On this day: January 18th
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474 Seven-year-old Leo II (emperor) succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I (emperor) as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
532 Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
1126 Emperor Huizong of Song abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong of Song.
1486 King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV of England, uniting the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
1562 Pope Pius IV reopens the Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1586 The magnitude 7.9 1586 Tenshō earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami.
1670 Henry Morgan Henry Morgan's Panama expedition Panama.
1701 Frederick I of Prussia crowns himself King in Prussia in Königsberg.
1778 James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands".
1788 The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Kingdom of Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay.
1806 Jan Willem Janssens surrenders the Dutch Cape Colony to the British.
1866 Wesley College, Melbourne is established in Melbourne, Australia.
1871 Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed ''Kaiser Wilhelm'' in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the Constitution of the German Confederation 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
1886 Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
1896 An X-ray X-ray generator is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
1911 Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1913 First Balkan War: A Hellenic Navy flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Battle of Lemnos (1913), securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1915 Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China (1912–49) in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1919 World War I: The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 opens in Palace of Versailles, France.
1919 Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.
1932 Alt Llobregat insurrection breaks out in Central Catalonia, Second Spanish Republic.
1941 World War II: British troops East African Campaign (World War II) # Allied counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
1945 World War II: Liberation of Kraków, Poland by the Red Army.
1958 Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
1960 Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, killing all 50 aboard, the third fatal Capital Airlines (United States) crash in as many years.
1967 Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1969 United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay killing all 32 passengers and six crew members.
1972 Members of the Mukti Bahini lay down their arms to the government of the newly independent Bangladesh, a month after winning the war against the occupying Pakistan Army.
1974 s:Israel-Egypt Disengagement Treaty of 1974 is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1976 Christianity in Lebanon militias Karantina massacre.
1977 Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announce they have identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1977 Australia's worst Granville rail disaster occurs at Granville, New South Wales, killing 83.
1977 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1978 The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
1981 Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jumping from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
1983 The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
1986 An Aerovías Sud Aviation Caravelle 1986 Aerovías Guatemala air crash on approach to Mundo Maya International Airport in Flores, Petén, Guatemala, killing all 94 people on board.
1988 China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146 crashes near Chongqing Baishiyi Airport, killing all 98 passengers and 10 crew members.
1990 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry is Marion Barry # 1979–1991: Mayor of the District of Columbia in an Federal Bureau of Investigation Sting operation.
1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
2002 The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
2003 A 2003 Canberra bushfires kills four people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
2007 The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
2008 The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2012 More than 115,000 websites engage in an Protests against SOPA and PIPA against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act in the United States. The websites involved viewed the laws as infringing on the right to Freedom of speech and many of them temporarily shut down in protest.
2018 A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping.
2019 Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion near Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, kills 137 people.
2023 2023 Brovary helicopter crash in Ukraine leaves 14 people dead, including the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine), Denys Monastyrsky.
1404 Philip Courtenay (died 1463), English noble (d. 1463)
1457 Antonio Trivulzio, seniore, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1508)
1519 Isabella Jagiellon, Queen of Hungary (d. 1559)
1540 Catherine, Duchess of Braganza (d. 1614)
1641 François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French politician, Secretary of State for War (France) (d. 1691)
1659 Damaris Cudworth Masham, English philosopher and theologian (d. 1708)
1672 Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (d. 1731)
1688 Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765)
