Events in History
Historic Event
Jan 23 Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown" premieres in NYC
Historic Publication
Jan 27 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his theory of wave mechanics and presents what becomes known as the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics
- Jan 27 US Senate agrees to join World Court
Birthdays in History
- Jan 5 Hosea Williams, American activist, born in Attapulgus, Georgia (d. 2000)
- Jan 5 Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, Singaporean opposition leader and former Secretary-General of Singapore's Worker's Party, born in Jaffna, British Ceylon (d. 2008)
- Jan 5 William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons, born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (d. 2009)
- Jan 7 Kim Jong-pil, South Korean Prime Minister (1971-75, 1998-2000) and founder of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (now the National Intelligence Service), born in Buyeo County, Japanese Korea (d. 2018)
- Jan 9 Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
- Jan 10 Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist, thinker, and politician, born in Beit She'an, Israel (d. 2017)
- Jan 11 Lev Stepanovich Demin, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
- Jan 13 Carolyn Heilbrun [Amanda Cross], author (Lady Ottoline's Album)
- Jan 13 Michael Bond, British writer
- Jan 13 Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/author (Change of Use)
- Jan 14 Harold Wolpe, South African lawyer & sociologist, born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1996)
- Jan 14 Mahasweta Devi, Indian Bengali writer & activist, born in Dhaka, British India (d. 2016)
- Jan 15 Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1996)
- Jan 16 John "Jack" Layden, local politician
- Jan 17 Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and statesman
- Jan 19 Libera Carlier, Flemish author (Action Station Go!)
- Jan 20 Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet & writer, born in New Delhi, India (d. 2015)
- Jan 20 Qurratulain Hyder, Indian Urdu novelist & writer, born in Aligarh, India (d. 2007)
- Jan 22 Lord Erskine of Rerrick, peer
- Jan 22 Tom Blackburn, writer
- Jan 24 Robert Delpire, French publisher, editor and photographer, born in Paris, France (d. 2017)
- Jan 26 Charles Henderson Tidbury, British brewing executive (Whitbread & Co), born in Camberley, Surrey, England (d. 2003)
- Jan 26 Farman Fatehpuri [Syed Dildar Ali], Urdu scholar, linguist, critic and author, born in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, British India (d. 2013)
- Jan 26 José María Valverde, Spanish philosopher, poet and translator (La espera, Historia de la literatura universal), born in Valencia de Alcántara, Spain (d. 1996)
- Jan 29 Abdus Salam, Pakistani theoretical physicist (1979 Noble Prize for Physics - electroweak unification theory), born in Jhand, British India (d. 1996)
- Jan 30 Vasily Arkhipov, Soviet-Russian naval officer who saved the world by refusing to launch a nuclear torpedo from submarine B-59 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, born in Zvorkovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (d. 1998)
- Jan 31 Prunella Briance, founder (National Childbirth Trust)
Deaths in History
Camillo Golgi (1843-1926)
Jan 21 Italian physician and medical researcher (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1906), dies at 81
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