:January 6
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=Pre-1600=
- 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the Norman conquest of England.{{cite book|first=Edward Augustus|last=Freeman|author-link=Edward Augustus Freeman|title=The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yc7ZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR7|year=1873|publisher=Clarendon Press for Macmillan and Company, New York|pages=12}}
- 1205 – Philip of Swabia undergoes a second coronation as King of the Romans.{{cite book|first1=Christopher|last1=Fletcher|first2=Sean|last2=Brady|first3=Rachel E.|last3=Moss|first4=Lucy|last4=Riall|author-link4=Lucy Riall|title=The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nh5KDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147|date=2 February 2018|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-137-58538-7|pages=147}}
- 1322 – Stephen Uroš III is crowned King of Serbia, having defeated his half-brother Stefan Konstantin in battle. His son is crowned "young king" in the same ceremony.{{cite book|first=John Van Antwerp|last=Fine|author-link=John Van Antwerp Fine Jr.|title=The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvVbRrH1QBgC&pg=PA263|year=1994|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=0-472-08260-4|pages=263}}
- 1355 – Charles IV of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.{{cite book|first=Archibald|last=Bower|author-link=Archibald Bower|title=The History Of The Popes: From The Foundation of the See of Rome, To The Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abU-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA487|year=1766|publisher=Author|pages=487}}
- 1449 – Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.{{cite book|title=Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in Byzantium and the Medieval Mediterranean: Comparative Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0WJTAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|date=19 September 2013|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-25815-0|pages=218}}
- 1492 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada at the conclusion of the Granada War.{{cite book|first1=Bernard Bolingbroke|last1=Woodward|author-link1=Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward|first2=William Leist Readwin |last2=Cates|author-link2=William Leist Readwin Cates|title=Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeI0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA513|year=1872|publisher=Lee and Shepard|pages=513}}
- 1536 – The first European school of higher learning in the Americas, Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, is founded by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza and Bishop Juan de Zumárraga in Mexico City.{{cite web|website=Cronica.com.mx|title=A 480 años del Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco|url=http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2016/972793.html|first=Carlos|last=Villa Roiz|access-date=July 17, 2019|date=July 16, 2016|language=es|trans-title=480 years of Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718024741/http://www.cronica.com.mx/notas/2016/972793.html|archive-date=July 18, 2019|url-status=live}}
- 1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.{{cite book|author-link=Retha Warnicke|first=Retha Marvine|last=Warnicke|title=The Marrying of Anne of Cleves: Royal Protocol in Early Modern England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P1PrjR79wzgC&pg=PA1|date=13 April 2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77037-8|pages=1}}
- 1579 – The Union of Arras unites the southern Netherlands under the Duke of Parma (Ottavio Farnese), governor in the name of King Philip II of Spain.{{cite book|first=Tabitta|last=Van Nouhuys|title=The Ages of Two-faced Janus: The Comets of 1577 and 1618 and the Decline of the Aristotelian World View in the Netherlands|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xO3n6sjUaK4C&pg=PA477|year=1998|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-11204-9|pages=477}}
=1601–1900=
- 1641 – Arauco War: The first Parliament of Quillín is celebrated, putting a temporary hold on hostilities between Mapuches and Spanish in Chile.{{Cite book|title=Historia general de Chile|last=Barros Arana|first=Diego|publisher=Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes|location=Alicante|url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/historia-general-de-chile-tomo-cuarto--0/html/ff2f1efc-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_69.html#I_15_|edition=Digital edition based on the second edition of 2000|volume=Tomo cuarto|language=es|author-link=Diego Barros Arana|page=268|access-date=2019-08-11|archive-date=2019-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019183409/http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/historia-general-de-chile-tomo-cuarto--0/html/ff2f1efc-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_69.html#I_15_|url-status=live}}
- 1661 – English Restoration: The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London, England. The revolt is suppressed after a few days.{{cite book|first=Alexander|last=Gordon|author-link=Alexander Gordon (Unitarian)|title=Heads of English Unitarian History with Appended Lectures on Baxter and Priestley|url=https://archive.org/details/headsofenglishun00gord|year=1895|publisher=Green|page=[https://archive.org/details/headsofenglishun00gord/page/73 73]}}
- 1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt politicians.{{cite book|last=Marshall|first=Dorothy|author-link=Dorothy Marshall (historian)|year=1962|title=Eighteenth Century England|publisher=Longman|pages=121–30}}
- 1724 – Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, BWV 65, a Bach cantata, for Epiphany, is performed the first time.[https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000081?lang=en Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen BWV 65; BC A 27] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230304213331/https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000081?lang=en |date=2023-03-04 }} Bach Digital
- 1725 – J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, a chorale cantata for Epiphany.{{cite web
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- 1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.{{cite book|first=Richard|last=Mayne|title=The Battle of Jersey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYhnAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Phillimore|isbn=978-0-85033-381-7|page=ii}}
- 1809 – Combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces begin the Invasion of Cayenne during the Napoleonic Wars.{{cite book|first=Richard (Major.)|last=Johns|title=The Calendar of Victory: Being a Record of British Valour and Conquest by Sea and Land, on Every Day in the Year. Projected and Commenced by the Late Major Johns ... Continued and Completed by Lieut P. H. Nicolas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Erwob1JqJTQC&pg=PA7|year=1855|pages=7}}
- 1838 – Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).{{cite book|first=Julia Keese|last=Colles|title=Authors and Writers Associated With Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pl5UR4v7T1AC&pg=PT286|year=1895|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=978-1-4655-0681-8|pages=286}}
- 1839 – The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.{{cite book|first1=Julian|last1=Mayes|first2=Dennis|last2=Wheeler|title=Regional Climates of the British Isles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3sGsH-dsysC&pg=PT279|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-77143-1|pages=279}}
- 1847 – Samuel Colt obtains his first contract for the sale of revolver pistols to the United States government.{{cite book|first=Carl Parcher|last=Russell|author-link=Carl Parcher Russell|title=Guns on the Early Frontiers: A History of Firearms from Colonial Times Through the Years of the Western Fur Trade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJRJZZIxrmkC&pg=PA217|date=1 January 1980|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=0-8032-8903-0|pages=217}}
- 1870 – The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.{{cite web|url=https://www.musikverein.at/dermusikverein/musikvereinssaal.php?lang=en|title=Großer Musikvereinssaal|publisher=Wiener Musikverein|language=en|access-date=20 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222173724/https://www.musikverein.at/dermusikverein/musikvereinssaal.php?lang=en|archive-date=22 December 2015}}
- 1900 – Second Boer War: Having already besieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.{{cite book|first=Alfred Thayer|last=Mahan|author-link=Alfred Thayer Mahan|title=Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tseD29KgtQEC&pg=PT140|year=2007|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=978-1-4655-4730-9|pages=140}}
=1901–present=
- 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.{{cite book|author=International Bureau of Education|title=Bulletin of the International Bureau of Education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uegAAAAMAAJ|year=1957|publisher=UNESCO|page=124|access-date=2019-12-17|archive-date=2023-01-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119180422/https://books.google.com/books?id=3uegAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
- 1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.{{cite book|title=Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxNFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA426|year=1912|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=426}}
- 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.{{cite web|url=https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/service/press/press-release/the-copernicus-of-geosciences-alfred-wegener-presented-his-revolutionary-theory-of-continental-drif.html|title=The Copernicus of Geosciences: Alfred Wegener presented his revolutionary theory of continental drift 100 years ago - AWI|access-date=2019-12-28|archive-date=2019-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228232049/https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/service/press/press-release/the-copernicus-of-geosciences-alfred-wegener-presented-his-revolutionary-theory-of-continental-drif.html|url-status=live}}
- 1929 – King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution, starting the January 6th Dictatorship.{{cite book|title=A History of the Macedonian People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4mtpAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Macedonian Review Editions|page=239}}
- 1929 – Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.{{cite book|first1=Brian|last1=Kolodiejchuk|author-link1=Brian Kolodiejchuk|author2=Mother Teresa|author-link2=Mother Teresa|title=Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FghXwaLcBRYC&pg=PA17|date=31 July 2012|publisher=Ebury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4481-4819-6|pages=17}}
- 1930 – Clessie Cummins arrives at the National Automobile Show in New York City, having driven a car powered by one of his diesel engines from Indianapolis.{{cite web|url=http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/3490|title=On This Day: Monday 6th January 1930|website=365 Days of Motoring|access-date=2021-01-05|archive-date=2021-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107005634/http://www.365daysofmotoring.com/showonthisday/article/3490|url-status=dead}}
- 1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=David M.|author-link=David M. Kennedy (historian)|title=Freedom From Fear: the American people in depression and war, 1929-1945|title-link=Freedom from Fear (Kennedy book)|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|pages=470–76}}
- 1946 – The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.{{cite book|first1=Dieter|last1=Nohlen|author-link1=Dieter Nohlen|first2=Florian|last2=Grotz|first3=Christof|last3=Hartmann|year=2001|title=Elections in Asia: A data handbook|volume=II|page=331|isbn=0-19-924959-8}}
- 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.{{cite magazine|last=Long|first=Tony|date=17 June 2009|title=June 17, 1947: Pan Am Launches 'Round-the-World Service|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2009/06/dayintech-0617/|access-date=8 October 2020|archive-date=10 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010215554/https://www.wired.com/2009/06/dayintech-0617/|url-status=live}}
- 1950 – The United Kingdom recognizes the People's Republic of China.{{cite book|title=British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print: China, Japan, Siam, Indo-China and Korea, January 1950-December 1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J7-Sy18LogsC&pg=PA62|year=2000|isbn=978-1-55655-768-2|pages=62|last1=Best|first1=Anthony| publisher=Univ. Publ. of America }} The Republic of China severs diplomatic relations with the UK in response.
