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Born in January

25,206 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

Shumpei Naruse
association football player
25 years old
January 17 · 2001
Source: Transfermarkt
Eva Abu Halaweh
lawyer
51 years old
January 1 · 1975
No external source identified
Hnat Yura
film director, theatre director
1888–1966 · aged 78
January 8 · 1888
No external source identified
Thibaut Vallette
military officer, event rider
52 years old
January 18 · 1974
Source: GeneaStar
Grant Bramwell
canoeist, kayaker
65 years old
January 28 · 1961
No external source identified
Tomoko Suzuki
association football player
44 years old
January 26 · 1982
Source: pantheon.world
Johann Rudolph Schellenberg
engraver, botanist
1740–1806 · aged 66
January 4 · 1740
Source: The Fine Art Archive Db
Hermanni Vuorinen
association football player
41 years old
January 27 · 1985
Source: Transfermarkt
Ridvan Dibra
writer, novelist
67 years old
January 9 · 1959
No external source identified
Arnold Förster
naturalist, botanist
1810–1884 · aged 74
January 20 · 1810
Source: Integrated Authority File
Svetlana Ognjenović
handball player
45 years old
January 26 · 1981
No external source identified
Ionela Stanca
handball player
45 years old
January 9 · 1981
No external source identified
Norbert Hahn
luger
72 years old
January 6 · 1954
No external source identified
Artem Chernousov
sport shooter
30 years old
January 10 · 1996
No external source identified
Anatoly Bogdanov
sport shooter
1931–2001 · aged 70
January 1 · 1931
No external source identified
Jacob Clear
plumber, canoeist
41 years old
January 18 · 1985
No external source identified
Bab Christensen
actor
1928–2017 · aged 89
January 8 · 1928
Source: IMDb
Jean-Marc Degraeve
chess player
55 years old
January 26 · 1971
No external source identified
Armen Dorian
writer, poet
1892–1915
January 28 · 1892
No external source identified
Gvidonas Markevičius*
basketball player, basketball coach
Date disputed
January 3 · 1969
Source: FIBA database
Yasuo Manaka
association football coach, association football player
55 years old
January 31 · 1971
Source: Transfermarkt
Germán Gómez
association football player, association football coach
1914–2004 · aged 90
January 5 · 1914
No external source identified
Tatsuru Mukojima
association football player
60 years old
January 9 · 1966
No external source identified
Abdullah Al Hilali
association football referee, military personnel
56 years old
January 1 · 1970
No external source identified
Juozas Imbrasas
politician
85 years old
January 8 · 1941
No external source identified
Oleg Sakirkin
triple jumper, athletics competitor
1966–2015 · aged 49
January 23 · 1966
Source: World Athletics database
Bratan Tsenov
amateur wrestler
62 years old
January 7 · 1964
No external source identified
Domenty Kulumbegov
politician
71 years old
January 4 · 1955
No external source identified
Karl Bleibtreu
translator, playwright
1859–1928 · aged 69
January 13 · 1859
Source: BnF authorities
Waichiro Omura
association football player
1933–2003
January 1 · 1933
No external source identified
Juan Fernández Martín
sport cyclist
69 years old
January 5 · 1957
No external source identified
Carrie Neely
tennis player
1876–1938 · aged 62
January 24 · 1876
Source: tennisforum.com
Stine Hovland
association football player
35 years old
January 31 · 1991
Source: FBref
Rune Djurhuus
chess player, correspondence chess player
56 years old
January 25 · 1970
No external source identified
Josane Sigart
tennis player
1909–1999 · aged 90
January 20 · 1909
Source: tradingcarddb.com
Fifi Mukuna
caricaturist, penciller
58 years old
January 15 · 1968
No external source identified
Joseph Bernard*
draftsperson, sculptor
Date disputed
January 18 · 1866
Source: Bernard, Joseph(-Antoine)
Nguyen Huy Hoang