1689 Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (d. 1755)
1701 Johann Jakob Moser, German jurist (d. 1785)
1734 Caspar Friedrich Wolff, German physiologist and embryologist (d. 1794)
1743 Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French mystic and philosopher (d. 1803)
1751 Ferdinand Kauer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1831)
1752 John Nash (architect), English architect (d. 1835)
1764 Samuel Whitbread (1764–1815), English politician (d. 1815)
1779 Peter Mark Roget, English physician, lexicographer, and theologian (d. 1869)
1782 Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (d. 1852)
1793 Pratap Singh, Raja of Satara, Chhatrapati of the Maratha Confederacy (d. 1847)
1815 Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian and scholar (d. 1874)
1835 César Cui, Russian general, composer, and critic (d. 1918)
1840 Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and author (d. 1921)
1841 Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (d. 1894)
1842 A. A. Ames, American physician and politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (d. 1911)
1843 Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African farmer, soldier, and gun-maker (d. 1900)
1848 Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (d. 1925)
1849 Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)
1850 Seth Low, American academic and politician, 92nd Mayor of New York City (d. 1916)
1854 Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)
1856 Daniel Hale Williams, American surgeon and cardiologist (d. 1931)
1867 Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (d. 1916)
1868 Kantarō Suzuki, Japanese admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
1877 Sam Zemurray, Russian-American businessman, founded the Cuyamel Fruit Company (d. 1961)
1879 Henri Giraud, French general and politician (d. 1949)
1880 Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1933)
1880 Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (d. 1954)
1881 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded ''Éditions Gallimard'' (d. 1975)
1882 A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1956)
1886 Clara Nordström, Swedish-German author and translator (d. 1962)
1888 Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player, sailor, and pilot (d. 1989)
1892 Oliver Hardy, American actor and comedian (d. 1957)
1892 Bill Meanix, American hurdler and coach (d. 1957)
1892 Paul Rostock, German surgeon and academic (d. 1956)
1893 Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet, critic, and academic (d. 1984)
1894 Toots Mondt, American wrestler and promoter (d. 1976)
1896 C. M. Eddy Jr., American author (d. 1967)
1896 Ville Ritola, Finnish-American runner (d. 1982)
1898 Albert Kivikas, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1978)
1901 Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1973)
1903 Berthold Goldschmidt, German pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1904 Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordion player and composer (d. 2006)
1904 Cary Grant, English-American actor (d. 1986)
1905 Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mob boss (d. 2002)
1907 János Ferencsik, Hungarian conductor (d. 1984)
1908 Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, historian, and television host (d. 1974)
1910 Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist and academic (d. 1993)
1911 José María Arguedas, Peruvian anthropologist, author, and poet (d. 1969)
1911 Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)
1913 Carroll Cloar, American artist (d. 1993)
1913 Giannis Papaioannou, Greek composer (d. 1972)
1914 Arno Schmidt, German author and translator (d. 1979)
1914 Vitomil Zupan, Slovene author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987)
1915 Syl Apps, Canadian pole vaulter, ice hockey player, and politician (d. 1998)
1915 Santiago Carrillo, Spanish soldier and politician (d. 2012)
1915 Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1984)
1917 Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)
1917 Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese-American businessman (d. 2008)
1918 Gustave Gingras, Canadian-English physician and educator (d. 1996)
1919 Toni Turek, German footballer (d. 1984)
1921 Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (d. 2015)
1923 John Graham (British Army officer, born 1923), General Officer Commanding (GOC) Wales (d. 2012)
1923 Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist (d. 2015)
1925 Gilles Deleuze, French metaphysician and philosopher (d. 1995)
1925 John Evans (Idaho governor), American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (d. 2014)
1925 Sol Yurick, American soldier and author (d. 2013)
1926 Randolph Bromery, American geologist and academic (d. 2013)
1927 S. Balachander, Indian actor, singer, and veena player (d. 1990)
1928 Alexander Gomelsky, Soviet and Russian professional basketball coach (d. 2005)
1930 Esther Coopersmith, American diplomat, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador (d. 2024).
1931 Chun Doo-hwan, South Korean general and politician, 5th President of South Korea (d. 2021)
1932 Robert Anton Wilson, American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2007)
1933 Emeka Anyaoku, Nigerian politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nigeria)
1933 David Bellamy, English botanist, author and academic (d. 2019)
1933 John Boorman, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1933 Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (d. 2013)
1933 William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart, English lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
1933 Frank McMullen, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2004)
1933 Jean Vuarnet, French ski racer (d. 2017)
1934 Raymond Briggs, English author and illustrator (d. 2022)
1935 Eddie Jones (artist), British illustrator (d. 1999)
1935 Albert Millaire, Canadian actor and director (d. 2018)
1935 Jon Stallworthy, English poet, critic, and academic (d. 2014)
1935 Gad Yaacobi, Israeli academic and diplomat, 10th Israel Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2007)
1936 Tim Barlow, English actor (d. 2023)
1936 David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1937 John Hume, Northern Irish educator and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 2020)
1938 Curt Flood, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1997)
1938 Anthony Giddens, English sociologist and academic
1938 Werner Olk, German footballer and manager
1938 Hargus "Pig" Robbins, American musician (d. 2022)
1940 Pedro Rodríguez (racing driver), Mexican race car driver (d. 1971)
1941 Denise Bombardier, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2023)
1941 Bobby Goldsboro, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1941 David Ruffin, American singer (d. 1991)
1943 Paul Freeman (actor), English actor
1943 Kay Granger, American educator and politician
1943 Dave Greenslade, English keyboard player and composer
1943 Charlie Wilson (Ohio politician), American businessman and politician (d. 2013)
1944 Paul Keating, Australian economist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Australia
1944 Carl Morton, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1944 Kei Ogura, Japanese singer-songwriter and composer
1944 Alexander Van der Bellen, President of Austria
1945 Rocco Forte, English businessman and philanthropist
1946 Perro Aguayo, Mexican wrestler (d. 2019)
1946 Joseph Deiss, Swiss economist and politician, 156th President of the Swiss Confederation
1946 Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, List of heads of state of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2013)
1947 Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese baseball player and journalist (d. 2018)
1947 Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
1949 Bill Keller, American journalist
1949 Philippe Starck, French interior designer
1950 Gianfranco Brancatelli, Italian race car driver
1950 Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (d. 1982)
1951 Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and activist (d. 1982)
1951 Bob Latchford, English footballer
1952 Michael Behe, American biochemist, author, and academic
1952 R. Stevie Moore, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953 Brett Hudson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1953 B. K. Misra, Indian neurosurgeon
1953 Peter Moon (comedian), Australian comedian and actor
1954 Ted DiBiase, American wrestler
1955 Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer
1956 Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton, English banker and politician
1960 Mark Rylance, English actor, director, and playwright
1961 Peter Beardsley, English footballer and manager
1961 Bob Hansen, American basketball player and sportscaster
1961 Mark Messier, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
1961 Jeff Yagher, American actor and sculptor
1962 Alison Arngrim, Canadian-American actress
1963 Maxime Bernier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)
1963 Ian Crook, English footballer and manager
1963 Carl McCoy, English singer-songwriter
1963 Martin O'Malley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 61st Governor of Maryland
1964 Brady Anderson, American baseball player
1964 Richard Dunwoody, Northern Irish jockey and sportscaster
1964 Virgil Hill, American boxer
1964 Jane Horrocks, English actress and singer
1966 Alexander Khalifman, Russian chess player and author
1966 Kazufumi Miyazawa, Japanese singer
1966 André Ribeiro (racing driver), Brazilian race car driver (d. 2021)
1967 Dean Bailey, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2014)
1967 Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
1969 Dave Bautista, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor
1969 Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
1969 Jim O'Rourke (musician), American guitarist and producer
1970 DJ Quik, American rapper and producer
1970 Peter Van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
1971 Amy Barger, American astronomer
1971 Jonathan Davis, American singer-songwriter
1971 Christian Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
1971 Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer and manager
1971 Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (d. 2019)
1972 Vinod Kambli, Indian cricketer, sportscaster, and actor
1972 Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
1972 Kjersti Plätzer, Norwegian race walker
1973 Burnie Burns, American actor, director, and producer, co-founded Rooster Teeth Productions
1973 Luke Goodwin, Australian rugby league player and coach
1973 Benjamin Jealous, American civic leader and activist
1973 Joe Kehoskie, American baseball executive
1973 Anthony Koutoufides, Australian footballer
1973 Crispian Mills, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director
1973 Rolando Schiavi, Argentinian footballer and coach
1974 Christian Burns, English singer-songwriter
1976 Laurence Courtois, Belgian tennis player
1976 Marcelo Gallardo, Argentinian footballer and coach
1976 Damien Leith, Irish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 Derek Richardson (actor), American actor
1977 Richard Archer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 Brian Falkenborg, American baseball player
1978 Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist
1978 Bogdan Lobonț, Romanian footballer
1979 Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player
1979 Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
1979 Brian Gionta, American ice hockey player
1979 Kenyatta Jones, American football player (d. 2018)
1979 Wandy Rodriguez, Dominican baseball player
1980 Estelle (musician), English singer-songwriter and producer
1980 Robert Green, English footballer
1980 Kert Haavistu, Estonian footballer and manager
1980 Julius Peppers, American football player
1980 Jason Segel, American actor and screenwriter
1981 Gang Dong-won, South Korean actor
1981 Olivier Rochus, Belgian tennis player
1981 Khari Stephenson, Jamaican footballer
1982 Quinn Allman, American guitarist and producer
1982 Mary Jepkosgei Keitany, Kenyan runner
1983 Amir Blumenfeld, Israeli-American comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter
1983 Samantha Mumba, Irish singer-songwriter and actress
1983 Joel Stallworth, American sprinter
1984 Seung-Hui Cho, South Korean mass murderer (d. 2007)
1984 Kristy Lee Cook, American singer-songwriter
1984 Ioannis Drymonakos, Greek swimmer
1984 Makoto Hasebe, Japanese footballer
1984 Michael Kearney, American biochemist and academic
1984 Benji Schwimmer, American dancer and choreographer
1984 Viktoria Shklover, Estonian figure skater
1985 Dale Begg-Smith, Canadian-Australian skier
1985 Mark Briscoe, American wrestler
1985 Riccardo Montolivo, Italian footballer
1985 Hyun Woo, South Korean actor
1986 Marya Roxx, Estonian-American singer-songwriter
1986 Becca Tobin, American actress, singer, and dancer
1986 Ikusaburo Yamazaki, Japanese actor and singer
1986 Eugene Lee Yang, Korean-American actor, filmmaker, and activist
1987 Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
1987 Christopher Liebig, German rugby player
1987 Grigoris Makos, Greek footballer
1988 Ronnie Day, American singer-songwriter
1988 Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
1988 Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer
1988 Ashleigh Murray, American actress and singer
1988 Boy van Poppel, Dutch cyclist
1989 Rubén Miño, Spanish footballer
1989 Michael Pineda, Dominican baseball player
1990 Gorgui Dieng, Senegalese basketball player
1990 Hayle Ibrahimov, Ethiopian-Azerbaijani runner
1990 Brett Lawrie, Canadian baseball player
1990 Nacho (footballer, born 1990), Spanish footballer
1990 Gift Ngoepe, South African baseball player
1990 Alex Pietrangelo, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 Zeeko Zaki, Egyptian-American actor
1991 Douglas Wreden, a.k.a. DougDoug, American streamer
1992 Francesco Bardi, Italian footballer
1993 Sean Keenan (actor), Australian actor
1993 Juan Fernando Quintero, Colombian footballer
1994 Max Fried, American baseball player
1994 Kang Ji-young, South Korean singer
1994 Ilona Kremen, Belarusian tennis player
1995 Bryce Alford, American basketball player
1995 Leonard Fournette, American football player
1995 Samu Castillejo, Spanish footballer
1997 Denis Malgin, Swiss ice hockey player
1998 Aitana Bonmatí, Spanish footballer
1998 Lisandro Martínez, Argentinian footballer
1998 Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer
1999 Karan Brar, American actor
1999 Tee Higgins, American football player
1999 Djorkaeff Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
1999 Gary Trent Jr., American basketball player
1999 Mateus Ward, American actor
2002 Anastasia Zakharova, Russian tennis player
2002 Ki-Jana Hoever, Dutch footballer
2002 Karim Adeyemi, German footballer
2010 Sophia Reid-Gantzert, Canadian actress and dancer
52 BC Publius Clodius Pulcher, Roman politician (b. 93 BC)
474 Leo I (emperor), Byzantine emperor (b. 401)
748 Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, duke of Bavaria
896 Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, ruler of the Tulunids, murdered (b. 864)
1213 Tamar of Georgia (b. 1160)
1253 King Henry I of Cyprus (b. 1217)
1271 Margaret of Hungary (saint) (b. 1242)
1326 Robert FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter, English baron (b. 1247)
1357 Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile, infanta (b. 1313)
1367 Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
1411 Jobst of Moravia, ruler of Moravia, King of the Romans
1425 Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
1451 Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen (1442–1451) (b. 1414)
1471 Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
1479 Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1417)
1547 Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal and scholar (b. 1470)
1586 Margaret of Parma (b. 1522)
1589 Magnus Heinason, Faroese naval hero (b. 1545)
1677 Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch politician, founded Cape Town (b. 1619)
1756 Francis George of Schönborn-Buchheim, Archbishop-Elector of Trier (b. 1682)
1783 Jeanne Quinault, French actress and playwright (b. 1699)
1803 Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet and academic (b. 1743)
1849 Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician (b. 1752)
1862 John Tyler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
1873 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1803)
1878 Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1788)
1886 Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
1892 Anton Anderledy, Swiss religious leader, 23rd Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
1896 Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
1923 Wallace Reid, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1891)
1934 Joseph Devlin, Northern Irish political leader of the Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) (b. 1871)
1936 Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower (b. 1871)
1936 Rudyard Kipling, English author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1865)
1940 Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1865)
1951 Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (b. 1867)
1952 Curly Howard, American actor (b. 1903)
1954 Sydney Greenstreet, English-American actor (b. 1879)
1955 Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
1956 Makbule Atadan, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1885)
1956 Konstantin Päts, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Estonia (b. 1874)
1963 Hugh Gaitskell, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1906)
1966 Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author (b. 1880)
1967 Goose Tatum, American basketball player and soldier (b. 1921)
1969 Hans Freyer, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1887)
1970 David O. McKay, American religious leader, 9th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
1971 Virgil Finlay, American illustrator (b. 1914)
1973 Irina Nikolaevna Levchenko, Russian tank commander (b. 1924)
1975 Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
1978 Hasan Askari (writer), Pakistani philosopher and author (b. 1919)
1980 Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer and photographer (b. 1904)
1984 Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Belarusian general and politician (b. 1902)
1984 Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915)
1989 Bruce Chatwin, English-French author (b. 1940)
1990 Melanie Appleby, English singer (b. 1966)
1990 Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
1993 Dionysios Zakythinos, Greek historian, academic, and politician (b. 1905)
1995 Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1903)
1995 Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)
1996 N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)
1997 Paul Tsongas, American lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
1998 Dan Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1922)
2000 Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
2001 Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
2003 Ed Farhat, American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
2003 Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet and author (b. 1907)
2004 Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova, Russian-born Soviet test pilot and aerobatics champion (b. 1935)
2005 Lamont Bentley, American actor and rapper (b. 1973)
2006 Jan Twardowski, Polish priest and poet (b. 1915)
2007 Brent Liles, American bass player (b. 1963)
2008 Georgia Frontiere, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
2008 Frank Lewin, American composer and theorist (b. 1925)
2008 Lois Nettleton, American actress (b. 1927)
2008 John Stroger, American politician (b. 1929)
2009 Tony Hart, English painter and television host (b. 1925)
2009 Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (b. 1931)
2009 Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1913)
2009 Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet and author (b. 1935)
2010 Kate McGarrigle, Canadian musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2010 Robert B. Parker, American author and academic (b. 1932)
2011 Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat, 21st United States Ambassador to France (b. 1915)
2012 Anthony Gonsalves, Indian composer and educator (b. 1927)
2012 Georg Lassen, German captain (b. 1915)
2012 Yuri Rasovsky, American playwright and producer, founded The National Radio Theater of Chicago (b. 1944)
2013 Sean Fallon (footballer), Irish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
2013 Jim Horning, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1942)
2013 Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (b. 1989)
2013 Lewis Marnell, Australian skateboarder (b. 1982)
2013 Ron Nachman, Israeli lawyer and politician (b. 1942)
2014 Kathryn Abbe, American photographer and author (b. 1919)
2014 Michael Botmang, Nigerian politician, 17th List of Governors of Plateau State (b. 1938)
2014 Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2014 Andy Graver, English footballer (b. 1927)
2014 Sarah Marshall (British actress), English actress (b. 1933)
2014 Eugenio Cruz Vargas, Chilean poet and painter (b. 1923)
2015 Alberto Nisman, Argentinian lawyer and prosecutor (b. 1963)
2015 Christine Valmy, Romanian cosmetologist and author (b. 1926)
2015 Piet van der Sanden, Dutch journalist and politician (b. 1924)
2015 Tony Verna, American director and producer, invented instant replay (b. 1933)
2016 Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
2016 Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1948)
2016 T. S. Sinnathuray, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (b. 1930)
2016 Michel Tournier, French journalist and author (b. 1924)
2017 Peter Abrahams, South African-Jamaican writer (b. 1919)
2017 Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer, businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1939)
2017 Roberta Peters, American coloratura soprano (b. 1930)
2019 John Coughlin (figure skater), American figure skater (b. 1985)
2022 Francisco Gento, Spanish football player (b. 1933)
2022 Yvette Mimieux, American actress (b. 1942)
2022 André Leon Talley, American fashion journalist (b. 1948)
2023 David Crosby, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
Christian feast day:
- Amy Carmichael (Church of England)
- Athanasius of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Confession of Peter (Eastern Orthodox Church, some Anglican Church and Lutheran Churches)
- Cyril of Alexandria
- Deicolus
- Saint Margaret of Hungary
- Saint Prisca
- Volusianus of Tours
- January 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Royal Thai Armed Forces Day (Thailand)
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