Historical Events
- Jan 1 DW Griffith shows "Clansman" at a sneak preview
- Jan 1 Jews of Laibach Austria expelled
- Jan 4 1st elected Jewish US governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho
- Jan 4 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
- Jan 7 World War I: Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm approves strategic bombing of Britain, but forbids bombing London, fearing his relatives in the royal family might be killed
- Jan 9 Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated in San Francisco
- Jan 11 Jacob Ruppert and Colonel Tillinghast Huston purchase the New York Yankees for $460,000, Ruppert pays his portion in cash
- Jan 12 US House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women right to vote
- Jan 13 Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800
- Jan 13 Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
- Jan 15 Japan claims economic control of China
- Jan 16 Congress authorizes $1 & $50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin
- Jan 17 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens
Battle of Sarikamish
Jan 17 Battle of Sarikamish ends with a Russian victory over Ottoman forces led by Enver Pasha with loss of over 30,000 men of the Turkish Third Army during Caucasus Campaign
"Love o' Mike"
Jan 17 Jerome Kern and Harry B. Smith's musical "Love o' Mike" opens at the Shubert Theatre (later transferring to the Maxine Elliott and Casino theatres), NYC; runs for 233 performances
First Air Raid on Britain
Jan 19 World War I: 4 people in Norfolk are killed in the 1st German Zeppelin air raid attack on the United Kingdom
Event of Interest
Jan 25 Transcontinental telephone service officially inaugurated as Alexander Graham Bell in NYC calls Thomas Watson in San Francisco, California during the Panama–Pacific International Exposition
Immigration of Illiterates
Jan 28 US President Woodrow Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates
- Jan 30 German submarine attack on Le Havre
- Jan 30 No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic v Tas
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Francois Bondy, Swiss writer and journalist (Preuves), born in Berlin (d. 2003)
- Jan 1 Lewis Bingham Keeble, British-born town planner, born in London, England (d. 1994)
- Jan 2 John Hope Franklin, American historian (From Slavery to Freedom, 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom), born in Rentiesville, Oklahoma (d. 2009)
- Jan 2 Nick Fatool, American jazz and session drummer, born in Millbury, Massachusetts (d. 2000)
- Jan 3 Jack Levine, American social realist painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2010)
- Jan 3 Sid Hudson, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1941, 42; Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox), born in Coalfield, Tennessee (d. 2008)
- Jan 5 Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2004)
- Jan 5 Mabel Leigh, British potter (Shorter and Son), born in Coatesville, Indiana (d. 1971)
- Jan 5 Uta Graf, German-American soprano and teacher, born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; (d. 1995)
- Jan 6 Alan Watts, British-American philosopher (Book on the Taboo), born in Chislehurst, United Kingdom (d. 1973)
- Jan 6 Don Edwards, American politician and civil rights champion (Rep-D-CA, 1963-94), born in San Jose, California (d. 2015)
- Jan 6 John C. Lilly, U.S. psychoanalyst and writer, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2001)
- Jan 7 Herman Musaph, Dutch Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and sexologist (NVSH), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1992)
- Jan 8 Walker Cooper, American baseball catcher (MLB All-Star 1942–44, 46–50; World Series 1942, 44; St. Louis Cardinals), born in Atherton, Missouri (d. 1991)
- Jan 9 Anita Louise, American actress (The Little Princess, Gorilla, My Friend Flicka), born in New York City (d. 1970)
- Jan 9 Fernando Lamas, Argentine American actor and director (Lost World, You look marvelous), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1982)
- Jan 10 (Woodrow Wilson) "Buddy" Johnson, American jump blues pianist, bandleader, and songwriter ("They All Say I'm The Biggest Fool"; "Since I Fell for You"), born in Darlington, South Carolina (d. 1977)
- Jan 10 Dean Dixon, American conductor, born in Harlem, New York City (d. 1975)
- Jan 11 Robert Blair Mayne, British soldier, co-founder Special Air Service (d. 1955)
- Jan 11 Veda Ann Borg, American model and actress (Kid Galahad, Avalanche, Accomplice), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1973)
- Jan 12 Ernest Armstrong, British politician (L) & teacher, born in Stanley, County Durham (d. 1996)
- Jan 12 Frank Annunzio, American politician (Rep-D-IL, 1965-93), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2001)
- Jan 12 Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, Catholic archbishop of Ottawa, born in Saint-François-de-Madawaska, