March 4

March 4 is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

• 51 – Nero is given the title of Princeps Iuventutis (Head of the Youth).
• 1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
• 1226 – The city of Hamm, in North Rhine-Westphalia, present–day Germany, is founded.
• 1275 – Chinese astronomers observe a solar eclipse.
• 1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
• 1386 – Wladyslaw II Jagiello (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
• 1461 – The Lancastrian King Henry VI of England is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, King Edward IV of England.
• 1493 – Christopher Columbus arrives in Portugal after the voyage that took him to the Caribbean.
• 1519 – Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico.
• 1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a royal charter.
• 1665 – England's King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands.
• 1675 – In England, John Flamsteed is appointed as the first Astronomer Royal.
• 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn, to colonise what is now Pennsylvania.
• 1769 – The Orion Nebula is first observed by Charles Messier.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
• 1789 – In New York City, the first United States Congress meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
• 1790 – France is divided into 83 Departements.
• 1791 – Vermont becomes the 14th State of the US.
• 1793 – John Adams becomes the first US President to be inaugurated on March 4.
• 1794 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed by the United States Congress.
• 1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
• 1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy.
• 1861 – Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States. During his time in office, he will be faced with the American Civil War.
• 1861 – The Stars and Bars Flag of the Confederate States of America is introduced.
• 1865 – The third national flag of the Confederate States of America is introduced.
• 1882 – The United Kingdom's first electric trams run in London.
• 1877 – The ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• 1890 – The Forth Rail Bridge is opened in Scotland.
• 1899 – Cyclone Mahina passes to the north of Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, with 12–metre waves travelling inland by as much as five kilometres, killing 300 people.

1901 – 2000

• 1902 – The American Automobile Club is founded in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1908 – The Collinwood School Fire near Cleveland, Ohio kills 174 people.
• 1913 – The United States Department of Labor is created.
• 1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman in the House of Representatives.
• 1918 – The first case of the Spanish flu pandemic occurs.
• 1918 – The ship USS Cyclops leaves Barbados, never to be seen again. It is one of several disappearances in the so–called Bermuda Triangle.
• 1929 – Herbert Hoover becomes President of the United States. At the same time, Charles Curtis becomes the first Vice President of the United States of Native American ancestry.
• 1933 – Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dolfuss begins authoritarian rule by decree.
• 1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the last President of the United States to be inaugurated on March 4.
• 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes the first woman in the United States Cabinet, as she becomes Secretary for Labor.
• 1936 – The Hindenburg airship makes its first test–flight over Lake Constance.
• 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
• 1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea ends.
• 1943 – British passenger steamer City of Pretoria is sunk by a German U–boat in the North Atlantic Ocean. No–one on board survives.
• 1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Germany.
• 1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havanna, Cuba.
• 1962 – A Caledonia Airways Douglas DC–7 crashes shortly after take–off in Cameroon, killing 111 people.
• 1966 – A Canadian Pacific Airlines DC–8–43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
• 1966 – John Lennon of The Beatles says that the band is probably "Bigger than Jesus".
• 1970 – French submarine Erydice explodes underwater, killing the entire 57–man crew.
• 1974 – People magazine is first published in the United States, under the name "People Weekly".
• 1976 – Northern Ireland is directly ruled from London from this date.
• 1977 – An earthquake strikes southeastern Europe. Bucharest, Romania, is among the places that suffer damage, as around 1,500 people are killed.
• 1980 – Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
• 1983 – Bertha Wilson becomes the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
• 1985 – The US Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS.
• 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 space probe starts to return images of Halley's Comet, including its nucleus.
• 1987 – President Ronald Reagan apologizes to the American people on a live televised address about the Iran-Contra affair.
• 1991 – For the first time since Iraq's invasion, Prime Minister of Kuwait Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah returns to his country.
• 1996 – A train that has crashed off the tracks in Weyauwega, Wisconsin. causes an emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
• 2000 – Play Station 2 is released for the first time, in Japan.

