January 23

January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of the year (343 in leap years).

Events

• 393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year old son Honorius co-emperor.
• 971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
• 1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
• 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
• 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
• 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
• 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
• 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
• 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
• 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
• 1793 – Second Partition of Poland.
• 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
• 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
• 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
• 1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
• 1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic.
• 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
• 1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
• 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
• 1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
• 1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
• 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
• 1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
• 1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
• 1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
• 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua.
• 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
• 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
• 1945 – World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
• 1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
• 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
• 1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
• 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
• 1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
• 1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
• 1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Côte d'Ivoire are established.
• 1967 – Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages.
• 1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated its territorial waters while spying.
• 1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
• 1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
• 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
• 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
• 1997 – Greek Serial Killer Antonis Daglis is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
• 2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
• 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
• 2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered .
• 2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
• 2012 – A group of Gaddafi loyalists take control of part of the town of Bani Walid and fly the green flag after a battle with NTC forces left 5 dead and 20 injured.

Births

• 1350 – Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
• 1688 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (d. 1741)
• 1719 – John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
• 1737 – John Hancock, American politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1793)
• 1745 – William Jessop, English engineer, built the Cromford Canal (d. 1814)
• 1752 – Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1832)
• 1780 – Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek general (d. 1827)
• 1783 – Stendhal, French author (d. 1842)
• 1786 – Auguste de Montferrand, French-Russian architect, designed Saint Isaac's Cathedral and Alexander Column (d. 1858)
• 1809 – Veer Surendra Sai, Indian activist (d. 1884)
• 1813 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian author and activist (d. 1895)
• 1828 – Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai (d. 1877)
• 1832 – Édouard Manet, French painter (d. 1883)
• 1833 – Muthu Coomaraswamy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1879)
• 1840 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
• 1846 – Hermann Clemenz, Estonian chess player (d. 1908)
• 1855 – John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company (d. 1926)
• 1857 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist (d. 1936)
• 1862 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
• 1870 – Ole Sæther, Norwegian target shooter (d. 1946)
• 1872 – Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
• 1872 – Jože Plečnik, Slovenian architect, designed Plečnik Parliament (d. 1957)
• 1876 – Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
• 1881 – Luisa Casati, Italian model (d. 1957)
• 1884 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
• 1884 – George McManus, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
• 1894 – Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author (d. 1988)
• 1896 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
• 1896 – Alf Hall, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
• 1897 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (d. 1945)
• 1897 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
• 1897 – Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author (d. 1978)
• 1897 – William Stephenson, Canadian captain (d. 1989)
• 1898 – Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian-Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1948)
• 1898 – Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Freda Utley, English scholar and author (d. 1978)
• 1899 – Glen Kidston, English race car driver and pilot (d. 1931)
• 1900 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh organist and conductor (d. 1988)
• 1901 – Arthur Wirtz, American businessman (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician, Mayor of Bogotá (d. 1948)
• 1907 – Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1907 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (Quintette du Hot Club de France) (d. 1953)
• 1912 – Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director (d. 2009)
• 1913 – Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (d. 1960)
• 1913 – Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 1915 – Potter Stewart, American judge (d. 1985)
• 1916 – David Douglas Duncan, American photographer and journalist
• 1916 – Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (d. 1979)
• 1918 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Frances Bay, Canadian actress (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Hans Hass, Austrian biologist and diver (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Ernie Kovacs, American actor and game show host (d. 1962)
• 1919 – Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor, invented the Frisbee (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Walter M. Miller, Jr., American author (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Frank Lautenberg, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Kyriakos Matsis, Cypriot EOKA member (d. 1958)
• 1926 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (d. 1994)
• 1927 – Jack Quinlan, American sportscaster (d. 1965)
• 1928 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1929 – Myron Cope, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Patriarch Filaret, Ukrainian patriarch
• 1929 – Phillip Knightley, Australian journalist, author, and critic
