On This Day — January 21
4417 noted people were born and 2214 died on January 21 in our archive, including André Lichnerowicz, Bengt Strömgren and George Van Biesbroeck.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 21
André Lichnerowicz
1915 – 1998
Bengt Strömgren
1908 – 1987
George Van Biesbroeck
1880 – 1974
Abner Mikva
1926 – 2016
Agnes Mongan
1905 – 1996
Alberto Taquini
b. 1935
Alexander Misharin
b. 1959
Asif Ahmad
b. 1956
Charles Pence Slichter
1924 – 2018
Clarence A. Waldo
1852 – 1926
David Eugene Smith
1860 – 1944
Eduard Zintl
1898 – 1941
Elaine Showalter
b. 1941
Eric Holder
b. 1951
Erik Verlinde
b. 1962
Ernest Lluch
1937 – 2000
Fuat Oktay
b. 1964
Georgy Pushkin
1909 – 1963
Habib Thiam
1933 – 2017
Hasso Plattner
b. 1944
Jacek Junosza Kisielewski
b. 1952
John Tilley
1869 – 1952
Joseph Achille Le Bel
1847 – 1930
Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell
1744 – 1816
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
1725 – 1805
Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao
1948 – 2023
Max Bonnafous
1900 – 1975
Paul Allen
1953 – 2018
Piotr Piecuch
b. 1960
René-Louis Baire
1874 – 1932
Steven Marshall
b. 1968
Thomas de Maizière
b. 1954
Théodore Olivier
1793 – 1853
Wolfgang Köhler
1887 – 1967
Émile Levassor
1843 – 1897
Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, 9th Baron of Claret
b. 1956
Albert Grauer
1906 – 1961
Albert Lavignac
1846 – 1916
Aldo Vidussoni
1914 – 1982
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kharkevich
1904 – 1965
Alexander Weinstein
1897 – 1979
Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley
1750 – 1830
Andrew (Abramchuk)
b. 1949
Andrew Sinclair
1935 – 2019
Andrew Stevenson
1784 – 1857
Andrew Turnbull
b. 1945
Anja Hazekamp
b. 1968
Ann Wedgeworth
1934 – 2017
Anna Polony
b. 1939
Arantzazu Amezaga Iribarren
b. 1943
Ariy Pazovsky
1887 – 1953
Armand-Octave-Marie d'Allonville
1809 – 1867
Artsvi Bakhchinyan
b. 1971
Beata Brookes
1930 – 2015
Bernhard Garside
b. 1962
Bess Lomax Hawes
1921 – 2009
Bozoma Saint John
b. 1977
Brigitte François-Sappey
b. 1944
Charles A. Gabriel
1928 – 2003
Charles Bonaventure Marie Toullier
1752 – 1835
Charles Moses
1900 – 1988
Christina Maslach
b. 1946
Christopher de Souza
b. 1976
Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde
1756 – 1841
David Barstow
b. 1963
Dick Stenberg
1921 – 2004
Dimitrie I. G. Ghica
1875 – 1967
Dionysius Adrianus Petrus Norbertus Koolen
1871 – 1945
Dorian M. Goldfeld
b. 1947
Duncan Grant
1885 – 1978
Edoardo Chiossone
1833 – 1898
Elijah Paine
1757 – 1842
Eric Li
b. 1952
Errol Barrow
1920 – 1987
Escott Reid
1905 – 1999
Eugenia Krassowska-Jodłowska
1910 – 1986
Felix Hoffmann
1868 – 1946
Fernando Baeza Meléndez
b. 1942
Fernando Quiroga y Palacios
1900 – 1971
Forrest Gander
b. 1956
Francis B. Francois
1934 – 2021
Frans Beelaerts van Blokland
1872 – 1956
Gary Locke
b. 1950
Gawain Westray Bell
1909 – 1995
Geoffrey Street
1894 – 1940
George Frederic Verdon
1834 – 1896
George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech
1855 – 1938
George Rowland Hill
1855 – 1928
Georges Schwob d'Héricourt
1864 – 1942
Gorō Miyazaki
b. 1967
Guy Newey
b. 1959
Günter Nooke
b. 1959
Hanifa Kawooya
b. 1957
Hans Christensen
1924 – 1983
