January 22

January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining until the end of the year (344 in leap years).

Events

• 565 – Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
• 613 – Constantine (8 month old) is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
• 1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
• 1517 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
• 1555 – The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma.
• 1689 – The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.
• 1824 – The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
• 1849 – Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
• 1863 – The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
• 1877 – Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops defeat British troops.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
• 1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
• 1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
• 1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
• 1901 – Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
• 1905 – Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
• 1906 – SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
• 1915 – Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
• 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
• 1919 – Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
• 1924 – Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
• 1941 – World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
• 1944 – World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
• 1946 – Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president and Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
• 1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
• 1957 – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
• 1957 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
• 1959 – Knox Mine Disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
• 1962 – The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
• 1963 – The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
• 1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
• 1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
• 1969 – A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
• 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
• 1971 – The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
• 1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
• 1973 – A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
• 1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.
• 1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
• 1987 – Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañan Palace, Manila, killing 13.
• 1990 – Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
• 1991 – Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
• 1992 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
• 1995 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
• 1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
• 2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• 2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
• 2007 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.

Births

• 1263 – Ibn Taymiyyah, Turkish scholar and theologian (d. 1328)
• 1440 – Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
• 1552 – Sir Walter Raleigh, English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy and explorer (d. 1618)
• 1553 – Mōri Terumoto, Japanese warlord (d. 1625)
• 1561 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
• 1570 – Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, English politician, founded the Cotton library (d. 1631)
• 1592 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
• 1654 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (d. 1729)
• 1690 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
• 1729 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
• 1733 – Philip Carteret, English navy officer (d. 1796)
• 1740 – Noah Phelps, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 1809)
• 1781 – François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (d. 1849)
• 1788 – Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
• 1796 – Karl Ernst Claus, Livonian chemist (d. 1864)
• 1797 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria (d. 1826)
• 1799 – Ludger Duvernay, Canadian journalist, publisher, and politician (d. 1852)
• 1831 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1917)
• 1831 – Joseph Alfred Slade, American businessman (d. 1864)
• 1840 – Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
• 1849 – August Strindberg, Swedish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1912)
• 1858 – Beatrice Webb, English economist (d. 1943)
• 1869 – José Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese military officer and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1952)
• 1869 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
• 1874 – Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
• 1874 – Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924)
• 1875 – D. W. Griffith, American director (d. 1948)
• 1876 – Warren McLaughlin, American baseball player (d. 1923)
• 1877 – Tom Jones, American baseball player (d. 1923)
• 1879 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (d. 1953)
• 1880 – Bill O'Neill, American baseball player (d. 1920)
• 1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
• 1881 – Ira Thomas, American baseball player (d. 1958)
• 1882 – Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (d. 1956)
• 1886 – John J. Becker, American composer (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
• 1889 – Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
• 1889 – Amos Strunk, American baseball player (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Fred M. Vinson, American politician and judge, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
• 1890 – Vinko Žganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
• 1891 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 1937)
• 1892 – Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (d. 1986)
• 1893 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
• 1897 – Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
• 1899 – Martti Haavio, Finnish poet (d. 1973)
• 1900 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (d. 1980)
• 1902 – Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
• 1903 – Robin Milford, English composer (d. 1959)
• 1904 – George Balanchine, Russian-American choreographer and director, co-founded the New York City Ballet (d. 1983)
• 1904 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian author (d. 1941)
• 1904 – John Milligan, American baseball player (d. 1972)
• 1905 – Willy Hartner, German scientist (d. 1981)
• 1906 – Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
• 1906 – Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
• 1907 – Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
• 1907 – Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Lev Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
• 1908 – Prince Oana, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1909 – Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat (d. 1965)
• 1909 – Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1909 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
• 1911 – Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
• 1913 – Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (d. 2012)
• 1913 – William Conway, Irish cardinal (d. 1977)
• 1913 – Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Nguyen Van Mau, Vietnamese bishop (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician, Mayor of Berlin (d. 1993)
• 1916 – Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
• 1916 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer
• 1916 – Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati author, poet, astrologist (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Huck Geary, American baseball player (d. 1981)
• 1918 – Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1919 – Diomedes Olivo, Dominican baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1920 – Irving Kristol, American columnist and author (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Arno Babajanian, Armenian pianist and composer (d. 1983)
• 1922 – Howard Moss, American poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1987)
• 1924 – J. J. Johnson, American trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
• 1925 – Johnny Bucha, American baseball player (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Bobby Young, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 1927 – Lou Creekmur, American football player (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Shozo Shimamoto, Japanese painter (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Éamon de Buitléar, Irish director (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (The Soul Stirrers and The Highway Q.C.'s) (d. 1964)
• 1932 – Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and sexologist (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Piper Laurie, American actress
• 1934 – Vijay Anand, Indian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1934 – Graham Kerr, English chef
• 1935 – Seymour Cassel, American actor
• 1936 – Ong Teng Cheong, Singaporean politician, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 – Peter Steen, Danish actor (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan politician
• 1937 – Joseph Wambaugh, American author
• 1938 – Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer
• 1939 – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (d. 1996)
• 1939 – Alfredo Palacio, Ecuadoran politician, President of Ecuador
• 1939 – Jeff Smith, American chef and author (d. 2004)
• 1939 – J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
• 1940 – John Hurt, English actor
• 1940 – George Seifert, American football coach
• 1942 – Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
• 1943 – Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
• 1944 – Khosrow Golsorkhi, Iranian journalist, poet, and activist (d. 1974)
• 1945 – Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1945 – Christoph Schönborn, Bohemian-Austrian cardinal
• 1946 – Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter and manager (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1947 – Vladimir Oravsky, Czech-Swedish author and director
• 1948 – Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1948 – Gilbert Levine, American conductor
• 1949 – Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
• 1949 – Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole, and Hatfield and the North)
• 1949 – Steve Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer (Journey)
• 1949 – Mike Westhues, American-Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1950 – Pamela Salem, English actress
• 1951 – Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
• 1951 – Leon Roberts, American baseball player
• 1951 – Steve J. Spears, Australian playwright, actor, and singer (d. 2007)
• 1952 – Ramón Avilés, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1952 – Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
• 1953 – Winfried Berkemeier, German footballer
• 1953 – Myung-whun Chung, South Korean pianist and conductor
• 1953 – Jim Jarmusch, American director
• 1954 – Tully Blanchard, American wrestler
• 1954 – Chris Lemmon, American actor
• 1954 – Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
• 1955 – Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
• 1955 – Thomas David Jones, American astronaut
• 1956 – Steve Riley, American drummer (L.A. Guns, W.A.S.P., Keel, and Steppenwolf)
• 1956 – John Wesley Shipp, American actor
• 1957 – Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 – Brian Dayett, American baseball player
• 1957 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian and actor (d. 1993)
• 1957 – Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
• 1957 – Francis Wheen, English journalist
• 1958 – Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek footballer and manager
• 1959 – Linda Blair, American actress
• 1960 – Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (INXS and Max Q) (d. 1997)
• 1961 – Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (d. 2010)
• 1961 – Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
• 1962 – Eric Schaeffer, American actor and director
• 1962 – Sirous Ghayeghran, Iranian football player (d. 1998)
• 1963 – Javier Ortiz, American baseball player
• 1963 – Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
• 1963 – Jeff Treadway, American baseball player
• 1964 – Nigel Benn, English boxer
• 1964 – Joe Dudek, American football player
• 1964 – Wayne Kirby, American baseball player
• 1964 – Stojko Vranković, Croatian basketball player
• 1965 – Steven Adler, American drummer and songwriter (Guns N' Roses, Adler's Appetite, Hollywood Rose, and Road Crew)
• 1965 – DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ, producer, and actor (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
• 1965 – Diane Lane, American actress
• 1965 – Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
• 1965 – Andrew Roachford, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Mike + The Mechanics)
• 1965 – Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
• 1967 – Nick Gillingham, English swimmer
• 1967 – Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese wrestler
• 1967 – Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
• 1968 – Heath, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player (X Japan)
• 1968 – Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
• 1968 – Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
• 1969 – Olivia d'Abo, English actress
• 1969 – Keith Gordon, American baseball player
• 1970 – Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
• 1971 – Stan Collymore, English footballer
• 1972 – Katie Barberi, Mexican actress
• 1972 – Gabriel Macht, American actor
• 1972 – Romi Park, Japanese voice actress
• 1972 – Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
• 1972 – Namrata Shirodkar, Indian actress
• 1973 – Larry Birkhead, American photographer
• 1973 – Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
• 1974 – Cameron McConville, Australian race car driver
• 1974 – Joseph Muscat, Maltese politician, 13th Prime Minister of Malta
• 1975 – Balthazar Getty, American actor, DJ, and producer (Ringside)
• 1975 – Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian race car driver
• 1975 – James Murray English actor
• 1975 – David Výborný, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976 – Jimmy Anderson, American baseball player
• 1976 – James Dearth, American football player
• 1977 – Mario Domm, Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Camila)
• 1977 – Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby player
• 1977 – Anna Linkova, Russian tennis player
• 1977 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
• 1977 – Matthew Newton, Australian actor
• 1977 – Aaron Rakers, American baseball player
• 1977 – Luciano Andrade Rissutt, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 – Chone Figgins, American baseball player
• 1979 – Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
• 1980 – Jake Grove, American football player
• 1980 – Christopher Masterson, American actor
• 1980 – Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese author and scholar
• 1980 – Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
• 1981 – Willa Ford, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1981 – Beverley Mitchell, American actress and singer
• 1981 – Ben Moody, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Evanescence and We Are the Fallen)
• 1981 – Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
• 1982 – Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
• 1982 – Jason Peters, American football player
• 1983 – Shaun Cody, American football player
• 1984 – Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Ubaldo Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
• 1984 – Raica Oliveira, Brazilian model
• 1984 – Leon Powe, American basketball player
• 1984 – Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – Orianthi, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1985 – Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
• 1986 – Maher Magri, Tunisian footballer
• 1986 – Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
• 1986 – Matt Simon, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Daniel Wayne Smith, American son of Anna Nicole Smith (d. 2006)
• 1987 – Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian skier
• 1987 – Shane Long, Irish footballer
• 1987 – Ray Rice, American football player
• 1988 – Asher Allen, American football player
• 1988 – Greg Oden, American basketball player
• 1990 – Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
• 1991 – Stefan Kolb, German footballer
• 1991 – Alex MacDowall, English race car driver
• 1993 – Rio Haryanto, Indonesian race car driver
• 1993 – Tommy Knight, English actor

