January 23

January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 342 days remaining until the end of the year (343 in leap years).

Events

• 393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year old son Honorius co-emperor.
• 971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
• 1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
• 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
• 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
• 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
• 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
• 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
• 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
• 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
• 1793 – Second Partition of Poland
• 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
• 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
• 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
• 1897 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
• 1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic.
• 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
• 1900 – The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War ends in a British defeat.
• 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
• 1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
• 1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
• 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
• 1937 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
• 1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul begins, the first fighting of the New Guinea campaign.
• 1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army.
• 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua.
• 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
• 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
• 1945 – World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
• 1950 – The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
• 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
• 1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
• 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
• 1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown.
• 1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
• 1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
• 1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Côte d'Ivoire are established.
• 1968 – North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship had violated its territorial waters while spying.
• 1973 – President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
• 1973 – A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
• 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
• 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
• 1997 – Greek Serial Killer Antonis Daglis is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others
• 2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
• 2002 – "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
• 2002 – Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered .
• 2003 – Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.

Births

• 1350 – Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
• 1688 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (d. 1741)
• 1719 – John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
• 1737 – John Hancock, American politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1793)
• 1745 – William Jessop, English engineer, built the Cromford Canal (d. 1814)
• 1752 – Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1832)
• 1783 – Stendhal, French author (d. 1842)
• 1786 – Auguste de Montferrand, French-Russian architect, designed Saint Isaac's Cathedral and Alexander Column (d. 1858)
• 1809 – Veer Surendra Sai, Indian activist (d. 1884)
• 1813 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian author and activist (d. 1895)
• 1828 – Saigō Takamori, Japanese samurai (d. 1877)
• 1832 – Édouard Manet, French painter (d. 1883)
• 1833 – Muthu Coomaraswamy, Ceylon Tamil lawyer and legislator (d. 1879)
• 1840 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
• 1846 – Hermann Clemenz, Estonian chess player (d. 1908)
• 1855 – John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company (d. 1926)
• 1857 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist (d. 1936)
• 1862 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
• 1870 – Ole Sæther, Norwegian target shooter (d. 1946)
• 1872 – Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
• 1872 – Jože Plečnik, Slovenian architect, designed Plečnik Parliament (d. 1957)
• 1876 – Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
• 1881 – Luisa Casati, Italian model (d. 1957)
• 1884 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
• 1884 – George McManus, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
• 1894 – Jyotirmoyee Devi, Indian author (d. 1988)
• 1896 – Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
• 1896 – Alf Hall, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
• 1897 – Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician and activist (d. 1945)
• 1897 – Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
• 1897 – Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian writer (d. 1978)
• 1897 – William Stephenson, Canadian soldier (d. 1989)
• 1898 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (d. 1948)
• 1898 – Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Freda Utley, English scholar and author (d. 1978)
• 1899 – Glen Kidston, English race car driver and pilot (d. 1931)
• 1900 – William Ifor Jones, Welsh organist and conductor (d. 1988)
• 1901 – Arthur Wirtz, American sports owner, Chicago Bulls and Chicago Blackhawks (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician, Mayor of Bogotá (d. 1948)
• 1907 – Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1907 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• 1910 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (Quintette du Hot Club de France) (d. 1953)
• 1912 – Boris Pokrovsky, Russian director (d. 2009)
• 1913 – Jean-Michel Atlan, French painter (d. 1960)
• 1913 – Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 1915 – Potter Stewart, American judge (d. 1985)
• 1916 – David Douglas Duncan, American photographer and journalist
• 1916 – Airey Neave, English soldier and politician (d. 1979)
• 1918 – Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 1919 – Frances Bay, Canadian actress (d. 2011)
• 1919 – Hans Hass, Austrian diver (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Ernie Kovacs, American comedian and actor (d. 1962)
• 1919 – Bob Paisley, English footballer and manager (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor, invented the Frisbee (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Walter M. Miller, Jr., American author (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Frank Lautenberg, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Bal Thackeray, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (d. 1994)
• 1927 – Jack Quinlan, American sportscaster (d. 1965)
• 1928 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Jeanne Moreau, French actress, singer, screenwriter, and director
• 1929 – Myron Cope, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Patriarch Filaret, Ukrainian patriarch
• 1929 – Phillip Knightley, Australian journalist, critic and author
• 1929 – John Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1930 – Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 – George Allen, English footballer
• 1932 – Larri Thomas, American actress and dancer (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer
• 1934 – Pierre Bourgault, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2003)
• 1935 – Robert Parris Moses, American educator and activist
• 1935 – Tom Reamy, American fantasy author (d. 1977)
• 1935 – Teresa Żylis-Gara, Polish soprano
• 1936 – Riccardo Garrone, Italian businessman (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Brian Howe, Australian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
• 1936 – Jerry Kramer, American football player and sportscaster
• 1938 – Shohei Baba, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
• 1938 – Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
• 1939 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
• 1939 – Arlene Golonka, American actress
• 1940 – Joe Dowell, American singer
• 1940 – Fiona MacCarthy, English biographer and cultural historian
• 1940 – Ted Rowlands, Welsh politician
• 1940 – Johnny Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 1941 – Jock R. Anderson, Australian economist
• 1942 – Abdur Razzak, Indian-Bangladeshi actor and producer
• 1942 – Herman Tjeenk Willink, Dutch politician
• 1943 – Gary Burton, American vibraphone player
• 1943 – Gil Gerard, American actor
• 1944 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
• 1945 – Richard Dearlove, English former head of MI6
• 1945 – Mike Harris, Canadian politician, 22nd Premier of Ontario
• 1946 – Arnoldo Alemán, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua
• 1946 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-English businessman and mathematician (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Zvonko Bušić, Croatian terrorist, hijacker of TWA Flight 355 (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Don Whittington, American race car driver
• 1947 – Mary Arden, English judge
• 1947 – Tom Carper, American politician, 71st Governor of Delaware
• 1947 – Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesian politician, 5th President of Indonesia
• 1948 – David F. Ford, Irish theologian
• 1948 – Anita Pointer, American singer-songwriter (The Pointer Sisters)
• 1949 – Joan Walley, English politician
• 1950 – Richard Dean Anderson, American actor, producer, and composer
• 1950 – Bill Cunningham, American bass guitarist, keyboardist, and classical musician (The Box Tops)
• 1950 – Danny Federici, American accordion player (E Street Band) (d. 2008)
• 1950 – John Greaves, Welsh bass player and songwriter (Henry Cow, National Health, and The Lodge)
• 1951 – David Patrick Kelly, American actor
• 1951 – Michael R. Matz, American horse rider
• 1951 – Chesley Sullenberger, American pilot and captain
• 1952 – Omar Henry, South African cricketer
• 1953 – John Luther Adams, American composer
• 1953 – Raul Arnemann, Estonian rower
• 1953 – Alister McGrath, Irish priest, theologian, and apologist
• 1953 – Antonio Villaraigosa, American politician, 41st Mayor of Los Angeles
• 1953 – Robin Zander, American singer and guitarist (Cheap Trick)
• 1954 – Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer-songwriter
• 1954 – Richard Finch, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (KC and the Sunshine Band)
• 1954 – Edward Ka-Spel, English singer-songwriter (Legendary Pink Dots, The Tear Garden, and Mimir)
• 1957 – Caroline, Princess of Hanover
• 1957 – Lou Schuler, American journalist
• 1959 – Clive Bull, English radio host
• 1960 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver (d. 1998)
• 1960 – Leilani Kai, American wrestler
• 1960 – Jean-François Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 – Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Indonesian-Singaporean criminal
• 1962 – David Arnold, English film composer
• 1962 – Aivar Lillevere, Estonian football coach
• 1962 – Elvira Lindo, Spanish journalist
• 1962 – Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor
• 1963 – Gail O'Grady, American actress
• 1964 – Mariska Hargitay, American actress
• 1964 – Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyanese politician, 7th President of Guyana
• 1964 – Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Thomas Adler, German footballer
• 1965 – Louie Clemente, American drummer (Testament)
• 1966 – Haywoode Workman, American basketball player
• 1967 – Naim Süleymanoğlu, Bulgarian-Turkish weightlifter
• 1968 – Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
• 1968 – Raul Olle, Estonian skier
• 1969 – Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
• 1969 – Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
• 1969 – Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 – Brendan O'Connor, Irish journalist
• 1970 – Oleg Ovsyannikov, Russian ice dancer
• 1970 – Spyridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper
• 1971 – Scott Gibbs, Welsh rugby player
• 1971 – Kevin Mawae, American football player
• 1971 – Marc Nelson, American singer-songwriter (Boyz II Men, Az Yet, and Blayse)
• 1971 – Adam Parore, New Zealand cricketer
• 1972 – Gavin Barwell, English politician
• 1972 – Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
• 1972 – Lisa Snowdon, English model and television host
• 1972 – Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
• 1973 – Dee Caffari, English sailor
• 1973 – Lanei Chapman, American actress
• 1973 – Tomas Holmström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1974 – Sampsa Astala, Finnish singer-songwriter and drummer (Lordi and Stala & so.)
• 1974 – Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 – Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
• 1974 – Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
• 1974 – Richard T. Slone, English painter
• 1974 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
• 1975 – Phil Dawson, American football player
• 1975 – Tito Ortiz, American mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player
• 1976 – Angelica Lee, Malaysian-Taiwanese actress and singer
• 1976 – Tony Lucca, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1976 – Nigel McGuinness, English wrestler
• 1977 – Kamal Heer, Indian singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player
• 1979 – Dawn Porter, Scottish-English journalist
• 1979 – Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1981 – Sarai, American rapper and actress
• 1981 – Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
• 1981 – Julia Jones, American actress
• 1982 – Patrick Levis, American actor
• 1982 – Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
• 1984 – Robbie Farah, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
• 1985 – Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
• 1985 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch model and actress
• 1986 – Anne Foy, English television host
• 1986 – José Enrique Sánchez, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Steven Taylor, English footballer
• 1986 – Marc Laird, Scottish footballer
• 1987 – Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer
• 1988 – Alan Power, Irish footballer
• 1989 – April Pearson, English actress
• 1990 – Artjom Abramov, Estonian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Alex Silva, Canadian wrestler
• 1990 – Martyn Waghorn, English footballer
• 1994 – Wesley Jobello, French footballer
• 1996 – Chachi Gonzales, American dancer

Deaths

• 1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
• 1199 – Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, Moroccan caliph (b. 1160)
• 1516 – Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
• 1548 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian priest, scholar, and composer (b. 1490)
• 1549 – Johannes Honter, Romanian theologian (b. 1498)
• 1567 – Jiajing Emperor of China (b. 1507)
• 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Scottish son of James V of Scotland (b. 1531)
• 1612 – Edward Fenner, English judge
• 1622 – William Baffin, English explorer and navigator
• 1744 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
• 1785 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
• 1789 – Frances Brooke, English author and playwright (b. 1724)
• 1789 – John Cleland, English author (b. 1709)
• 1800 – Edward Rutledge, American politician, 39th Governor of South Carolina, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1749)
• 1803 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
• 1805 – Claude Chappe, French inventor (b. 1763)
• 1806 – William Pitt the Younger, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
• 1810 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
• 1812 – Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (b. 1764)
• 1820 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
• 1833 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral (b. 1757)
• 1837 – John Field, Irish pianist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1866 – Thomas Love Peacock, English author and poet (b. 1785)
• 1875 – Charles Kingsley English priest and author (b. 1819)
• 1883 – Gustave Doré, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1832)
• 1893 – José Zorrilla, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1817)
• 1893 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, American lawyer and politician (b. 1825)
• 1921 – Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
• 1923 – Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
• 1937 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
• 1938 – Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer (b. 1866)
• 1939 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
• 1943 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor and journalist (b. 1887)
• 1944 – Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
• 1944 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
• 1956 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director and producer (b. 1893)
• 1957 – Willie Edwards, American murder victim (b. 1932)
• 1963 – Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor (b. 1908)
• 1966 – T. M. Sabaratnam, Ceylon Tamil politician (d. 1895)
• 1971 – Fritz Feigl, Austria-Brazilian chemist (b. 1871)
• 1973 – Alexander Onassis, American-Greek son of Aristotle Onassis (b. 1948)
• 1973 – Kid Ory, American trombonist (b. 1886)
• 1976 – Paul Dupuis, Canadian actor (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and activist (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Toots Shor, American businessman, founded Toots Shor's Restaurant (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
• 1978 – Terry Kath, American guitarist (Chicago) (b. 1946)
• 1978 – Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1980 – Giovanni Michelotti, Italian sports car designer (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
• 1983 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1984 – Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
• 1986 – Joseph Beuys, German sculptor (b. 1921)
• 1988 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist (b. 1896)
• 1989 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish rally driver (b. 1961)
• 1990 – Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington Collins Band, and Allen Collins Band) (b. 1952)
• 1991 – Northrop Frye, Canadian author and critic (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Freddie Bartholomew, English actor (b. 1924)
• 1993 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1899)
• 1993 – Keith Laumer, American science fiction author (b. 1925)
• 1994 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (b. 1917)
• 1994 – Brian Redhead, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Richard Berry, American singer-songwriter (The Flairs) (b. 1935)
• 1999 – Joe D'Amato, Italian director (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• 2002 – Paul Aars, American race car driver (b. 1934)
• 2002 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
• 2003 – Nell Carter, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Helmut Newton, German-Australian photographer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, English politician (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Johnny Carson, American talk show host (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian sociologist and politician (b. 1928)
• 2007 – E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Tatiana Mamaki, Greek dancer and choreographer (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Robert W. Scott, American politician, 67th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Kermit Tyler, American air force officer (b. 1913)
• 2011 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness instructor, author, and television host (b. 1914)
• 2013 – Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Janice Knickrehm, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Lucien Paiement, Canadian doctor and politician (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Dolours Price, Irish activist (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Juan Carlos Rosero, Ecuadorian cyclist (b. 1962)
• 2013 – Tatsuo Sato, Japanese politician (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet, French bishop (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Frank Zakem, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

• Bounty Day (Pitcairn Island)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Abakuh
  • Marianne of Molokai
  • Emerentiana
  • Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Ildephonsus of Toledo
  • Phillips Brooks (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • January 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• National Pie Day (United States of America)

External links

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