On this day: January 5th
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1477 Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Duchy of Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1675 Battle of Turckheim: The French army defeats forces from Austria and Brandenburg.
1757 Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who becomes the last person to be Capital punishment in France by Hanged, drawn and quartered (the traditional form of capital punishment used for regicides).
1781 American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is Raid on Richmond by Kingdom of Great Britain Her Majesty's Naval Service led by former American general Benedict Arnold.
1822 The government of Central America votes for Central America under Mexican rule to the First Mexican Empire.
1875 The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
1895 Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1900 Irish nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for revolt against British rule.
1911 Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third-oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
1912 The sixth All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
1913 First Balkan War: The Battle of Lemnos (1913) begins; Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
1914 The Ford Motor Company announces an Eight-hour day and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
1919 The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1941 Amy Johnson, a 37-year-old pilot and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
1944 The ''Daily Mail'' becomes the first major London newspaper to be published on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
1945 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland.
1949 In his State of the Union address, United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.
1953 The play ''Waiting for Godot'' by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
1957 In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
1967 Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is established following the Seizure of power (Cultural Revolution) from local city officials by revolutionaries.
1968 Alexander Dubček comes to power in Czechoslovakia, effectively beginning the "Prague Spring".
1969 The Venera 5 space probe is launched at 06:28:08 UTC from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
1969 Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes in Fernhill, West Sussex, UK, while on approach to Gatwick Airport, killing 50 people.
1970 The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are known to have been killed and about another 26,000 are injured.
1972 US President Richard Nixon announces the Space Shuttle program.
1975 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, Tasman Bridge disaster by the bulk ore carrier ''Lake Illawarra'', killing twelve people.
1976 The Khmer Rouge announce that the new Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea is ratified.
1976 The Troubles: Gunmen Kingsmill massacre after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK, allegedly as retaliation for a string of attacks on Irish Catholic civilians in the area by Ulster loyalism, particularly the Reavey and O'Dowd killings.
1991 Georgia (country) forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991–92 South Ossetia War.
1991 Somali Civil War: The Embassy of the United States, Mogadishu in Mogadishu is Operation Eastern Exit days after the outbreak of violence in Mogadishu.
1993 The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
2005 The Eris (dwarf planet) is discovered by Palomar Observatory-based astronomers, later motivating the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to definition of planet for the first time.
2014 A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle marks the first successful flight of an CE-7.5.
2022 Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismisses Prime Minister Asqar Mamin and declares state of emergency over the 2022 Kazakh unrest.
2024 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 makes an emergency landing at Portland International Airport after a door plug blows off the Boeing 737 MAX 9 operating the flight. There are no fatalities, but the accident prompts the Boeing 737 MAX and renews scrutiny on Boeing manufacturing and design issues.
1209 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English prince, nominal King of Germany (d. 1272)
1530 Gaspar de Bono, monk of the Order of the Minims (d. 1571)
1548 Francisco Suárez, Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1617)
1587 Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer and explorer (d. 1641)
1592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (d. 1666)
1620 Miklós Zrínyi, Croatian military commander (d. 1664)
1640 Paolo Lorenzani, Italian composer (d. 1713)
1735 Claude Martin, French-English general and explorer (d. 1800)
1767 Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist and academic (d. 1832)
1779 Stephen Decatur, American commander (d. 1820)
1779 Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (d. 1813)
1781 Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three terms mayor of San Antonio, in Spanish Texas (d. 1836)
1793 Harvey Putnam, American lawyer and politician (d. 1855)
1808 Anton Füster, Austrian priest and activist (d. 1881)
1834 William John Wills, English surgeon and explorer (d. 1861)
1838 Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (d. 1922)
1846 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher and author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (d. 1926)
1846 Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (d. 1878)
1855 King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette (brand) (d. 1932)
1864 Bob Caruthers, American baseball player and manager (d. 1911)
