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Famous birthdays in January

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Pick a day of January to see well-known people born on it. Each date page lists names, what each person is known for and their birth year, built from Wikidata.

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The most widely known name for each day

  1. January 1: J. D. Salinger 1919 American author
  2. January 2: Isaac Asimov 1920 American writer and biochemist
  3. January 3: J. R. R. Tolkien 1892 English writer and philologist
  4. January 4: Isaac Newton 1643 English mathematician and physicist
  5. January 5: Umberto Eco 1932 Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
  6. January 6: Kahlil Gibran 1883 Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter
  7. January 7: Millard Fillmore 1800 President of the United States from 1850 to 1853
  8. January 8: Elvis Presley 1935 American singer and actor
  9. January 9: Richard Nixon 1913 President of the United States from 1969 to 1974
  10. January 10: Donald Knuth 1938 American computer scientist and mathematician
  11. January 11: William James 1842 American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
  12. January 12: Jack London 1876 American author, journalist and social activist
  13. January 13: Orlando Bloom 1977 English actor and model
  14. January 14: Albert Schweitzer 1875 French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher
  15. January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 American Baptist minister and civil rights leader
  16. January 16: Susan Sontag 1933 American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
  17. January 17: Benjamin Franklin 1706 American polymath and statesman
  18. January 18: Kevin Costner 1955 American actor
  19. January 19: Edgar Allan Poe 1809 American writer and literary critic
  20. January 20: Federico Fellini 1920 Italian filmmaker
  21. January 21: IShowSpeed 2005 American influencer, musician and online streamer
  22. January 22: Lord Byron 1788 English Romantic poet and lyricist
  23. January 23: David Hilbert 1862 German mathematician
  24. January 24: Frederick II of Prussia 1712 King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786
  25. January 25: Volodymyr Zelenskyy 1978 President of Ukraine since 2019
  26. January 26: Nicolae Ceaușescu 1918 Dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989
  27. January 27: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 Austrian composer of the Classical period
  28. January 28: Nicolas Sarkozy 1955 23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012
  29. January 29: Anton Chekhov 1860 Russian dramatist and author
  30. January 30: Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
  31. January 31: Franz Schubert 1797 Austrian composer

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