891 | King Pakketvaart sails to Netherlands Indies |
| 1886 | 1st Tournament of Roses (Pasadena California) |
| 1881 | Dr. John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes |
| 1880 | Building of Panama Canal, begins |
| 1879 | John Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig |
| 1877 | England's Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India |
| 1874 | New York City annexes the Bronx |
| 1873 | Origin of Japanese Era |
| 1871 | Belgium disbands salt tax |
| 1863 | President Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful |
| 1863 | 1st homestead under the Homestead Act claimed, near Beatrice, Nebr |
| 1863 | Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city |
| 1863 | Battle of Helena, AK |
| 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln |
| 1863 | Franz Schuberts "Missa Solemnis," premieres in Leipzig |
| 1862 | 1st U.S. income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000) |
| 1862 | Battle of Ft. McRee, Florida Battle of Port Royal, South Carolina (Port Royal Ferry) |
| 1861 | Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City |
| 1860 | Slavery ends of in Netherlands Indies |
| 1858 | Canada begins using decimal currency system |
| 1854 | Lincoln University, a black college, chartered (Oxford, Penn) |
| 1853 | 1st practical fire engine (horse-drawn) in U.S. enters service |
| 1852 | 1st U.S. public bath opens, in New York City |
| 1852 | Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps |
| 1851 | City of Glasgow steamer inaugurates Philadelphia-Liverpool line |
| 1848 | Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua |
| 1847 | Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment |
| 1847 | Netherlands Haarlem's Current newspaper starts publishing |
| 1846 | Yucatan declares independence from Mexico |
| 1844 | 1st edition of New Rotterdam's Daily (3x per week) |
| 1842 | 1st illustrated weekly magazine in U.S. publishes 1st issue, New York City |
| 1840 | 1st recorded bowling match in U.S., Knickerbocker Alleys, New York City |
| 1838 | 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide |
| 1834 | German Tolunie goes into effect |
| 1833 | British government demands Falkland islands |
| 1833 | Curaeao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people and 5,894 slaves |
| 1831 | William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal |
| 1827 | Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java |
| 1826 | Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies |
| 1818 | Official reopening of the White House |
| 1814 | Field marshal Blucher's troops cross the Rhine at Kaub |
| 1809 | Holland Brigade under Brigadier General Chasse reaches Madrid |
| 1808 | African Benevolent Society (education) forms |
| 1808 | Congress prohibits importation of slaves |
| 1808 | Sierra Leone becomes a British colony |
| 1807 | Curacao is taken by English, until March, 1816 |
| 1804 | Haiti gains independence from France (National Day) |
| 1801 | Ireland and Great Britain, England and Scotland, form United Kingdom |
| 1801 | Giuseppe Piazzi discovers 1st asteroid, which is named Ceres later |
| 1801 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland established |
| 1800 | Dutch East Indies Company dissolves |
| 1798 | Russia appoints 1st Jewish censor to censor Hebrew books |
| 1797 | Albany replaces New York City as capital of NY |
| 1788 | London's Daily Universal Registrar becomes the Times |
| 1788 | Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves |
| 1785 | Daily Universal Register (Times of London) publishes 1st issue |
| 1776 | General George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag |
| 1772 | 1st traveller's checks issued (London) |
| 1770 | Date of action in the opera "Madeleine" |
| 1739 | J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica |
| 1707 | Jacob V succeeds his father Pedro II as king of Portugal |
| 1701 | Great Britain and Ireland union is in effect, creating United Kingdom |
| 1700 | Protestant West-Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar |
| 1700 | Russia replaces Byzantines with Julian calendar |
| 1689 | Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York |
| 1675 | Don Carlos de Gurrea/Aragon becomes Spanish land guardian of S Netherlands |
