January 2nd Events in History | |
| 2008 | Oil reaches $100 per barrel for the first time |
| 1998 | Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates and cocaine |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Columbus, Ohio on WBZX 99.7 FM |
| 1995 | Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed |
| 1995 | Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21 |
| 1995 | Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away) |
| 1994 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois closes at Beaumont New York City after 40 performances |
| 1994 | Shakespeare after My Father closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 266 perf |
| 1994 | Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 |
| 1993 | Gypsy Passion closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 55 performances |
| 1992 | Test debut of Shane Warne, vs. India at Sydney |
| 1991 | Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll |
| 1990 | Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15) |
| 1990 | Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson) |
| 1989 | Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship |
| 1989 | UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game |
| 1988 | Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn |
| 1988 | Mulroney and Reagan sign Canada-U.S. free trade agreement |
| 1987 | Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ |
| 1987 | Troops of Chad President Habre conquer Fada oasis |
| 1986 | 191.66 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1986 | New York Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal |
| 1985 | 90th hat trick in Islander history-Brent Sutter |
| 1985 | Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts |
| 1985 | Egyptian President Mubarak reappoints Coptic pope Shenuda III |
| 1985 | Nevada-Las Vegas beats Utah 142-140, highest college basketball score |
| 1985 | Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions |
| 1984 | Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century |
| 1984 | Miami beats Nebraska in Orange Bowl for college football championship |
| 1984 | Riot in Tunis kills over 100 |
| 1984 | Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia's 1st black mayor |
| 1983 | Annie closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 2,377 performances |
| 1983 | Sophisticated Ladies closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 767 performances |
| 1983 | Don Muraco beats Pedro Morales to become WWF Intercontinental Champ |
| 1983 | Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury" |
| 1983 | Ken Anderson of Cincinnati completes record 20 consecutive passes |
| 1982 | Camelot closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1982 | 70th Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats S Denton (62 76 67 64) |
| 1982 | Islanders start 23 undefeated home streak (21-0-2) 14 straight wins |
| 1982 | San Diego Chargers beat Miami Dolphins, 41-38 in 13:52 of OT |
| 1981 | Mary Terstegge Meagher swims female record 200 m butterfly (2:05.65) |
| 1981 | Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, WI vs. Pakistan |
| 1980 | 68th Australian Men Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62) |
| 1979 | 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver |
| 1979 | Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) |
| 1979 | Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins |
| 1978 | Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey |
| 1978 | Rhino Records releases their 1st album "Wildmania" |
| 1977 | Bowie Kuhn suspends Braves owner Ted Turner for one year due to tampering charges in Gary Matthews free-agency signing |
| 1975 | U.S. Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species |
| 1974 | 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon |
| 1974 | Worst fire in Argentine history destroys 1.2 million acres |
| 1972 | Rothschilds closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 505 performances |
| 1972 | Dallas Cowboys beat San Francisco '49ers 14-3 in NFC championship game |
| 1972 | Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars |
| 1972 | Miami Dolphins beat Baltimore Colts 21-0 in AFC championship game |
| 1971 | A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66 |
| 1970 | Dutch premiere of musical "Hair" in Amsterdam |
| 1970 | U.S. population is 203,302,031 |
| 1969 | Fig Leaves Are Falling opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1969 | Soviet Sport calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy |
| 1969 | Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted and Black," premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | Zizi closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| 1968 | Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant |
| 1968 | KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion |
| 1966 | Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game |
| 1965 | Martin Luther King, Jr. begins a drive to register black voters |
| 1965 | New York Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath |
| 1965 | Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day |
| 1964 | Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
| 1964 | Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
| 1962 | Nighttime version of "Password" with Allen Ludden premieres on CBS |
| 1961 | 1st AFL Championship Game, Houston Oilers beat LA Chargers 24-16 |
| 1961 | Hawaii's, then all time low temperature, 14 degrees F recorded atop Haleakale |
| 1960 | 1st redshank old world shore bird reported in North America (Halifax) |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy announces run for U.S. Presidency |
| 1960 | John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years |
| 1960 | Roger Sessions' 4th Symphony, premieres |
| 1960 | Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president |
| 1959 | Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees |
| 1959 | U.S.S.R. launches Mechta, Luna 1, for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit |
| 1958 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Piano concert, premieres in NY |
| 1957 | San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge |
| 1956 | Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections |
| 1955 | 1st "Bob Cummings Show" premieres on NBC (later on CBS) |
| 1954 | Herman Wouks "Caine Mutiny," premieres in New York City |
| 1953 | NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak |
| 1952 | Pal Joey opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 542 performances |
| 1951 | Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in New York City |
| 1949 | KDKA TV channel 2 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | WNDT (now WNET) TV channel 13 in New York-Newark, New York (PBS) begins |
| 1947 | Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East-Bengali |
| 1945 | Allied air raid on Neurenberg |
| 1945 | Kentucky begins 130 home basketball game win streak, ends in 1955 |
| 1945 | Radio Orange ends cooperation at Liese-Aktion |
| 1944 | 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol) |
| 1942 | 28 nations, at war with Axis, pledge no separate peace |
| 1942 | German troops in Bardia surrender |
| 1942 | Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines |
| 1939 | Bradman scores 107 SA vs. Victoria, his 4th consecutive century |
| 1938 | Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded |
| 1936 | 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1936 | Bradman scores 357 for SA vs. Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours |
| 1935 | Bruno Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap and murder of Lindbergh baby |
| 1934 | 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania |
| 1934 | Bradman scores 253 NSW vs. Queensland, 204 minutes, 29 fours 4 sixes |
| 1933 | Bradman scores 103* against the Bodyline attack in the 2nd Test |
| 1933 | Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th) |
| 1933 | U.S. troops leave Nicaragua |
| 1932 | Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri |
| 1929 | U.S. and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls |
| 1925 | Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR) |
| 1921 | 1st religious service radio broadcast in U.S., KDKA-Pittsburgh |
| 1921 | DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens |
| 1920 | 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids) |
| 1919 | Anti-British uprising in Ireland |
| 1919 | Lithuania gains independence |
| 1918 | Dodgers trade Casey Stengel and Cutshaw to Pitts for Grimes and Mamaux |
| 1918 | NHL Montreal Wanderers disband after Westmount arena burns down |
| 1917 | Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank |
| 1914 | Philips installs research department in Eindhoven |
| 1913 | National Woman's Party forms |
| 1911 | Brooklyn Dodgers President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000 |
| 1910 | 1st junior high schools in U.S. opens (Berkeley California) |
| 1909 | 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50) |
| 1908 | Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa |
| 1905 | Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine |
| 1905 | Japanese troops capture Port Arthur |
