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Events

• 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
• 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• 1494 - First Mass celebrated in the New World at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
• 1540 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves
• 1579 - The Union of Atrecht was signed.
• 1649 - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I of England on trial
• 1661 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1690 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of the Romans.
• 1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• 1781 - In the Battle of Jersey on 6 January the British defeated the last attempt by France to invade Jersey militarily.
• 1806 - Horatio Nelson laid to rest in Saint Paul's Cathedral in London
• 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.
• 1853 - United States President-Elect Franklin Pierce and Jane Pierce are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
• 1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein, Vienna (Vienna).
• 1887 - `Abd Allah II ibn `Ali `Abd ash-Shakur of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II of Ethiopia.
• 1893 - Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• 1900 - Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa - over 1,000 people killed
• 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
• 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
• 1929 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia suspends Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes's constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Šestojanuarska diktatura.)
• 1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a legacy of work amongst India's poorest and diseased people
• 1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
• 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• 1936 - Supreme Court of the United States rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al..
• 1936 - Porky Pig premieres.
• 1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germany in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
• 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms in the State of the Union Address.
• 1941 - Keel of USS Missouri (BB-63) is laid at New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn
• 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
• 1950 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
• 1961 - A fire at the Thomas Hotel in San Francisco kills 20 people.
• 1967 - United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1974 - In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• 1977 - The music publisher EMI ends its contract with the notorious punk rock group Sex Pistols after reports of abusive behaviour at Heathrow Airport, London.
• 1978 - The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after the World War II.
• 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
• 1995 - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• 2004 - Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate is declared the official anthem of Karnataka
• 2005 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
• 2005 - First World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace begins in Brussels, Belgium.
• 2006 - Tropical Storm Zeta (2005) dissipates, ending the notorious 2005 Tropical cyclone season.

Births

• 1367 - Richard II of England (d. 1400)
• 1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
• 1486 - Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
• 1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)
• 1525 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
• 1561 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (d. 1656)
• 1587 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
• 1595 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650)
• 1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
• 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (d. 1790)
• 1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
• 1745 - Montgolfier Brothers, French inventor (d. 1799)
• 1793 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
• 1795 - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
• 1807 - Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
• 1808 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
• 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
• 1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
• 1838 - Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
• 1848 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet (d. 1876)
• 1850 - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
• 1870 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
• 1872 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
• 1878 - Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
• 1880 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
• 1882 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
• 1882 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
• 1882 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
• 1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
• 1898 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965)
• 1899 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960)
• 1899 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (d. 1968)
• 1902 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (d. 1994)
• 1903 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
• 1905 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
• 1910 - Wright Morris, American writer (d. 1998)
• 1913 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
• 1913 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1914 - Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1915 - Alan Watts, English writer (d. 1973)
• 1916 - Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007)
• 1917 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
• 1920 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
• 1920 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1921 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
• 1923 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
• 1924 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
• 1925 - John De Lorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
• 1926 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
• 1926 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
• 1926 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
• 1926 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
• 1926 - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel Peace Prize
• 1929 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
• 1930 - Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1931 - Capucine, French actress (d. 1990)
• 1931 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
• 1931 - Dickie Moore (hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
• 1932 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
• 1933 - Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
• 1933 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
• 1935 - Nino Tempo, American singer and actor
• 1935 - Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria
• 1936 - Rubén Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player
• 1936 - Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay
• 1937 - Paolo Conte, Italian singer
• 1937 - Lou Holtz, American football coach
• 1937 - Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004)
• 1938 - Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
• 1938 - Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader
• 1940 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989)
• 1940 - Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
• 1943 - Terry Venables, English football manager
• 1944 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress
• 1944 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1945 - Allen Appel, American novelist
• 1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
• 1947 - Sandy Denny, English vocalist (d. 1978)
• 1951 - Don Gullett, American baseball player
• 1951 - Kim Wilson, American musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
• 1952 - Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor
• 1952 - Larry Latham (wrestler), American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
• 1953 - Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
• 1954 - Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
• 1954 - Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
• 1954 - Anthony Minghella, British film director
• 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
• 1955 - Richard Corbett, Labour Member of the European Parliament
• 1956 - Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter
• 1957 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
• 1959 - Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
• 1959 - Kathy Sledge, American singer
• 1960 - Paul Azinger, American golfer
• 1960 - Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1960 - Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
• 1960 - Howie Long, American football player
• 1962 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
• 1963 - Jazzie B, English musician (Soul II Soul)
• 1964 - Charles Haley, American football player
• 1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
• 1964 - Mark O'Toole, English bass guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
• 1964 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005)
• 1964 - Yuri (Mexican), Mexican actress and singer
• 1965 - Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
• 1965 - Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler
• 1966 - Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor
• 1966 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer
• 1966 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
• 1968 - John Singleton, American film director
• 1970 - Julie Chen, American television presenter
• 1970 - Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player
• 1972 - Nek, Italian singer
• 1973 - Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Nicole DeHuff. American actress (d. 2005)
• 1975 - James Farrior, American football player
• 1975 - Yukana, Japanese seiyū
• 1975 - Jason King (radio), English radio DJ (Radio 1)
• 1976 - Danny Pintauro, American actor
• 1976 - Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1976 - Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor
• 1978 - Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
• 1978 - Casey Fossum, American baseball player
• 1980 - Steed Malbranque, French footballer
• 1980 - Hiromi Oshima, Japanese adult model
• 1981 - Mike Jones (rapper), American rapper
• 1981 - Jérémie Renier, Belgian actor
• 1981 - Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
• 1982 - Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
• 1982 - Tiffany Pollard, American reality television personality
• 1984 - Sean O'Brien, Australian Professional Windsurfer ( AUS120.com)
• 1985 - Jeremy Grant Seelbach Duran, The Sea-Wash Devil
• 1986 - Paul McShane, Irish footballer
• 1986 - Alex Turner (musician), English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
• 1989 - Andy Carroll, English footballer
• 1993 - steven Trigg, American rapper

Deaths

• 664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (bc. 583)
• 1088 - Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
• 1448 - Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418)
• 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
• 1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
• 1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)
• 1689 - Seth Ward (bishop), English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1671)
• 1711 - Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• 1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
• 1725 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
• 1731 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 - John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657)
• 1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
• 1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
• 1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (b. 1809)
• 1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
• 1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
• 1885 - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812)
• 1913 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
• 1918 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
• 1919 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
• 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
• 1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
• 1928 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1934 - Herbert Chapman , Legendary Manager of Arsenal F.C. and Huddersfield Town F.C. (b. 1878)
• 1937 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
• 1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• 1942 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
• 1944 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
• 1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
• 1949 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
• 1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
• 1972 - Chen Yi (communist), Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
• 1978 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
• 1990 - Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1904)
• 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
• 1993 - Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (b. 1917)
• 1995 - Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
• 1997 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
• 1999 - Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
• 2000 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
• 2004 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
• 2004 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937)
• 2004 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)
• 2005 - Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
• 2005 - Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
• 2006 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
• 2006 - Hugh Thompson, Jr., Soldier's Medal Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
• 2007 - Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
• 2007 - Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
• 2007 - Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)

Holidays and observances

• Christianity
• Epiphany (Christian)
• (except Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodoxy who follow the Julian Calendar) - Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as Twelfth Day and Three Kings Day
• Theophany (Revelation of the Trinity at Christ's baptism in the Jordan)
• Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church
• Third greatest Feast of the Eastern Church, following Pascha (Easter) and Pentecost.
• One of the oldest Feasts in Eastern Christianity, traced back to the beginning of the 2nd Century.
• The Western (Roman) Catholic Church adopted this Feast in the 3rd Century, calling it Epiphany (Christian).
• Public holiday in Spain, Italy and Puerto Rico to mark Epiphany (Christian)
• In the Irish Calendar - Little Christmas (Nollaig na mBan, "Women's Christmas")
• Rastafari movement - Celebration of the ceremonial birthday of Haile Selassie
• Armenian Christmas (except in the Holy Land where it is on 18 January - old calendar)
• Ancient Latvia - Zvaigznes Diena observed
• January 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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Events

• 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
• 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• 1494 - First Mass celebrated in the New World at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
• 1540 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves
• 1579 - The Union of Atrecht was signed.
• 1649 - The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I of England on trial
• 1661 - The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1690 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of the Romans.
• 1720 - The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• 1781 - In the Battle of Jersey on 6 January the British defeated the last attempt by France to invade Jersey militarily.
• 1806 - Horatio Nelson laid to rest in Saint Paul's Cathedral in London
• 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tested the electrical telegraph.
• 1853 - United States President-Elect Franklin Pierce and Jane Pierce are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.
• 1870 - The inauguration of the Musikverein, Vienna (Vienna).
• 1887 - `Abd Allah II ibn `Ali `Abd ash-Shakur of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II of Ethiopia.
• 1893 - Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
• 1900 - Boers attack Ladysmith, South Africa - over 1,000 people killed
• 1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.
• 1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
• 1929 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia suspends Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes's constitution (the so-called January 6th Dictatorship, Šestojanuarska diktatura.)
• 1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a legacy of work amongst India's poorest and diseased people
• 1930 - The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed (Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City).
• 1931 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• 1936 - Supreme Court of the United States rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al..
• 1936 - Porky Pig premieres.
• 1940 - Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germany in the city of Poznań, Warthegau.
• 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms in the State of the Union Address.
• 1941 - Keel of USS Missouri (BB-63) is laid at New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn
• 1942 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to have a flight go around the world.
• 1950 - The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with Britain in response.
• 1961 - A fire at the Thomas Hotel in San Francisco kills 20 people.
• 1967 - United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1974 - In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• 1977 - The music publisher EMI ends its contract with the notorious punk rock group Sex Pistols after reports of abusive behaviour at Heathrow Airport, London.
• 1978 - The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after the World War II.
• 1994 - Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding.
• 1995 - A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• 2004 - Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate is declared the official anthem of Karnataka
• 2005 - Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
• 2005 - First World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace begins in Brussels, Belgium.
• 2006 - Tropical Storm Zeta (2005) dissipates, ending the notorious 2005 Tropical cyclone season.

Births

• 1367 - Richard II of England (d. 1400)
• 1412 - Joan of Arc, Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France (legendary date) (d. 1431)
• 1486 - Martin Agricola, German composer (d. 1556)
• 1488 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540)
• 1525 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602)
• 1561 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician (d. 1656)
• 1587 - Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (d. 1645)
• 1595 - Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French man of letters (d. 1650)
• 1617 - Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673)
• 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (d. 1790)
• 1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)
• 1745 - Montgolfier Brothers, French inventor (d. 1799)
• 1793 - James Madison Porter, American politician (d. 1862)
• 1795 - Anselme Payen, French chemist (d. 1871)
• 1807 - Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
• 1808 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (d. 1864)
• 1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890)
• 1832 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
• 1838 - Max Bruch, German composer (d. 1920)
• 1848 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet (d. 1876)
• 1850 - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
• 1870 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1944)
• 1872 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
• 1878 - Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967)
• 1880 - Tom Mix, American actor (d. 1940)
• 1882 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (d. 1949)
• 1882 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop (d. 1965)
• 1882 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1961)
• 1883 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese writer (d. 1931)
• 1898 - James Fitzmaurice, Irish aviation pioneer (d. 1965)
• 1899 - Phyllis Haver, American actress (d. 1960)
• 1899 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (d. 1968)
• 1902 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (d. 1994)
• 1903 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (d. 1993)
• 1905 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
• 1910 - Wright Morris, American writer (d. 1998)
• 1913 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (d. 2001)
• 1913 - Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1914 - Danny Thomas, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1915 - Alan Watts, English writer (d. 1973)
• 1916 - Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007)
• 1917 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist
• 1920 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
• 1920 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (d. 1999)
• 1921 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (d. 1998)
• 1923 - Jacobo Timerman, Argentine writer (d. 1999)
• 1924 - Earl Scruggs, American musician
• 1925 - John De Lorean, American auto maker (d. 2005)
• 1926 - Ralph Branca, American baseball player
• 1926 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (2002)
• 1926 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (d. 2003)
• 1926 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (d. 2006)
• 1926 - Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea and Nobel Peace Prize
• 1929 - Babrak Karmal, Afghani politician (d. 1996)
• 1930 - Vic Tayback, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1931 - Capucine, French actress (d. 1990)
• 1931 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
• 1931 - Dickie Moore (hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
• 1932 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
• 1933 - Oleg Makarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2003)
• 1933 - Emil Steinberger, Swiss comedian
• 1935 - Nino Tempo, American singer and actor
• 1935 - Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria
• 1936 - Rubén Amaro, Sr., Mexican baseball player
• 1936 - Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay
• 1937 - Paolo Conte, Italian singer
• 1937 - Lou Holtz, American football coach
• 1937 - Doris Troy, American singer (d. 2004)
• 1938 - Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor
• 1938 - Mario Rodríguez Cobos "Silo", Argentine writer and spiritual leader
• 1940 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist (d. 1989)
• 1940 - Van McCoy, American musician (d. 1979)
• 1943 - Terry Venables, English football manager
• 1944 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress
• 1944 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1945 - Allen Appel, American novelist
• 1946 - Syd Barrett, English guitarist, singer and songwriter Pink Floyd (d. 2006)
• 1947 - Sandy Denny, English vocalist (d. 1978)
• 1951 - Don Gullett, American baseball player
• 1951 - Kim Wilson, American musician (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
• 1952 - Frank Sivero, Italian-born American actor
• 1952 - Larry Latham (wrestler), American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
• 1953 - Malcolm Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
• 1954 - Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect
• 1954 - Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer
• 1954 - Anthony Minghella, British film director
• 1955 - Rowan Atkinson, English comedian and actor
• 1955 - Richard Corbett, Labour Member of the European Parliament
• 1956 - Angus Deayton, English comedian, actor and television presenter
• 1957 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
• 1959 - Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer
• 1959 - Kathy Sledge, American singer
• 1960 - Paul Azinger, American golfer
• 1960 - Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1960 - Nigella Lawson, English chef and writer
• 1960 - Howie Long, American football player
• 1962 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (d. 2002)
• 1963 - Jazzie B, English musician (Soul II Soul)
• 1964 - Charles Haley, American football player
• 1964 - Henry Maske, German boxer
• 1964 - Mark O'Toole, English bass guitarist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
• 1964 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (d. 2005)
• 1964 - Yuri (Mexican), Mexican actress and singer
• 1965 - Muhammed al-Ahari, American Muslim writer
• 1965 - Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler
• 1966 - Fernando Carrillo, Venezuelan actor
• 1966 - A. R. Rahman, Indian composer
• 1966 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (d. 1990)
• 1968 - John Singleton, American film director
• 1970 - Julie Chen, American television presenter
• 1970 - Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player
• 1972 - Nek, Italian singer
• 1973 - Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 - Nicole DeHuff. American actress (d. 2005)
• 1975 - James Farrior, American football player
• 1975 - Yukana, Japanese seiyū
• 1975 - Jason King (radio), English radio DJ (Radio 1)
• 1976 - Danny Pintauro, American actor
• 1976 - Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1976 - Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor
• 1978 - Nikki Einfeld, Canadian opera singer
• 1978 - Casey Fossum, American baseball player
• 1980 - Steed Malbranque, French footballer
• 1980 - Hiromi Oshima, Japanese adult model
• 1981 - Mike Jones (rapper), American rapper
• 1981 - Jérémie Renier, Belgian actor
• 1981 - Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
• 1982 - Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
• 1982 - Tiffany Pollard, American reality television personality
• 1984 - Sean O'Brien, Australian Professional Windsurfer ( AUS120.com)
• 1985 - Jeremy Grant Seelbach Duran, The Sea-Wash Devil
• 1986 - Paul McShane, Irish footballer
• 1986 - Alex Turner (musician), English musician (Arctic Monkeys)
• 1989 - Andy Carroll, English footballer
• 1993 - steven Trigg, American rapper

