| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Richard Dean Anderson |
Actor |
23-Jan-1950 |
|
MacGyver |
| Joe Baca |
Politician |
23-Jan-1947 |
|
Congressman, California 43rd |
| Georg Baselitz |
Painter |
23-Jan-1938 |
|
Painter of upside-down motifs |
| Frances Bay |
Actor |
23-Jan-1919 |
15-Sep-2011 |
Happy Gilmore |
| Boris Berezovsky |
Business |
23-Jan-1946 |
|
Russian oligarch, now in Israel |
| Ewen Bremner |
Actor |
23-Jan-1972 |
|
Julien Donkey-Boy |
| John Browning |
Inventor |
23-Jan-1855 |
26-Nov-1926 |
Best gun designer of all time |
| Gary Burton |
Jazz Musician |
23-Jan-1943 |
|
Jazz vibraphonist |
| Frank Carlson |
Politician |
23-Jan-1893 |
30-May-1987 |
Governor and Senator from Kansas |
| Princess Caroline |
Royalty |
23-Jan-1957 |
|
Daughter of Prince Rainier |
| Thomas Carper |
Politician |
23-Jan-1947 |
|
US Senator from Delaware |
| John Cassell |
Publisher |
23-Jan-1817 |
2-Apr-1865 |
Cassell's Magazine |
| Alan Cheuse |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1940 |
|
The Bohemians |
| Sonny Chiba |
Actor |
23-Jan-1939 |
|
Martial arts movie icon |
| Michael T. Cowhig |
Business |
23-Jan-1947 |
|
Senior Gillette executive |
| Herbert Croly |
Author |
23-Jan-1869 |
17-May-1930 |
The Promise of American Life |
| Otto Diels |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1876 |
7-Mar-1954 |
Diels-Alder Reaction |
| Dan Duryea |
Actor |
23-Jan-1907 |
7-Jun-1968 |
The Little Foxes |
| Sergei Eisenstein |
Film Director |
23-Jan-1898 |
11-Feb-1948 |
Alexander Nevsky |
| Gertrude B. Elion |
Scientist |
23-Jan-1918 |
21-Feb-1999 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS |
| Paul Peter Ewald |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1888 |
22-Aug-1985 |
X-Ray crystallographer |
| Gil Gerard |
Actor |
23-Jan-1943 |
|
Buck Rogers |
| Arlene Golonka |
Actor |
23-Jan-1939 |
|
Millie Swanson in Mayberry RFD |
| Antonio Gramsci |
Activist |
23-Jan-1891 |
27-Apr-1937 |
Founder of the Italian Communist Party |
| Pat Haden |
Football |
23-Jan-1953 |
|
LA Rams Quarterback, Investor |
| Florence Halop |
Actor |
23-Jan-1923 |
15-Jul-1986 |
Florence Kleiner on Night Court |
| John Hancock |
Politician |
23-Jan-1737 |
8-Oct-1793 |
First signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Mariska Hargitay |
Actor |
23-Jan-1964 |
|
Law & Order: SVU |
| Mike Harris |
Politician |
23-Jan-1945 |
|
Premier of Ontario, 1995-2002 |
| Rutger Hauer |
Actor |
23-Jan-1944 |
|
Blade Runner |
| David Hilbert |
Mathematician |
23-Jan-1862 |
14-Feb-1943 |
Hilbert Space |
| Bharrat Jagdeo |
Head of State |
23-Jan-1964 |
|
President of Guyana |
| Paul B. Johnson, Jr. |
Politician |
23-Jan-1916 |
14-Oct-1985 |
Governor of Mississippi, 1964-68 |
| Edward Ka-Spel |
Singer |
23-Jan-1954 |
|
Legendary Pink Dots singer |
| David Patrick Kelly |
Actor |
23-Jan-1951 |
|
The Warriors |
| Petr Korda |
Tennis |
23-Jan-1968 |
|
Winner, 1998 Australian Open |
| Ernie Kovacs |
Comic |
23-Jan-1919 |
13-Jan-1962 |
Nairobi Trio |
| Jerry Kramer |
Football |
23-Jan-1936 |
|
Green Bay Packers, 1958-68 |
| Paul Langevin |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1872 |
19-Dec-1946 |
Studied piezoelectricity |
| Frank Lautenberg |
Politician |
23-Jan-1924 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey |
| Arthur Lewis |
Economist |
23-Jan-1915 |
15-Jun-1991 |
Economics of developing nations |
