Births on 23 January
2000s
Julio Enciso (footballer, born 2004)
2004
Paraguayan footballer (born 2004)
Joško Gvardiol
2002
Croatian footballer (born 2002)
Nicola Zalewski
2002
Polish footballer (born 2002)
Olga Danilović
2001
Serbian tennis player (born 2001)
Fanni Pigniczki
2000
Hungarian rhythmic gymnast
1900s
Alban Lafont
1999
Footballer (born 1999)
XXXTentacion
1998
American rapper and singer-songwriter (1998–2018)
Keita Bates-Diop
1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Ruben Loftus-Cheek
1996
English footballer (born 1996)
Addison Russell
1994
American baseball player (born 1994)
Reina Triendl
1992
Austrian-Japanese model, tarento, and actress
Steve Birnbaum
1991
American soccer player (born 1991)
Alex Silva (wrestler)
1990
Canadian professional wrestler (born 1990)
Leo Komarov
1987
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1987)
Gelete Burka
1986
Ethiopian runner
Marc Laird
1986
Scottish footballer (born 1986)
José Enrique (footballer, born 1986)
1986
Spanish footballer (born 1986)
Steven Taylor (footballer)
1986
English footballer (born 1986)
Sandro Viletta
1986
Swiss alpine skier (born 1986)
San E
1985
South Korean rapper (born 1985)
Dong Fangzhuo
1985
Chinese footballer (born 1985)
Doutzen Kroes
1985
Dutch fashion model (born 1985)
Yevgeny Lukyanenko
1985
Russian pole vaulter (born 1985)
Aselefech Mergia
1985
Ethiopian marathon runner
Jeff Samardzija
1985
American baseball player (born 1985)
Arjen Robben
1984
Dutch association footballer (born 1984)
Irving Saladino
1983
Panamanian long jumper
Oceana (singer)
1982
German singer (born 1982)
Wily Mo Peña
1982
Dominican baseball player (born 1982)
Andrew Rock
1982
American sprinter (born 1982)
Rob Friend
1981
Canadian Soccer Player (born 1981)
Julia Jones
1981
American actress (born 1981)
Scott Hannan
1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Larry Hughes
1979
American basketball player (born 1979)
Dawn O'Porter
1979
British writer, director, and television presenter (born 1979)
Juan Rincón
1979
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1979)
Maria Stepanova
1979
Russian basketball player (born 1979)
Brandon Duckworth
1976
American baseball player and scout (born 1976)
Anne Margrethe Hausken
1976
Norwegian orienteer (born 1976)
Alex Wubbels
1976
American nurse and former Olympian (born 1976)
Phil Dawson
1975
American football player (born 1975)
Tito Ortiz
1975
American mixed martial arts fighter (born 1975)
Glen Chapple
1974
English cricketer
Rebekah Elmaloglou
1974
Australian actress
Richard T. Slone
1974
English painter
Tiffani Thiessen
1974
American actress (born 1974)
Tomas Holmström
1973
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1973)
Ewen Bremner
1972
Scottish actor (born 1972)
Kevin Mawae
1971
American football player and coach (born 1971)
Adam Parore
1971
New Zealand cricketer
Claire Rankin
1971
Canadian actress (born 1974)
Richard Šmehlík
1970
Czech ice hockey player
Spyridon Vasdekis
1970
Greek long jumper (born 1970)
Andrei Kanchelskis
1969
Russian association football player and manager
Brendan Shanahan
1969
Canadian ice hockey player, executive (b. 1969)
Susen Tiedtke
1969
German long jumper
Taro Hakase
1968
Japanese musician (born 1968)
Petr Korda
1968
Czech tennis player (born 1968)
Owen Cunningham
1967
Australian rugby league footballer
Damien Hardman
1966
Australian surfer (born 1966)
Haywoode Workman
1966
American basketball player and referee
Louie Clemente
1965
American drummer
Jonatha Brooke
1964
American singer-songwriter and musician
Mariska Hargitay
1964
American actress and producer (born 1964)
Bharrat Jagdeo
1964
President of Guyana from 1999 to 2011
Gail O'Grady
1963
American actress (born 1963)
David Arnold
1962
British film composer
Aivar Lillevere
1962
Estonian footballer
Elvira Lindo
1962
Spanish journalist and writer (born 1962)
Boris McGiver
1962
American actor (born 1962)
Peter Mackenzie
1961
American actor (born 1961)
Yelena Sinchukova
1961
Russian long and triple jumper
Greg Ritchie
1960
Australian cricketer
Clive Bull
1959
English radio talk show host
Sergey Litvinov (athlete, born 1958)
1958
Russian hammer thrower and coach
Princess Caroline of Monaco
1957
Princess of Hanover (born 1957)
Trevor Hohns
1954
Australian cricketer (born 1954)
John Luther Adams
1953
American composer (born 1953)
Alister McGrath
1953
Irish Anglican priest, scientist, and academic (born 1953)
Antonio Villaraigosa
1953
American attorney and politician (born 1953)
Robin Zander
1953
American singer and guitarist (born 1953)
Omar Henry
1952
South African cricketer
Jaroslav Pouzar
1952
Czech ice hockey player (born 1952)
Sully Sullenberger
1951
American pilot and diplomat (born 1951)
Richard Dean Anderson
1950
American actor (born 1950)
Guida Maria
1950
Portuguese actress (1950–2018)
Suzanne Scotchmer
1950
American economist (1950–2014)
Luis Alberto Spinetta
1950
Argentine musician (1950–2012)
Charlie Papazian
1949
American nuclear engineer, brewer and author
Anita Pointer
1948
American singer and songwriter (1948–2022)
Tom Carper
1947
American politician (born 1947)
Megawati Sukarnoputri
1947
President of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004
Arnoldo Alemán
1946
President of Nicaragua from 1997 to 2002
Boris Berezovsky (businessman)
1946
Russian businessman (1946–2013)
Marie Charlotte Fayanga
1946
Central African politician
Mike Harris
1945
22nd Premier of Ontario (born 1945)
Rutger Hauer
1944
Dutch actor (1944–2019)
Gary Burton
1943
American vibraphonist
Gil Gerard
1943
American actor (1943–2025)
Özhan Canaydın
1943
Turkish basketball player (1943–2010)
Laurie Mayne
1942
Australian cricketer
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
1942
1st President of Mongolia from 1990 to 1997
Herman Tjeenk Willink
1942
Dutch politician (born 1942)
Jock R. Anderson
1941
Agricultural economist
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
1941
Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor (1941–2014
Alan Cheuse
1940
Novelist, short story writer, critic
Joe Dowell
1940
American pop singer (1940–2016)
Ed Roberts (activist)
1939
American activist
Giant Baba
1938
Japanese professional wrestler
Georg Baselitz
1938
German artist (born 1938)
Jerry Kramer
1936
American football player (born 1936)
Cécile Ousset
1936
French pianist
Mike Agostini
1935
Trinidad and Tobago sprinter (1935–2016)
Tom Reamy
1935
American writer
Lou Antonio
1934
American actor and TV director (born 1934)
Pierre Bourgault
1934
Canadian politician (1934–2003)
Bill Hayden
1933
Australian politician (1933–2023)
Chita Rivera
1933
American actress, dancer and singer (1933–2024)
George Allen (footballer, born 1932)
1932
English footballer
Larri Thomas
1932
American actress
Tanya Savicheva
1930
Russian diarist and victim of the Siege of Leningrad
Mervyn Rose
1930
Australian tennis player
Derek Walcott
1930
Saint Lucian poet and playwright (1930–2017)
Teresa Żylis-Gara
1930
Polish operatic soprano (1930–2021)
Myron Cope
1929
American sports journalist (1929–2008)
Filaret Denysenko
1929
Ukrainian Orthodox religious leader (1929–2026)
Phillip Knightley
1929
Australian journalist (1929–2016)
John Polanyi
1929
Canadian chemist (born 1929)
Jeanne Moreau
1928
French actress, singer, screenwriter and director (1928–2017)
Lars-Eric Lindblad
1927
Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (1927–1994)
Fred Williams (artist)
1927
Australian painter and printmaker
Bal Thackeray
1926
Indian cartoonist and politician (1926-2012)
Marty Paich
1925
American pianist, composer and conductor (1925–1995)
Frank Lautenberg
1924
American politician (1924–2013)
Horace Ashenfelter
1923
American athlete (1923–2018)
Walter M. Miller Jr.
1923
American writer
Leon Golub
1922
American painter (1922–2004)
Tom Lewis (Australian politician)
1922
New South Wales Premier
Gottfried Böhm
1920
German architect and sculptor (1920–2021)
Henry Eriksson
1920
Swedish middle-distance runner
Walter Frederick Morrison
1920
American inventor (1920-2010)
Frances Bay
1919
American actress (1919–2011)
Hans Hass
1919
Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
Ernie Kovacs
1919
American comedian (1919–1962)
Bob Paisley
1919
English footballer and manager (1919–1996)
Gertrude B. Elion
1918
American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
Charlie Kerins
1918
Irish Republican Army (1918-1944)
Florence Rush
1918
American activist (1918–2008)
David Douglas Duncan
1916
American photojournalist (1916–2018)
Airey Neave
1916
British politician, military officer and lawyer (1916–1979)
Herma Bauma
1915
Austrian athlete and handballer (1915–2003)
W. Arthur Lewis
1915
Saint Lucian economist and Nobel laureate (1915–1991)
Potter Stewart
1915
US Supreme Court justice from 1958 to 1981
Jean-Michel Atlan
1913
French artist (1913–1960)
Wally Parks
1913
American writer
Boris Pokrovsky
1912
Russian opera director
Django Reinhardt
1910
Romani-French jazz musician (1910–1953)
Dan Duryea
1907
American actor (1907–1968)
Hideki Yukawa
1907
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907–1981)
Erich Borchmeyer
1905
German sprinter (1905–2000)
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
1903
20th-century Colombian politician and Liberal Party leader
Arthur Wirtz
1901
American sports businessman (1901–1983)
William Ifor Jones
1900
Musical artist
1800s
Glen Kidston
1899
British aviator and racing driver (1899–1931)
Georg Kulenkampff
1898
German violinist (1898–1948)
Randolph Scott
1898
American actor (1898–1987)
Freda Utley
1898
English scholar, political activist and author (1898–1978)
Subhas Chandra Bose
1897
Indian nationalist leader and politician (1897–1945)
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
1897
Austrian architect
Ieva Simonaitytė
1897
Lithuanian writer (1897–1978)
William Stephenson
1897
Canadian spymaster (1897–1989)
Alf Blair
1896
Australian RL coach and former Australia international rugby league footballer
Alf Hall
1896
South African cricketer (1896–1964)
Jyotirmoyee Devi
1894
Indian writer
Claribel Kendall
1889
American mathematician
Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama
1880
Mexican revolutionary (1880–1967)
Rutland Boughton
1878
British composer (1878–1960)
Otto Diels
1876
German chemist (1876–1954)
Paul Langevin
1872
French physicist (1872–1946)
Jože Plečnik
1872
Slovenian architect (1872-1957)
David Hilbert
1862
German mathematician (1862–1943)
Frank Shuman
1862
American inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer (1862-1918)
Andrija Mohorovičić
1857
Croatian seismologist and geophysicist
John Browning
1855
American firearms designer (1855–1926)
John Marks Moore
1853
American attorney and politician
Nikolay Umov
1846
Russian physicist and mathematician (1846–1915)
Ernst Abbe
1840
German physicist, entrepreneur, and social reformer (1840–1905)
Marianne Cope
1838
German-born American Franciscan Sister, saint and missionary to Hawaii (1838–1918)
Muthu Coomaraswamy
1833
19th-century Ceylon Tamil lawyer
Édouard Manet
1832
French painter (1832–1883)
Saigō Takamori
1828
Japanese samurai and politician (1828–1877)
Camilla Collett
1813
Norwegian writer (1813–1895)
Veer Surendra Sai
1809
Freedom fighter and revolutionary from Odisha
Before 1800
Alois Negrelli
1799
Tyrolean civil engineer and railroad pioneer
Auguste de Montferrand
1786
French architect (1786–1858)
Stendhal
1783
French writer (1783–1842)
Georgios Karaiskakis
1780
Greek Revolutionary (1782–1827)
Muzio Clementi
1752
Italian composer and pianist (1752–1832)
William Jessop
1745
British civil engineer (1745-1814)
John Hancock
1737
American Founding Father (1737–1793)
John Landen
1719
English mathematician (1719–1790)
Abraham Diepraam
1622
Dutch painter
Mary Ward (nun)
1585
English Catholic religious sister (1585–1645)
Hai Rui
1514
Chinese politician (1514–1587)
Louis III, Elector Palatine
1378
Elector Palatine from 1410 to 1436
Vincent Ferrer
1350
Valencian Dominican friar (1350–1419)