January 23
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January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of the year (343 in leap years).
Births [change]
- 1350 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
- 1688 – Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
- 1719 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
- 1737 – John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)
- 1745 – William Jessop, canal engineer (d. 1814)
- 1752 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832)
- 1783 – Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
- 1786 – Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
- 1813 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer (d. 1895)
- 1828 – Saigo Takamori, Japanese samurai (d. 1877)
- 1832 – Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
- 1840 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
- 1846 - Hermann Clemenz, Estonian chess player (d. 1908)
- 1857 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
- 1862 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
- 1870 – William G. Morgan, American sportsman, inventor of volleyball (d. 1942)
- 1872 – Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903)
- 1872 – Joze Plečnik, architect (d. 1957)
- 1876 – Otto Diels, German chemist (d. 1954)
- 1876 - Rupert Mayer, German Resistance activist (d. 1945)
- 1878 – Oton Župančič, Slovenian poet (d. 1949)
- 1884 – Ralph DePalma, race car driver (d. 1956)
- 1888 – Lead Belly, American musician (d. 1949)
- 1894 - Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian writer (d. 1988)
- 1896 - Alf Hall, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
- 1896 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
- 1897 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect (d. 2000)
- 1897 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian political activist (d. 1948)
- 1898 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
- 1898 – Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1903 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
- 1907 – Dan Duryea, actor (d. 1968)
- 1907 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (d. 1981)
- 1910 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
- 1913 - Jean-Michel Atlan, French philosopher and painter (d. 1960)
- 1913 - Wally Parks, American racing executive (d. 2007)
- 1915 – Arthur Lewis, American economist (d. 1991)
- 1915 – Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1985)
- 1917 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist (d. 1999)
- 1919 – Hans Hass, zoologist and underwater scientist
- 1919 – Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
- 1919 – Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager (d. 1996)
- 1920 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (d. 2010)
- 1920 - Ray Abrams, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1992)
- 1923 – Walter M. Miller Jr., science fiction writer (d. 1996)
- 1924 - Frank Lautenberg, American politician and United States Senator for New Jersey
- 1926 - Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
- 1927 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
- 1928 – Chico Carrasquel, the first Latin American player to appear in a MLB All-Star Game (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress
- 1929 - Patriarch Filaret, Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- 1929 - John Polanyi, German-born Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1930 – Derek Walcott, West Indies author, Nobel Prize winner
- 1933 – Chita Rivera, actress, dancer
- 1936 – Jerry Kramer, American football player
- 1938 – Shohei Baba, professional wrestler, founder of All-Japan Pro Wrestling (d. 1999)
- 1938 – Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
- 1939 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor
- 1939 – Arlene Golonka, American actress
- 1940 – Johnny Russell, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
- 1942 - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
- 1943 – Gil Gerard, actor
- 1943 - Gary Burton, American jazz musician
- 1944 - Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player
- 1944 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
- 1946 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman
- 1946 - Arnoldo Aleman, former President of Nicaragua
- 1947 – Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
- 1948 – Anita Pointer, American singer
- 1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
- 1950 – Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band)
- 1950 - John Greaves, English musician
- 1951 - David Patrick Kelly, American actor and musician
- 1951 – Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot
- 1952 - Omar Henry, South African cricketer
- 1953 - Robin Zander, American singer
- 1953 – Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles
- 1954 – Franco De Vita, singer/songwriter
- 1957 – Princess Caroline of Monaco
- 1960 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
- 1962 - David Arnold, British film score composer
- 1963 – Gail O'Grady, actress
- 1964 – Mariska Hargitay, American actress
- 1964 – Bharrat Jagdeo, former President of Guyana
- 1967 – Naim Süleymanoğlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
- 1968 – Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
- 1970 – Moreno Torricelli, Italian footballer
- 1972 – Lisa Snowdon, British actress and model
- 1974 – Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- 1974 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
- 1979 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player
- 1979 - Dawn Porter, British television presenter
- 1981 - Julia Jones, American actress
- 1981 – Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
- 1982 - Patrick Levis, American actor
- 1984 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
- 1985 – Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
- 1985 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch model
- 1986 – Jose Enrique Sanchez, Spanish footballer
- 1986 – Steven Taylor, English footballer
- 1986 - Pablo Andujar, Spanish tennis player
- 1989 - April Pearson, British actress
Deaths [change]
- 440 - Hanzei, Emperor of Japan
- 1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
- 1199 – Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur (b. 1160)
- 1516 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
- 1548 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
- 1549 - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
- 1567 - Jiajing, Emperor of China
- 1570 – James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland
- 1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
- 1789 – John Cleland, novelist (b. 1709)