Deaths

• 239 – Cao Rui, Chinese emperor (b. 205)
• 1536 – Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
• 1575 – James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (b. 1516)
• 1599 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1547)
• 1666 – Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (b. 1592)
• 1750 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
• 1763 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English politician (b. 1690)
• 1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German meteorologist and geologist (b. 1719)
• 1779 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
• 1779 – Claudius Smith, American guerrilla leader (b. 1736)
• 1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
• 1879 – Anthony Durnford, Irish army officer (b. 1830)
• 1879 – Henry Pulleine, English army officer (b. 1838)
• 1892 – Joseph P. Bradley, American jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American scientist (b. 1831)
• 1901 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1921 – George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1922 – Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
• 1922 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
• 1929 – Emma Cooke, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1929 – R. C. Lehmann, English journalist, author, and politician (b. 1856)
• 1930 – Stephen Mather, American businessman and conservationist, co-founded the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company (b. 1867)
• 1931 – Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1945 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1949 – William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
• 1950 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
• 1950 – Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
• 1951 – Karl Nessler, German-American hairdresser, invented the Perm (b. 1872)
• 1951 – Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American high jumper (b. 1883)
• 1954 – Princess Margaret of Prussia (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
• 1966 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Robert Henriques, English author (b. 1905)
• 1968 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (b. 1890)
• 1973 – Lyndon B. Johnson, American politician, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Andrew George Burry, Swiss-American businessman (b. 1873)
• 1977 – Johannes Terwogt, Dutch rower (b. 1878)
• 1978 – Oliver Leese, English general (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1979 – Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian rebel leader (b. 1940)
• 1980 – Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian (b. 1888)
• 1981 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educator (b. 1903)
• 1982 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)
• 1982 – Tommy Tucker, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1933)
• 1985 – Arthur Bryant, English historian and columnist (b. 1899)
• 1987 – R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
• 1988 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
• 1991 – Robert Choquette, Canadian author, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
• 1993 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese playwright and photographer (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Rhett Forrester, American singer-songwriter (Riot) (b. 1956)
• 1994 – Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (b. 1890)
• 1997 – Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
• 1997 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (Associates) (b. 1957)
• 1997 – Wally Whyton, English singer-songwriter and broadcaster (The Vipers Skiffle Group) (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
• 2000 – Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2001 – Roy Brown, American clown and puppeteer (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Stanley Marcus, American businessman and author (b. 1905)
• 2003 – Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Billy May, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Tom Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
• 2005 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Carlo Orelli, Italian soldier (b. 1894)
• 2005 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Rose Mary Woods, American secretary (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Ngo Quang Truong, Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
• 2008 – Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor and director (b. 1979)
• 2008 – Miles Lerman, Polish-American holocaust survivor and activist (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 2010 – Jean Simmons, English-American actress (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Iskandar of Johor Malaysian sultan (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Said Ali al-Shihri, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1973)
• 2013 – Kevin Ash, English journalist (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Robert Bonnaud, French historian (b. 1929)
• 2013 – John Cheng, Singaporean actor (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Leslie Frankenheimer, American set designer (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Anna Litvinova, Russian model (b. 1983)
• 2013 – Lídia Mattos, Brazilian actress (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Ted Talbert, American journalist (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Margareta Teodorescu, Romanian chess player (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Lucyna Winnicka, Polish actress (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Anastasius of Persia
  • Vincent of Saragossa
  • Vincent, Orontius, and Victor
  • Blessed William Joseph Chaminade
  • January 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Reunion Day (Ukraine)

External links

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

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