On This Day — January 1

Ana Aslan

1897 – 1988

Daniel Gorenstein

1923 – 1992

Paul Ginsparg

b. 1955

Ralph Raphael

1921 – 1998

Adilson E. Motter

b. 1974

Adusumilli Srikrishna

1955 – 2013

Altynai Asylmuratova

b. 1961

Andrii Sybiha‎

b. 1975

André Marie Constant Duméril

1774 – 1860

Anna Burke

b. 1966

Anton Muscatelli

b. 1962

Antonio Cassese

1937 – 2011

Benjamin Whisoh Lee

1935 – 1977

Charlie Munger

1924 – 2023

Christine Lagarde

b. 1956

Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland

1942 – 2009

Claude Hagège

b. 1936

Claude Steele

b. 1946

Cornelia Bargmann

b. 1961

David Leonhardt

b. 1973

David Serwadda

b. 1959

Dzulkefly Ahmad

b. 1956

Ernst Muldashev

b. 1948

Evangelos Venizelos

b. 1957

Genichi Taguchi

1924 – 2012

Gheorghe Alexianu

1897 – 1946

Heinz Zemanek

1920 – 2014

Hieu Van Le

b. 1954

J. Edgar Hoover

1895 – 1972

Jacques Le Goff

1924 – 2014

James George Frazer

1854 – 1941

Juan Atilio Bramuglia

1903 – 1962

Jörg Dräger

b. 1968

Karl Stein

1913 – 2000

Lael Brainard

b. 1962

Lakhdar Brahimi

b. 1934

Marcellin Boule

1861 – 1942

Martin Evans

b. 1941

Nikolaos Kylafis

b. 1949

Philippe Douste-Blazy

b. 1953

Pierre Rosanvallon

b. 1948

Richard Sennett

b. 1943

Sergey Glazyev

b. 1961

Stanislaus Lo Kuang

1911 – 2004

Stanisław Mazur

1905 – 1981

Tadatsugu Taniguchi

b. 1948

Tipene O'Regan

b. 1939

Ton van de Ven

1944 – 2015

Tony Brenton

b. 1950

Walter Schultze

1894 – 1979

William Imbrie

1845 – 1928

William J. Donovan

1883 – 1959

Əli Abbasov

b. 1953

Abdalla Hamdok

b. 1956

Abdul Hamid

b. 1944

Adam Struzik

b. 1957

Ahn Sung-ki

1952 – 2026

Alassane Ouattara

b. 1942

Albert H. Taylor

1879 – 1961

Alfred Philippson

1864 – 1953

Allan Alcorn

b. 1948

Amelia Fletcher

b. 1966

Anne-Antoine-Jules de Clermont-Tonnerre

1749 – 1830

Anthony Hamilton-Smith, 3rd Baron Colwyn

1942 – 2024

Anthony Wayne

1745 – 1796

Aram Nalbandyan

1908 – 1987

Arthur Coleman Danto

1924 – 2013

Baghdasar Arzoumanian

1916 – 2001

Balmiki Prasad Singh

b. 1942

Ben Blushi

b. 1969

Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

b. 1959

Biman Bagchi

b. 1954

Bob Foster

1947 – 2025

Bob Menendez

b. 1954

Boris Gnedenko

1912 – 1995

Borys Tarasyuk

b. 1949

Bruce McKenzie

1919 – 1978

Burhan Kuzu

1955 – 2020

Cecilio Báez

1862 – 1941

Chikuhei Nakajima

1884 – 1949

Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn

1857 – 1904

César Baldaccini

1921 – 1998

David Ceperley

b. 1949

Davor Škrlec

b. 1963

Deepa Mehta

b. 1950

Derek Kilmer

b. 1974

Devlet Bahçeli

b. 1948

Dmytro Hryhorak

b. 1956

Driss el-Yazami

b. 1952

Eduard Wölfflin

1831 – 1908

Edward Stanley

1779 – 1849

Elaine Didier

b. 1948

Elizabeth Zarubina

1900 – 1987

Eugène-Anatole Demarçay

1852 – 1903

Fazlollah Reza

1915 – 2019

Ferdinand Baston de La Riboisière

1856 – 1931

Francis Bond Head

1793 – 1875

Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere

1800 – 1857

Francis Godschall Johnson

1817 – 1894

Frank Caruso

b. 1968

Frederick J. Conboy

1883 – 1949

Frederick Lowy

b. 1933

Frederick Wiseman

1930 – 2026

Fritz Hollings

1922 – 2019

Gabriel Oprea

b. 1961

Gagik Beglaryan

b. 1964

Gary Johnson

b. 1953

Gayle Rubin

b. 1949

Gerhard Weinberg

b. 1928

Gholam A. Peyman

b. 1937

Gibril Ibrahim

b. 1955

Giuseppe Ferrata

1865 – 1928

H. R. Nagendra

b. 1943

Habibur Rahman

b. 1967

Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari

b. 1948

Hamid Elmahdaouy

b. 1979

Harry K. Newburn

1906 – 1974

Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach

b. 1947

Herman Rosse

1887 – 1965

Hito Steyerl

b. 1966

Hossein Vahid Khorasani

b. 1921

Hurd Curtis Willett

1903 – 1992

Idun Reiten

1942 – 2025

Igor Vladimirov

1919 – 1999

Ivan Devčić

b. 1948

Ivica Dačić

b. 1966

Jalmari Jaakkola

1885 – 1964

James Spigelman

b. 1946

Jasimuddin

1903 – 1976

Jean-Baptiste Collin de Sussy

1750 – 1826

Jeanne Lanvin

1867 – 1946

Jeff Moss

b. 1975

Joanna Jędryka

b. 1940

John La Montagne

1943 – 2004

John Morison Gibson

1842 – 1929

Jon Corzine

b. 1947

Jonah Peretti

b. 1974

Joseph Abiodun Balogun

b. 1955

José Manuel Estepa Llaurens

1926 – 2019

Juan Antonio Vázquez García

b. 1952

Juichi Tsushima

1888 – 1967

Jule Gregory Charney

1917 – 1981

June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury

1928 – 2006

Jyotirmoy Ghosh

1896 – 1965

Ján Čarnogurský

b. 1944

Kerrie Mengersen

b. 1962

Kichirō Tazawa

1918 – 2001

Kim Philby

1912 – 1988

Kiyonga Cwcb

b. 1952

Knut Fredrik Söderwall

1842 – 1924

Koriki Jojima

b. 1947

Lewis Macdonald

b. 1957

Ludovico Fulci

1850 – 1934

László Endre

1895 – 1946

Mahadev Desai

1892 – 1942

Mahamadou Issoufou

b. 1952

Manuel Cruz

b. 1951

Manuel Manahan

1916 – 1994

Manuel Roxas

1892 – 1948

Mariana Betsa

b. 1978

Maris Lauri

b. 1966

Mark Beaumont

b. 1983

Martha P. Haynes

b. 1951

Martin Frost

b. 1942

Masayuki Fujio

1917 – 2006

Mati Unt

1944 – 2005

Maximilien Marie

1819 – 1891

Mehmet Şimşek

b. 1967

Michael Roemer

1928 – 2025

Michal Schwartz

b. 1950

Michel Goldman

b. 1955

Michel Onfray

b. 1959

Michele Lega

1860 – 1935

Michiharu Mishima

1897 – 1965

Miguel Cabanellas

1872 – 1938

Mikhail Mashkovtsev

1947 – 2022

Milton Rosenau

1869 – 1946

Mitsuo Horiuchi

1930 – 2016

Mohamed Bazoum

b. 1960

Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly

1943 – 2019

Mohamed Yonis

b. 1947

Moses Abramovitz

1912 – 2000

Myer Galpern

1903 – 1993

Mário Quina

1930 – 2017

Nguyen Xuan Vinh

1930 – 2022

Nic Waal

1905 – 1960

Nijaz Duraković

1949 – 2012

Norvell William Emerson

1938 – 1996

Nurlan Yermekbayev

b. 1963

Oleksandr Shlapak

b. 1960

Omar al-Bashir

b. 1944

Ovidiu Savin

b. 1977

Pavel Dolukhanov

1937 – 2009

Pavel Grachev

1948 – 2012

Petar Živković

1879 – 1947

Peter Bawden

1929 – 1991

Phil Hammond

b. 1962

Philip Dansken Ross

1858 – 1949

Philip Strax

1909 – 1999

Phoolan Prasad

b. 1944

Arthur Rudolph

1906 – 1996

Baltazar Mathias Keilhau

1797 – 1858

Christopher Martin-Jenkins

1945 – 2013

Duff Cooper

1890 – 1954

Georges Bruhat

1887 – 1945

Georgina Sweet

1875 – 1946

Grafton Elliot Smith

1871 – 1937

Heinrich Hertz

1857 – 1894

Helen Suzman

1917 – 2009

Johann Bernoulli

1667 – 1748

John George Children

1777 – 1852

John Marshall

1818 – 1891

Kazimierz Michałowski

1901 – 1981

Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton

1716 – 1800

Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck

1851 – 1931

Mikko Juva

1918 – 2004

Shirley Chisholm

1924 – 2005

Thomas Sutherland

1834 – 1922

Walter Hayman

1926 – 2020

Ali Golzadeh Ghafouri

1923 – 2010

Anthony Barnes Atkinson

1944 – 2017

Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt

1900 – 1994

Astrid Sampe

1909 – 2002

Avard Fairbanks

1897 – 1987

Avraam Melnikov

1784 – 1854

Barton MacLane

1902 – 1969

Benoît-Marie Langénieux

1824 – 1905

Carlos Escudé

1948 – 2021

Claiborne Pell

1918 – 2009

Dale Bumpers

1925 – 2016

David Stern

1942 – 2020

Edwin Lutyens

1869 – 1944

Elizabeth Edgar

1929 – 2019

Ernest Cormier

1885 – 1980

Ernest Kennaway

1881 – 1958

Eugene Paul Wigner

1902 – 1995

Francesco Forte

1929 – 2022

Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill

1902 – 1979

Freya von Moltke

1911 – 2010

G. Sankara Pillai

1930 – 1989

George Simpson

1878 – 1965

Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont

1606 – 1671

Haxhi Lleshi

1913 – 1998

Heinrich Friedrich Link

1767 – 1851

Higashifushimi Kunihide

1910 – 2014

Hugo Blümner

1844 – 1919

Hédi Lakhoua

1872 – 1949

Igor Torkar

1913 – 2004

Jacob Neeman

1939 – 2017

Joan Soler i Amigó

1941 – 2022

Joe Foss

1915 – 2003

John Gresham Machen

1881 – 1937

John Morrow

1931 – 2009

John Rhea Barton

1794 – 1871

János Aczél

1924 – 2020

Karl Gerstner

1930 – 2017

Ken Loeffler

1902 – 1975

Kiro Gligorov

1917 – 2012

Konstantin Khokhlov

1885 – 1956

Leopoldo Benites

1905 – 1996

Lim Boon Keng

1869 – 1957

Lord David Cecil

1902 – 1986

Ludvig Nicolaus von Scheele

1796 – 1874

Mariano Picón Salas

1901 – 1965

Martin Heinrich Klaproth

1743 – 1817

Mike Oxley

1944 – 2016

Patti Page

1927 – 2013

Paul Benjamin Vogt

1863 – 1947

Piroska Reichard

1884 – 1943

Roland Hayes

1887 – 1977

Roland Levinsky

1943 – 2007

Samuel Sewall

1652 – 1730

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

1856 – 1921

Tillie Olsen

1912 – 2007

Ulrich Beck

1944 – 2015

Vic Garland

1934 – 2022

Vincent Auriol

1884 – 1966

William Henry Lewis

1868 – 1949

Aenne Brauksiepe

1912 – 1997

Akitsune Imamura

1870 – 1948

Albert Henry

1907 – 1981

Aleksandr Bednov

1969 – 2015

Alexander Saroukhan

1898 – 1977

Alexander W. Weddell

1876 – 1948

Alfred Ely Beach

1826 – 1896

Antonio Cocchi

1695 – 1758

Arthur Middleton

1742 – 1787

Arthur Ruppin

1876 – 1943

Augustus W. Cutler

1827 – 1897

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

1890 – 1962

Bill Henry

1924 – 1985

Bogdan Tuszyński

1932 – 2017

Boris Morukov

1950 – 2015

C. P. Scott

1846 – 1932

Calisto Tanzi

1938 – 2022

Carlos Soria

1949 – 2012

Cecil Hincks

1894 – 1963

Cesar Romero

1907 – 1994

Charles E. Bohlen

1904 – 1974

Charles M. Teague

1909 – 1974

Charles O. Porter

1919 – 2006

Charles Taylor Sherman

1811 – 1879

Chen Jitong

1851 – 1907

Chester Bidwell Darrall

1842 – 1908

Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham

1647 – 1730

Daniel Rossouw Kannemeyer

1843 – 1925

Daulat Bikram Bista

1925 – 2002

Denis J. O'Connell

1849 – 1927

Dick Scott

1923 – 2020

E. J. Cooray

1907 – 2016

Ed Jenkins

1933 – 2012

Edgar Leopold Layard

1824 – 1900

Edna Brown

1940 – 2022

Eli Shechtman

1908 – 1996

Emmy Diemer-Nicolaus

1910 – 2008

Eulalia Guzmán

1890 – 1985

Fazu Aliyeva

1932 – 2016

Frank A. Oliver

1883 – 1968

Frank E. Guernsey

1866 – 1927

Frank T. Cary

1920 – 2006

Frano Kršinić

1897 – 1982

Fred J. Douglas

1869 – 1949

Friedrich Weleminsky

1868 – 1945

Gabriel Puaux

1883 – 1970

George A. Neeley

1879 – 1919

George Miller

1914 – 1969

George W. Hough

1836 – 1909

Gilbert Kaplan

1941 – 2016

Gustave Maximilien Juste de Croÿ-Solre

1773 – 1844

Hank Williams

1923 – 1953

Harold Thorby

1888 – 1973

Helen Wills

1905 – 1998

Heman A. White

1817 – 1898

Henry Croft

1861 – 1930

Hermann Zilcher

1881 – 1948

Hilarion Capucci

1922 – 2017

Hugh Gillis

1918 – 2013

Hugh Nelson

1835 – 1906

Jack Howell

1926 – 2015

Jahn Otto Johansen

1934 – 2018

James Greeley Flanders

1844 – 1920

James W. Newman

1841 – 1901

Jean Mayer

1920 – 1993

Jim Toy

1930 – 2022

Joan Benson

1925 – 2020

Joan Guinjoan

1931 – 2019

Johan Søhr

1867 – 1949

John Coleman Moore

1923 – 2016

John Jacob Riley

1895 – 1962

John L. Bascom

1860 – 1950

John M. Berrien

1781 – 1856

John Weston Allen

1872 – 1942

Joseph-Goderic Blanchet

1829 – 1890

José Antonio Pujante

1964 – 2019

Junius Edgar West

1866 – 1947

Konoe Atsumaro

1863 – 1904

Lhasa de Sela

1972 – 2010

Louis Prévost de Sansac

1496 – 1576

Lucinda do Carmo

1861 – 1922

M. J. Frankovich

1909 – 1992

Manuel de Irujo Ollo

1891 – 1981

Margaret Sullavan

1909 – 1960

Mario Cuomo

1932 – 2015

Maximus V of Constantinople

1897 – 1972

Michael Graham

1898 – 1972

Michael Patrick Cronan

1951 – 2013

Mochizuki Keisuke

1867 – 1941

Murray Greason

1901 – 1960

Musa Adyshev

1915 – 1979

Mustafa Necati

1894 – 1929

Nathan Brown

1807 – 1886

Nicolas Sicard

1846 – 1920

Omar Karami

1934 – 2015

Petar Poparsov

1868 – 1941

Peter Lo Sui Yin

1923 – 2020

Peter Rawson Taft

1785 – 1867

Pietro Nenni

1891 – 1980

Robert Matsui

1941 – 2005

Robert S. Kerr

1896 – 1963

Ross Bass

1918 – 1993

Sabah Qabbani

1928 – 2015

Slobodan Rakitić

1940 – 2013

Solon Borland

1808 – 1864

Stefan Zamoyski

1837 – 1899

Stéphane Gsell

1864 – 1932

Thomas B. Ward

1835 – 1892

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke

1770 – 1842

Todd Bullard

1931 – 2009

Townes Van Zandt

1944 – 1997

Ugo Ojetti

1871 – 1946

Vilmos Zsigmond

1930 – 2016

Walter Kaufmann

1871 – 1947

Willem Scholten

1927 – 2005

William Bruce

1630 – 1710

William Lloyd Standish

1930 – 2015

William Pearce Howland

1811 – 1907

William T. Bovie

1882 – 1958

William Wilfred Campbell

1860 – 1918

Zhao Luorui

1912 – 1998

Aarne Orjatsalo

1883 – 1941