- 1951 – Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/south-korea-owns-up-to-brutal-past/2008/11/14/1226318928410.html?page=2|title=South Korea owns up to brutal past|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=15 November 2008|access-date=2010-07-14|archive-date=2017-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810081329/http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/south-korea-owns-up-to-brutal-past/2008/11/14/1226318928410.html?page=2|url-status=live}}
- 1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.Civil Aeronautics Board File No. 1-0002, pp. 1,12
- 1960 – The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.{{cite book|last=Ismael|first=Tareq Y.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6uAvs4HqVLIC|title=The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Iraq|location=Cambridge/New York|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2008|page=101|isbn=9780521873949}}
- 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.{{cite book|last=Telfer|first=Gary|title=U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Fighting the North Vietnamese 1967|publisher=History and Museums Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps|year=1984|url=https://archive.org/details/FightingTheNorthVietnamese|isbn=978-1494285449}}
- 1968 – Aeroflot Flight 1668 crashes near Olyokminsk, killing 45.{{cite web |author= |date= |title=Saturday 6 January 1968 |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19680106-0 |access-date=6 December 2018 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}
- 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 crashes in Lafayette Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, killing 11.{{cite book |url=http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR70-10.pdf |title=Aircraft Accident Report, Allegheny Airlines, Inc., Allison Prop Jet Convair 440, N5825, near Bradford, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1969 |date=May 27, 1970 |publisher=National Transportation Safety Board |id=NTSB-AAR-70-10 |access-date=December 31, 2023 |archive-date=January 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103122014/http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports/AAR70-10.pdf |url-status=live }}
- 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.{{cite book|title=Project Independence Blueprint: Transcript of Fourth Public Hearing, Seattle, Boise, Portland, & Anchorage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OqSR4v-bJ6MC&pg=PA683|year=1975|publisher=Federal Energy Administration|pages=683}}
- 1974 – Aeroflot Flight H-75 crashes near Mukachevo, killing 24.{{Cite web |date=2018-01-06 |title=Різдвяна трагедія: майже півстоліття тому під Мукачевом розбився пасажирський АН-24 |trans-title=Christmas tragedy: almost half a century ago, a passenger AN-24 crashed near Mukachevo |url=https://goloskarpat.info/society/5a509f0ad3199/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127022417/https://goloskarpat.info/society/5a509f0ad3199/ |archive-date=2018-11-27 |access-date=2018-10-03 |publisher=Voice of the Carpathians |language=uk}}
- 1989 – Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death for conspiracy in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; the two men are executed the same day.{{cite book|first1=Dilip K.|last1=Das|first2=Cliff|last2=Roberson|title=Trends in the Judiciary: Interviews with Judges Across the Globe, Volume One|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jx8tAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|date=16 December 2013|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4200-9978-2|pages=127}}
- 1992 – President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia flees the country as a result of the military coup.{{cite book|first=Christoph|last=Zurcher|author-link=Christoph Zürcher|title=The Post-Soviet Wars: Rebellion, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationhood in the Caucasus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C0DTtKEktdEC&pg=PA127|date=November 2007|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-9709-9|pages=127}}
- 1993 – Indian Border Security Force units kill 55 Kashmiri civilians in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, in revenge after militants ambushed a BSF patrol.{{cite book|first1=Patricia|last1=Gossman|author2=Human Rights Watch. Asia Watch|author-link2=Human Rights Watch|title=The Human Rights Crisis in Kashmir: A Pattern of Impunity|url=https://archive.org/details/humanrightscrisi00asia|url-access=registration|year=1993|publisher=Human Rights Watch|isbn=978-1-56432-104-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/humanrightscrisi00asia/page/68 68]}}
- 1993 – Four people are killed when Lufthansa CityLine Flight 5634 crashes on approach to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy-en-France, France.{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|date=|title=ASN Aircraft accident de Havilland Canada DHC-8-311 D-BEAT Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19930106-0|access-date=2021-01-01|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|archive-date=2020-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127150423/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19930106-0|url-status=live}}
- 1994 – U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_011594.htm|first=William|last=Hamilton|title=Three Held in Assault on Kerrigan|newspaper=Washington Post|date=January 15, 1994|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316112130/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/timeline/articles/time_011594.htm|archive-date=March 16, 2018|url-status=live}}
- 1995 – A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.{{cite book |last1=Marret |first1=Jean-Luc |title=From Lockerbie to Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab |date=2010 |oclc=957483843 |url=https://aei.pitt.edu/71237/ |access-date=2022-01-31 |archive-date=2022-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704124338/http://aei.pitt.edu/71237/ |url-status=live }}
- 2000 – The last natural Pyrenean ibex, Celia, is killed by a falling tree, thus making the species extinct.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/23/the-species-that-went-extinct-twice |title=The Species That Went Extinct Twice |last=Smith |first=Kiona N. |date=January 23, 2021 |website=Forbes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131073011/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/23/the-species-that-went-extinct-twice/ |archive-date=January 31, 2021 |url-status=live}}
- 2005 – Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner during the American Civil Rights Movement.{{cite news|url=https://eu.clarionledger.com/story/journeytojustice/2015/01/06/civil-rights-history-january-12/21329987/|title=This Week in Civil Rights History: Jan. 6-12|journal=The Clarion-Ledger|date=January 6, 2015|first=Jerry|last=Mitchell|author-link=Jerry Mitchell (reporter)|access-date=19 December 2019}}
- 2005 – A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.{{cite web|author=National Transportation Safety Board|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RAR0504.pdf|title=Report of Railroad Accident: Collision of Norfolk Southern Freight Train 192 with Standing Norfolk Southern Local Train P22 With Subsequent Hazardous Materials Release. Graniteville, South Carolina; January 6, 2005.|id=NTSB/RAR-05/04|date=November 29, 2005|access-date=September 16, 2017|author-link=National Transportation Safety Board|archive-date=June 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617154506/https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/RAR0504.pdf|url-status=live}}
- 2012 – Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.{{cite news|url=https://vancouversun.com/news/Deadly+bombing+hits+Syrian+capital/5956399/story.html|title=Suicide bomb kills 26 in Syria: Interior minister|first=Adrian|last=Blomfield|date=6 January 2012|work=The Vancouver Sun|location=Canada}}{{Dead link|date=March 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- 2017 – Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.{{cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspected-fort-lauderdale-airport-shooter-charged-faces-possible-death-penalty-n704316|title=Suspected Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooter Charged, Faces Possible Death Penalty|last=Helsel|first=Phil|date=January 7, 2017|newspaper=NBC News|access-date=January 8, 2017|archive-date=January 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108014229/http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspected-fort-lauderdale-airport-shooter-charged-faces-possible-death-penalty-n704316|url-status=live}}
- 2019 – Forty people are killed in a gold mine collapse in Badakhshan province, in northern Afghanistan.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/06/middleeast/afghanistan-gold-mine-landslide/index.html|work=CNN|title=40 people killed in Afghan gold mine collapse|first=Ehsan|last=Popalzai|date=January 6, 2019|access-date=November 5, 2020|archive-date=June 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601052055/https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/06/middleeast/afghanistan-gold-mine-landslide/index.html|url-status=live}}
- 2019 – Muhammad V of Kelantan resigns as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, becoming the first monarch to do so.{{Cite web|date=2019-01-07|title=Sultan Muhammad V first in history to resign as Agong {{!}} New Straits Times|url=https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/01/447761/sultan-muhammad-v-first-history-resign-agong|access-date=2022-01-05|website=NST Online|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105062548/https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/01/447761/sultan-muhammad-v-first-history-resign-agong|url-status=live}}
- 2021 – Americans storm the United States Capitol Building to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in four deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress.{{cite web|title=Trump supporters storm US Capitol, lawmakers evacuated|url=https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-electoral-college-78104aea082995bbd7412a6e6cd13818|author1=Mascaro, Lisa|author2=Eric Tucker|author3=Mary Clare Jalonick|website=AP News|date=January 6, 2021|access-date=January 6, 2021|archive-date=March 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321190449/https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-electoral-college-78104aea082995bbd7412a6e6cd13818|url-status=live}}
- 2025 – Justin Trudeau announces his resignation as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Prime Minister of Canada after 9 years in office.{{Cite web |last1=Tunney |first1=Catharine |last2=Cochrane |first2=David |date=January 6, 2025 |title=Trudeau to resign as prime minister after Liberal leadership race |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-news-conference-1.7423680 |website=CBC News}}{{Cite web |last1=Upadhyay |first1=Brajesh |last2=Honerich |first2=Holly |date=January 6, 2025 |title=Canada's Trudeau resigns citing 'internal battles' in governing party |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clyjmy7vl64t |website=BBC News}}{{Cite web |last1=Lévesque |first1=Catherine |last2=Taylor |first2=Stephanie |date=January 6, 2025 |title=Trudeau stepping down, leaving uncertainty about race to replace him |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/justin-trudeau-resignation-prime-minister |website=National Post}}
Births
=Pre-1600=
- 1256 – Gertrude the Great, German mystic (died 1302){{cite book|author=Rosemary Guiley|title=The Encyclopedia of Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABkgU0GOBbcC&pg=PA132|year=2001|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-3026-2|pages=132}}
- 1367 – Richard II of England (died 1400){{cite book|title=Mnemonika: Or, Chronological Tablets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVoQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA249|year=1812|publisher=E. J. Coale|pages=249–}}
- 1384 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent (died 1408){{cite book|author1=American Historical Company, New York|author2=Mabel Johnson|title=Johnson, Stedman, and allied families: a genealogical study with biographical notes|url=https://archive.org/details/johnsonstedmanal00amer|url-access=registration|year=1962}}
- 1412 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (died 1431){{cite book|author=Gail Patterson|title=Joan of Arc: Historical Overview and Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hYWzuecyHMC&pg=PA177|year=2002|publisher=Nova Publishers|isbn=978-1-59033-503-1|pages=177}}
- 1486 – Martin Agricola, German composer and theorist (died 1556){{cite book|author=Albert Ernest Wier|title=The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nx8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=Macmillan}}
- 1488 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (died 1540){{cite book|author1=Peter G. Bietenholz|author2=Thomas Brian Deutscher|title=Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hruQ386SfFcC&pg=PA434|year=2003|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8577-1|pages=434}}
- 1493 – Olaus Petri, Swedish clergyman (died 1552){{cite book|author=Elizabeth Philpot|title=Old testament apocryphal images in European art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VShGAQAAIAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis|isbn=978-91-7346-666-0}}
- 1500 – John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (died 1569){{cite book|author=Raphaël Louis Oechslin|title=Louis of Granada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWMfAAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Herder}}
- 1525 – Caspar Peucer, German physician and scholar (died 1602){{cite book|author=Henri Harrisse|title=Bibliotheca Americana vetustissima: a description of works relating to America published between the years 1492 and 1551. Additions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5gZTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA173|year=1872|publisher=Philes|pages=173}}
- 1538 – Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (died 1612){{cite book|author=Kathy Lynn Emerson|title=Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth Century England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gewhAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Whitston Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-87875-246-1|page=72}}
- 1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (died 1656){{cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/5/0152.html|title=Fincke, Thomas, 1561-1656|publisher=Dansk biografisk Lexikon|access-date=August 1, 2019|archive-date=August 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813194535/http://runeberg.org/dbl/5/0152.html|url-status=live}}
- 1587 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (died 1645){{cite book|author1=Keith Busby|author2=Terry Nixon|title=Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6jh2mEUGYwC&pg=PA156|year=1993|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=90-5183-613-9|pages=156}}
- 1595 – Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French educator and courtier (died 1650){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Vaugelas, Claude Favre, Seigneur de |volume=27 |pages=954–955 |quote=...was born at Meximieu, department of Ain, on the 6th of January 1595}}
=1601–1900=
- 1617 – Christoffer Gabel, Danish politician (died 1673){{cite book|author=Paul Robert Kruse|title=The Story of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1768-1943|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9lUzAQAAMAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Department of Photoduplication, University of Chicago Library|page=378}}
- 1632 – Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, Scottish peeress (died 1716)G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VI, page 264.
