January 13

January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 days remaining until the end of the year (353 in leap years).

It is sometimes celebrated as New Year's Eve (at least in the 20th & 21st centuries) by ethnic groups and religious orders still using the thirteen-days-adrift Julian calendar (Old New Year).

Events

• 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople.
• 888 – Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
• 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
• 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
• 1607 – The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
• 1666 – French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
• 1793 – Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
• 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
• 1815 – War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
• 1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
• 1830 – The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
• 1833 – President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
• 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
• 1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
• 1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
• 1869 – National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
• 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
• 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
• 1895 – First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
• 1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• 1908 – The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
• 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.
• 1913 – Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
• 1915 – An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
• 1934 – The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union.
• 1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
• 1939 – The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
• 1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
• 1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
• 1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
• 1953 – An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
• 1958 – The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
• 1960 – The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.
• 1963 – Coup d'etat in Togo results in assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio
• 1964 – Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
• 1964 – Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland.
• 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
• 1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison
• 1972 – Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
• 1974 – Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
• 1978 – U.S. Food & Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
• 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
• 1985 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
• 1986 – A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
• 1988 – Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
• 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
• 1991 – Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding 1000.
• 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
• 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
• 2012 – The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 32 confirmed deaths amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.

Births

• 1334 – Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
• 1505 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)
• 1562 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)
• 1596 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)
• 1610 – Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (d. 1665)
• 1616 – Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
• 1635 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
• 1651 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)
• 1683 – Christoph Graupner, German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1760)
• 1698 – Metastasio, Italian poet (d. 1782)
• 1720 – Richard Hurd, English bishop (d. 1808)
• 1749 – Maler Müller, German poet, painter, and playwright (d. 1825)
• 1777 – Elisa Bonaparte, French sister of Napoleon (d. 1820)
• 1787 – John Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)
• 1804 – Paul Gavarni, French illustrator (d. 1866)
• 1805 – Thomas Dyer, American politician, 18th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
• 1808 – Salmon P. Chase, American jurist and politician, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
• 1812 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)
• 1832 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American author (d. 1899)
• 1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer (d. 1896)
• 1858 – Oskar Minkowski, Lithuanian biologist (d. 1931)
• 1859 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)
• 1861 – Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
• 1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
• 1865 – Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)
• 1866 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)
• 1869 – Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Italian general (d. 1931)
• 1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959)
• 1874 – Alexandros Hatzikyriakos, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1958)
• 1878 – Lionel Groulx, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1967)
• 1878 – Geert Lotsij, Dutch rower (d. 1959)
• 1881 – Essington Lewis, Australian businessman (d. 1961)
• 1883 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938)
• 1883 – Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (d. 1967)
• 1884 – Sophie Tucker, Ukrainian-American singer and actress (d. 1966)
• 1885 – Alfred Fuller, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Fuller Brush Company (d. 1973)
• 1886 – Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1964)
• 1887 – Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (d. 1946)
• 1887 – George Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (d. 1949)
• 1890 – Jüri Uluots, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1945)
• 1892 – Ermanno Aebi, Italian-Swiss footballer (d. 1976)
• 1893 – Roy Cazaly, Australian footballer (d. 1963)
• 1893 – Clark Ashton Smith, American poet, sculptor, painter, and author (d. 1961)
• 1898 – Kai Munk, Danish pastor and playwright (d. 1944)
• 1898 – Carlo Tagliabue, Italian opera singer (d. 1978)
• 1901 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American historian and author (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish priest and historian (d. 1978)
• 1904 – Richard Addinsell, English composer (d. 1977)
• 1904 – Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1992)
• 1905 – Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)
• 1906 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist and academic
• 1909 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch anarchist (d. 1934)
• 1910 – Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter (d. 1989)
• 1911 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, New Zealand-Australian politician, 31st Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)
• 1913 – Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Ted Willis, Baron Willis, English screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Stephen Dunne, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1919 – Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Dachine Rainer, American-English author (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Albert Lamorisse, French director and producer (d. 1970)
• 1923 – Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Willem Slijkhuis, Dutch runner (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Georgi Kaloyanchev, Bulgarian actor (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Rosemary Murphy, German-American actress (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Ron Tauranac, Australian engineer and designer
• 1925 – Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Michael Bond, English soldier and author
• 1926 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author (d. 2003)
• 1926 – Melba Liston, American trombonist and composer (d. 1999)
• 1926 – Shakti Samanta, Indian director and producer (d. 2009)
• 1927 – Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 – Joe Pass, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1994)
• 1930 – Liz Anderson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1930 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress
• 1931 – Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
• 1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and director (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Chris Wiggins, English-Canadian actor
• 1932 – Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (d. 1994)
• 1932 – Bearcat Wright, American wrestler (d. 1982)
• 1933 – Tom Gola, American basketball player, coach, and politician (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Rip Taylor, American actor
• 1935 – Mauro Forghieri, Italian engineer
• 1935 – Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress
• 1936 – Renato Bruson, Italian opera singer
• 1938 – Richard Anthony, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter
• 1938 – William B. Davis, Canadian actor and director
• 1938 – Dave Edwards, American captain and politician (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Tord Grip, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1938 – Anna Home, English screenwriter and producer
• 1938 – Shivkumar Sharma, Indian santoor player and composer
• 1939 – Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentinian author, screenwriter, and director
• 1939 – Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach
• 1939 – Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 – Edmund White, American author
• 1941 – Pasqual Maragall i Mira, Catalan politician, 127th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
• 1942 – Carol Cleveland, English actress
• 1943 – William Duckworth, American composer and author (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Richard Moll, American actor
• 1945 – Gordon McVie, English oncologist
• 1946 – Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish saxophonist, composer, and conductor
• 1947 – John Lees, English guitarist (Barclay James Harvest)
• 1947 – Jacek Majchrowski, polish historian, lawyer, and politician
• 1947 – Carles Rexach, Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach
• 1948 – Gaj Singh, Indian politician
• 1949 – Klaus Brandner, German politician
• 1949 – Rakesh Sharma, Indian pilot and astronaut
• 1949 – Brandon Tartikoff, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
• 1950 – Clive Betts, English politician
• 1950 – Bob Forsch, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 1950 – Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
• 1950 – John McNaughton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 – Bruce Hart, Canadian wrestler
• 1951 – Frank E. Peretti, American author
• 1952 – Stephen Glover, English journalist
• 1954 – Richard Blackford, English composer
• 1954 – Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Yes, Rabbitt, and Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
• 1954 – Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer
• 1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Professor Ratbaggy and Stardust Five)
• 1955 – Jay McInerney, American author
• 1955 – Anne Pringle, English diplomat
• 1956 – Janet Hubert, American actress
• 1957 – Claudia Emerson, American poet and academic (d. 2014)
• 1957 – Mary Glindon, English politician
• 1957 – Lorrie Moore, American author
• 1957 – Mark O'Meara, American golfer
• 1958 – Francisco Buyo, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1958 – Ton du Chatinier, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1958 – Tasha Voux, American porn actress
