626 Husayn ibn Ali, the third Shia Imam (d. 680)

1480 Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (d. 1530)

1538 Louis of Nassau (d. 1574)

1607 Isaac Jogues, French priest and missionary (d. 1646)

1644 Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (d. 1711)

1654 Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (d. 1712)

1702 Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762)

1715 Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)

1750 Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)

1760 Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, German composer and conductor (d. 1802)

1769 Michel Ney, French general (d. 1815)

1776 George Birkbeck, English physician and academic, founded Birkbeck, University of London (d. 1841)

1780 Martin Lichtenstein, German physician and explorer (d. 1857)

1802 Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (d. 1860)

1810 Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer (d. 1892)

1810 Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1883)

1810 William Haines (Australian politician), English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Victoria (d. 1866)

1823 Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, Azerbaijani national industrial magnate and philanthropist (d. 1924)

1827 Amanda Cajander, Finnish medical reformer (d. 1871)

1828 Herman Koeckemann, German bishop and missionary (d. 1892)

1829 Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Greek lawyer, journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1879)

1834 John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Italian-English historian and politician (d. 1902)

1840 Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (d. 1925)

1842 Luigi Pigorini, Italian paleontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer (d. 1925)

1843 Frank James, American soldier and criminal (d. 1915)

1848 Reinhold Sadler, American merchant and politician, 9th List of Governors of Nevada (d. 1906)

1849 Robert Crosbie, Canadian theosophist, founded the United Lodge of Theosophists (d. 1919)

1850 John Wellborn Root, American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building (d. 1891)

1853 Jessie Bond, mezzo-soprano roles in Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.(d. 1942)

1854 Ramón Corral, Mexican general and politician, 6th Vice President of Mexico (d. 1912)

1858 Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)

1859 Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher and academic (d. 1909)

1860 Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet and author (d. 1943)

1864 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)

1873 Algernon Maudslay, English sailor (d. 1948)

1873 Jack O'Neill (baseball), Irish-American baseball player (d. 1935)

1873 George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler (d. 1958)

1875 Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic (d. 1941)

1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1948)

1878 John McLean (athlete), American hurdler, football player, and coach (d. 1955)

1880 Manuel Azaña, Spanish jurist and politician, 7th President of the Republic (Spain) (d. 1940)

1883 Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1966)

1883 Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1945)

1887 Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (d. 1962)

1890 Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (d. 1984)

1891 Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician and academic (d. 1970)

1891 Ann Shoemaker, American actress (d. 1978)

1892 Dumas Malone, American historian and author (d. 1986)

1892 Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1974)

1893 Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1932)

1894 Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet and author (d. 1972)

1895 Percy Cerutty, Australian athletics coach (d. 1975)

1896 Yong Mun Sen, Malaysian watercolour painter (d. 1962)

1896 Dinkar G. Kelkar, Indian art collector (d. 1990)

1898 Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979)

1900 Violette Cordery, English racing driver (d. 1983)

1903 Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)

1903 Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)

1904 Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)

1907 Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor (d. 2003)

1908 Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director (d. 1992)

1908 Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981)

1910 Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976)

1911 Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (d. 2013)

1911 Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist (d. 2004)

1912 Della H. Raney, American United States Army Air Corps officer (d. 1987)

1913 Gustáv Husák, Slovak politician, 9th President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)

1913 Mehmet Shehu, Albanian soldier and politician, 22nd List of Prime Ministers of Albania (d. 1981)

1914 Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 23rd Premier of the Republic of China (d. 2000)

1915 Dean Dixon, American-Swiss conductor (d. 1976)

1915 Cynthia Freeman, American author (d. 1988)

1916 Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 2004)

1916 Eldzier Cortor, American painter (d. 2015)

1916 Don Metz (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)

1917 Jerry Wexler, American journalist and producer (d. 2008)

1918 Les Bennett, English footballer and manager (d. 1999)

1918 Arthur Chung, Guyanese lawyer and politician, 1st President of Guyana (d. 2008)

1919 Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Makuuchi # Yokozuna (d. 1977)

1919 Milton Parker, American businessman, co-founded the Carnegie Deli (d. 2009)

1920 Rosella Hightower, American ballerina (d. 2008)

1920 Roberto M. Levingston, Argentinian general and politician, 36th President of Argentina (d. 2015)

1921 Rodger Ward, American aviator, race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2004)

1922 Billy Liddell, Scottish-English footballer (d. 2001)

1924 Earl Bakken, American inventor (d. 2018)

1924 Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballerina, choreographer, and director (d. 1996)

1925 Billie Sol Estes, American financier and businessman (d. 2013)

1926 Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician (d. 2017)

1927 Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian-American singer and actress (d. 2003)

1927 Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1990)

1927 Otto Stich, Swiss lawyer and politician, 140th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2012)

1928 Philip Levine (poet), American poet and academic (d. 2015)

1928 Peter Mathias, English historian and academic (d. 2016)

1930 Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009)

1931 Peter Barnes (playwright), English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2004)

1931 Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, Grenadian-English academic and politician

1931 Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian cleric and politician, 12th List of Menteris Besar of Kelantan (d. 2015)

1932 Lou Henson, American college basketball coach (d. 2020)

1934 Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine (d. 2022)

1935 Ronnie Hawkins, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2022).

1935 Sherrill Milnes, American opera singer and educator

1936 Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author (d. 2002)

1936 Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

1938 Elza Ibrahimova, Azerbaijani composer (d. 2012)

1938 Donald Knuth, American computer scientist and mathematician

1938 Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician

1938 Willie McCovey, American baseball player (d. 2018)

1939 David Horowitz, American writer and activist

1939 Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)

1939 Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)

1939 Bill Toomey, American athlete

1940 Godfrey Hewitt, English geneticist and academic (d. 2013)

1940 K. J. Yesudas, Indian singer and music director

1941 Tom Clarke (politician), Scottish politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland

1942 Graeme Gahan, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2018)

1943 Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter (d. 1973)

1944 Jeffrey Catherine Jones, American comics and fantasy artist (d. 2011)

1944 William Sanderson, American actor

1944 Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer and actor (d. 2016)

1945 John Fahey (politician), New Zealand-Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Premier of New South Wales (d. 2020)

1945 Rod Stewart, British singer-songwriter

1945 Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist, invented plastination

1947 George Alec Effinger, American author (d. 2002)

1947 James Morris (bass-baritone), American opera singer

1947 Peer Steinbrück, German politician, List of German finance ministers

1947 Tiit Vähi, Estonian engineer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Estonia

1948 Remu Aaltonen, Finnish musician

1948 Donald Fagen, American singer-songwriter and musician

1948 Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist and sportscaster

1949 Kemal Derviş, Turkish economist and politician, Ministry of Economy (Turkey) (d. 2023)

1949 George Foreman, American boxer, actor, and businessman

1949 Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress and activist (d. 2002)

1953 Pat Benatar, American singer-songwriter

1953 Bobby Rahal, American race car driver

1954 Baba Vaziroglu, Azerbaijani writer, poet and translator

1955 Michael Schenker, German musician and songwriter

1956 Shawn Colvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1956 Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish author

1959 Chandra Cheeseborough, American sprinter and coach

1959 Chris Van Hollen, American lawyer and politician

1959 Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter and producer

1960 Gurinder Chadha, Kenyan-English director, producer, and screenwriter

1960 Brian Cowen, Irish lawyer and politician, 12th Taoiseach

1960 Benoît Pelletier, Canadian lawyer and politician

1960 Richard Bartle, British game designer and academic

1961 Evan Handler, American actor

1961 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian-American violinist, author, and educator