- 1800 – Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (b. 1749)
- 1805 – Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
- 1806 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
- 1810 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
- 1820 – Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
- 1837 – John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
- 1875 – Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819)
- 1883 – Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
- 1893 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, United States Supreme Court (b. 1825)
- 1894 - Lebengula, King of Matabeleland in present-day Zimbabwe (b. 1833)
- 1921 - Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer (b. 1877)
- 1922 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
- 1923 – Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
- 1931 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
- 1937 – Marie Prevost, French actress (b. 1898)
- 1943 – Alexander Woollcott, actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
- 1944 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
- 1944 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1899)
- 1956 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian director (b. 1893)
- 1973 – Kid Ory, jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
- 1976 – Paul Robeson, actor, singer, social activist (b. 1898)
- 1976 – Paul Dupuis, French-Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
- 1978 – Jack Oakie, actor (b. 1903)
- 1978 – Terry Kath, musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
- 1981 – Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
- 1983 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
- 1986 – Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and performance artist (b. 1921)
- 1989 – Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
- 1990 – Allen Collins, American musician (b. 1952)
- 1991 – Northrop Frye, literary critic (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Freddie Bartholomew, actor (b. 1924)
- 1993 – Thomas Dorsey, gospel music singer (b. 1899)
- 1994 – Brian Redhead, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
- 1994 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (b. 1917)
- 1997 – Richard Berry, American composer, musician (b. 1935)
- 2002 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
- 2002 – Robert Nozick, philosopher (b. 1938)
- 2003 – Nell Carter, singer, actress (b. 1948)
- 2004 – Bob Keeshan, actor (b. 1927)
- 2004 – Helmut Newton, photographer (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Johnny Carson, television personality (b. 1925)
- 2005 – Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
- 2007 – Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
- 2009 - Robert W. Scott, American politician and former Governor of South Carolina (b. 1929)
- 2010 – Earl Wild, American pianist (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutrition expert (b. 1914)
- 2013 - Jozef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)
Events [change]
- 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I announces that his eight-year-old son Honorius will be co-Emperor.
- 1556 – A magnitude 9.0 earthquake hits Shaanxi and Kansu, China. It is estimated that up to 830,000 people are killed in the quake.
- 1570 - James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for James VI of Scotland, is murdered by a firearm, the first-recorded murder by gunshot.
- 1571 - The Royal Exchange opens in Moscow.
- 1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant Republic in the Netherlands.
- 1656 - Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres Provinciales.
- 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1772 - French seafarer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresnet and his second-in-command Jules Crozet discover the Crozet Islands in the Indian Ocean.
- 1790 – The ship Bounty is set on fire by mutineers.
- 1793 - Second Partition of Poland.
- 1812 – A strong earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri.
- 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first female American doctor.
- 1855 - The first bridge crossing the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is called the Hennepin Bridge.
- 1855 - At a magnitude estimated to have been 8.2, the Wairarapa earthquake strikes Wellington, New Zealand.
- 1870 - In Montana, US cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias massacre.
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
- 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo becomes President of the Philippines.
- 1900 - Second Boer War: Battle of Spion Kop, South African forces defeat British forces.
- 1904 – The coastal town of Alesund in Norway is destroyed by fire.
- 1909 - An earthquake in Iran kills around 5,000 people.
- 1909 - The ship RMS Republic collides with the SS Florida off Massachusetts, sinking the next day, killing 6 people.
- 1913 - Enver Pasha takes over the Ottoman Empire in a military coup.
- 1920 - The Netherlands refuses to give ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
- 1937 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of taking part in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
- 1942 – World War II: Rabaul on the Papua New Guinea island of New Britain is captured by Japanese forces.
- 1943 – World War II: British forces capture Tripoli, Libya.
- 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York for the first time.
- 1950 – The Knesset (Israeli parliament) passes a resolution making Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
- 1958 – In Venezuela, Marcos Perez Jimenez is deposed in a two-day strike.
- 1960 – The Bathyscaphe Trieste, with Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh on board, sets a new depth record by travelling 10,911 metres in the Pacific Ocean, at Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench.
- 1967 - The Soviet Union and the Ivory Coast start diplomatic relations with each other.
- 1973 – A volcanic eruption hits the South Icelandic island of Heimaey.
- 1973 – Richard Nixon announces a Peace accord with Vietnam.
- 1986 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gets its first members - Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
- 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female United States Secretary of State.
- 2002 – The reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan.
- 2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
- 2003 - Final communication with the Pioneer 12 spacecraft.
- 2006 – Stephen Harper is elected Prime Minister of Canada.
- 2009 – A stabbing attack occurs at a nursery in Dendermonde, Belgium.
- 2012 - The EU adopts an embargo against Iran over its uranium enrichment.
