Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Hugh J. Addonizio |
Politician |
31-Jan-1914 |
2-Feb-1981 |
Mayor of Newark, 1962-70 |
John Agar |
Actor |
31-Jan-1921 |
7-Apr-2002 |
Sands of Iwo Jima |
William Apess |
Author |
31-Jan-1798 |
Apr-1839 |
A Son of the Forest |
Tallulah Bankhead |
Actor |
31-Jan-1902 |
12-Dec-1968 |
Lifeboat |
Ernie Banks |
Baseball |
31-Jan-1931 |
|
National League MVP 1958 and 1959 |
Jonathan Banks |
Actor |
31-Jan-1947 |
|
Frank McPike on Wiseguy |
Queen Beatrix I |
Royalty |
31-Jan-1938 |
|
Queen of the Netherlands |
James G. Blaine |
Politician |
31-Jan-1830 |
27-Jan-1893 |
Twice US Secretary of State |
Marvin D. Brailsford |
Business |
31-Jan-1939 |
|
Retired US Army Lt. General |
Larry Buchanan |
Film Director |
31-Jan-1923 |
2-Dec-2004 |
Mars Needs Women |
Eddie Byrne |
Actor |
31-Jan-1911 |
21-Aug-1981 |
The Mummy |
Eddie Cantor |
Singer |
31-Jan-1892 |
10-Oct-1964 |
Banjo Eyes |
Robert Cantwell |
Novelist |
31-Jan-1908 |
8-Dec-1978 |
Laugh and Lie Down |
Olive Carey |
Actor |
31-Jan-1896 |
13-Mar-1988 |
Billy the Kid versus Dracula |
William Caton |
Business |
31-Jan-1951 |
|
CFO of Navistar International |
Carol Channing |
Singer |
31-Jan-1921 |
|
All-Singing All-Dancing |
Charles V |
Royalty |
31-Jan-1338 |
16-Sep-1380 |
King of France, 1364-80 |
Dov Charney |
Business |
31-Jan-1969 |
|
American Apparel CEO |
Holmes Conrad |
Attorney |
31-Jan-1840 |
4-Sep-1915 |
US Solicitor General, 1895-97 |
Persi Diaconis |
Mathematician |
31-Jan-1945 |
|
Science of random numbers |
Minnie Driver |
Actor |
31-Jan-1970 |
|
Good Will Hunting |
Joanne Dru |
Actor |
31-Jan-1922 |
10-Sep-1996 |
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon |
John Dye |
Actor |
31-Jan-1963 |
10-Jan-2011 |
Andrew on Touched by an Angel |
Thomas J. Engibous |
Business |
31-Jan-1953 |
|
CEO of Texas Instruments, 1996-2004 |
John D. Finnegan |
Business |
31-Jan-1949 |
|
CEO of Chubb |
Dexter Fletcher |
Actor |
31-Jan-1966 |
|
Hotel Babylon |
Robert Ford |
Criminal |
31-Jan-1862 |
8-Jun-1892 |
Shot and killed Jesse James |
James Franciscus |
Actor |
31-Jan-1934 |
8-Jul-1991 |
Mr. Novak |
Dick Gephardt |
Politician |
31-Jan-1941 |
|
Congressman from Missouri, 1977-2005 |
Philip Glass |
Composer |
31-Jan-1937 |
|
Einstein on the Beach |
Albert Goldbarth |
Poet |
31-Jan-1948 |
|
The most prolific modern poet |
Zane Grey |
Novelist |
31-Jan-1872 |
23-Oct-1939 |
Riders of the Purple Sage |
Bobby Hackett |
Jazz Musician |
31-Jan-1915 |
7-Jun-1976 |
Played with Glenn Miller, Jackie Gleason |
Lloyd N. Hand |
Attorney |
31-Jan-1929 |
|
Chief of Protocol for Johnson |
Jeff Hanneman |
Guitarist |
31-Jan-1964 |
|
Slayer lead guitarist |
Percy Helton |
Actor |
31-Jan-1894 |
11-Sep-1971 |
Character actor |
Theodor Heuss |
Head of State |
31-Jan-1884 |
12-Dec-1963 |
President of Germany, 1949-59 |
H. Allen Holmes |
Diplomat |
31-Jan-1933 |
|
US Ambassador to Portugal, 1982-85 |
Benjamin Hooks |
Activist |
31-Jan-1925 |
15-Apr-2010 |
NAACP Director, 1977-92 |
Bill Huizenga |
Politician |
31-Jan-1969 |
|
Congressman, Michigan 2nd |
Ian Huntley |
Criminal |
31-Jan-1974 |
|
Jailed for double murder |
Don Hutson |
Football |
31-Jan-1913 |
24-Jun-1997 |
Packers WR, Hall of Famer |
Derek Jarman |
Film Director |
31-Jan-1942 |
19-Feb-1994 |
The Last of England |
Matt King |
Actor |
31-Jan-1968 |
|
Super Hans on Peep Show |
Larry Kissell |
Politician |
31-Jan-1951 |
|
Congressman, North Carolina 8th |
Irving Langmuir |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
Mario Lanza |
Singer |
31-Jan-1921 |
7-Oct-1959 |
Voice of the Century |
Anthony LaPaglia |
Actor |
31-Jan-1959 |
|
Murder One |
Fritz Leiber |
Actor |
31-Jan-1882 |
14-Oct-1949 |
Shakespearean actor |
Alan Lomax |
Musicologist |
31-Jan-1915 |
19-Jul-2002 |
Preserved thousands of folksongs |
Kelly Lynch |
Actor |
31-Jan-1959 |
|
Drugstore Cowboy |
Norman Mailer |
Author |
31-Jan-1923 |
10-Nov-2007 |
Armies of the Night |
Norris Church Mailer |
Novelist |
31-Jan-1949 |
21-Nov-2010 |
Norman Mailer's painter/novelist wife |
Stuart Margolin |
Actor |
31-Jan-1940 |
|
Angel Martin on The Rockford Files |
Robert McClory |
Politician |
31-Jan-1908 |
24-Jul-1988 |
Congressman from Illinois, 1963-83 |
Paul McNulty |
Government |
31-Jan-1958 |
|
US Deputy Attorney General, 2005-07 |
Thomas Merton |
Author |
31-Jan-1915 |
10-Dec-1968 |
The Seven Storey Mountain |
George S. Mickelson |
Politician |
31-Jan-1941 |
19-Apr-1993 |
Governor of South Dakota, 1987-93 |
Garry Moore |
TV Personality |
31-Jan-1915 |
28-Nov-1993 |
The Garry Moore Show |
Gouverneur Morris |
Politician |
31-Jan-1752 |
6-Nov-1816 |
American financier, Revolutionary politician |
Robert Morris |
Politician |
31-Jan-1734 |
7-May-1806 |
Financed the Revolutionary War |
Rudolf Mössbauer |
Physicist |
31-Jan-1929 |
14-Sep-2011 |
Discovered Mössbauer effect |
Alva Myrdal |
Politician |
31-Jan-1902 |
1-Feb-1986 |
Swedish diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient |
John O'Hara |
Author |
31-Jan-1905 |
11-Apr-1970 |
Appointment in Samarra |
Kenzaburo Oé |
Author |
31-Jan-1935 |
|
A Personal Matter |
Suzanne Pleshette |
Actor |
31-Jan-1937 |
19-Jan-2008 |
The Birds |
Coy Privette |
Activist |
31-Jan-1933 |
|
President, Christian Action League of North Carolina |
Buddy Rice |
Auto Racing |
31-Jan-1976 |
|
Winner of 2004's Indy 500 |
Theodore W. Richards |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1868 |
2-Apr-1928 |
Atomic weights |
Jackie Robinson |
Baseball |
31-Jan-1919 |
24-Oct-1972 |
First negro in the major leagues |
Portia de Rossi |
Actor |
31-Jan-1973 |
|
Nelle Porter on Ally |
Johnny Rotten |
Musician |
31-Jan-1956 |
|
Sex Pistols and Public Image, Ltd. |
Dutch Ruppersberger |
Politician |
31-Jan-1946 |
|
Congressman, Maryland 2nd |
Nolan Ryan |
Baseball |
31-Jan-1947 |
|
Pitched seven no-hitters |
Paul Scheer |
Actor |
31-Jan-1976 |
|
Andre on The League, Human Giant |
Franz Schubert |
Composer |
31-Jan-1797 |
19-Nov-1828 |
Symphony in C Major |
Mark S. Schweiker |
Politician |
31-Jan-1953 |
|
Governor of Pennsylvania, 2001-03 |
Anna Silk |
Actor |
31-Jan-1974 |
|
Bo on Lost Girl |
Jean Simmons |
Actor |
31-Jan-1929 |
22-Jan-2010 |
Guys and Dolls |
Justin Timberlake |
Singer |
31-Jan-1981 |
|
*NSYNC |
Rodolphe Töpffer |
Cartoonist |
31-Jan-1799 |
8-Jun-1848 |
The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck |
Glynn Turman |
Actor |
31-Jan-1946 |
|
Col. Taylor on A Different World |
Stewart Udall |
Politician |
31-Jan-1920 |
20-Mar-2010 |
US Secretary of the Interior, 1961-69 |
Patricia Velasquez |
Model |
31-Jan-1971 |
|
The Mummy |
Jessica Walter |
Actor |
31-Jan-1941 |
|
Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development |
Kerry Washington |
Actor |
31-Jan-1977 |
|
Save the Last Dance |
James Watt |
Government |
31-Jan-1938 |
|
Reagan's Secretary of the Interior |
Ken Wilber |
Author |
31-Jan-1949 |
|
Founder, Integral Institute |
Preity Zinta |
Actor |
31-Jan-1975 |
|
Kal Ho Naa Ho |