1962 Michael Fortier, Canadian lawyer and politician

1962 Kathryn S. McKinley, American computer scientist and academic

1963 Malcolm Dunford, New Zealand-Australian footballer

1963 Kira Ivanova, Russian figure skater (d. 2001)

1964 Brad Roberts, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1969 Simone Bagel-Trah, German businessperson

1970 Alisa Marić, Serbian chess player and politician, Ministry of Youth and Sports (Serbia)

1972 Mohammed Benzakour, Moroccan-Dutch journalist, poet, and author

1973 Glenn Robinson, American basketball player

1973 Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer

1974 Jemaine Clement, New Zealand comedian, actor, and musician

1974 Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer and manager

1974 Steve Marlet, French footballer and coach

1974 Bob Peeters, Belgian footballer and manager

1974 Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor

1975 Jake Delhomme, American football player

1976 Khairy Jamaluddin, Malaysian politician, Ministry of Health (Malaysia)

1976 Adam Kennedy, American baseball player

1977 A. J. Bramlett, American basketball player

1977 Clark Haggans, American football player (d. 2023)

1978 Brent Smith, American singer and songwriter

1978 Tamina Snuka, American wrestler

1979 Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer

1979 Silvia Kumpan-Takacs, Austrian politician

1979 Henrik Tallinder, Swedish ice hockey player

1980 Sarah Shahi, American actress

1980 Rastislav Staňa, Slovak ice hockey player

1981 Jared Kushner, American real estate investor and political figure

1981 Belinda Snell, Australian basketball player

1982 Julien Brellier, French footballer

1982 Tomasz Brzyski, Polish footballer

1984 Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan footballer

1984 Ariane Friedrich, German high jumper

1984 Kalki Koechlin, Indian actress

1985 Robert Nilsson, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player

1986 Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player

1986 Marcus Freeman, American football coach

1987 César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer

1988 Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan runner

1989 Ali Gabr, Egyptian footballer

1990 John Carlson (ice hockey), American ice hockey player

1990 Martin Jones (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player

1990 Ishiura Shikanosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler

1990 Cody Walker (rugby league), Australian rugby league player

1991 Chad Townsend, Australian rugby league player

1993 Tobias Rieder, German ice hockey player

1996 Budda Baker, American football player

1996 Matthew Dufty, Australian rugby league player

1996 Dylan Edwards, Australian rugby league player

1996 Ahmed Sayed, Egyptian footballer

1997 Patrick Herbert, New Zealand rugby league player

1997 Blake Lawrie, Australian rugby league player

1999 Mason Mount, English footballer

1999 Youssouf Fofana (French footballer), French footballer

2000 Erik Botheim, Norwegian footballer

2000 Reneé Rapp, American singer-songwriter and actress

2001 Santi Aldama, Spanish basketball player

259 Polyeuctus, Roman saint

314 Pope Miltiades, pope of the Catholic Church

681 Pope Agatho, pope of the Catholic Church

976 John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor (b. 925)

987 Pietro I Orseolo, doge of Venice (b. 928)

1055 Bretislav I, duke of Bohemia

1094 Al-Mustansir Billah, Egyptian caliph (b. 1029)

1218 Hugh I of Cyprus, king of Cyprus

1276 Pope Gregory X, pope of the Catholic Church (b. c.1210)

1322 Petrus Aureolus, scholastic philosopher

1358 Abu Inan Faris, Marinid ruler of Morocco (b. 1329)

1552 Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (b. 1479)

1645 William Laud, English archbishop and academic (b. 1573)

1654 Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)

1698 Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French priest and historian (b. 1637)

1754 Edward Cave, English publisher, founded ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' (b. 1691)

1761 Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician (b. 1711)

1778 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician (b. 1707)

1794 Georg Forster, German-Polish ethnologist and journalist (b. 1754)

1811 Joseph Chénier, French poet, playwright, and politician (b. 1764)

1824 Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, duke of Savoy and king of Sardinia (b. 1759)

1828 François de Neufchâteau, French poet, academic, and politician, Minister of the Interior (France) (b. 1750)

1829 Gregorio Funes, Argentinian clergyman, historian, and educator (b. 1749)

1843 Dimitrie Macedonski, Greek-Romanian captain and politician (b. 1780)

1851 Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)

1855 Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (b. 1787)

1862 Samuel Colt, American engineer and businessman, founded Colt's Manufacturing Company (b. 1814)

1863 Lyman Beecher, American minister and activist, co-founded the American Temperance Society (b. 1775)

1895 Benjamin Godard, French violinist and composer (b. 1849)

1901 James Dickson (Queensland politician), English-Australian businessman and politician, 1st Minister for Defence (Australia) (b. 1832)

1904 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)

1905 Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)

1917 Buffalo Bill, American soldier and hunter (b. 1846)

1917 Feliks Leparsky, Russian fencer and captain (b. 1875)

1920 Sali Nivica, Albanian journalist and politician (b. 1890)

1922 Frank Tudor, Australian politician, 6th Minister for Trade and Investment (Australia) (b. 1866)

1926 Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1878)

1935 Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (b. 1873)

1935 Charlie McGahey, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1871)

1941 Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer (b. 1879)

