January 5

2024 Calendar

January 5 is the fifth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days remaining until the end of the year (361 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

1066 – Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004)
1113 – Ulrich I, Duke of Brno, Moravian ruler
1387 – Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)
1448 – Christopher III of Bavaria, King of Denmark (b. 1416)
1465 – Charles, Duke of Orleans (b. 1389)
1477 – Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433)
1527 – Felix Manz, Swiss martyr (b. 1498)
1588 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
1589 – Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France (b. 1519)
1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
1740 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1677)
1762 – Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
1771 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
1816 – George Prevost, British officer and diplomat (b. 1767)
1858 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
1891 – Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)

1901 – 2000

1904 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
1910 – Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)
1910 – Nikolaos Deligiannis, Greek politician (b. 1844)
1913 – Louis Paul Cailletet, French physicist (b. 1834)
1919 – Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress (b. 1886)
1922 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish Antarctic explorer (b. 1874)
1933 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
1941 – Amy Johnson, English pilot (b. 1903)
1942 – Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, revolutionary and political activist (b. 1896)
1943 – George Washington Carver, American scientist and educator (b. 1864)
1945 – Julius Leber, German politician and resistance activist (b. 1891)
1951 – Seo Jae-pil, Korean journalist and politician (b. 1864)
1952 – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, British Viceroy of India (b. 1887)
1952 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1869)
1956 – Mistinguett, French actress and singer (b. 1875)
1970 – Max Born, German physicist (b. 1882)
1971 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American sound designer and engineer (b. 1899)
1976 – John A. Costello, Irish Taoiseach (b. 1891)
1976 – Mal Evans, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1935)
1979 – Charles Mingus, American bassist and composer (b. 1922)
1981 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist (b. 1893)
1985 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
1987 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian cross country skier (b. 1875)
1991 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
1993 – Westley Allan Dodd, American murderer (b. 1961)
1994 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
1995 - Mansour Sattari, Iranian general (b. 1948)
1997 – Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
1997 – Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Swedish royal (b. 1912)
1998 – Sonny Bono, American musician, actor and politician (b. 1935)

From 2001

2003 – Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
2003 – Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (b. 1918)
2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006 – Merlyn Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
2007 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (b. 1910)
2009 – Adolf Merckle, German industrialist (b. 1934)
2010 – Kenneth Noland, American painter (b. 1924)
2010 – Toni Tecuceanu, Romanian actor (b. 1972)
2012 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American screenwriter, playwright and writer (b. 1900)
2013 – Reg Dean, British supercentenarian (b. 1902)
2013 – Martha Greenhouse, American actress (b. 1921)
2014 – Eusébio, Portuguese footballer (b. 1942)
2014 – Simon Hoggart, English journalist (b. 1946)
2014 – Carmen Zapata, American actress (b. 1927)
2014 – Alma Muriel, Mexican actress (b. 1951)
2014 – Mogens E. Pedersen, Danish journalist (b. 1928)
2014 – Jerry Coleman, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2015 – Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1912)
2015 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver (b. 1937)
2015 – Joy Ali, Fijian boxer (b. 1978)
2015 – Khan Bonfils, English actor (b. 1972)
2015 – King Sporty, Jamaican-American reggae musician (b. 1943)
2016 – Jean-Paul L'Allier, Canadian politician (b. 1938)
2016 – Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2016 – Percy Freeman, English footballer (b. 1945)
2016 – Rudolf Haag, German theoretical physicist and educator (b. 1922)
2016 – Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov, Russian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2016 – Michael Purcell, Australian rugby player (b. 1945)
2017 – Tullio De Mauro, Italian linguist and politician (b. 1932)
2017 – Jill Saward, English campaigner (b. 1965)
2017 – Christopher Weeramantry, Sri Lankan judge (b. 1926)
2017 – Spartak Belyaev, Russian theoretical physicist (b. 1921)
2017 – Géori Boué, French soprano (b. 1918)
2017 – Paul Goble, English-American author and illustrator (b. 1933)
2017 – John Wightman, American politician (b. 1938)
2018 – Antonio Angelillo, Argentine-Italian footballer (b. 1937)
2018 – Carlos Heitor Cony, Brazilian journalist and writer (b. 1926)
2018 – Asghar Khan, Pakistani politician and military officer (b. 1921)
2018 – Marina Ripa Di Meana, Italian writer, actress and television personality (b. 1941)
2018 – Jerry Van Dyke, American actor and comedian (b. 1931)
2018 – John W. Young, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2019 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer (b. 1937)
2020 – Hans Tilkowski, German football goalkeeper and manager (b. 1935)
2021 – Colin Bell, English footballer (b. 1946)
2022 – Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1925)

Births

Up to 1800

1209 – Richard I, Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans (d. 1272)
1425 – Henry IV of Castile (d. 1474)
1548 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1587 – Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
1614 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
1640 – Paolo Lorenzani, Italian composer (d. 1713)
1667 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (d. 1740)
1679 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian composer, organist and choirmaster (d. 1750)
1696 – Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect (d. 1757)
1717 – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
1744 – Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Asturian statesman, author and philosopher (d. 1811)
1762 – Constanze Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
1767 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist (d. 1832)
1779 – Zebulon Pike, American general and explorer (d. 1813)

1801 – 1900

1833 – Sophus Bugge, Norwegian philologist (d. 1907)
1834 – William John Wills, Australian explorer (d. 1861)
1838 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
1846 – Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer (d. 1926)
1855 – King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
1864 – Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911)
1865 – Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
1866 – Antonio Maria Baptista, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1920)
1867 – Dimitrios Gounaris, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1922)
1874 – Joseph Erlanger, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1965)
1876 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1967)
1879 – Marcel Tournier, French harpist and composer (d. 1951)
1879 – Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)
1881 – Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor and painter (d. 1934)
1891 – Bill Cody, American actor (d. 1948)
1893 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian philosopher and writer (d. 1952)
1895 – Jeannette Piccard, American priest and aeronaut (d. 1981)
1895 – Elizabeth Cotten, American singer-songwriter (d. 1987)
1897 – Theodor Mackeben, German pianist (d. 1953)
1897 – Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher (d. 1945)
1900 – Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)

1901 – 1950

1902 – Stella Gibbons, English author (d. 1989)
1904 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
1906 – Kathleen Kenyon, British archaeologist (d. 1978)
1909 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
1909 – Lucienne Bloch, Swiss-born American sculptor, muralist and photographer (d. 1995)
1910 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
1914 – George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
1917 – Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat and socialite (d. 2006)
1917 – Wieland Wagner, German stage director (d. 1996)
1917 – Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)
1918 – Dal Richards, Canadian big band leader (d. 2015)
1919 – Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (d. 1992)
1921 – Former Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (d. 2019)
1921 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
1921 – John H. Reed, 67th Governor of Maine (d. 2012)
1923 – Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)
1925 – Lou Carnesecca, American basketball coach
1926 – Walther Leisler Kiep, German politician (d. 2016)
1928 – Alexander Dalgarno, British physicist (d. 2015)
1928 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (d. 1979)
1928 – Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (d. 2021)
1928 – Preben Hertoft, Danish sexologist (d. 2017)
1929 – Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer (d. 2014)
1931 – Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
1931 – Alvin Ailey, American choreographer and activist (d. 1989)
1931 – Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer (d. 2017)
1931 – Robert Duvall, American actor
1932 – Umberto Eco, Italian writer and columnist (d. 2016)
1932 – Raisa Gorbachova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999)
1932 – Chuck Noll, American football coach (d. 2014)
1934 – Phil Ramone, South African-born American sound engineer and record producer (d. 2013)
1935 – David Ryall, English actor (d. 2014)
1936 – Florence King, American novelist, essayist and columnist (d. 2016)
1938 – Juan Carlos I, King of Spain from 1975 to 2014
1938 – Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer
1938 – Terry Davis, British politician
1940 – Veikko Kankkonen, Finnish ski jumper
1941 – Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film director, producer, animator and screenwriter
1941 – Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (d. 1986)
1942 – Maurizio Pollini, Italian classical pianist
1944 – Ed Rendell, 45th Governor of Pennsylvania
1946 – Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Japanese royal (d. 2012)
1946 – Diane Keaton, American actress, movie producer and director
1947 – Mike DeWine, American politician
1947 – Kathrine Switzer, American author, television commentator and marathon runner
1947 – Rita Kühne, German athlete
1948 – Ted Lange, American actor
1948 – Giuseppe Impastato, Italian anti-Mafia campaigner (d. 1978)
1950 – John Manley, Canadian lawyer and politician
1950 – Peter Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, English lawyer and politician
1950 – Ioan P. Culiano, Romanian historian, philosopher and author (d. 1991)

1951 – 1975

1952 – Uli Hoeness, German footballer
1953 – Steve Archer, American singer
1953 – George Tenet, American former CIA director
1953 – Mike Rann, 44th Premier of South Australia
1954 – Alex English, American basketball player
1954 – Pamela Sue Martin, actress
1955 – Mamata Banerjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
1955 – Jimmy Mulville, English comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter
1955 – Douglas Chapman, Scottish politician
1956 – Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German politician, President of Germany
1958 – Monica Guerritore, Italian actress
1959 – Clancy Brown, American actor
1960 – Otar Korghalidze, Georgian footballer
1960 – Phil Thornalley, English songwriter, producer and musician
1962 – Suzy Amis, American actress
1963 – Ralf Loose, German footballer
1965 – Vinnie Jones, British footballer and actor
1967 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
1968 – DJ BoBo, Swiss DJ, singer-songwriter and producer
1968 – Carrie Anne Inaba, American actress, singer, dancer and choreographer
1968 – Andrew Golota, Polish boxer
1969 – Giorgi Baranidze, Georgian politician
1969 – Marilyn Manson, American rock singer
1972 – Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer
1972 – Sascha Schmitz, German singer
1972 – Luciana Pedraza, Argentine actress, director and screenwriter
1972 – Philip Davies, English politician
1973 – Uday Chopra, Indian actor
1974 – Iwan Thomas, Welsh sprinter
1975 – Bradley Cooper, American actor

From 1976

1976 – Matt Wachter, American bass player
1978 – Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
1978 – January Jones, American actress
1978 – Emilia Rydberg, Swedish singer
1979 – Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Masami Tanaka, Japanese swimmer
1979 – Blanca Soto, Mexican actress and model
1980 – Sebastian Deisler, German footballer
1980 – Santiago Ventura Bertomeu, Spanish tennis player
1980 – Chema Rodriguez, Spanish handball player
1981 – Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby player
1982 – Janica Kostelic, Croatian skier
1982 – Darren Mackie, Scottish footballer
1982 – Jaroslav Plasil, Czech footballer
1982 – Karel Geraerts, Belgian footballer
1983 – Sean Dockery, American basketball player
1984 – Ikechukwu Uche, Nigerian footballer
1984 – Reinar Hallik, Estonian basketball player
1984 – Amanda Hearst, American model
1985 – Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
1985 – Yoon So-yi, South Korean actress
1986 – Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
1987 – Kristin Cavallari, American actress
1988 – Miroslav Raduljica, Serbian basketball player
1988 – Nikola Kalinic, Croatian footballer
1989 – Krisztian Nemeth, Hungarian footballer
1990 – Yang Yo-seok, South Korean singer and dancer
1990 – Leroy Fer, Dutch footballer
1991 – Daniel Pacheco, Spanish footballer
1993 – Franz Drameh, British actor
1996 – Max Baldry, British actor
1996 – Emma Bolger, Irish actress
1999 – Marc Yu, American pianist and cellist

Deaths

Observances

Twelfth Night (Western Christianity) – night to January 6