Famous Birthdays
- Jan 18 Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer who brought madrigal music to England, born in Bologna (d. 1588)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Jan 31 Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese Shogun who founded the first Tokugawa Shogunate and united Japan, born in Okazaki, Japan (d. 1616)
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Famous Deaths
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Jan 3 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese-Spanish conquistador who conquered Central America and later discovered California, dies of gangrene at around 43
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
- Jan 9 Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)