1867 Dimitrios Gounaris, Greek lawyer and politician, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922)
1871 Frederick Converse, American composer and academic (d. 1940)
1874 Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1965)
1876 Konrad Adenauer, German lawyer and politician, List of Chancellors of Germany (d. 1967)
1879 Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician and academic (d. 1946)
1880 Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1951)
1881 Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter (d. 1934)
1882 Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist (d. 1958)
1882 Edwin Barclay, 18th president of Liberia (d. 1955)
1885 Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant (d. 1940)
1886 Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer (d. 1976)
1892 Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse (d. 1984)
1893 Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian-American guru and philosopher (d. 1952)
1897 Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher and author (d. 1945)
1900 Yves Tanguy, French-American painter (d. 1955)
1902 Hubert Beuve-Méry, French journalist (d. 1989)
1902 Stella Gibbons, English journalist and author (d. 1989)
1903 Harold Gatty, Australian pilot and navigator (d. 1957)
1904 Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic (d. 1997)
1904 Erika Morini, Austrian violinist (d. 1995)
1906 Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist and academic (d. 1978)
1907 Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (d. 1969)
1908 George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (d. 1963)
1909 Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-American sculptor, painter, and photographer (d. 1995)
1909 Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1994)
1910 Jack Lovelock, New Zealand runner and journalist (d. 1949)
1911 Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1914 Doug Deitz, Australian rugby league player (d. 1994)
1914 George Reeves, American actor and director (d. 1959)
1915 Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian geographer and cartographer (d. 2004)
1917 Francis L. Kellogg, American businessman and diplomat (d. 2006)
1917 Wieland Wagner, German director and producer (d. 1966)
1917 Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)
1919 Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan theorist and politician (d. 2012)
1919 Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flute player (d. 1992)
1920 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist and educator (d. 1995)
1921 Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (d. 1990)
1921 Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourgish soldier and aristocrat (d. 2019)
1921 John H. Reed, American politician and diplomat, 67th Governor of Maine (d. 2012)
1922 Anthony Synnot, Australian admiral (d. 2001)
1923 Sam Phillips, American radio host and producer, founded Sun Records (d. 2003)
1925 – Lou Carnesecca, American basketball player and coach (d. 2024)
1926 Veikko Karvonen, Finnish runner (d. 2007)
1926 W. D. Snodgrass, American poet (d. 2009)
1926 Hosea Williams, American businessman and activist (d. 2000)
1927 Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, American guru and author, founded Iraivan Temple (d. 2001)
1928 Imtiaz Ahmed (cricketer), Pakistani cricketer (d. 2016)
1928 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th President of Pakistan (d. 1979)
1928 Denise Bryer, English actress (d. 2021)
1928 Walter Mondale, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (d. 2021)
1929 Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1930 Kevin Considine, Australian rugby league player (d. 2023)
1931 Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer, founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (d. 1989)
1931 Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist, poet, and author
1931 Walt Davis, American athlete (d. 2020)
1931 Robert Duvall, American actor and director
1932 Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (d. 2016)
1932 Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
1934 Murli Manohar Joshi, Indian politician
1934 Phil Ramone, South African-American songwriter and producer, co-founded A & R Recording (d. 2013)
1936 Florence King, American journalist and memoirist (d. 2016)
1936 Terry Lineen, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2020)
1938 Juan Carlos I of Spain
1938 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan author and playwright
1939 M. E. H. Maharoof, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1997)
1940 Athol Guy, Australian singer-songwriter and bassist
1940 Pim de la Parra, Surinamese-Dutch film director (d. 2024)
1941 Bob Cunis, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2008)
1941 Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986)
1941 Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
1941 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer and coach (d. 2011)
1942 Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist and conductor (d. 2024)
1942 Charlie Rose, American journalist and talk show host
1942 Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti royal and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Kuwait (d. 2024)
1943 Mary Gaudron, Australian lawyer and judge
1943 Murtaz Khurtsilava, Georgian footballer and manager
1944 Carolyn McCarthy, American nurse and politician
1944 Ed Rendell, American politician, 45th List of Governors of Pennsylvania
1946 Diane Keaton, American actress, director, and businesswoman
1947 Mike DeWine, American lawyer and politician, 70th Governor of Ohio
1947 – Mercury Morris, American football player (d. 2024)
1948 Ted Lange, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1950 Ioan P. Culianu, Romanian historian, philosopher, and author (d. 1991)
1950 Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
1950 John Manley, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