• 1929 – John Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1930 – William R. Pogue, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – George Allen, English footballer
• 1932 – Larri Thomas, American actress and dancer (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Chita Rivera, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1934 – Pierre Bourgault, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2003)
• 1935 – Robert Parris Moses, American educator and activist
• 1935 – Tom Reamy, American author (d. 1977)
• 1935 – Teresa Żylis-Gara, Polish soprano
• 1936 – Riccardo Garrone, Italian businessman (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Brian Howe, Australian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
• 1936 – Jerry Kramer, American football player and sportscaster
• 1938 – Shohei Baba, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
• 1938 – Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
• 1939 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
• 1939 – Arlene Golonka, American actress
• 1940 – Joe Dowell, American singer
• 1940 – Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands, Welsh politician
• 1940 – Johnny Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 1941 – Jock R. Anderson, Australian economist
• 1941 – João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Abdur Razzak, Indian-Bangladeshi actor and producer
• 1942 – Herman Tjeenk Willink, Dutch politician
• 1943 – Gary Burton, American vibraphone player
• 1943 – Gil Gerard, American actor
• 1944 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
• 1945 – Richard Dearlove, English intelligence officer
• 1945 – Mike Harris, Canadian politician, 22nd Premier of Ontario
• 1946 – Arnoldo Alemán, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua
• 1946 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-English businessman and mathematician (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Zvonko Bušić, Croatian terrorist, hijacker of TWA Flight 355 (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Don Whittington, American race car driver
• 1947 – Mary Arden, English judge
• 1947 – Tom Carper, American politician, 71st Governor of Delaware
• 1947 – Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesian politician, 5th President of Indonesia
• 1948 – David F. Ford, Irish theologian and academic
• 1948 – Anita Pointer, American singer-songwriter (The Pointer Sisters)
• 1949 – Joan Walley, English politician
• 1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor, producer, and composer
• 1950 – Bill Cunningham, American bass player and keyboard player (The Box Tops)
• 1950 – Danny Federici, American accordion player (E Street Band) (d. 2008)
• 1950 – John Greaves, Welsh bass player and songwriter (Henry Cow, National Health, and The Lodge)
• 1950 – Suzanne Scotchmer, American economist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1951 – David Patrick Kelly, American actor
• 1951 – Michael R. Matz, American horse rider
• 1951 – Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot and captain
• 1952 – Omar Henry, South African cricketer
• 1953 – John Luther Adams, American composer
• 1953 – Raul Arnemann, Estonian rower
• 1953 – Alister McGrath, Irish priest, historian, and theologian
• 1953 – Antonio Villaraigosa, American politician, 41st Mayor of Los Angeles
• 1953 – Robin Zander, American singer and guitarist (Cheap Trick)
• 1954 – Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Richard Finch, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (KC and the Sunshine Band)
• 1954 – Edward Ka-Spel, English singer-songwriter (Legendary Pink Dots, The Tear Garden, and Mimir)
• 1957 – Caroline, Princess of Hanover
• 1957 – Lou Schuler, American journalist
• 1959 – Clive Bull, English radio host
• 1960 – Patrick de Gayardon, French sky diver (d. 1998)
• 1960 – Leilani Kai, American wrestler
• 1960 – Jean-François Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Indonesian-Singaporean criminal
• 1962 – David Arnold, English composer
• 1962 – Aivar Lillevere, Estonian footballer and coach
• 1962 – Elvira Lindo, Spanish journalist
• 1962 – Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor
• 1963 – Gail O'Grady, American actress
• 1964 – Mariska Hargitay, American actress
• 1964 – Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyanese politician, 7th President of Guyana
• 1964 – Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Thomas Adler, German footballer
• 1965 – Louie Clemente, American drummer (Testament)
• 1966 – Haywoode Workman, American basketball player
• 1967 – Naim Süleymanoğlu, Bulgarian-Turkish weightlifter
• 1968 – Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
• 1968 – Raul Olle, Estonian skier
• 1969 – Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
• 1969 – Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
• 1969 – Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Brendan O'Connor, Irish singer and television host
• 1970 – Oleg Ovsyannikov, Russian ice dancer
• 1970 – Spyridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper
• 1971 – Scott Gibbs, Welsh rugby player
• 1971 – Kevin Mawae, American football player
• 1971 – Marc Nelson, American singer-songwriter (Boyz II Men, Az Yet, and Blayse)
• 1971 – Adam Parore, New Zealand cricketer
• 1972 – Gavin Barwell, English politician
• 1972 – Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
• 1972 – Lisa Snowdon, English model and television host
• 1972 – Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
• 1973 – Dee Caffari, English sailor
• 1973 – Lanei Chapman, American actress
• 1973 – Tomas Holmström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1974 – Sampsa Astala, Finnish singer-songwriter and drummer (Lordi and Stala & so.)
• 1974 – Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
• 1974 – Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
• 1974 – Richard T. Slone, English painter
• 1974 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
• 1975 – Phil Dawson, American football player
• 1975 – Tito Ortiz, American mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player
• 1976 – Angelica Lee, Malaysian-Taiwanese actress and singer
• 1976 – Tony Lucca, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1976 – Nigel McGuinness, English wrestler
• 1977 – Kamal Heer, Indian singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player
• 1979 – Dawn O'Porter, Scottish-English journalist
• 1979 – Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1981 – Sarai, American rapper and actress
• 1981 – Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
• 1981 – Julia Jones, American actress
• 1982 – Patrick Levis, American actor
• 1982 – Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
• 1984 – Robbie Farah, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
• 1985 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch model and actress
• 1986 – Anne Foy, English actress and television host
• 1986 – José Enrique Sánchez, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Steven Taylor, English footballer
• 1986 – Marc Laird, Scottish footballer
• 1987 – Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer
• 1988 – Alan Power, Irish footballer
• 1989 – April Pearson, English actress
• 1990 – Artjom Abramov, Estonian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Alex Silva, Canadian wrestler
• 1990 – Martyn Waghorn, English footballer
• 1992 – Diana Šatkauskaitė, Lithuanian handballer
• 1994 – Wesley Jobello, French footballer
• 1996 – Chachi Gonzales, American dancer