| 1903 | President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black |
| 1900 | E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7" single-sided records (Montreal) |
| 1900 | Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise," premieres in Paris |
| 1896 | Battle at Doornkop, South Africa (Boers beat Dr. Jamesons troops) |
| 1893 | 1st U.S. commemoratives and 1st U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued |
| 1890 | Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer |
| 1890 | Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny |
| 1885 | General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum |
| 1882 | Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust |
| 1881 | Camille Saint-Saens' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres |
| 1879 | 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG |
| 1879 | British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die |
| 1879 | Dr. Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education |
| 1879 | Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Ill |
| 1871 | King Amadeus I of Spain inaugurated at 25 |
| 1870 | Construction of Brooklyn Bridge begins |
| 1863 | Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) ends |
| 1861 | South Carolina seizes inactive Ft. Johnson in Charleston Harbor |
| 1861 | Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia |
| 1843 | Wagner's opera "Der Fliegende Hollander" premieres, Dresden |
| 1842 | 1st U.S. wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Penn |
| 1839 | 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) |
| 1832 | 1st Curling club in U.S. (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens |
| 1831 | Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston |
| 1818 | Lord Byron completes "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (4th canto) |
| 1814 | Lord Byron completes "The Corsair" |
| 1811 | U.S. Senator Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the U.S.) |
| 1800 | Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave |
| 1790 | Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutti" premieres, Vienna |
| 1788 | Georgia is 4th state to ratify U.S. constitution |
| 1776 | 1st revolutionary flag displayed |
| 1776 | Austria ends interregation torture |
| 1757 | British troops occupy Calcutta India |
| 1678 | Staatsoper Hamburg opens with Theiles "Adam und Eva" |
| 1602 | Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish |
| 1602 | Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale |
| 1585 | Spain and Catholic France sign Saint League of Joinville |
| 1570 | Tsar Ivan the Terrible march to Novgorod begins |
| 1492 | Spain recaptures Granada from the Moors (Granada Day) |
| 1235 | Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names |
| 533 | John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 69 | Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor |
January 2nd Birthdays in History | |
| 1980 | Stephanie Stiegler, born in Santa Monica, California, pairs skater, & Zimmerman |
| 1978 | Devin Doherty, actor, Jimmy Clayton-Swan's Crossing |
| 1976 | Paz Vega, Spanish Actress |
| 1974 | Juha Lind, NHL forward, Team Finland, Dallas, Bronze Medal 1998 Olympics |
| 1973 | Abu Wilson, running back for the Indianapolis Colts |
| 1973 | Chris Woodruff, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, tennis star, 1993 NCAA Division I |
| 1973 | Fredric Ford, WLAF CB for the Scotland Claymores/NFL cornerback, Eagles |
| 1973 | Sarah Schwald, Bellingham Wash, 1.5k runner |
| 1972 | Jeff Jackson, U.S. baseball outfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1972 | Lake Dawson, NFL wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1972 | Mattias Norstrom, Mora SWE, NHL defenseman, Team Sweden, Los Angeles Kings |
| 1972 | Taye Diggs, American Actor |
| 1971 | Aamer Nazir, cricketer, Pakistani pace bowler 1993- |
| 1971 | Aaron Williams, NBA center, Seattle Supersonics |
| 1971 | Brad Parpan, WLAF quarterback for the Rhein Fire |
| 1971 | Horace Copeland, NFL wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1971 | Robert O' Neal, WLAF DB for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Shimin, hockey goaltender, Team Kazakhstan, 1998 Olympics |
| 1970 | Anthony Stuart, cricketer, Australian ODI pace bowler, hat trick 1997 |
| 1970 | Glenn Cadrez, NFL linebacker, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1970 | Royce Clayton, born in Burbank, California, infielder, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals |
| 1969 | Christy Turlington, born in San Francisco, California, model, Calvin Klein Eternity |
