Famous Birthdays
Famous Deaths
- Jan 1 James Francis Edward Stuart "The old Pretender", Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland after the death of his father James II, dies at 77
- Jan 9 Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
- Jan 14 Frederick V, King of Denmark-Norway (1746-66), dies at 42
- Jan 19 Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect, dies at 70
- Jan 21 James Quin, British actor (Covent Garden Theatre), dies at 72
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