January 15
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[edit] Births
- 1870 - Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
- 1929 - Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1941 - Captain Beefheart
[edit] Deaths
- 41 - Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12)
- 570 - Saint Ides, Irish nun, (b. ca. 475)
- 1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Emperor
- 1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa (b. 1848)
- 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, politician (b. 1870)
- 1947 - Elizabeth Short, AKA The Black Dahlia, murder viction
- 1955 - Yves Tanguy, Surrealist painter (b. 1900)
- 1964 - Jack Teagarden, musician (b. 1905)
- 1983 - Meyer Lansky, mobster (b. 1902)
- 1987 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (b. 1904)
- 1990 - Gordon Jackson, film & tv actor; best known as the butler 'Hudson' on Upstairs Downstairs (b. 1923)
- 1993 - Sammy Cahn, songwriter (b. 1913)
- 1994 - Harry Nilsson, musician (b. 1941)
- 1998 - Junior Wells, musician
- 2000 - Zeljko Raznatovic, Serbian leader
- 2001 - Ted Mann, screenwriter
- 2003 - Gladys Kamakakuokalani Ainoa Brandt, Hawaiian educator; fought for native Hawaiian rights
- 2003 - Doris Fisher, singer and songwriter
- 2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
- 2005 - Deem Bristow, video game voice actor
- 2005 - Walter Ernsting, German science fiction author (Perry Rhodan)
- 2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, United States feminist author (b. 1913)
- 2005 - Dan Lee, animator for movie Finding Nemo (b. 1969)
- 2005 - Werner Lesser, German ski jumper
- 2005 - Ruth Warrick, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane and All My Children (b. 1915)
[edit] Events
- 1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster, killing 21 and injuring 150 others.
- 2001 - Wikipedia goes online!
- 2004 - The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yoon Young-kwan resigns following his support for American policy towards North Korea.