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
1879 – 1967
Helmut Satzinger
b. 1938
Henri Duparc
1848 – 1933
Henry Jackson
1855 – 1929
Henry Oryem Okello
b. 1960
Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
1913 – 2002
Hubert Boulard
1971 – 2020
Imogen Wright
b. 1986
Ingrid Alexandra, Crown Princess of Norway
b. 2004
Isaac Hawkins Browne
1705 – 1760
Ivan Ribar
1881 – 1968
Ivan Zaplatin
b. 1872
Jacques Prost
b. 1946
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
1811 – 1885
Jerzy Vetulani
1936 – 2017
Jim Anderton
1938 – 2018
Johannes Christiaan de Marez Oyens
1845 – 1911
John C. Frémont
1813 – 1890
Joseph P. Iddings
1857 – 1920
Joseph R. Tanner
b. 1950
Joshua Riley
b. 1981
Juan Ignacio Zoido
b. 1957
János Kornai
1928 – 2021
Karianne O. Tung
b. 1984
Karol Šmidke
1897 – 1952
Kazunori Tanaka
b. 1949
Kazuo Inamori
1932 – 2022
Kevin Cramer
b. 1961
Konrad Emil Bloch
1912 – 2000
Larisa Flamenbaum
1953 – 2021
Lars Eidinger
b. 1976
Lau Wai Hing Emily
b. 1952
Lincoln Alexander
1922 – 2012
Ludwig Hoffmann von Rumerstein
1937 – 2022
Manish Parashar
b. 1967
Maria Lisa Cinciari Rodano
1921 – 2023
Martin Kneser
1928 – 2004
Masaaki Ōsawa
b. 1946
Maxime Weygand
1867 – 1965
Michael Bear
b. 1953
Mikhail Frunze
1885 – 1925
Mikhail Gnesin
1883 – 1957
Mito Kakizawa
b. 1971
Moeen U Ahmed
b. 1953
Moritz von Schwind
1804 – 1871
Mykhailo Fedorov
b. 1991
Nestor Kotlyarevsky
1863 – 1925
Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers
b. 1938
Nicholas Wolterstorff
b. 1932
Nikolai Trofimov
1920 – 2005
Nora Berra
b. 1963
Olga Makeeva
b. 1974
Oscar II of Sweden
1829 – 1907
Patricia Kern Holmgren
b. 1940
Paul E. Kahle
1875 – 1964
Peter Nordlander
b. 1955
Peter Tapsell
1930 – 2012
Pierre Louis Charles de Failly
1810 – 1892
Pieter Hendrik Schoute
1846 – 1913
Plácido Domingo
b. 1941
Poul Christian Holst
1776 – 1863
Pyotr Zavadovsky
1739 – 1812
Rain Ottis
b. 1981
Renaat Van Elslande
1916 – 2000
Rob Saka
b. 1983
Roberto Weiss
1906 – 1969
Roger Nash Baldwin
1884 – 1981
Ronald dela Rosa
b. 1962
Sarah Kataike
b. 1961
Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
1941 – 2013
Seishirō Itagaki
1885 – 1948
Seraphim Chichagov
1856 – 1937
Serhiy Ivanov
b. 1952
Sophia Jex-Blake
1840 – 1912
Stephen King-Hall
1893 – 1966
Sébastien Lifshitz
b. 1968
Tiza Mafira
b. 1984
Tracy M. Richardson
b. 1965
Trương Tấn Sang
b. 1949
Umberto Nobile
1885 – 1978
Uto Ughi
b. 1944
Vahan Tekeyan
1878 – 1945
Vijay Kumar Kapahi
1944 – 1999
Vincențiu Babeș
1821 – 1907
Vladimir Medvedev
1948 – 2018
Wanda Wasilewska
1905 – 1964
Werner Schwarz
1900 – 1982
William Bromley-Davenport
1862 – 1949
Yoshikawa Akimasa
1842 – 1920
Zachary Blount
b. 1977
Zelimxan Yaqub
1950 – 2016
Zoran Dragišić
b. 1967
Zvi Goldstein
b. 1947
Ángel María Villar
b. 1950
Abbie Betinis
b. 1980
Abraham Kattumana
1944 – 1995
Achille-Louis Martinet
1806 – 1877
Addison McDowell
b. 1994
Agnes Magpale
b. 1942
Ahmad Shah Qajar
1898 – 1930
Aida Hadzialic
b. 1987
Aivaras Abromavičius
b. 1976
Alajos Dornbach
1936 – 2021
Albert Battel
1891 – 1952
Albert Nicolai Schioldann
1843 – 1917
Albert Rosellini
1910 – 2011
… and 4,217 more
Died on January 21
Aleksandr Arbuzov
1877 – 1968
Arnaud Denjoy
1884 – 1974
Arthur Lyon Bowley
1869 – 1957
Camillo Golgi
1843 – 1926