Deaths

• 664 - Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (bc. 583)
• 1088 - Berengar of Tours, French theologian (bc. 999)
• 1448 - Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418)
• 1537 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
• 1537 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
• 1616 - Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (bc. 1550)
• 1689 - Seth Ward (bishop), English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1671)
• 1711 - Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• 1718 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1718 - Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
• 1725 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
• 1731 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 - John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657)
• 1813 - Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
• 1831 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
• 1852 - Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind (b. 1809)
• 1855 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
• 1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
• 1885 - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812)
• 1913 - Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
• 1918 - Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
• 1919 - Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
• 1919 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
• 1922 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
• 1928 - Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1934 - Herbert Chapman , Legendary Manager of Arsenal F.C. and Huddersfield Town F.C. (b. 1878)
• 1937 - André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
• 1941 - Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• 1942 - Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
• 1944 - Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
• 1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
• 1949 - Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
• 1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
• 1972 - Chen Yi (communist), Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
• 1978 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
• 1990 - Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1904)
• 1993 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
• 1993 - Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (b. 1917)
• 1995 - Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
• 1997 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
• 1999 - Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
• 2000 - Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
• 2004 - Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
• 2004 - Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937)
• 2004 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)
• 2005 - Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
• 2005 - Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
• 2006 - Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
• 2006 - Hugh Thompson, Jr., Soldier's Medal Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
• 2007 - Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
• 2007 - Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
• 2007 - Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)

Holidays and observances

• Christianity
• Epiphany (Christian)
• (except Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodoxy who follow the Julian Calendar) - Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as Twelfth Day and Three Kings Day
• Theophany (Revelation of the Trinity at Christ's baptism in the Jordan)
• Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church
• Third greatest Feast of the Eastern Church, following Pascha (Easter) and Pentecost.
• One of the oldest Feasts in Eastern Christianity, traced back to the beginning of the 2nd Century.
• The Western (Roman) Catholic Church adopted this Feast in the 3rd Century, calling it Epiphany (Christian).
• Public holiday in Spain, Italy and Puerto Rico to mark Epiphany (Christian)
• In the Irish Calendar - Little Christmas (Nollaig na mBan, "Women's Christmas")
• Rastafari movement - Celebration of the ceremonial birthday of Haile Selassie
• Armenian Christmas (except in the Holy Land where it is on 18 January - old calendar)
• Ancient Latvia - Zvaigznes Diena observed
• January 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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