January 5th Events in History | |
| 1998 | Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec and Ontario |
| 1998 | Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid |
| 1997 | Juan Darien-Carnival Mass closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City |
| 1997 | Love Thy Neighbor, closes at Booth Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Show Boat, closes at Gershwin Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement |
| 1996 | Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI vs. WI at the Gabba |
| 1995 | AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl |
| 1995 | Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed |
| 1994 | Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82) |
| 1994 | Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71) |
| 1994 | Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71) |
| 1993 | Brian Lara completes 277 vs. Australia at cricket SCG |
| 1993 | Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident |
| 1993 | Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1992 | 6 Degrees of Separation closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 496 perf |
| 1992 | Crucible closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 32 performances |
| 1992 | On Borrowed Time closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 99 performances |
| 1992 | Peter Pan closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1992 | Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt |
| 1991 | Oh, Kay! closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 77 performances |
| 1991 | Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-meter springboard diving title |
| 1991 | Kevin Bradshaw of U.S. International scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts |
| 1990 | J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL |
| 1989 | 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test |
| 1989 | Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990 |
| 1987 | Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ |
| 1985 | Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot |
| 1985 | Discovery moves to launch pad for STS-51-C mission |
| 1984 | Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws |
| 1984 | Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings |
| 1982 | Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation |
| 1981 | Nightline with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes |
| 1981 | British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women |
| 1977 | Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament |
| 1976 | MacNeil-Lehrer Report premieres on PBS |
| 1976 | Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea" |
| 1976 | Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies |
| 1975 | Wiz opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1672 performances |
| 1975 | Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in New York City |
| 1975 | Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days |
| 1975 | 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks |
| 1974 | Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother" |
| 1973 | Mali and Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel |
| 1973 | Netherlands recognizes East Germany |
| 1972 | Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178) |
| 1972 | NASA announces development of space shuttle |
| 1972 | New York City transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents |
| 1972 | President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle |
| 1972 | West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed |
| 1971 | 1st one-day international, Australia vs. England at the MCG |
| 1971 | Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak |
| 1971 | U.S. heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found |
| 1970 | 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike |
| 1970 | KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC |
| 1969 | Maggie Flynn closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 82 performances |
| 1969 | Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro |
| 1969 | Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus) |
| 1968 | Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law |
| 1968 | Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia |
| 1967 | KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, California (IND) begins |
| 1964 | Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel |
| 1964 | San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship |
| 1963 | Camelot closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 873 performances |
| 1963 | Carnival! closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 719 performances |
| 1963 | San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game |
| 1962 | Tony Sheridan and Beatles produce "My Bonnie" and "The Saints" |
| 1961 | U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba |
| 1960 | Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating |
| 1959 | Bozo the Clown live children's show premieres on TV |
| 1959 | Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter" |
| 1957 | Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants |
| 1957 | Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| 1955 | KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea |
| 1953 | Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris |
| 1952 | Flying Enterprise sinks |
| 1951 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open |
| 1950 | Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in New York City |
| 1949 | General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra |
| 1949 | President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal" |
| 1946 | Show Boat opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 417 performances |
| 1945 | Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty" |
| 1945 | Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam |
| 1943 | Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II |
| 1943 | William H. Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces |
| 1942 | 55 German tanks reach North-Africa |
| 1941 | British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia |
| 1940 | FCC hears 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal |
| 1940 | Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia |
| 1937 | Fingleton and Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt |
| 1937 | Only unicameral state legislature in U.S. opens 1st session (Nebr) |
| 1934 | Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also) |
| 1934 | National and American baseball leagues select a uniform ball |
| 1933 | Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side |
| 1931 | 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League |
| 1930 | Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" |
| 1929 | Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia |
| 1927 | Fox Studios exhibits Movietone |
| 1927 | Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox |
| 1926 | James Cox of Ford Motors announces 8 hour day and $5 daily minimum wage |
| 1925 | James Gleason and Richard Tabers "Is zat so?," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman Governor in USA |
| 1925 | Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office |
| 1925 | French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings |
| 1920 | Boston Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to New York Yankees |
| 1920 | New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth |
| 1919 | National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party |
| 1919 | Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege |
| 1918 | British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace |
| 1916 | Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro |
| 1914 | Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hour day to $5.00/8-hour day |
| 1912 | 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria) |
| 1911 | Portuguese expel Jesuits |
| 1911 | SF has it's 1st air meet |
| 1909 | Colombia recognizes Panama's independence |
| 1905 | Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara |
| 1905 | National Association of Audubon Society incorporates |
| 1904 | -34 degrees F (-36.7 degrees C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record) |
| 1904 | -42 degrees F (-41.1 degrees C), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record) |
| 1904 | England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 and 8-68 |
| 1903 | San Francisco - Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use |
| 1899 | Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton |
| 1896 | German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays |
| 1896 | Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona |
| 1895 | Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London |
| 1895 | Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 years 64 days |
| 1895 | French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent |
| 1892 | 1st successful auroral photograph made |
| 1888 | Dutch Heidemaatschappij established |
| 1887 | 1st U.S. school of librarianship opens at Columbia University |
| 1875 | Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris |
| 1875 | President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| 1861 | 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft. Sumter |
| 1861 | Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan and Gaines at Mobile Bay |
| 1859 | 1st steamboat sails, Red River |
| 1854 | Steamship San Francisco wrecked - 300 die |
| 1850 | California Exchange opens |
| 1841 | James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf |
| 1840 | Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date |
| 1836 | Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo |
| 1834 | Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell |
| 1828 | 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad) |
| 1822 | Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire |
| 1809 | Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain and France |
| 1804 | Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement |
| 1800 | 1st Swedenborgian temple in U.S. holds 1st service, Baltimore |
| 1781 | British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va |
| 1776 | Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution |
| 1757 | Failed assassination attempt on French king Louis XV by Damiens |
| 1719 | Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact |
| 1717 | Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles |
| 1709 | Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans |
| 1675 | Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg |
| 1649 | Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice |
| 1638 | Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues |
| 1593 | William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe |
| 1554 | Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 1531 | Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry |
| 1500 | Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan |
| 1477 | Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7000+ killed |
| 1463 | French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris |
| 1438 | Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara |
| 1349 | Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand |
January 5th Birthdays in History | |
| 1980 | Garette Patrick Ratliff, actor, Return to Blue Lagoon |
| 1979 | Sarah Price, Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1997 |
| 1978 | January Jones, American Actress |
| 1975 | Ray Morgan, announcer, I'd Like to See |
| 1975 | Warrick Dunn, running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1975 | Bradley Cooper, American Actor |
| 1975 | Kylie Bax, New Zealander Model |
| 1974 | Calvin Collins, center/guard for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1974 | John Drew Nichols, born in Oklahoma, rocker, PC Quest-Can You See |
| 1974 | Michelle Scerri, born in Melbourne, Australia, golfer, 1995 Tasmanian |
| 1972 | Joseph Patton, NFL guard for the Washington Redskins |
| 1971 | Eric Smith, NFL/WLAF wide receiver, Chicago Bears, Scotland Claymores |
| 1971 | Hillary Butler, WLAF linebacker for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1971 | Jason Bates, born in Downey, California, infielder for the Colorado Rockies |
| 1970 | James Patton, NFL defensive end for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1969 | David Dixon, NFL guard for the Minnesota Vikings |
| 1969 | Derrick Ned, NFL fullback for the New Orleans Saints |
| 1969 | Kurt Barber, NFL defensive end for the New York Jets |
| 1969 | Marilyn Manson, singer and musician |
| 1968 | Carl Evans, Actor, Guilding Light |
| 1968 | Felton Spencer, NBA center, Utah Jazz |
| 1968 | Jean Zedlitz, born in Stockton, California, LPGA golfer, 1994 Children's Med-14th |
| 1968 | Joe Juneau, Pont-rouge, NHL center for the Washington Capitals |
| 1968 | Leila Meskhi, Tbilisi Georgia SSR, tennis star, 1995 Hobart |
| 1967 | Chris Nabholz, U.S. baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox |
| 1967 | J B Brown, NFL cornerback, Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1967 | Ray Crockett, NFL defensive back, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1967 | Ricky Paull Goldin, SF, actor, Doug-Hail to the Chief, Another World |
| 1966 | Kate Schellenbach, musician, Luscious Jackson |
| 1966 | Renaldo Turnbull, NFL defensive end, NO Saints, Carolina Panthers |
| 1965 | Rick Tuten, NFL punter for the Seattle Seahawks |
| 1965 | Vinnie Jones, British Athlete |
| 1965 | Steven Cojocaru, Canadian Critic |
| 1964 | John Erickson, born in Woodland Hills, California, golfer, 1991 Windsor Charity |
| 1964 | Ted Harris Poley, born in Englewood, New Jersey, rocker, Danger Danger-Screw It |
| 1964 | Tracy Ham, CFL quarterback, Montreal Alouettes |
| 1963 | Jeff Fassero, born in Springfield, Illinois, pitcher for the Montreal Expos |
| 1962 | Brendon Kuruppu, cricketer, Sri Lankan batsman, 201* debut vs. New Zealand 1987 |
| 1962 | Danny Jackson, U.S. baseball pitcher, Royals/Phillies/Cardinals |
| 1962 | Donald John Cowie, Auckland New Zealand, yachting Star class 1996 Olympics |
| 1962 | Joel Wyner, actor and director, Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club |
| 1961 | Curt Bader, born in Bloomfield, Iowa, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics |
| 1959 | Kapil Dev, India's cricket player |
| 1959 | Clancy Brown, American Actor |
| 1958 | Suzy Amis, Oklahoma City, actress, Blame it on Rio, Where the Heart is |
| 1957 | Vincent Calloway, Kentucky, trumpet player, Midnight Star-No Parking |
| 1954 | Bryan Hitt, rocker, REO Speedwagon-Keep on Loving You |
| 1953 | Pamela Sue Martin, Westport, Connecticut, actress, Nancy Drew, Fallon-Dynasty |
| 1950 | Michael O'Donoghue, writer/performer |
| 1949 | Chris Stein, Brooklyn, rock guitarist, Blondie-Heart of Glass, Call Me |
| 1949 | George Brown, rock drummer, Kool and the Gang |
| 1948 | Parthasarathy Sharma, cricketer, Indian batsman of the mid-70's |
| 1948 | Thom Mooney, born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, musician, drummer, played with Fuse, Nazz, The Curtis Brothers, Tattoo |
| 1947 | Mike DeWine, born in Springfield, Ohio, Representative-R-Ohio 1983 - 1991, Senator-R-Ohio 1995 - 2007 |
| 1947 | Ted Lange, born in Oakland California, actor, Isaac-Love Boat, Mr. T and Tina |
| 1947 | Mike DeWine, American Politician |
| 1946 | Crazy Barret Diamond Syd, rocker, Pink Floyd |
| 1946 | Diane Keaton, born in Louisiana, actress, Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl |
| 1945 | Sam Wyche, NFL coach for the Cincinnati Bengals |
| 1944 | Felix Arons, Dutch director/actor, Waaldrecht |
| 1944 | Edward G. Rendell, American Politician |
| 1944 | Carolyn McCarthy, American Politician |
| 1944 | Ed Rendell, American Politician |
| 1943 | Eusebio de Silva Ferreira, Mozamb/Port soccer star, Europa Cup 1 1962 |
| 1943 | Ferreira da Silva Eusebio, Brazilan International soccer player |
| 1942 | Charlie Rose, Henderson, North Carolina, newscaster, CBS Night Watch |
| 1942 | Cliff Potts, born in Glendale California, actor, Ted-Lou Grant |
| 1942 | Maurizio Pollini, Milan Italy, pianist |
| 1941 | Bob Cunis, cricketer, New Zealand pace bowler of the late 60's |
| 1941 | Grady Thomas, U.S. rock vocalist, Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain |
| 1941 | Mansur Ali Khan, cricketer, Nawab of Pataudi, Indian batsman and captain |
| 1941 | Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese Director |
| 1940 | Dany Saval, born in Oakland California, actress, Boeing Boeing, Moon Pilot |
| 1939 | Bridget Parker, England, equestrian 3 day event, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics |
| 1939 | Peter Struycken, statues/computer expert/teacher |
| 1938 | Edwin Elliason, Washington, U.S. archer 1992 Olympics |
| 1938 | Jim Otto, NFL center for the Oakland Raiders |
| 1938 | Juan Carlos I, king of Spain, 1975- |
| 1938 | Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr |
| 1938 | Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer star |
| 1935 | Nancy Johnson, born in Chicago, Illinois, Representative-R-Connecticut 1983 - 2007 |
| 1932 | Chuck Noll, Cleveland, NFL coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 1932 | Raisa Maximovna Titorenko Gorbachev, Russia's 1st lady, 1982-1991 |
| 1932 | Umberto Eco, author, Name of the Rose |
| 1931 | Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist |
| 1931 | Alvin Ailey, choreographer, American Dance Theater |
| 1931 | Robert Duvall, born in San Diego, California, actor, Great Santini, Taxi Driver |
| 1931 | Walter Davis, U.S., running high jumper 1952 Olympics gold |
| 1930 | Edward Galven Givens, Jr., Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut |
| 1930 | Frederick Charles Tillis, composer |
| 1930 | Richard Hayes, Passaic, New Jersey, singer/emcee, Name That Tune |
| 1929 | Wilbert Harrison, singer |
| 1928 | Imtiaz Ahmed, cricketer, Pakistan wicket-keeper in 41 Tests 1952-62 |
| 1928 | Walter Fritz Mondale, born in Ceylon, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1964 - 1976, 42nd Vice President, 1977 - 1981 |
| 1928 | Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto, president/premier, Pakistan |
| 1928 | Walter F. Mondale, American Lawyer |
| 1928 | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani Statesman |
| 1928 | Elizabeth Joan Smith, Canadian Politician |
| 1926 | Claude, Buddy, Young, NFL running back, Yankees, Texans, Colts |
| 1926 | Robert Earle, Baldwin, New York, TV host, GE College Bowl |
| 1925 | Wolf Morris, actor, Decoy |
| 1923 | Robert L Bernstein, New York City, publisher, Random House |
| 1923 | Sam Phillips, musician/record founder, Sun |
| 1921 | Friedrich Durrenmatt, born in Switzerland, playwright and novelist, Visit |
| 1921 | Jean BMRLAAM d'Aviano, grand duke of Luxembourg, 1964- |
| 1920 | Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Brescia Italy, pianist |
| 1920 | Mohammad Aslam Khokhar, cricket, Pak bat scored 16 and 18 in only test |
| 1918 | Jean Dixon, psychic, Gift of Prophecy |
| 1917 | Jane Wyman, born in Missouri, actress, film, television, Academy Award-winner, first wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan |
| 1917 | Reginald Smith Brindle, composer |
| 1917 | Wieland Wagner, German opera director |
| 1915 | Uta Graf, singer/teacher |
| 1914 | George Reeves, George Lescher Bessolo, actor, Superman |
| 1912 | Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army, 1950 - 1953 |
| 1910 | Erica Morini, Vienna Austria, concert violinist |
| 1909 | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris, France, actor, Cat and Mouse, Happy Hooker |
| 1909 | Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, bibliophile |
| 1909 | Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician, Regular Expressions |
| 1908 | George Dolenz, Trieste Italy, actor, Count of Monte Cristo |
| 1907 | Anton Ingolic, Slavic author, After Splavih, After Prelomu |
| 1907 | Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor |
| 1907 | Willi Soukop, sculptor |
| 1906 | Kathleen Kenyon, 1st person to place date on remains of Jericho |
| 1905 | Laszlo Papp, Hungary, middleweight boxer, Gold Medals 1948, 1952, 1956 Olympics |
| 1903 | Leighton Lucas, composer |
| 1903 | Telesforo A. Palm, Curaeao, composer/pianist |
| 1902 | Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author, Cold Comfort Farm |
| 1902 | Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper publisher, Le Monde, The Voice, |
| 1902 | Pierre Palla, Dutch pianist/organist |
| 1901 | H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter |
| 1901 | Mario Scelba, premier Italy, 1954-55 |
| 1900 | Paula Ludwig, writer |
| 1900 | Yves Tanguy, French/U.S. sailor/surrealistic painter |
| 1900 | Dennis Gabor, Physicist |
| 1897 | Jack Wagner, Ohio, actor, Jive Junction |
| 1897 | Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer, Lady Fanny, Bel Ami |