association football player
45 years old
January 4 · 1981
Source: FBref
Asha Roy
sprinter
36 years old
January 5 · 1990
Source: World Athletics database
Selena Steele
pornographic film actor
65 years old
January 17 · 1961
Source: IMDb
Tinus Bosselaar
association football player
1936–2018 · aged 82
January 16 · 1936
Source: Transfermarkt
Peeter Süda
organist, composer
1883–1920 · aged 37
January 30 · 1883
Source: BnF authorities
Andrey Shuvalov
fencer
61 years old
January 8 · 1965
No external source identified
Krzysztof Zwoliński
sprinter, athletics competitor
67 years old
January 2 · 1959
Source: World Athletics database
Kana Ichikawa
track and field coach, athletics competitor
35 years old
January 14 · 1991
Source: World Athletics database
Peter Sundelin
skipper
79 years old
January 13 · 1947
No external source identified
Friedrich Hendrix
sprinter, athletics competitor
1911–1941 · aged 30
January 6 · 1911
Source: Nazi Party Membership Database Lookup
Ernst Friedrich Gilg
botanical collector, university teacher
1867–1933 · aged 66
January 12 · 1867
Source: Integrated Authority File
Jerzy Kaczmarek
fencer
78 years old
January 8 · 1948
No external source identified
Vehbi Akdağ
amateur wrestler
1949–2020 · aged 71
January 1 · 1949
No external source identified
Mustafa Abdi
association football player
42 years old
January 2 · 1984
Source: FBref
Dwayne Cowan
athletics competitor
41 years old
January 1 · 1985
Source: World Athletics database
Friedrich von Georgi
military personnel, politician
1852–1926
January 27 · 1852
Source: Integrated Authority File
James Carpenter
astronomer
1840–1899 · aged 59
January 17 · 1840
No external source identified
Harold Alden
astronomer
1890–1964 · aged 74
January 10 · 1890
Source: SNAC
Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska
politician, journalist
1941–2024 · aged 82
January 3 · 1941
Source: orka.sejm.gov.pl
Will Brandenburg
alpine skier
39 years old
January 1 · 1987
No external source identified
Yvon Villarceau
geodesist, mathematician
1813–1883 · aged 70
January 16 · 1813
Source: BnF authorities
Behruzi Khojazoda
martial artist, judoka
31 years old
January 11 · 1995
No external source identified
Silvio Antoniano
Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest
1541–1603 · aged 62
January 10 · 1541
Source: BnF authorities
Pierre Le Coq
windsurfer, dentist
37 years old
January 17 · 1989
No external source identified
Carlo Simionato*
sprinter, athletics competitor
Date disputed
January 7 · 1961
Source: World Athletics database
Stanislaus Lo Kuang
historian, Catholic priest
1911–2004 · aged 93
January 1 · 1911
No external source identified
Louis Antoine François Baillon
ornithologist, zoologist
1778–1855 · aged 77
January 20 · 1778
No external source identified
Sung Yu-chi
taekwondo athlete
44 years old
January 16 · 1982
No external source identified
Giuseppe Enrici
sport cyclist
1896–1968 · aged 72
January 2 · 1896
No external source identified
Mitchell Schet*
association football player
Date disputed
January 28 · 1988
No external source identified
Jannis Bäcker
athletics competitor, bobsledder
41 years old
January 1 · 1985
No external source identified
Ngozi Monu
swimmer
45 years old
January 7 · 1981
No external source identified
György Tumpek
swimmer, coach
1929–2022 · aged 93
January 27 · 1929
Source: Petőfi Literary Museum
Heinrich Suter
orientalist, academic
1848–1922 · aged 74
January 4 · 1848
Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
Saturday Erimuya
association football player
28 years old
January 10 · 1998
Source: Transfermarkt
Alfonso Martínez
basketball player, coach
1937–2011 · aged 74
January 24 · 1937
Source: Catalan Sport Encyclopedia
Vasso Karantasiou
beach volleyball player, volleyball player
53 years old
January 6 · 1973
No external source identified
Théodore Labarre*
