2 January
Notable Births
CJ Egan-Riley
b. 2003
English footballer (born 2003)
Elye Wahi
b. 2003
French footballer (born 2003)
Cole Caufield
b. 2001
Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 2001)
Luiz Henrique (footballer, born 2001)
b. 2001
Brazilian footballer (born 2001)
Spencer Arrighetti
b. 2000
American baseball player (born 2000)
Fernando Tatís Jr.
b. 1999
Dominican baseball player (born 1999)
Aaron Wiggins
b. 1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Tfue
b. 1998
American professional esports player (born 1998)
Timothy Fosu-Mensah
b. 1998
Dutch footballer (born 1998)
Arshad Nadeem
b. 1997
Pakistani javelin thrower (born 1997)
Carlos Soler
b. 1997
Spanish footballer (born 1997)
Jonah Bolden
b. 1996
Australian-American basketball player (born 1996)
Ronald Darby
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Bryson Tiller
b. 1993
American singer (born 1993)
Paulo Gazzaniga
b. 1992
Argentine footballer (born 1992)
Alexey Marchenko
b. 1992
Russian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Teemu Pulkkinen
b. 1992
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1992)
Korbin Sims
b. 1992
Fiji international rugby league footballer
Ben Hardy (actor)
b. 1991
English actor (b. 1991)
Germán Cano
b. 1988
Argentine footballer (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Ágnes Keleti
d. 2025
Hungarian-Israeli artistic gymnast (1921–2025)
Francesc Antich
d. 2025
Venezuelan-born Spanish politician (1958–2025)
Daryl Dragon
d. 2019
American musician (1942–2019)
Bob Einstein
d. 2019
American actor and comedy writer (1942–2019)
Gene Okerlund
d. 2019
American wrestling interviewer and announcer (1942–2019)
Guida Maria
d. 2018
Portuguese actress (1950–2018)
Thomas S. Monson
d. 2018
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1927–2018)
Jean Vuarnet
d. 2017
French alpine skier (1933–2017)
John Berger
d. 2017
British painter, writer and art critic
A. B. Bardhan
d. 2016
Former General secretary of the Communist party of India
Frances Cress Welsing
d. 2016
American psychiatrist (1935–2016)
Nimr al-Nimr
d. 2016
Shia Muslim religious figure and Saudi government critic; executed in 2016
Gisela Mota Ocampo
d. 2016
Mexican politician and murder victim
Tihomir Novakov
d. 2015
Serbian-American physicist (1929–2015)
Bernard Glasser
d. 2014
American film director
Elizabeth Jane Howard
d. 2014
English novelist
Gerda Lerner
d. 2013
Austrian-American scholar (1920–2013)
Teresa Torańska
d. 2013
Polish journalist and writer
Gordon Hirabayashi
d. 2012
American sociologist (1918–2012)
Silvana Gallardo
d. 2012
American actress (1953–2012)