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Born in January

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

Benjamin List
university teacher, scientist
58 years old
January 11 · 1968
Source: Integrated Authority File
Adunis
journalist, literary critic
96 years old
January 1 · 1930
Source: BnF authorities
Sofia Shinas
singer-songwriter, actor
58 years old
January 17 · 1968
No external source identified
Kheira Hamraoui
association football player
36 years old
January 13 · 1990
Source: Soccerdonna
Shlomo Carlebach
musician, composer
1925–1994 · aged 69
January 14 · 1925
Source: Internet Broadway Database
John Carver
association football coach, association football player
61 years old
January 16 · 1965
No external source identified
Andreas Palaiologos
pretender
1453–date unavailable
January 26 · 1453
No external source identified
Basil Iwanyk
film producer
56 years old
January 4 · 1970
No external source identified
Graham Stark
film director, actor
1922–2013 · aged 91
January 20 · 1922
Source: BnF authorities
Isamu Akasaki
university teacher, engineer
1929–2021 · aged 92
January 30 · 1929
Source: Find a Grave
Melis Sezen
television actor, actor
29 years old
January 2 · 1997
No external source identified
Angela Winkler
musician, film actor
82 years old
January 22 · 1944
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Yandel
songwriter, singer
49 years old
January 14 · 1977
No external source identified
Bob Dishy
film actor, actor
92 years old
January 12 · 1934
Source: Internet Broadway Database
Bernard Diomède
association football player, association football coach
52 years old
January 23 · 1974
Source: Transfermarkt
Keith Forsey*
composer, percussionist
Date disputed
January 2 · 1948
Source: Internet Broadway Database
Lucius Aelius Caesar
military personnel, politician
101–137 · aged 36
January 12 · 101
No external source identified
Megan Washington
singer, musician
40 years old
January 7 · 1986
No external source identified
Habibullāh Kalakāni
politician
1890–1929
January 19 · 1890
Source: Integrated Authority File
Petter Northug Jr.
cross-country skier, sports commentator
81 years old
January 6 · 1945
Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
Joseph C. Phillips
actor, television actor
64 years old
January 17 · 1962
No external source identified
Bob Clearmountain
film actor, record producer
73 years old
January 16 · 1953
No external source identified
Emperor Daizong of Tang
ruler
727–779 · aged 52
January 13 · 727
No external source identified
Félix Torres
association football player
29 years old
January 11 · 1997
Source: FBref
Richard Courant
university teacher, mathematician
1888–1972 · aged 84
January 8 · 1888
Source: KNAW Past Members
Raffaëla Anderson
pornographic film actor, actor
50 years old
January 8 · 1976
Source: Babelio
Susanna Wesley
writer
1669–1742 · aged 73
January 20 · 1669
Source: Find a Grave
David Fairclough
association football player
69 years old
January 5 · 1957
Source: Transfermarkt
Mahamadou Issoufou
politician
74 years old
January 1 · 1952
No external source identified
Derek Schmidt
politician, lawyer
58 years old
January 23 · 1968
No external source identified
Mithra Jin
singer, rapper
43 years old
January 6 · 1983
No external source identified
Espen Knutsen
ice hockey coach, ice hockey player
54 years old
January 12 · 1972
No external source identified
Nakahama Manjirō
diplomat, translator
1827–1898 · aged 71
January 27 · 1827
Source: Find a Grave
Johnny Owen
boxer
1956–1980 · aged 24
January 7 · 1956
No external source identified
Melitta Bentz
entrepreneur
1873–1950 · aged 77
January 31 · 1873
Source: Integrated Authority File
Georgine Darcy*
television actor, actor
Date disputed
January 14 · 1931
Source: IMDb
Jennifer Dundas
stage actor, television actor
55 years old
January 14 · 1971
Source: Internet Broadway Database
Kevin Barry
medical student, rugby union player
1902–1920 · aged 18
January 20 · 1902
Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography
Ramsey Campbell
science fiction writer, writer
80 years old
January 4 · 1946
Source: NooSFere
Chen Chiung Ming
politician
1878–1933 · aged 55
January 13 · 1878
Source: SNAC
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria
aristocrat
1831–1903 · aged 72
January 17 · 1831
Source: The Peerage
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad
translator, religious leader
1889–1965 · aged 76
January 12 · 1889
Source: BnF authorities
Prarthana Behere
television actor, actor
43 years old
January 5 · 1983
No external source identified
Jeremy Rifkin
prognostician, sociologist
81 years old
January 26 · 1945
Source: Munzinger Personen
Alejo Sarco
association football player
20 years old
January 6 · 2006
No external source identified
Alana Boden
actor
29 years old
January 14 · 1997
Source: IMDb
Helen Westcott
actor, stage actor
1928–1998 · aged 70
January 1 · 1928
Source: BnF authorities
Thomas Joseph Pickard
police officer
76 years old
January 6 · 1950
No external source identified
Ismail al-Faruqi
philosopher, university teacher
1921–1986 · aged 65
January 1 · 1921
Source: AlKindi
George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
military officer, politician
1716–1785 · aged 69
January 26 · 1716
Source: SNAC
Mick Mills
association football coach, association football player
77 years old
January 4 · 1949
Source: Transfermarkt
Joane Gadou
association football player
19 years old
January 17 · 2007
No external source identified
Jaipal Reddy
politician
1942–2019 · aged 77
January 16 · 1942
No external source identified
Marcellus I
Catholic priest
255–309 · aged 54
January 6 · 255
No external source identified
Adrian Heath
association football player, association football coach
65 years old
January 11 · 1961
Source: Transfermarkt
Gijs Blom
actor, television actor
29 years old
January 2 · 1997
No external source identified
Marta Ortega
chief executive officer, businessperson
42 years old
January 10 · 1984
No external source identified
June Miller
dancer
1902–1979 · aged 77
January 12 · 1902
No external source identified
Władysław Raczkiewicz*
jurist, lawyer
Date disputed
January 28 · 1885
Source: Internetowy Polski Słownik Biograficzny
Trent Sainsbury
association football player
34 years old
January 5 · 1992
Source: Transfermarkt
Al-Hakam II
caliph
915–976 · aged 61
January 18 · 915
No external source identified
Hugh Mercer
physician, military officer
1726–1777 · aged 50
January 16 · 1726
No external source identified
Alex Cairns
association football player
33 years old
January 4 · 1993
Source: Transfermarkt
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
memoirist, diplomat
1675–1755 · aged 80
January 16 · 1675
Source: SNAC
Muse saed
military officer, politician
78 years old
January 2 · 1948
No external source identified
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
military personnel
1355–1397 · aged 42
January 7 · 1355
Source: The Peerage
Jacob Wallenberg
business executive, banker
70 years old
January 13 · 1956
Source: Davos 2014 Participant List
Emilio Insolera
film actor, film producer
47 years old
January 29 · 1979
No external source identified
George Dolenz
television actor, actor
1908–1963 · aged 55
January 5 · 1908
Source: Find a Grave
Larry Harvey
artist
1948–2018 · aged 70
January 11 · 1948
No external source identified
Ichirō Mizuki
singer-songwriter, actor
1948–2022 · aged 74
January 7 · 1948
No external source identified
Kim Hee-won
stage actor, film actor
55 years old
January 10 · 1971
Source: Freebase Data Dumps
Clara Lee
television actor, actor
40 years old
January 15 · 1986
No external source identified
Joseph Zen
Catholic bishop, Latin Catholic priest
94 years old
January 13 · 1932
Source: Munzinger Personen
Abdel Qissi
Thai boxer, actor
66 years old
January 20 · 1960
No external source identified
Anil Ganguly
screenwriter, film director
1933–2016 · aged 82
January 26 · 1933
No external source identified
Nick DiPaolo
radio personality, television actor
64 years old
January 31 · 1962
Source: Discogs
Jens Wissing
association football player, association football coach
38 years old
January 2 · 1988
Source: Transfermarkt
Elly Akira
AV idol, pornographic film actor
40 years old
January 25 · 1986
Source: IMDb
Iván Balliu
association football player
34 years old
January 1 · 1992
Source: As
Joel Bolomboy
basketball player
32 years old
January 28 · 1994
Source: FIBA database
John Moore
film director, screenwriter
56 years old
January 1 · 1970
No external source identified
Anushree
actor, television actor
38 years old
January 25 · 1988
No external source identified
Aysen Nikolayev
politician
54 years old
January 22 · 1972
No external source identified
Jérôme Roussillon
association football player
33 years old
January 6 · 1993
Source: Transfermarkt
Guilherme Bissoli
association football player
28 years old
January 9 · 1998
Source: Transfermarkt
Derek Dougan
autobiographer, association football player
1938–2007 · aged 69
January 20 · 1938
Source: FBref
Mustafa Sandal
musician, record producer
56 years old
January 11 · 1970
Source: Integrated Authority File
Natalia Kaczmarek
athletics competitor
28 years old
January 17 · 1998
Source: Olympedia
Brion Gysin
novelist, choreographer
1916–1986 · aged 70
January 19 · 1916
Source: Gysin, Brion
Vladyslav Vanat
association football player
24 years old
January 4 · 2002
Source: fbref.com
J. G. Farrell*
novelist, writer
Date disputed
January 25 · 1935
Source: SNAC
Hans Erik Ødegaard
association football player, association football coach
52 years old
January 20 · 1974
Source: FBref
Richard Halliburton
adventurer, film director
1900–1939 · aged 39
January 9 · 1900
Source: BnF authorities
Prince Andrew Andreievich Romanovsky
artist
1923–2021 · aged 98
January 21 · 1923
Source: The Peerage
Bob Hewitt
tennis player
86 years old
January 12 · 1940
Source: 100 years of Wimbledon
Hajime Sugiyama
military personnel, politician
1880–1945 · aged 65
January 1 · 1880
Source: BnF authorities
Balach Marri
politician
1966–2007 · aged 41
January 17 · 1966
No external source identified
Hélder Costa
association football player
32 years old
January 12 · 1994
Source: Transfermarkt
Nihal Atsız
writer, historian
1905–1975 · aged 70