From 2001

• 2001 – A car bomb explodes outside the BBC television centre, seriously injuring one person.
• 2001 – A Bridge collapse in northern Portugal kills up to 70 people.
• 2001 – A majority of voters in Switzerland rejects membership of the European Union.
• 2007 – In Estonia, approximately 30,000 voters make uses of electronic voting, which had previously never been used in an election, for the Estonian Parliamentary Election.
• 2009 – The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state for the first time, for Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, President of Sudan, on war crimes charges in relation to the crisis in Darfur.
• 2012 – More than 100 people are killed in a munitions dump fire in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
• 2012 – Vladimir Putin declares victory in the Russian Presidential Election, allowing him to become President of Russia for a second time.
• 2014 – Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansip resigns from office after nine years, being succeeded by Taavi Roivas.
• 2015 – A mine explosion in Rebel–controlled Eastern Ukraine kills 34 miners.
• 2018 – The German Social Democrats vote in favour of a new governing coalition under Angela Merkel's CDU/CSU, ending a period of political uncertainty after the Bundestag election over five months earlier.
• 2018 – Italian general election, 2018: Italy holds its general election, with no party gaining an overall majority and populist and right–wing parties gaining seats.
• 2018 – Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England.

Births

Up to 1800

• 895 – Liu Zhiyuan, Chinese Emperor (d. 948)
• 1188 – Blanche of Castile, Queen of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
• 1394 – Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
• 1484 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, follower of Martin Luther (d. 1543)
• 1492 – Francesco de Loyolle, Italian composer (d. 1540)
• 1525 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music (d. 1594)
• 1610 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
• 1645 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, German musician (d. 1695)
• 1665 – Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
• 1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
• 1702 – Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
• 1706 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect (d. 1759)
• 1715 – James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
• 1745 – Kazimierz Pulaski, Polish–American general (d. 1779)
• 1756 – Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
• 1770 – Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher (d. 1840)
• 1782 – Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
• 1792 – Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
• 1793 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)

1801 – 1900

• 1808 – Frederik Stang, Norwegian politician (d. 1884)
• 1811 – John Lawrence, Irish nobleman and British Viceroy of India (d. 1879)
• 1817 – Edwards Pierrepoint, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
• 1820 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
• 1826 – Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887)
• 1838 – Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920)
• 1847 – Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
• 1851 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek writer (d. 1911)
• 1852 – Kristjan Jonsson, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1926)
• 1856 – Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
• 1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
• 1870 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
• 1871 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
• 1873 – John H. Trumbull, 70th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961)
• 1875 – Mihaly Karolyi, Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
• 1875 – Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer, academic, writer and art collector (d. 1961)
• 1878 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian esoterist and writer (d. 1947)
• 1879 – Bernhard Kellermann, German writer and poet (d. 1951)
• 1879 – Josip Murn, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
• 1881 – Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
• 1882 – Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat and politician (d. 1941)
• 1883 – Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1888 – Knute Rockne, Norwegian–born American football coach (d. 1931)
• 1889 – Oren E. Long, Territorial Governor of Hawaii and US Senator (d. 1965)
• 1889 – Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1957)
• 1891 – Lois W., American co–founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1988)
• 1899 – Liana Del Balzo, Argentine–Italian actress (d. 1982)

1901 – 1950

• 1901 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy–French poet (d. 1937)
• 1904 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1973)
• 1908 – Thomas Shaw, American blues musician (d. 1977)
• 1910 – Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician (d. 1985)
• 1913 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
• 1914 – Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Carlos Surinach, Catalan composer and conductor (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Laszlo Csatary, Hungarian war criminal (d. 2013)
• 1916 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer and poet (d. 2000)
• 1918 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Olev Olesk, Estonian politician
• 1921 – Kaljo Raid, Estonian cellist, composer and clergyman (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Iring Fetscher, German political scientist (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Xenia Stad-de Jong, Dutch athlete (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Patrick Moore, British astronomer, writer and television presenter (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Piero D'Inzeo, Italian equestrian show jumper (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Inezita Barroso, Brazilian folk singer (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
• 1926 – Fran Warren, American singer and actress (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Phil Batt, former Governor of Idaho
• 1928 – Samuel Adler, German–American composer
• 1928 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor and violinist
• 1930 – John Toohey, Australian judge (d. 2015)
• 1931 – William H. Keeler, American cardinal (d. 2017)
• 1932 – Brunella Bovo, Italian actress (d. 2017)
• 1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Frank Wells, American businessman, president of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1994)
• 1934 – Mario Davidovsky, Argentine–American composer
• 1934 – Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
• 1935 – Prabha Rau, Indian politician (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968)
• 1936 – Aribert Reimann, German composer
• 1938 – Paula Prentiss, American actress
• 1938 – Alpha Condé, Guinean politician
• 1938 – Angus MacLise, American drummer (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1979)
• 1943 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2012)
• 1944 – Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1945 – Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
• 1945 – Dieter Meier, Swiss musician, singer and artist
• 1945 – Femi Benussi, Italian actress
• 1946 – Michael Ashcroft, British politician
• 1947 – Jan Garbarek, Norwegian jazz saxophonist
• 1947 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic–American actor (d. 2015)
• 1948 – Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
• 1948 – Chris Squire, English bass guitarist (Yes) (d. 2015)
• 1948 – Brian Cummings, American voice actor
• 1948 – James Elroy, American writer
• 1949 – Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician (d. 2011)
• 1950 – Rick Perry, American politician, former Governor of Texas

