memorabilia
16th century
1514: Pope Leo X issues a statement against slavery.
1539: Spain declares the occupation of Cuba.
18th century
1724: Felipe V, the first king of the Bourbon dynasty of Spain, controversially cedes the throne to his eldest son, Louis I.
1761: Ahmedsha Durrani, king of the Durrani dynasty, defeats the French troops at the Third Battle of Panipat.
1784: The American Revolutionary War officially ends.
19th century
1814: Denmark, as the loser of the Napoleonic Wars, signs the Treaty of Kiel with Sweden, ceding Norway to Sweden.
1900: The opera Tosca, composed by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, premieres in Rome.
20th century
1907: A major earthquake strikes Kingston, Jamaica.
1916: The Zuide Dam in the Netherlands collapses, causing flooding.
1938: The Xinjiang warlord Sheng Shicai purged the aliens, killing more than 300 people.
1939: Norway claims sovereignty over Queen Maud.
1942: World War II: U.S. forces resist Japanese attacks on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.
1943: World War II: Casablanca Conference held in Morocco.
1949: Kuomintang-Communist Civil War: Mao Zedong issued a "Statement on the Situation" in response to Chiang Kai-shek's "New Year's Day Proclamation", proposing eight conditions for ending the civil war.
1950: The prototype of the MiG-17 fighter developed by the Mikoyan Design Bureau of the USSR makes its first flight.
1953: Tito begins as President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
1972: King Frederick IX of Denmark dies and margaret II takes the throne.
1978: Hong Kong Jockey Club horse workers.
1978: Austrian logician Kurt Gödel starves to death in a Princeton hospital for fear of being poisoned.
1983: A mega football lottery scandal breaks out in Hungary[source request].
1987: The Hong Kong government announces the demolition of the Kowloon Walled City and its conversion into a park.
1994: The Chinese government officially registered the issuance of $1 billion in global bonds with the United States.
1994: The United States, Russia, and Ukraine sign an agreement to completely eliminate nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
1995: The 8th National Winter Games of the People's Republic of China were held in Jilin City, Jilin Province.
2000: Humans successfully clone monkeys.
21st century
2004: The Parliament of Georgia passes a bill to resume the use of the "Five Cross Flags" as the flag of Georgia.
2005: The European Space Agency's Huygens probe lands on Titan, setting a new record for the longest distance the probe has landed on other planets.
2011: President Ben Ali, who ruled Tunisia for 23 years, steps down because of the Jasmine Revolution and flees Saudi Arabia with his family.
2016: The Islamic State terrorist group launches a series of bombings in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, killing six people.
2020: Microsoft ends extended support for Windows 7.
born
83 BC: Mark Antony, Roman statesman and military aggressor (died 30 BC)
- 1702 - Emperor Nakamimon, 114th Emperor of Japan (died 1737)
1741: Benedict Arnold, general during the American Revolutionary War (d. 1801)
1747: Maria Theresia, Queen of Saxony and Grand Duke of Austria (died 1827)
1770: Adam Jezy czartorński, Prince of Poland, politician (1861)
1798: Johann Rudolf Tolbeck, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1872)
1800: Ludwig Ritter von Köscher, Austrian musicologist, writer, composer, botanist, publisher (d. 1877)
1841: Bert Morisso, Impressionist painter in Paris, France (d. 1895)
1850 Pierre Lotti, French novelist and naval officer (died 1923)
1861: Mehmed VI, Thirty-sixth (last) Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1926)
1875: Albert Schweitzer, German theologian, philosopher, 1952 Nobel Peace Prize laureate (died 1965)
1882 : Hendrick William Fanglong, Dutch-American writer, historian, illustrator (died 1944)
1892: Martin Niemola, German theologian and Lutheran priest (died 1984)
1896: John Dos Passos, American novelist and artist (died 1970)
1897: Hassel von Mandoverel, German military and politician (died 1978)
1901: Alfred Tusky, Polish-American Jewish logician and mathematician (died 1983)
1905: Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1995)
1911: Huang Youdi, Taiwanese musician (died 2010)
1919 Giulio Andreotti, Italian politician, writer and journalist (died 2013)
1919: Andy Rooney, American veteran media worker, humorist, commentator on current affairs (died 2011)
1925 – Yukio Mishima, Japanese novelist, playwright, journalist, filmmaker, film actor, right-wing thinker (died 1970)
1926: Wu Zhaonan, Master of Crosstalk (died in 2018)
1933: Stan Brahag, American director of non-narrative experimental films (died 2003)
1937 Yoichi Yamaguchi, former Japanese diplomat
1938: Hosokawa Yoshihito, 79th Prime Minister of Japan
1941: Fei Donneville, American film actress, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1976
1941: Milan Kuchan, first President of Slovenia
1943: Shannon Lucid, American astros
1943 Maris Janssons, Latvian conductor
1944: Makoto Tanaka, Japanese politician
1946 Harold Shipman, British family doctor, serial killer (died 2004)
1952: Klin Popescu-Triciano, 60th Prime Minister of Romania
1954 Cecilia Morel, First Lady of Chile
1957: Min Anqi, Chinese-American writer
- 1959 – Kotaro Yoshida, Japanese actor
1962: Hornd, Consul General of the United Kingdom in Hong Kong and Macau
1963 Steven Soderbergh, American director and screenwriter
1965: Shamir Basayev, Chechen Army General, Chechen Independence Movement Leader (died 2006)
1968: Wu Bai, Taiwanese rock singer
1968: LL Cool J, American rapper
1969: Jensen Bateman, American actor
1969: Dave Grohl, American rock musician, singer and composer
1971: Antonios Nicopolidis, Greek footballer
1973: Giancarlo Fiscella, Italian Formula 1 driver
1974: Kevin Duran, Canadian actor
1977: Narain Katy Kayan, Indian Formula 1 driver
1977: Chan Chin Peng, Hong Kong actor
1978: Sean Crawford, American sprinter
1979: Fu Youxuan, Hong Kong singer
1979: Angela Lindwo, American supermodel
1979: Karen Aichen, British supermodel and singer
1980: Yuko Kaida, Voice of Japanese Women
1980 : Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor and singer
1981: Park Yin-jae, South Korean actor
1982 : Vinto Waldis, Spanish football goalkeeper
1983 : Tadako Uehara , Japanese singer and actress
1983 Cesar Povo, Italian footballer
1984 : Eric Aba, Mlbvar player
1986: John Cabaye, French footballer
1987: Jun Hashimoto, Japanese actor
1989: Almond Tree, Japanese AV actress
1989: Adam Carriton, English footballer
1990: Glen Goldstein, American television actor
1992: Robbie Brady, Irish footballer
1992: Nimu Smith, Dutch supermodel
1994: Kim Chung-in, member of the Korean boy idol group EXO
1997: Tolmaziv twin sisters, Russian twin singer group
1998: Ai Moriko, Japanese actress
die
1224: Jin Xuanzong completes Yan Xun, the eighth emperor of the Jin Dynasty (born 1163)
1301 : Andrew III, King of Hungary (born c. 1265)
1331: Ordolic, Italian traveler (born circa 1286)
- 1701- Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Daimyō of the Edo period (b. 1628)
1742: Edmund Halley, English astronomer (born 1656)
1753: George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (born 1685)
1867: Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, French neoclassical painter (b. 1780)
1898: Louis Carrow, English writer (born 1832)
1901: Charles Hermit, French mathematician (b. 1822)
1905: Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
1953: Torii Ryuzo, Japanese anthropologist (b. 1870)
1957: Humphrey Bogart, American actor (1899)
1970: William Feller, American mathematician (born 1907)
1972: Frederick IX, King of Denmark (born 1899)
1976: Tun Abdul Razak, second Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1922)
1977: Anthony Aiden, British politician, former Prime Minister (born 1897)
1977: Peter Finch, American actor (born 1916)
1978: Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician and logician (b. 1906)
Mel Robbins, American hairdresser and inventor of the card game UNO (born 1912)
1988: Georgi Maximilianovich Malenkov, Soviet politician, former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (born 1902)
1997: Hu Jinquan, Chinese film director (b. 1932)
2011: Liu Huaqing, member of the Standing Committee of the 14th Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, father of China's aircraft carriers (born in 1916)
2015: Zhang Wannian, Member of the 15th Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, General of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (born 1928)
2016: Alan Rickman, British tv series and film actor, professor Severus Stoneeb (born 1946) who plays the mysterious and gloomy Harry Potter series
2016: Masahito Yoshioka, producer of the Japanese television anime Detective Conan (b. 1961)