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What happend on 2. January in History
In our data base we found 327 events happened on 2. January:
• 366: The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire. [category: Events]
• 533: Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy. [category: Events]
• 1492: Reconquista: the Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders. [category: Events]
• 1512: Svante Nilsson, Sweden politician (b. 1460) [category: Deaths]
• 1514: William Smyth, English bishop (b. 1460) [category: Deaths]
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• 1557: Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494) [category: Deaths]
• 1642: Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1693) [category: Births]
• 1647: Nathaniel Bacon, English-American rebel leader (d. 1676) [category: Births]
• 1664: George II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl (b. 1588) [category: Deaths]
• 1699: Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1757) [category: Births]
• 1713: Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803) [category: Births]
• 1719: Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797) [category: Births]
• 1726: Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688) [category: Deaths]
• 1727: James Wolfe, English general (d. 1759) [category: Births]
• 1732: František Brixi, Czech composer (d. 1771) [category: Births]
• 1777: Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857) [category: Births]
• 1777: American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey. [category: Events]
• 1788: Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution. [category: Events]
• 1791: Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. [category: Events]
• 1818: The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded. [category: Events]
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• 1822: Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888) [category: Births]
• 1827: Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Russian geographer and statistician (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1833: Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893) [category: Births]
• 1833: Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. [category: Events]
• 1836: Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1836: Queen Emma of Hawaii (d. 1885) [category: Births]
• 1837: Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1857: M. Carey Thomas, American educator and activist (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1860: Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1860: William Corless Mills, American historian (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1860: The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. [category: Events]
• 1861: Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
• 1865: Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as Brazilian and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay. [category: Events]
• 1866: Gilbert Murray, Australian scholar (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1870: Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1871: Amadeus I becomes King of Spain. [category: Events]
• 1873: Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1873: Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun (d. 1897) [category: Births]
• 1877: Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1879: Rudolf Bauer, Hungarian discus thrower (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1882: Herbert von Petersdorff, German swimmer (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1884: Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator, historian and politician (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1885: Gordon Flowerdew, Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1886: Apsley Cherry-Garrard, English explorer (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1886: Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1889: Bertram Stevens, Australian politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1891: Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1892: Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1892: George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1895: Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1896: Dziga Vertov, Russian director (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1896: Lawrence Wackett, Australian engineer (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1897: Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1900: American Statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. [category: Events]
• 1901: Bob Marshall, American activist (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1902: Dan Keating, Irish soldier (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1904: Truus Klapwijk, Dutch diver and swimmer(d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1904: James Longstreet, American general (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1905: Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1905: Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1905: Michael Tippett, English composer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1905: Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China. [category: Events]
• 1909: Barry Goldwater, American army officer and politician (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1909: Riccardo Cassin, Italian mountaineer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1911: A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill. [category: Events]
• 1913: Anna Lee, English actress (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1913: Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855) [category: Deaths]
• 1914: Noor Inayat Khan, Russian-English SOE agent (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1914: Vivian Stuart, Burmese author (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1915: Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Zypora Spaisman, Polish-American actress and producer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1917: Vera Zorina, German-Norwegian actress and dancer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1917: Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Willi Graf, German activist (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1920: Isaac Asimov, American chemist and author (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1920: Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities. [category: Events]
• 1921: Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1924: Evgenios Spatharis, Greek puppeteer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1924: Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Larry Harmon, American clown (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1925: William J. Crowe, American admiral and diplomat (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1926: Howard Caine, American director (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1927: Grigoris Varfis, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1927: Angered by the anti-clerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, Catholic rebels in Mexico rebelled against the government. [category: Events]
• 1928: Avie Bennett, Canadian businessman and philanthropist [category: Births]
• 1928: Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese spiritual leader [category: Births]
• 1928: Robert Goralski, American journalist (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1929: Lehri, Pakistani actor and comedian (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1930: Julius La Rosa, American singer [category: Births]
• 1931: Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan [category: Births]
• 1932: Peter Redgrove, English poet (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1933: Ed Casey, Australian politician (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1933: On Kawara, Japanese painter [category: Births]
• 1933: Richard Riley, American politician, 111th Governor of South Carolina [category: Births]
• 1933: Seiichi Morimura, Japanese author [category: Births]
