Birthdates Which Occur on January 21:
1337 Charles V the Wise, king of France (1364-80)
1571 John I Pontanus physicist/historian (Amsterdam)
1659 Adriaen van der Werff Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect
1735 Johann Gottfried Eckard composer
1743 John Fitch inventor (had a working steamboat years before Fulton)
1746 Johann H Pestalozzi Zurich Switz, educator (Leonard & Gertrude) [NS]
1751 Josephus Andreas Fodor composer
1759 Johan Valckenaer Dutch politician/patriot
1762 Giuseppe Antonio Silvani composer
1771 Arnold A Buyskes Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director
1775 Manuel Garcia composer
1796 John Gelinde van Blom Fries notary/author
1801 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera composer
1813 John C Fr‚mont [Pathfinder], map maker/explorer (western US)/Gov (AZ)
1814 Thomas Attwood Walmisley composer
1815 Horace Wells dentist (pioneered use of medical anethesia)
1821 John Cabell Breckinridge (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed)
1823 Alexandre Edouard Goria composer
1824 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson Lt Gen 2nd Corps (ANV, Confed)
1829 Oscar II Frederik King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet
1833 Norman Willis union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress)
1840 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake pioneer English woman physician
1848 Henri Duparc composer
1855 John M Browning US, weapons manufacturer
1859 Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski composer
1865 Heinrich E Albers-Sch”nberg German r”ntgenologist
1867 James Marcus actor (Eagle, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Lone Avenger)
and Maxime Weygard French general
and Willem C Royaards Dutch theater director (Summer Games)
1872 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland Dutch foreign minister
and Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland Dutch foreign minister
1875 Paul E Kahle Germany, professor of oriental studies
1878 Egon Friedell Austria, journalist/actor/writer (Der Partylowe)
1883 Olav Aukrust Norway, poet
1884 Katie Sandwina Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter
and Roger Nash Baldwin founder (American Civil Liberties Union)
1885 Huddie Ledbetter "Leadbelly", blues singer [or 12/1/89, 1/29/89]
and Umberto Nobile Italian general
1886 Gustaaf Sap Belgian minister of Finance
1887 Alfred Henry Ackley composer
and Wolfgang K”hler Gestalt psychologist (Mentality of Apes)
1889 Pitirim A Sorokin Russian/US sociologist (Social mobility)
1891 Francisco Lazaro Portuguese runner
and Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov composer
and Timothy Mather Spelman composer
1897 J Carrol Naish NYC, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan)
1898 Avery Claflin composer
and John George Syria, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu)
19-- Cordell Crockett rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
and Fausto Bara Mexico, actor (Gaucho-Renegades)
1904 Joseph Ford McGuinn Brooklyn NY, entertainer
and Richard P Blackmur Mass, critic/poet (Good European)
1905 Christian Dior Normandy France, fashion designer (long-skirted look)
1908 Bengt Str”mgren G”teborg Sweden, astrophysicist (studied gas cloud)
1909 Todor Skalovski composer
1910 Lord Cayzer British financier/swcheeps magnate/multi-millionaire
1912 Konrad Bloch Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964)
1915 Alan Hewitt NYC, actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian)
1919 Jinx Falkenburg Barcelona Spain, actress (Masquerade Party)
1920 Errol Walton Barrow PM of Barbados (DLP) (1966-76, 1986-87)
and Torsten Nilsson composer
1921 Barney Clark 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart
and John Doucette Brockton Mass, actor (Lock Up, Big Town)
and Todor Popov composer
1922 Jean P Vroom Dutch sculptor
and Paul Scofield Hurst England, actor (Man for All Seasons, Train)
1924 Benny Hill Southampton England, comedian (Benny Hill Show)
and Telly Savalas Garden City NJ, actor (Acapulco, Kojak)
1926 Franco Evangelisti Italian composer
and Paul Burke New Orleans La, actor (Neal-Dynasty) [or Jul 21]
and Raf Reymen Flemish actor
and Steve Reeves Glasgow Montana, actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)
1930 V I Filatyev cosmonaut
1932 Boris Shakhlin Russia, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1956-60-64)
1933 Itzhak Fuks Israeli El Al captain, crashed in Amsterdam
1935 Ann Wedgeworth Abilene Tx, actress (Tiger's Tale, Men's Club, Bogie)
1939 Mary Ellen McAnally Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
and Wolfman Jack [Bob Smith], Bkln NY, DJ (Midnight Special)
1940 Jack Nicklaus Columbus Ohio, golfer (Player of Yr 1967,72,73,75,76)
and Marquis of Tavistock English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1941 Edwin Starr [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War)
and Placido Domingo Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly)
and Richie Havens Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1942 Mac Davis Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
1944 John Kenneth Tavener composer
and Neely Bruce composer
1945 Andrew Stein pres of NYC council (D)
and Chris Britton rocker (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine)
1946 Vincent Placoly Martinique, writer (L'eau-de-mort guildive)
1947 Jill Eikenberry New Haven Ct, (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project)
and Jimmy Ibbotson Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1950 Billy Ocean [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen)
and Joseph R Tanner Danville Ill, astronaut (STS 66)
and Richie Ranno rocker
1955 Peter Fleming NJ, tennis player (US Open Doubles 1979, 81, 83)
and Robby Benson Dallas Tx, actor (One on One, Running Brave, Chosen)
1956 Bob Brill NYC, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
1957 Geena [Virginia] Davis Wareham Mass, actress (Beetlejuice, Fly)
and Jacob Green NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawk)
1958 Miguel Alejandro NYC, actor (Popi)
1961 Gabrielle Carteris Phoenix Az, actress (Andrea-Beverly Hills 90210)
and Sherry Ramsay Stauton Va, actress (Trish Mason-As the World Turns)
1963 Hakeem Olajuwon NBA center
1966 Katrine Michaelsen Gentokte Denmark, Miss Denmark (1984)
1968 Charlotte Ross Chicago, actress (Eve-Days of Our Lives)
1971 Tommy Puett Gary Ind, actor (Tyler-Life Goes On, America's Top 10)
1975 Willem Korsten soccer player (Vitesse)
1980 Aubrie Rippner LA Calif, tennis star (1995 USTA National Girls 18)
Deaths Which Occured January 21:
879 Boudouin with the Iron Arm earl of Flanders, dies
1118 Paschalis II [Raniero], pope (1099-1118), dies
1596 John Ligarius German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66
1609 Joseph Justus Scaliger French inventor of "Julian Period", dies
1626 John Dowland English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62
1665 Domenico Mazzocchi composer, dies at 72
Pierre de Fermat French mathematician (Fermat thesis), dies at 24
1670 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan French playwright, dies at 80
1683 Anthony Ashley Cooper 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61
1686 Nicolas-Fran‡ois Blondel French architect, dies
1704 Willem B Schepers merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83
1746 Gottfried Kirkhoff composer, dies at 60
1774 Moestafa III sultan (Turkey), dies at 56
1793 Louis XVI French king (1774-93), beheaded by French revolutionaries
1851 Gustav Albert Lortzing composer, dies at 49
1862 Bozena Nemcov [Barnora Panklov ], Czech author, dies at 41
1871 John J Rochussen gov-general of Neth-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73
1872 Franz Grillparzer Austrian playwright (Sappho/Libussa), dies at 81
1882 Anton Emil Titl composer, dies at 72
1883 Jacopo Tomadini composer, dies at 62
1884 Auguste Franchomme composer, dies at 75
1888 Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh composer, dies at 83
1891 Calixa Lavallee composer, dies at 48
1892 John Couch Adams English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies
1894 Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu composer, dies at 24
1903 Hermanus J A M Schaepman clergyman/politician, dies
1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 54
1926 Camillo Golgi Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies
1927 Floris H Verster painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65
1931 Felix Blumenfeld composer, dies at 67
1932 [Giles] Lytton Strachey British biographer/critic, dies at 51
1939 Stewart "Wooly" Wolfman Jack rocker, dies
1942 Henryk Opienski Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
1943 Otakar Sini composer, dies at 61
1944 Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout Flemish physician/writer, dies at 74
Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein German major/pilot, shot down
1948 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari composer, dies at 72
1950 George Orwell author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46
1954 Billy Jenkins dies at 69
1955 Maarten P Vrij lawyer/criminologist/member High Council, dies
1957 Arthur L Bowley English statisician/economist, dies at 87
1959 Cecil B[lount] de Mille producer (10 Commandments), dies at 77
Lamar Stringfield composer, dies at 61
1961 Blaise Cendrars Swiss/French poet (J'ai tu‚), dies at 73
John Joseph Becker composer, dies a day before 75th birthday
1962 Andr‚ Lhote French painter/art historian, dies at 76
1963 Al St John actor (Law & Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70
1964 Joseph Schildkraut actor (Cleopatra, Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 68
1965 Harvey Zorbaugh doctor/TV host (Play the Game), dies at 68
1967 Ann Sheridan actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies of cancer at 51
1971 Richard B Russell (Sen-D-Ga), dies at 73
1974 John Arends poet/author, dies at 48
Lewis L Strauss head US Atomic Energy Comm (1953-58), dies at 78
1975 Marie Lohr actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel, Escapade), dies at 84
1977 John Vincent composer, dies at 74
Zoltan Vasarhelyi composer, dies at 76
1981 Allyn Joslyn actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79
1984 Jackie Wilson US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49
1985 Barbara Cowsill rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema
1987 Pieter G Buckinx Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83
1988 Abraham Sofaer actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk), dies
1991 Frank Mitchell actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
Howard "Red" Grange football's galloping ghost, dies at 87
Richard Bolling US civil-rights leader, dies
1992 William T "Champion Jack" Dupree US boxer/pianist, dies
1994 Basel al-Assad Syrian pres Assad son, dies in car accident at 31
1995 Philippe Casado Moroccan/French cyclist, dies at 30
Holidays Which Occur January 21:
Dominican Rep Nuestra Se¤ora de Altagracia Day
Religious Observances on January 21:
Bah '¡ World Religion Day (Sult n 3)
RC Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia
RC Feast of St Meinrad, hermit in Switzerland, murdered
304 Ang, RC Memorial of St Agnes, virgin/martyr at Rome
Things to Remember for January 21:
Flowers-carnation & snowdrop Gem-garnet
National Soup-National Egg Month-National Hobby Month
1 Day Coma-Berenicid meteor shower, radiant in Coma Berenices
National Hugging Day
[Ancient Rome] a d xij Kal Feb
29 Days Astrological sign: Aquarius
2000 Full moon/total eclipse of the moon
Highlights in History Which Occur January 21:
1077 German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1189 Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1276 Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V
1324 Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai and Shingon
1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1542 Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard
1604 Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar
1664 Earl Mikl¢s van Zrinyi draws against Turkish invasion army
1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1732 Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha
1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published
1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided)
1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1813 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111)
1818 Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair"
1821 Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
1824 Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1827 Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing
1830 Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported
1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News"
