Historical Events
Gandhi Leaves Tolstoy Farm
Jan 2 Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa
Chance Yankees Manager
Jan 8 Frank Chance becomes NY Yankees manager
- Jan 11 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC)
Raymond Poincaré President
Jan 17 Raymond Poincaré elected president of France
- Jan 18 Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
- Jan 19 Raymond Poincaré installed as President of France
Second Briand Government
Jan 21 Aristide Briand forms French government for the second time
The Young Turks
Jan 23 The 'Young Turks' lead a coup d'etat against the Turkish Government, assassinating Minister of War Nazim Pasha
Kafka Stops "Amerika"
Jan 24 Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished
Thorpe Gives Up Medals
Jan 26 Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for playing 2 seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Eliot Janeway, American financial writer (Economics of Chaos), born in New York City (d. 1993)
- Jan 2 Anna Lee [Joan Boniface Winnifrith], British actress (General Hospital, How Green Was My Valley), born in Ightham, Kent, England (d. 2004)
- Jan 2 Ernest Sidey, British air marshal (General of RAF Medical Services, Honorary Surgeon to the Queen), born in Alyth, Scotland (d. 2002)
- Jan 2 Gardner Read, American composer (Quiet Music for Strings; Dance of the Locomotives), and pedagogue (Boston University, 1948-78), born in Evanston, Illinois (d. 2005)
- Jan 2 Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer (1st African American to practice law in Maryland, NAACP), born in Hot Springs, Arkansas (d. 1992)
- Jan 4 Malietoa Tanumafili II, Chief and Head-of-Head of Samoa (1962-2007), born in Samoa (d. 2007)
- Jan 5 Jack Haig [John Cecil Coppin], English actor ('Allo, Allo!), born in London, England (d. 1989)
- Jan 6 Edward Gierek, Polish communist politician, born in Porąbka, Poland (d. 2001)
Loretta Young (1913-2000)
Jan 6 American actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Jan 6 Tom Brown, American actor (Buck Privates Come Home, In Old Chicago), born in New York City (d. 1990)
- Jan 7 Francis De Wolff, British character actor (A Christmas Carol, From Russia With Love), born in Essex, England (d. 1984)
- Jan 7 Johnny Mize, American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (10 x MLB All Star; 5 × World Series champion; NL batting champion 1939; 4 × NL HR leader; St. Louis Cardinals, NY Giants, NY Yankees), born in Demorest, Georgia (d. 1993)
- Jan 7 Shirley Ross [Bernice Maude Gaunt], American actress (Cafe Society, Prison Farm, Waikiki Wedding), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1975)
- Jan 8 Dennis Smith, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (1 Test; lone wicket off first ball; Otago, Canterbury), born in Toowoomba, Australia (d. 1986)
- Jan 9 Dr. Hepcat [Albert Lavada Durst], American blues pianist, born in Austin, Texas (d. 1995)
- Jan 9 Peter John Norton, British navy officer, born in Germiston, South Africa (d. 2004)
Richard Nixon (1913-1994)
Jan 9 American politician (37th US President (Republican 1969-74; Vice-President, 1953-61; US Senator from California, 1950-53) and navy veteran, born in Yorba Linda, California
- Jan 10 Gustav Husak, Slovak politician and president of Czechoslavakia (1975-89), born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 1991)
- Jan 10 Haywood Frank Henry, American jazz baritone saxophonist, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1994)
- Jan 10 Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician, born in Çorrush, Albania (d. 1981)
- Jan 14 Tillie Olsen, American writer (Tell Me a Riddle), born in Wahoo, Nebraska (d. 2007)
- Jan 15 Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff (d. 1963)
- Jan 15 Lloyd Bridges, American actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane!), born in San Leandro, California (d. 1998)
- Jan 15 Miriam Hyde, Australian composer, born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 2005)
- Jan 17 Werenfried van Straaten, Dutch anti-communist priest (founder of Oostpriesterhulp), born in Mijdrecht, Netherlands (d. 2003)
- Jan 17 Yadavendra Singh [Yuvraj of Patiala], Indian 9th and last ruling Maharaja of Patiala and cricketer (scored 24 & 60 in only Test India v England), born in Patiala City, British Raj (d. 1974)
- Jan 18 Giannis "Yannis" Papaioannou, Greek musician and composer, born in Kios, Ottoman Empire (now Gemlik, Turkey) (d. 1972)