1950 Chris Stein, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1952 Uli Hoeneß, German footballer and manager
1953 Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
1953 Mike Rann, English-Australian journalist and politician, 44th Premier of South Australia
1953 George Tenet, American civil servant and academic, 18th Director of Central Intelligence
1954 Alex English, American basketball player and coach
1954 László Krasznahorkai, Hungarian author and screenwriter
1955 Mamata Banerjee, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
1956 Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German academic and politician, 12th President of Germany
1957 Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league player
1957 George Moroko, Australian rugby league player
1958 Jiří Hrdina, Czech ice hockey player
1958 Ron Kittle, American baseball player and manager
1959 Clancy Brown, American actor
1959 Nancy Delahunt, Canadian curler
1960 Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer and sportscaster
1961 Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 Suzy Amis, American actress and model
1962 Danny Jackson, American baseball player and manager
1963 Jeff Fassero, American baseball player and coach
1965 Vinnie Jones, British footballer and actor
1965 Stuart Raper, Australian rugby league player and coach
1965 Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper
1967 Joe Flanigan, American actor
1968 Carrie Ann Inaba, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
1968 Joé Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player and engineer
1969 Marilyn Manson, American singer-songwriter, actor, and director
1969 Paul McGillion, Scottish actor
1969 Shaun Micheel, American golfer
1969 Shea Whigham, American actor
1970 Nigel Gaffey, Australian rugby league player
1971 Stian Carstensen, Norwegian multi-instrumentalist and composer
1972 Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1973 Derek Cecil, American actor
1973 Uday Chopra, Indian actor and filmmaker
1974 Jessica Chaffin, American actress, comedian, and writer
1974 Iwan Thomas, Welsh sprinter and coach
1975 Bradley Cooper, American actor and producer
1975 Warrick Dunn, American football player
1975 Mike Grier, American ice hockey player and scout
1976 Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer
1977 Gavin Lester, Australian rugby league player
1978 January Jones, American actress
1979 Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 Giuseppe Gibilisco, Italian pole vaulter
1979 Scott Kremerskothen, Australian cricketer
1980 Luke Bailey (rugby league), Australian rugby league player
1980 Brad Meyers, Australian rugby league player
1981 Deadmau5, Canadian musician
1981 Brooklyn Sudano, American actress
1982 Nori Aoki, Japanese baseball player
1982 Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
1984 Derrick Atkins, Bahamian sprinter
1984 Matt Ballin, Australian rugby league player
1984 Bronx Goodwin, Australian rugby league player
1985 Filinga Filiga, New Zealand rugby league player
1985 Anthony Stewart (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
1986 Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
1987 Dexter Bean, American race car driver
1987 Kristin Cavallari, American television personality
1987 Stuart Flanagan, Australian rugby league player
1987 Jason Mitchell, American actor
1987 Alexander Salák, Czech ice hockey player
1988 Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian track cyclist
1988 Luke Daniels, English footballer
1988 Mandip Gill, English actress
1988 Miroslav Raduljica, Serbian basketball player
1989 Eduardo Escobar, Venezuelan-American baseball player
1989 Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
1990 C. J. Cron, American baseball player
1990 José Iglesias (baseball), Cuban-American baseball player
1990 Mark Nicholls (rugby league), Australian rugby league player
1991 Denis Alibec, Romanian footballer
1991 Eric Fisher (American football), American football player
1992 Mike Faist, American actor, singer, and dancer
1992 Suki Waterhouse, English actress, singer-songwriter, and model
1993 Phillip Dorsett, American football player
1993 Franz Drameh, English actor
1993 Stefan Rzadzinski, Canadian race car driver
1994 Lachlan Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby league player
1994 Zemgus Girgensons, Latvian ice hockey player
1994 Matt Grzelcyk, American ice hockey player
1994 Tyrone Phillips, Australian rugby league player
1995 Toafofoa Sipley, New Zealand rugby league player
1996 James Fisher-Harris, New Zealand rugby league player
1996 Tyler Ulis, American basketball player and coach
1998 Corey Horsburgh, Australian rugby league player
2004 Shane Wright (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
2009 Walker Scobell, American actor
842 Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 796)
941 Zhang Yanhan, Chinese chancellor (b. 884)
1066 Edward the Confessor, English king (b. 1004)
1173 Bolesław IV the Curly, High Duke of Poland (b. 1120)
1382 Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster (b. 1355)
1400 John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. 1350)
1430 Philippa of England, Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (b. 1394)
1477 Charles, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433)
1524 Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (b. 1450)
1527 Felix Manz, Swiss martyr (b. 1498)
1578 Giulio Clovio, Dalmatian painter (b. 1498)
1580 Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman (b. 1542)
1589 Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
1713 Jean Chardin, French explorer and author (b. 1643)
1740 Antonio Lotti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1667)
1762 Empress Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
1771 John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1710)