1951 – 1975

• 1951 – Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1951 – Zoran Zizic, Montenegrin politician (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
• 1952 – Svend Robinson, Canadian politician
• 1953 – Pawel Janas, Polish football manager
• 1953 – Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
• 1954 – François Fillon, former Prime Minister of France
• 1954 – Boris Moiseev, Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer and actor
• 1954 – Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
• 1954 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
• 1954 – Willie Thorne, English snooker player
• 1955 – Joey Jones, Welsh footballer
• 1955 – Dominique Pinon, French actor
• 1958 – Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1958 – Patricia Heaton, American actress
• 1960 – John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
• 1961 – Ray Mancini, American boxer
• 1962 – Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
• 1963 – Jason Newsted, American musician (Metallica)
• 1963 – Daniel Roebuck, American actor
• 1964 – Dave Colclough, Welsh computer programmer and poker player
• 1965 – Khaled Hosseini, Afghan writer and physician
• 1965 – Yury Loncharov, Russian cosmonaut
• 1966 – Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and politician
• 1967 – Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist
• 1967 – Kubilay Türkyilmaz, Turkish–Swiss footballer
• 1967 – Tim Vine, British actor and comedian
• 1968 – Patsy Kensit, British actress
• 1968 – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
• 1968 – Christina McKelvie, Scottish politician
• 1969 – Chaz Bono, American actor and LGBT activist
• 1969 – Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian footballer and manager
• 1971 – Fergal Lawler, Irish musician (The Cranberries)
• 1971 – Claire Baker, Scottish politician
• 1972 – Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
• 1972 – Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
• 1972 – Ivy Queen, Puerto Rican musician
• 1973 – Massimo Brambilla, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Len Wiseman, American movie director and screenwriter
• 1973 – Penny Mordaunt, English politician
• 1974 – Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
• 1974 – Joaquim Alberto Silva, Angolan footballer (d. 2019)
• 1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player

From 1976

• 1976 – Gary Shortland, English figure skater
• 1977 – Christian Jessen, English doctor and television host
• 1977 – Tonga Lea'aetoa, Tongan–New Zealand rugby player
• 1977 – Jason Marsalis, American drummer
• 1978 – Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian footballer
• 1979 – Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer
• 1980 – Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Phil McGuire, Scottish footballer
• 1981 – Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer
• 1982 – Elia Rigotto, Italian cyclist
• 1982 – Ludmila Ezhova, Russian gymnast
• 1982 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player
• 1983 – Adam Deacon, English actor, rapper and director
• 1984 – Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer
• 1984 – Phillip Inzerillo, American trombone player
• 1985 – Park Min-young, South Korean actress
• 1985 – Mathieu Montcourt, French tennis player (d. 2009)
• 1986 – Manu Vatuvei, New Zealand rugby player
• 1986 – Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
• 1988 – Cody Longo, American actor and singer
• 1989 – Erin Heatherton, American model
• 1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
• 1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Prince Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• 1992 – Erik Lamela, Argentine footballer
• 1992 – Jared Sullinger, American basketball player
• 1993 – Jenna Boyd, American actress
• 1993 – Bobbi Kristina Brown, American media personality and singer (b. 2015)
• 1995 – Bill Milner, English actor
• 1997 – Beatrice Vio, Italian wheelchair foil fencer