- Jan 19 Anthony Dexter [Walter Fleischmann], Canadian actor (The Phantom Planet, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas), born in Talmage, Nebraska (d. 2001)
- Jan 19 Minnesota Fats [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], American billiard player and entertainer, born in New York City (d. 1996)
- Jan 19 Phyllis Flowerdew, English school reading text author (Wide Range Reader series that sold over 7 million copies), born in Halifax, England (d. 1994)
- Jan 19 Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
- Jan 22 Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
- Jan 22 Verdina Shlonsky, Israeli pianist and avant-garde composer, born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1990)
- Jan 22 William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
Adrian Quist (1913-1991)
Jan 23 Australian tennis player, analyst (Australian C'ship 1936, 40, 48), born in Medindie, South Australia
- Jan 24 Norman Dello Joio [Nicodemo DeGioio], American classical composer (Choreography: Three Dances for Strings), born in New York City (d. 2008)
- Jan 25 Luis Marden, American photojournalist, born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 2003)
- Jan 25 Witold Lutosławski, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (Musique funèbre; Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1994)
Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990)
Jan 26 American Acadeny and Emmy Award-winning composer and songwriter ("All The Way"; "Love & Marriage"; "Come Fly With Me"), born in Syracuse, New York [1]
- Jan 26 William Prince, American actor (Spies Like Us, The Stepford Wives, City in Fear), born in Nichols, New York, (d. 1996)
- Jan 27 Milton Adolphus, American pianist and composer, born in the Bronx, New York (d. 1988)
- Jan 27 Valery Zhelobinsky, Russian pianist and composer, born in Tambov, Russia (d. 1946)
- Jan 28 Jan Masseus, Dutch composer, born in Rotterdam (d. 1999)
- Jan 28 Oliver Chesterton, British businessman (Chestertons Estate Agency) (d. 2007)
- Jan 29 Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
- Jan 29 Peter von Zahn, German journalist, writer, and film maker, born in Chemnitz, Germany (d. 2001)
- Jan 29 Victor Mature, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, Samson and Delilah), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1999)
- Jan 30 Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter described as the "Indian Frida Kahlo" and "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century", born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1941)
- Jan 30 Dicky Fuller, West Indian cricketer (one Test WI v England 1935, 1, 0-12), born in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica (d. 1987)
- Jan 30 Percy Thrower, English radio host, born in England, United Kingdom (d. 1988)
Don Hutson (1913-1997)
Jan 31 American College-Pro Football HOF end (Uni of Alabama; NFL MVP 1941, 42; 8 × First-team All-Pro, 4 × NFL All-Star; Green Bay Packers), born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
- Jan 31 Héctor Iglesias Villoud, Argentine composer, born in San Nicolás, Argentina (d. 1988)
- Jan 31 Wayne Millner, American NFL Hall of Fame football end, 1936-45 (Boston/Washington Redskins), and US Navy WWII veteran, born in Roxbury Massachusetts (d. 1976)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 2 Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (discovered the stratosphere), dies at 57
- Jan 4 Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian fieldmarshal (Schlieffen Plan), dies at 79
- Jan 6 Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
- Jan 13 Thomas P. Krag, Norwegian author and novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44
- Jan 16 Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut and inventor, dies at 80
- Jan 17 Carl Baermann, German composer, dies at 73
- Jan 18 Edmond Robert Hubert Regout, Dutch industrialist and politician, dies at 49
- Jan 19 David Emlyn Evans, British composer, dies at 69
- Jan 22 Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Belgian librarian and bibliographer, dies at 82
- Jan 22 Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, dies at 75
- Jan 23 Nazim Pasha, Turkish Minister of War, assassinated at 65
- Jan 24 Gustav Luders, German-American conductor and stage musical composer (The Prince of Pilsen), dies at 47
