1954 - Kim Hughes, cricketer (brilliant Australian batsman 1977-84)
1954 - Martin Dunn, British editor (Today)
1955 - Lucia Mendez, Mexico, spanish singer (Lucia es Luna Moreno)
1956 - Lisa Boray, [Schulte Nordholt], Dutch singer (Lovers Until the End)
1708 - William Hayes, composer
1924 - Warren Frank Benson, composer
1715 - Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher
1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer
1925 - David Jenkins, Bishop (Durham)
1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
1958 - Dave Rummells, Cedar Rapids IA, Nike golfer (1993 Buick-2nd)
1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, New Orleans LA, comediene (Ellen Morgan-Ellen)
1763 - Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
1770 - Alexander Carlyle, Moderator of General Assembly
1926 - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator
1778 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
1927 - Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, president of Honduras (1986-90)
1927 - William Redfield, NYC, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage)
1962 - Roshan Guneratne, cricketer (wicketless in only Test SL v Aust 1983)
1962 - Tim May, cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-95)
1816 - Lloyd Tilghman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1962 - Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, England, rock guitarist (Wham-Wake Me Up)
1828 - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer
1963 - Simon O'Donnell, cricketer (Deniliquin NSW ODI all-rounder 1985-90)
1832 - George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
1930 - A N Solomons, chairman (Singer & Friedlander)
1965 - Allison Hossack, Manitoba, actress (Olivia-Another World)
1930 - Harry "Buddy" Melges Jr, Wisc, yachter (Oly-gold/bronze-1964, 72)
1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
1877 - Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter
1878 - A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of S African cricket)
1879 - Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish (stage)author (Tille)
1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
1967 - Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer
1934 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
1968 - Reggie Jordan, NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves)
1935 - Henry Jordan, Emporia Va, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland, Green Bay)
1887 - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-admiral (WW II-Task Force 58)
1887 - Franois Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
1936 - Noel Harrison, London, singer/actor (Mark-Girl from UNCLE)
1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer
1971 - Jon Heidenreich, WLAF G (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Lamar Mills, WLAF DE (Amsterdam Admirals)
1893 - Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
1971 - Min Tang, Hunan China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Canberra AUS)
1971 - Bryan Callen, American actor
1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1972 - Harrison Houston, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears)
1973 - Mark Brook, WLAF LB (Rhein Fire)
1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer/essayist (Carnaval of the Citizens)
1973 - Tony Ramirez, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1943 - Jean Knight, vocalist (Mr Big Stuff)
1904 - Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty Intl co-founder (Nobel '74)
1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
1976 - Frankie Rayder, American model
1905 - John Carmel Heenan, Essex, cardinal archbp of Westminster (1963-75)
1905 - Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music"
1977 - Justin Gimelstob, NJ, tennis star (1994 doubles USTA Bakersfield)
1907 - Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orch leader (Don McNeill TV Club)
1946 - Gene Siskel, movie critic (Siskel & Ebert)
1946 - Timothy Clifford, director (National Galleries of Scotland)
1947 - Patrick Dewaere, [PJMH Bordeaux], France, actor (Les Valseuses)
1910 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Adrift)
1979 - Sara Rue, American actress
1910 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
1911 - Norbert Schultze, composer
1949 - Jonathan Carroll, American author
1912 - Cora Baird, NYC, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1986 - Gerald Green, American basketball player
1986 - Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)
1914 - Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher (Puffin Club)
1914 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Drrhsehvar (d. 2006)
1915 - William Hopper, NYC, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)
1951 - Walt Willey, Ottawa Ill, actor (Jackson Montgomery-All My Children)
1918 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian president (1967-90)
1918 - Philip Jos Farmer, American writer
1919 - K C Ibrahim, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India v WI 1948-49)
1500 - Vicente Yez Pinzn becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1531 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
1564 - The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1564 - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
1565 - Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
1589 - Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
1699 - Treaty of Carlowitz is signed.
1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1788 - The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 - The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
1855 - Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
1856 - First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
1861 - American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863 - American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
1863 - American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
1870 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
1885 - Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
1905 - The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.62135 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
1911 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
1911 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1918 - Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
1920 - Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
1924 - Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
1930 - The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
1934 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1934 - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1942 - World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
1945 - World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
1950 - The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
1952 - Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1958 - Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1960 - Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
1962 - Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.
1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
1978 - The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio - Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
1991 - Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2004 - President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2005 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
2009 - Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
1954 - Martin Dunn, British editor (Today)
1955 - Lucia Mendez, Mexico, spanish singer (Lucia es Luna Moreno)
1956 - Lisa Boray, [Schulte Nordholt], Dutch singer (Lovers Until the End)
1708 - William Hayes, composer
1924 - Warren Frank Benson, composer
1715 - Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher
1924 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer
1925 - David Jenkins, Bishop (Durham)
1722 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
1958 - Dave Rummells, Cedar Rapids IA, Nike golfer (1993 Buick-2nd)
1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, New Orleans LA, comediene (Ellen Morgan-Ellen)
1763 - Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
1770 - Alexander Carlyle, Moderator of General Assembly
1926 - Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator
1778 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
1926 - Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
1927 - Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, president of Honduras (1986-90)
1927 - William Redfield, NYC, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage)
1962 - Roshan Guneratne, cricketer (wicketless in only Test SL v Aust 1983)
1962 - Tim May, cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-95)
1816 - Lloyd Tilghman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1962 - Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, England, rock guitarist (Wham-Wake Me Up)
1828 - Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer
1963 - Simon O'Donnell, cricketer (Deniliquin NSW ODI all-rounder 1985-90)
1832 - George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
1930 - A N Solomons, chairman (Singer & Friedlander)
1965 - Allison Hossack, Manitoba, actress (Olivia-Another World)
1930 - Harry "Buddy" Melges Jr, Wisc, yachter (Oly-gold/bronze-1964, 72)
1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1965 - Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
1877 - Kees van Dongen, Netherland, French painter
1878 - A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of S African cricket)
1879 - Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish (stage)author (Tille)
1933 - Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
1967 - Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer
1934 - Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
1968 - Reggie Jordan, NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves)
1935 - Henry Jordan, Emporia Va, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland, Green Bay)
1887 - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-admiral (WW II-Task Force 58)
1887 - Franois Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
1936 - Noel Harrison, London, singer/actor (Mark-Girl from UNCLE)
1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer
1971 - Jon Heidenreich, WLAF G (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Lamar Mills, WLAF DE (Amsterdam Admirals)
1893 - Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
1971 - Min Tang, Hunan China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Canberra AUS)
1971 - Bryan Callen, American actor
1900 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1972 - Harrison Houston, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears)
1973 - Mark Brook, WLAF LB (Rhein Fire)
1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer/essayist (Carnaval of the Citizens)
1973 - Tony Ramirez, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1943 - Jean Knight, vocalist (Mr Big Stuff)
1904 - Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty Intl co-founder (Nobel '74)
1904 - Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
1976 - Frankie Rayder, American model
1905 - John Carmel Heenan, Essex, cardinal archbp of Westminster (1963-75)
1905 - Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music"
1977 - Justin Gimelstob, NJ, tennis star (1994 doubles USTA Bakersfield)
1907 - Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orch leader (Don McNeill TV Club)
1946 - Gene Siskel, movie critic (Siskel & Ebert)
1946 - Timothy Clifford, director (National Galleries of Scotland)
1947 - Patrick Dewaere, [PJMH Bordeaux], France, actor (Les Valseuses)
1910 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Adrift)
1979 - Sara Rue, American actress
1910 - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
1911 - Norbert Schultze, composer
1949 - Jonathan Carroll, American author
1912 - Cora Baird, NYC, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1986 - Gerald Green, American basketball player
1986 - Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)
1914 - Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher (Puffin Club)
1914 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Drrhsehvar (d. 2006)
1915 - William Hopper, NYC, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)
1951 - Walt Willey, Ottawa Ill, actor (Jackson Montgomery-All My Children)
1918 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian president (1967-90)
1918 - Philip Jos Farmer, American writer
1919 - K C Ibrahim, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India v WI 1948-49)
1500 - Vicente Yez Pinzn becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1531 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
1564 - The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1564 - The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
1565 - Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
1589 - Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
1699 - Treaty of Carlowitz is signed.
1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1788 - The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 - The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China later formally cedes.
1855 - Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
1856 - First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
1861 - American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863 - American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
1863 - American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
1870 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
1885 - Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
1905 - The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.62135 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
1911 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
1911 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1918 - Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
1920 - Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
1924 - Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
1930 - The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
1934 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1934 - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1942 - World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
1945 - World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
1950 - The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
1952 - Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1958 - Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1960 - Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)
1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
1962 - Ranger program: Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.
1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
1978 - The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio - Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
1991 - Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2004 - President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2005 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
2009 - Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
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