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January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
- 153 BC – For the first time, Roman consuls begin their year in office on January 1.[1]
- 45 BC – The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Republic, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year.[2]
- 42 BC – The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar.[3]
- 193 – The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor.[4]
- 404 – Saint Telemachus tries to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and is stoned to death by the crowd. This act impresses the Christian Emperor Honorius, who issues a historic ban on gladiatorial fights.[5]
- 417 – Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his famous general (magister militum) (probable).[6]
- 947 – Emperor Taizong of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty captures Daliang, ending the dynasty and empire of the Later Jin.[7]
- 1001 – Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II (probable).[8]
- 1068 – Romanos IV Diogenes marries Eudokia Makrembolitissa and is crowned Byzantine Emperor.[9]
- 1259 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.[10]
- 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.[11]
- 1502 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is first explored by the Portuguese under their commissioned Florentine explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci begins his suspicion that there is a whole continent between Europe and Asia.[12][13]
- 1515 – Twenty-year-old Francis, Duke of Brittany, succeeds to the French throne following the death of his father-in-law, Louis XII.[14]
- 1527 – Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I, Archduke of Austria as King of Croatia in the 1527 election in Cetin.[15]
- 1600 – Scotland recognises January 1 as the start of the year, instead of March 25.[16]
1601–1900
- 1604 – The Masque of Indian and China Knights is performed by courtiers of James VI and I at Hampton Court.[17]
- 1651 – Charles II is crowned King of Scotland at Scone Palace.[18]
- 1700 – Russia begins using the Anno Domini era instead of the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.[19]
- 1707 – John V is proclaimed King of Portugal and the Algarves in Lisbon.[20]
- 1725 – J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41, which features the trumpet fanfares from the beginning also in the end.[21]
- 1726 – J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16, his church cantata for New Year's Day to a libretto by Georg Christian Lehms.[22]
- 1739 – Bouvet Island, the world's remotest island,[23] is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.[24]
- 1772 – The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, are issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.[25]
- 1773 – The hymn that becomes known as "Amazing Grace", previously titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17, Faith's Review and Expectation", is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.[26]
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Burning of Norfolk – Norfolk, Virginia, is burned to the ground by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.[27]
- 1776 – General George Washington hoists the first United States flag, the Continental Union Flag, at Prospect Hill.[28]
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.[29]
- 1788 – The first edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.[30]
- 1801 – The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is proclaimed.[31]
- 1801 – Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.[32]
- 1804 – French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in North America after the United States.[33]
- 1806 – The French Republican Calendar is abolished.[34]
- 1808 – The United States bans the importation of slaves.[35]
- 1810 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.[36]
- 1818 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (anonymously) publishes the pioneering work of science fiction, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, in London.[37]
- 1822 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.[38]
- 1834 – Most of Germany forms the Zollverein customs union, the first such union between sovereign states.[39]
- 1845 – The Philippines moves its national calendar to align with other Asian countries' calendars by skipping Tuesday, December 31, 1844. The change has been ordered by Governor–General Narciso Claveria to reform the country's calendar so that it aligns with the rest of Asia. Its territory has been one day behind the rest of Asia for 323 years since the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in the Philippines on March 16, 1521.[40]
- 1847 – The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, United States, by a group of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland;[41] the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
- 1860 – The first Polish postage stamp is issued, replacing the Russian stamps previously in use.[42]
- 1861 – Liberal forces supporting Benito Juárez enter Mexico City.[43]
- 1863 – American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.[44]
- 1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.[45]
- 1885 – Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).[46]
- 1890 – Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government as Italian Eritrea.[47]
- 1892 – Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.[48]
- 1898 – New York, New York annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
- 1899 – Spanish rule ends in Cuba.[49]
