Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 2 Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, Polish composer, born in Studzianka, West Galicia (now Poland) (d. 1852)
- Jan 4 Baltasar Saldoni, Spanish composer and musicologist, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1889)
- Jan 6 Joseph Holt, American lawyer, politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky (d. 1894)
- Jan 6 Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor, born in Spišská Belá, Slovakia (d. 1891)
- Jan 6 Ludwig Erk, German composer and folk song collector, born in Wetzlar (d. 1883)
- Jan 11 Alfred E. Jackson "Mudwall", American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Davidson County, Tennessee (d. 1889)
- Jan 11 Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist (founder of Western Union Telegraph and Cornell University), born in Westchester Landing, New York (d. 1874)
- Jan 12 Jan Theodoor Beelen, Dutch-Belgian bible scholar, born in Amsterdam (d. 1884)
- Jan 13 Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, American Major General (Union Army), born in Woodford County, Kentucky (d. 1883)
- Jan 16 Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), (d. 1877)
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Jan 19 American General who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War, born in Stratford Virginia
Robert McClure (1807-1873)
Jan 28 Irish explorer who discovered the Northwest passage, born in Wexford, Ireland
