January 21
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January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining until the end of the year (345 in leap years).
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Births [change]
- 1338 – King Charles V of France (d. 1380)
- 1721 - James Murray, British Governor of Quebec (d. 1794)
- 1735 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, German pianist and composer (d. 1809)
- 1738 – Ethan Allen, American freedom fighter (d. 1789)
- 1813 - John C. Fremont, American army officer, explorer and politician (d. 1890)
- 1824 – Stonewall Jackson, American Confederate General (d. 1870)
- 1825 - Imre Madach, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)
- 1827 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician (d. 1900)
- 1829 – King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
- 1846 - Pieter Hendrik Schoute, Dutch mathematician (d. 1923)
- 1846 - Nathaniel Edwin Harris, Governor of Georgia (d. 1929)
- 1848 – Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)
- 1855 - John Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
- 1860 – Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)
- 1864 - Paul Troje, German politician (d. 1942)
- 1867 - Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)
- 1867 – Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)
- 1882 – Pavel Florensky, Russian theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1937)
- 1883 – Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)
- 1883 - James H. Duff, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1969)
- 1885 – Umberto Nobile, Italian aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer (d. 1978)
- 1887 – Georges Vezina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
- 1899 – Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian-born American composer (d. 1977)
- 1901 – Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (d. 1978)
- 1905 – Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
- 1905 – Karl Wallenda, German-born acrobat (d. 1978)
- 1908 - Raymond D. Gary, Governor of Oklahoma (d. 1993)
- 1910 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
- 1910 – Albert Rosellini, American politician (d. 2011)
- 1912 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German biochemist (d. 2000)
- 1916 – Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Richard Winters, American paratrooper (d. 2011)
- 1921 - Howard Unruh, American murderer (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Paul Scofield, British actor (d. 2008)
- 1922 – Telly Savalas, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
- 1924 – Benny Hill, British comedian (d. 1992)
- 1926 - Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1928 - Raynaldo Bignone, Argentine general and former military leader
- 1929 - Denis Sanders, American film director, producer and screenwriter
- 1932 - John Chaney, American basketball coach
- 1933 - Joseph W. Eschbach, American physician (d. 2007)
- 1934 - Audrey Dalton, Irish actress
- 1936 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
- 1937 - Prince Max, Duke of Bavaria
- 1938 - Wolfman Jack, American DJ and actor (d. 1995)
- 1939 – Friedel Lutz, German footballer
- 1940 – Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
- 1941 – Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera singer and conductor
- 1941 – Richie Havens, American musician
- 1942 - Mac Davis, American musician
- 1945 – Martin Shaw, British actor
- 1950 – Billy Ocean, Trinidadian musician
- 1950 – Gary Locke, American politician
- 1951 – Eric Holder, American jurist, United States Attorney General
- 1953 – Paul Allen, American entrepreneur and co-founder of Microsoft
- 1954 – Thomas de Maiziere, German politician
- 1954 - Idrissa Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso filmmaker
- 1955 – Jeff Koons, American artist
- 1956 – Geena Davis, American actress
- 1957 - Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
- 1959 – Alex McLeish, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1962 – Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)
- 1962 - Tyler Cowen, American economist
- 1963 – Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-American basketball player
- 1965 - Jam Master Jay, American DJ (d. 2002)
- 1968 - Charlotte Ross, American actress
- 1969 - Tsubaki Nekoi, Japanese manga artist
- 1969 - Karina Lombard, American actress
- 1969 - M. K. Hobson, American writer
- 1971 – Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player
- 1971 - Doug Weight, American ice hockey player
- 1971 - Sergey Klevchenya, Russian speed skater
- 1972 - Yasunori Matsuda, Japanese composer
- 1975 – Nicky Butt, English footballer
- 1975 – Ito, Spanish footballer
- 1976 – Igors Stepanovs, Latvian footballer
- 1976 – Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)
- 1977 – Phil Neville, English footballer
- 1977 - Jerry Trainor, American actor
- 1978 - Phil Stacey, American singer
- 1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1979 – Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player
- 1980 – Dave Kitson, English footballer
- 1982 – Nicolas Mahut, French tennis player
- 1982 – Dean Whitehead, English footballer
- 1982 – Simon Rolfes, German footballer
- 1983 – Moritz Volz, German footballer
- 1983 – Maryse Ouellet, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1985 - Adrian Lewis, English darts player
- 1986 - Jonathan Quick, American ice hockey player
- 1987 – Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
- 1987 - Darren Helm, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 - Jacob Smith, American actor
- 1994 – Laura Robson, British tennis player
- 2001 – Jackson Brundage, American actor
- 2004 – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway
Deaths [change]
- 304 – Saint Agnes, Christian martyr (b. 291)
- 917 - Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (b. 880)
- 1118 – Pope Paschal II
- 1519 – Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
- 1609 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
- 1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. 1570)
- 1773 – Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
- 1774 – Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
- 1793 – King Louis XVI of France (b. 1754)
- 1795 - Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
- 1831 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
- 1851 – Albert Lertzing, German composer (b. 1801)