• 1959 – Ernie Irvan, American race car driver
• 1959 – James LoMenzo, American bass player (Megadeth, White Lion, Pride and Glory, Slash's Snakepit, and Black Label Society)
• 1960 – Little Oral Annie, American porn actress
• 1960 – Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 – Matthew Bourne, English choreographer and director
• 1960 – Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach
• 1961 – Jeremy Bamber, English murderer
• 1961 – Wayne Coyne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Flaming Lips)
• 1961 – Kelly Hrudey, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress and producer
• 1961 – Suggs, English singer-songwriter and actor (Madness)
• 1962 – Trace Adkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1962 – Paul Higgins, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 – Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player
• 1963 – Kevin McClatchy, American businessman
• 1964 – Bill Bailey, English comedian, actor, singer, and guitarist
• 1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress
• 1964 – Ronan Rafferty, Irish golfer
• 1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor and race car driver
• 1966 – Shelagh Fogarty, English journalist
• 1966 – Leo Visser, Dutch speed skater
• 1967 – Neal Hargrove, American wrestler
• 1967 – Annie Jones, Australian actress
• 1967 – Paul McCarthy, Australian comedian and actor
• 1968 – Traci Bingham, American model and actress
• 1968 – Chara, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress (Mean Machine)
• 1968 – Antonio Tartaglia, Italian bobsledder
• 1968 – Mike Whitlow, English footballer
• 1969 – Stefania Belmondo, Italian skier
• 1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player
• 1969 – John Kronus, American wrestler (d. 2007)
• 1970 – Keith Coogan, American actor
• 1970 – Frank Kooiman, Dutch footballer
• 1970 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
• 1970 – Shonda Rhimes, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 – John Mallory Asher, American actor and director
• 1971 – Phil Whyman, English paranormal investigator
• 1972 – Mark Bosnich, Australian footballer
• 1972 – Nicole Eggert, American actress
• 1972 – Park Jin-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, founded JYP Entertainment
• 1972 – James O'Brien, English journalist and radio host
• 1972 – Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-American journalist
• 1972 – Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast
• 1973 – Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1974 – Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Rune Eriksen, Norwegian guitarist and composer (Mayhem, Nader Sadek, Mezzerschmitt, Ava Inferi, Aura Noir)
• 1975 – Mailis Reps, Estonian politician
• 1976 – Michael Peña, American actor
• 1976 – Bic Runga, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 – Tania Vicent, Canadian speed skater
• 1976 – Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer
• 1977 – William Ash, English actor
• 1977 – Orlando Bloom, English actor
• 1977 – Elliot Mason, English trombonist and keyboard player
• 1977 – James Posey, American basketball player
• 1978 – Ashmit Patel, Indian actor
• 1978 – Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA
• 1979 – Katy Brand, English actress and screenwriter
• 1980 – Krzysztof Czerwiński, Polish organist and conductor
• 1980 – María de Villota, Spanish race car driver (d. 2013)
• 1980 – Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
• 1980 – Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer
• 1980 – Argo Meresaar, Estonian volleyball player
• 1980 – Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – Mirko Soltau, German footballer
• 1981 – Reggie Brown, American football player
• 1981 – Shad Gaspard, American wrestler and actor
• 1981 – Darrell Rasner, American baseball player
• 1981 – Yujiro Takahashi, Japanese wrestler
• 1982 – Kamran Akmal, Pakistan cricketer
• 1982 – Guillermo Coria, Argentinian tennis player
• 1982 – Constantinos Makrides, Cypriot footballer
• 1982 – Mason Ryan, Welsh wrestler
• 1982 – Ruth Wilson, English actress
• 1983 – William Hung, Hong Kong-American singer and actor
• 1983 – Imran Khan, Indian actor
• 1983 – Sebastian Kneißl, German footballer
• 1983 – Trina Michaels, American porn actress
• 1983 – Julian Morris, English actor
• 1983 – Mauricio Martín Romero, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
• 1984 – Lourdes Arévalos, Paraguayan model
• 1984 – Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Kamghe Gaba, German sprinter
• 1984 – Nathaniel Motte, American singer-songwriter and producer (3OH!3)
• 1985 – Qi Hui, Chinese swimmer
• 1985 – Luke Robinson, American wrestler
• 1986 – Laura Ludwig, German volleyball player
• 1986 – Josefine Preuß, German actress
• 1986 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater
• 1987 – Stefano Del Sante, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Daniel Oss, Italian cyclist
• 1987 – Alexandre Pliuschin, Moldovan cyclist
• 1987 – Lee Seung-gi, South Korean singer and actor
• 1987 – Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Sven Wetzel, German rugby player
• 1988 – Josh Freeman, American football player
• 1988 – Daniel Scheinig, German footballer
• 1989 – Bryan Arguez, American footballer
• 1989 – James Berrett, English footballer
• 1989 – Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
• 1989 – Tim Matavž, Slovenian footballer
• 1989 – Beau Mirchoff, American-Canadian actor
• 1990 – Vincenzo Fiorillo, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
• 1991 – Goo Ha-ra, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Kara)
• 1991 – Rob Kiernan, English-Irish footballer
• 1992 – Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
• 1992 – Dinah Pfizenmaier, German tennis player
• 1993 – Xénia Krizsán, Hungarian heptathlete
• 1993 – Max Whitlock, English gymnast
• 1995 – Qaasim Middleton, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Nat & Alex Wolff)
• 2004 – Anastasia and Tatiana Dogaru, Italian conjoined twins

Deaths

• 86 BC – Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
• 533 – Saint Remigius, French bishop (b. 437)
• 614 – Saint Mungo, Scottish bishop and saint
• 703 – Empress Jitō of Japan (b. 645)
• 858 – Æthelwulf of Wessex (b. 795)
• 888 – Charles the Fat, Carolingian emperor (b. 839)
• 1151 – Abbot Suger, French historian and politician (b. 1081)
• 1177 – Henry II, Duke of Austria (b. 1107)
• 1330 – Frederick the Fair, Austrian husband of Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Germany (b. 1286)
• 1363 – Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. 1344)
• 1599 – Edmund Spenser, English poet (b. 1552)
• 1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter (b. 1568)
• 1630 – Yuan Chonghuan, Chinese general (b. 1584)
• 1658 – Edward Sexby, English soldier (b. 1616)
• 1691 – George Fox, English religious leader, founded the Religious Society of Friends (b. 1624)
• 1717 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German entomologist and illustrator (b. 1647)
• 1775 – Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (b. 1693)
• 1790 – Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712)
• 1796 – John Anderson, Scottish philosopher and educator (b. 1726)
• 1797 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (b. 1715)
• 1832 – Thomas Lord, English cricketer, founded Lord's Cricket Ground (b. 1755)
• 1838 – Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
• 1853 – Theophilos Kairis, Greek priest and philosopher (b. 1783)
• 1860 – William Mason, American politician (b. 1786)
• 1864 – Stephen Foster, American composer and songwriter (b. 1826)
• 1882 – Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer, co-founded the The Mauser Company (b. 1834)
• 1885 – Schuyler Colfax, American politician, 17th Vice President of the United States (b. 1823)
• 1889 – Solomon Bundy, American politician (b. 1823)
• 1894 – Nadezhda von Meck, Russian businesswoman (b. 1831)
• 1905 – George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
• 1906 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (b. 1859)
• 1907 – Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (b. 1839)
• 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
• 1923 – Alexandre Ribot, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
• 1924 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (b. 1834)
• 1928 – Mara Buneva, Bulgarian activist (b. 1902)
• 1929 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer (b. 1848)
• 1929 – H. B. Higgins, Australian politician and judge (b. 1851)
• 1932 – Sophia of Prussia (b. 1870)
• 1934 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist (b. 1860)
• 1937 – Antoine Védrenne, French rower (b. 1878)
• 1941 – James Joyce, Irish author and poet (b. 1882)
• 1943 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889)
• 1950 – Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist (b. 1883)
• 1956 – Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
• 1958 – Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Herman Glass, American gymnast (b. 1880)
• 1962 – Ernie Kovacs, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1963 – Sylvanus Olympio, President of Togo (b. 1902)
• 1967 – Anatole de Grunwald, Russian-English screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
• 1971 – Robert Still, English composer and educator (b. 1910)
• 1974 – Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor (b. 1906)
• 1974 – Salvador Novo, Mexican playwright and poet (b. 1904)
• 1976 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
• 1977 – Henri Langlois, French archivist, co-founded the Cinémathèque Française (b. 1914)
• 1978 – Hubert Humphrey, American politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
• 1978 – Joe McCarthy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1979 – Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1945)
• 1979 – Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano (b. 1907)
• 1980 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor (b. 1901)
• 1982 – Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Arland D. Williams, Jr., American passenger on Air Florida Flight 90 (b. 1935)
• 1983 – René Bonnet, French racing driver and automobile constructor (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
• 1995 – Max Harris, Australian journalist, poet, and author (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (2ge+her) (b. 1985)
• 2002 – Ted Demme, American director and producer (b. 1963)
• 2002 – Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban fisherman (b. 1897)
• 2002 – Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1916)
• 2003 – Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Arne Næss, Jr., Norwegian mountaineer (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Harold Shipman, English serial killer (b. 1946)
• 2004 – Zeno Vendler, American philosopher (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Earl Cameron, Canadian journalist and broadcaster (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Nell Rankin, American soprano (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Frank Fixaris, American sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Marc Potvin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (Steps Ahead) (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Danny Oakes, American race car driver (b. 1911)
• 2008 – Sergej Larin, Latvian-Lithuanian tenor (b. 1956)
• 2008 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player (b. 1932)
• 2009 – Mary Ejercito, Filipino mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
• 2009 – Lanny Kean, American wrestler (b. 1960)
• 2009 – Dai Llewellyn Welsh humanitarian and politician (b. 1946)
• 2009 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and songwriter (b. 1925)
• 2009 – W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Nancy Bird Walton, Australian pilot (b. 1915)
• 2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes) (b. 1950)
• 2010 – Jay Reatard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lost Sounds) (b. 1980)
• 2010 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Albert Heijn, Dutch businessman (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Guido Dessauer, German physicist and engineer (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Welsh composer and academic (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Morgan Jones, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Lefter Küçükandonyadis, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Artie Levine, American boxer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Billie Love, English actress and photographer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Miljan Miljanić, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Richard Threlkeld, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Diogenes Allen, American philosopher and theologian (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Bille Brown, Australian actor and playwright (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Andrea Carrea, Italian cyclist (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Jacki Clérico, French businessman (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Enzo Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Mykhailo Horyn, Ukrainian activist and politician (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Chia-Chiao Lin, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
• 2013 – Jerry Sisk, Jr., American gemologist, co-founded Jewelry Television (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Rusi Surti, Indian cricketer (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Balagangadharanatha Swamiji, Indian religious leader (b. 1945)
• 2014 – Bobby Collins, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Gary Grimshaw, American graphic designer (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Kees IJmkers, Dutch politician (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Ronny Jordan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
• 2014 – Norm Parker, American football player and coach (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Randal Tye Thomas, American journalist and politician (b. 1978)
• 2014 – Waldemar von Gazen, German general and lawyer (b. 1917)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Blessed Veronica of Milan
  • Elian
  • Hilary of Poitiers
  • Knut (Sweden and Finland)
  • Mungo
  • January 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Democracy Day (Cape Verde)
• Korean American Day (some U.S. states)
• Liberation Day (Togo)
• Old New Year's Eve (Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, Republic of Srpska, Republic of Macedonia)
• Sidereal winter solstice's eve celebrations in South and Southeast Asian cultures; the last day of the six-month Dakshinayana period (see January 14):
  • Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu)
  • Lohri (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)
  • Uruka (Assam)
• St. Knut's Day or Tjugondag Knut, the last day of Christmas. (Sweden and Finland)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada