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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
1774
André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and academic (d. 1860)
1905
Stanisław Mazur, Ukrainian-Polish mathematician and theorist (d. 1981)
1934
Alan Berg, American television personality, talk show presenter (d. 1984)
1986
Lee Sungmin, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Super Junior)
1987
Estefanía Craciún, Uruguayan tennis player
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January 2
1860
Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer (d. 1931)
1949
Christopher Durang, American playwright and screenwriter
1952
Robbie Ftorek, American ice hockey player and coach
1977
Aleš Píša, Czech ice hockey player
1985
Heather O'Reilly, American soccer player
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January 3
1793
Lucretia Mott, American activist (d. 1880)
1930
Robert Loggia, American actor and director
1951
Linda Dobbs, British lawyer and judge
1970
Matt Ross, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1984
Billy Mehmet, Cypriot-Irish footballer
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January 4
1858
Carter Glass, American publisher and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1946)
1924
Sebastian Kappen, Indian priest and theologian (d. 1993)
1943
Doris Kearns Goodwin, American historian and author
1963
Till Lindemann, German singer-songwriter
1980
Greg Cipes, American actor and singer
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January 5
1903
Harold Gatty, Australian pilot and navigator (d. 1957)
1943
Mary Gaudron, Australian lawyer and judge
1950
John Manley, Canadian lawyer and politician; 8th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
1954
Alex English, American basketball player and coach
1971
Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
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January 6
1896
Péter Veres, Hungarian politician; Minister of Defense of Hungary (d. 1970)
1923
Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1974)
1928
Capucine, French actress and model (d. 1990)
1934
Sylvia Syms, English actress
1972
Nek, Italian singer-songwriter
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January 7
1935
Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2014)
1945
Dick Marty, Swiss lawyer and politician
1978
Ryan Star, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985
Austin Brown, American singer-songwriter
1989
Miles Addison, English footballer
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January 8
1934
Gene Freese, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
1939
Alan Wilson, English mathematician and academic
1982
Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
1983
Felipe Colombo, Mexican-Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1988
Adrián López Álvarez, Spanish footballer
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January 9
1624
Empress Meishō of Japan (d. 1696)
1907
Eldred G. Smith, American patriarch (d. 2013)
1931
Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (d. 2008)
1982
Grétar Steinsson, Icelandic footballer
1989
Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress and singer
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January 10
1760
Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, German composer and conductor (d. 1802)
1890
Pina Menichelli, Italian actress (d. 1984)
1903
Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
1984
Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan footballer
1998
Xu Shilin, Chinese tennis player
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January 11
1890
Harold Bride, English wireless officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1956)
1928
Alan Bowness, English historian and curator
1942
Bud Acton, American basketball player
1948
Wajima Hiroshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, 54th Yokozuna
1970
Chris Jent, American basketball player and coach
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January 12
1930
Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman; founded Tim Hortons (d. 1974)
1947
Richard Carwardine, English historian and academic
1948
Kenny Allen, English footballer
1951
Rush Limbaugh, American talk show host and author
1963
Nando Reis, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
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January 13
1893
Chaim Soutine, Belarusian-French painter (d. 1943)
1914
Osa Massen, Danish actress (d. 2006)
1931
Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
1954
Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1989
Tim Matavž, Slovenian footballer
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January 14
1793
John C. Clark, American lawyer and politician (d. 1852)
1943
Angelo Bagnasco, Italian cardinal
1948
John Lescroart, American author
1965
Slick Rick, English-American rapper and producer
1976
Olive Loughnane, Irish race walker
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January 15
1891
Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet and translator (d. 1938)
1927
Phyllis Coates, American actress
1939
Neil Cossons, English curator and academic
1945
Vince Foster, American lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
1982
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
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January 16
1855
Eleanor Marx, English activist and author (d. 1898)
1967
Dandy Sakano, Japanese comedian
1976
Roselle Nava, Filipino actress and singer turned politician
1985
Gintaras Januševičius, Russian-Lithuanian pianist
1987
Lauren McAvoy, English model
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January 17
1918
George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
1962
Ari Up, German-English singer (d. 2010)
1974
Yang Chen, Chinese footballer and manager
1983
Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer
1985
Kangin, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Super Junior)
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January 18
1879
Tane Ikai, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 1995)
1883
George Oliver, American golfer (d. 1965)
1968
Dragana Mirković, Serbian singer
1970
Peter Van Petegem, Belgian cyclist
1979
Ruslan Fedotenko, Ukrainian ice hockey player
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January 19
1409
René of Anjou (d. 1480)
1676
John Weldon, English organist and composer (d. 1736)
1932
Richard Lester, American-English director, producer, and screenwriter
1943
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands
1944
Peter Lynch, American businessman
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January 20
1573
Simon Marius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1624)
1965
Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer and manager
1986
Kevin Parker, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1988
Jeffrén Suárez, Spanish footballer
1992
Jorge Zárate, Mexican footballer
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January 21
1901
Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1978)
1928
Gene Sharp, American political scientist and academic; founded the Albert Einstein Institution
1938
Ken Maginnis, Northern Irish soldier, educator, and Unionist politician
1950
Agnes van Ardenne, Dutch politician, Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation
1982
Simon Rolfes, German footballer
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January 22
1949
Mike Westhues, American-Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1956
John Wesley Shipp, American actor and director
1965
Steven Adler, American drummer and songwriter
1980
Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1985
Orianthi, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
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January 23
1688
Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (d. 1741)
1913
Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (d. 2007)
1924
Frank Lautenberg, American soldier and politician (d. 2013)
1930
William R. Pogue, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2014)
1976
Nigel McGuinness, English-American wrestler
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January 24
1763
Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Russian general (d. 1831)
1872
Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
1958
Jools Holland, English singer-songwriter and pianist
1986
Ricky Ullman, Israeli-American actor and singer
1997
Dylan Riley Snyder, American actor, singer, and dancer
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January 25
1627
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1691)
1917
Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician; 22nd President of Brazil (d. 1992)
1923
Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient upon whom a novel and two television miniseries were based (d. 1998)
1931
Dean Jones, American actor and singer (d. 2015)
1974
Emily Haines, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
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January 26
1880
Douglas MacArthur, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1908
Rupprecht Geiger, German painter and sculptor (d. 2009)
1954
Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1958
Anita Baker, American singer-songwriter
1967
Col Needham, English businessman, co-founded the Internet Movie Database
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January 27
1805
Princess Sophie of Bavaria (d. 1872)
1886
Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1959)
1901
Willy Fritsch, German actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)
1902
Carl Berner, German-American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
1910
Edvard Kardelj, Slovene general, economist, and politician; 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 1979)
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January 28
1873
Colette, French journalist and author (d. 1954)
1892
Ernst Lubitsch, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1947)
1943
John Beck, American actor
1949
Gregg Popovich, American basketball player and coach
1978
Jamie Carragher, English footballer and sportscaster
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January 29
1866
Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
1944
Andrew Loog Oldham, English record producer and manager
1953
Charlie Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1958
Linda Smith, English comedian and actress (d. 2006)
1966
Romário, Brazilian footballer, manager, and politician
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January 30
1883
Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1920)
1914
John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1992)
1977
Deltha O'Neal, American football player
1981
Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer
1990
Jake Thomas, American actor
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January 31
1915
Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (d. 1993)
1950
Janice Rebibo, American-Israeli author and poet (d. 2015)
1982
Yuniesky Betancourt, Cuban baseball player
1987
Tyler Hubbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Florida Georgia Line)
1992
Tyler Seguin, Canadian ice hockey player
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