| 1969 | Rick Tabaracci, Toronto, NHL goalie for the Calgary Flames |
| 1969 | Robert Svehla, born in Martin, Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman, Florida Panthers, Slovakia |
| 1969 | Stephen John Davies, Australia field hockey forward/vice captain, 2 Bronze Medals and 1 Silver Medal 1992, 1996, 2000 Olympics |
| 1968 | Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor, Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men |
| 1968 | Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback, Detroit Lions |
| 1967 | Harlon Barnett, NFL safety for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1966 | Tia Carrere, Althea Janairo, Honolulu, actress, Wayne's World |
| 1965 | Diane Lane, New York City, actress, Streets of Fire, Lady Beware, Lonesome Dove |
| 1965 | Greg Swindell, Fort Worth, Texas, pitcher, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians |
| 1965 | Russ Courtnall, Duncan, NHL right wing, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1964 | Pernell Whitaker, boxer, Olympic-gold |
| 1964 | Rumesh Ratnayake, cricketer, Sri Lankan pacer in 23 Tests 1983-92 |
| 1963 | David Cone, born in Kansas City, Missouri, baseball pitcher, New York Mets/Tor Blue Jays/New York Yankees |
| 1963 | Edgar Martinez, New York City, baseball 1st baseman for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1962 | April Winchell, American Actress |
| 1960 | Raman Lamba, cricketer, Indian opening batsman 1986-87 |
| 1959 | Kirti Azad, cricketer, Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83 |
| 1958 | Beatrice Webb, British Sociologist |
| 1957 | Joanna Pacula, Tomszowaubelski Poland, actress, Gorky Park, Kiss |
| 1956 | Lynda Barry, American Cartoonist |
| 1954 | Ludmila Borozna, U.S.S.R., volleyball player, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1952 | Ricky Van Shelton, Grit, Virginia, country singer, Wild-Eyed Dream |
| 1952 | Wendy Phillips, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Executive Suite, Promised Land |
| 1951 | Nadia Cassini, Gianna Lou Muller, Woodstock, New York, model, Oui |
| 1949 | Chick Churchill, Wales, keyboardist, Ten Years After-I'm Going Home |
| 1949 | Christopher Durang, Montclair, New Jersey, playwright/actor, Sister Mary |
| 1947 | Aleksandr Tikhonova, U.S.S.R., biathalon relay, Gold Medals 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980 Olympics |
| 1947 | Calvin Hill, NFL running back for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1947 | Lanny Bassham, U.S., rifle-3 position 1976 Olympics gold |
| 1947 | Jack Hanna, American Celebrity |
| 1944 | Peter Eotvos, born in Odorheiu Secuiesc, Hungary, now Romania, composer, conductor, works include 'Love and Other Demons' |
| 1942 | Dennis Hastert, American Politician |
| 1942 | Hugh Shelton, American Soldier |
| 1939 | Jim Bakker, televangelist, PTL Club |
| 1938 | John Considine, actor, Reginald Love-Another World |
| 1937 | Marianne McDonald, classicist/philanthropist |
| 1936 | Roger Miller, Ft. Worth, Texas, country singer, King of the Road, Dang Me |
| 1932 | Dabney Coleman, Austin Texas, That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill |
| 1931 | Toshiki Kaifu, premier of Japan, 1989-91 |
| 1930 | Julius LaRosa, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer, fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air |
| 1929 | Art Prysock, jazz musician |
| 1928 | Dan Rostenkowski, born in Chicago, Illinois, Representative-D-Illinois 1959 - 1995 |
| 1928 | Gerhard Amanshauser, writer |
| 1928 | Harry Hyams, English immovable goods owner, Center Point |
| 1928 | Howard Caine, born in Nashville, Tennessee, actor, Brushfire |
| 1928 | Tiberiu Olah, composer |
| 1928 | Vaughn Beals, Cambridge Massachusetts, CEO, Harley Davidson motorcycle |
| 1928 | Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese Writer |
| 1927 | David Herbert, publisher |
| 1927 | Gino Marchetti, NFL defensive end, Dallas Texans, Baltimore Colts |
| 1925 | Andry Maryanovich Nikodemovich, composer |
| 1925 | William J Crowe, Jr., Kentucky, chairman joint chief of staff |
| 1922 | Jason Evers, New York City, actor, Wrangler, Channing |
| 1922 | Renata Tebaldi, Pesaro Italy, lyric soprano |
| 1920 | Duke of Devonshire, English large landowner/art collector |
| 1920 | Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer, I Robot, Foundation Trilogy |
| 1920 | Penelope Jessel, politcal activist |
| 1920 | Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker |
| 1920 | Issac Asimov, American Writer |
| 1915 | John Hope Franklin, historian |
| 1913 | Ernest Sidey, British air marshal |
| 1913 | Gardner Read, Evanston, Illinois, composer |
| 1913 | Juanita E Jackson Mitchell, U.S. head, NAACP |
| 1913 | Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, France, meteorologist |
| 1912 | Andre Ameller, composer |
| 1912 | Anna Lee, Ightham England, actress, Scruples, Lila-General Hospital |
| 1912 | Barbara Pentland, Winnipeg Canada, composer |
| 1912 | Renato Guttuso, Italian painter, Flight from Etna, Crucifixion |
| 1910 | Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation |
| 1909 | Rene Etiemble, French literature historian, Parlez-vous Franglais |
| 1908 | Ben Grauer, New York City, newscaster, Big Story |
| 1908 | Janis Kepitis, composer |
| 1907 | Edward Albert Radice, economist |
| 1907 | Salvador Ley, composer |
| 1905 | Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer and conductor, Child of our Time |
| 1904 | James Melton, Moultrie, Georgia, opera tenor, Ford Festival |
| 1904 | Sally Rand, Hickory County, Missouri, stripper, fan dance |
| 1903 | Anton van Duinkerken, Willem JMA Asselbergs, literary |
| 1901 | Rex O'Malley, born in London, England, actor, Camille, Zara, Midnight |
| 1901 | Robert Marshall, founder, Wilderness Society |
| 1901 | Torsten Ralf, Swedish tenor, Daphne |
| 1899 | Alexander Tcherepnin, St. Petersburg Russia, composer |
| 1899 | Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium, premier/Secretary-General of NATO, 1957-61 |
| 1896 | Dziga Vertiv, Denis A Kaufman, Russian director, Sjagai, Soviet! |
| 1896 | Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer |
| 1895 | Count Folke Bernadotte, Sweden, statesman, Red Cross, UN |
| 1894 | Robert Nathan, New York City, poet, novelist, Portrait of Jennie |
| 1892 | Lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer |
| 1889 | Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer, La Rondine |
| 1889 | Walter Baldwin, Ohio, actor, Gay Amigo |
| 1886 | Moyshe Leyb Halpern, Galican/US poet, In New-York |
| 1885 | Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer, dikes |
| 1884 | Jacques Chardonne, Boutelleau, French writer, l'Epithalame |
| 1880 | Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer |
| 1879 | Johannes L "Jan" Walch, Dutch literary, Grimaces |
| 1879 | Pieter Tesch, Dutch geologist, Pedestal of Nederlands |
| 1873 | Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, Communist Tactics |
| 1870 | Ernst Barlach, writer |
| 1866 | Gilbert Murray, British Diplomat |
| 1865 | William Lyon Phelps, American Educator |
| 1863 | Lucia Zarate, became lightest known adult human, 2.1 kg at 17 |
| 1861 | Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady, 1909-12 |
| 1861 | Wilhelm Bolsche, writer |
| 1860 | William C Mills, museum curator, excavated Ohio Indian mounds |
| 1857 | Frederick Opper, cartoonist, Maud, Alphonse and Gaston |
| 1857 | Martha Carey Thomas, educator/president, Bryn Mawr College |
| 1846 | Sandor Erkel, composer |
| 1842 | Amy G. C. A. Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist |
| 1837 | Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer, Tamara |
| 1835 | Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., Brigadier General Union volunteers |
| 1831 | Justin Winston, historian/librarian, Harvard |
| 1831 | Justin Winsor, American Writer |
| 1830 | Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer |
| 1830 | Henry Flagler, American Businessman |
| 1822 | Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist, thermodynamics |
| 1809 | Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer |
| 1807 | Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer |
| 1803 | Gugliemo Libri, della Somaia, Italian/French mathematician/book collector |
| 1777 | Christian D Rauch, German sculptor |
| 1752 | Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village |
| 1732 | Franz Xaver Brixi, composer |
| 1728 | Louis Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian count/diplomat in Belgium |
| 1727 | James Wolfe, commanded British Army, captured Quebec |
| 1699 | Osman III, sultan, Turkey |
| 1647 | Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia, 1676 |
| 1642 | Mehmed IV, sultan, Turkey |
January 2nd Deaths in History | |
| 2007 | Robert C. Solomon, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at 64 |
| 2004 | Lynn Cartwright, actress, A League of Their Own, dies at 76 |
| 2003 | Sydney Omarr, astrologer, dies at 76 |
| 2001 | George Carman, English Lawyer |
| 2000 | Patrick O'Brian, author of sea-faring novels, Aubrey-Maturin series, dies at 85 |
| 1998 | Frank Muir, English Writer |
| 1997 | Jim Rodger, sports writer, dies at 75 |
| 1997 | Randy California, rock guitarist, dies at 45 |
