January 23
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January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining after January 23 until the end of the year (343 in leap years).
[change] Births
- 1688 – Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1878 – Oton Župančič, Slovenian poet (d. 1949)
- 1884 – Ralph DePalma, race car driver (d. 1956)
- 1888 – Lead Belly, American musician (d. 1949)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1923 – Walter M. Miller Jr., science fiction writer (d. 1996)
- 1928 – Chico Carrasquel, the first Latin American player to appear in a MLB All-Star Game (d. 2005)
- 1928 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress
- 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, painter and sculptor
- 1939 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor
- 1939 – Arlene Golonka, American actress
- 1940 – Johnny Russell, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
- 1943 – Gil Gerard, actor
- 1944 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
- 1946 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian businessman
- 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)
- 1951 – Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot
- 1953 – Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles
- 1954 – Franco De Vita, singer/songwriter
- 1957 – Princess Caroline of Monaco
- 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
- 1981 – Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
- 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
[change] Deaths
- 1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
- 1199 – Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur (b. 1160)
- 1570 – James Stewart, Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland
- 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)
- 1923 – Max Nordau, 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)
- 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)
- 2010 – Earl Wild, American pianist (b. 1915)
- 2011 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutrition expert (b. 1914)
[change] Events
- 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.
- 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1790 – The ship Bounty is set on fire by mutineers.
- 1812 – A strong earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri.
- 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first female American doctor.
- 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo becomes President of the Philippines.
- 1904 – The coastal town of Alesund in Norway is destroyed by fire.
- 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.
- 1973 – A volcanic eruption hits the South Icelandic island of Heimaey.
- 1973 – Richard Nixon announces a Peace accord with Vietnam.
- 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female United States Secretary of State.
- 2002 – The reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan.
- 2006 – Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
- 2009 – A stabbing attack occurs at a nursery in Dendermonde, Belgium.
