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What happend on 7. January in History
In our data base we found 349 events happened on 7. January:
• 1285: Charles I of Naples (b. 1226) [category: Deaths]
• 1325: Denis of Portugal (b. 1261) [category: Deaths]
• 1325: Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. [category: Events]
• 1355: Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English son of Edward III of England (d. 1397) [category: Births]
• 1400: Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374) [category: Deaths]
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• 1451: Antipope Felix V (b. 1383) [category: Deaths]
• 1502: Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585) [category: Births]
• 1528: Jeanne d'Albret, French wife of Antoine of Navarre (d. 1572) [category: Births]
• 1536: Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485) [category: Deaths]
• 1558: France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England. [category: Events]
• 1566: Louis de Blois, Flemish monk (b. 1506) [category: Deaths]
• 1598: Boris Godunov becomes Czar of Russia. [category: Events]
• 1608: Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1610: Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day. [category: Events]
• 1619: Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. 1547) [category: Deaths]
• 1625: Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. 1560) [category: Deaths]
• 1634: Adam Krieger, German composer (d. 1666) [category: Births]
• 1647: William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677) [category: Births]
• 1655: Pope Innocent X (b. 1574) [category: Deaths]
• 1658: Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician (b. 1590) [category: Deaths]
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• 1685: Jonas Alströmer, Swedish businessman (d. 1761) [category: Births]
• 1694: Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. 1618) [category: Deaths]
• 1700: Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618) [category: Deaths]
• 1706: Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751) [category: Births]
• 1713: Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian director (d. 1785) [category: Births]
• 1715: François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (b. 1651) [category: Deaths]
• 1718: Israel Putnam, American general (d. 1790) [category: Births]
• 1746: George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral (d. 1823) [category: Births]
• 1758: Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686) [category: Deaths]
• 1767: Thomas Clap, American academic (b. 1703) [category: Deaths]
• 1768: Joseph Bonaparte, Italian brother of Napoleon (d. 1844) [category: Births]
• 1770: Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695) [category: Deaths]
• 1782: The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. [category: Events]
• 1783: William Tans'ur, English composer (b. 1700) [category: Deaths]
• 1785: Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. [category: Events]
• 1786: John Catron, American jurist (d. 1865) [category: Births]
• 1786: Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715) [category: Deaths]
• 1796: Princess Charlotte of Wales (d. 1817) [category: Births]
• 1797: The modern Italian flag is first used. [category: Events]
• 1800: Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874) [category: Births]
• 1812: Joseph Dennie, American writer (b. 1768) [category: Deaths]
• 1827: Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915) [category: Births]
• 1830: John Thomas Campbell, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770) [category: Deaths]
• 1830: Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769) [category: Deaths]
• 1831: Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897) [category: Births]
• 1832: James Munro, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1834: Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874) [category: Births]
• 1835: HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. [category: Events]
• 1837: Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899) [category: Births]
• 1844: Bernadette Soubirous, French mystic and saint (d. 1879) [category: Births]
• 1845: Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1858: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1860: Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902) [category: Births]
• 1864: Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808) [category: Deaths]
• 1870: Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, English judge and politician, 7th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1871: Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1873: Adolph Zukor, Hungarian film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1873: Charles Péguy, French poet (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1875: Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1875: Thomas Hicks, American runner (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1876: William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1876: Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807) [category: Deaths]
• 1878: François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794) [category: Deaths]
• 1879: John Bissinger, American gymnast (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1880: Jerome Steever, American water polo player (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1885: Edwin Swatek, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1887: Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1888: Vera de Bosset, Russian-American dancer (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1891: Zora Neale Hurston, American anthropologist and author (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1892: Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. [category: Events]
• 1895: Clara Haskil, Romanian pianist (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1895: Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1896: Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1899: Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1899: Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1900: John Brownlee, Australian opera singer (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1900: Robert Le Vigan, French actor (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1903: Alan Napier, English actor (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1904: Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist (b. 1836) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". [category: Events]
• 1906: Bobbi Trout, American pilot (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1907: Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harp player (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1908: Red Allen, American trumpet player (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1910: Orval Faubus, American politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1911: Butterfly McQueen, American actress (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1912: Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1912: Günter Wand, German conductor and composer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1913: Johnny Mize, American baseball player (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1913: Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1917: Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1919: Henry Ware Eliot American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail. [category: Events]
• 1920: Edmund Barton, Australian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen. [category: Events]
• 1921: Chester Kallman, American poet (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1922: Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1922: Eric Jupp, English-Australian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1922: Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1922: Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1922: Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote. [category: Events]
• 1923: Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1924: Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor [category: Births]
• 1924: Pablo Birger, Argentine race car driver (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1925: Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist, and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1926: Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea [category: Births]
• 1927: Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1928: William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1929: Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1929: Terry Moore, American actress [category: Births]
• 1931: Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast. [category: Events]
• 1932: Joe Berinson, Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1932: André Maginot, French soldier and politician (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1934: Charles Jenkins Sr., American sprinter [category: Births]
• 1934: Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1934: Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1935: Ducky Schofield, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1935: Kenny Davern, American clarinet player (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1935: Tommy Johnson, American tuba player (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1935: Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut [category: Births]
• 1935: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement. [category: Events]
• 1936: Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer [category: Births]
• 1936: G. Robert Blakey, American lawyer [category: Births]
• 1936: Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Lou Graham, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1938: Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, and actor (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1939: Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark [category: Births]
• 1940: Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road. [category: Events]
• 1941: Frederick D. Gregory, American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1941: Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1941: John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1941: Manfred Schellscheidt, German-American soccer player and coach [category: Births]
• 1942: Danny Steinmann, American director and screenwriter (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1942: Danny Williams, South African singer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1942: Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1942: Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. [category: Events]
• 1943: Richard Armstrong, English conductor [category: Births]
• 1943: Sadako Sasaki, Japanese victim of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1943: Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Arne Scheie, Norwegian sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1944: Tony Whitlam, Australian lawyer, politician, and judge [category: Births]
• 1944: Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Dick Marty, Swiss politician [category: Births]
• 1945: Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1945: Raila Odinga, Kenyan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya [category: Births]
• 1945: Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1945: World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. [category: Events]
• 1946: Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone [category: Births]
• 1946: Michael Roizen, American anesthesiologist and author [category: Births]
• 1946: Mike Wilds, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1946: Adamo Didur, Polish opera singer (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Shobhaa De, Indian columnist and author [category: Births]
• 1948: Ichirou Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (JAM Project) [category: Births]
• 1948: Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter (Loggins and Messina) [category: Births]
• 1948: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO. [category: Events]
• 1949: Anne Schedeen, American actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Chavo Guerrero, Sr., Mexican-American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1949: Marshall Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1949: Steven Williams, American actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Erin Gray, American actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1950: Malcolm Macdonald, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1950: Ross Grimsley, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1951: Helen Worth, English actress [category: Births]
• 1951: René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1953: Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Jodi Long, American actress [category: Births]
• 1954: José María Vitier, Cuban pianist and composer [category: Births]
• 1954: Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. [category: Events]
• 1956: David Caruso, American actor and producer [category: Births]
• 1956: Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1956: Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1956: Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1957: Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer [category: Births]
• 1957: Katie Couric, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1957: Nicholson Baker, American author [category: Births]
• 1957: Reena Roy, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1958: Donna Rice Hughes, American activist [category: Births]
• 1958: Linda Kozlowski, American actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Jon Larsen, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (Hot Club de Norvège) [category: Births]
• 1959: Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter (The Go-Go's) [category: Births]
• 1959: The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. [category: Events]
• 1960: David Marciano, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Loretta Sanchez, American politician [category: Births]
• 1960: Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: The Polaris missile is test launched. [category: Events]
• 1961: Andrew Thomson, Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1961: John Thune, American politician [category: Births]
• 1961: Supriya Pathak, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1962: Aleksandr Dugin, Russian sociologist [category: Births]
• 1962: Hallie Todd, American actress, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1963: Clint Mansell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pop Will Eat Itself) [category: Births]
• 1963: Rand Paul, American politician [category: Births]
• 1963: Arthur Edward Moore, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Nicolas Cage, American actor, producer, and director [category: Births]
• 1964: Cyril Davies, English singer and harmonica player (Blues Incorporated) (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1966: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1966: Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1966: Ehab Tawfik, Egyptian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1966: Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Guy Hebert, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1967: Mark Lamarr, English comedian, radio and television host [category: Births]
• 1967: Nick Clegg, English politician [category: Births]
• 1967: Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: J.L.B. Smith, South African chemist (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral. [category: Events]
• 1969: David Yost, American actor and producer [category: Births]
• 1970: Doug E. Doug, American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1970: Joao Ricardo, Angolan footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Todd Day, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: C. W. Anderson, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1971: Jeremy Renner, American actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Donald Brashear, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek songwriter (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Baiba Broka, Latvian actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1973: Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers. [category: Events]
• 1974: Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter [category: Births]
• 1974: John Rich, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Big & Rich) [category: Births]
• 1974: Svetlana Metkina, Russian actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Hossein Derakhshan, Iranian-Candian blogger [category: Births]
• 1976: Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Dustin Diamond, American actor [category: Births]
• 1977: John Gidding, American architect and television host [category: Births]
• 1977: Marco Storari, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Michelle Behennah, Singaporean-English model [category: Births]
• 1978: Emilio Palma, Argentinian citizen, first person to be born on Antarctica [category: Births]
• 1978: Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1978: Kevin Mench, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Bipasha Basu, Indian model and actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Mariangel Ruiz, Venezuelan actress and model [category: Births]
• 1979: Ricardo Maurício, Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1979: Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. [category: Events]
• 1980: Campbell Johnstone, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1980: Zöe Salmon, Irish model and television host, Miss Northern Ireland 1999 [category: Births]
• 1980: Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. [category: Events]
• 1981: Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1981: Jinxx, American guitarist (Black Veil Brides, The Dreaming, and Amen) [category: Births]
• 1981: Marquis Daniels, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Alvar Lidell, English journalist (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Francisco Rodriguez, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer [category: Births]
• 1982: Ianina Zanazzi, Argentine race car driver [category: Births]
• 1983: Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Liesbeth Mouha, Belgian volleyball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Natalie Gulbis, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1983: Robert Ri'chard, American actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Antonino Saviano, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Diego Balbinot, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Jon Lester, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). [category: Events]
• 1985: Lewis Hamilton, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1985: Wayne Routledge, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Mary Hardy, Australian comedian and actor (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1986: Grant Leadbitter, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Juan Rulfo, Mexican author (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: P. D. Eastman, American author and illustrator (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Jimmy Smith, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Haley Bennett, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1988: Robert Sheehan, Irish actor [category: Births]
• 1988: Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Trevor Howard,English actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito [category: Events]
• 1990: Camryn Grimes, American actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1990: Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper [category: Births]
• 1990: Liam Aiken, American actor [category: Births]
• 1990: Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Horace Stoneham, American businessman (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public for safety reasons. [category: Events]
• 1991: Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Max Morrow, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1991: Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest. [category: Events]
• 1992: Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica. [category: Events]
• 1993: The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President. [category: Events]
• 1995: Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Tarō Okamoto, Japanese painter and sculptor (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Ayumi Ishida, Japanese singer (Morning Musume and Dorothy Little Happy) [category: Births]
• 1998: Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins. [category: Events]
• 2000: Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: James Carr, American singer (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Jon Lee, English drummer (Feeder, The Darling Buds, and Raindancer) (b. 1968) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scottish journalist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Alwyn Schlebusch, South African politician, Vice State President of South Africa (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander. [category: Events]
• 2011: Derek Gardner, English engineer (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board. [category: Events]
• 2013: Ada Louise Huxtable, American critic (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Carl Berner, German-American super-centenarian (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: David R. Ellis, American director, actor, and stuntman (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Epifanie Norocel, Romanian archbishop (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Fred L. Turner, American businessman (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Harvey Shapiro, American poet (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Huell Howser, American television host (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Jeremy Hindley, English horse trainer (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Jim Cosman, American baseball player (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Joseph Roney, Haitian politician (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Louise Laurin, Canadian educator and activist (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias, Portuguese historian, author, and academic (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Maruša Krese, Slovene poet and journalist (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Nancy Burley, Australian figure skater (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2013: Richard Ben Cramer, American journalist and author (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• _: Canute Lavard [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Charles of Sezze [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christmas (Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches using the Julian Calendar) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Distaff Day (medieval Europe) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Festival of Seven Herbs or Nanakusa no sekku (Japan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: January 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Lucian of Antioch [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pioneer's Day (Liberia (controversial)) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Raymond of Peñafort [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist (Julian Calendar) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Tricolour day or Festa del Tricolore (Italy) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Victory from Genocide Day (Cambodia) [category: Holidays and observances]