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Famous January Birthdays
The following 7,519 famous people including celebrities were born in the month of January. A random sample was chosen for each day. Click the after the name to explore the birth date info. You might also want to browse the filtered celebrity birthdays in January.
Zodiac signs for January are Capricorn ♑ and Aquarius ♒. The modern birthstone for January is Garnet while the mystical gemstone (based on Tibetan origin) is Emerald.
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January 1
1745
Anthony Wayne, American general and politician (d. 1796)
1900
Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born American singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
1926
Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2008)
1971
Bobby Holík, Czech-American ice hockey player
1984
Stefano Pastrello, Italian footballer
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January 2
1713
Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
1904
Truus Klapwijk, Dutch diver and swimmer (d. 1991)
1949
Leijn Loevesijn, Dutch cyclist
1969
Christy Turlington, American model
1971
Yutaka Takenouchi, Japanese actor
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January 3
1698
Metastasio, Italian poet and opera librettist (d. 1782)
1803
Douglas William Jerrold, English journalist and playwright (d. 1857)
1953
Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Maldivian educator and politician, 5th President of the Maldives
1975
Danica McKellar, American actress, producer, screenwriter, and mathematician
1975
Jason Marsden, American actor, director, and producer
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January 4
1891
Edward Brooker, English-Australian sergeant and politician, 31st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
1902
John McCone, American businessman and politician, 6th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1991)
1924
Marianne Werner, German shot putter
1925
Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish skier and technician (d. 2003)
1944
Charlie Manuel, American baseball player and manager
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January 5
1940
Michael O'Donoghue, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1946
Diane Keaton, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1966
Kate Schellenbach, American drummer
1974
Sarah-Jane Honeywell, English actress and dancer
1980
Bennie Joppru, American football player
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January 6
1714
Percivall Pott, English surgeon (d. 1788)
1848
Hristo Botev, Bulgarian poet and journalist (d. 1876)
1937
Paolo Conte, Italian singer-songwriter and pianist
1963
Tina Landon, Mexican-American dancer and choreographer
1982
Eddie Redmayne, English actor and singer
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January 7
1858
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (d. 1922)
1972
Vladimir Dubrovshchik, Belarusian discus thrower
1974
John Rich, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1983
Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
1988
Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
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January 8
1911
Tom Delaney, English race car driver (d. 2006)
1926
Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer
1944
Terry Brooks, American lawyer and author
1988
Vitaliy Hoshkoderya, Ukrainian footballer
1991
Emiliano Tabone, Argentinian footballer
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January 9
1939
Susannah York, English actress, singer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
1941
Terry Hands, English director and producer
1965
Eric Erlandson, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1984
Benjamin Danso, German rugby player
1991
3LAU, American DJ and producer
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January 10
1887
Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (d. 1962)
1966
Murali Nair, Indian director and screenwriter
1973
Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer
1982
Misato Fukuen, Japanese voice actress
1984
Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league footballer
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January 11
1642
Johann Friedrich Alberti, German organist and composer (d. 1710)
1911
Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
1963
Tracy Caulkins, American-Australian swimmer
1978
Michael Duff, Irish footballer
1985
Kazuki Nakajima, Japanese race car driver
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January 12
1903
Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)
1970
Zack de la Rocha, American singer-songwriter
1976
Miki Nakatani, Japanese actress and singer
1981
Amerie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1984
Andrew Chan, Australian drug trafficker (d. 2015)
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January 13
1720
Richard Hurd, English bishop (d. 1808)
1865
Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)
1950
Bob Forsch, American baseball player (d. 2011)
1972
Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast
1981
Reggie Brown, American football player
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January 14
1615
John Biddle, English minister and theologian (d. 1662)
1937
Ken Higgs, English cricketer and coach
1949
Lawrence Kasdan, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1965
Slick Rick, English-American rapper and producer
1984
Brandon Meriweather, American football player
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January 15
1481
Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (d. 1511)
1902
Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969)
1922
Eric Willis, Australian sergeant and politician, 34th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1999)
1933
Frank Bough, English journalist and radio host
1987
Michael Seater, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
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January 16
1920
Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1991)
1935
A. J. Foyt, American race car driver
1954
Vasili Zhupikov, Russian footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1972
Greg Page, Australian singer and actor (The Wiggles)
1980
Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
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January 17
1472
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Italian noble and Duke of Urbino (d. 1508)
1908
Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager and trainer (d. 1985)
1971
Kid Rock, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1975
Freddy Rodriguez, American actor and producer
1983
Rick Kelly, Australian race car driver
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January 18
1891
Nikolajs Švedrēvics, Latvian javelin thrower (d. 1937)
1892
Bill Meanix, American hurdler and coach (d. 1957)
1947
Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
1972
Vinod Kambli, Indian cricketer, sportscaster, and actor
1987
Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
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January 19
1893
Magda Tagliaferro, Brazilian pianist and educator (d. 1986)
1918
John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (d. 2005)
1942
Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
1946
Julian Barnes, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and memoirist
1950
Sébastien Dhavernas, Canadian actor
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January 20
1703
Joseph-Hector Fiocco, Flemish violinist and composer (d. 1741)
1798
Anson Jones, American physician and politician, 5th President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858)
1893
Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1946)
1920
Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1993)
1932
Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
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January 21
1824
Stonewall Jackson, American general (d. 1863)
1878
Vahan Tekeyan, Armenian poet and activist (d. 1948)
1956
Robby Benson, American actor, singer, and director
1986
Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor
2001
Jackson Brundage, American actor
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January 22
1945
Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 2013)
1949
Mike Westhues, American-Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1951
Steve J. Spears, Australian actor, singer, and playwright (d. 2007)
1952
Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
1978
Joseph Calleja, Maltese tenor
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January 23
1780
Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek general (d. 1827)
1846
Hermann Clemenz, Estonian chess player (d. 1908)
1901
Arthur Wirtz, American businessman (d. 1983)
1948
David F. Ford, Irish theologian and academic
1981
Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
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January 24
1540
Edmund Campion, English priest and martyr (d. 1581)
1928
Desmond Morris, English zoologist, ethologist, and painter
1950
Gennifer Flowers, American model and actress
1984
Scott Kazmir, American baseball player
1986
Mischa Barton, English-American actress
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January 25
1755
Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (d. 1815)
1917
Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician; 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992)
1958
Franco Pancheri, Italian footballer and manager
1984
Stefan Kießling, German footballer
1986
Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
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January 26
1908
Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
1927
José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran politician, President of Honduras (d. 2005)
1929
Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, screenwriter, and educator
1967
Anatoly Komm, Russian chef and businessman
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January 27
1741
Hester Thrale, Welsh author (d. 1821)
1936
Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate
1956
Susanne Blakeslee, American actress
1970
Emmanuel Pahud, Swiss flute player
1976
Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress, singer, and producer
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January 28
1719
Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1749)
1908
Paul Misraki, Turkish-French composer and historian (d. 1998)
1930
Roy Clarke, English soldier and screenwriter
1945
Maxwell Fuller, Australian chess player (d. 2013)
1988
Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler
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January 29
1924
Luigi Nono, Italian composer (d. 1990)
1938
Shuji Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast
1949
Evgeny Lovchev, Russian footballer and manager
1954
Christian Bjelland IV, Norwegian businessman and art collector
1988
Tatyana Chernova, Russian heptathlete
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January 30
1844
Richard Theodore Greener, American diplomat and attorney (d.1922)
1894
Boris III of Bulgaria (d. 1943)
1975
Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
1980
Leilani Dowding, English model and actress
1995
Viktoria Komova, Russian gymnast
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January 31
1961
Fatih Kısaparmak, Turkish singer-songwriter
1965
Ofra Harnoy, Canadian cellist.
1966
Jorge González, Argentinian basketball player and wrestler (d. 2010)
1967
Michelle Ruff, American voice actress
1980
James Adomian, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
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