- 1655 – Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg (died 1720){{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: Ead-Fur|url=https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist13comm|url-access=registration|year=2000|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4064-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist13comm/page/106 106]}}
- 1673 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (died 1744){{cite book|author=John Philips|title=Cider: a poem in two books|url=https://archive.org/details/ciderapoemintwo00philgoog|year=1791|publisher=Printed by G. Stafford for T. Cadell|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ciderapoemintwo00philgoog/page/n86 66]}}
- 1695 – Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe player and composer (died 1750){{cite book|author1=David Mason Greene|author2=Constance Green|title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA271|year=1985|publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.|isbn=978-0-385-14278-6|pages=271}}
- 1702 – José de Nebra, Spanish composer (died 1768){{cite journal|title=Nuevas datos para el estudio de los musicos Nebra en Aragon|language=es|author=Antonio Ezquerro Esteban|journal=Anuario Musical|volume=57|year=2002|page=113}}
- 1714 – Percivall Pott, English surgeon (died 1788){{cite book|title=Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_GdRAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Royal College of Surgeons of England|page=54}}
- 1745 – Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon (died 1799){{cite book|author=Steve Gietschier|title=Chase's sports calendar of events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtsIZ66FgWQC|date=1 November 1999|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=978-0-8092-2600-9|page=6}}
- 1766 – José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, first dictator of Paraguay (died 1840){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Gaspar-Rodriguez-de-Francia |title=José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia |publisher=Britannica.com |location=Edinburgh |access-date=13 June 2020 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121144330/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Gaspar-Rodriguez-de-Francia |url-status=live }}
- 1785 – Andreas Moustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist (died 1860){{cite web |url=https://data.bnf.fr/en/12889198/andreas_moustoxy_di_s/ |url-access= |title=Andréas Moustoxýdīs (1785-1860) |author=Bibliothèque nationale de France |author-link=Bibliothèque nationale de France |date=January 14, 2021 |language=French |access-date=May 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520194941/https://data.bnf.fr/en/12889198/andreas_moustoxy_di_s/ |archive-date=May 20, 2021 }}
- 1793 – James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (died 1862){{cite book|author=William Baxter Owen|title=Historical Sketches of Lafayette College: With an Account of Its Present Organization and Courses of Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3uDY63xxCQC&pg=PA4|year=1876|publisher=publisher not identified|pages=4}}
- 1795 – Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (died 1871){{cite book|title=American journal of pharmacy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=khZTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA432|year=1871|pages=432}}
- 1799 – Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (died 1831){{cite book|author1=Lawrence O. Christensen|author2=William E. Foley|author3=Gary Kremer|title=Dictionary of Missouri Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gyxWHRLAWgC&pg=PA703|date=October 1999|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-6016-1|pages=703}}
- 1803 – Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (died 1888){{cite book|title=Etude: The Music Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kVFAQAAMAAJ|year=1888|publisher=Presser|page=13}}
- 1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (died 1891){{cite book|title=The Penrose Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trYqAQAAIAAJ|year=1920|publisher=Hastings House|page=81}}
- 1808 – Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American conchologist and paleontologist (died 1864){{cite book|title=Occasional Papers on Mollusks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oygcAQAAIAAJ|year=1945|publisher=Department of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University|page=33}}
- 1811 – Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician (died 1874){{cite book|author1=United States. 43d Cong. 1st sess. 1873-1874|author2=United States. Congress|title=Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles Sumner, (a Senator of Massachusetts)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GqYSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA53|year=1874|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=53}}
- 1822 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist and businessman (died 1890){{cite book|title=The Illustrated American|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONg6AQAAMAAJ|year=1891|publisher=Illustrated American Publishing Company|page=337}}
- 1832 – Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (died 1883){{cite book|author=Richard Muther|title=The History of Modern Painting|url=https://archive.org/details/historymodernpa03muthgoog|year=1896|publisher=Henry and Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/historymodernpa03muthgoog/page/n825 808]}}
- 1838 – Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (died 1920){{cite book|author=Hugo Riemann|title=Catechism of Musical History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e0j0AAAAMAAJ|year=1892|publisher=Augener|page=169}}
- 1842 – Clarence King, American geologist, mountaineer, and critic (died 1901){{cite book|author=Thurman Wilkins|title=Clarence King: A Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/clarencekingbiog0000wilk|url-access=registration|year=1958|publisher=Macmillan|page=[https://archive.org/details/clarencekingbiog0000wilk/page/11 11]}}
- 1856 – Giuseppe Martucci, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1909){{cite book|title=The Musical Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5cPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA456|year=1909|publisher=Novello|pages=456}}
- 1857 – Hugh Mahon, Irish-Australian publisher and politician, 10th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 1931){{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography | first=H. J. | last=Gibbney | title =Mahon, Hugh (1857–1931)|id=A100372b | access-date = 19 January 2020}}
- 1857 – William Russell, American lawyer and politician, 37th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1896)
- 1859 – Samuel Alexander, Australian-English philosopher and academic (died 1938){{cite book|author=Australian Jewish Historical Society|title=Journal and Proceedings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j0eMTMBmT6gC|year=1939|page=172}}
- 1860 – Morton Selten, British actor (died 1939){{cite book|author=|title=Who's Who in the Theatre|location=London|publisher=Pitman|oclc=1604876|date=1936|page=1304}}
- 1861 – Victor Horta, Belgian architect, designed Hôtel van Eetvelde (died 1947){{cite book|title=Memo from Belgium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-7gAAAAMAAJ|year=1971|page=6}}
- 1861 – George Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (died 1940){{cite book|author1=D. F. Acton|author2=L. S. Crosson|title=Guidebook Tours: 11th Congress, International Society of Soil Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnYmAQAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=ISSS|page=81}}
- 1870 – Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (died 1944){{cite web|url=http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz2255.html|title=Biografie Gustav Bauer(German)|publisher=Bayerische Staatsbibliothek|access-date=11 January 2020|archive-date=12 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112130003/https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz2255.html|url-status=live}}
- 1872 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian pianist and composer (died 1915){{cite book|author=Marion Elizabeth Cullen|title=Memorable days in music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2cs4AQAAIAAJ|date=May 1970|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=10|isbn=9780810802933}}
- 1874 – Fred Niblo, American actor, director, and producer (died 1948){{cite book|author1=Donald W. McCaffrey|author2=Christopher P. Jacobs|title=Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema|url=https://archive.org/details/guidetosilentyea00mcca|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30345-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/guidetosilentyea00mcca/page/209 209]}}
- 1878 – Adeline Genée, Danish-born British ballerina (died 1970){{cite book|author1=Anne Commire|author2=Deborah Klezmer|title=Women in World History: Gab-Harp|url=https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist13comm|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Yorkin Publications|isbn=978-0-7876-4065-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist13comm/page/143 143]}}
- 1878 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (died 1967){{cite book|author=Vernon Loggins|title=I Hear America ...: Literature in the United States Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hZWzrW_cqk8C&pg=PA272|year=1967|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers|isbn=978-0-8196-0197-1|pages=272}}
- 1880 – Tom Mix, American cowboy and actor (died 1940){{cite book|title=Westerner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bXAvAQAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Behn-Miller Publishers|page=16}}
- 1881 – Ion Minulescu, Romanian author, poet, and critic (died 1944)Matei Călinescu, "Prefaţă" ("Introduction"), "Tabel cronologic" ("Chronological Table"), in Ion Minulescu, Romanţe pentru mai târziu şi alte poezii ("Songs for Later On and Other Poems"), Editura pentru literatură, Bucharest, 1967, p. V-XLX. {{OCLC|6434366}}
- 1882 – Fan S. Noli, Albanian-American bishop and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Albania (died 1965){{cite book|author=Constance J. Tarasar|title=Orthodox America, 1794-1976: Development of the Orthodox Church in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ftCAAAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Orthodox Church in America, Department of History and Archives|page=148}}
- 1882 – Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1961){{cite book|title=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2epHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA273|year=1991|publisher=Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy|pages=273|isbn = 9780160020551}}
- 1883 – Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet, painter, and philosopher (died 1931){{cite book|author1=Stephen Phillips|author2=Galloway Kyle|title=Poetry Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JEkrAQAAIAAJ|year=1931|publisher=Poetry Society|page=426}}
- 1891 – Ted McDonald, Australian cricketer (died 1937){{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/ted-mcdonald-6555.html|title=Ted McDonald profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos|website=ESPNcricinfo}}
- 1898 – James Fitzmaurice, Irish soldier and pilot (died 1965){{cite book|author1=Hermann Köhl|author2=James C. Fitzmaurice|author3=James Fitzmaurice (C.)|author4=Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld|title=The Three Musketeers of the Air: Their Conquest of the Atlantic from East to West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6_EHAAAAMAAJ|year=1928|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|page=114}}
- 1899 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German engineer (died 1968){{cite book|author=H. R. Etzold|title=The Beetle: The Chronicles of the People's Car: Design and Evolution -- The Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KfEoAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 1990|publisher=Haynes|isbn=978-0-85429-845-7|page=132}}
- 1900 – Maria of Yugoslavia, Queen of Yugoslavia (died 1961){{Cite news|url=http://www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/|title=HM Queen Maria of Yugoslavia|work=Royal Family of Serbia|access-date=2017-10-24|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413202412/http://www.royalfamily.org/dynasty/hm-queen-maria-of-yugoslavia/|archive-date=2014-04-13|url-status=live}}
=1901–present=
- 1903 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-American pianist and conductor (died 1993){{cite book|author1=Sir Compton Mackenzie|author2=Christopher Stone|title=Gramophone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uxsKAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=General Gramophone Publications Limited|page=3}}
- 1910 – Kid Chocolate, Cuban boxer (died 1988){{Cite web|url=https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/9006|title=BoxRec: Kid Chocolate|access-date=2020-10-20|archive-date=2020-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022141803/https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/9006|url-status=live}}
- 1910 – Wright Morris, American author and photographer (died 1998){{cite book|author=Wright Morris|title=Writing My Life: An Autobiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O6B7v28Wcg4C&pg=PA13|year=1993|publisher=David R. Godine Publisher|isbn=978-0-87685-908-7|pages=13}}
- 1910 – Yiannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and educator (died 1989)
- 1912 – Jacques Ellul, French philosopher and critic (died 1994){{cite book|author1=Jacques Ellul|author2=Patrick Troude Chastenet|title=Jacques Ellul on Politics, Technology, and Christianity: Conversations with Patrick Troude-Chastenet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWRLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|date=16 June 2005|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|isbn=978-1-59752-266-3|pages=2}}
- 1912 – Danny Thomas, American actor, comedian, producer, and humanitarian (died 1991){{cite book|author1=William DeRoy Chase|author2=Helen M. Chase|title=Chase's Annual Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SaRmAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Contemporary Books|page=13|isbn=9780809242924}}
- 1913 – Edward Gierek, Polish lawyer and politician (died 2001){{cite book|author=Benjamin Frankel|title=The Cold War, 1945-1991: Leaders and other important figures in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, China, and the Third World|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810389281|url-access=registration|year=1992|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-8103-8928-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810389281/page/107 107]}}
- 1913 – Loretta Young, American actress (died 2000){{cite book|author=Chrystopher J. Spicer|title=Clark Gable: Biography, Filmography, Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csMDnRXe4vMC&pg=PA113|date=15 January 2002|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1124-5|pages=113}}
- 1914 – Godfrey Edward Arnold, Austrian-American physician and academic (died 1989){{cite book|author=Mississippi State Medical Association|title=Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association|url=https://archive.org/details/journalofmississ5112miss|year=1964|publisher=Mississippi State Medical Association|page=[https://archive.org/details/journalofmississ5112miss/page/178 178]}}
- 1915 – Don Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2015){{cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/10/02/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015/|title=Former Rep. Don Edwards: 1915-2015|work=San Jose Mercury News|date=2 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128054747/http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28912287/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015|archive-date=January 28, 2016|access-date=July 25, 2018}}
- 1915 – John C. Lilly, American psychoanalyst, physician, and philosopher (died 2001){{cite book |last=Lilly |first=John C. |author-link=John C. Lilly |title=Man and Dolphin: Adventures of a New Scientific Frontier |edition=1st |year=1961 |publisher=Doubleday |location=Garden City, NY |url=https://archive.org/details/mandolphin00lill |url-access=registration |page=184}} [Reprinted 1962, Gollancz, {{ISBN|978-0-575-01054-3}}].
- 1915 – Alan Watts, English-American philosopher and author (died 1973){{cite book|author=Henry Warner Bowden|title=Dictionary of American Religious Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QXd49oi0FtsC&pg=PA584|year=1993|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-27825-9|pages=584}}
- 1916 – Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (died 1978){{cite news|url=https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1978032400209207016&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1978-03-24&officeId=00020&pageNo=7&printNo=17375&publishType=00020|title=詩人 朴木月씨 別世|trans-title=Poet Park Mok-wol passes away|newspaper=The Dong-a Ilbo|date=1978-03-24|page=5|access-date=September 24, 2018|via=Naver News Library}}
- 1917 – Koo Chen-fu, Taiwanese businessman and diplomat (died 2005){{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/koo-chen-fu-00sct9gfb6k|title=Koo Chen Fu|date=11 January 2005|website=The Times|access-date=21 February 2020|archive-date=21 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221140706/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/koo-chen-fu-00sct9gfb6k|url-status=live}}
- 1920 – Henry Corden, Canadian-born American actor (died 2005){{cite book|last=Lentz|first=Harris M.|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts|location=Jefferson, N.C.|publisher=McFarland & Co.|date=2006|oclc=34483425|page=75}}
- 1920 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (died 2004){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/apr/22/guardianobituaries.highereducation|title=John Maynard Smith|date=22 April 2004|author=David Harper|website=The Guardian|access-date=17 January 2020}}
- 1920 – Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader; founder of the Unification Church (died 2012){{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sun-Myung-Moon |title=Sun Myung Moon |publisher=Britannica.com |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 June 2020 |archive-date=14 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514234345/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sun-Myung-Moon |url-status=live }}
- 1920 – Early Wynn, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 1999){{cite book|author=J. Ronald Oakley|title=Baseball's last golden age, 1946-1960|url=https://archive.org/details/baseballslastgol0000oakl|url-access=registration|date=1 April 1994|publisher=McFarland & Company, Incorporated, Publishers|isbn=978-0-89950-851-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/baseballslastgol0000oakl/page/287 287]}}
- 1921 – Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic (died 2013){{cite book|title=The International Who's Who 1992-93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEp1LT7dQMoC|date=1 August 1992|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-946653-84-3|page=632|access-date=20 January 2020|archive-date=20 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120192532/https://books.google.com/books?id=zEp1LT7dQMoC|url-status=live}}
- 1921 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and sportscaster (died 1998){{cite book|author=Chi Chi Rodriguez|title=20th. Century Golf Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Huw6gjr3enEC|date=21 November 1997|publisher=Publications International|isbn=978-0-7853-0500-2|page=90}}
- 1923 – Vladimir Kazantsev, Russian runner (died 2007)
- 1923 – Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1974){{cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5k12/kirk-norman-eric|title=Kirk, Norman Eric|website=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand|access-date=20 January 2020|archive-date=9 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809201431/https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5k12/kirk-norman-eric|url-status=live}}
- 1923 – Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author (died 1999){{cite book|title=The Jewish Contribution to the 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QpAbAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Polo Pub.|isbn=978-0-9523751-1-1}}
- 1924 – Kim Dae-jung, South Korean soldier and politician, 8th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009){{cite news|url=http://news.donga.com/3/all/20090819/8768809/1 |work=The Dong-a Ilbo |title=DJ 생일은 1924년 1월 6일 |date=19 August 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208121510/http://news.donga.com/3/all/20090819/8768809/1 |archive-date=8 December 2015 }}
- 1924 – Earl Scruggs, American banjo player (died 2012){{cite book|author1=William DeRoy Chase|author2=Helen M. Chase|title=Chase's Annual Events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qqZmAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Contemporary Books|page=57|isbn=9780809238972}}
- 1925 – John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (died 2005)
- 1926 – Ralph Branca, American baseball player (died 2016){{cite web|first=Paul|last=Hirsch|url=http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/9655b2b0|title=Ralph Branca|work=SABR.org|access-date=3 February 2020|archive-date=5 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305220629/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/9655b2b0|url-status=live}}
- 1926 – Pat Flaherty, American race car driver (died 2002){{Cite web|url=https://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Pat_Flaherty|title=Driver|access-date=2020-10-20|archive-date=2020-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022195424/https://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Pat_Flaherty|url-status=live}}
- 1926 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder (died 2006){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/26/guardianobituaries.obituaries|title=Mickey Hargitay|date=26 September 2006|author=Ronald Bergan|website=The Guardian|access-date=12 January 2020|archive-date=19 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419172604/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/26/guardianobituaries.obituaries|url-status=live}}
- 1927 – Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (died 2014){{cite book|author=United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare|title=Nomination: Hearing...91-1 on Dr. Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, of California, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_KBOvUa2pVQC&pg=PA2|year=1970|pages=2}}
- 1928 – Capucine, French actress and model (died 1990){{cite book|author=David K. Frasier|title=Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I7tkAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2002|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1038-5|page=54}}
- 1930 – Vic Tayback, American actor (died 1990)
- 1931 – E. L. Doctorow, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (died 2015){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/22/el-doctorow|title=EL Doctorow obituary|date=22 July 2015|author=Eric Homberger|website=The Guardian|access-date=21 February 2020}}
- 1932 – Simon Oates, English actor (died 2009){{cite news|title=Simon Oates: Actor who starred as the scientist Dr John Ridge in 'Doomwatch'|work=The Independent|date=22 June 2009|accessdate=6 January 2024|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/simon-oates-actor-who-starred-as-the-scientist-dr-john-ridge-in-lsquo-doomwatch-rsquo-1712387.html|archive-date=27 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170627031430/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/simon-oates-actor-who-starred-as-the-scientist-dr-john-ridge-in-lsquodoomwatchrsquo-1712387.html|url-status=live}}
- 1932 – Stuart A. Rice, American chemist and academic (died 2024){{cite book|author=Brigham Narins|title=Notable Scientists from 1900 to the Present: N-S|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=piQvAQAAIAAJ|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-1755-4|page=1866}}
- 1933 – John Clive, English actor and author (died 2012){{cite news|last=Hayward|first=Anthony|title=John Clive obituary|work=The Guardian|date=18 October 2012|accessdate=6 January 2024|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/oct/18/john-clive}}
- 1933 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2003){{cite book|author=Julian Popescu|title=Russian space exploration: the first 21 years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=edF5AAAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Gothard House Publications|isbn=978-0-85638-013-6|page=98}}
- 1934 – Harry M. Miller, New Zealand-Australian talent agent and publicist (died 2018){{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/361143/harry-m-miller-celebrity-agent-and-theatrical-producer-dies-aged-84|title=Celebrity agent Harry M Miller dies at age 84|date=5 July 2018|work=Radio New Zealand|access-date=5 July 2018|language=en-nz|archive-date=5 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705093126/https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/361143/harry-m-miller-celebrity-agent-and-theatrical-producer-dies-aged-84|url-status=live}}
- 1934 – Sylvia Syms, English actress (died 2023){{cite book|author=Peter Noble|title=British Film and Television Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZlmAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Cinema TV Today|page=381}}
- 1935 – Ian Meckiff, Australian cricketer{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/6598.html|title=Ian Meckiff profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos|access-date=2020-10-20|archive-date=2020-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021225347/https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/6598.html|url-status=live}}
- 1935 – Nino Tempo, American musician, singer, and actor (died 2025){{cite book|author=Joseph Murrells|title=The Book of Golden Discs|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr|url-access=registration|year=1978|publisher=Barrie and Jenkins|isbn=978-0-214-20480-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/167 167]}}
- 1936 – Darlene Hard, American tennis player (died 2021){{cite book|author=Zander Hollander|title=Bud Collin's modern encyclopedia of tennis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W9U3AAAAMAAJ|date=1 August 1980|publisher=Doubleday|isbn=978-0-385-13093-6|page=254}}{{Cite news|last=Harris|first=Beth|date=2021-12-04|title=Darlene Hard, 3-time major tennis champion, dies at 85|url=https://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/2021/12/04/darlene-hard-3-time-major-tennis-champion-dies-at-85/|access-date=2024-01-06|agency=Associated Press|website=WDIV-TV|language=en|archive-date=2021-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204042748/https://www.clickondetroit.com/sports/2021/12/04/darlene-hard-3-time-major-tennis-champion-dies-at-85/|url-status=live}}
- 1936 – Julio María Sanguinetti, Uruguayan journalist, lawyer, and politician, 29th President of Uruguay{{cite book|author=John Clements|title=Clements' International Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSIkAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Political Research, Incorporated|page=327}}
- 1937 – Ludvík Daněk, Czech discus thrower (died 1998){{cite book|title=Sports and Champions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8QQAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Orbis|page=30}}
- 1937 – Lou Holtz, American football player, coach, and sportscaster{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/06/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-6-2019/8591546568650/|title=UPI Almanac for Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019|work=United Press International|date=January 6, 2019|access-date=September 10, 2019|archive-date=September 11, 2019|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190911222236/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/06/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Jan-6-2019/8591546568650/|url-status=live|quote=U.S. football coach/broadcaster Lou Holtz in 1937 (age 82)}}
- 1937 – Doris Troy, American singer-songwriter (died 2004){{cite news|last=Sisario|first=Ben|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/arts/music/19TROY.html|title=Doris Troy, Pop Singer Whose Life Inspired a Show, Dies at 67|date=February 19, 2004|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=March 9, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402184423/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/arts/music/19TROY.html|url-status=live}}
- 1938 – Adriano Celentano, Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and director{{cite book|author=Gino Moliterno|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wOGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA150|date=11 September 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75877-7|pages=150}}
- 1938 – Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist and academic{{cite book|author=Frank Fenner|title=The First Fifty Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MaseAQAAIAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Australian Academy of Science|isbn=978-0-85847-221-1|page=357}}
- 1938 – Rajnikumar Pandya, Indian writer, journalist (died 2025){{Cite web |title=Rajnikumar Pandya |url=https://rrsheth.com/rr_author/rajnikumar-pandya/ |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=R R Sheth Books |language=en-US}}
- 1938 – Larisa Shepitko, Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actress (died 1979){{cite book|author=James Monaco|title=The Encyclopedia of Film|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffi00mona|url-access=registration|year=1991|publisher=Perigee Books|isbn=978-0-399-51604-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffi00mona/page/301 301]}}
- 1939 – Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2002){{cite web|url=http://rusteam.permian.ru/players/lobanovsky.html|title=На сайті "Сборная России по футболу"|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611152901/http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/lobanovsky.html|archive-date=2013-06-11|access-date=2017-11-04|url-status=live}}
- 1939 – Murray Rose, English-Australian swimmer and sportscaster (died 2012){{cite book|author=Charles Moritz|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://archive.org/details/currentbiogr196200mori|url-access=registration|year=1962|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-0128-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/currentbiogr196200mori/page/365 365]}}
- 1940 – Van McCoy, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1979){{cite book|author=Hugh Gregory|title=Soul Music A-Z|url=https://archive.org/details/soulmusicaz00greg|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=978-0-306-80643-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/soulmusicaz00greg/page/197 197]}}
- 1943 – Terry Venables, English footballer and manager (died 2023){{cite book|author=Terry Venables|title=Born to Manage: The Autobiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KMIHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86|date=22 May 2014|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4711-2991-9|pages=86}}
- 1944 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress and singer (died 2013){{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Jan. 6: Eddie Redmayne, Howie Long |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/01/06/Famous-birthdays-for-Jan-6-Eddie-Redmayne-Howie-Long/9521672974425/ |publisher=UPI |access-date=5 January 2024 |date=6 January 2023 |archive-date=10 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210103133/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/01/06/Famous-birthdays-for-Jan-6-Eddie-Redmayne-Howie-Long/9521672974425/ |url-status=live }}
- 1944 – Alan Stivell, French singer-songwriter and harp player{{cite news|author=Luc Le Vaillant|url=http://www.liberation.fr/portrait/1998/12/08/alan-stivell-54-ans-refondateur-de-la-musique-bretonne-maintient-le-cap-local-global-a-l-olympia-ce-_255424|title=Alan Stivell, 54 ans, refondateur de la musique bretonne. Maintient le cap local-global. À l'Olympia ce soir. Bardé de celtitude|newspaper=Libération|date=8 December 1988|language=fr|access-date=26 January 2020|archive-date=26 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126122159/https://www.liberation.fr/portrait/1998/12/08/alan-stivell-54-ans-refondateur-de-la-musique-bretonne-maintient-le-cap-local-global-a-l-olympia-ce-_255424|url-status=live}}
- 1944 – Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate{{cite book|author=George Thomas Kurian|title=The Nobel Scientists: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbTaAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-1-57392-927-1|page=387}}
- 1945 – Barry John, Welsh rugby player{{cite web |url=http://www.espnscrum.com/wales/rugby/player/7160.html |title=Barry John |work=ESPN Scrum |author=Baines, Huw |date=October 2008 |access-date=30 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824173331/http://www.espnscrum.com/wales/rugby/player/7160.html |archive-date=24 August 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }} (died 2024)
- 1946 – Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2006){{cite book|author=David Parker|title=Random Precision: Recording the Music of Syd Barrett, 1965-1974|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zCo5AQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Cherry Red Books|page=iii|isbn=9781901447255}}
- 1947 – Sandy Denny, English folk-rock singer-songwriter (died 1978){{cite book|author=Mick Houghton|title=I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GWaUBgAAQBAJ|date=3 March 2015|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-27892-3}}
- 1948 – Guy Gardner, American colonel and astronaut{{cite book|author=Ben Evans|title=Partnership in Space: The Mid to Late Nineties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kje_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA60|date=4 October 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4614-3278-4|pages=60–}}
- 1948 – Dayle Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer{{cite book|author=Arthur H. Carman|title=New Zealand International Cricket, 1894-1974|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lBLwAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Sporting Publications|page=282}}
- 1949 – Mike Boit, Kenyan runner and academic{{cite book|title=Runner's World, Incorporating the Runner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6YaAQAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Rodale Press|page=24}}
- 1949 – Carolyn D. Wright, American poet and academic (died 2016){{Cite web |date=2016-04-18 |title=Remembering the Great C.D. Wright |url=https://lithub.com/remembering-the-great-c-d-wright/ |access-date=2024-01-27 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127220121/https://lithub.com/remembering-the-great-c-d-wright/ |url-status=live }}
- 1950 – Louis Freeh, American lawyer and jurist, 10th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation{{cite book|author=Peter B. Levy|title=Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofcl00levy|url-access=registration|year=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31294-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofcl00levy/page/137 137]}}
- 1951 – Don Gullett, American baseball player and coach{{cite book|author=Society for American Baseball Research|title=The Great Eight: The 1975 Cincinnati Reds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vfMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=1 April 2014|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-5340-7|pages=59}} (died 2024)
- 1951 – Kim Wilson, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player{{cite book|author=Robert Santelli|title=The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://archive.org/details/bigbookofbluesbi00sant|url-access=registration|year=2001|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-100145-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/bigbookofbluesbi00sant/page/162 162]}}
- 1953 – Malcolm Young, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2017){{cite book|author=Norm N. Nite|title=Rock on: the illustrated encyclopedia of rock n' roll : the video revolution, 1978-present|url=https://archive.org/details/rockonillustrate00nite|url-access=registration|date=1 September 1985|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0-06-181644-4}}
- 1954 – Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (died 2008){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/mar/18/filmnews.theatrenews|title=Anthony Minghella|date=18 March 2008|author=Ronald Bergan|website=The Guardian|access-date=17 December 2019}}
- 1955 – Rowan Atkinson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter{{cite book|author=Bruce Dessau|title=Bean There Done That: The Life and Times of Rowan Atkinson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYUr8Sd_a60C|year=1997|publisher=Welcome Rain|isbn=978-1-55670-713-1|page=9}}
- 1955 – Debbie Mathers, Mother of Eminem (died 2024){{Cite news |last=Correal |first=Annie |date=December 3, 2024 |title=Debbie Nelson, Eminem's Mother, Dies at 69 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/arts/music/debbie-nelson-eminem-mother-dead.html |access-date=December 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}
- 1956 – Elizabeth Strout, American novelist and short story writer{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica|title=Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kd2bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61535-329-3|pages=71}}
- 1956 – Justin Welby, English archbishop{{cite book|author=Andrew Atherstone|title=Archbishop Justin Welby: The Road to Canterbury|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Ry6BAAAQBAJ&pg=PP12|date=28 August 2013|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=978-0-232-53035-3|pages=12}}
- 1956 – Clive Woodward, English rugby player and coach{{cite book|author=Mark Ryan|title=World Rugby|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W41Fa-YA71UC|date=April 2007|publisher=Flame Tree Publishing|isbn=978-1-84451-714-5|page=232}}
- 1957 – Michael Foale, British-American astrophysicist and astronaut{{cite web|url=https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Cervantes_Mission/C._Michael_Foale|title=C. Michael Foale|website=European Space Agency|access-date=6 February 2020|archive-date=6 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206161009/https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Cervantes_Mission/C._Michael_Foale|url-status=live}}
- 1957 – Nancy Lopez, American golfer and sportscaster
- 1958 – Shlomo Glickstein, Israeli tennis player{{Cite web|url=http://www.atptour.com/en/players/shlomo-glickstein/g019/overview|title=Shlomo Glickstein {{pipe}} Overview {{pipe}} ATP Tour {{pipe}} Tennis|website=ATP Tour|access-date=2020-09-22|archive-date=2020-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926161348/https://www.atptour.com/en/players/shlomo-glickstein/g019/overview|url-status=live}}
- 1959 – Kapil Dev, Indian cricketer{{cite book|author=Dean Hayes|title=India's Cricketing Greats|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VypGAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Indus|isbn=978-81-7223-065-4|page=83}}
- 1960 – Paul Azinger, American golfer and sportscaster{{cite book|author=Bill Gutman|title=Paul Azinger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GGIQ6priLhoC|year=1998|publisher=Raintree Steck-Vaughn|isbn=978-0-8172-4127-8|page=10}}
- 1960 – Kari Jalonen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach{{cite book|author=K. Michael Gaschnitz|title=The Edmonton Oilers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H7eJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA172|date=11 September 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5546-1|pages=172}}
- 1960 – Nigella Lawson, English chef and author{{cite book|author=Laura Avery|title=Newsmakers 2003 Cumulation: The People Behind Today's Headlines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1hAfqhL5YcC|date=1 August 2003|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-6391-9|page=279}}
- 1960 – Howie Long, American football player and sports commentator{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2019: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVJtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|date=30 September 2018|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-264-1|pages=76}}
- 1961 – Georges Jobé, Belgian motocross racer (died 2012){{cite news |url=http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/955/Auto--en-Motorsport/article/detail/1551624/2012/12/19/Motorcrosser-Georges-Jobe-51-overleden.dhtml |title=Motorcrosser Georges Jobé (51) overleden |author=Steven Peeters |newspaper=Het Laatste Nieuws |date=2012-12-19 |access-date=2012-12-20 |archive-date=2014-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311195509/http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/955/Auto--en-Motorsport/article/detail/1551624/2012/12/19/Motorcrosser-Georges-Jobe-51-overleden.dhtml |url-status=live }}
- 1961 – Nigel Melville, English rugby player{{Cite web|url=http://en.espn.co.uk/england/rugby/player/9332.html|title=Nigel David Melville|access-date=2020-10-20|archive-date=2020-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021181823/http://en.espn.co.uk/england/rugby/player/9332.html|url-status=live}}
- 1961 – Peter Whittle, British politician, author, journalist, and broadcaster{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-287927|title=Whittle, Peter Robin, (born 6 Jan. 1961), author, journalist and broadcaster; Member, London Assembly, Greater London Authority, since 2016 (UK Ind, 2016–18; Brexit Alliance, since 2018); Founder and Director, New Culture Forum, since 2006|website=Who's Who & Who Was Who|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u287927|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4|access-date=2020-09-22|archive-date=2020-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302052455/https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-287927|url-status=live}}
- 1963 – Norm Charlton, American baseball player and coach{{cite book|title=Complete Book of 1992 Baseball Cards|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XeSTltUvu2oC|date=7 April 1992|publisher=Publications International|isbn=978-0-451-82256-7|page=63}}
- 1963 – Paul Kipkoech, Kenyan runner (died 1995){{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarypaul-kipkoech-1611985.html|title=Obituary:Paul Kipkoech|date=20 March 1995|author=Phil Minshull|website=The Independent|access-date=4 February 2020|archive-date=4 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204133303/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituarypaul-kipkoech-1611985.html|url-status=live}}
- 1964 – Charles Haley, American football player{{cite web |title=Charles Haley |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/players/charles-haley/ |publisher=Pro Football Hall of Fame |access-date=3 January 2023 |archive-date=29 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229190506/https://www.profootballhof.com/players/charles-haley/ |url-status=live }}
- 1964 – Jyrki Kasvi, Finnish journalist and politician (died 2021)Kallionpää, Martta: [https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000008410848.html Vihreiden entinen kansanedustaja Jyrki Kasvi on kuollut] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117083238/https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000008410848.html |date=2021-11-17 }}, Helsingin Sanomat 17 November 2021. Accessed on 17 November 2021.
- 1964 – Jacqueline Moore, American wrestler and manager{{cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/j/jackie-moore.html|title=Jackie Moore's profile|publisher=Online World of Wrestling|access-date=May 22, 2009|archive-date=August 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828110856/http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/j/jackie-moore.html|url-status=live}}
- 1965 – Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author and academic{{cite book|author1=Rachel White|author2=Rachel White Scheuering|title=Shapers of the Great Debate on Conservation: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vngGt6mA30AC&pg=PA256|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32826-8|pages=256}}
- 1966 – Sharon Cuneta, Filipino singer and actress{{cite book|author=Bryan L. Yeatter|title=Cinema of the Philippines: A History and Filmography, 1897-2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V6saAQAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-3047-5|page=174}}
- 1966 – Attilio Lombardo, Italian footballer and manager
- 1967 – A. R. Rahman, Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, and philanthropist{{cite web|url=https://www.orissapost.com/birthday-boy-and-music-legend-ar-rahman-wanted-to-become-an-engineer/|title=Birthday boy and music legend AR Rahman wanted to become an engineer|date=6 January 2020|website=Orissa Post|access-date=6 February 2020|archive-date=6 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206161009/https://www.orissapost.com/birthday-boy-and-music-legend-ar-rahman-wanted-to-become-an-engineer/|url-status=live}}
- 1968 – John Singleton, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019){{cite magazine|first=Cynthia|last=Littleton|url=https://a.msn.com/r/2/AAAHT5u?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare|title='Boyz n the Hood' Director John Singleton Dies at 51|magazine=Variety|location=Los Angeles, California|date=April 29, 2019|via=MSN}}{{Dead link|date=March 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- 1969 – Norman Reedus, American actor and model{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Mike|title=Today's famous birthdays list for January 6, 2023 includes celebrities Kate McKinnon, Norman Reedus|work=The Plain Dealer|date=January 6, 2023|accessdate=January 6, 2023|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/01/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-january-6-2023-includes-celebrities-kate-mckinnon-norman-reedus.html|archive-date=January 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106135626/https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/01/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-january-6-2023-includes-celebrities-kate-mckinnon-norman-reedus.html|url-status=live}}
- 1969 – Aron Eisenberg, American actor and podcaster (died 2019){{cite news |last=Rose |first=Mike |date=January 6, 2018 |title=Today's top celebrity birthdays list (January 6, 2018) |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2018/01/todays_top_celebrity_birthdays_114.html |accessdate=January 6, 2024 |work=The Plain Dealer |postscript=none |archive-date=January 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106161532/https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2018/01/todays_top_celebrity_birthdays_114.html |url-status=live }}; {{cite news |last=Moshtaghian |first=Artemis |date=September 22, 2019 |title='Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' actor Aron Eisenberg dies at age 50 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/entertainment/aron-eisenberg-star-trek-actor-dies/index.html |accessdate=January 6, 2024 |work=CNN |archive-date=September 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924023411/https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/entertainment/aron-eisenberg-star-trek-actor-dies/index.html |url-status=live }}
- 1970 – Julie Chen, American television journalist, presenter, and producer
- 1970 – Radoslav Látal, Czech footballer and manager{{cite web|url=https://www.idnes.cz/fotbal/databanka/radoslav-latal.Uplr1902|title=Radoslav Látal|language=cs|website=idnes.cz|access-date=2 February 2020|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229040116/https://www.idnes.cz/fotbal/databanka/radoslav-latal.Uplr1902|url-status=live}}
- 1970 – Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player, sportscaster, and actress{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/sports/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/reece-gabrielle|title=Reece, Gabrielle {{pipe}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2020-10-20|archive-date=2020-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022000558/https://www.encyclopedia.com/sports/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/reece-gabrielle|url-status=live}}
- 1971 – Irwin Thomas, American-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/2862910-Irwin-Thomas|title=Irwin Thomas|website=Discogs|access-date=2020-10-20|archive-date=2020-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930040933/https://www.discogs.com/artist/2862910-Irwin-Thomas|url-status=live}}
- 1973 – Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player{{cite web|url=http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/Player_DataDB.asp?No=101829|title=Athlete's biography|website=FIVB|access-date=2 February 2020|archive-date=31 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190131093356/http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/Player_DataDB.asp?No=101829|url-status=live}}
- 1974 – Marlon Anderson, American baseball player and sportscaster{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/anderma02.shtml|title=Marlon Anderson Stats|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|access-date=11 August 2021|archive-date=28 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728171708/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/anderma02.shtml|url-status=live}}
- 1974 – Daniel Cordone, Argentinian footballer{{Cite web|url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/1960/Daniel-Cordone/overview|title=Daniel Cordone Profile, News & Stats|publisher=Premier League|access-date=11 August 2021|archive-date=18 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918111156/https://www.premierleague.com/players/1960/Daniel-Cordone/overview|url-status=live}}
- 1974 – Paul Grant, American basketball player and coach[https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/grantpa01.html NBA & college stats] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101084325/http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/grantpa01.html |date=2013-11-01 }}, retrieved 15 June 2007.
- 1975 – James Farrior, American football player{{cite web | title=Farrior Pro Football Reference Profile | work=pro-football-reference.com | url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FarrJa99.htm | access-date=2020-10-20 | archive-date=2023-01-16 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116171811/https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FarrJa99.htm | url-status=live }}
- 1976 – Johan Davidsson, Swedish ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Johan Davidsson |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/johan-davidsson-8460518 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=5 January 2024 |archive-date=5 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105061441/https://www.nhl.com/player/johan-davidsson-8460518 |url-status=live }}
- 1976 – Danny Pintauro, American actor{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for January 6, 2023 includes celebrities Kate McKinnon, Norman Reedus |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/01/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-january-6-2023-includes-celebrities-kate-mckinnon-norman-reedus.html |website=The Plain Dealer |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=5 January 2024 |date=6 January 2023 |archive-date=20 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120133426/https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/01/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-january-6-2023-includes-celebrities-kate-mckinnon-norman-reedus.html |url-status=live }}
- 1976 – Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player{{cite book|author=National Hockey League|title=NHL Official Guide and Record Book, 1996-97: National Hockey League|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OIY6FwBsIuwC|date=September 1996|publisher=Triumph Books|isbn=978-1-57243-133-1|page=391}}
- 1978 – Casey Fossum, American baseball player{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fossuca01.shtml|title=Casey Fossum|work=Baseball Reference|access-date=2020-10-20|archive-date=2020-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811141249/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fossuca01.shtml|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/player/casey-fossum-407154|website=Major League Baseball|access-date=21 October 2020|title=Casey Fossum Stats, Fantasy & News|archive-date=27 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027072907/https://www.mlb.com/player/casey-fossum-407154|url-status=live}}
- 1978 – Bubba Franks, American football player{{cite web|title=Bubba Franks Stats|url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/2145/bubba-franks|work=ESPN|access-date=April 28, 2014|archive-date=April 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429055027/http://espn.go.com/nfl/player/stats/_/id/2145/bubba-franks|url-status=live}}
- 1981 – Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress
- 1981 – Asante Samuel, American football player{{cite book|author1=Sporting News|author2=STATS Inc|title=Pro Football Register 2005: Every Player, Every Stat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0gVUI-wsLSUC|date=July 2005|publisher=Sporting News Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-89204-774-1|page=353}}
- 1982 – Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/arenagi01.html|title=Gilbert Arenas Stats|access-date=2020-10-20|archive-date=2011-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110220213037/http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/arenagi01.html|url-status=dead}}
- 1982 – Roy Asotasi, New Zealand rugby league player{{cite web|url=http://warringtonwolves.com/team-player-27|title=Roy Asotasi|date=2014|website=warringtonwolves.com|publisher=Warrington Wolves|access-date=21 October 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905104233/http://warringtonwolves.com/team-player-27|archive-date=5 September 2015|df=dmy-all}}
- 1982 – Tiffany Pollard, American television personality{{cite web |last=Breen |first=Matthew |url=https://www.out.com/entertainment/2007/01/07/who-loves-you-baby?page=2049 |title=Who Loves You, Baby? |publisher=Out |date=January 7, 2007 |access-date=January 13, 2007 |quote=You have to stay tuned. It airs January 6, that's a very special day you cant miss it. It's my 25th birthday! [Actually the show began airing January 8, 2007] |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043821/https://www.out.com/entertainment/2007/01/07/who-loves-you-baby?page=2049 |url-status=live }}
- 1982 – Eddie Redmayne, English actor and model{{cite web | url=http://www.biography.com/people/eddie-redmayne | title=Eddie Redmayne: Film Actor, Theater Actor (1982–) | publisher=Biography.com (FYI / A&E Television Networks) | access-date=16 February 2016 | author=Mead, Wendy | archive-date=15 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315192538/https://www.biography.com/people/eddie-redmayne | url-status=live | df=dmy-all }}
- 1983 – Adam Burish, American ice hockey player{{Cite web|url=https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=64498|title=Adam Burish Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com|access-date=2020-10-20|archive-date=2022-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401071213/https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=64498|url-status=live}}
- 1983 – Chen Nan, Chinese basketball player{{cite web |title=Chen Nan |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/101075/chen-nan |publisher=WNBA |access-date=5 January 2024 |archive-date=5 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105061442/https://www.wnba.com/player/101075/chen-nan |url-status=live }}
- 1984 – A. J. Hawk, American football player and analyst{{cite web |title=A.J. Hawk |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/9591/aj-hawk |publisher=ESPN |access-date=3 January 2023 |archive-date=3 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103233959/https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/9591/aj-hawk |url-status=live }}
- 1984 – Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian{{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2018: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAY3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|date=26 September 2017|publisher=Bernan Press|isbn=978-1-59888-926-0|pages=76}}
- 1984 – Eric Trump, American businessman{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHmqDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |title=Donald Trump: 45th Us President |last=Carser |first=A. R. |date=August 15, 2016 |publisher=ABDO |page=42 |isbn=9781680795189 |access-date=October 8, 2019 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114220637/https://books.google.com/books?id=JHmqDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |url-status=live }}
- 1986 – Paul McShane, Irish footballer{{cite book |editor-first=Barry J. |editor-last=Hugman |title=The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2010–11 |year=2010 |publisher=Mainstream Publishing |location=Edinburgh |isbn=978-1-84596-601-0 |page=273}}
- 1986 – Petter Northug, Norwegian skier{{cite book|author=E. John B. Allen|title=Historical Dictionary of Skiing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YTW-Cpm2e1oC&pg=PA140|date=29 December 2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6802-1|pages=140}}
- 1986 – Alex Turner, English singer, songwriter, and musician
- 1987 – Arin Hanson, American YouTuber{{cite episode |title=Super Mario Maker: Chewing Disease – PART 123 – Game Grumps |station=Game Grumps |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrbdfeva2bM |series=Super Mario Maker |air-date=August 26, 2016 |number=123 |minutes=3:21 |via=YouTube |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714225033/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrbdfeva2bM |archive-date=July 14, 2018}}
- 1987 – Bongani Khumalo, South African footballer{{Cite web| title = B. Khumalo| url = https://int.soccerway.com/players/bongani-khumalo/62551/| publisher = Soccerway| access-date = 16 April 2014| archive-date = 29 March 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140329081858/http://int.soccerway.com/players/bongani-khumalo/62551/| url-status = live}}
- 1987 – Ndamukong Suh, American football player{{cite web |title=Ndamukong Suh |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/13234/ndamukong-suh |publisher=ESPN |access-date=3 January 2023 |archive-date=3 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103233959/https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/13234/ndamukong-suh |url-status=live }}
- 1989 – Andy Carroll, English footballer{{cite web|url=https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/1231|title=Players - Andy Carroll|website=Liverpool FC|access-date=21 February 2020|archive-date=22 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722174733/https://www.lfchistory.net/Players/Player/Profile/1231|url-status=live}}
- 1989 – Sergio León, Spanish footballer{{cite web|title=Sergio León|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/sergio-leon/124086/|website=Soccerway|access-date=6 January 2025}}
- 1989 – Derrick Morgan, American football player{{Cite web|url=http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/morgan_derrick00.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151010224208/http://www.ramblinwreck.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/morgan_derrick00.html|archive-date = 2015-10-10|title = Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets {{pipe}} Georgia Tech Athletics}}
- 1990 – Sean Kilpatrick, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Sean Kilpatrick |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/203930/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=5 January 2024 |archive-date=5 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105061441/https://www.nba.com/stats/player/203930/career |url-status=live }}
- 1990 – Alex Teixeira, Brazilian footballer{{cite web|title=Alex Teixeira|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/alex-teixeira-santos/33074/|website=Soccerway|access-date=6 January 2025}}
- 1991 – Duarte Alves, Portuguese politician{{cite web |title=Deputados: Biografia - Duarte Alves |url=https://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=5710 |access-date=24 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230910084453/https://www.parlamento.pt/DeputadoGP/Paginas/Biografia.aspx?BID=5710 |archive-date=10 September 2023 |location=Lisbon, Portugal |language=pt}}
- 1991 – Will Barton, American basketball player{{cite web|title=Will Barton|url=https://www.nba.com/players/will/barton/203115|website=NBA.com|access-date=16 March 2020|language=en|archive-date=28 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528111118/https://www.nba.com/players/will/barton/203115|url-status=live}}
- 1991 – Kevin Gausman, American baseball player{{cite web|title=Kevin Gausman|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gausmke01.shtml|website=Baseball-Reference|access-date=5 January 2024|language=en|archive-date=5 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105165916/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gausmke01.shtml|url-status=live}}
- 1992 – Corey Conners, Canadian professional golfer{{cite web|title=Corey Conners - PGA TOUR Profile|url=https://www.pgatour.com/players/player.39997.corey-conners.html|website=PGATOUR.com|access-date=13 January 2023|language=en|archive-date=14 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114002310/https://www.pgatour.com/players/player.39997.corey-conners.html|url-status=live}}
- 1993 – Pat Connaughton, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Pat Connaughton |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1626192/pat-connaughton |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=5 January 2024 |archive-date=31 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231231081254/https://www.nba.com/player/1626192/pat-connaughton |url-status=live }}
- 1993 – Jesús Manuel Corona, Mexican footballer{{cite web|title=Jesús Corona|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/jesus-corona/141078/|website=Premier League|access-date=6 January 2025}}
- 1994 – Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian model, singer and beauty queen, Miss Universe 2018{{cite web|url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/amp/life/01/07/21/grateful-at-27-catriona-gray-celebrates-birthday-abroad|title='Grateful at 27': Catriona Gray celebrates birthday abroad|date=January 7, 2021|publisher=ABS-CBN News|access-date=January 6, 2022|archive-date=January 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107035359/https://news.abs-cbn.com/amp/life/01/07/21/grateful-at-27-catriona-gray-celebrates-birthday-abroad|url-status=live}}
- 1994 – Denis Suárez, Spanish footballer{{cite web|title=Denis Suárez|url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/4325/Denis-Su%C3%A1rez/overview|website=Premier League|access-date=6 January 2025}}
- 1994 – Jameis Winston, American football player{{cite web |title=Jameis Winston |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/2969939/jameis-winston |publisher=ESPN |access-date=3 January 2023 |archive-date=3 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103233959/https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/2969939/jameis-winston |url-status=live }}
- 1994 – Jay B, South Korean singer{{cite web|title=JAY B(제이비), 생일 축하합니다 ('아이돌픽')|url=https://sports.donga.com/ent/article/all/20220103/111064659/1|work=스포츠동아|date=6 January 2022|access-date=26 February 2025|language=ko}}
- 1999 – Polo G, American rapper{{cite web|title=#CivilTV - Polo G "Welcome To My Neighborhood"| date=25 June 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC3pfpiGxWQ|via=YouTube|access-date=June 10, 2021|archive-date=June 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610030536/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC3pfpiGxWQ|url-status=live}}
- 1999 – Mac McClung, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Mac McClung |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mccluma01.html |website=Basketball-Reference |access-date=5 January 2024 |archive-date=20 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120011325/https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mccluma01.html |url-status=live }}
- 2000 – Kwon Eun-bin, South Korean singer and actress{{Cite web|url=https://www.hancinema.net/korean_Kwon_Eun-bin.php|title=Kwon Eun-bin (권은빈, Korean actor)|website=HanCinema|access-date=2022-12-18|archive-date=2021-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128055932/https://www.hancinema.net/korean_Kwon_Eun-bin.php|url-status=live}}
- 2000 – Jack McBain, Canadian ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Jack McBain |url=https://www.nhl.com/coyotes/player/jack-mcbain-8480855 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=5 January 2024 |archive-date=5 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105061442/https://www.nhl.com/coyotes/player/jack-mcbain-8480855 |url-status=live }}
- 2000 – Shuhua, Taiwanese singer{{cite web|title='예쁜 나이 25살' (여자)아이들 슈화, 생일 자축 "사랑 주고받는 행복한 날"|url=https://mydaily.co.kr/page/view/2025010710364352043|work=마이데일리|date=7 January 2025|access-date=2 March 2025|language=ko}}
- 2001 – Kenyon Martin Jr., American basketball player{{cite web |title=KJ Martin |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1630231/kj-martin |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=5 January 2024 |archive-date=3 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103232431/https://www.nba.com/player/1630231/kj-martin |url-status=live }}
- 2004 – Roméo Lavia, Belgian footballer{{cite web|title=Roméo Lavia|url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/99282/Rom%C3%A9o-Lavia/overview|website=Premier League|access-date=6 January 2025}}
Deaths
=Pre-1600=
- 786 – Abo of Tiflis, Iraqi martyr and saint (born 756){{cite book|author1=James Hastings|author2=Ann Wilson Hastings|author3=Edward Hastings|title=The Expository Times|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_aJ7NAAAAMAAJ|year=1906|publisher=T. & T. Clark|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_aJ7NAAAAMAAJ/page/n297 286]}}
- 1088 – Berengar of Tours, French scholar and theologian (born 999){{cite book|title=Ecclesiastical History: In a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Founders' Hall, Lothbury, London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xvdMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA205|year=1834|publisher=Holdsworth and Ball|pages=205}}
