January 3
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Births
- 106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
- 1887 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
- 1911 - John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
- 1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
- 1956 - Mel Gibson, Australian actor
- 1964 - Bruce LaBruce, Canadian film-maker
Deaths
- 1098 - Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester (b. unknown)
- 1322 - King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
- 1437 - Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
- 1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
- 1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
- 1656 - Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
- 1670 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b. 1608)
- 1690 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
- 1743 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
- 1779 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
- 1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
- 1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
- 1826 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
- 1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
- 1882 - William Harrison Ainsworth, English novelist (b. 1805)
- 1903 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hilter (b. 1837)
- 1911 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
- 1915 - James Elroy Flecker, English author (b. 1884)
- 1916 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
- 1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
- 1927 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
- 1931 - Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
- 1933 - Wilhelm Cuno, 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
- 1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
- 1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
- 1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
- 1945 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
- 1946 - William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
- 1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
- 1956 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
- 1956 - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
- 1963 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b. 1910)
- 1967 - Mary Garden, Scottish singer (b. 1874)
- 1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
- 1969 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (b. 1909)
- 1969 - Howard McNear, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1974 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
- 1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
- 1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
- 1980 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
- 1981 - Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
- 1988 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
- 1988 - Joie Chitwood, American racedriver & Daredevil (b. 1912)
- 1989 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
- 1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
- 1993 - Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
- 2002 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
- 2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
- 2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
- 2005 - JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
- 2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
- 2006 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
- 2006 - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
- 2007 - Janos Furst, Hungarian-born orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
- 2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)
- 2007 - William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
- 2007 - Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983–2001 (b. 1924)
- 2007 - Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961–1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
Notes
Sergio Leone Jurgis Baltrušaitis Walter Herdeg August Macke John Millington Synge Juan García Esquivel Emil Jannings Daft Punk Rosa Montero Rudolf Koppitz Milton Avery Monique Wittig Vladislav Gorodetsky Jaroslav Hašek Cicero John M. Woolsey Pola Negri Bodil Joensen J. R. R. Tolkien Robert Thomas Bruce LaBruce
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