January 12 · 1905
Source: Find a Grave
Leonid Gaidai
director, film director
1923–1993 · aged 70
January 30 · 1923
Source: Find a Grave
Julius La Rosa
military officer, singer
1930–2016 · aged 86
January 2 · 1930
Source: Find a Grave
Maurice Herzog
French resistance fighter, local politician
1919–2012 · aged 93
January 15 · 1919
Source: BnF authorities
Winnaretta Singer
patron of the arts, salonnière
1865–1943 · aged 78
January 8 · 1865
Source: Polignac [née Singer], Winnaretta, Princesse Edmond de
Sam Adekugbe
association football player
31 years old
January 16 · 1995
Source: FBref
Ante Toni Žižić
basketball player
29 years old
January 4 · 1997
Source: FIBA database
Ximena Duque
television actor, model
41 years old
January 30 · 1985
Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze
Joan Carroll*
stage actor, actor
Date disputed
January 18 · 1932
Source: filmportal.de
Virginie Silla
film producer
54 years old
January 26 · 1972
Source: dirigeants.bfmtv.com
Michael Aloni
director, screenwriter
42 years old
January 30 · 1984
Source: Freebase Data Dumps
Virgil Hill
boxer
62 years old
January 18 · 1964
No external source identified
Davie Selke
association football player
31 years old
January 20 · 1995
Source: Transfermarkt
Lynne Cox
author, writer
69 years old
January 2 · 1957
Source: Library of Congress Authorities
Eric T. Olson
admiral, military officer
74 years old
January 24 · 1952
No external source identified
Tonny Vilhena
association football player
31 years old
January 3 · 1995
Source: Transfermarkt
Efthimis Filippou
screenwriter, writer
49 years old
January 18 · 1977
Source: BnF authorities
Patrick Blondeau
association football player
58 years old
January 27 · 1968
Source: Roglo
Jim Gray
computer scientist
1944–2012 · aged 68
January 12 · 1944
No external source identified
Anne Montminy
lawyer, competitive diver
51 years old
January 28 · 1975
No external source identified
Suehiro Maruo
illustrator, mangaka
70 years old
January 28 · 1956
Source: Babelio
Chantal Andere
actor, film actor
54 years old
January 25 · 1972
Source: IMDb
Yazeed Abulaila
association football player
33 years old
January 8 · 1993
No external source identified
Ross Turnbull
association football player, association football coach
41 years old
January 4 · 1985
Source: As
David Millar
sport cyclist
49 years old
January 4 · 1977
Source: Babelio
Donna Lynne Champlin
actor, television actor
55 years old
January 21 · 1971
Source: ibdb.com
Vasily Surikov
artist, painter
1848–1916 · aged 68
January 24 · 1848
Source: Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia
Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares
military personnel, politician
1587–1645 · aged 58
January 6 · 1587
Source: Olivares, Conde-Duque de
Gustave Whitehead
inventor, military flight engineer
1874–1927 · aged 53
January 1 · 1874
Source: Find a Grave
Nathaniel Bacon*
settler, politician
Date disputed
January 2 · 1647
Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Fireball Roberts
racing automobile driver, racing driver
1929–1964 · aged 35
January 20 · 1929
Source: Find a Grave
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
writer
1893–1945 · aged 52
January 3 · 1893
Source: Find a Grave
Stephanie Gilmore
surfer
38 years old
January 29 · 1988
Source: Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze
Nils Asther
television actor, stage actor
1897–1981 · aged 84
January 17 · 1897
Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Rodinei
association football player
34 years old
January 29 · 1992
Source: Transfermarkt
Andreas Seidl
engineer
50 years old
January 6 · 1976
No external source identified
Paul Jabara
songwriter, actor
1948–1992 · aged 44
January 31 · 1948
Source: Find a Grave
Kang Mal-Geum
television actor, film actor
47 years old
January 3 · 1979
Source: starvillent.com
Marina Foïs
actor, film actor
56 years old
January 21 · 1970
Source: BnF authorities
Mladen Petrić
association football player
45 years old
January 1 · 1981
Source: FBref
Andrej Kostić
association football player
19 years old
January 16 · 2007
No external source identified
John Batman
businessperson, politician
1801–1839
January 21 · 1801
Source: Find a Grave
Gianfranco Fini
politician, diplomat
74 years old
January 3 · 1952
Source: Munzinger Personen
Noah Glass
software developer, programmer
45 years old
January 1 · 1981
Source: suno.com.br
José de Jesús Corona
association football player
45 years old
January 26 · 1981
Source: As
Claude Adrien Helvétius*
writer, encyclopédistes
Date disputed
January 26 · 1715
Source: The Fine Art Archive Db
Chuni Goswami
cricketer, association football player
1938–2020 · aged 82
January 15 · 1938
No external source identified
Marina the Monk
monk
715–750
January 1 · 715
No external source identified
Claude R. Kirk
military officer, governor
1926–2011 · aged 85
January 7 · 1926
Source: SNAC
Bashir Shihab II
politician
1767–1850
January 2 · 1767
No external source identified
Raynor Scheine
actor, film actor
84 years old
January 19 · 1942
Source: Internet Broadway Database

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