| 1673 | Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston |
| 1672 | Jean Racine's "Bajazet," premieres in Paris |
| 1660 | 1st entry in Samuel Pepys' diary |
| 1660 | General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London |
| 1660 | Thomas Fairfax' New Model-army occupies York |
| 1651 | Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland |
| 1622 | Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25) |
| 1610 | German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610 |
| 1583 | 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland and Flanders |
| 1573 | Geuzen sets fire to Woudrichem |
| 1515 | Francois, Duke of Angoulame succeeds Louis XII as Francois I of France |
| 1515 | Jews are expelled from Laibach Austria |
| 1504 | King Louis XII loses last bulwark in Naples, Caeta |
| 1502 | Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro |
| 1494 | Juw Dekama elected potentate of Frisia |
| 1438 | Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Hungary |
| 1430 | Jews of Sicily are no longer required to attend conversionist services |
| 990 | Russia adopts Julian calendar |
| 722 | Hofmeier Charles Martel flees from bishop Willibrord |
| 414 | King Ataulf of Narbonne marries emperor Honorius sister Galle Placidia |
| 404 | Last gladiator competition in Rome |
| 313 | Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction |
| 89 | Governor Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome |
| 69 | Roman garrison of Mainz uprising |
January 1st Birthdays in History | |
| 1975 | Becky Kellar, ice hockey defenseman, Canada, 1998 Olympics |
| 1975 | Chris Anstey, NBA center, Dallas Mavericks |
| 1974 | Johnie Church, NFL defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1973 | Clyde Wijnhard, soccer player, Ajax, RKC |
| 1973 | Fang Li, Hunan China, tennis star, 1991 Futures-Bilbao-ESP |
| 1973 | Justin Armour, NFL wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1973 | Mercury Hayes, wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1973 | Saffron Burrows, English Actress |
| 1972 | Barron Miles, NFL def back for the Pittsburgh Steelers/WLAF corner, Frankfurt |
| 1972 | Ivan Droppa, hockey defenseman, Team Slovakia 1998 |
| 1972 | Catherine McCormack, English Actress |
| 1971 | Beno Bryant, WLAF running back for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1971 | Bobby Holik, Jihlava, Czech, Republic, NHL left wing, New Jersey Devils, Team Czechoslovakian Republic |
| 1971 | Bridget Pettis, WNBA guard, Phoenix Mercury |
| 1971 | Kevin Lee, NFL wide receiver for the New England Patriots |
| 1971 | Kevin Mitchell, NFL linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers |
| 1970 | Brian Morton, Wollongong Australia, canoeist 1996 Olympics |
| 1970 | Tom Sier, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen |
| 1970 | Vadim Glovatskiy, hockey defenseman, Team Kazakhstan Olympics-1998 |
| 1969 | Morris Chestnut, actor, Boyz N the Hood |
| 1969 | Reemt Pyka, Bremerhaven GER, hockey forward, Team Germany |
| 1968 | John de Visser, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen |
| 1968 | Sandy Beasley, Richmond BC, softball outfielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Andy Heck, NFL tackle, Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears |
| 1967 | Derrick Thomas, NFL linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1966 | Mika Nieminen, Tampere FIN, hockey forward, Team Finland, Bronze Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1966 | Rawley Valberde, Oceanside California, actor, Amado-Santa Barbara |
| 1965 | Andrew O Valmon, born in Brooklyn, New York, 400m runner |
| 1965 | Harry Galbreath, NFL guard for the Green Bay Packers |
| 1965 | Mark Dewey, U.S. baseball player, Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1964 | DeDee Pfeiffer, actress, Cybill |
| 1963 | Glenn Trimble, cricketer, son of Sam Two ODI's for Australia 1986 |
| 1963 | Lance Smith, NFL guard for the New York Giants |
| 1963 | Laura Ingraham, American Celebrity |
| 1962 | Ravshanbek Aliyev, Kirgiz, cosmonaut |
| 1962 | Richard Roxburgh, Australian Actor |
| 1961 | Irv Eatman, NFL tackle for the Houston Oilers |
| 1961 | Marcia Cross, actress, Melrose Place |