- 1148 – Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (born 1100){{cite book|author=William Heard Thomas|title=Tinterne and Its Vicinity ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31|year=1839|publisher=Hamilton|pages=31}}
- 1233 – Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon, Anglo-Norman noblewoman (born 1171){{cite book |last1=Weir |first1=Alison |title=Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy |date=2011 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4464-4911-0 |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7nZ90l1_IzAC&pg=PA194 |language=en}}
- 1275 – Raymond of Penyafort, Catalan archbishop and saint (born 1175){{cite book|author=A. J. M. & J. K. Mousolfe|title=Saint Companions for Each Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dnSDWuSTKrEC&pg=PA22|year=1986|publisher=St Pauls BYB|isbn=978-81-7109-092-1|pages=22}}
- 1350 – Giovanni I di Murta, second doge of the Republic of Genoa
- 1358 – Gertrude van der Oosten, Beguine mystic
- 1406 – Roger Walden, English bishop{{cite book|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIZpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA294|year=1854|pages=294}}
- 1448 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (born 1418){{cite book|author=William Beckett|title=A Universal Biography: Including Scriptural, Classical and Mythological Memoirs, Together with Accounts of Many Eminent Living Characters|url=https://archive.org/details/auniversalbiogr00beckgoog|year=1834|publisher=Mayhew, Isaac and Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/auniversalbiogr00beckgoog/page/n799 798]}}
- 1477 – Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme (born 1425)
- 1478 – Uzun Hasan, 9th Shahanshah of the Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu dynasty (born 1423)
- 1481 – Ahmed Khan bin Küchük, Mongolian ruler
- 1537 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (born 1510)
- 1537 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter, designed the Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne (born 1481){{cite book|title=Transactions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=48GgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA111|year=1870|pages=111}}
=1601–1900=
- 1616 – Philip Henslowe, English impresario (born 1550){{cite book|author=Daniel Vitkus|title=Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor of the Turks; A Christian Turned Turk; and The Renegado|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231110280|url-access=registration|date=5 February 2000|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-50528-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231110280/page/50 50]}}
- 1646 – Elias Holl, German architect, designed the Augsburg Town Hall (born 1573)
- 1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (born 1617)
- 1693 – Mehmed IV, Ottoman sultan (born 1642){{cite book|author=John Freely|title=Inside the Seraglio: private lives of the sultans in Istanbul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Za0TAQAAIAAJ|date=1 July 2001|publisher=Penguin|page=179|isbn=9780140270563}}
- 1711 – Philips van Almonde, Dutch admiral (born 1646)
- 1718 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian lawyer and jurist (born 1664)
- 1725 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese actor and playwright (born 1653)
- 1731 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (born 1672){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Geoffroy, Étienne François|volume=11|page=618 |quote= He died in Paris on the 6th of January 1731}}
- 1734 – John Dennis, English playwright and critic (born 1657){{cite book|title=Le Pour et contre: Nos 1-60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VwoAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Institut et musée Voltaire|page=783}}
- 1813 – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (born 1764)
- 1829 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist and historian (born 1753){{cite book|author=Milka Hipmanová|title=The Lands of the Bohemian Crown: Their History and Glory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcTUAAAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=M. Hipmanová|page=95}}
- 1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1766){{cite book|author1=Thomas Byerly|author2=John Timbs|title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nG9PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA308|year=1833|publisher=J. Limbird|pages=308}}
- 1840 – Frances Burney, English author and playwright (born 1752){{cite book|author=Fanny Burney|title=The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney): 1792-1840|url=https://archive.org/details/diaryandletters25burngoog|year=1891|publisher=Vizetelly|page=[https://archive.org/details/diaryandletters25burngoog/page/n219 214]}}
- 1852 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (born 1809){{cite book|title=The Education Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vywiAQAAIAAJ|year=1952|publisher=Ministry of Education & Social Welfare|page=219}}
- 1855 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian jurist, explorer, and author (born 1779)
- 1882 – Richard Henry Dana Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1815){{cite web |title=Richard Henry Dana {{!}} Two Years Before the Mast, sailor, lawyer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Henry-Dana |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=13 May 2025 |language=en}}
- 1884 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (born 1822){{cite book|author1=Jagdish Mehra|author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author2=Helmut Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwmQTGB8LwMC&pg=PA37|date=28 December 2000|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95179-9|pages=37}}
- 1885 – Bharatendu Harishchandra, Indian author, poet, and playwright (born 1850){{cite book|author=Manohar Bandopadhyay|title=Lives And Works Of Great Hindi Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OZjAAAAMAAJ|date=1 September 1994|publisher=B. R. Publ.|isbn=978-81-7018-786-8|page=79}}
=1901–present=
- 1902 – Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (born 1830){{cite book|title=Scandinavian Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zk0dAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=American Scandinavian Foundation|page=68}}
- 1917 – Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (born 1834){{cite encyclopedia |first=J. J. |last=Woltjer |url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/quack |title=Quack, Hendrick Peter Godfried (1834–1917) |encyclopedia=Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland |publisher=Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis |year=2013 |orig-year=1985}}
- 1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (born 1845){{cite book|author=Amir D. Aczel|title=The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQinWBLQG3UC&pg=PA188|date=28 August 2001|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-7434-2299-4|pages=188}}
- 1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (born 1858){{cite book|author1=Richard P. Harmond|author2=George A. Cevasco|author3=Richard A. Harmond|title=Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdFuHC3DhwAC&pg=PA682|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-23047-9|pages=682}}
- 1921 – Devil Anse Hatfield, American guerrilla leader (born 1839)
- 1922 – Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (born 1842)
- 1928 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American hurdler and long jumper (born 1876){{cite book|title=The New Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SSy4jvY8FNgC|year=1974|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|isbn=978-0-85229-290-7|page=908}}
- 1928 – Wilhelm Ramsay, Finnish geologist and professor (born 1865){{cite web|url=https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=7118|title=Ramsay, Wilhelm (1865–1928)|website=Biografiskt lexikon för Finland|access-date=January 30, 2022|language=sv|archive-date=May 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503072524/https://blf.fi/artikel.php?id=7118|url-status=live}}
- 1933 – Vladimir de Pachmann, Ukrainian-German pianist (born 1848)
- 1934 – Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (born 1878)
- 1937 – André Bessette, Canadian saint (born 1845){{cite book|author1=Alban Butler|author2=Paul Burns|title=Butler's Lives of the Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XIEAD2MC1YkC&pg=PA48|date=1 January 1995|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-86012-250-0|pages=48}}
- 1939 – Gustavs Zemgals, Latvian journalist and politician, 2nd President of Latvia (born 1871)
- 1941 – Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (born 1882)
- 1942 – Emma Calvé, French soprano and actress (born 1858)
- 1942 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman, 3rd President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1876)
- 1944 – Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (born 1878)
- 1944 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist, reformer, and educator (born 1857){{cite book|author=Alice Mulcahey Fleming|title=Ida Tarbell: First of the Muckrakers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVAbAQAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Crowell|isbn=978-0-690-42881-0|page=161}}
- 1945 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (born 1863){{cite book|title=Impact of Science on Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9403AAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|page=293}}
- 1949 – Victor Fleming, American director, producer, and cinematographer (born 1883){{cite book|author=George Aachen|title=Popular Films of the Forties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqQHAQAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Rastar Press|isbn=978-0-949149-98-5|page=80}}
- 1966 – Jean Lurçat, French painter (born 1892){{cite book|title=Graphis: International Journal for Graphic and Applied Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuJGAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Amstutz and Herdeg|page=4}}
- 1972 – Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (born 1901)
- 1974 – David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (born 1896)
- 1978 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (born 1899){{cite book|author=Neill Birss|title=Burt Munro: The Lost Interviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_OcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT225|date=13 June 2016|publisher=Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited|isbn=978-1-74348-720-4|pages=225}}
- 1981 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (born 1896){{cite book|author=Grolier Incorporated|title=The encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DI4xAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Grolier Inc.|page=240|isbn=9780717201303}}
- 1984 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (born 1898){{cite book|author=Sara Pendergast|title=Writers and production artists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKgzAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-453-5|page=506}}
- 1990 – Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (born 1949){{cite book|title=Fuse Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAgxAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Arton's Cultural Affairs Society and Pub|page=74}}
- 1990 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904){{cite journal|author=Chudakov, Alexander E.|author-link=Aleksandr Chudakov|title=Obituary: Pavel Alexeyevich Cherenkov|journal=Physics Today|date=December 1992|volume=45|issue=12|pages=106–107|doi=10.1063/1.2809928|bibcode=1992PhT....45l.106C|doi-access=free}}
- 1991 – Alan Wiggins, American baseball player (born 1958){{cite news|title=Wiggins had AIDS, report says|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1991/01/15/wiggins-had-aids-report-says/|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=January 15, 1991|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113093217/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-01-15/sports/9101050090_1_wiggins-agent-wiggins-family-alan-wiggins|archive-date=January 13, 2018|url-status=live}}
- 1992 – Steve Gilpin, New Zealand vocalist and songwriter (born 1949){{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118162727 | title = Benefit Concerts After Rock Band's Lead Singer Dies | newspaper = The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) | date = 7 January 1992 | accessdate = 27 September 2013 | page = 9 | publisher = National Library of Australia }}
- 1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (born 1917){{cite book|author=Baháʼí World Centre|title=The Bahá'í World: A Biennial International Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVUlAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Committee|page=160|isbn=9780853989950}}
- 1993 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (born 1938){{cite book|author=John Lauritsen|title=The AIDS War: Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-industrial Complex|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tzkQAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Koen Book Distributors|isbn=978-0-943742-08-3|page=445}}
- 1995 – Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African lawyer and politician (born 1926){{cite book|author=T. R. H. Davenport|title=The Birth of a New South Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsMJD-8x1k0C&pg=PA82|date=1 January 1998|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8054-7|pages=82}}
- 1999 – Michel Petrucciani, French-American pianist (born 1962){{citation|newspaper=The Independent|location=UK|title=Michel Petrucciani|type=obituary|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-michel-petrucciani-1045629.html|first=Steve|last=Voce|date=8 January 1999|access-date=30 May 2020|archive-date=2 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402153231/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-michel-petrucciani-1045629.html|url-status=live}}
- 2004 – Pierre Charles, Dominican educator and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (born 1954){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/world/pierre-charles-49-leader-of-dominica.html|title=Pierre Charles, 49, Leader of Dominica|agency=The Associated Press|date=January 8, 2004|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=6 January 2021|archive-date=4 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204172859/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/world/pierre-charles-49-leader-of-dominica.html|url-status=live}}
- 2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish civil servant and politician, 12th Irish Minister for Health (born 1932){{cite book|first=Nicola|last=Depuis|title=Mná Na HÉireann: Women who Shaped Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=heeon5xC5KwC&pg=PA54|year=2009|publisher=Mercier Press Ltd|isbn=978-1-85635-645-9|pages=54}}
- 2005 – Lois Hole, Canadian academic and politician, 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (born 1929){{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lois-hole/article1112602/|title=Lois Hole|date=7 January 2005|website=The Globe and Mail|access-date=10 January 2019|archive-date=23 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923230428/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lois-hole/article1112602/|url-status=live}}
- 2005 – Tarquinio Provini, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1933){{cite web|url=https://www.gazzetta.it/primi_piani/motori/2005/pp_1.0.625687789.shtml|title=Addio a Provini, due volte iridato|website=Gazzetta dello Sport|language=it|access-date=2 March 2020|archive-date=4 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204173236/https://www.gazzetta.it/primi_piani/motori/2005/pp_1.0.625687789.shtml|url-status=live}}
- 2006 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter (born 1933){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/arts/music/06cnd-rawls.html?_r=0|title=Lou Rawls, Suave Singer and Actor, Is Dead at 72|first=Ben|last=Ratliff|author-link=Ben Ratliff|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 6, 2006|access-date=March 2, 2020|archive-date=February 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218121746/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/arts/music/06cnd-rawls.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}
