Historical Events
Battle of Interest
Jan 17 General James Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem, Tennessee
Famous Birthdays
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Jan 1 American photographer and art dealer (Camera Work), born in Hoboken, New Jersey
Qi Baishi (1864-1957)
Jan 1 Chinese painter famous for whimsical and playful watercolor paintings, born in Xiangtan, China
- Jan 5 Bob Caruthers, American baseball pitcher/outfielder (American Association wins & ERA leader 1885, wins leader 1880; St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Bridegrooms), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1911)
Ban Johnson (1864-1931)
Jan 6 American Baseball HOF executive (founder, President American League), born in Norwalk, Connecticut
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
Jan 10 African-American agricultural scientist (studied the peanut), born in Diamond Grove, Missouri [or Jul 12]
- Jan 10 Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1931)
- Jan 11 Thomas Dixon, American white supremacist, novelist, playwright (The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan), born in Shelby, North Carolina (d. 1946)
- Jan 13 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist (1911 Nobel Prize for Physics - displacement law), born in Gaffken, Prussia (d. 1928)
- Jan 15 Frances Benjamin Johnston, American photographer, born in Grafton West Virginia (d. 1952)
- Jan 16 Frank Bacon, American playwright, actor and author (Lightnin'), born near Yuba City, California (d. 1922)
- Jan 17 Lucien Herr, French intellectual and librarian (École Normale Supérieure), born in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin, France (d. 1926)
- Jan 24 Marguerite Durand, French journalist, feminist, and publisher (La Fronde), born in Paris, France (d. 1936)
- Jan 25 Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer, born in Požega, Croatia (d. 1934)
- Jan 28 Herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer - inventor of the first compression ignition engine (d. 1927)
- Jan 29 Adolf Philipp, German-American Broadway composer (Adele), born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1936)
Famous Weddings
Mary Ann Nichols
Jan 16 White chapel murder victim and possible Jack the Ripper victim Mary Ann Nichols (18) weds printer's machinist William Nichols
Famous Deaths
Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
Jan 13 American composer (Oh! Susanna; Swanee River; Beautiful Dreamer), dies in New York City at 37 [reports vary as to fever, accident, suicide, or some combination]
- Jan 15 Isaac Nathan, British-Australian composer, dies at about 73 [exact birthdate undocumented]
- Jan 16 Anton Schindler, German violinist and biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68
- Jan 23 Michele Puccini, Italian organist and composer (father of Giacomo), dies at 50
- Jan 24 Otto Jonas Lindblad, Swedish composer (Kungssången - Royal Anthem), dies at 54
- Jan 24 Stephen Gardner Champlin, American physician and brigadier general (Union), dies Of his battle wounds at about 36
- Jan 27 Leo von Klenze, German neoclassical architect (Walhalla), dies at 59
- Jan 28 Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
- Jan 31 Hamilton Rowan Gamble, American judge, governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies at 65