| 1960 | Michael David Morrison, actor, Caleb Snyder-As the World Turns |
| 1959 | Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghanistan, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-6 |
| 1958 | Grandmaster Flash, Joseph Saddler, New York City, rocker, Message |
| 1958 | Ren Woods, born in Portland, Oregon, actress, Fanta-Roots |
| 1956 | Anatoli Borisovich Polonsky, Russia, Lt-colonel/cosmonaut |
| 1956 | Sergei Vasiliyevich Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-15, SK:TM-28 |
| 1955 | Michael James Sullivan, born in Gary, Indiana, PGA golfer, 1980 Southern Open |
| 1954 | F. R, David, Paris, France, rocker |
| 1954 | Robert Menendez, American Politician |
| 1953 | Alpha Blondy, Seydou Kone, Ivory coast, reggae singer, Jerusalem |
| 1953 | Rochelle S Abramson, violinist |
| 1951 | Frans Kellendonk, author, Ruin, The Good for Nothing |
| 1950 | Morgan Fisher, rock keyboardist, British Lions |
| 1950 | Svetlana Georgievna Beregovkina, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1950 | Yevgeni Vladimirovich Saley, cosmonaut |
| 1949 | Nikolai Tikhonovich Moskalenko, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1949 | Peter Dormer, arts writer |
| 1948 | Lynn Abbey, American Author |
| 1947 | Alexei Ivanovich Bobrov, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1947 | Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer |
| 1947 | Peter Lankhorst, Dutch MP, PPR |
| 1947 | Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Rus cosmonaut, Soyuz T-8, TM-4, STS-63 |
| 1947 | Jon Corzine, American Politician |
| 1946 | Manfred Stengl, Austria, 2 man lugist 1960 Olympics gold |
| 1945 | Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race, 6-time winner |
| 1945 | Jacky Ickx, Belgian Celebrity |
| 1944 | Charlie Davis, cricketer, WI batsman in 15 Tests 1968-73 |
| 1943 | Jerilyn Britz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, LPGA golfer, 1979 U.S. Women's Open |
| 1942 | Country Joe McDonald, California, rock guitarist and vocalist, & the Fish |
| 1942 | Don Novello, Father Guido Sarducci, Ashtabula, Ohio, comedian, SNL |
| 1942 | Gennadi Vassilyevich Sarafanov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 15 |
| 1942 | George Couroupos, composer |
| 1942 | Martin Frost, born in Glendale, California, Representative-D-Texas 1979 - 2005 |
| 1942 | Al Hunt, American Journalist |
| 1940 | Frank Langella, Bayonne, New Jersey, actor, Dracula, Diary of a Mad Housewife |
| 1940 | Jack Kiefer, Columbia, Pennsylvania, PGA golfer, 1994 Ralphs Senior Classic |
| 1940 | Laszlo Sary, born in Hungary, composer, pianist, known for 1970's minimal style compositions |
| 1940 | Richard Henry Orton, composer |
| 1938 | Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Queen of Netherlands, 1980- |
| 1938 | Bill Emerson, born in Saint Louis, Missouri, Representative-R-Missouri 1981 - 1996 |
| 1936 | Eve Queler, New York City, conductor |
| 1936 | Willye B White, U.S. jumper, Olympics-silver-1956 |
| 1935 | Harold Martina, Netherland Antilles, pianist/conductor |
| 1935 | Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov, Russia, cosmonaut |
| 1934 | Lakhdar Brahimi, Public Servant |
| 1933 | Anders Bo Leif Linde, composer |
| 1933 | James A. Abrahamson, USAF/astronaut |
| 1933 | Joe Orton, England, actor/dramatist, Prick Up Your Ears |
| 1932 | Arnfried G D P, Dutch manufacturer, breadcrumbs, drugs dealer |
| 1931 | Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist |
| 1930 | Gaafar Muhammad Nimeiry, premier and president, Sudan |
| 1930 | Frederick Wiseman, American Director |
| 1929 | Holling Gustav Vapor, character on Northern Exposure |
| 1928 | Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter, French Connection |
| 1928 | Khan Mohammad, cricketer, Pakistan fast-med bowler, 54 wkts in 13 Tests |
| 1927 | Barbara Baxley, Stockton California, actress, Norma Rae, Countdown |
| 1927 | Juliusz Luciuk, composer |
| 1927 | Maurice Bejart, France, ballet choreographer, Rite of Spring |
| 1927 | Yuri Grigorovich, Leningrad, choreographer |
| 1927 | Vernon L. Smith, American Economist |
| 1926 | Claire Polin [Schaff], composer flautist/musicologist |
| 1925 | George Conner, NFL tackle, linebacker for the Chicago Bears |
| 1925 | Valentina Cortesa, Milan Italy, actress, Kidnap Syndicate |
| 1923 | Chalmers Goodlin, U.S. test pilot, XS-1 |
| 1923 | Milton Jackson, U.S., vibraphonist, Milt of Bags |
| 1922 | Ernest Hollings, born in Charleston, South Carolina, Senator-D-South Carolina 1966 - 2005 |
| 1922 | Fritz Hollings, American Politician |
| 1921 | Alain Mimoun O'Kacha, Algerian/French cross country, Gold Medal 1956 Olympics |
| 1920 | Elisabeth Andersen, Anna de Bruyn, Dutch actress, Yerma, Titania |
| 1919 | Bernard Drukker, Dutch organist/pianist/orchestra leader, Devil's Wheel |
| 1919 | Carole Landis, Fairchild WI, actress, One Million BC, Topper Returns |
| 1919 | J. D. Salinger, American Novelist, Catcher in the Rye |
| 1918 | Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer, WR 100m, 1:04.06 |
| 1916 | Earl Wrightson, born in Baltimore, Maryland, singer, Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue |
| 1915 | Francois Bondy, writer |
| 1915 | Lewis Bingham Keeble, town planner |
| 1913 | Eliot Janeway, financial writer, Economics of Chaos |
| 1912 | Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole |
| 1912 | Victor Reuther, Wheeling, West Virginia, labor leader |
| 1911 | Hank Greenberg, Hall-of-Fame 1st baseman, Detroit Tiger |
| 1910 | Russ Bender, actor and writer, Amazing Colossal Man, Space Monster |
| 1909 | Barry Goldwater, born in Phoenix, Arizona, Senator-R-Arizona 1953 - 1965, 1969 - 1987, Republican Presidential candidate 1964 |
| 1909 | D. D. Hindlekar, cricketer, Indian batsman and wicket-keeper 1936-46 |
| 1909 | Dana Andrews, Collins Mississippi, actor, Battle of the Bulge, Laura |
| 1908 | Kinue Hitoma, Japan, 800m runner, Silver Medal 1928 Olympics |
| 1907 | Erich Schmid, composer |
| 1906 | Frank Stack, Canada, speed skater, Olympic-bronze-1932 |
| 1905 | Charles Melvin Price, born in East St. Louis, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1945 - 1988 |
| 1902 | Buster Nupen, cricketer, 1-eyed South African quick, great on matting |
| 1902 | Dimiter Nenov, composer |
| 1901 | Christine WI Wittewaall van Stoetwegen, Dutch MP, CDD |
| 1900 | Hubert van Doorne, Dutch auto manufacturer, DAF |
| 1900 | William Haines, Staunton, Virginia, actor, Fast Life, Little Annie Rooney |
| 1900 | Xavier Cugat, born in Barcelona, Spain, bandleader, married Abbe Lane, Charo |
| 1899 | Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer |
| 1899 | Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist, Po Zakonu |
| 1899 | Raymond Loucheur, composer |
| 1898 | George van Derton, Belgian |
| 1898 | George van Derton, Belgian racer, won 500 race |
| 1898 | Viktor Ullmann, opera composer, Der Kaiser von Atlantis |
| 1897 | Walter Greaza, St. Paul, Minnesota, actor, Martin Kane Private Eye |
| 1896 | Maurice Jacobson, composer |
| 1896 | Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor and director, Jujiro, Jigoku-mon |
| 1896 | Yitzhak Edel, composer |
| 1895 | Nathaniel Shilkret, New York City, conductor |
| 1895 | J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant |
| 1892 | Artur Rodzinski, Spalato, Dalmatia, Poland, conductor/composer |
| 1892 | Manuel Roxas y Acuna, 1st president Philippines |
| 1892 | Miklos Radnai, composer |
| 1891 | Frank Pettingell, Liverpool England, actor, Gaslight, Goose Steps Out |
| 1890 | Florence Lawrence, Hamilton Ont, silent screen actress, Confidence |
| 1889 | Alexander Smallens, St. Petersburg, Russia, conductor |
| 1889 | Charles Bickford, Cambridge Massachusetts, actor, John-The Virginian |
| 1889 | Tadeusz Jarecki, composer |
| 1889 | Tom Dugan, Dublin Ireland, actor, Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway |
| 1887 | Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence |
| 1885 | Roland Diggle, composer |
| 1885 | Charles Seymour, American Historian |
| 1883 | Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer and journalist, La Torre, Tre Croci |
| 1883 | [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, Dutch actor, 3 Drops of Water, theater director |
| 1882 | W C Wendelaar, mayor of Alkmaar, 1919-34, Dutch MP, VVD |
| 1881 | Carry van Bridges, de Haan, Dutch author, Heleen, Eva |
| 1880 | Edie Martin, born in London, England, actress, Titfield Thunderbolt |
| 1880 | Shalom Asch, Poland, yiddish writer, Motke Ganev |
