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What happend on 17. January in History
In our data base we found 408 events happened on 17. January:
• 1229: Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier [category: Deaths]
• 1287: King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca. [category: Events]
• 1369: King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328) [category: Deaths]
• 1377: Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. [category: Events]
• 1463: Frederick III of Saxony, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525) [category: Births]
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• 1468: George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405) [category: Deaths]
• 1484: George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545) [category: Births]
• 1501: Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566) [category: Births]
• 1504: Pope Saint Pius V (d. 1572) [category: Births]
• 1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean. [category: Events]
• 1560: Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624) [category: Births]
• 1562: France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain. [category: Events]
• 1574: Robert Fludd, English composer and writer (d. 1637) [category: Births]
• 1595: Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. [category: Events]
• 1598: Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557) [category: Deaths]
• 1600: Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681) [category: Births]
• 1608: Emperor Susenyos surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men. [category: Events]
• 1612: Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (d. 1671) [category: Births]
• 1617: Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551) [category: Deaths]
• 1640: Jonathan Singletary Dunham, American settler (d. 1724) [category: Births]
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• 1648: England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. [category: Events]
• 1654: Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625) [category: Deaths]
• 1659: Antonio Veracini, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745) [category: Births]
• 1666: Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (d. 1723) [category: Births]
• 1686: Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766) [category: Births]
• 1705: John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627) [category: Deaths]
• 1706: Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor (d. 1790) [category: Births]
• 1712: John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786) [category: Births]
• 1718: Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader [category: Deaths]
• 1719: William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806) [category: Births]
• 1728: Johann Gottfried Müthel, German composer and noted keyboard virtuoso (d. 1788) [category: Births]
• 1732: King Stanislaw II August Poniatowski of Poland (d. 1798) [category: Births]
• 1733: Thomas Linley the elder English musician (d. 1795) [category: Births]
• 1734: François-Joseph Gossec, Belgian composer (d. 1829) [category: Births]
• 1737: Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662) [category: Deaths]
• 1738: Jean-François Dandrieu, French composer (b. 1682) [category: Deaths]
• 1751: Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671) [category: Deaths]
• 1761: James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832) [category: Births]
• 1773: Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle. [category: Events]
• 1781: American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina. [category: Events]
• 1789: August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850) [category: Births]
• 1799: Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. [category: Events]
• 1811: Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries. [category: Events]
• 1814: Mrs. Henry Wood, English novelist (d. 1887) [category: Births]
• 1820: Anne Brontë, British author (d. 1849) [category: Births]
• 1826: Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806) [category: Deaths]
• 1828: Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist (d. 1898) [category: Births]
• 1828: Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War general (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1831: Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903) [category: Births]
• 1832: Henry Martyn Baird, American educationalist (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1834: August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1834: Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762) [category: Deaths]
• 1850: Aleksandr Taneyev, Russian composer (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1851: A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1852: The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal. [category: Events]
• 1853: Alva Belmont, American socialite (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1857: Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1857: Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1858: Tomás Carrasquilla, Colombian writer (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1860: Douglas Hyde, Irish President of Ireland (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1861: Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1863: Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1863: David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1863: Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789) [category: Deaths]
• 1865: Charles Fergusson, Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1867: Alfred Rawlinson, British soldier and sportsman (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1867: Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1869: Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813) [category: Deaths]
• 1871: David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1871: Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1872: Henri Masson, French fencer (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1873: A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War. [category: Events]
• 1874: Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (b. 1811) [category: Deaths]
• 1875: Florencio Sánchez, Uruguayan dramatist (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1876: Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1877: May Gibbs, Australian children's author (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1878: Sir Edward Creasy, English historian (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1879: Burt McKinnie, American golfer (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1880: Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1881: Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1881: Harry Price, English psychic researcher and writer (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1882: Arnold Rothstein, New York businessman and gambler (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1882: Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1883: Sir Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1884: Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan. [category: Events]
• 1886: Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1886: Ronald Firbank, British novelist (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1887: Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1887: William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1888: Babu Gulabrai,Indian Hindi Writer(d.1963) [category: Births]
• 1891: George Bancroft, U.S. historian (b. 1800) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii. [category: Events]
• 1897: Marcel Petiot, French mass murderer (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1899: Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1899: Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1899: Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of University of Chicago (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1899: The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. [category: Events]
• 1901: Aron Gurwitsch, Lithuanian-born philosopher (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1902: Nâzım Hikmet, Turkish poet (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1903: Warren Hull, American actor (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1903: Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve. [category: Events]
• 1904: Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre. [category: Events]
• 1905: Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1905: Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1905: Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1905: Ray Cunningham, American baseball player (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1907: Henk Badings, Dutch composer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1908: Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1908: Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1911: Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (b. 1822) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. [category: Events]
• 1913: Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France. [category: Events]
• 1914: Anacleto Angelini, Chilean businessman (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1914: Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1914: William Stafford, American poet and essayist (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1916: Peter Frelinghuysen, American politician (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1917: M. G. Ramachandran, Indian politician, actor (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1917: Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1917: The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands. [category: Events]
• 1918: George M. Leader, American politician and 36th Governor of Pennsylvania [category: Births]
• 1918: Keith Joseph, British politician (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1918: Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard. [category: Events]
• 1920: Corsica Joe, American professional wrestler (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1920: Georges Pichard, French comics artist (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1921: Antonio Prohías, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1921: Asghar Khan, Pakistan Air Force commander-in-chief [category: Births]
• 1922: Betty White, American actress [category: Births]
• 1922: Luis Echeverría Álvarez, Mexican President of Mexico [category: Births]
• 1922: Nicholas Katzenbach, American jurist and 65th United States Attorney General [category: Births]
• 1922: Robert De Niro, Sr., American painter (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1923: Carol Raye, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1923: Rangeya Raghav, Indian Hindi Writer(d.1962) [category: Births]
• 1925: Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1925: Edgar Ray Killen, American convict, former preacher and K.K.K. member [category: Births]
• 1925: Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1925: Robert Cormier, American author, columnist and reporter (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1926: Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1926: Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman [category: Births]
• 1927: E.W. Swackhamer, American television & film director (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1927: Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1927: Norman Kaye, Australian actor and musician (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1927: Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1927: Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1928: Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1929: Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1929: Tan Boon Teik, former Attorney-General of Singapore (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1929: Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days. [category: Events]
• 1929: Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip. [category: Events]
• 1930: Eddie LeBaron, American football player [category: Births]
• 1931: Don Zimmer, American baseball coach [category: Births]
• 1931: James Earl Jones, American actor [category: Births]
• 1931: L. Douglas Wilder, American politician, 66th Governor of Virginia [category: Births]
• 1931: Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Sheree North, American actress (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1932: Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: Dalida, French singer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1933: Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-born Pakistani diplomat (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1933: Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist, puppeteer, comedian and children's television host (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1933: Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: Ruurd Leegstra, Dutch rower (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Donald Cammell, Scottish film director (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1934: Stuart Nisbet, American actor [category: Births]
• 1935: Ruth Ann Minner, American politician, businesswoman and 72nd Governor of Delaware [category: Births]
• 1936: Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Alain Badiou, French philosopher [category: Births]
• 1938: John Bellairs, American mystery author (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1938: Percy Qoboza, South African journalist (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1939: Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1939: Maury Povich, American talk show host [category: Births]
• 1940: Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner [category: Births]
• 1940: Tabaré Vázquez, President of Uruguay [category: Births]
• 1941: Dame Gillian Weir, New Zealand organist [category: Births]
• 1941: Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy. [category: Events]
• 1942: Ita Buttrose, Australian journalist and businesswoman [category: Births]
• 1942: Muhammad Ali, American boxer [category: Births]
• 1942: Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1942: Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist [category: Births]
• 1942: Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Chris Montez, American singer [category: Births]
• 1943: Geoffrey Deuel, American actor [category: Births]
• 1943: René Préval, President of Haiti [category: Births]
• 1944: Françoise Hardy, French singer [category: Births]
• 1944: World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties. [category: Events]
• 1945: Javed Akhtar, Indian lyricist, poet and scriptwriter [category: Births]
• 1945: Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again. [category: Events]
• 1945: The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw. [category: Events]
• 1946: Michèle Deslauriers, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1946: The UN Security Council holds its first session. [category: Events]
• 1947: Jane Elliot, American actress [category: Births]
• 1947: Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Anne Queffélec, French pianist [category: Births]
• 1948: Davíð Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland [category: Births]
• 1948: Jim Ladd, American disc jockey, radio producer and writer [category: Births]
• 1949: Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1949: Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician and businessman [category: Births]
• 1949: Mick Taylor, British musician (John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones) [category: Births]
• 1949: The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, airs for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1950: Luis López Nieves, Latin American writer [category: Births]
• 1950: The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts. [category: Events]
• 1951: Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Darrell Porter, American baseball player (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1952: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician (Yellow Magic Orchestra) [category: Births]
• 1952: Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Carlos Johnson, American blues musician [category: Births]
• 1953: Jeff Berlin, American musician [category: Births]
• 1954: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and environmental activist, son of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy [category: Births]
• 1954: Susan Kiefel, Australian lawyer and judge [category: Births]
• 1955: Steve Earle, American musician [category: Births]
• 1955: Steve Javie, American professional basketball referee [category: Births]
• 1956: Paul Young, English musician (Streetband and Q-Tips) [category: Births]
• 1956: Blind Alfred Reed, American folk, country, and old-time musician (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Ann Nocenti, American comic book writer [category: Births]
• 1957: Keith Chegwin, English television presenter [category: Births]
• 1957: Michel Vaarten, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1957: Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality [category: Births]
• 1958: Valdas Kasparavičius, Lithuanian footballer [category: Births]
• 1959: Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Susanna Hoffs, American musician (The Bangles) [category: Births]
• 1960: Chatchai Plengpanich, Thai actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Chili Davis, Jamaican-born American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1960: John Crawford, American musician (Berlin) [category: Births]
• 1960: Andrew Kennaway Henderson, New Zealand illustrator, cartoonist, and pacifist (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Brian Helgeland, American writer and film director [category: Births]
• 1961: Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian Chess grandmaster [category: Births]
• 1961: Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States. [category: Events]
• 1961: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex". [category: Events]
• 1962: Ari Up, German-English singer (The Slits and New Age Steppers) (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1962: Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1962: Jun Azumi, Japanese politician [category: Births]
• 1962: Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1963: Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist (Gamma Ray and Helloween) [category: Births]
• 1963: Henri Masson, French fencer (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths and Freebass) [category: Births]
• 1964: Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States [category: Births]
• 1964: T.H. White, English author (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Nikos Nioplias, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1965: Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1966: Joshua Malina, American actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer [category: Births]
• 1966: Stephin Merritt, American singer and songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, and The Gothic Archies) [category: Births]
• 1966: Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea. [category: Events]
• 1967: Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1967: Richard Hawley, English singer, guitarist, and songwriter (Pulp and The Longpigs) [category: Births]
• 1967: Song Kang-ho, South Korean actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Wendy Mass, American author [category: Births]
• 1967: Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Craig Strong, American actor & voice actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer [category: Births]
• 1968: Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete [category: Births]
• 1969: Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film writer and director [category: Births]
• 1969: Naveen Andrews, British actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Tijs Verwest, Dutch DJ (Tiësto) [category: Births]
• 1969: Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA. [category: Events]
• 1970: Cássio Alves de Barros, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator [category: Births]
• 1970: James Wattana, Thai snooker player [category: Births]
• 1970: Jeremy Roenick, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1970: Masaaki Mochizuki, Japanese professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1970: Billy Stewart, American singer (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Ann Wolfe, female boxer [category: Births]
• 1971: Giorgos Balogiannis, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Kid Rock, American singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Paolo Vaccari, Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1971: Richard Burns, English rally driver (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1971: Sylvie Testud, French actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Benno Fürmann, German actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1972: Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Aaron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1973: Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Liz Ellis, Australian netball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Takis Hristoforidis, Greek actor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Danny Bhoy, Scottish comedian [category: Births]
• 1974: Derrick Mason, American football player [category: Births]
• 1974: Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1974: Vesko Kountchev, Bulgarian musician (Amparanoia) [category: Births]
• 1974: Yang Chen, Chinese footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican-American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer [category: Births]
• 1975: Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher) [category: Births]
• 1977: Kevin Fertig, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1977: Leigh Whannell, Australian screenwriter/actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1978: Pater Sparrow, Hungarian director/production designer [category: Births]
• 1978: Ricky Wilson, British singer (Kaiser Chiefs) [category: Births]
• 1979: Chase Stevens, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1979: Oleg Lisogor, Ukrainian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1980: Gareth McLearnon, Northern Irish flautist [category: Births]
• 1980: Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian ballroom dancer [category: Births]
• 1980: Zooey Deschanel, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Ray J, American singer [category: Births]
• 1981: Scott Mechlowicz, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it. [category: Events]
• 1982: Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Dwyane Wade, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Hwanhee, South Korean singer and actor (Fly to the Sky) [category: Births]
• 1982: Cold Sunday: in numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years. [category: Events]
• 1983: Johannes Herber, German basketball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Rick Kelly, Australian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1983: Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating. [category: Events]
• 1984: Calvin Harris, Scottish music producer and vocalist [category: Births]
• 1984: Sam Shaw, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1984: Sophie Dee, Welsh pornographic actress [category: Births]
• 1984: George Rigaud, Argentinian actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Betsy Ruth, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1985: Kang-in, South Korean singer, dancer, actor, MC, and DJ (Super Junior) [category: Births]
• 1985: Mark Briscoe, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1985: Pablo Barrientos, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Riyu Kosaka, Japanese singer (BeForU) [category: Births]
• 1985: Simone Simons, Dutch singer (Epica) [category: Births]
• 1986: Hale Appleman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Max Adler, American actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Viktor Stalberg, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1987: Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Héctor Moreno, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Percy Qoboza, South African journalist (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Björn Dreyer, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Hollie-Jay Bowes, English actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life. [category: Events]
• 1991: Lee Kiseop, Korean singer (U-KISS) [category: Births]
• 1991: Trevor Bauer, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1991: King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation. [category: Events]
• 1991: Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V. [category: Events]
• 1992: Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. [category: Events]
• 1993: Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Yevgeni Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California. [category: Events]
• 1995: The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people. [category: Events]
• 1996: Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union. [category: Events]
• 1997: Jack Vidgen, Australian singer [category: Births]
• 1997: Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad. [category: Events]
• 1998: Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report. [category: Events]
• 1999: Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Samantha Reid, American girl killed by GHB overdose (b. 1984) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Ion Rațiu, Romanian politician and presidential candidate (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes Meriwether Lewis from Lieutenant to Captain. [category: Events]
• 2002: Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. [category: Events]
• 2003: Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Czesław Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Zhao Ziyang, Former Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing. [category: Events]
• 2008: Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Bobby Fischer, American chess grandmaster and author (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777. [category: Events]
• 2009: Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Daisuke Gouri, Japanese voice actor (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Erich Segal, American writer, (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek politician and author (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths. [category: Events]
• 2011: Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Johnny Otis, American singer and musician (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (b. 1989) [category: Deaths]
• 38_bc: Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. [category: Events]
• 395: Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (b. 347) [category: Deaths]
• 395: Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. [category: Events]
• _: Anthony the Great (Roman Catholic and Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Blessed Amelbert [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: January 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mildgytha [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Day (Minorca) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Sulpitius the Pious [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The opening ceremony of Patras Carnival, celebrated until Clean Monday. (Patras) [category: Holidays and observances]