| 1896 | Hendrik Algra, Dutch MP, ARP |
| 1895 | Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest |
| 1893 | Friedrich Blume, German musicologist, Das Rassenproblem in der Musik |
| 1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian Leader |
| 1892 | Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress, Odette, Assunta Spina |
| 1882 | Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor |
| 1881 | Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer |
| 1880 | Nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer |
| 1879 | Jack Norworth, American Musician |
| 1876 | Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany, BRD, 1949 |
| 1874 | Joseph Erlanger, doctor, shock therapy-Nobel 1944 |
| 1871 | Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Massachusetts, composer |
| 1859 | DeWitt B Brace, inventor, spectrophotometer |
| 1858 | Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author, Boken om Lillebror |
| 1855 | King Camp Gillette, inventor, safety razor |
| 1853 | Olympia Brown, American Activist |
| 1850 | Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher |
| 1848 | Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet |
| 1846 | Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher, Nobel 1908 |
| 1840 | John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1835 | Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer |
| 1835 | Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch gouvernement doctor on Saint Maarten |
| 1828 | August Valentine Kautz, Major General Union Army |
| 1823 | William Rockstro, composer |
| 1822 | Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General Confederate Army |
| 1813 | Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General Confederate Army |
| 1811 | Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary, est Robert College, Turkey |
| 1810 | Auguste Mermet, composer |
| 1806 | Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet, La Belgium |
| 1788 | Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer |
| 1787 | John Burke, Irish genealogist, Burke's Peerage |
| 1780 | Claire EJ, countess of Remusat/Vergennes/French author, Salon |
| 1779 | Stephen Decatur, U.S., naval hero, War of 1812 |
| 1779 | Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer, Pike's Peak |
| 1778 | Fortunato Santini, composer |
| 1773 | Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer |
| 1773 | Richard Heber, English Celebrity |
| 1769 | Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, Political Economics |
| 1759 | Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader |
| 1729 | Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter |
| 1710 | Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer |
| 1679 | Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer |
| 1661 | Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer |
| 1596 | Henry Lawes, English composer |
| 1592 | Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India, 1628-58, built Taj Mahal |
| 1560 | William Cobbold, composer |
| 1548 | Francisco Suarez, Granada Spain, philosopher/theologian |
January 5th Deaths in History | |
| 2004 | Tug McGraw, American Athlete |
| 2003 | Jean Kerr, writer, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, dies at 79 |
| 2003 | Roy Jenkins, politician/writer, Winston Churchill, dies at 82 |
| 2001 | Nancy Parsons, actress, Porky's, dies at 58 |
| 1998 | Georgi Sviridov, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1998 | Sonny Bono, Representative-R-California 1995 - 1998, singer, Sonny and Cher, dies skiing at 62 |
| 1997 | Andre Franquin, cartoonist, dies at 72 |
| 1996 | Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86 |
| 1996 | Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84 |
| 1996 | Lincoln Kirstein, ballet administrator, dies at 88 |
| 1996 | Richard Versaille, tenor, dies at 63 |
| 1995 | Francis Lopez, French dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie), dies at 78 |
| 1995 | Mansour Satari, Brigadier-General and commandant (Iran Air Force), dies at 46 |
| 1995 | Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone |
| 1994 | Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen, dies at 87 |
| 1994 | Tip O'Neill, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1977 - 1987, Speaker of the House, dies of cancer at 81 |
| 1994 | Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39 |
| 1994 | William Raynor, writer, dies at 73 |
| 1994 | Thomas P. O'Neill, American Politician |
| 1993 | George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85 |
| 1993 | Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA), dies at 61 |
| 1993 | Jennifer Raine Bissell, daughter of Alan Napier, dies 60 |
| 1993 | Juan Benet Goitia, Spanish writer (Herrumbrosas Lanzas), dies at 65 |
| 1993 | Klaas Wiersma, Dutch Secretary of Justice (VVD), dies |
| 1993 | Leonce Gras, Flemish singer/conductor, dies at 84 |
| 1993 | Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered |
| 1993 | Ronnie Welsh, actor (Patterns), dies of brain cancer at 52 |
| 1993 | Westley A Dodd, U.S. murderer, 1st hanging in U.S. since 1965 |
| 1991 | John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82 |
| 1991 | Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80 |
| 1991 | Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68 |
| 1990 | Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76 |
| 1990 | Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies |
| 1988 | Pistol Pete Mavarich, NBAer (Atlanta), dies of a heart attack at 40 |
| 1987 | Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60 |
| 1987 | Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian Athlete |
| 1982 | Hans Conried, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy), dies at 64 |
| 1982 | Harvey Lembeck, actor (Phil Silvers, Hathaways), dies at 56 |
| 1981 | Harold C Urey, U.S. chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87 |
| 1981 | Paul Felix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun), dies at 67 |
| 1979 | Charles Mingus, U.S. jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56 |
| 1977 | Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life), dies at 74 |
| 1976 | Georges E Migot, French composer, dies at 84 |
| 1975 | Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro), dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning |
| 1974 | Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79 |
| 1973 | Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP (SGP), dies at 79 |
| 1971 | Sonny Liston, World Champ hw boxer (1962-64), found dead at 36 |
| 1970 | Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered |
| 1970 | Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 |
| 1970 | Roberto Gerhard, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1969 | Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83 |
| 1969 | Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools), dies of influenza in NY |
| 1968 | Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79 |
| 1965 | Neil Craig, actor (Calling Dr. Kildare), dies at 73 |
| 1965 | Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher, dies at 81 |
| 1963 | Rogers Hornsby, baseball player, dies of a heart ailment at 66 |
| 1960 | Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 53 |
| 1956 | Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge), dies at 84 |
| 1952 | Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo 3 Tests for England 3 for Ind), dies |
| 1952 | Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64 |
| 1951 | Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51 |
| 1945 | Dezso Szabo, Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village), dies at 65 |
| 1944 | Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80 |
| 1943 | George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81 |
| 1942 | Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered |
| 1940 | Tina Modotti, Maria del Carmen, Italian/Mexican communist, dies at 46 |
| 1936 | Ramon M del Valle-Inclan, playwright (Tirano banderas), dies at 66 |
| 1933 | Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29), dies in Mass at 60 |
| 1922 | Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47 |
| 1922 | Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer |
| 1904 | Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64 |
| 1891 | Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49), dies at 89 |
| 1888 | Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday |
| 1867 | Alexander Smith, Scottish Poet |
| 1862 | Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81 |
| 1860 | St. John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male U.S. saint, dies |
| 1858 | Johann JWAFK Radetzky von Radetz, Austr earl/field marshal, dies at 91 |
| 1856 | Pierre J David, David d'Angers, French sculptor, dies at 67 |
| 1848 | Ferdinando Orlandi, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1827 | Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general, dies at 63 |
| 1814 | Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1807 | Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes), dies at 79 |
| 1799 | Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet, Husn-u asjk, dies at about 41 |
| 1796 | Samuel Huntington, U.S. judge signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 64 |
| 1788 | Johann Schneider, composer, dies at 85 |
| 1783 | Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday |
| 1762 | Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at 52 |
| 1759 | Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Netherlands cardinal, dies at 79 |
| 1746 | Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer, dies at 53 |
| 1740 | Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72 |
| 1684 | Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver, dies at 44 |
| 1603 | Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead, dies at 73 |
| 1595 | Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies |
| 1592 | Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75 |
| 1589 | Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69 |
| 1524 | Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet, dies at 73 |
| 1477 | Charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer, dies at 43 |
| 1425 | John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned |
| 1387 | Pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily, dies at 67 |
| 1066 | Edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66), dies |
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