| 1879 | Edward M Forster, England, novelist, Howards End, Passage to India |
| 1879 | Emile Argand, Swiss geologist, Dekbladen Theory |
| 1879 | Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud |
| 1879 | William Fox, U.S. film pioneer, Nickelodeon |
| 1879 | Edward M. Forster, English Novelist |
| 1879 | E. M. Forster, English Novelist |
| 1878 | Edwin Franko Goldman, composer |
| 1878 | Francois Ambrosiny, French dancer/choreograph, L'oiseau enchante |
| 1876 | Johan C Altorf, sculptor, October 3rd monument |
| 1875 | Charles Rist, French economist |
| 1875 | N F Druce, cricketer, 5 Tests for England vs. Australia 1897-98 |
| 1874 | Hugo Leichtentritt, composer |
| 1874 | Frank Knox, American Public Servant |
| 1873 | Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist, The Flies, The Bosses |
| 1869 | Louis EJM de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian indologist |
| 1867 | Charles Edward Montague, English author/critic, Fiery Particles |
| 1867 | Lew Fields, comedian, of Weber and Fields |
| 1865 | Giuseppe Ferrata, composer |
| 1864 | Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work |
| 1863 | Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer, To Chicago and Back |
| 1863 | Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron, revived Olympic games |
| 1862 | Snitz Edwards, Hungary, actor, College, Phantom of the Opera |
| 1854 | James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author, The Golden Bough |
| 1854 | James G. Frazer, Scottish Scientist |
| 1853 | Hans Koessler, composer |
| 1846 | Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier, 1891..1926 |
| 1843 | Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer |
| 1838 | William Hugh Young, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1835 | Charles Bowen, English Judge |
| 1834 | Ludovic Halevy, French Author |
| 1831 | William Joseph Westbrook, composer |
| 1827 | William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1826 | Robert Rainy, born in Glasgow, Scotland, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views |
| 1819 | Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold |
| 1819 | George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1817 | Martin H Klaproth, Germany, chemist |
| 1815 | Charles Renouvier, French philosopher, neocriticism |
| 1809 | John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, Silver Fleet |
| 1803 | Richard Henry Horne, English Poet |
| 1800 | Sydney Nelson, composer |
| 1800 | Vaclav Horak, composer |
| 1793 | Francis Bond Head, Canadian Statesman |
| 1792 | Henrik A. Bjerregaard, Norwegian writer/poet, Sonner af Norge |
| 1784 | William Beale, composer |
| 1777 | Micah Hawkins, composer |
| 1767 | Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist |
| 1764 | John Kinker, Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet, Minderjarige Zangster |
| 1752 | Elizabeth Griscom, Betsy, Ross, flag maker |
| 1752 | Betsy Ross, American Celebrity |
| 1748 | Giovanni Furno, composer |
| 1745 | Mad Anthony Wayne, general |
| 1745 | Anthony Wayne, American Soldier |
| 1735 | Paul Revere, silversmith and U.S. patriot, 'The British are coming' |
| 1734 | John F E Acton, cruel premier of Naples |
| 1729 | Edmund Burke, British author, Philosophy and Inquiry |
| 1723 | Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer |
| 1714 | Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet, The Seas |
| 1709 | Johann H H Butz, German/Dutch organ builder |
| 1697 | Johann Pfeiffer, composer |
| 1652 | Johann Krieger, composer |
| 1638 | Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres, French poet/playwright |
| 1628 | Christoph Bernhard, German composer |
| 1622 | Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist |
| 1618 | Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spain, Baroque artist [baptized] |
| 1614 | John Wilkins, English Clergyman |
| 1520 | Franciscus Balduinus, Francois Baudouin, lawyer |
| 1504 | Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer |
| 1481 | Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer |
| 1467 | Sigismund I, the old, king of Poland |
| 1449 | Lorenzo de'Medici, The Magnificent of Florence |
| 1431 | Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope, 1492 - 1503 |
