1894 – Isham Jones, American musician, bandleader and songwriter (Star Dust, I’ll See You in My Dreams), born in Coalton, Ohio (d. 1956)
1902 – Jean C M Picart le Doux, French carpet designer
1909 – Foley Newns, British colonial administrator
1920 – Stewart L Udall, St Johns Ariz, US Secretary of Interior (1961-69)
1935 – Bojidar Dimov, composer
1954 – Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch rock guitarist (Whitesnake), born in the Hague, Netherlands
1961 – Lloyd Cole, English rocker (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions), born in Buxton, Derbyshire
1974 – Tory Toogood, Australian rower (Olympics 1996)
1982 – Elena Paparizou, Swedish-born Greek singer, born in Borås, Sweden
1985 – Mario Williams, American football defensive end, born in Richlands, North Carolina
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 30th January 2019
1687 – [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized
1720 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist, born in Finspång, Sweden (d. 1778)
1912 – Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian and pastor (d. 1984)
1914 – David Wayne, American stage and screen actor (Andromeda Strain, Adam’s Rib), born in Traverse City, Michigan (d. 1995)
1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, British actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express), born in London, England
1938 – Marcel P. A. van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO (VARA Radio/TV)
1971 – Kimo Von Oelhoffen, American football defensive tackle (Cin Bengals), born in Kaunakakai, Hawaii
1974 – Jemima Khan, English socialite, born in London, United Kingdom
1979 – Karen Smith, Australian hockey player (Olympics 1996)
1986 – Nick Evans, American baseball player, born in Glendale, Arizona
Famous Birthdays for 29th January 2019
1905 – Barnett Newmann, New York, US painter, (postpainterly abstraction)
1911 – George Burns, British major-general
1915 – Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author
1945 – Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
1947 – David Byron [Garrick], British vocalist and songwriter (Uriah Heep), born in Epping, England (d. 1985)
1954 – Oprah Winfrey, American TV talk show host and actress (The Oprah Winfrey Show, Colour Purple), born in Kosciusko, Mississippi
1964 – John Habyan, American baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1971 – Jamal Fountaine, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers, Atlanta Falcons)
1971 – Chris Vargas, CFL quarterback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1974 – Jeff Mitchell, corner (Baltimore Ravens)
Famous Birthdays for 28th January 2019
598 – Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China (626-49), born at Wugong (d. 649)
1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Danzig, astronomer (star cataloger)
1884 – Jean Felix Piccard, Swiss scientist/explorer (balloonist) twin brother of Auguste Piccard
1886 – Marthe Bibesco, Romanian writer (d. 1973)
1920 – James Whyte, Moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
1931 – Timothy Kitson, British politician
1932 – Thomas J Bliley Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1981- )
1950 – Barbi Benton, [Klein], California, Playboy model (Hee Haw, Sugar Time!)
1967 – Jan Lamb, Hong Kong disc jockey and stand-up comedian
1976 – Jarrod Montague, American drummer (Taproot)
Famous Birthdays for 27th January 2019
1821 – John Chivington, American officer, (d. 1892)
1826 – Richard Taylor, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1879)
1858 – Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter’s model/writer
1918 – William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
1944 – Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Riga Latvia, ballet dancer (That’s Dancing)
1950 – Derek Acorah, English spirit medium and TV personality (Most Haunted), born in Bootle, England
1964 – Jack Haley, NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1969 – Kristen Danihy, Lawton Oklahoma, team handball circle/wing (Olympics 1996)
1970 – Dario Brose, US soccer halfback (Olympic-92), born in Queens, New York
Famous Birthdays for 26th January 2019
1716 – George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
1771 – Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director (Suriname)
1887 – François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (Tour de France 1909), born in Aulnay-sur-lton, France (d. 1915)
1918 – Vito Scotti [Scozarri], American actor (The Godfather, Flying Nun, Barefoot in the Park), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1996)
1923 – Anne Jeffreys [Annie Carmichael], American singer and actress (Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital), born in Goldsboro, North Carolina (d. 2017)
1945 – Mick Hill, cricketer (NSW all-rounder 1964-75)
1962 – Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1971 – Lamar Mills, WLAF DE (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 – Min Tang, Hunan China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Canberra AUS)
1997 – Pasaye, twin born 92 days after his brother (Oct 26), born in Palatine, Illinois
Famous Birthdays for 25th January 2019
1540 – Edmund Campion, English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr, born in London, England (d. 1581)
1866 – Emile Vandervelde, President (1900–1918) of the International Socialist Bureau and Minister of 3 Belgian governments (d. 1938)
1891 – William Christian Bullitt Jr., 1st US ambassador to USSR, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1967)
1913 – Luis Marden, American photojournalist, born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 2003)
1931 – Dean Jones, American actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, The Love Bug), born in Decatur, Alabama (d. 2015)
1938 – Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese creator of anime, born in Kurume, Japan
1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English performance poet, born in Lancashire, England
1964 – Bob Sweeney, American NHL center (NY Islanders, Calgary Flames), born in Concord, Massachusetts
1968 – Heinrich “Haini” Wolfgramm, Polynesian-American actor and musician (The Jets), born in San Francisco, California
1974 – Robert Budreau, Canadian film director, born in London, Canada
Famous Birthdays for 24th January 2019
1774 – Karl Moser, German composer and violinist, born in Berlin (1851)
1800 – Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer
1828 – Karol Studzinski, composer
1829 – William Mason, composer
1923 – Simeon ten Holt, composer
1931 – Ib Norholm, Danish composer and organist, born in Søborg, Gladsaxe
1934 – Burdette Haldorson, American basketball player (Olympic gold 1956, 60), born in Austin, Minnesota
1936 – Doug Kershaw, La, plays electric fiddle
1943 – Julie Bennett, actress (Hey There It’s Yogi Bear), born in Beverly Hills, California
1947 – Giorgio Chinaglia, Carrara Italy, soccer star (Lazio of Italy, NY Cosmos), (d. 2012)
Famous Birthdays for 23rd January 2019
1911 – Dan Smith, English singer-songwriter, born in London, United Kingdom
1915 – Potter Stewart, United States Supreme Court justice (1958-81), born in Jackson, Michigan (d. 1985)
1928 – Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player, born in Caracas, Venezuela (d. 2005)
1933 – Joel Spiegelman, American composer, born in Buffalo, New York
1942 – Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin, Soviet cosmonaut, born in Kharkov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
1944 – Marty Russo, American politician and lobbyist (Rep-D-IL, 1975- ), born in Chicago, Illinois
1959 – Tyrone Power Jr., American actor (Shag), born in Los Angeles, California
1963 – Gail O’Grady, American actress (Hitman, Nobody’s Perfect, NYPD Blue), born in Detroit, Michigan
1976 – Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player, born in Kearns, Utah
1979 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player, born in St. Louis, Missouri
Famous Birthdays for 22nd January 2019
1709 – Joseph Riepel, Austrian-born German composer, born in Rainbach im Mühlkreis (d. 1782)
1879 – Francis Picabia, French avante-garde artist, writer and typographist (Amorous Parade), born in Paris, France (d. 1953)
1898 – Alexander Abramsky, composer
1907 – Douglas Corrigan, American pilot, born in Galveston, Texas (d. 1995)
1907 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
1907 – Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (Village by the River), born in Tiel, Gelderland, Netherlands (d. 2004)
1925 – Leslie Silver, English paint manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1967 – Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast, born in Zagon, Romania
1984 – Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
2179 – Hikaru Walter Sulu, Fictional Star Trek character, born in San Francisco, California