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January 23rd


- Bounty Day, celebrate the burning of the Bounty in (Pitcairn Island)
- Christian Feast Day

January 23rd


- 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.
- 1943 - Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
- 1789 - Georgetown College, the first Roman Catholic college in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
- 1719 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
- 2009 - Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium.
- 2003 - Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10
- 2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.
- 2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and is subsequently murdered .
- 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
- 1997 - Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
- 1985 - O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.
- 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.
- 1968 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
- 1967 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
- 1964 - The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
- 1963 - Guinea-Bissau War of Independence offially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
- 1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1958 - Overthrow in Venezuela of Marcos Pérez Jiménez
- 1950 - The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
- 1945 - World War II: Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.
- 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. This turning point in the Pacific War marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
- 1943 - World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
- 1941 - Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
- 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.
- 1920 - The Netherlands refuses to surrender ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
- 1912 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
- 1907 - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
- 1904 - Ĺlesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ĺlesund 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.
- 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 resulted in a British defeat.
- 1899 - Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
- 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.
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
- 1870 - In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
- 1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
- 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
- 1793 - Second Partition of Poland: Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
- 1656 - Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
- 1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
- 1571 - The Royal Exchange opens in London.
- 1570 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war.
- 1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
- 1546 - Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
- 1533 - Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
- 1510 - Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.
- 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.
- 971 - In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.
- 393 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.

January 23rd


- 1964 - Mariska Hargitay, American actress
- 1990 - Martyn Waghorn, English footballer
- 1989 - April Pearson, British actress
- 1987 - Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer
- 1986 - Anne Foy, British children's television presenter
- 1986 - Benjamin Griesert, German footballer
- 1986 - Steven Taylor, English footballer
- 1986 - José Enrique Sánchez, Spanish footballer
- 1985 - Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
- 1985 - Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
- 1984 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
- 1982 - Wily Mo Peńa, Dominican baseball player
- 1982 - Patrick Levis, American actor
- 1981 - Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
- 1981 - Julia Jones, Native American actress
- 1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player
- 1979 - Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1977 - Kamal Heer, Punjabi singer and musician
- 1976 - Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player
- 1976 - Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
- 1976 - Tony Lucca, actor, singer and musician
- 1976 - Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
- 1975 - Phil Dawson, American football player
- 1975 - Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter
- 1974 - Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
- 1974 - Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 - Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
- 1974 - Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
- 1974 - Richard T. Slone, British artist
- 1974 - Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
- 1973 - Lanei Chapman, American actress
- 1972 - Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor
- 1972 - Lisa Snowdon, British model and TV presenter
- 1972 - Mark Curry, American rapper
- 1972 - Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
- 1971 - Kevin Mawae, American football player
- 1971 - Lorne Spicer, British TV presenter
- 1971 - Scott Gibbs, Welsh rugby player
- 1971 - Adam Parore, New Zealand wicketkeeper (cricket)
- 1971 - Marc Nelson, American R&B singer and lyricist
- 1970 - Spiridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper
- 1970 - Tracey Cherelle Jones, American actress
- 1970 - Brendan O'Connor, Irish journalist, satirist
- 1969 - Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
- 1969 - Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
- 1969 - Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968 - Petr Korda, Czech tennis player
- 1967 - Naim Süleymano?lu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
- 1966 - Haywoode Workman, American basketball player
- 1965 - Louie Clemente, American drummer (Testament)
- 1964 - Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1964 - Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana
- 1963 - Gail O'Grady, American actress
- 1962 - Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist
- 1962 - Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress
- 1961 - Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore's most-wanted terror fugitive
- 1960 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
- 1960 - Jean-François Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1959 - Clive Bull, English radio talk show host
- 1957 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
- 1957 - Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist
- 1954 - Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter
- 1954 - Edward Ka-Spel, English musician (Legendary Pink Dots)
- 1953 - John Luther Adams, American composer
- 1953 - Antonio Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
- 1953 - Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick)
- 1953 - Alister E. McGrath, British theologian and scientist
- 1952 - Omar Henry, South African cricketer
- 1951 - Chesley Sullenberger, Captain of US Airways Flight 1549, a flight that successfully ditched into the Hudson River
- 1950 - Richard Dean Anderson, American actor
- 1950 - Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) (d. 2008)
- 1950 - John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health)
- 1948 - Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
- 1947 - Thomas R. Carper, American politician, senior senator of Delaware
- 1947 - Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
- 1946 - Arnoldo Alemán, ex-president of Nicaragua
- 1946 - Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon
- 1945 - Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
- 1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
- 1943 - Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
- 1943 - Gil Gerard, American actor
- 1942 - Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
- 1940 - Joe Dowell, American singer
- 1940 - Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
- 1939 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
- 1939 - Arlene Golonka, American actress
- 1938 - Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
- 1938 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
- 1936 - Jerry Kramer, American football player
- 1935 - Bob Moses, American civil rights activist
- 1934 - Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer
- 1930 - Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel laureate
- 1930 - Teresa ?ylis-Gara, Polish singer
- 1929 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kiev Patriarch
- 1929 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1928 - Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1928 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress
- 1927 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
- 1927 - Jack Quinlan, Chicago Cubs Broadcaster (d. 1965)
- 1924 - Bal Thackeray, founder and president of Indian political party Shiv Sena
- 1924 - Frank Lautenberg, American politician
- 1923 - Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (d. 1996)
- 1923 - Cot Deal, major league baseball player and coach
- 1920 - Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (d. 2010)
- 1919 - Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (d. 1962)
- 1919 - Bob Paisley, English Football player and manager. (d. 1996)
- 1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
- 1918 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
- 1916 - Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1979)
- 1916 - David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist
- 1915 - Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985)
- 1915 - Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
- 1913 - Wally Parks, American racing executive, founder of the NHRA (d. 2007)
- 1912 - Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (d. 2009)
- 1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
- 1907 - Dan Duryea, American actor (d. 1968)
- 1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
- 1903 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
- 1900 - William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
- 1899 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
- 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
- 1898 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
- 1898 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1897 - Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945)
- 1897 - Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989)
- 1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
- 1896 - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (d. 1985)
- 1896 - Alf Hall, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
- 1884 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
- 1881 - Luisa Casati, Artist's patroness, muse and fashion icon (d. 1957)
- 1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
- 1872 - Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans – leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1903)
- 1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
- 1872 - Joze Ple?nik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
- 1862 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
- 1857 - Andrija Mohorovi?i?, Croatian seismologist (d. 1936)
- 1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
- 1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (d. 1905)
- 1832 - Édouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
- 1828 - Saig? Takamori, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
- 1813 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)
- 1809 - Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter (d. 1884)
- 1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
- 1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
- 1745 - William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
- 1737 - John Hancock, American patriot (d. 1793)
- 1719 - John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
- 1688 - Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
- 1350 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)