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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
1928
Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1932
Leman Çıdamlı, Turkish actress (d. 2012)
1939
Michèle Mercier, French actress
1948
Dick Quax, New Zealand runner and politician
1987
Gilbert Brulé, Canadian ice hockey player
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January 2
1914
Vivian Stuart, English physician and author (d. 1986)
1923
Rachel Waterhouse, English historian and author
1937
Martin Lauer, German runner
1978
Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer and actress
1980
Jérôme Pineau, French cyclist
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January 3
1698
Metastasio, Italian poet and opera librettist (d. 1782)
1719
Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian (d. 1773)
1921
Chetan Anand, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1979
Koit Toome, Estonian singer and actor
1986
Greg Nwokolo, Indonesian footballer
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January 4
1870
Percy Pitt, English organist and conductor (d. 1932)
1953
Richard Boden, English director and producer
1956
Bernard Sumner, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1962
Laila Elwi, Egyptian actress
1989
Labrinth, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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January 5
1808
Anton Füster, Austrian priest and activist (d. 1881)
1942
Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist
1951
Jagathy Sreekumar, Indian actor and screenwriter
1984
Amanda Hearst, American model
1995
Joyce Ching, Filipino actress and singer
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January 6
1881
Ion Minulescu, Romanian poet and writer (d. 1944)
1935
Nino Tempo, American singer and actor
1944
Bonnie Franklin, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1981
Asante Samuel, American football player
1986
Paul McShane, Irish footballer
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January 7
1921
Chester Kallman, American poet and translator (d. 1975)
1930
Eddie LeBaron, American football player, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1945
Dick Marty, Swiss lawyer and politician
1947
Shobhaa De, Indian journalist and author
1981
Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
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January 8
1885
A. J. Muste, Dutch-American clergyman and activist (d. 1967)
1938
Camille Yarbrough, American actress, television producer, poet and author
1947
David Gates, American journalist and author
1965
Michelle Forbes, American actress
1993
Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare disease (d. 2013)
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January 9
1811
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English journalist and author (d. 1856)
1931
Paul Mantee, American actor (d. 2013)
1953
Takeshi So, Japanese runner
1965
Joely Richardson, English actress
1976
Simon Gosejohann, German actor and screenwriter
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January 10
1916
Eldzier Cortor, American painter
1922
Hannelore Schroth, German actress (d. 1987)
1925
Billie Sol Estes, American businessman (d. 2013)
1939
William Levy, American-Dutch journalist, author, and poet
1946
Robert Gadocha, Polish footballer
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January 11
1800
Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (d. 1895)
1926
Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1998)
1956
Big Bank Hank, American rapper (The Sugarhill Gang) (d. 2014)
1972
Marc Blucas, American actor
1974
Jens Nowotny, German footballer
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January 12
1869
Bhagwan Das, Indian Theosophist and public figure (d. 1958)
1903
Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)
1949
Haruki Murakami, Japanese author, translator, and academic
1972
Priyanka Gandhi, Indian politician
1985
Yohana Cobo, Spanish actress
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January 13
1926
Shakti Samanta, Indian director and producer (d. 2009)
1941
Pasqual Maragall i Mira, Catalan academic and politician, 127th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
1961
Suggs, English singer-songwriter and actor
1977
William Ash, English actor
1987
Florica Leonida, Romanian gymnast
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January 14
1850
Pierre Loti, French captain and author (d. 1923)
1919
Andy Rooney, American soldier and journalist (d. 2011)
1944
Nina Totenberg, American journalist
1973
Eva Bes, Spanish tennis player
1983
Cesare Bovo, Italian footballer
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January 15
1921
Frank Thornton, English actor and singer (d. 2013)
1972
Shelia Burrell, American heptathlete
1973
Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer
1983
Matic Kralj, Slovenian ice hockey player
1987
Nicole Matthews, Canadian wrestler
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January 16
1937
Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
1937
Luiz Bueno, Brazilian race car driver (d. 2011)
1944
Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (Cluster, Harmonia, and Moebius & Plank) (d. 2015)
1949
Oliver Humperdink, American wrestling manager (d. 2011)
1958
Anatoli Boukreev, Russian mountaineer and explorer (d. 1997)
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January 17
1484
George Spalatin, German priest and reformer (d. 1545)