1796 Samuel Huntington (statesman), American jurist and politician, 18th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1731)
1823 George Johnston (British Marines officer), Scottish-Australian colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764)
1845 Robert Smirke (painter), English painter and illustrator (b. 1753)
1846 Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter and illustrator (b. 1812)
1858 Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
1860 John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811)
1883 Charles Tompson, Australian poet and public servant (b. 1806)
1885 Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian author and scholar (b. 1812)
1888 Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803)
1889 Konstanty Schmidt-Ciążyński, Polish collector and art connoisseur who donated a large collection to the National Museum in Kraków (b. 1818)
1899 Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
1904 Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839)
1910 Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and academic (b. 1834)
1917 Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter (b. 1865)
1922 Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer (b. 1874)
1933 Calvin Coolidge, American lawyer and politician, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
1942 Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and activist (b. 1896)
1943 George Washington Carver, American botanist, educator, and inventor (b. 1864)
1951 Soh Jaipil, South Korean-American journalist and activist (b. 1864)
1951 Andrei Platonov, Russian journalist and author (b. 1899)
1952 Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Scottish colonel and politician, 46th List of governors-general of India (b. 1887)
1952 Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian-Italian physician and activist (b. 1869)
1954 Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (b. 1891)
1956 Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
1963 Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1896)
1970 Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1882)
1970 Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer and scholar (b. 1896)
1971 Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899)
1974 Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1907)
1976 John A. Costello, Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd Taoiseach (b. 1891)
1978 Wyatt Emory Cooper, American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)
1979 Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
1979 Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, bandleader (b. 1922)
1981 Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1893)
1981 Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1901)
1982 Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
1982 Edmund Herring, Australian general and politician, 7th Chief Justice of Victoria (b. 1892)
1985 Robert Surtees (cinematographer), American cinematographer (b. 1906)
1987 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (b. 1926)
1987 Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (b. 1875)
1990 Arthur Kennedy (actor), American actor (b. 1914)
1991 Vasko Popa, Serbian poet and academic (b. 1922)
1994 Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1912)
1997 André Franquin, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1924)
1997 Burton Lane, American composer and songwriter (b. 1912)
1998 Sonny Bono, American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
2000 Kumar Ponnambalam, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2003 Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1920)
2004 Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin (b. 1911)
2006 Merlyn Rees, Welsh educator and politician, Home Secretary (b. 1920)
2007 Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (b. 1910)
2009 Griffin Bell, American lawyer and politician, 72nd United States Attorney General (b. 1918)
2010 Willie Mitchell (musician), American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer (b. 1928)
2010 Kenneth Noland, American painter (b. 1924)
2012 Isaac Díaz Pardo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
2012 Frederica Sagor Maas, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
2013 Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1938)
2014 Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1942)
2014 Carmen Zapata, American actress (b. 1927)
2015 Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1937)
2015 Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop (b. 1912)
2016 Pierre Boulez, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1925)
2017 Jill Saward, English rape victim and activist (b. 1965)
2018 Asghar Khan, Pakistani three star general and politician (b. 1921)
2018 Thomas Bopp, American astronomer best known as the co-discoverer of comet Hale–Bopp (b. 1949)
2018 Karin von Aroldingen, German ballerina (b. 1941)
2019 Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist (b. 1928)
2019 Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
2020 Tafazzul Haque Habiganji, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician (b. 1938)
2021 Colin Bell (footballer, born 1946), English footballer (b. 1946)
2021 John Georgiadis, English violinist and composer (b. 1939)
2022 Kim Mi-soo, South Korean actress and model (b. 1992)
2024 – Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and executive editor of The New York Times (b. 1937)
Christian Calendar of saints:
- Charles of Mount Argus
- John Neumann (Catholic Church)
- Pope Telesphorus
- Simeon Stylites (Latin Church)
- January 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival (Harbin, China)
Joma Shinji (Japan)
National Bird Day (United States)
The Twelfth Twelve Days of Christmas and the Twelfth Night (holiday) of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
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