Historical Events
- Jan 3 Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood
Nietzsche's Breakdown
Jan 3 German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche suffers a mental breakdown after supposedly witnessing a horse flogging
First Non-segregated US Hospital
Jan 23 Daniel Hale Williams forms the Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first non-segregated hospital in the US
Crown Prince's Suicide Pact
Jan 30 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling in an apparent suicide pact
- Jan 30 Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76)
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Alexander Smallens, Russian-born American conductor, born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1972)
- Jan 1 Charles Bickford, American actor (Dynamite, The Virginian), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1967)
- Jan 1 Tadeusz Jarecki, Polish composer and conductor, born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (d. 1955)
- Jan 1 Tom Dugan, Irish actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1955)
- Jan 2 Walter Baldwin, American actor (The Best Years of Our Lives, The Long, Long Trailer), born in Lima, Ohio (d. 1977)
- Jan 3 Nicholas Soussanin, Russian-American actor (Last Command, Captain Fury), born in Yalta part of modern day Crimea, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1975)
- Jan 5 Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor and director (Wilton's Zoo; Little Rascal), born in Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1971)
- Jan 6 Alan Mara Bateman, Canadian geologist (Yale professor), born in Kingston, Canada (d. 1971)
- Jan 11 Calvin Bridges, American geneticist (d. 1938)
- Jan 14 Vincenzo Davico, Italian composer, born in Monaco (d. 1969)
- Jan 17 Louis Santop, American Baseball HOF catcher (5 x NgL East All-Star; Hilldale Athletic Club), born in Tyler, Texas (d. 1942)
- Jan 19 Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter, sculptor and dancer, born in Davos, Switzerland (d. 1943)
- Jan 20 Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
- Jan 21 Pitirim Sorokin, Russian-American sociologist (Social mobility), born in Turya, Russia (d. 1968)
- Jan 22 Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (Tour de France 1923), born in Paris, France (d. 1935)
- Jan 23 Franklin Pangborn, American actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1958)
- Jan 23 Prosper Arents, Belgium librarian and bibliographer (reconstructed Peter Paul Rubens library) (d. 1984)
- Jan 25 Vladimir Shcherbachov, Soviet-Russian composer (Blokovskaya; The Thunderstorm), and professor (Leningrad Conservatory; Tbilisi Conservatory), born in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1952)
- Jan 27 Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1959)
- Jan 29 Francisco Santiago, Filipino pianist, composer (Taga-ilog Symphony), conductor, and pedagogue, born in Santa Maria, Bulacan, Philippines (d. 1947)
- Jan 29 Rudolf Mauersberger, German choral conductor and composer (Dresdner Requiem), born in Mauersberg, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire (d. 1971)
- Jan 30 Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist, born in Varanasi, India (d. 1937)
- Jan 31 Frank Foster, English cricket all-rounder (11 Tests, 3 x 50, 45 wickets, BB 6/91; Warwickshire CCC), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1958)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 10 Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68
- Jan 13 Solomon Bundy, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st district), dies at 65
- Jan 14 Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
- Jan 17 Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56
- Jan 23 Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (Birth of Venus), dies at 65
- Jan 27 Ivan Aksakov, Russian journalist (Denj, Moskvitsh), dies at 65
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858-1889)
Jan 30 Crown Prince of Austria and heir apparent to the Imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, dies at 30 in a suicide pact with his mistress, Mary Freiin von Vetsera, at the Mayerling hunting lodge
