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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
1860
Dan Katchongva, American tribal leader and activist (d. 1972)
1975
Eiichiro Oda, Japanese illustrator
1981
Eden Riegel, American actress
1989
Stefan Reinartz, German footballer
1993
Jon Flanagan, English footballer
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January 2
1462
Piero di Cosimo, Italian painter (d. 1522)
1952
Indulis Emsis, Latvian politician, botanist, former Prime Minister of Latvia
1955
Vivien Savage, French singer-songwriter
1972
Mattias Norström, Swedish ice hockey player and manager
1980
Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist
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January 3
1879
Grace Coolidge, American wife of Calvin Coolidge; 32nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1957)
1897
Marion Davies, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1961)
1920
Siegfried Buback, German lawyer and politician; Attorney General of Germany (d. 1977)
1958
James J. Greco, American businessman
1986
Allan Walker, Scottish footballer
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January 4
1672
Hugh Boulter, Anglo-Irish archbishop (d. 1742)
1838
General Tom Thumb, American circus performer (d. 1883)
1932
Clint Hill, American secret service agent and author
1941
Maureen Reagan, American actress and activist (d. 2001)
1972
James Longley, American director and producer
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January 5
1614
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
1908
George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (d. 1963)
1944
Jo Ann Kelly, English singer and guitarist (d. 1990)
1982
Darren Mackie, Scottish footballer
1988
Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian professional track cyclist
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January 6
1793
James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (d. 1862)
1931
Juan Goytisolo, Spanish poet and author
1969
Norman Reedus, American model and actor
1989
Arisa Sugi, Japanese actress
1996
Kishan Shrikanth, Indian actor and director
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January 7
1950
Ross Grimsley, American baseball player and coach
1959
Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter
1963
Clint Mansell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980
Merritt Wever, American actress
1983
Marc Burns, Trinidadian sprinter
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January 8
1909
Willy Millowitsch, German actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1942
Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author
1945
Kojo Nnamdi, Guyanese-American journalist and radio host
1947
Laurie Walters, American actress
1967
Torsten Gowitzke, German footballer
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January 9
1870
Joseph Strauss, American engineer; co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge (d. 1938)
1898
Wally Baker, American super-centenarian (d. 2009)
1955
Michiko Kakutani, American journalist and critic
1986
Amanda Mynhardt, South African netball player
1987
Jami Puustinen, Finnish footballer
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January 10
1928
Peter Mathias, English historian and academic
1933
Anton Rodgers, English actor and director (d. 2007)
1957
Paula Smith, American tennis player
1973
Jakob Cedergren, Swedish-Danish actor
1981
Inga Jankauskaitė, Lithuanian actress, singer, and pianist
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January 11
1924
Roger Guillemin, French-American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931
Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (d. 2014)
1942
Leo Cullum, American soldier, pilot, and cartoonist (d. 2010)
1951
Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
1958
Vicki Peterson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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January 12
1893
Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian-German architect and politician (d. 1946)
1906
Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French historian, philosopher, and academic (d. 1995)
1961
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Pakistani-Canadian physician and terrorist
1965
Rob Zombie, American singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director
1975
Jocelyn Thibault, Canadian ice hockey player
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January 13
1562
Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier (d. 1601)
1893
Charles Arnison, English airman (d. 1974)
1921
Dachine Rainer, American-English author and poet (d. 2000)
1966
Shelagh Fogarty, English journalist and radio host
1983
Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
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January 14
1850
Pierre Loti, French captain and author (d. 1923)
1921
Kenneth Bulmer, American author (d. 2005)
1943
José Luis Rodríguez, Venezuelan singer and actor
1963
Steven Soderbergh, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1983
Jason Krejza, Australian cricketer
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January 15
1905
Torin Thatcher, Indian-American actor (d. 1981)
1922
Eric Willis, Australian sergeant and politician, 34th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1999)
1939
Neil Cossons, English curator and academic
1943
Mike Marshall, American baseball player
1988
Aija Putniņa, Latvian basketball player
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January 16
1917
Carl Karcher, American businessman, founded Carl's Jr. (d. 2008)
1935