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass
1861 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi & 4 other southern senators resign
1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1874 Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Wenen
1879 Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen
1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1890 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #356 Liguria
1894 Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec
1901 Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in NYC
1903 "Wizard of Oz," premieres in NYC
and Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam
1904 Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno
1907 Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup
1908 August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm
and NYC regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1910 British-Russian military intervention in Persia
1913 Aristide Briand forms French govt
1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1922 1st slalom ski race run, Mrren, Switzerland
1925 Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe pres
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1382 Gerti
1926 Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties
1927 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1929 Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London
1932 USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
1935 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash (state record)
and WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
and Wilderness Society forms
1938 Dutch govt starts obligatory unemployment insurance
1939 George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in NYC
1940 Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
1941 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria
and 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX
and Australia & Britain attack Tobruk Libya
and British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1942 Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
and Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump"
and Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
and Tito's partisans occupy Foca
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport in Stalingrad
and Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk
and Vice-admiral Cunningham appointed Brit adm of fleet
1944 447 German bombers attack London
and 649 British bombers attack Maagdenburg
1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1947 Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres
1949 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1950 NY jury finds former State Dept official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury
and T S Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in NYC
1952 Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India
1953 John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State
1954 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC)
1956 William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker
1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km
and Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook S Afr, 417 die of methane poisoning
1961 KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, ID (NBC) begins broadcasting
and Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria
1962 JFK arrives in Uruguay
and Snow falls in SF
1964 Carl T Rowan named director of US Information Agency
1965 Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured
1966 Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd
1968 US B-52 bombers with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
1970 Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London
1971 "Alias Smith & Jones" premieres on ABC TV
1972 Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr
and Belgium govt of Eyskens-Cools forms
and Manipur, Meghalaya & Tripura become separate states of Indian union
and Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory
1973 3rd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 33-28
and Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger"
1974 Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London
1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France
1977 Italy legalizes abortion
and Pres Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks
1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
and Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz
and Super Bowl XIII: Pitt Steelers-35 Cowboys-31, 1st team to win 3 Bowls
1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce
and Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal
1981 Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a NY subway train
1982 NY Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak
1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
and Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased
making country eligible for US military aid
1985 -19øF (-28øC), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)
and -34øF (-37øC), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)
and Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
and Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals
1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38øF (3øC), Indiana
and Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed
1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi
1988 US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
1989 A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Okla football player
and Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec director
and John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open; for
throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official
1991 Asteroid #230 Athamantis eclipses star SAO 156876
and CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
and Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)
and Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis
1960 Rock falls trap 437 underground at Coalbrook, South Africa.
417 die of methane poisoning.
Your Special Reminders for January 21:
1951 60øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1985 -2øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 21st day of year with 344 remaining (Numerology = 4)
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