Historical Events
- Jan 1 The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
- Jan 15 "Die Afrikaanse Patriot", the first newspaper in Afrikaans, is published in Paarl
- Jan 31 The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
Famous Birthdays
Konrad Adenauer
Jan 5 Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1967)
Konrad Adenauer
- Jan 7 William Yeates Hurlstone, composer
- Jan 9 Hans Bethge, German poet, born in Dessau (d. 1946)
- Jan 10 Jan Eisenloeffel, Dutch goldsmith, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1957)
- Jan 11 Thomas Hicks, English athlete (Olympic gold marathon 1904), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1952)
- Jan 11 Elmer Flick, American baseball player (d. 1971)
- Jan 12 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer, born in Venice, Italy
- Jan 12 Jack London, American writer/socialist (Call of the Wild), born in San Francisco (d. 1916)
- Jan 17 Olga Fastrová, Czech writer and editor (National Policy), born in Prague (d. 1965)
- Jan 17 Frank Hague, American politician (d. 1956)
- Jan 20 Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (d. 1967)
- Jan 29 Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer
- Jan 29 [William] Havergal Brian, British composer ("Gothic" symphony), born in Dresden, Staffordshire (d. 1972)