choreographer, harpist
Date disputed
January 21 · 1809
Source: Reconstructed vital records of Paris
Julien Faussurier
association football player
39 years old
January 14 · 1987
Source: As
Maruša Štangar
judoka
28 years old
January 31 · 1998
No external source identified
Vincent Rüfli
association football player
38 years old
January 22 · 1988
Source: As
Paolo Benvenuti
screenwriter, director
80 years old
January 30 · 1946
Source: IMDb
Antônio Flávio
association football player
39 years old
January 5 · 1987
Source: Transfermarkt
Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf
astronomer, naturalist
1724–1784 · aged 60
January 24 · 1724
Source: BnF authorities
Mikhail Umansky
correspondence chess player, chess player
1952–2010 · aged 58
January 21 · 1952
No external source identified
James Corson
athletics competitor
1906–1981 · aged 75
January 14 · 1906
No external source identified
Lis Jacobsen
runologist, translator
1882–1961 · aged 79
January 29 · 1882
Source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, 3rd edition
Ahmad Agdamski
pedagogue, actor
1884–1954 · aged 70
January 5 · 1884
No external source identified
Stelios Papafloratos
association football player
72 years old
January 27 · 1954
Source: Transfermarkt
Raymond Passello
association football player
1905–1987 · aged 82
January 12 · 1905
Source: Transfermarkt
Yeşim Ağaoğlu
television producer, writer
60 years old
January 21 · 1966
No external source identified
Leonardo Bertagnolli
sport cyclist
48 years old
January 8 · 1978
No external source identified
Louis Ehlert
piano teacher, musicographer
1825–1884 · aged 58
January 23 · 1825
Source: SNAC
Colomán Trabado
athletics competitor, politician
68 years old
January 2 · 1958
Source: World Athletics database
Brice Jovial
association football player
42 years old
January 25 · 1984
Source: Transfermarkt
Sofija Novoselić
alpine skier
36 years old
January 18 · 1990
No external source identified
Philip Powell Calvert
scientific collector, zoologist
1871–1961 · aged 90
January 29 · 1871
Source: SNAC
Yūdai Nitta
keirin cyclist, sport cyclist
40 years old
January 25 · 1986
Source: olympics.com
Margareta Niculescu
journalist, marionetteist
1926–2018 · aged 92
January 4 · 1926
Source: BnF authorities
Clara Basiana
journalist, swimmer
35 years old
January 23 · 1991
Source: Catalan Sport Encyclopedia
Diego García Carrera
athletics competitor
30 years old
January 19 · 1996
Source: World Athletics database
Aleks Pihler
association football player
32 years old
January 15 · 1994
Source: Transfermarkt
Enas Mostafa
amateur wrestler
37 years old
January 1 · 1989
No external source identified
Viktar Dashkevich
actor
1945–2020 · aged 75
January 3 · 1945
No external source identified
Suela Mëhilli
alpine skier
32 years old
January 28 · 1994
Source: International Ski and Snowboard Federation database
Frederick Parks*
boxer
Date disputed
January 1 · 1875
No external source identified
Juan Pérez
handball player
52 years old
January 3 · 1974
No external source identified
Arghus
association football player
38 years old
January 19 · 1988
Source: Transfermarkt
Ercan Aktuna*
association football coach, association football player
Date disputed
January 1 · 1940
No external source identified
Bridget Parker
event rider
87 years old
January 5 · 1939
No external source identified
Mulopo Kudimbana
association football player
39 years old
January 21 · 1987
Source: FBref
Hendrik Jan Davids
tennis player
57 years old
January 30 · 1969
Source: Association of Tennis Professionals website
Jean-Jacques N'Domba*
association football player
Date disputed
January 12 · 1960
Source: Fichier des personnes décédées mirror
Markus Foser
alpine skier
58 years old
January 31 · 1968
No external source identified
Lyudmyla Pekur
association football player, futsal player
45 years old
