Famous Birthdays
- Jan 18 Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer who brought madrigal music to England, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1588)
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)
Jan 31 Japanese Shogun who founded the first Tokugawa Shogunate and united Japan, born in Okazaki, Japan
Famous Deaths
Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo (1499-1543)
Jan 3 Portuguese-Spanish conquistador who conquered Central America and later discovered California, dies of gangrene at around 43
- Jan 9 Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general, dies at about 52 (b. 1491, exact sate uncertain)