Deaths

Up to 1900

• 251 – Pope Lucius I
• 561 – Pope Pelagius I
• 1172 – King Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
• 1193 – Saladin, Turkish sultan (b. 1137)
• 1238 – Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland (b. 1210)
• 1238 – Yuri II of Vladimir (b. 1189)
• 1303 – Daniel of Moscow, Russian prince and Grand Duke of Muscovy (b. 1261)
• 1484 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
• 1496 – Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
• 1615 – Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
• 1619 – Anne of Denmark, Queen of James VI of Scotland/James I of England (b. 1574)
• 1710 – Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
• 1762 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
• 1793 – Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
• 1795 – John Collins, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717)
• 1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
• 1807 – Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
• 1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French scholar and Egyptologist (b. 1790)
• 1852 – Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
• 1858 – Matthew C. Perry, American naval officer (b. 1794)
• 1883 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
• 1888 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher and writer (b. 1799)

1901 – 2000

• 1903 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1854)
• 1906 – John Schofield, American general and politician (b. 1831)
• 1915 – William Willett, founder of British Summer Time (b. 1856)
• 1925 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist (b. 1858)
• 1944 – Rene Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)
• 1944 – Louis Capone, Italian–American gangster (b. 1896)
• 1945 – Mark Sandrich, American movie director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
• 1946 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big–game hunter (b. 1886)
• 1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
• 1950 – Adam Rainer, Austrian dwarf and giant (b. 1899)
• 1952 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
• 1960 – Herbert O'Conor, Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1973 – Samuel Tolansky, British scientist (b. 1907)
• 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
• 1977 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1897)
• 1978 – William Bolin, 15th Governor of Arizona (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess player (b. 1905)
• 1981 – Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German admiral (b. 1900)
• 1986 – Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1993 – Richard Sale, American screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
• 1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
• 1999 – Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)

From 2001

• 2001 – Glenn Hughes, American singer (b. 1950)
• 2001 – Jim Rhodes, 61st Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Harold Stassen, 25th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1907)
• 2004 – John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (b. 1955)
• 2006 – Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
• 2008 – George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Gary Gygax, American games designer who made Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1938).
• 2010 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
• 2011 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Johnny Preston, American singer (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Paul McBride, Scottish lawyer and politician (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Seki Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Fran Warren, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Wu Tianming, Chinese movie director (b. 1939)
• 2014 – Mark Freidkin, Russian writer (b. 1953)
• 2015 – Ninan Koshy, Indian thinker, theologian and social analyst (b. 1934)
• 2016 – Bud Collins, American sports journalist (b. 1929)
• 2016 – Pat Conroy, American author (b. 1945)
• 2016 – P. A. Sangma, Indian politician (b. 1947)
• 2016 – Abbas Vaez-Tabasi, Iranian cleric (b. 1935)
• 2016 – Morgan F. Murphy, American politician (b. 1932)
• 2017 – Edi Fitzroy, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
• 2017 – Helen M. Marshall, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2017 – Clayton Keith Yeutter, American politician (b. 1930)
• 2018 – Davide Astori, Italian footballer (b. 1987)
• 2018 – Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, British engineering businessman (b. 1936)
• 2018 – Farhang Mehr, Iranian–American scholar and writer (b. 1923)
• 2018 – H. Wayne Norman, Jr., American politician (b. 1955)
• 2018 – James Luna, American performance artist (b. 1950)
• 2019 – King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
• 2019 – Eric Caldow, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Juan Corona, Mexican–American serial killer (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Keith Flint, English singer (The Prodigy) (b. 1969)
• 2019 – Ted Lindsay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
• 2019 – Klaus Kinkel, German politician (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Luke Perry, American actor (b. 1966)
• 2019 – Johnny Romano, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Jean Starobinski, Swiss literary critic (b. 1920)
• 2022 – Rod Marsh, Australian cricketer (b. 1947)
• 2022 – Shane Warne, Australian cricketer (b. 1969)

Observances

• Saint Casimir's Day (Poland and Lithuania)

Historical Significance

• Inauguration Day of Presidents of the United States from 1793 to 1933. From 1937, the inaugurations take place on January 20.