Deaths

• 1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
• 1199 – Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, Moroccan caliph (b. 1160)
• 1516 – Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
• 1548 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian priest, scholar, and composer (b. 1490)
• 1549 – Johannes Honter, Romanian theologian (b. 1498)
• 1567 – Jiajing Emperor of China (b. 1507)
• 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Scottish son of James V of Scotland (b. 1531)
• 1622 – William Baffin, English explorer and navigator
• 1744 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
• 1785 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
• 1789 – Frances Brooke, English author and playwright (b. 1724)
• 1789 – John Cleland, English author (b. 1709)
• 1800 – Edward Rutledge, American politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1749)
• 1803 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founded Guinness (b. 1725)
• 1805 – Claude Chappe, French engineer (b. 1763)
• 1806 – William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
• 1810 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1812 – Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (b. 1764)
• 1820 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
• 1833 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral (b. 1757)
• 1837 – John Field, Irish pianist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1866 – Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
• 1875 – Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 – Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 – José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1825)
• 1921 – Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
• 1923 – Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
• 1937 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
• 1938 – Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer (b. 1866)
• 1939 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
• 1943 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor and journalist (b. 1887)
• 1944 – Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
• 1944 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
• 1956 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director and producer (b. 1893)
• 1957 – Willie Edwards, American murder victim (b. 1932)
• 1963 – Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor (b. 1908)
• 1966 – T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1895)
• 1971 – Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and academic (b. 1871)
• 1973 – Alexander Onassis, American-Greek son of Aristotle Onassis (b. 1948)
• 1973 – Kid Ory, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1886)
• 1976 – Paul Dupuis, Canadian actor (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and activist (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
• 1978 – Terry Kath, American guitarist (Chicago) (b. 1946)
• 1978 – Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1980 – Giovanni Michelotti, Italian car designer (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
• 1983 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1984 – Muin Bseiso, Palestinian-Egyptian poet (b. 1926)
• 1986 – Joseph Beuys, German sculptor (b. 1921)
• 1988 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist (b. 1896)
• 1989 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish race car driver (b. 1961)
• 1990 – Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington Collins Band, and Allen Collins Band) (b. 1952)
• 1991 – Northrop Frye, Canadian author and critic (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Freddie Bartholomew, English actor (b. 1924)
• 1993 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1899)
• 1993 – Keith Laumer, American author (b. 1925)
• 1994 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian field marshal (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Brian Redhead, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Richard Berry, American singer-songwriter (The Flairs) (b. 1935)
• 1999 – Joe D'Amato, Italian director and cinematographer (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• 2002 – Paul Aars, American race car driver (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
• 2003 – Nell Carter, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, English politician (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Johnny Carson, American talk show host (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian sociologist and politician (b. 1928)
• 2007 – E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Tatiana Mamaki, Greek dancer and choreographer (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Robert W. Scott, American politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Kermit Tyler, American air force officer (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness instructor, author, and television host (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Wesley E. Brown, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1907)
• 2012 – Anthony Capo, American mobster (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Marcel De Boodt, Belgian agriculturalist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Maurice Meisner, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Bingham Ray, American businessman, co-founded October Films (b. 1954)
• 2012 – Stig Vig, Swedish singer and bass player (Dag Vag) (b. 1948)
• 2013 – Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Janice Knickrehm, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Dolours Price, Irish activist (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Juan Carlos Rosero, Ecuadorian cyclist (b. 1962)
• 2013 – Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet, French bishop (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Frank Zakem, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Yuri Izrael, Russian meteorologist (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Mille Markovic, Serbian-Swedish boxer (b. 1961)
• 2014 – Riz Ortolani, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Charlie Osgood, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Jan Pesman, Dutch speed skater (b. 1931)
• 2014 – S. Sriskandarajah, Sri Lankan lawyer and judge (b. 1953)
• 2014 – Khin Yu May, Burmese actress and singer (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances

• Bounty Day (Pitcairn Island)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Abakuh
  • Marianne of Molokai
  • Emerentiana
  • Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Ildephonsus of Toledo
  • Phillips Brooks (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • January 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• National Pie Day (United States of America)

External links

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