| Edouard Manet |
Painter |
23-Jan-1832 |
30-Apr-1883 |
French Realist/Impressionist painter |
| Walter M. Miller, Jr. |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1923 |
9-Jan-1996 |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
| Jeanne Moreau |
Actor |
23-Jan-1928 |
|
Jules et Jim |
| Fred Morrison |
Business |
23-Jan-1920 |
9-Feb-2010 |
Invented the frisbee |
| Gail O'Grady |
Actor |
23-Jan-1963 |
|
American Dreams |
| Tito Ortiz |
Sports Figure |
23-Jan-1975 |
|
UFC / mixed martial arts fighter |
| Franklin Pangborn |
Actor |
23-Jan-1888 |
20-Jul-1958 |
Character actor, 1920s to 1950s |
| Susan M. Phillips |
Educator |
23-Jan-1944 |
|
Dean, GWU School of Business |
| Anita Pointer |
Musician |
23-Jan-1948 |
|
The Pointer Sisters |
| John C. Polanyi |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1929 |
|
Infrared chemiluminescence |
| Nicole Polizzi |
TV Personality |
23-Jan-1987 |
|
Snooki on Jersey Shore |
| Ernest Poole |
Novelist |
23-Jan-1880 |
10-Jan-1950 |
His Family |
| Robert C. Randall |
Victim |
23-Jan-1948 |
2-Jun-2001 |
First recipient of federal marijuana |
| Rasputin |
Religion |
23-Jan-1871 |
30-Dec-1916 |
Russia's Greatest Love Machine |
| Bruce Ratner |
Business |
23-Jan-1945 |
|
New York City developer |
| Django Reinhardt |
Jazz Musician |
23-Jan-1910 |
16-May-1953 |
Gypsy jazz guitarist |
| Nicholas A. Rey |
Business |
23-Jan-1938 |
14-Jan-2009 |
US Ambassador to Poland, 1993-97 |
| Chita Rivera |
Dancer |
23-Jan-1933 |
|
Anita in West Side Story on Broadway |
| Marty Russo |
Politician |
23-Jan-1944 |
|
Congressman from Illinois, 1975-93 |
| Bobby Schilling |
Politician |
23-Jan-1964 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 17th |
| Randolph Scott |
Actor |
23-Jan-1898 |
2-Mar-1987 |
Ride the High Country |
| Anya Seton |
Author |
23-Jan-1906 |
8-Nov-1990 |
Dragonwyck |
| John H. Shenefield |
Attorney |
23-Jan-1930 |
|
Morgan Lewis |
| Bud Shuster |
Politician |
23-Jan-1932 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1972-2001 |
| Bob Steele |
Actor |
23-Jan-1907 |
21-Dec-1988 |
Trooper Duffy on F Troop |
| Stendhal |
Author |
23-Jan-1793 |
23-Mar-1842 |
Le Rouge et le Noir |
| Potter Stewart |
Judge |
23-Jan-1915 |
7-Dec-1985 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1958-81 |
| Megawati Sukarnoputri |
Head of State |
23-Jan-1947 |
|
President of Indonesia, 2001-04 |
| Chesley Sullenberger |
Aviator |
23-Jan-1951 |
|
Landed Flight 1549 on the Hudson River |
| Jean-Lambert Tallien |
Politician |
23-Jan-1767 |
16-Nov-1820 |
French Revolutionary |
| Charles Taylor |
Politician |
23-Jan-1941 |
|
Congressman from North Carolina, 1991-2007 |
| Tiffani Amber Thiessen |
Actor |
23-Jan-1974 |
|
Kelly Kapowski, Saved by the Bell |
| Thomas Todd |
Judge |
23-Jan-1765 |
7-Feb-1826 |
US Supreme Court Justice, 1807-26 |
| Antonio Villaraigosa |
Government |
23-Jan-1953 |
|
Mayor of Los Angeles |
| Derek Walcott |
Poet |
23-Jan-1930 |
|
In a Green Night |
| Natalie West |
Actor |
23-Jan-1956 |
|
Crystal Anderson-Conner on Roseanne |
| Johnny Winter |
Guitarist |
23-Jan-1944 |
|
Blues guitarist |
| Hideki Yukawa |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1907 |
8-Sep-1981 |
Predicted existence of mesons |
| Robin Zander |
Musician |
23-Jan-1953 |
|
Cheap Trick vocalist |
| Louis Zukofsky |
Poet |
23-Jan-1904 |
12-May-1978 |
Co-Founded Objectivist poetry movement |