Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Richard Dean Anderson |
Actor |
23-Jan-1950 |
|
MacGyver |
Joe Baca |
Politician |
23-Jan-1947 |
|
Congressman, California 43rd |
Georg Baselitz |
Painter |
23-Jan-1938 |
|
Painter of upside-down motifs |
Frances Bay |
Actor |
23-Jan-1919 |
15-Sep-2011 |
Happy Gilmore |
Boris Berezovsky |
Business |
23-Jan-1946 |
|
Russian oligarch, now in Israel |
Ewen Bremner |
Actor |
23-Jan-1972 |
|
Julien Donkey-Boy |
John Browning |
Inventor |
23-Jan-1855 |
26-Nov-1926 |
Best gun designer of all time |
Gary Burton |
Jazz Musician |
23-Jan-1943 |
|
Jazz vibraphonist |
Frank Carlson |
Politician |
23-Jan-1893 |
30-May-1987 |
Governor and Senator from Kansas |
Princess Caroline |
Royalty |
23-Jan-1957 |
|
Daughter of Prince Rainier |
Thomas Carper |
Politician |
23-Jan-1947 |
|
US Senator from Delaware |
John Cassell |
Publisher |
23-Jan-1817 |
2-Apr-1865 |
Cassell's Magazine |
Alan Cheuse |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1940 |
|
The Bohemians |
Sonny Chiba |
Actor |
23-Jan-1939 |
|
Martial arts movie icon |
Michael T. Cowhig |
Business |
23-Jan-1947 |
|
Senior Gillette executive |
Herbert Croly |
Author |
23-Jan-1869 |
17-May-1930 |
The Promise of American Life |
Otto Diels |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1876 |
7-Mar-1954 |
Diels-Alder Reaction |
Dan Duryea |
Actor |
23-Jan-1907 |
7-Jun-1968 |
The Little Foxes |
Sergei Eisenstein |
Film Director |
23-Jan-1898 |
11-Feb-1948 |
Alexander Nevsky |
Gertrude B. Elion |
Scientist |
23-Jan-1918 |
21-Feb-1999 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS |
Paul Peter Ewald |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1888 |
22-Aug-1985 |
X-Ray crystallographer |
Gil Gerard |
Actor |
23-Jan-1943 |
|
Buck Rogers |
Arlene Golonka |
Actor |
23-Jan-1939 |
|
Millie Swanson in Mayberry RFD |
Antonio Gramsci |
Activist |
23-Jan-1891 |
27-Apr-1937 |
Founder of the Italian Communist Party |
Pat Haden |
Football |
23-Jan-1953 |
|
LA Rams Quarterback, Investor |
Florence Halop |
Actor |
23-Jan-1923 |
15-Jul-1986 |
Florence Kleiner on Night Court |
John Hancock |
Politician |
23-Jan-1737 |
8-Oct-1793 |
First signer of the Declaration of Independence |
Mariska Hargitay |
Actor |
23-Jan-1964 |
|
Law & Order: SVU |
Mike Harris |
Politician |
23-Jan-1945 |
|
Premier of Ontario, 1995-2002 |
Rutger Hauer |
Actor |
23-Jan-1944 |
|
Blade Runner |
David Hilbert |
Mathematician |
23-Jan-1862 |
14-Feb-1943 |
Hilbert Space |
Bharrat Jagdeo |
Head of State |
23-Jan-1964 |
|
President of Guyana |
Paul B. Johnson, Jr. |
Politician |
23-Jan-1916 |
14-Oct-1985 |
Governor of Mississippi, 1964-68 |
Edward Ka-Spel |
Singer |
23-Jan-1954 |
|
Legendary Pink Dots singer |
David Patrick Kelly |
Actor |
23-Jan-1951 |
|
The Warriors |
Petr Korda |
Tennis |
23-Jan-1968 |
|
Winner, 1998 Australian Open |
Ernie Kovacs |
Comic |
23-Jan-1919 |
13-Jan-1962 |
Nairobi Trio |
Jerry Kramer |
Football |
23-Jan-1936 |
|
Green Bay Packers, 1958-68 |
Paul Langevin |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1872 |
19-Dec-1946 |
Studied piezoelectricity |
Frank Lautenberg |
Politician |
23-Jan-1924 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey |
Arthur Lewis |
Economist |
23-Jan-1915 |
15-Jun-1991 |
Economics of developing nations |
Edouard Manet |
Painter |
23-Jan-1832 |
30-Apr-1883 |