January 6 · 1981
Source: FBref
Pierre Montan Berton
composer, conductor
1727–1780 · aged 53
January 7 · 1727
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Joško Vidošević
association football player
1935–1990 · aged 55
January 11 · 1935
No external source identified
Karl-Heinz Bußert
rower
71 years old
January 8 · 1955
Source: World Rowing athlete database
Erik Baška
sport cyclist
32 years old
January 12 · 1994
Source: uci.org
Arístides González
boxer
65 years old
January 12 · 1961
No external source identified
Igor Vasilev
handball player
1966–2023 · aged 57
January 24 · 1966
Source: Olympedia
Michel Vaarten
track cyclist, sport cyclist
69 years old
January 17 · 1957
No external source identified
Agazio Loiero
politician
86 years old
January 14 · 1940
Source: storia.camera.it
Cerdas Barus
chess player
64 years old
January 1 · 1962
No external source identified
Giovanni De Martino
sculptor
1870–1935 · aged 65
January 13 · 1870
No external source identified
Atanas Tarev
athletics competitor
68 years old
January 31 · 1958
Source: World Athletics database
Victor Ruffy
lawyer, politician
1823–1869 · aged 46
January 18 · 1823
Source: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
Soslan Daurov
amateur wrestler
35 years old
January 15 · 1991
No external source identified
Somjit Borthong
actor, singer
62 years old
January 21 · 1964
No external source identified
Eric Agyemang
association football player
46 years old
January 11 · 1980
Source: Transfermarkt
Luís Mena e Silva
dressage rider
1902–1963 · aged 61
January 24 · 1902
No external source identified
Maria Kirkova
alpine skier
40 years old
January 2 · 1986
No external source identified
Álvaro Navarro
association football coach, association football player
41 years old
January 28 · 1985
Source: As
Ignaz Friedrich Tausch
university teacher, pedagogue
1793–1848 · aged 55
January 29 · 1793
Source: Czech National Authority Database
Manuel Andrada
polo player
1890–1962 · aged 72
January 9 · 1890
No external source identified
Abderrahmane Morceli*
athletics competitor
Date disputed
January 1 · 1957
No external source identified
Xösäyen Yamaşef
translator, writer
1882–1912 · aged 30
January 18 · 1882
No external source identified
Hans Lindgren
film actor, television actor
1932–2012 · aged 80
January 6 · 1932
Source: Swedish Film Database
Girolamo del Pacchia
painter
1477–1533
January 5 · 1477
Source: Google Arts & Culture
Christian Daniel Beck
librarian, linguist
1757–1832 · aged 75
January 22 · 1757
Source: Integrated Authority File
Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza
canoeist, kayaker
52 years old
January 10 · 1974
No external source identified
Vincenz Kollar
journalist, naturalist
1797–1860 · aged 63
January 15 · 1797
Source: Kollar, Vincenz (BLKÖ)
Thomas Mermillod-Blondin
alpine skier
42 years old
January 3 · 1984
No external source identified
Sergey Danilin
luger
1960–2021 · aged 61
January 1 · 1960
Source: Olympedia
Jakob Blåbjerg
association football player
31 years old
January 11 · 1995
Source: Transfermarkt
Tatyana Efimenko
athletics competitor
45 years old
January 2 · 1981
Source: World Athletics database
Nataliya Burdeyna
archer
52 years old
January 30 · 1974
No external source identified
Shad Begum
social worker
47 years old
January 20 · 1979
No external source identified
Tayfur Əliyev
boxer
29 years old
January 1 · 1997
Source: olympedia.org
Rasmus Bøgh Wallin
sport cyclist
30 years old
January 2 · 1996
Source: uci.org
Ivan Devčić
university teacher, Catholic bishop
78 years old
January 1 · 1948
No external source identified
Ophélie Meilleroux
association football player
42 years old
January 18 · 1984
Source: Roglo
Augustine Ejangue
association football player
37 years old
January 19 · 1989
Source: Soccerdonna

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