John Couch Adams
1819 – 1892
Aimo Cajander
1879 – 1943
Alexander Voskresensky
1809 – 1880
Antonio Domínguez Ortiz
1909 – 2003
Cesare Burali-Forti
1861 – 1931
Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta
1875 – 1950
François Maurin
1918 – 2018
Georges Painvin
1886 – 1980
Gerhart Seger
1896 – 1967
Harry Bateman
1882 – 1946
Jan Milíč Lochman
1922 – 2004
Johann Gustav Stickel
1805 – 1896
John J. Tigert
1882 – 1965
Jüri Martin
1940 – 2025
Katsu Kaishū
1823 – 1899
Keith Rayner
1943 – 2015
Krzysztof Gawedzki
1947 – 2022
Reginald Tower
1860 – 1939
René Maury
1928 – 2014
Sol Spiegelman
1914 – 1983
Valery Troitskaya
1917 – 2010
Vivien Casagrande
1942 – 2017
Vladimir Lenin
1870 – 1924
Ğalimcan İbrahimof
1887 – 1938
Ahmed Muhtar Pasha
1832 – 1919
Alexander Haddow
1907 – 1976
Alexander Philip
1858 – 1932
Alexander William Bickerton
1842 – 1929
Alexis, Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt
1845 – 1919
Amato Lusitano
1511 – 1568
Américo Ferreira dos Santos Silva
1829 – 1899
Ann Sheridan
1915 – 1967
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
1621 – 1683
Archibald James Murray
1860 – 1945
Arlo U. Landolt
1935 – 2022
Asbjørn Bryhn
1906 – 1990
Auguste Franchomme
1808 – 1884
Bence Szabolcsi
1899 – 1973
Boris Tsirelson
1950 – 2020
Carlo Chiarlo
1881 – 1964
Cary Millholland Parker
1902 – 2001
Cedric Drewe
1896 – 1971
Charles Edward Herbert
1860 – 1929
Charles Goodell
1926 – 1987
Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton
1661 – 1722
Colette Flesch
1937 – 2026
David Riazanov
1870 – 1938
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
1820 – 1914
Edmund Collein
1906 – 1992
Edward Hidalgo
1912 – 1995
Elisha Gray
1835 – 1901
Erich Trefftz
1888 – 1937
Ernst Gottfried Baldinger
1738 – 1804
Fabrizio de Miranda
1926 – 2015
Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld
1863 – 1931
Francesco Paolo Fulci
1931 – 2022
Francis Seow
1928 – 2016
François Barthélemy Arlès-Dufour
1797 – 1872
Fryderyk Józef Moszyński
1738 – 1817
George Orwell
1903 – 1950
George Stillman Hillard
1808 – 1879
George Washington Goethals
1858 – 1928
Georges Banu
1943 – 2023
Gerald Weiß
1945 – 2022
Gordon Holmes MacMillan
1897 – 1986
Harris Wofford
1926 – 2019
Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.
1866 – 1929
Henry Hallam
1777 – 1859
Henry Kirby Taylor
1858 – 1934
Henry Kistemaeckers
1872 – 1938
Henry M. Crane
1874 – 1956
Herman Schaepman
1844 – 1903
Hovhannes Arscharouni
1854 – 1929
Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe
1844 – 1924
Hugh Longbourne Callendar
1863 – 1930
Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen
1829 – 1902
Ian Tuxworth
1942 – 2020
Ibrahim Rugova
1944 – 2006
Jack Lord
1920 – 1998
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
1737 – 1814
Jan Nico Scholten
1932 – 2026
Jean Favard
1902 – 1965
Jnan Chandra Ghosh
1894 – 1959
Johann Heinrich Hübschmann
1848 – 1908
John Arthur Love
1916 – 2002
John T. Lewis
1932 – 2004
John Vincent
1902 – 1977
Joseph Justus Scaliger
1540 – 1609
José de Salamanca, 1st Count of los Llanos
1811 – 1883
Karel Poláček
1892 – 1945
Krishna Shenoy
1968 – 2023
Lawrence T. Harris
1873 – 1960
Leon Brittan
1939 – 2015
Leonard Isitt
1891 – 1976
Marianne Kärrholm
1921 – 2018
Marie Prevost
1896 – 1937
Mary Bunting
1910 – 1998
Mauricio Funes
1959 – 2025
Mauricio Herdocia
1957 – 2021
Mikhail Narolin
1933 – 2011
Norman Stronge
1894 – 1981
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
1893 – 1972
Pasha Angelina
1912 – 1959
Paul Quarrington
1953 – 2010
Pierre Giffard
1853 – 1922
Qian Duansheng
1900 – 1990
Ritt Bjerregaard
1941 – 2023
Ronald Senungetuk
1933 – 2020
Rosalia Zemlyachka
1876 – 1947
Sven Nielsen
1883 – 1958
Sébastien Demorand
1969 – 2020
Terry Jones
1942 – 2020
Ton Satomi
1888 – 1983
Veljo Tormis
1930 – 2017
Victor Goddard
1897 – 1987
William Cronk Elmore
1909 – 2003
Wu Lien-teh
1879 – 1960
Włodzimierz Sroka
1967 – 2023
Zacharias Cleve
1820 – 1900
Adolfo Marsillach
1928 – 2002
Adoniram J. Holmes
1842 – 1902
Adrian von Fölkersam
1914 – 1945
Albert II, Duke of Bavaria
1368 – 1397
Alex Groza
1926 – 1995
Alexander Lvovich Naryshkin
1760 – 1826
Alexander Robert Johnston
1812 – 1888
Alexinia Baldwin
1925 – 2017
Alphonse d'Ornano
1548 – 1610
Andrew Frank Schoeppel
1894 – 1962
Andrew J. Hinshaw
1923 – 2016
Andrew Thomas Gage
1871 – 1945
Antoine Marie Ferdinand de Maussion de Candé
1801 – 1867
Arthur Batten-Pooll
1891 – 1971
Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe
1847 – 1936
Arthur Sifton
1858 – 1921
Arthur Tarnow
1942 – 2022
Astrid Folstad
1932 – 2009
Augustinus Terwesten
1649 – 1711
Baldwin of Luxembourg
1285 – 1354
Benjamin Travis Laney
1896 – 1977
Bentsion Monastyrsky
1903 – 1977
Bill Robinson
1907 – 1981
Bishnuram Medhi
1888 – 1981
Bogusław Kaczyński
1942 – 2016
Brian G. Gardiner
1934 – 2021
Burt Green Wilder
1841 – 1925
C. C. Mitchell
1904 – 1969
Calixa Lavallée
1842 – 1891
Cecil B. DeMille
1881 – 1959
Charles Brown
1922 – 1999
Charles Evans Hughes Jr.
1889 – 1950
Charles F. Booher
1848 – 1921
Charles Jackson
1797 – 1876
Charles Jasper Bell
1885 – 1978
Charles Kettles
1930 – 2019
Charles W. Juels
1944 – 2009
Charles Warren
1840 – 1927
Charlie Gehringer
1903 – 1993
Chin Shunshin
1924 – 2015
Chumpol Silpa-archa
1940 – 2013
Clarence Allen
1925 – 2021
Claude Gernade Bowers
1878 – 1958
Conrad von Schubert
1847 – 1924
Damien de Martel
1878 – 1940
Dana Medřická
1920 – 1983
David Ker
1758 – 1805
Dennis Oppenheim
1967 – 2011
Dick Shrider
1923 – 2014
Dixie Bibb Graves
1882 – 1965
Donald Hornig
1920 – 2013
Edith Clara Batho
1895 – 1986
Edmund Randolph Peaslee
1814 – 1878
Edward H. Forney
1909 – 1965
Edwin Ginn
1838 – 1914
Eleanora Knopf
1883 – 1974
Emil Jellinek
1853 – 1918
Enrico Luigi Micheli
1938 – 2011
Enrique van Rysselberghe Varela
1937 – 2013
Ernest Glover, 1st Baronet
1864 – 1934
Eugène Berger
1960 – 2020
Eugène Montel
1885 – 1966
Evan G. Galbraith
1928 – 2008
Fairfax Moresby
1786 – 1877
Fang Ganmin
1906 – 1984
Fanny Jackson Coppin
1837 – 1913
Felipe Sánchez Román y Gallifa
1893 – 1956
Ferdinando Arborio Gattinara di Breme
1807 – 1869
Ferris S. Fitch Jr.
1893 – 1920
Florian-Jules-Félix Desprez
1807 – 1895
Frances Gertrude McGill
1877 – 1959
Francis IV of Modena
1779 – 1846
Frank Dalmon Stafford
1856 – 1928
Franz Naegele
1778 – 1851
Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
1855 – 1934
Félix-Hippolyte Lanoüe
1812 – 1872
Gabriel Dodo Ndoke
1971 – 2023
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