Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 4 Edmund Rumpler, Austrian auto/airplane builder
- Jan 6 Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (Prometheus) and pianist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1915)
- Jan 11 Paul Graener, composer
- Jan 11 George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
- Jan 11 Wilfred Baddeley, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), born in Bromley, England (d. 1929)
- Jan 15 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer, born in Terek Oblast (d. 1944)
- Jan 16 Edward Gordon Craig, British modernist actor, director and theorist (On the art of theatre), born in Stevenage Hertfordshire, England (d. 1966)
- Jan 16 Henri-Paul Büsser, French composer and conductor, born in Toulouse, France (d. 1973)
- Jan 18 Paul Leautaud [Maurice Boissard], French writer (Petit ami)
- Jan 21 Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
- Jan 23 Paul Langevin, French physicist, born in Paris, France (d. 1946)
- Jan 23 Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 1957)
- Jan 24 Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
- Jan 24 Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
- Jan 27 Learned Hand, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals), born in Albany, New York
- Jan 31 Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
Famous Weddings
Wilhelm Röntgen
Jan 19 Physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (26) weds Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands