January 19

January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year (347 in leap years).

Events

• 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
• 639 – Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, is crowned.
• 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
• 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
• 1511 – Mirandola surrenders to the French.
• 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
• 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
• 1661 – Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
• 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
• 1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
• 1806 – The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
• 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
• 1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
• 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance.
• 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
• 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
• 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
• 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
• 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
• 1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
• 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
• 1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
• 1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
• 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
• 1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
• 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma
• 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
• 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
• 1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel.
• 1953 – 71.7% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
• 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty
• 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turned into another major protest.
• 1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
• 1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India
• 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
• 1977 – Snow falls in Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in the Bahamas.
• 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
• 1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
• 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
• 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
• 1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.
• 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.
• 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations.
• 1995 – After being struck by lightning the crew are forced to ditch Bristow Flight 56C. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
• 1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
• 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
• 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
• 2006 – The New Horizons probe is launched by NASA on the first mission to Pluto.
• 2007 – Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
• 2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
• 2013 – A failed attempt to assassinate Ahmed Dogan, chairman of the Bulgarian political party Movement for Rights and Freedoms, on live television is foiled by security guards.
• 2014 – A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others.

Births

• 398 – Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (d. 453)
• 1544 – Francis II of France (d. 1560)
• 1676 – John Weldon, English organist and composer (d. 1736)
• 1721 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
• 1736 – James Watt, Scottish engineer (d. 1819)
• 1737 – Giuseppe Millico, Italian soprano, composer, and educator (d. 1802)
• 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect, designed Longford Hall and Barrells Hall (d. 1808)
• 1752 – James Morris III, American soldier (d. 1820)
• 1757 – Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (d. 1831)
• 1788 – Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (d. 1874)
• 1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
• 1798 – Auguste Comte, French philosopher (d. 1857)
• 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American general (d. 1870)
• 1808 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)
• 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American author and poet (d. 1849)
• 1813 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (d. 1898)
• 1832 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1875)
• 1833 – Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (d. 1872)
• 1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
• 1848 – John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1904)
• 1848 – Matthew Webb, English swimmer and diver (d. 1883)
• 1851 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (d. 1922)
• 1863 – Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
• 1871 – Dame Gruev, Bulgarian educator and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1906)
• 1874 – Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (d. 1922)
• 1876 – Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (d. 1943)
• 1876 – Dragotin Kette, Slovenian poet (d. 1899)
• 1878 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1934)
• 1879 – Boris Savinkov, Russian soldier and author (d. 1925)
• 1887 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (d. 1943)
• 1889 – Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
• 1892 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1964)
• 1893 – Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1971)
• 1909 – Hans Hotter, German opera singer (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (d. 2009)
• 1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
• 1914 – Bob Gerard, English race car driver (d. 1990)
• 1917 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
• 1918 – John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Bernard Dunstan, English painter and educator
• 1920 – Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat, 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
• 1921 – Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
• 1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
• 1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
• 1924 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1924 – Jean-François Revel, French author (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Nina Bawden, English author (d. 2012)
• 1926 – George Ives, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Jim Line, American basketball player (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Fritz Weaver, American actor
• 1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
• 1931 – Robert MacNeil, Canadian-American journalist and author
• 1932 – Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Richard Lester, American-English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1932 – Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (d. 2014)
• 1933 – George Coyne, American priest, astronomer, and theologian
• 1934 – Lloyd Robertson, Canadian journalist
• 1935 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor
• 1935 – Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
• 1936 – Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
• 1936 – Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer, harmonica player, and drummer (d. 2011)
• 1937 – Princess Birgitta of Sweden
• 1937 – Fred J. Lincoln, American porn actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. 1998)
• 1937 – Giovanna Marini, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1937 – Appadurai Muttulingam, Sri Lankan accountant and author
• 1939 – Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge (d. 1992)
• 1940 – Mike Reid, English comedian, actor, and author (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Tony Anholt, Singaporean-English actor (d. 2002)
• 1941 – Colin Gunton, English theologian (d. 2003)
• 1941 – Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler
• 1942 – Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
• 1942 – Thom Mayne, American architect, designed the San Francisco Federal Building and Phare Tower
• 1942 – Paul-Eerik Rummo, Estonian poet and politician
• 1943 – Petchara Chaowarat, Thai actress
• 1943 – Larry Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (d. 1970)
• 1943 – Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
• 1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress
• 1944 – Laurie London, English singer
• 1944 – Peter Lynch, American businessman
• 1944 – Dan Reeves, American football player and coach
• 1945 – Trevor Williams, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Audience and The Nashville Teens)
• 1946 – Julian Barnes, English author
• 1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1947 – Frank Aarebrot, Norwegian political scientist and academic
• 1947 – Christine Allsopp, English priest
• 1947 – Ann Compton, American journalist
• 1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and author
• 1947 – Rod Evans, English singer-songwriter (Deep Purple and Captain Beyond)
• 1947 – Patricia Hodgson, English broadcaster
• 1947 – Elena Nathanael, Greek actress (d. 2008)
• 1948 – Amanda Holden, English playwright and composer
• 1948 – Frank McKenna, Canadian politician and diplomat, 27th Premier of New Brunswick
• 1948 – Mal Reilly, English rugby player and coach
• 1949 – Arend Langenberg, Dutch voice actor and radio host (d. 2012)
• 1949 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Power Station) (d. 2003)
• 1949 – Lindsay Roy, Scottish educator and politician
• 1949 – Andrew Samuels, English psychologist and academic
• 1949 – Dennis Taylor, Irish snooker player
• 1950 – Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
• 1950 – Jon Matlack, American baseball player
• 1950 – Grant Nordman, American-Canadian politician
• 1950 – David Tredinnick, English politician
• 1951 – Graham James English bishop
• 1951 – Arthur Taxier, American actor
• 1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor
• 1953 – Linda Hayden, English actress
• 1953 – Richard Legendre, Canadian tennis player and politician
• 1954 – Katey Sagal, American actress
• 1954 – Cindy Sherman, American photographer
• 1954 – Katharina Thalbach, German actress and director
• 1955 – Tony Mansfield, English singer-songwriter and producer (New Musik)
• 1955 – Simon Rattle, English conductor
• 1955 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American comedian and actor
• 1956 – Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host
• 1957 – Ottis Anderson, American football player
• 1957 – Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician, 13th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
• 1958 – Thomas Kinkade, American painter (d. 2012)
• 1959 – Jeff Pilson, American bass player, songwriter, and actor (Dokken, Dio, and Foreigner)
• 1961 – William Ragsdale, American actor
• 1961 – Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer, co-founded Red or Dead