• 1935: Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1935: Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. [category: Events]
• 1936: Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1938: Goh Kun, South Korean politician, 31st Prime Minister of South Korea [category: Births]
• 1938: Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author [category: Births]
• 1939: Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Jim Bakker, American minister, evangelist, and television host [category: Births]
• 1940: S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician [category: Births]
• 1940: Susan Wittig Albert, American author [category: Births]
• 1941: Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1942: Dennis Hastert, American politician, 59th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives [category: Births]
• 1942: Hugh Shelton, American general [category: Births]
• 1942: Ray Moore, English radio host (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1942: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring. [category: Events]
• 1942: World War II: Manila, Philippines is captured by Japanese forces. [category: Events]
• 1943: Barış Manço, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1944: Norodom Ranariddh, Cambodian politician [category: Births]
• 1944: Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer and conductor [category: Births]
• 1945: World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces. [category: Events]
• 1946: Richard Cole, English manager [category: Births]
• 1946: Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Calvin Hill, American football player [category: Births]
• 1947: David Shapiro, American poet, critic, and historian [category: Births]
• 1947: Jack Hanna, American zoologist [category: Births]
• 1947: Valery Shary, Belarusian weightlifter [category: Births]
• 1948: Judith Miller, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1948: Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Christopher Durang, American playwright [category: Births]
• 1949: John Turner, English cricketer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1949: Leijn Loevesijn, Dutch cyclist [category: Births]
• 1949: Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. [category: Events]
• 1950: David Shifrin, American clarinet player [category: Births]
• 1950: Débora Duarte, Brazilian actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Leo van der Goot, Dutch singer and radio host [category: Births]
• 1950: James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter [category: Births]
• 1951: Jim Essian, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1951: Stipe Božić, Croatian mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1951: William Campion, English army officer and politician, 21st Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Christine Lavin, American singer-songwriter (Four Bitchin' Babes) [category: Births]
• 1952: Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (Skyhooks) (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1952: Jimmy Santiago Baca, American poet and author [category: Births]
• 1952: Robbie Ftorek, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1953: Jacques Tichelaar, Dutch politician and union leader [category: Births]
• 1953: Manfred Wittke, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1953: Vincent Racaniello American virologist, author, and academic [category: Births]
• 1954: Henry Bonilla, American politician [category: Births]
• 1955: Tex Brashear, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Vivien Savage, French singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1955: Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated. [category: Events]
• 1956: Jishu Dasgupta, Indian actor and director (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1956: Lynda Barry, American cartoonist and author [category: Births]
• 1958: Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Russian pianist [category: Births]
• 1959: Kim Coates, Canadian-American actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Kirti Azad, Indian cricketer and politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American author (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1960: Naoki Urasawa, Japanese illustrator [category: Births]
• 1960: Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1960: Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Craig James, American football player [category: Births]
• 1961: Gabrielle Carteris, American actress [category: Births]
• 1961: IJsbrand Chardon, Dutch horse rider [category: Births]
• 1961: Robert Wexler, American lawyer and politician [category: Births]
• 1961: Todd Haynes, American director [category: Births]
• 1963: David Cone, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1963: Edgar Martínez, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1963: Dick Powell, American actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac. [category: Events]
• 1964: Luis Moro, Cuban-American actor, producer, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1964: Luis d'Antin, Spanish motorcycle racer [category: Births]
• 1964: Pernell Whitaker, American boxer [category: Births]
• 1965: Greg Swindell, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1966: Kate Hodge, American actress and producer [category: Births]
• 1967: Francois Pienaar, South African rugby player [category: Births]
• 1967: Jón Gnarr, Icelandic actor and politician [category: Births]
• 1967: Tia Carrere, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1968: Anky van Grunsven, Dutch horse rider [category: Births]
• 1968: Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Evan Parke, Jamaican-American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Goichi Suda, Japanese video game designer [category: Births]
• 1969: Christy Turlington, American model [category: Births]
• 1969: Glen Johnson, Jamaican boxer [category: Births]
• 1969: Karl-Heinz Grasser, Austrian politician [category: Births]
• 1969: Patrick Huard, Canadian actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1969: Robby Gordon, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1969: Róbert Švehla, Slovak ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1969: Tommy Morrison, American boxer [category: Births]
• 1970: Eric Whitacre, American composer and conductor [category: Births]
• 1970: Royce Clayton, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1970: Sanda Ladoși, Romanian singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Lisa Harrison, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Markus Hoffmann, German actor (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1971: Renee Elise Goldsberry, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Taye Diggs, American actor, singer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1971: Yutaka Takenouchi, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1971: E. V. Knox, English poet (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match. [category: Events]
• 1972: Adam Elliot, Australian animator and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1972: Hristos Meletoglou, Greek triple jumper [category: Births]
• 1972: Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: Rodney MacDonald, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of Nova Scotia [category: Births]
• 1974: Jason de Vos, Canadian soccer player [category: Births]
• 1974: Tex Ritter, American singer and actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. [category: Events]
• 1975: Chris Cheney, Australian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Living End and The Wrights) [category: Births]
• 1975: Jeff Suppan, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1975: A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Minister of Railways Lalit Narayan Mishra. [category: Events]
• 1975: Bangladeshi Marxist leader Siraj Sikder is arrested and dies while in police custody. [category: Events]
• 1976: Danilo Di Luca, Italian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1976: Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper [category: Births]
• 1976: Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Paz Vega, Spanish actress [category: Births]
• 1976: The Gale of January 1976 begins, which results in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, resulting in at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage. [category: Events]
• 1977: Aleš Píša, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1977: Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1977: Nikos Soultanidis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Stefan Koubek, Austrian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1977: Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer [category: Births]
• 1978: Megumi Toyoguchi, Japanese voice actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Annie Bellemare, Canadian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1980: Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist [category: Births]
• 1980: Mac Danzig, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1980: Melvin Holwijn, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Hanno Balitsch, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Kirk Hinrich, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Ryan Garko, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. [category: Events]
• 1982: Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker [category: Births]
• 1983: Dick Emery, English comedian and actor (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Otacilio Jales, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Ediz Bahtiyaroğlu, Turkish-Bosnian footballer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1986: Trombone Shorty, American trumpet player [category: Births]
• 1986: Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Damien Tussac, French-German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1989: Maksims Bogdanovs, Latvian motorcycle racer [category: Births]
• 1989: Romain Dedola, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Safdar Hashmi, Indian playwright, actor, and director (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Karel Abraham, Czech motorcycle racer [category: Births]
• 1990: Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician and author (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Davide Santon, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Steele Sidebottom, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Anna Arina Marenko, Russian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1992: Leaders of armed opposition declare the President Zviad Gamsakhurdia deposed during a military coup in Georgia. [category: Events]
• 1994: Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, 17th Governor of Washington (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French businessman (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Siad Barre, Somalian military officer and politician, 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Randy California, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spirit and The Blue Flame) (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Frank Muir, English radio host (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Rolf Liebermann, Swiss composer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, Illinois, where temperatures plunge to -13 °F (-25 °C); 68 deaths are reported. [category: Events]
• 2000: Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Patrick O'Brian, English author (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: William P. Rogers, American politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Armi Aavikko, Finnish model and singer, Miss Finland 1977 (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth. [category: Events]
• 2005: Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Frank Kelly Freas, American illustrator (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino jurist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: An explosion in a coal mine in Sago, West Virginia traps and kills 12 miners, while leaving one miner in critical condition. [category: Events]
• 2007: A. Richard Newton, Australian-American engineer and academic (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: David Perkins, American geneticist (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Garry Betty, American businessman (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Mauno Jokipii, Finnish academic and author (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Paek Nam-sun, North Korean politician (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Robert C. Solomon, American scholar (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: George MacDonald Fraser, English journalist and author (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Martinus Tels, Dutch physicist and engineer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Inger Christensen, Danish poet (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Maria de Jesus, Portuguese super-centenarian (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: David R. Ross, Scottish author and historian (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Richard Winters, American army officer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Szeto Wah, Hong Kong politician (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Anatoly Kolesov, Russian wrestler (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Helmut Müller-Brühl, German conductor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ioan Drăgan, Romanian footballer (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1986) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Angelo Coia, American football player (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Charles Chilton, English radio host and producer (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Council Cargle, American actor (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian and author (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Géza Koroknay, Hungarian actor (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Ian McKeever, Irish mountaineer (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Jim Boyd, American actor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Karel Čáslavský, Czech historian and television host (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Mamie Rearden, American super-centenarian (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Maulvi Nazir, Pakistani militant leader (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Merv Hunter, Australian politician (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Ned Wertimer, American actor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Rudolf Szanwald, Austrian footballer (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Stephen Resnick, American economist (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, American psychologist and author (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Zaharira Harifai, Israeli actress (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• _: Ancestry Day (Haiti) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Bank Holiday, if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3 (Scotland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Basil the Great (Catholic Church and Church of England) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Berchtold’s Day (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Carnival Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Defendens of Thebes [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Gregory of Nazianzus (Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: January 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Macarius of Alexandria [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Seraphim of Sarov (repose) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The first day of Blacks and Whites' Carnival, celebrated until January 7. (southern Colombia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The first day of the Carnival of Riosucio, celebrated until January 8 every 2 years. (Riosucio) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The ninth day of Christmas (Western Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The second day of New Year (A holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine): [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Victory of Armed Forces Day (Cuba) [category: Holidays and observances]