Udo Lattek, German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1969
Marinus Bester, German footballer
1985
Gintaras Januševičius, Russian-Lithuanian pianist
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January 17
1814
Ellen Wood, English author (d. 1887)
1886
Glenn L. Martin, American pilot, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (d. 1955)
1927
Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
1952
Darrell Porter, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2002)
1965
Sylvain Turgeon, Canadian ice hockey player
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January 18
1856
Daniel Hale Williams, American surgeon and cardiologist (d. 1931)
1879
Henri Giraud, French general (d. 1949)
1949
Bill Keller, American journalist
1952
Michael Angelis, English actor
1990
Hayle Ibrahimov, Ethiopian-Azerbaijani runner
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January 19
1736
James Watt, British chemist and engineer (d. 1819)
1833
Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician and academic (d. 1872)
1936
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer, harmonica player, and drummer (d. 2011)
1937
Princess Birgitta of Sweden
1986
Moussa Sow, Senegalese footballer
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January 20
1934
Horst Mahseli, Polish footballer (d. 1999)
1952
Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Kiss and Wicked Lester)
1954
Alison Seabeck, English politician
1954
Ken Page, American actor and singer
1954
Rudy La Scala, Venezuelan singer-songwriter and producer
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January 21
1867
Ludwig Thoma, German paramedic and author (d. 1921)
1925
Eva Ibbotson, Austrian-English author (d. 2010)
1935
Masamichi Noro, Japanese-French martial artist (d. 2013)
1940
Jack Nicklaus, American golfer and sportscaster
1942
Mac Davis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
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January 22
1889
Amos Strunk, American baseball player and manager (d. 1979)
1915
Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician, Mayor of Berlin (d. 1993)
1953
Myung-whun Chung, South Korean pianist and conductor
1991
Alex MacDowall, English race car driver
1991
Stefan Kolb, German footballer
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January 23
1832
Édouard Manet, French painter (d. 1883)
1918
Florence Rush, American social worker (d. 2008)
1943
Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman (d. 2010)
1981
Julia Jones, American actress
1981
Sarai, American rapper and actress
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January 24
1841
Robert Williams, American archer (d. 1914)
1927
Marvin Kaplan, American actor
1930
Bernard Matthews, English businessman, founded Bernard Matthews Farms (d. 2010)
1930
Mahmoud Farshchian, Iranian-Persian painter and academic
1954
Jo Gartner, Austrian race car driver (d. 1986)
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January 25
1958
Dinah Manoff, American actress and director
1970
Stephen Chbosky, American author, screenwriter, and director
1976
Dimitris Nalitzis, Greek footballer
1982
Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
1988
Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
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January 26
1892
Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
1920
Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal researcher and author (d. 2009)
1936
Huey "Piano" Smith, American pianist
1965
Thomas Östros, Swedish politician
1989
MarShon Brooks, American basketball player
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January 27
1859
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (d. 1941)
1901
Art Rooney, American football player and coach, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (d. 1988)
1959
Göran Hägglund, Swedish politician; 28th Swedish Minister for Social Affairs
1967
Bobby Deol, Indian actor and singer
1969
Cornelius, Japanese singer, guitarist, and producer (Flipper's Guitar and Plastic Ono Band)
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January 28
1717
Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774)
1863
Ernest William Christmas, Australian-American painter (d. 1918)
1934
Juan Manuel Bordeu, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1990)
1939
John M. Fabian, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1980
Jesse James Hollywood, American murderer
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January 29
1749
Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
1922
Gerda Steinhoff, German concentration camp guard (d. 1946)
1937
Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician; 1st Vice President of Iran (d. 2013)
1953
Charlie Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1964
Andre Reed, American football player and sportscaster
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January 30
1754
John Lansing, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1829)
1846
Angela of the Cross, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1932)
1912
Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian (d. 1984)
1945
Boots Anson-Roa, Filipino actress
1958
Sayuri Ishikawa, Japanese singer
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January 31
1928
Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (d. 1958)
1974
Wil Anderson, Australian comedian and radio host
1977
Katherine Shindle, American actress, singer, and dancer
1978
Fabián Caballero, Argentinian footballer and manager
1996
Joel Courtney, American actor
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