1905
Jan Zahradníček, Czech poet and translator (d. 1960)
1914
Anacleto Angelini, Italian-Chilean businessman (d. 2007)
1944
Françoise Hardy, French singer and actress
1955
Steve Javie, American basketball player and referee
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January 18
1795
Anna Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1865)
1926
Randolph Bromery, American geologist and academic (d. 2013)
1954
Jagdish Mali, Indian photographer (d. 2013)
1983
Katie White, English singer-songwriter (The Ting Tings)
1988
Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer
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January 19
1923
Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006)
1939
Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Everly Brothers) (d. 2014)
1961
Wayne Hemingway, English fashion designer, co-founded Red or Dead
1973
Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
1982
Mike Komisarek, American ice hockey player
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January 20
1902
Leon Ames, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
1950
Mahamane Ousmane, Nigerian politician, President of Niger
1963
Mark Ryden, American painter
1978
Sid Wilson, American DJ and pianist
1991
Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
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January 21
1884
Roger Nash Baldwin, American author and activist, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (d. 1981)
1953
Paul Allen, American businessman and philanthropist; co-founded Microsoft
1963
Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player and coach
1976
Aivaras Abromavičius, Lithuanian-Ukrainian banker and politician; 15th Minister of Economic of Ukraine
1977
Kirsten Klose, German hammer thrower
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January 22
826
Montoku, Japanese emperor (d. 858)
1956
John Wesley Shipp, American actor and director
1972
Katie Barberi, Mexican actress
1977
Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
1980
Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
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January 23
1933
Chita Rivera, American actress, singer, and dancer
1947
Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesian politician, 5th President of Indonesia
1950
Danny Federici, American accordion player (E Street Band) (d. 2008)
1951
Chesley Sullenberger, American captain and pilot
1986
Steven Taylor, English footballer
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January 24
1917
Ernest Borgnine, American actor and singer (d. 2012)
1930
Bernard Matthews, English businessman, founded Bernard Matthews Farms (d. 2010)
1943
Sharon Tate, American model and actress (d. 1969)
1989
Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter
1989
Ki Sung-yueng, South Korean footballer
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January 25
1739
Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician; French Minister of Defence (d. 1823)
1933
Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
1935
António Ramalho Eanes, Portuguese general and politician; 16th President of Portugal
1963
Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and politician; 61st Mayor of São Paulo
1985
Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer and actress
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January 26
1887
Marc Mitscher, American admiral and pilot (d. 1947)
1922
Michael Bentine, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1929
Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist, screenwriter, and educator
1982
Yasushi Tsujimoto, Japanese wrestler
1989
Yukari Kabutomushi, Japanese actress
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January 27
1826
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist and author (d. 1889)
1928
Hans Modrow, Polish-German politician, 5th Prime Minister of East Germany
1929
Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian-Swiss businessman
1944
Peter Akinola, Nigerian archbishop
1964
Patrick van Deurzen, Dutch composer and academic
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January 28
1930
Roy Clarke, English soldier and screenwriter
1944
Tim Heald, English journalist and author
1950
David C. Hilmers, American colonel, physician, and astronaut
1974
Tony Delk, American basketball player and coach
1976
Lee Ingleby, English actor
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January 29
1929
Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010)
1957
Grażyna Miller, Italian journalist and poet
1958
Glen Cochrane, Canadian ice hockey player and scout
1965
Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player
1983
Nedžad Sinanović, Bosnian basketball player
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January 30
1951
Bobby Stokes, English footballer (d. 1995)
1956
Darko Rundek, Croatian-French singer-songwriter and actor
1957
Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
1979
Tarmo Jallai, Estonian hurdler
1990
Nils Miatke, German footballer
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January 31
1550
Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588)
1820
William B. Washburn, American politician, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
1945
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, English lawyer, judge, and academic
1971
Lee Young-ae, South Korean actress
1977
Sergei Pareiko, Estonian footballer
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