French Realist/Impressionist painter |
Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1923 |
9-Jan-1996 |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
Jeanne Moreau |
Actor |
23-Jan-1928 |
|
Jules et Jim |
Fred Morrison |
Business |
23-Jan-1920 |
9-Feb-2010 |
Invented the frisbee |
Gail O'Grady |
Actor |
23-Jan-1963 |
|
American Dreams |
Tito Ortiz |
Sports Figure |
23-Jan-1975 |
|
UFC / mixed martial arts fighter |
Franklin Pangborn |
Actor |
23-Jan-1888 |
20-Jul-1958 |
Character actor, 1920s to 1950s |
Susan M. Phillips |
Educator |
23-Jan-1944 |
|
Dean, GWU School of Business |
Anita Pointer |
Musician |
23-Jan-1948 |
|
The Pointer Sisters |
John C. Polanyi |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1929 |
|
Infrared chemiluminescence |
Nicole Polizzi |
TV Personality |
23-Jan-1987 |
|
Snooki on Jersey Shore |
Ernest Poole |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1880 |
10-Jan-1950 |
His Family |
Robert C. Randall |
Victim |
23-Jan-1948 |
2-Jun-2001 |
First recipient of federal marijuana |
Rasputin |
Religion |
23-Jan-1871 |
30-Dec-1916 |
Russia's Greatest Love Machine |
Bruce Ratner |
Business |
23-Jan-1945 |
|
New York City developer |
Django Reinhardt |
Jazz Musician |
23-Jan-1910 |
16-May-1953 |
Gypsy jazz guitarist |
Nicholas A. Rey |
Business |
23-Jan-1938 |
14-Jan-2009 |
US Ambassador to Poland, 1993-97 |
Chita Rivera |
Dancer |
23-Jan-1933 |
|
Anita in West Side Story on Broadway |
Marty Russo |
Politician |
23-Jan-1944 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1975-93 |
Bobby Schilling |
Politician |
23-Jan-1964 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 17th |
Randolph Scott |
Actor |
23-Jan-1898 |
2-Mar-1987 |
Ride the High Country |
Anya Seton |
Author |
23-Jan-1906 |
8-Nov-1990 |
Dragonwyck |
John H. Shenefield |
Attorney |
23-Jan-1930 |
|
Morgan Lewis |
Bud Shuster |
Politician |
23-Jan-1932 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1972-2001 |
Bob Steele |
Actor |
23-Jan-1907 |
21-Dec-1988 |
Trooper Duffy on F Troop |
Stendhal |
Author |
23-Jan-1793 |
23-Mar-1842 |
Le Rouge et le Noir |
Potter Stewart |
Judge |
23-Jan-1915 |
7-Dec-1985 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1958-81 |
Megawati Sukarnoputri |
Head of State |
23-Jan-1947 |
|
President of Indonesia, 2001-04 |
Chesley Sullenberger |
Aviator |
23-Jan-1951 |
|
Landed Flight 1549 on the Hudson River |
Jean-Lambert Tallien |
Politician |
23-Jan-1767 |
16-Nov-1820 |
French Revolutionary |
Charles Taylor |
Politician |
23-Jan-1941 |
|
Congressman from North Carolina, 1991-2007 |
Tiffani Amber Thiessen |
Actor |
23-Jan-1974 |
|
Kelly Kapowski, Saved by the Bell |
Thomas Todd |
Judge |
23-Jan-1765 |
7-Feb-1826 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1807-26 |
Antonio Villaraigosa |
Government |
23-Jan-1953 |
|
Mayor of Los Angeles |
Derek Walcott |
Poet |
23-Jan-1930 |
|
In a Green Night |
Natalie West |
Actor |
23-Jan-1956 |
|
Crystal Anderson-Conner on Roseanne |
Johnny Winter |
Guitarist |
23-Jan-1944 |
|
Blues guitarist |
Hideki Yukawa |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1907 |
8-Sep-1981 |
Predicted existence of mesons |
Robin Zander |
Musician |
23-Jan-1953 |
|
Cheap Trick vocalist |
Louis Zukofsky |
Poet |
23-Jan-1904 |
12-May-1978 |
Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement |