5 January
Notable Births
Walker Scobell
b. 2009
American actor (born 2009)
Shane Wright
b. 2004
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2004)
Mykhailo Mudryk
b. 2001
Ukrainian footballer (born 2001)
Ellis Simms
b. 2001
English footballer (born 2001)
Mattias Svanberg
b. 1999
Swedish footballer (born 1999)
Carles Aleñá
b. 1998
Spanish footballer (born 1998)
Corey Horsburgh
b. 1998
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1998)
Jesús Vallejo
b. 1997
Spanish footballer (born 1997)
James Fisher-Harris
b. 1996
New Zealand and Māori international rugby league footballer
Tyler Ulis
b. 1996
American basketball player and coach
Toafofoa Sipley
b. 1995
Niue international rugby league footballer
Lachlan Fitzgibbon
b. 1994
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1994)
Zemgus Girgensons
b. 1994
Latvian ice hockey player (born 1994)
Matt Grzelcyk
b. 1994
American ice hockey player (born 1994)
Tyrone Phillips
b. 1994
Fiji international rugby league footballer
Gustavo Scarpa
b. 1994
Brazilian footballer (born 1994)
Phillip Dorsett
b. 1993
American football player (born 1993)
Franz Drameh
b. 1993
British actor (born 1993)
Mike Faist
b. 1992
American actor (born 1992)
Suki Waterhouse
b. 1992
English actress, singer, and model (born 1992)
Notable Deaths
Mike Rinder
d. 2025
American Scientology critic (1955–2025)
Costas Simitis
d. 2025
Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004
Joseph Lelyveld
d. 2024
American journalist (1937–2024)
Mário Zagallo
d. 2024
Brazilian footballer and manager (1931–2024)
Kim Mi-soo
d. 2022
South Korean actress (1992–2022)
Colin Bell (footballer, born 1946)
d. 2021
English professional footballer (1946–2021)
Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
d. 2020
Bangladeshi Islamic advocacy group
Bernice Sandler
d. 2019
American women's rights activist (1928–2019)
Dragoslav Šekularac
d. 2019
Yugoslav and Serbian footballer and coach (1937–2019)
Asghar Khan
d. 2018
First native Pakistani Air Chief (1921-2018)
Thomas Bopp
d. 2018
American astronomer (1949–2018)
Karin von Aroldingen
d. 2018
German ballet dancer
Jill Saward
d. 2017
English campaigner and author
Pierre Boulez
d. 2016
French composer and conductor (1925–2016)
Jean-Pierre Beltoise
d. 2015
French racing driver and motorcycle road racer (1937–2015)
Bernard Joseph McLaughlin
d. 2015
Catholic bishop (1912–2015)
Eusébio
d. 2014
Portuguese footballer (1942–2014)
Carmen Zapata
d. 2014
American actress (1927–2014)
Qazi Hussain Ahmad
d. 2013
Islamist political party president (1938 – 2013)
Isaac Díaz Pardo
d. 2012
Spanish artist