- 1872 – Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
- 1891 – Calixa Lavallee, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
- 1901 – Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
- 1919 – Gojong of the Korean Empire, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
- 1924 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian political leader (b. 1870)
- 1926 – Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
- 1928 - George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
- 1932 – Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)
- 1937 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
- 1945 - Rash Behari Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1886)
- 1950 – George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)
- 1959 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
- 1961 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1903)
- 1977 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)
- 1989 – Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
- 1989 - Carl Furillo, American baseball player (b. 1922)
- 1990 - Mariano Rumor, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1915)
- 1994 - Bassel al-Assad, brother of Bashar al-Assad (b. 1962)
- 1997 – Colonel Tom Parker, American music manager (b. 1909)
- 1998 - Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
- 1999 - Charles Brown, American blues singer and musician (b. 1920)
- 1999 - Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
- 2001 - Byron De La Beckwith, American criminal (b. 1920)
- 2004 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (b. 1929)
- 2006 – Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (b. 1944)
- 2007 - Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (b. 1977)
- 2008 – Marie Smith Jones, last speaker of the Eyak language (b. 1918)
- 2011 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (b. 1938)
- 2013 - Michael Winner, British film director, producer and food critic (b. 1935)
Events [change]
- 1189 – Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
- 1276 – Innocent V becomes Pope.
- 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptized each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
- 1643 – Abel Tasman discovers Tonga.
- 1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
- 1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1793 – After being found guilty for treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France is guillotined.
- 1793 – Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
- 1840 - Adelie Land in Antarctica is discovered.
- 1853 – Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope-folding machine.
- 1854 - Iron Clipper RMS Tayleur of the White Star Line sinks in the Irish Sea during its first voyage, killing 362 people.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.
- 1864 – The Tauranga Campaign starts during the Maori Wars.
- 1887 – The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed.
- 1899 – Opel Motors opens for business.
- 1908 – New York City passes a law, the Sullivan Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public only to be vetoed by the mayor.
- 1911 – The first Monte Carlo Rally.
- 1915 – Kiwanis International founded in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1917 - An earthquake in Bali kills 15,000 people.
- 1919 – Meeting in the Mansion House Dublin, the Sinn Féin adopts Ireland's first constitution.
- 1924 – Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his rivals to clear way for his leadership.
- 1925 – Albania declares itself a republic.
- 1931 - Isaac Isaacs becomes the first Governor-General of Australia who was also born in Australia.
- 1940 - Off the Mediterranean Sea coast of France, an explosion occurs on Italian passenger ship Orazio, causing a fire on board, before the ship sinks, killing 106 people.
- 1941 – World War II: Australian and British forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
- 1948 - The Flag of Quebec is flown over the National Assembly of Quebec for the first time.
- 1950 – Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
- 1951 - The Lamington volcano erupts on the island of New Guinea, killing 3,000 people.
- 1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, then the First Lady of the United States.
- 1968 – Simon & Garfunkel release the Original Soundtrack to The Graduate, which quickly goes to #1 on the pop charts and which will bring Simon a Grammy for Best Original Score.
- 1969 – An experimental underground nuclear reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed.
- 1976 – The first commercial service Concorde flights take off from London and Paris.
- 1977 – President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all Vietnam War draft evaders.
- 1985 - After being moved to this date because January 20 was a Sunday, Ronald Reagan's second inauguration as President of the United States is held indoors, because of cold and windy weather.
- 1994 – Lorena Bobbitt is found not-guilty by reason of temporary insanity for severing the penis of her husband John Bobbitt.
- 1997 – Newt Gingrich becomes the first leader of the United States House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical misconduct.
- 1998 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit Cuba.
- 1999 – War on Drugs: In one of the one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds (4,300 kg) of cocaine on board.
- 2004 – Canada: The residence of reporter, Juliet O'Neill was searched by the RCMP investigating leaks concerning the deportation of Maher Arar.
- 2004 – NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceased communication with mission control. The problem was with Flash Memory management and fixed remotely from Earth on Feb 6th.
- 2005 – In Belize's capital city, the unrest over the government's new taxes erupts into riots.
- 2008 – Black Monday on the World's stock markets, with the worst day for the financial markets since September 11, 2001.
- 2008 – Marie Smith Jones, the last-surviving speaker of the Eyak language, dies, rendering the language extinct.
- 2012 - Then-16-year-old Laura Dekker becomes the youngest person to sail around the world on her own, though this category is no longer included in the Guinness Book of Records.
- 2013 - Barack Obama's second public inauguration as President of the United States takes place. A private inauguration took place the previous day, which was a Sunday.