• 1962 – Hans Daams, Dutch cyclist
• 1962 – Chris Sabo, American baseball player
• 1962 – Jeff Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach
• 1963 – Michael Adams, American basketball player
• 1963 – Martin Bashir, English journalist
• 1963 – John Bercow, English politician and Speaker of the House of Commons
• 1963 – Caron Wheeler, English singer-songwriter (Soul II Soul)
• 1963 – Luís Martins, Portuguese footballer, coach, and manager
• 1964 – Janine Antoni, Bahamian sculptor and photographer
• 1964 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer-songwriter and basketball player
• 1966 – Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
• 1966 – Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
• 1966 – Lena Philipsson, Swedish singer
• 1967 – Javier Cámara, Spanish actor
• 1968 – Whitfield Crane, American singer-songwriter (Ugly Kid Joe, Medication, Another Animal, and Life of Agony)
• 1969 – Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American author
• 1969 – Luc Longley, Australian basketball player
• 1969 – Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer and manager
• 1969 – Junior Seau, American football player (d. 2012)
• 1969 – Casey Sherman, American author
• 1969 – Steve Staunton, Irish footballer
• 1970 – Tim Foster, English rower
• 1970 – Steffen Freund, German footballer and manager
• 1970 – Kathleen Smet, Belgian triathlete
• 1970 – Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian and singer (UltraCats)
• 1971 – Shawn Wayans, American actor
• 1971 – John Wozniak, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Marcy Playground)
• 1972 – Angham, Egyptian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1972 – Joana Benedek, Mexican actress
• 1972 – Drea de Matteo, American actress
• 1972 – Jon Fisher, American businessman and author
• 1972 – Princess Kalina of Bulgaria
• 1972 – Elena Kaliská, Slovak canoe racer
• 1972 – R-Truth, American wrestler
• 1972 – Troy Wilson, Australian footballer and race car driver
• 1971 – Sergei Zjukin, Estonian chess player
• 1973 – Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
• 1973 – Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer
• 1973 – Aaron Yonda, American comedian, actor, and director
• 1974 – Dainius Adomaitis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1974 – Frank Caliendo, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1974 – Ian Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Jaime Moreno, Bolivian footballer
• 1975 – Noah Georgeson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1975 – Zdeňka Málková, Czech tennis player
• 1976 – Natale Gonnella, Italian footballer
• 1976 – Tarso Marques, Brazilian race car driver
• 1977 – Cocco, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Nicole, Chilean singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Benjamin Ayres, Canadian actor
• 1977 – Margus Maiste, Estonian architect
• 1977 – Lauren Etame Mayer, Cameroonian footballer
• 1979 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian gymnast
• 1979 – Josu Sarriegi, Spanish footballer
• 1979 – Wiley, English rapper and producer (Roll Deep)
• 1980 – Jenson Button, English race car driver
• 1980 – Pasha Kovalev, Russian-American dancer
• 1980 – Luke Macfarlane, Canadian-American actor and singer
• 1980 – Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1981 – Asier del Horno, Spanish footballer
• 1981 – Lucho González, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Dimosthenis Manousakis, Greek footballer
• 1981 – Andrus Mitt, Estonian football and beach soccer player
• 1981 – Jaanus Nõmmsalu, Estonian volleyball player
• 1981 – Kerby Raymundo, Filipino basketball player
• 1981 – Bitsie Tulloch, American actress
• 1982 – Angela Chang, Taiwanese singer and actress
• 1982 – Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Jodie Sweetin, American actress
• 1983 – Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
• 1984 – Fabio Catacchini, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Karun Chandhok, Indian race car driver
• 1984 – Jimmy Kebe, Malian footballer
• 1984 – Thomas Vanek, Austrian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Jake Allen, American football player
• 1985 – Pascal Behrenbruch, German decathlete
• 1985 – Benny Feilhaber, American soccer player
• 1985 – Esteban Guerrieri, Argentinian race car driver
• 1985 – Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, Ongaku Gatas, v-u-den, and Hangry & Angry)
• 1985 – Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nikulin, Russian footballer
• 1986 – Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American ice dancer
• 1986 – Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Oleksandr Miroshnychenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1986 – Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer
• 1987 – Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
• 1987 – Angus Monfries, Australian footballer
• 1988 – JaVale McGee, American basketball player
• 1988 – Yusuke Yamamoto, Japanese actor
• 1990 – Tatiana Búa, Argentine tennis player
• 1991 – Corinna Harrer, German runner
• 1991 – Petra Martić, Croatian tennis player
• 1991 – Erin Sanders, American actress
• 1992 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
• 1992 – Logan Lerman, American actor
• 1992 – Mac Miller, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1993 – Gus Lewis, American-English actor
• 1993 – Erick Torres Padilla, Mexican footballer
• 1994 – Matthias Ginter, German footballer
• 2006 – JB Agustin, Filipino actor

Deaths

• 520 – John of Cappadocia
• 639 – Dagobert I, Frankish king (b. 603)
• 1526 – Isabella of Austria (b. 1501)
• 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
• 1576 – Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (b. 1494)
• 1597 – Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (b. 1540)
• 1661 – Thomas Venner, English rebel leader (b. 1599)
• 1729 – William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
• 1755 – Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist (b. 1683)
• 1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar (b. 1674)
• 1766 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect and painter (b. 1695)
• 1785 – Jonathan Toup, English scholar and critic (b. 1713)
• 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)
• 1833 – Ferdinand Hérold, French composer (b. 1791)
• 1847 – Charles Bent, American politician, 1st Governor of New Mexico (b. 1799)
• 1847 – Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (b. 1772)
• 1851 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentinian poet and author (b. 1805)
• 1853 – Karl Faber, German historian and academic (b. 1773)
• 1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
• 1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
• 1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (b. 1798)
• 1878 – Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
• 1905 – Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
• 1906 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian historian and politician, 6th President of Argentina (b. 1821)
• 1915 – Thomas Herbst, German painter (b. 1848)
• 1925 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria (b. 1841)
• 1927 – Carlota of Mexico (b. 1840)
• 1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
• 1938 – Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864)
• 1939 – Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1945 – Gustave Mesny, French Army general (b. 1886)
• 1948 – Tony Garnier, French architect, designed the Stade de Gerland (b. 1869)
• 1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
• 1957 – József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1963 – Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1964 – Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
• 1965 – Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)
• 1968 – Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
• 1969 – Jan Palach, Czech activist (b. 1948)
• 1971 – Harry Shields, American clarinet player (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
• 1973 – Max Adrian, Irish actor (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
• 1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer (b. 1886)
• 1980 – William O. Douglas, American jurist (b. 1898)
• 1982 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 – Ham the Chimp, Cameroonian-American chimpanzee (b. 1956)
• 1984 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
• 1987 – Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist (b. 1927)
• 1990 – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian mystic and guru (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Alberto Semprini, English pianist (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Herbert Wehner, German politician, 6th Minister of Intra-German Relations (b. 1906)
• 1991 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist and journalist (b. 1918)
• 1991 – John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1995 – Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 1996 – Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• 1997 – Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b. 1916)
• 1997 – James Dickey, American poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1998 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (b. 1967)
• 2000 – Bettino Craxi, Italian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
• 2000 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and mathematician (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Dario Vittori, Argentinian actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974)
• 2003 – Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (b. 1917)
• 2004 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
• 2005 – Bill Andersen, New Zealand union leader (b. 1924)
• 2005 – K. Sello Duiker, South African author (b. 1974)
• 2005 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (b. 1976)
• 2006 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (The Falcons) (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Awn Alsharif Qasim, Sudanese author and scholar (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas and The Halifax III) (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
• 2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
• 2008 – John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Christos Hatziskoulidis, Greek footballer (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Jennifer Lyon, American contestant on Survivor: Palau (b. 1972)
• 2010 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Ernest McCulloch, Canadian biologist (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Peter Åslin, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1962)
• 2012 – Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (b. 1982)
• 2012 – Peter de Francia, French-English painter and illustrator (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Gene Methvin, American pilot and journalist (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Winston Riley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (The Techniques) (b. 1943)
• 2012 – On Sarig, Israeli author (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Anatoly Bannik, Ukrainian chess player (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Mehnaz Begum, Pakistani singer (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Milt Bolling, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 2013 – John Braheny, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Abderrahim Goumri, Moroccan runner (b. 1976)
• 2013 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (b. 1940)
• 2013 – Hans Massaquoi, German-American journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (b. 1926)
• 2013 – A. Rafiq, Indonesian singer and actor (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Ian Wells, English footballer (b. 1964)
• 2014 – Azaria Alon, Ukrainian-Israeli environmentalist, co-founded the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Steven Fromholz, American singer-songwriter, producer, and poet (b. 1945)
• 2014 – Al Lerner, American pianist and composer (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Michael Sporn, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Ben Starr, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Bert Williams, English footballer (b. 1920)

Holidays and observances

• Birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (commemorated by the Poe Toaster at his grave in Baltimore)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Henry of Uppsala
  • Marius, Martha, Audifax, and Abachum
  • Mark of Ephesus
  • Pontianus of Spoleto
  • Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester
  • January 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), and its related observance:
  • Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi)

• Earliest day on which Husband's Day or Bóndadagur can fall, while January 25 is the latest; celebrated on Friday between 19 and 25 January (Iceland)
• Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty), first day of the 17th month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith)
• Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy), and its related observances:
  • Timkat, or 20 during Leap Year (Ethiopian Orthodox)
  • Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (Republic of Macedonia)

External links

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