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What happend on 5. January in History
In our data base we found 344 events happened on 5. January:
• 842: Al-Mu'tasim, Iraqi 8th Abbasid caliph (b. 794) [category: Deaths]
• 1066: Edward the Confessor, English king (b. 1004) [category: Deaths]
• 1066: Edward the Confessor dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England. [category: Events]
• 1209: Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, German king (d. 1272) [category: Births]
• 1400: John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. 1350) [category: Deaths]
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• 1448: Christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416) [category: Deaths]
• 1465: Charles, Duke of Orléans (b. 1394) [category: Deaths]
• 1477: Charles the Bold, French son of Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1433) [category: Deaths]
• 1477: Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France. [category: Events]
• 1500: Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan. [category: Events]
• 1524: Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (b. 1450) [category: Deaths]
• 1527: Felix Manz, Swiss martyr (b. 1498) [category: Deaths]
• 1527: Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning. [category: Events]
• 1548: Francisco Suárez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617) [category: Births]
• 1554: A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands. [category: Events]
• 1587: Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641) [category: Births]
• 1588: Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528) [category: Deaths]
• 1589: Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (b. 1519) [category: Deaths]
• 1592: Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (d. 1666) [category: Births]
• 1614: Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662) [category: Births]
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• 1640: Paolo Lorenzani, Italian composer (d. 1713) [category: Births]
• 1675: Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg. [category: Events]
• 1679: Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian composer and organist (d. 1750) [category: Births]
• 1713: Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643) [category: Deaths]
• 1717: William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, English politician (d. 1793) [category: Births]
• 1740: Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667) [category: Deaths]
• 1757: Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides. [category: Events]
• 1762: Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842) [category: Births]
• 1762: Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709) [category: Deaths]
• 1767: Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (d. 1832) [category: Births]
• 1771: John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician (b. 1710) [category: Deaths]
• 1778: Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (d. 1813) [category: Births]
• 1779: Stephen Decatur, American navy officer (d. 1820) [category: Births]
• 1781: American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold. [category: Events]
• 1782: American Revolutionary War: French troops begin a siege of a British garrison on Brimstone Hill in Saint Kitts. [category: Events]
• 1796: Samuel Huntington, American jurist and politician, 18th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1731) [category: Deaths]
• 1808: Anton Füster, Austrian priest and activist (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1823: George Johnston, Scottish military officer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764) [category: Deaths]
• 1834: William John Wills, English surgeon and explorer (d. 1861) [category: Births]
• 1838: Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1846: Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1846: Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1846: The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1854: The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people. [category: Events]
• 1855: King C. Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1858: Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766) [category: Deaths]
• 1860: John Neumann, American bishop (b. 1811) [category: Deaths]
• 1864: Ban Johnson, American businessman, founded the Western League (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1864: Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1865: Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1866: Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1871: Frederick Converse, American composer (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1874: Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1876: Konrad Adenauer, German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1879: Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1879: Marcel Tournier, French harp player and composer (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1880: Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1881: David Hammond, American swimmer and water polo player [category: Births]
• 1882: Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1883: Charles Tompson, Australian poet (b. 1806) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1886: Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1888: Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1893: Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian politician (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1895: Elizabeth Cotten, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1895: Jeannette Piccard, American priest, and scientist (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1895: Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. [category: Events]
• 1896: An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Röntgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. [category: Events]
• 1900: Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1900: Irish leader John Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule. [category: Events]
• 1902: Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1902: Stella Gibbons, English author (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1903: Harold Gatty, Australian navigator (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1904: Erika Morini, Austrian violinist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1904: Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1904: Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1908: George Dolenz, American actor (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1909: Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-American sculptor, painter, and photographer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1909: Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1909: Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. [category: Events]
• 1910: Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1910: Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1910: Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1911: Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's second oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University. [category: Events]
• 1912: The Prague Party Conference takes place. [category: Events]
• 1913: First Balkan War: During the Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war. [category: Events]
• 1914: George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1914: Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1914: The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. [category: Events]
• 1915: Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian cartographer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1917: Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1917: Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1917: Lucienne Day, English textile designer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1917: Wieland Wagner, German director (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1919: Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1919: Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flute player (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1919: Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress and singer (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded. [category: Events]
• 1920: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1921: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1921: Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg [category: Births]
• 1921: Paul Governali, American football player (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1922: Anthony Synnot, Australian navy officer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1922: Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Sam Phillips, American record producer, founded Sun Records (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1924: Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1926: Hosea Williams, American businessman and activist (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1926: W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1928: Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States [category: Births]
• 1928: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician, 4th President of Pakistan (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1929: Wilbert Harrison, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1930: Al Masini, American television producer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1931: Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist, poet, and author [category: Births]
• 1931: Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer, founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1931: Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1931: Robert Duvall, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1932: Chuck Noll, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1932: Raisa Gorbachova, Russian wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, First Lady of the Soviet Union (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1932: Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and author [category: Births]
• 1933: Calvin Coolidge, American politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. [category: Events]
• 1934: William Bendeck, Bolivian race car driver (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1936: Florence King, American author and columnist [category: Births]
• 1937: Marie Booth, English daughter of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Jim Otto, American football player [category: Births]
• 1938: Juan Carlos I of Spain [category: Births]
• 1938: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author [category: Births]
• 1940: Athol Guy, Australian bassist (The Seekers) [category: Births]
• 1940: Michael O'Donoghue, American screenwriter (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1940: Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1941: Bruno Schettino, Italian archbishop (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1941: Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1941: Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1941: Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Charlie Rose, American journalist and talk show host [category: Births]
• 1942: Jan Leeming, English journalist [category: Births]
• 1942: Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist [category: Births]
• 1942: Terenci Moix, Spanish author (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1942: Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Mary Gaudron, Australian lawyer and judge [category: Births]
• 1943: George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Ed Rendell, American politician, 45th Governor of Pennsylvania [category: Births]
• 1944: The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper. [category: Events]
• 1945: Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1945: Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-English director [category: Births]
• 1945: The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. [category: Events]
• 1946: Diane Keaton, American actress, director, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1946: Kitty Cheatham, American singer and actress (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Mercury Morris, American football player [category: Births]
• 1947: Mike DeWine, American politician, 50th Attorney General of Ohio [category: Births]
• 1947: Charles Schlee, Danish-American cyclist (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Ted Lange, American actor, director, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1949: U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program. [category: Events]
• 1950: Charlie Richmond, Canadian sound designer and engineer [category: Births]
• 1950: Chris Stein, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Blondie) [category: Births]
• 1950: Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian, philosopher, and author (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1950: John Manley, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada [category: Births]
• 1950: Krzysztof Wielicki, Polish mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1951: Jagathy Sreekumar, Indian actor and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1951: Steve Arnold, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1951: Andrei Platonov, Russian author (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Uli Hoeneß, German footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1952: Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian activist (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish politician (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: George Tenet, American civil servant and academic, 18th Director of Central Intelligence [category: Births]
• 1953: Mike Rann, English-Australian politician, 44th Premier of South Australia [category: Births]
• 1953: Pamela Sue Martin, American actress [category: Births]
• 1953: Steve Archer, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Archers) [category: Births]
• 1954: Alex English, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1954: László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian author and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1954: Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Mohsen Sazegara, Iranian journalist [category: Births]
• 1956: Chen Kenichi, Japanese-Chinese chef [category: Births]
• 1956: Tim Macartney-Snape, Australian mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1956: Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1957: Jerome Steever, American water polo player (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: In a speech given to the United States Congress, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine. [category: Events]
• 1958: Marvin Lee Wilson, American murderer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1958: Nancy Delahunt, Canadian curler [category: Births]
• 1958: Ron Kittle, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Clancy Brown, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1960: Phil Thornalley, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Cure and Johnny Hates Jazz) [category: Births]
• 1960: Steve Jones, English pilot [category: Births]
• 1961: Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1962: Danny Jackson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1962: Perry Fenwick, English actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Suzy Amis, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1963: Jeff Fassero, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1963: Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Grant Young, American drummer (Soul Asylum) [category: Births]
• 1965: Vinnie Jones, English footballer and actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Kate Schellenbach, American drummer (Luscious Jackson and Beastie Boys) [category: Births]
• 1966: Steve Tuttle, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1967: Joe Flanigan, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Andrew Golota, Polish boxer [category: Births]
• 1968: Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer [category: Births]
• 1968: DJ BoBo, Swiss singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1968: Joé Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1968: Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Alexander Dubček comes to power: "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia. [category: Events]
• 1969: Marilyn Manson, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director (Satan on Fire) [category: Births]
• 1969: Paul McGillion, Scottish actor [category: Births]
• 1969: The Troubles: The Royal Ulster Constabulary raid the Bogside area of Derry, damaging property and beating residents. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry. [category: Events]
• 1970: Rick Campanelli, Canadian television host [category: Births]
• 1970: Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Jayne Middlemiss, English chef [category: Births]
• 1971: Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Nikki Nova, American porn actress and model [category: Births]