- 1900 – Nigeria becomes a British protectorate with Frederick Lugard as high commissioner.[50]
1901–present
- 1901 – The Southern Nigeria Protectorate is established within the British Empire.[51]
- 1901 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.[52]
- 1902 – The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.[53]
- 1910 – Captain David Beatty is promoted to rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.[54]
- 1912 – The Republic of China is established.[55]
- 1914 – The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.[56]
- 1923 – Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.[57]
- 1927 – New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.[58]
- 1928 – Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran to seek asylum in France. He is the only member of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Soviet Union.[59]
- 1929 – The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.[60]
- 1932 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.[61]
- 1934 – Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.[62]
- 1934 – A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.[63]
- 1942 – The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.[64]
- 1945 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed, attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.[65]
- 1947 – Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.[66]
- 1947 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens.[67] Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
- 1948 – The British railway network is nationalized to form British Railways.[68]
- 1949 – United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.[69]
- 1956 – Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.[70]
- 1957 – George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.[71]
- 1957 – Lèse majesté in Thailand is strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after the Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.[72]: 6, 18
- 1958 – The European Economic Community is established.[73]
- 1959 – Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces.[74]
- 1960 – Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom.[75]
- 1962 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.[76]
- 1964 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.[77]
- 1965 – The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.[78]
- 1970 – The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.[79]
- 1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.[80]
- 1973 – Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom are admitted into the European Economic Community.[81]
- 1976 – A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.[82]
- 1978 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea off the coast of Bombay, India, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, killing all 213 people on board.[83]
- 1979 – the Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations and Taiwan Relations Act enter into force. Through the Communiqué, the United States establishes normal diplomatic relations with China.[84] Through the Act, the United States guarantees military support for Taiwan.[85]
- 1981 – Greece is admitted into the European Community.[86]
- 1982 – Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.[87]
- 1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.[88]
- 1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.[89]
- 1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.[90]
- 1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.[91]
- 1985 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 crashes into Mount Illimani in Bolivia, killing all 29 aboard.[92]
- 1987 – The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.[93]
- 1988 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.[94]
- 1989 – The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.[95]
- 1990 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.[96]
- 1990 – Seven people are killed and one injured in a mass shooting in Narsaq, Greenland.[97]
- 1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.[98]
- 1994 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.[99]
- 1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.[100]
- 1995 – The World Trade Organization comes into being.[101]
- 1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.[102]
- 1995 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join the EU.[103]
- 1998 – Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.[104]
- 1998 – Argentinian physicist Juan Maldacena publishes a landmark paper initiating the study of AdS/CFT correspondence, which links string theory and quantum gravity.[105]
- 1999 – The Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).[106]
- 2001 – Greece adopts the Euro, becoming the 12th Eurozone country.[106]
- 2004 – In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.[107]
- 2007 – Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.[108]
- 2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes near the Makassar Strait, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board.[109]
- 2009 – Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.[110]
- 2010 – A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.[111]
- 2011 – A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.[112]
- 2011 – Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the 17th Eurozone country.[113]
- 2013 – At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.[114]
- 2015 – The Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.[115]
- 2017 – An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year's celebrations, kills 39 people and injures 79 others.[116]