- 2007 – Roberta Wohlstetter, American political scientist, historian, and academic (born 1912){{cite news|url=http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--obit-wohlstetter0109jan09,0,4714187.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork|title=Intelligence Expert who Analyzed Pearl Harbor Dies in NYC at 94|last=Pyle|first=Richard|date=January 9, 2007|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Newsday|access-date=March 2, 2020|archive-date=November 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126092150/https://www.newsday.com/?coll=ny-region-apnewyork|url-status=live}}
- 2008 – Shmuel Berenbaum, Rabbi of Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn) (born 1920){{cite web |url=http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/13593/BORUCH+DAYAN+EMMES:+MARAN+HAGON+RAV+SHMUEL+BERENBAUM+ZATZAL.html |title=Boruch Dayan Emmes: Maran Hagon Rav Shmuel Berenbaum Zatzal |work=Yeshiva World News |date=January 6, 2008 |access-date=September 4, 2010 |archive-date=March 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323063442/http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/13593/BORUCH+DAYAN+EMMES:+MARAN+HAGON+RAV+SHMUEL+BERENBAUM+ZATZAL.html |url-status=live }}
- 2009 – Ron Asheton, American guitarist, songwriter, and actor (probable;{{cite web |first=Art |last=Aisner |url=http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/01/stooges_guitarist_ron_asheton.html |title=Stooges' guitarist Ron Asheton found dead in his Ann Arbor home |website=MLive.com |date=January 6, 2009 |access-date=February 27, 2012 |archive-date=November 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118202200/http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/01/stooges_guitarist_ron_asheton.html |url-status=live }} b. 1948)
- 2011 – Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (born 1967){{cite web|url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/nigerian-soccer-star-buried-in-africa-as-family-challenges-little-elm-pds-suicide-ruling-7140153|title=Nigerian Soccer Star Buried in Africa, As Family Challenges Little Elm PD's Suicide Ruling|website=Dallas Observer|date=March 11, 2011|author=Alex Copeland|access-date=13 February 2020|archive-date=24 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624142154/https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/nigerian-soccer-star-buried-in-africa-as-family-challenges-little-elm-pds-suicide-ruling-7140153|url-status=live}}
- 2012 – Bob Holness, South African-English radio and television host (born 1928){{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16443263|title=BBC News – Bob Holness, former Blockbusters host, dies aged 83|work=BBC|date=6 January 2012|access-date=13 June 2012|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925154702/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16443263|url-status=live}}
- 2012 – Spike Pola, Australian footballer and soldier (born 1914)
- 2013 – Ruth Carter Stevenson, American art collector, founded the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (born 1923){{cite news | title=Region loses one of its guiding spirits | work=Star-Telegram | date=8 Jan 2013 | author=Madigan, Tim | pages=1}}
- 2014 – Marina Ginestà, French Resistance soldier and photographer (born 1919){{cite news |url= http://www.publico.es/493189/muere-marina-ginesta-la-sonrisa-que-planto-cara-al-fascismo |title= Muere Marina Ginestà, la sonrisa que plantó cara al fascismo |newspaper= Público |date= 6 January 2014 |language= es |access-date= 7 January 2014 |archive-date= 6 January 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140106181534/http://www.publico.es/493189/muere-marina-ginesta-la-sonrisa-que-planto-cara-al-fascismo |url-status= live }}
- 2014 – Nelson Ned, Brazilian singer-songwriter (born 1947){{cite web|title=Morre aos 66 anos Nelson Ned, o 'pequeno gigante da canção' (Nelson Ned, the 'little giant of song', dies at 66)|website=Folha de S. Paulo|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2014/01/1393539-morre-aos-66-anos-nelson-ned-o-pequeno-gigante-da-cancao.shtml|date=5 January 2014|access-date=10 January 2020|archive-date=1 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701165203/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2014/01/1393539-morre-aos-66-anos-nelson-ned-o-pequeno-gigante-da-cancao.shtml|url-status=live}}
- 2014 – Julian Rotter, American psychologist and academic (born 1916){{cite web|title=Professor Emeritus of Psychology Julian Rotter dies|date=10 January 2014|url=http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/01/professor-emeritus-of-psychology-julian-rotter-dies/|publisher=University of Connecticut|access-date=January 13, 2014|archive-date=13 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113090027/http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/01/professor-emeritus-of-psychology-julian-rotter-dies/|url-status=live}}
- 2015 – Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (born 1918)
- 2015 – Basil John Mason, English meteorologist and academic (born 1923){{cite web |url=http://www.rmets.org/death-sir-john-mason |title=Death of Sir John Mason |publisher=Royal Meteorological Society |date=7 January 2015 |access-date=7 January 2015 |archive-date=12 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112072303/http://www.rmets.org/death-sir-john-mason |url-status=dead }}
- 2016 – Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor and screenwriter (born 1929){{Cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Adam |date=January 7, 2016 |title=Pat Harrington Jr., 'Schneider' of TV's 'One Day at a Time,' dies at 86 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/pat-harrington-jr-schneider-of-tvs-one-day-at-a-time-dies-at-86/2016/01/07/fb8cf232-b54c-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html |access-date=January 6, 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |archive-date=August 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819214309/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/pat-harrington-jr-schneider-of-tvs-one-day-at-a-time-dies-at-86/2016/01/07/fb8cf232-b54c-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html |url-status=live }}
- 2016 – Florence King, American journalist and author (born 1936){{cite news |first=Jack |last=Fowler |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429353/florence-king-obituary |title=Rest in peace, Florence |newspaper=National Review |date=January 6, 2016 |access-date=January 8, 2016 |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108013843/http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429353/florence-king-obituary |url-status=live }}
- 2016 – Christy O'Connor Jnr, Irish golfer and architect (born 1948){{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/06/christy-oconnor-jr-dies-ryder-cup-golf |title=Ireland's Ryder Cup hero Christy O'Connor Jr dies aged 67 |date=6 January 2016 |work=The Guardian |access-date=15 January 2016 |agency=Press Association}}
- 2016 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (born 1925){{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12093251/Sylvana-Pampanini-actress-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12093251/Sylvana-Pampanini-actress-obituary.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Sylvana Pampanini, actress - obituary|date=11 January 2016|website=The Telegraph|access-date=2 March 2020}}{{cbignore}}
- 2017 – Octavio Lepage, Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela (born 1923){{Cite web|url=http://globovision.com/article/fallecio-el-expresidente-interino-de-venezuela-octavio-lepage|title=Falleció el expresidente interino de Venezuela, Octavio Lepage|website=Globovisión|access-date=2020-03-02|archive-date=2020-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302143222/https://globovision.com/article/fallecio-el-expresidente-interino-de-venezuela-octavio-lepage|url-status=live}}
- 2017 – Om Puri, Indian actor (born 1950){{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38527232|title=Indian actor Om Puri dies aged 66|date=2017-01-06|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=2020-01-10|archive-date=2017-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107012442/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38527232|url-status=live}}
- 2019 – José Ramón Fernández, Cuban revolution leader (born 1923){{Cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-cuban-figure-bay-pigs-victory-dies-95-191042523.html |title=Key Cuban figure in Bay of Pigs victory dies at 95 |date=6 January 2019 |access-date=2019-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107015741/https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-cuban-figure-bay-pigs-victory-dies-95-191042523.html |archive-date=2019-01-07 |url-status=live }}
- 2019 – Lamin Sanneh, Gambian-born American professor (born 1942){{Cite web |url=https://themediaproject.org/news/2019/1/7/dr-lamin-sanneh-legendary-figure-in-religious-thought-and-civil-rights-has-died-at-76 |title=Dr. Lamin Sanneh, legendary figure in religious thought and civil rights, has died at 76 |date=7 January 2019 |access-date=2019-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108100737/https://themediaproject.org/news/2019/1/7/dr-lamin-sanneh-legendary-figure-in-religious-thought-and-civil-rights-has-died-at-76 |archive-date=2019-01-08 |url-status=live }}
- 2019 – W. Morgan Sheppard, British actor (born 1932){{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2019/01/william-morgan-sheppard-dies-star-trek-actor-1202531214/ |title=William Morgan Sheppard Dies: 'Star Trek' Actor Was 86 |access-date=2019-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202215618/https://deadline.com/2019/01/william-morgan-sheppard-dies-star-trek-actor-1202531214/ |archive-date=2019-02-02 |url-status=live |date=2019-01-08 }}
- 2019 – Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (born 1917){{Cite web |url=https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/2019/january/paul-patrick-streeten |title=Paul Patrick Streeten |access-date=2019-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413121829/https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/2019/january/paul-patrick-streeten |archive-date=2019-04-13 |url-status=live |date=2019-01-09 }}
- 2020 – Richard Maponya, South African businessman (born 1920){{Cite web|title=Richard Maponya and the genesis of black business|url=https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/2020-01-09-richard-maponya-and-the-genesis-of-black-business/|access-date=2021-01-02|website=BusinessLIVE|language=en-ZA|archive-date=2020-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624174108/https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/2020-01-09-richard-maponya-and-the-genesis-of-black-business/|url-status=live}}
- 2021 – Gordon Renwick, Canadian ice hockey administrator and businessman (born 1935){{Cite web|title=Gordon Renwick, Order of Hockey in Canada member, dies at 85|url=https://www.nsnews.com/national-sports/gordon-renwick-order-of-hockey-in-canada-member-dies-at-85-3240212|access-date=2021-01-08|website=North Shore News|date=7 January 2021|language=en|archive-date=2021-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926195546/https://www.nsnews.com/national-sports/gordon-renwick-order-of-hockey-in-canada-member-dies-at-85-3240212|url-status=live}}
- 2021 – James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped during the 1970 October crisis in Québec (born 1921){{cite news|title=James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped by Quebec separatists, dies at 99 of covid-19|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-cross-dead/2021/01/21/eb550952-5bed-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html|first=Emily|last=Langer|date=21 January 2021|access-date=22 January 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122222005/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-cross-dead/2021/01/21/eb550952-5bed-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html|url-status=live}}
- 2022 – Peter Bogdanovich, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939){{cite news|title=Peter Bogdanovich, 82, Director Whose Career Was a Hollywood Drama, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/movies/peter-bogdanovich-dead.html|first=Margalit|last=Fox|date=2022-01-06|access-date=2022-01-06|newspaper=The New York Times|archive-date=2022-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106190013/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/movies/peter-bogdanovich-dead.html|url-status=live}}
- 2022 – Sidney Poitier, Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat (born 1927){{Cite web|title=Sidney Poitier, who helped break down Hollywood's on-screen color barriers and made history as the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor, has died|url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-01-07/sidney-poitier-dead|access-date=January 7, 2022|website=Los Angeles Times|date=7 January 2022|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109121536/https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-01-07/sidney-poitier-dead|url-status=live}}
- 2022 – Francisco Sionil Jose, Philippine novelist (born 1924){{Cite web|date=2022-01-08|title=Literary giant F. Sionil Jose dies at 97|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/01/07/news/philippine-literary-giant-f-sionil-jose-dies-at-97/1828505|access-date=2022-01-09|website=The Manila Times|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108223923/https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/01/07/news/philippine-literary-giant-f-sionil-jose-dies-at-97/1828505|url-status=live}}
- 2023 – Mary Lou Kownacki, American Roman Catholic nun, peace activist, and writer{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Tom |date=2023-01-09 |title=Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki, Benedictine, peace activist and Joan Chittister's 'muse,' dies |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/mary-lou-kownacki-benedictine-peace-activist-and-joan-chittisters-muse-dies |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=National Catholic Reporter |language=en |archive-date=2024-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408060919/https://www.ncronline.org/news/mary-lou-kownacki-benedictine-peace-activist-and-joan-chittisters-muse-dies |url-status=live }}
Holidays and observances
- Christian Feast day:
- André Bessette (Roman Catholic Church){{cite book |last1=Mousolfe |first1=A. J. M. & J. K. |title=Saint Companions for Each Day |date=1986 |publisher=St Pauls BYB |isbn=978-81-7109-092-1 |page=21 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Saint_Companions_for_Each_Day/dnSDWuSTKrEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA21&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}
- January 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Christmas:
- Christmas (Armenian Apostolic Church){{cite book |last1=Crump |first1=William D. |title=The Christmas Encyclopedia, 4th ed. |date=30 December 2022 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-8790-2 |pages=29 and 63 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Christmas_Encyclopedia_4th_ed/vLujEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA29&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}
- Christmas Eve (Russia){{cite web |title=In Pictures: Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-67906739 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=7 January 2024}}
- Christmas Eve (Ukraine)
- Epiphany or Three Kings' Day (Western Christianity) or Theophany (Eastern Christianity), and its related observances:{{cite web |title=Epiphany: When is Epiphany and how is it celebrated? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/42565054#:~:text=Epiphany%20%2D%20also%20known%20as%20Three,after%20he%20had%20been%20born. |website=BBC Newsround |access-date=13 May 2025 |date=4 January 2018}}
- Little Christmas (Ireland){{cite web |title=Irish women mark Little Christmas |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-38534968 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 May 2025}}
- Þrettándinn (Iceland){{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=Andrew |title=Iceland |date=1 August 2014 |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |isbn=978-1-84162-499-0 |page=38 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Iceland/j-NMBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA38&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}
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- {{NYT On this day|month=1|day=6}}
- [https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/6 Historical Events on January 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621185112/https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/6 |date=2020-06-21 }}
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