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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
1930
Gaafar Nimeiry, Sudanese politician, 4th President of the Sudan (d. 2009)
1942
Judy Stone, Australian singer
1956
Kōji Yakusho, Japanese actor
1967
Sharon Small, Scottish actress
1984
Michael Witt, Australian rugby player
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January 2
1933
Ed Casey, Australian banker and politician (d. 2006)
1956
Lynda Barry, American cartoonist and author
1963
David Cone, American baseball player and sportscaster
1968
Anky van Grunsven, Dutch horse rider
1972
Adam Elliot, Australian animator and screenwriter
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January 3
1895
Boris Lyatoshinsky, Ukrainian composer and conductor (d. 1968)
1930
Marcel Dubé, Canadian playwright
1945
David Starkey, English historian and academic
1959
Alessandro Andrei, Italian shot putter
1984
Miloš Juhász, Slovak footballer
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January 4
1878
Augustus John, Welsh painter and illustrator (d. 1961)
1895
Leroy Grumman, American engineer and businessman; co-founded Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. (d. 1982)
1913
Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (d. 2007)
1973
Frank Høj, Danish cyclist
1986
James Milner, English footballer
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January 5
1880
Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1951)
1881
Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter (d. 1934)
1904
Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic (d. 1997)
1972
Philip Davies, English politician
1974
Sarah-Jane Honeywell, English actress and dancer
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January 6
1903
Francis L. Sullivan, English-American actor (d. 1956)
1950
Louis Freeh, American lawyer and jurist; 10th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1970
Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player, sportscaster, and actress
1970
José Carabalí, Venezuelan runner
1986
Mike Teel, American football player
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January 7
1873
Charles Péguy, French poet and journalist (d. 1914)
1924
Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1973)
1947
Tony Elliott, English publisher; founded ''Time Out''
1963
Rand Paul, American ophthalmologist and politician
1985
Wayne Routledge, English footballer
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January 8
1823
Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1913)
1881
Henrik Shipstead, American dentist and politician (d. 1960)
1923
Giorgio Tozzi, American opera singer and educator (d. 2011)
1938
Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian opera singer and educator
1965
Michelle Forbes, American actress
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January 9
1849
John Hartley, English tennis player (d. 1935)
1868
S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist and academic (d. 1939)
1889
Vrindavan Lal Verma, Indian author and playwright (d. 1969)
1956
Waltraud Meier, German soprano and mezzo-soprano
1965
Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player and coach
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January 10
1938
Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
1957
Paula Smith, American tennis player
1985
Abdulkader Dakka, Syrian footballer
1988
Marvin Martin, French footballer
1994
Mohammed Aman, Ethiopian runner
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January 11
1875
Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (d. 1941)
1893
Anthony M. Rud, American journalist and author (d. 1942)
1911
Zenkō Suzuki, Japanese politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
1932
Alfonso Arau, Mexican actor and director
1968
Saša Ćirić, Macedonian footballer
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January 12
1810
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1859)
1933
Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (d. 2013)
1939
Jim Palosaari, American evangelist (d. 2011)
1968
Heather Mills, English model and activist
1992
Samuele Longo, Italian footballer
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January 13
1616
Antoinette Bourignon, French-Flemish mystic and author (d. 1680)
1950
John McNaughton, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1972
Park Jin-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, founded JYP Entertainment
1976
Michael Peña, American actor
1986
Josefine Preuß, German actress
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January 14
1699
Jakob Adlung, German organist, historian, and theorist (d. 1762)
1836
Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (d. 1904)
1921
Murray Bookchin, American author and philosopher (d. 2006)
1947
Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (d. 2003)
1948
Carl Weathers, American football player and actor
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January 15
1875
Thomas Burke, American sprinter, coach, and journalist (d. 1929)
1896
Marjorie Bennett, Australian-American actress and singer (d. 1982)
1955
Khalid Islambouli, Egyptian army officer and assassin of Egypt's president Anwar Sadat (d. 1982)
1956
Mayawati, Indian educator and politician, 23rd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
1961
Yves Pelletier, Canadian actor and director
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January 16
1923
Keith Shackleton, English painter and television host (d. 2015)
1926
O. P. Nayyar, Indian director and composer (d. 2007)
1929
Shigeru Kōyama, Japanese actor
1974
Kate Moss, English model and fashion designer
1979
Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
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January 17
1922
Luis Echeverría, Mexican politician, 50th President of Mexico
1944
Ann Oakley, English sociologist, author, and academic
1967
Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (d. 2007)
1971
Kid Rock, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1986
Hale Appleman, American actor
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January 18
1880
Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian-Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1933)
1937
John Hume, Irish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
1967
Dean Bailey, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2014)
1968
Dragana Mirković, Serbian singer
1988
Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
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January 19
398
Pulcheria, Byzantine empress and saint (d. 453)
1544
Francis II of France (d. 1560)
1943
Larry Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1966
Sylvain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
1977
Nicole, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist
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January 20
1798
Anson Jones, American physician and politician, 5th President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1858)
1915
Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani businessman and politician, 7th President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
1931
Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese pianist and composer (d. 1992)
1988
Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer
1994
Denis Mukhametdinov, Russian footballer
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January 21
1738
Ethan Allen, American general (d. 1789)
1910
Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1974
Malena Alterio, Argentinian-Spanish actress
1977
Kirsten Klose, German hammer thrower
1987
Mulopo Kudimbana, Congolese footballer
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January 22
1788
Lord Byron, English poet and playwright (d. 1824)
1943
Michael Spicer, Baron Spicer, English journalist and politician
1972
Romi Park, Japanese voice actress and singer
1980
Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
1984
Dennis Kipruto Kimetto, Kenyan runner
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January 23
1862
David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1943)
1915
W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian-Barbadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1930
Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright; Nobel Prize laureate
1953
Alister McGrath, Irish historian and theologian
1983
Irving Saladino, Panamanian long jumper
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January 24
1905
J. Howard Marshall, American lawyer and businessman (d. 1995)
1972
Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese bass player and composer
1983
Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer
1986
Vieirinha, Portuguese footballer
2012
Princess Athena of Denmark
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January 25
1750
Johann Gottfried Vierling, German organist and composer (d. 1813)
1874
W. Somerset Maugham, French-English author and playwright (d. 1965)
1921
Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and academic (d. 2010)
1958
Dinah Manoff, American actress and director
1987
Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
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January 26
1922
Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (d. 1993)
1931
Mary Murphy, American actress (d. 2011)
1962
Guo Jian, Chinese-Australian painter
1965
Natalia Yurchenko, Russian gymnast and coach
1988
Yukiyo Mine, Japanese softball player
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January 27
1918
Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
1924
Rauf Denktaş, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (d. 2012)
1948
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor
1972
Mark Owen, English singer-songwriter (Take That)
1976
Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress, singer, and producer
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January 28
1911
Johan van Hulst, Dutch academic and politician
1945
John Perkins, American author and activist
1951
Brian Bilbray, American politician
1975
Pedro Pinto, Portuguese-American journalist
1976
Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
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January 29
1717
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (d. 1797)
1915
John Serry, Sr., American accordion player and composer (d. 2003)
1956
Jan Jakub Kolski, Polish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1970
Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
1988
Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish footballer
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January 30
1955
Tom Izzo, American basketball player and coach
1959
Jody Watley, American singer-songwriter and producer
1971
Darren Boyd, English actor and screenwriter
1974
Olivia Colman, English actress and singer
1975
Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer and actress (Puffy AmiYumi)
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January 31
1884
Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician, 1st President of The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (d. 1955)
1964
Miki Maya, Japanese actress
1977
Kerry Washington, American actress
1980
James Adomian, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1981
Julio Arca, Argentinian footballer
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