- 2023 – Croatia officially adopts the Euro, becoming the 20th Eurozone country, and becomes the 27th member of the Schengen Area.[117]
- 2024 – A 7.5 Mww earthquake strikes the western coast of Japan, killing more than 500 people and injuring over 1,000 others.[118] A majority of direct deaths were due to collapsed homes.[119]
- 2024 – Disney's copyright protection on Steamboat Willie and the original Mickey Mouse expires as they enter the public domain.[120]
- 2024 – Artsakh ceases to exist.[121]
- 2025 – Fourteen people are killed and 57 others injured during a vehicle-ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans, Louisiana.[122]
- 2026 – Bulgaria officially adopts the Euro, becoming the 21st Eurozone country.[123]
- 2026 – A fire at a bar during New Year's Eve celebrations in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, kills 41 people and injures 116 others.[124]
Births
Pre-1600
- 766 – Ali al-Ridha, 8th Imam of Twelver Shia Islam (died 818)[125]
- 1431 – Pope Alexander VI (died 1503)[126]
- 1449 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian politician (died 1492)[127]
- 1467 – Sigismund I the Old, Polish king (died 1548)[128]
- 1484 – Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss pastor and theologian (died 1531)[129]
- 1511 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, first-born child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon (died 1511)[130][131]
- 1557 – Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (died 1606)[132]
- 1600 – Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian and academic (died 1649)[133]
1601–1900
- 1628 – Christoph Bernhard, German composer and theorist (died 1692)[134]
- 1655 – Christian Thomasius, German jurist and philosopher (died 1728)[135]
- 1684 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch scholar and author (died 1748)[132]
- 1704 – Soame Jenyns, English author, poet, and politician (died 1787)[136]
- 1711 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (died 1749)[137]
- 1714 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian soprano and author (died 1800)[138]
- 1714 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (died 1780)[139]
- 1735 – Paul Revere, American silversmith and engraver (died 1818)[140]
- 1745 – Anthony Wayne, American general and politician (died 1796)[141]
- 1752 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress, sewed flags for the Pennsylvania Navy during the Revolutionary War (died 1836)[142]
- 1768 – Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish author (died 1849)[143]
- 1769 – Marie-Louise Lachapelle, French obstetrician (died 1821)[144]
- 1774 – André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and academic (died 1860)[145]
- 1779 – William Clowes, English publisher (died 1847)[146]
- 1803 – Edward Dickinson, American politician and father of poet Emily Dickinson (died 1874)[147]
- 1806 – Lionel Kieseritzky, Estonian-French chess player (died 1853)[148]
- 1809 – Achille Guenée, French lawyer and entomologist (died 1880)[149]
- 1813 – George Bliss, American politician (died 1868)[150]
- 1814 – Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebellion leader and king (died 1864)[151]
- 1818 – William Gamble, Irish-born American general (died 1866)[152]
- 1819 – Arthur Hugh Clough, English-Italian poet and academic (died 1861)[153]
- 1819 – George Foster Shepley, American general (died 1878)[154]
- 1823 – Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and activist (died 1849)[155]
- 1833 – Robert Lawson, Scottish-New Zealand architect, designed the Otago Boys' High School and Knox Church (died 1902)[156]
- 1834 – Ludovic Halévy, French author and playwright (died 1908)[157]
- 1839 – Ouida, English-Italian author and activist (died 1908)[158]
- 1848 – John W. Goff, Irish-American lawyer and politician (died 1924)[159]
- 1852 – Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, French chemist and academic (died 1904)[160]
- 1854 – James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist and academic (died 1941)[161]
- 1854 – Thomas Waddell, Irish-Australian politician, 15th Premier of New South Wales (died 1940)[162]
- 1857 – Tim Keefe, American baseball player (died 1933)[163]
- 1858 – Heinrich Rauchinger, Kraków-born painter (died 1942)[164]
- 1859 – Michael Joseph Owens, American inventor (died 1923)[165]
- 1859 – Thibaw Min, Burmese king (died 1916)[166]
- 1860 – Michele Lega, Italian cardinal (died 1935)[167]
- 1863 – Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (died 1937)[168]
- 1864 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (died 1946)[169]
- 1864 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (died 1957)[170]
- 1865 – Harry Coulby, American businessman (died 1929)[171]
- 1867 – Mary Acworth Evershed, English astronomer and scholar (died 1949)[172]
- 1874 – Frank Knox, American publisher and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1944)[173]
- 1874 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (died 1927)[174]
- 1877 – Alexander von Staël-Holstein, German sinologist and orientalist (died 1937)[175]
- 1878 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician, statistician, and engineer (died 1929)[176]
- 1879 – E. M. Forster, English author and playwright (died 1970)[177]
- 1879 – William Fox, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer, founded the Fox Film Corporation and Fox Theatres (died 1952)[178]
- 1883 – William J. Donovan, American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1959)[179]
- 1883 – Noe Khomeriki, Georgian Social Democrat politician (died 1924)[180]
- 1884 – Chikuhei Nakajima, Japanese lieutenant, engineer, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company (died 1949)[181]
- 1887 – Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (died 1945)[182]
- 1888 – Chesley Bonestell, American painter, designer, and illustrator (died 1986)[183]
- 1888 – John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle (died 1974)[184]
- 1888 – Georgios Stanotas, Greek general (died 1965)[185]
- 1889 – Charles Bickford, American actor (died 1967)[186]
- 1889 – Seabury Quinn, American author (died 1969)[187]
- 1890 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic (died 1966)[188]
- 1891 – Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Rajasthan (died 1969)[189]
- 1892 – Mahadev Desai, Indian author and activist (died 1942)[190]
- 1892 – Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor (died 1958)[191]
- 1892 – Manuel Roxas, Filipino lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Philippines (died 1948)[192]
- 1893 – Mordechai Frizis, Greek colonel (died 1940)[193]
- 1893 – Heinie Miller, American football player and coach (died 1964)[194]
- 1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician (died 1974)[195]
- 1894 – Edward Joseph Hunkeler, American clergyman (died 1970)[196]
- 1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 1972)[197]
- 1899 – Randolfo Pacciardi, centre-left Italian politician (died 1991)[198]
- 1900 – Chiune Sugihara, Japanese soldier and diplomat (died 1986)[199]
- 1900 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor (died 1990)[200]
1901–present
- 1902 – Buster Nupen, Norwegian-South African cricketer and lawyer (died 1977)[201]
- 1902 – Hans von Dohnányi, German jurist and political dissident (died 1945)[202]
- 1904 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th President of Pakistan (died 1982)[203]
- 1905 – Stanisław Mazur, Ukrainian-Polish mathematician and theorist (died 1981)[204]
- 1905 – Lise Lindbæk, Norwegian journalist and war correspondent (died 1961)[205]
- 1906 – Manuel Silos, Filipino filmmaker and actor (died 1988)[206]
- 1907 – Kinue Hitomi, Japanese sprinter and long jumper (died 1931)[207]
- 1909 – Dana Andrews, American actor (died 1992)[208]
- 1909 – Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (died 1959)[209]
- 1909 – Peggy Dennis, American-Russian journalist, author, and activist (died 1993)[210]
- 1911 – Basil Dearden, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1971)[211]
- 1911 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (died 1986)[212]
- 1911 – Roman Totenberg, Polish-American violinist and educator (died 2012)[213]
- 1911 – Audrey Wurdemann, American poet and author (died 1960)[214]
- 1912 – Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician and historian (died 1995)[215]
- 1912 – Kim Philby, British spy (died 1988)[216]
- 1912 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet and academic (died 1991)[217]
- 1914 – Noor Inayat Khan, British SOE agent (died 1944)[218]
- 1917 – Shannon Bolin, American actress and singer (died 2016)[219][220]
- 1918 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (died 2000)[221]
- 1918 – Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (died 1997)[222]
- 1919 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer and actor (died 1990)[223]
- 1919 – Carole Landis, American actress (died 1948)[224]
- 1919 – Sheila Mercier, British actress, Emmerdale Farm (died 2019)[225]
- 1919 – Bones McKinney, American basketball player (died 1997)[226]
- 1919 – J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (died 2010)[227]
- 1920 – Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist (died 2007)[228]
- 1921 – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (died 1986)[229]
- 1921 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor and academic (died 1998)[230]
- 1921 – Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (died 2013)[231]
- 1921 – Johnny Logan, American basketball player (died 1977)[232]
- 1922 – Ernest Hollings, American soldier and politician, 106th Governor of South Carolina (died 2019)[233]
- 1923 – Barbara Baxley, American actress (died 1990)[220][234]
- 1923 – Valentina Cortese, Italian actress (died 2019)[235]
- 1923 – Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist and composer (died 1999)[236]
- 1924 – Francisco Macías Nguema, Equatorial Guinean politician, 1st President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (died 1979)[237]
- 1925 – Matthew Beard, American child actor (died 1981)[238]
- 1925 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, 1st Tanzanian Minister of Finance (died 2005)[239]
- 1926 – Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (died 2008)[240]
- 1927 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (died 2007)[241]
- 1927 – James Reeb, American clergyman and political activist (died 1965)[242]
- 1927 – Vernon L. Smith, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[243]
- 1927 – Doak Walker, American football player and businessman (died 1998)[244]
- 1928 – Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (died 1984)[245]
- 1928 – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American historian, author, and academic[246]
- 1929 – Larry L. King, American journalist, author, and playwright (died 2012)[247][220]
- 1929 – Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor and stuntman, portrayed Godzilla from 1954 to 1972 (died 2017)[248]
- 1930 – Ty Hardin, American actor (died 2017)[220]
- 1930 – Frederick Wiseman, American director and producer (died 2026)[249][250]
- 1932 – Giuseppe Patanè, Italian conductor (died 1989)[251]
- 1933 – James Hormel, American philanthropist and diplomat (died 2021)[252]
