January 15
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January 15 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining after January 15 until the end of the year (351 in leap years).
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[change] Births
- 5 BC – Emperor Guang Wu of Han in China (d. 57)
- 1342 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
- 1432 – Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1481)
- 1622 – Moliere, French writer and philosopher (d. 1673)
- 1824 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
- 1841 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1908)
- 1842 – Mary McKillop, Australian saint (d. 1909)
- 1850 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)
- 1850 – Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin (d. 1943)
- 1863 – Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
- 1866 – Nathan Soderblom, Swedish archbishop (d. 1931)
- 1870 – Pierre S. du Pont, American industrialist (d. 1954)
- 1893 – Ivor Novello, Welsh entertainer and composer (d. 1951)
- 1895 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist (d. 1973)
- 1897 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (d. 1931)
- 1900 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (d. 1991)
- 1900 – Stanley Lucas, British supercentenarian (d. 2010)
- 1902 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
- 1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
- 1908 – Edward Teller, Hungarian physicist (d. 2003)
- 1912 – Michel Debre, Prime Minister of France (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1918 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
- 1918 – Joao Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999)
- 1919 – George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (d. 2011)
- 1919 – Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer
- 1924 – Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope Benedict XVI
- 1925 – Ernst Benda, German politician (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist (d. 1968)
- 1941 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (d. 2010)
- 1943 – Margaret Beckett, British politician
- 1945 – Princess Michael of Kent
- 1948 – Ronnie Van Zant, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
- 1957 – Mario Van Peebles, American actor
- 1958 – Boris Tadic, President of Serbia
- 1965 – Bernard Hopkins, American boxer
- 1965 – James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor
- 1968 – Inaki Urdangarin, Spanish former handball player and royal
- 1970 – Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler, son of WWE President Vince McMahon
- 1973 – Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer
- 1975 – Mary Pierce, French tennis player
- 1978 – Ryan Sidebottom, English cricketer
- 1979 – Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
- 1980 – Matt Holliday, American baseball player
- 1981 – El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer
- 1981 – Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby player
- 1983 – Jermaine Pennant, English footballer
- 1985 – Rene Adler, German goalkeeper
[change] Deaths
- 41 – Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12)
- 69 – Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
- 570 – Saint Ides, Irish nun, (b. ca. 475)
- 1595 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
- 1815 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765)
- 1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa (b. 1848)
- 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg, German politician and activist (b. 1870)
- 1919 – Karl Liebknecht, German politician and activist (b. 1871)
- 1947 – Elizabeth Short, AKA The Black Dahlia, murder viction (b. 1924)
- 1955 – Yves Tanguy, Surrealist painter (b. 1900)
- 1964 – Jack Teagarden, musician (b. 1905)
- 1983 – Meyer Lansky, mobster (b. 1902)
- 1987 – Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (b. 1904)
- 1990 – Gordon Jackson, film & tv actor; best known as the butler 'Hudson' on Upstairs Downstairs (b. 1923)
- 1993 – Sammy Cahn, songwriter (b. 1913)
- 1994 – Harry Nilsson, musician (b. 1941)
- 1996 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
- 1998 – Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician (b. 1898)
- 2000 – Zeljko Raznatovic, Serbian leader (b. 1952)
- 2003 – Doris Fisher, singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
- 2005 – Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan) (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Elizabeth Janeway, United States feminist author (b. 1913)
- 2005 – Dan Lee, animator for movie Finding Nemo (b. 1969)
- 2005 – Ruth Warrick, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children (b. 1915)
- 2006 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
- 2007 – James Hiller, Canadian inventor (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
- 2009 – Said Seyam, Palestinian military commander (b. 1959)
- 2010 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist, won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
- 2011 – Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (b. 1925)
- 2011 – Susannah York, English actress (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, former Prime Minister of Spanish Galicia (b. 1922)
[change] Events
- 1362 – A North Sea flood kills many thousands of people.
- 1559 – Queen Elizabeth I of England is officially crowned Queen of England.
- 1759 – The British Museum is opened.
- 1790 – The Bounty mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, arrive on Pitcairn Island.
- 1885 – American Wilson Bentley takes the first photographs of snowflakes.
- 1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
- 1919 – German socialist activists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are tortured and executed by the Freikorps.
- 1919 – The Boston Molasses Disaster, killing 21 and injuring 150 others.
- 1934 – A magnitude 8.1 earthquake on the India-Nepal border kills around 10,700 people.
- 1943 – The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
- 1944 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in San Juan, Argentina, kills around 5,000 people.
- 1967 – The first-ever Super Bowl takes place in Los Angeles, as the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
- 1969 – The Soyuz 5 spacecraft is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 1971 – The Aswan Dam in Egypt is officially opened.
- 1991 – The UN deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait expires.
- 1993 – Mafia boss Salvatore Riina is arrested by police.
- 1996 – Lesotho's King, Moshoeshoe II dies in a car crash. He is succeeded by his son, Letsie III.
- 2001 – Wikipedia goes online.
- 2004 – The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yoon Young-kwan resigns following his support for American policy towards North Korea.
- 2006 – Michelle Bachelet is elected President of Chile. She becomes Chile's first female President when she takes office on March 11.
- 2009 – Chesley Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, steers the plane to a safe emergency landing on the Hudson River after experiencing trouble shortly after take off from New York Fiorello La Guardia airport.
[change] Observances
- Earliest day that Martin Luther King Jr. Day can fall, while January 21 is the latest, on the third Monday in January (United States)
- Armed Forces Day (Nigeria)
- Army Day (India)
- Tree Planting Day (Egypt)