| 1387 | Charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra, 1349-87 |
| 379 | Basilius, the Great, of Caesarea, holyman, Moralia |
January 1st Deaths in History | |
| 2009 | Helen Suzman, dies in Johannesburg, South Africa, at 91 |
| 2009 | Claiborne Pell, dies in Newport, Rhode Island, of Parkinson's disease, at 90 |
| 2007 | Tillie Olsen, dies at 94, in Oakland, California |
| 2005 | Shirley Chisholm, American Politician |
| 2005 | Bob Matsui, American Politician |
| 2005 | Shirley Chisholm, Representative-D-New York 1969 - 1983 |
| 2002 | Jack Haldeman, science fiction writer, Perry's Planet, dies at 60 |
| 2002 | Julia Phillips, producer, The Sting, dies at 57 |
| 2001 | Ray Walston, actor, TV's My Favorite Martian, dies at 86 |
| 2000 | Marc Davis, Disney cartoonist, designed Disney's Pirates of the Carribean ride, dies at 86 |
| 2000 | Victor Serebriakoff, genius, designed IQ tests, dies at 86 |
| 1998 | Helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92 |
| 1997 | Graham Kersey, cricket wicket keeper, dies in car crash |
| 1997 | Joan Rice, actress, Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up, dies at 66 |
| 1997 | John Burgess, rugby administrator, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Townes Van Zandt, singer and songwriter, dies at 52 |
| 1996 | Arleigh Burke, admiral, U.S. Navy, Chief of Naval Operations during President Eisenhower administration, served admirably in World War II and the Korean War, dies at 94 |
| 1996 | Arthur Rudolph, rocket Engineer, dies at 89 |
| 1996 | Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic, dies at 55 |
| 1995 | Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92 |
| 1995 | Frederick West, English contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53 |
| 1995 | Jess Stacy, pianist, jazz musician, dies at 90 |
| 1995 | Ted Hawkins, U.S. blues singer (Watch Your Step), dies at 58 |
| 1994 | Cesar Romero, U.S. actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Werner Schwab, writer, playwright, visual artist, dies at 35 |
| 1994 | James Clay, saxophonist, flutist, hard bop jazz music genre, style influenced by Sonny Rollins, dies at 59 in Dallas, Texas |
| 1993 | June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma |
| 1993 | Phyllis Hill, actress (Singing in the Dark), dies of lung cancer at 72 |
| 1992 | Constantin Poustochkine, jazz critic, dies |
| 1992 | Corky Geil, dancer, dies in Long Beach, California at 64Okla |
| 1992 | Ginette Leclerc, actress (Baker's Wife), dies at 79 |
| 1992 | Grace Hopper, computer scientist, dies at 85 |
| 1992 | Hette G Abma, vicar/Dutch MP (SGP), dies |
| 1992 | Mike Frankovich, U.S. producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies |
| 1991 | Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83 |
| 1991 | Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81 |
| 1990 | Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82 |
| 1990 | Gerhard Schroder, West German minister of Defense, dies at 79 |
| 1990 | Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies |
| 1988 | Leo Steiner, New York's Carnegie Deli owner, dies |
| 1987 | Gustav Knuth, actor (Heidi, Rats), dies at 85 |
| 1986 | David Cecil, English Writer |
| 1982 | Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), dies at 83 |
| 1982 | Victor Buono, actor (Mr Schubert-Man from Atlantis), dies at 43 |
| 1982 | Vladimir K Zworykin, Russian/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies |
| 1980 | Frank Wykoff, sprinter, Gold Medals 1928, 1932, 1936 Olympics, dies at 70 |
| 1980 | Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88 |
| 1975 | Arthur Pierson, actor and director (Hat Check Girl), dies at 73 |
| 1972 | Jane Morgan, actress (Mrs Margaret Davis-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 91 |
| 1972 | Kenneth Patchen, U.S. poet and writer (Cloth of Tempest), dies at 60 |
| 1972 | Maurice A Chevalier, French actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at 83 |
| 1972 | Maurice Chevalier, French Actor |
| 1969 | Barton Maclane, actor (General Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68 |
| 1967 | Moon Mullican, rocker, dies at 58 |
| 1966 | Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82 |
| 1965 | Gertrude Michael, actress (Caged, Cleopatra), dies at 53 |
| 1965 | Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1964 | Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1964 | Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Comedia, Anastasia), dies at about 86 |
| 1962 | Diego Martinez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 |
| 1961 | Dashiell Hammett, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66 |
| 1960 | Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48 |
| 1958 | David Broekman, musican (Think Fast), dies at 55 |
| 1958 | Edward Weston, American Photographer |
| 1957 | Ruth Draper, U.S. elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72 |
| 1953 | Hank Williams, country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29 |
| 1953 | Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer and conductor (Casanova), dies at 68 |
| 1949 | Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63 |
| 1948 | Hermann K J Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66 |
| 1948 | Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1944 | C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies |
| 1942 | Jaroslav Jezek, composer, dies at 35 |
| 1937 | John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church, dies of pneumonia at age 55 |
| 1934 | Jakob Wassermann, writer, dies at 60 |
| 1932 | C. P. Scott, British Journalist |
| 1923 | Willie Keeler, American Athlete |
| 1920 | Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57 |
| 1919 | William W. Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60 |
| 1907 | Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1906 | Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1901 | Ignatius Donnelly, U.S. attorney/lieutenant governor of Minnesota, dies at 69 |
| 1887 | Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66 |
| 1866 | Friedrich Ruckert, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages, dies |
| 1850 | Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist, dies at 76 |
| 1818 | Fedele Fenaroli, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1817 | Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73 |
| 1816 | Francois Alexander Sallantin, composer, dies at 60 |
| 1800 | Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83 |
| 1793 | Francesco Guardi, Italian painter, dies at 80 |
| 1789 | Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1787 | Arthur Middleton, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 44 |
| 1784 | Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 |
| 1783 | Jacobus Enschede, Haarlems printer, dies at 39 |
| 1782 | Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 |
| 1780 | Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1777 | Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1768 | Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1766 | James III Edward, Old Pretender, king of Great Britain and Ireland, dies at 77 |
| 1758 | Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26 |
| 1753 | Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 |
| 1730 | Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82 |
| 1716 | William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 |
| 1701 | Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 |
| 1661 | Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 |
| 1630 | Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies |
| 1626 | Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68 |
| 1617 | Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies |
| 1560 | Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies |
| 1559 | Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies |
| 1557 | Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 |
| 1517 | Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies |
| 1515 | Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 |
| 1387 | Karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies |
| 962 | Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies |
| 898 | Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 |
| 404 | Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered |
| 379 | Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies |
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