- 1933 – Joe Orton, English dramatist (died 1967)[253][220]
- 1934 – Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (died 1984)[254]
- 1934 – Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian politician, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs[255]
- 1935 – Om Prakash Chautala, Indian politician (died 2024)[256]
- 1936 – James Sinegal, American businessman, co-founded Costco[257]
- 1938 – Frank Langella, American actor[258][220]
- 1939 – Michèle Mercier, French actress[259]
- 1939 – Phil Read, English motorcycle racer and businessman (died 2022)[260]
- 1939 – Senfronia Thompson, American politician[261]
- 1939 – Younoussi Touré, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (died 2022)[262]
- 1940 – Prathia Hall, American civil rights movement activist (died 2002)[263]
- 1942 – Dennis Archer, American lawyer and politician, 67th Mayor of Detroit[264]
- 1942 – Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn, English dentist and politician (died 2024)[265]
- 1942 – Country Joe McDonald, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[266]
- 1942 – Alassane Ouattara, Ivorian economist and politician, President of the Ivory Coast[267]
- 1942 – Gennadi Sarafanov, Russian pilot and cosmonaut (died 2005)[268]
- 1943 – Tony Knowles, American soldier and politician, 7th Governor of Alaska[269]
- 1943 – Don Novello, American comedian, screenwriter and producer[270][220]
- 1943 – Vladimir Šeks, Croatian lawyer and politician, 16th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament[271]
- 1944 – Barry Beath, Australian rugby league player[272]
- 1944 – Jimmy Hart, American professional wrestling manager[273]
- 1944 – Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani field hockey player and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2020)[274]
- 1944 – Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist and author (died 2013)[275]
- 1944 – Mati Unt, Estonian author, playwright, and director (died 2005)[276]
- 1945 – Victor Ashe, American politician and former United States Ambassador to Poland[277]
- 1945 – Jacky Ickx, Belgian racing driver[278]
- 1945 – Jimmy Jones, American basketball player[279]
- 1946 – Rivellino, Brazilian footballer and manager[280]
- 1946 – Claude Steele, American social psychologist and academic[281]
- 1947 – Jon Corzine, American sergeant and politician, 54th Governor of New Jersey[282]
- 1948 – Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish economist, academic, and politician, 57th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey[283]
- 1948 – Pavel Grachev, Russian general and politician, 1st Russian Minister of Defence (died 2012)[284]
- 1948 – Dick Quax, New Zealand runner and politician (died 2018)[285]
- 1949 – Borys Tarasyuk, Ukrainian politician and diplomat[286]
- 1950 – Wayne Bennett, Australian rugby league player and coach[287]
- 1950 – Tony Currie, English footballer[288]
- 1952 – Shaji N. Karun, Indian director and cinematographer (died 2025)[289]
- 1953 – Gary Johnson, American businessman and politician, 29th Governor of New Mexico[290]
- 1954 – Richard Edson, American actor[291]
- 1954 – Bob Menendez, American lawyer and politician[292]
- 1954 – Dennis O'Driscoll, Irish poet and critic (died 2012)[293]
- 1954 – Yannis Papathanasiou, Greek engineer and politician, Greek Minister of Finance[294]
- 1955 – Mary Beard, English classicist, academic and presenter[295]
- 1955 – LaMarr Hoyt, American baseball player (died 2021)[296]
- 1956 – Sergei Avdeyev, Russian engineer and astronaut[297]
- 1956 – Royce Ayliffe, Australian rugby league player[298]
- 1956 – Christine Lagarde, French lawyer and politician; Managing Director, International Monetary Fund[299]
- 1956 – Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (died 2011)[300]
- 1956 – Martin Plaza, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist[301]
- 1957 – Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece[302]
- 1958 – Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian rapper and DJ[303]
- 1958 – Dave Silk, American ice hockey player[304]
- 1959 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, Afghan colonel, pilot, and astronaut[305]
- 1959 – Azali Assoumani, Comorian colonel and politician, President of the Comoros[306]
- 1959 – Panagiotis Giannakis, Greek basketball player and coach[307]
- 1959 – Adrian Hall, English director and former actor[308]
- 1961 – Sam Backo, Australian rugby league player (died 2025)[309]
- 1962 – Anton Muscatelli, Italian-Scottish economist and academic[310]
- 1963 – Milo Aukerman, American singer and songwriter[311]
- 1963 – Jean-Marc Gounon, French racing driver[312]
- 1964 – Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress[313]
- 1966 – Anna Burke, Australian businesswoman and politician, 28th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives[314]
- 1966 – Ivica Dačić, Serbian journalist and politician, 95th Prime Minister of Serbia[315]
- 1966 – Tihomir Orešković, Croatian–Canadian businessman, 11th Prime Minister of Croatia[316]
- 1967 – Tawera Nikau, New Zealand rugby league player[317]
- 1968 – Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer[318]
- 1969 – Morris Chestnut, American actor[319]
- 1969 – Verne Troyer, American actor (died 2018)[320]
- 1970 – Sergei Kiriakov, Russian footballer and coach[321]
- 1971 – Sammie Henson, American wrestler and coach[322]
- 1971 – Bobby Holík, Czech-American ice hockey player and coach[323]
- 1971 – Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Indian politician[324]
- 1972 – Lilian Thuram, French footballer[325]
- 1974 – Christian Paradis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry[326]