| 1996 | Sydney Thompson, rock Climber, dies at 81 |
| 1996 | Thornton Page, astrophysicist, dies at 82 |
| 1995 | Graham Sharp, ice skater, dies at 77 |
| 1995 | Manuel Rivera, Spanish painter/co-founder (El Paso), dies at 67 |
| 1995 | Mohammed Siyad Barre, president of Somalia (1969-91), dies |
| 1995 | Nancy Kelly, U.S. actress (Bad Seed, Submarine Patrol), dies at 73 |
| 1995 | Siad Barre, general/president of Somalia (1969-91), dies at 84 |
| 1994 | Caesar Romero, actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission), dies at 79 |
| 1994 | Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Sammy Taft, Canadian businessman (coined term "hat trick"), dies at 81 |
| 1994 | Dixie Lee Ray, American Politician |
| 1992 | Virginia Field, actress (Dream Girl), dies of cancer at 74 |
| 1991 | Edmond Jabes, writer, dies |
| 1991 | Renato Rascel, actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78 |
| 1990 | Alan Hale, Jr., Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71 |
| 1990 | Belcampo, Herman Schonfeld Wichers, Dutch lawyer/writer, dies at 87 |
| 1990 | Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky, Manchuria composer (Creation), dies at 78 |
| 1986 | Una Merkel, U.S. actress (Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82 |
| 1983 | Bernard George Stevens, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1983 | Dick Emery, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), dies at 65 |
| 1983 | Harriet Parsons, producer (Susan Slept Here), dies at 76 of cancer |
| 1981 | David Lynch, singer (Platters-My Prayer), dies at 51 |
| 1980 | Larry Williams, singer, pianist, rock and roll, rhythm and blues genres, recorded, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Short Fat Fannie, dies from a gunshot wound, in Los Angeles, California, at age 44 |
| 1977 | Erroll Garner, jazz pianist (Misty), dies at 53 |
| 1974 | Tex Ritter, country singer (5 Star Jubilee), dies at 67 |
| 1970 | Piotr Rytel, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1969 | Georges Renevant, actor (Cornered), dies after long illness at 74 |
| 1968 | Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies |
| 1965 | Staf Gustaf Frans Nees, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1963 | Dick Powell, actor and director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58 |
| 1963 | Jack Carson, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52 |
| 1960 | Cees [Cornelis J] Laseur, Dutch actor/dir (Hague Comedy), dies at 60 |
| 1960 | Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79 |
| 1960 | Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40 |
| 1960 | Friedrich Adler, Austria soc-dem, murdered Prime Minister Sturgkh, dies at 80 |
| 1955 | Jose Antonio Remon, president of Panama 1952 - 1955, assassinated |
| 1950 | Emil Jannings, actor (The Way of All Flesh), dies at 65 |
| 1945 | Betram Home Ramsay, English Admiral/Commander Naval Forces (Normandy), dies at 61 |
| 1941 | Mischa Levitzki, composer, dies at 42 |
| 1937 | Ross Alexander, actor (Captain Blood, Boulder Dam), dies at 29 |
| 1929 | Erich Wichmann, Dutch fascist painter/sculptor, dies at 38 |
| 1921 | Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Germany chancellor/Prime Minister (Prussia), dies at 64 |
| 1918 | Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42 |
| 1917 | Edward B Tylor, English anthropologist, dies at 84 |
| 1915 | Karl Goldmark, Austria-Hungarian composer (Queen of Saba), dies at 84 |
| 1913 | Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere), dies at 57 |
| 1908 | Dom Joao G da Camara, Portuguese journalist/playwright, dies at 55 |
| 1904 | James Longstreet, Confederate general, dies at 82 |
| 1892 | George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90 |
| 1879 | Caleb Cushing, American Diplomat |
| 1863 | Roger Weightman Hanson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 35 |
| 1861 | Frederik Willem IV, king Prussia (1840-61)/Germ (1849-61), dies at 65 |
| 1803 | Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer, dies at 69 |
| 1801 | Johann C Lavater, Swiss vicar/philosopher, dies at 59 |
| 1801 | Johann Kaspar Lavater, German Theologian |
| 1790 | Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies |
| 1789 | Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, dies at 68 |
| 1780 | Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1763 | John Casteret earl Granville, English premier, dies at 72 |
| 1740 | Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1726 | Domenico Zipoli, composer, dies at 37 |
| 17 | Publius Ovidius Naso, Roman poet, dies |
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