• 1972: Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer-songwriter, producer and actor [category: Births]
• 1972: U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program. [category: Events]
• 1973: Phil Joel, New Zealand singer-songwriter and bass player (Newsboys) [category: Births]
• 1974: Sarah-Jane Honeywell, English actress and dancer [category: Births]
• 1974: Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses. [category: Events]
• 1974: Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station [category: Events]
• 1975: Bradley Cooper, American actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Kylie Bax, New Zealand-American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Mike Grier, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1975: Warrick Dunn, American football player [category: Births]
• 1975: The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people. [category: Events]
• 1976: Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Matt Wachter, American bass player (30 Seconds to Mars and Angels & Airwaves) [category: Births]
• 1976: John A. Costello, Irish politician, 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Mal Evans, English manager (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea. [category: Events]
• 1976: The Troubles: In response to the killing of six Catholics the night before, gunmen shoot dead ten Protestant civilians after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK. [category: Events]
• 1978: Franck Montagny, French race car driver [category: Births]
• 1978: January Jones, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Marcus Trick, German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1978: Sabrina Harman, American army reservist [category: Births]
• 1978: Wyatt Emory Cooper, American author and screenwriter (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1979: Masami Tanaka, Japanese swimmer [category: Births]
• 1979: Ronnie O'Brien, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Billy Bletcher, American actor (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Charles Mingus, American bassist and composer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Bennie Joppru, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Brooklyn Sudano, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1981: Harold Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Benoît Vaugrenard, French cyclist [category: Births]
• 1982: Darren Mackie, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier [category: Births]
• 1982: Norichika Aoki, Japanese baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Edmund Herring, Australian military commander and politician, 7th Chief Justice of Victoria (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Sean Dockery, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Amanda Hearst, American model [category: Births]
• 1985: Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Fabienne Suter, Swiss skier [category: Births]
• 1985: Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (2Ge+Her) (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1985: Yoon So-yi, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Deepika Padukone, Danish-Indian model and actress [category: Births]
• 1986: J. P. Arencibia, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Teppei Koike, Japanese actor and singer (WaT) [category: Births]
• 1987: Kristin Cavallari, American actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Margaret Laurence, Canadian author (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Mario de Luna, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Pauline, French singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1988: Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Yang Yo-seob, South Korean singer and dancer (Beast) [category: Births]
• 1990: Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Daniel Pacheco, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Denis Alibec, Romanian footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War. [category: Events]
• 1992: Julian Derstroff, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1993: De'Anthony Thomas, American football player [category: Births]
• 1993: Westley Allan Dodd, American murderer (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil. [category: Events]
• 1994: Brian Johnston, English sportscaster (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Tip O'Neill, American politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Max Baldry, English actor [category: Births]
• 1996: Lincoln Kirstein, American director (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian Hamas member (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Burton Lane, American composer and songwriter (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Ken Forssi, American bass player (Love) (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Sonny Bono, American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and politician (Sonny & Cher) (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Marc Yu, American pianist [category: Births]
• 2000: Patricia Gayod, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 2001: Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Doreen Carwithen, English composer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Tug McGraw, American baseball player (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Danny Sugerman, American manager and author (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory. [category: Events]
• 2006: Merlyn Rees, Welsh-Irish politician (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Clinton Grybas, Australian sportscaster (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Griffin Bell, American lawyer and politician, 72nd United States Attorney General (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Ned Tanen, American movie executive (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Murray Saltzman, Russian-American rabbi and activist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Willie Mitchell, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Malangatana Ngwenya, Mozambican painter and poet(b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Alexander Sizonenko, Russian basketball player (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Frederica Sagor Maas, American screenwriter and author (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Selwyn Baptiste, Trinidadian educator (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Abraham Hecht, American rabbi and author (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Anders Carlberg, Swedish politician (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Bruce McCarty, American architect, designed the Knoxville City-County Building (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Chandler Williams, American football player (b. 1985) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Claude Préfontaine, Canadian actor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Fitzroy Newsum, American pilot (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Bengali-Indian actor (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Jeff Lewis, American football player (b. 1973) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Joselo, Venezuelan actor (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Canadian archbishop (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Martha Greenhouse, American actress (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Pierre Cogan, French cyclist (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Piet de Bekker, Dutch politician (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Reg Dean, English super-centenarian (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Richard McWilliam, American businessman, co-founded the Upper Deck Company (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Selkirk, English race horse (b. 1988) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Sol Yurick, American author (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: T. S. Cook, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Vladimir Šenauer, Croatian footballer (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: January 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: John Neumann (Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Joma Shinji (除魔神事) at Tsurugaoka Hachiman. (Kamakura, Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Telesphorus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Simeon Stylites (Latin Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The Twelfth day of Christmas and the Twelfth Night of Christmas. (Western Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]