1941 John Lavery, Irish painter and academic (b. 1856)

1941 Issai Schur, Belarusian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1875)

1946 Matti Turkia, Finnish politician (b. 1871)

1949 Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)

1951 Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1885)

1951 Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)

1954 Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)

1956 Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (b. 1862)

1957 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and academic, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1889)

1959 Şükrü Kaya, Turkish jurist and politician, List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Turkey) (b. 1883)

1960 Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1879)

1961 Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (b. 1894)

1967 Charles E. Burchfield, American painter (b. 1893)

1968 Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Turkish general and politician, 6th Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey (b. 1882)

1969 Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)

1970 Pavel Belyayev, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1925)

1971 Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded Chanel (b. 1883)

1971 Ignazio Giunti, Italian racing driver (b. 1941)

1972 Aksel Larsen, Danish lawyer and politician (b. 1897)

1976 Howlin' Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)

1978 Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist and author (b. 1924)

1978 Don Gillis (composer), American composer and conductor (b. 1912)

1978 Gluck (painter), British painter (b. 1895)

1981 Fawn M. Brodie, American historian and author (b. 1915)

1984 Souvanna Phouma, Laotian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)

1986 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech journalist and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1901)

1987 Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)

1987 David Robinson (philanthropist), English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1904)

1989 Herbert Morrison (announcer), American journalist and producer (b. 1905)

1990 Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Makuuchi # Yokozuna (b. 1925)

1992 Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian racing driver (b. 1919)

1995 Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1937)

1997 Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan-English journalist and author (b. 1907)

1997 Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)

1997 Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1907)

1999 Edward Williams (Queensland judge), Australian lieutenant, pilot, and judge (b. 1921)

2000 Sam Jaffe (producer), American screenwriter and producer (b. 1901)

2004 Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)

2005 Wasyly (Fedak), Ukrainian-Canadian bishop (b. 1909)

2005 Jack Horner (journalist), American journalist (b. 1912)

2005 Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (b. 1927)

2007 Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)

2007 Bradford Washburn, American explorer, photographer, and cartographer (b. 1910)

2008 Christopher Bowman, American figure skater and actor (b. 1967)

2008 Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)

2010 Patcha Ramachandra Rao, Indian metallurgist, educator and administrator (b. 1942)

2011 Margaret Whiting, American singer (b. 1924)

2012 Jean Pigott, Canadian businesswoman and politician (b. 1924)

2012 Gevork Vartanian, Russian intelligence agent (b. 1924)

2013 George Gruntz, Swiss pianist and composer (b. 1932)

2013 Claude Nobs, Swiss businessman, founded the Montreux Jazz Festival (b. 1936)

2014 Sam Berns, American activist (b. 1996)

2014 Petr Hlaváček, Czech shoemaker and academic (b. 1950)

2014 Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and politician, 9th List of Prime Ministers of Poland (b. 1929)

2014 Larry Speakes, American journalist, 16th White House Press Secretary (b. 1939)

2014 Dajikaka Gadgil, Indian jeweller (b. 1915)

2015 Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (b. 1994)

2015 Taylor Negron, American actor, playwright, and painter (b. 1957)

2015 Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)

2015 Robert Stone (novelist), American novelist and short story writer (b. 1937)

2016 David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1947)

2016 Bård Breivik, Norwegian sculptor and art instructor (b. 1948)

2016 George Jonas, Hungarian-Canadian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1935)

2017 Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (b. 1926)

2017 Clare Hollingworth, English journalist (b. 1911)

2020 Qaboos bin Said, ruler of Oman (b. 1940)

2022 Joyce Eliason, American television personality (b. 1934)

2022 Robert Durst, American real estate heir and convicted murderer (b. 1943)

2023 Jeff Beck, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1944)

2023 Constantine II of Greece, King of Greece (1964-1973) (b. 1940)

Christian feast day:

- Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs (Armenian Apostolic Church)

- Gregory of Nyssa

- Leonie Aviat

- Obadiah (prophet) (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

- Pietro I Orseolo

- Pope Agatho (Roman Catholic)

- William Laud (Anglican Communion)

- William of Donjeon

- January 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Fête du Vodoun (Benin)

Margaret Thatcher Day (Falkland Islands)

Public holidays in the Bahamas (Bahamas)

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/10 BBC: On This Day]

[https://www.onthisday.com/events/january/10 Historical Events on January 10]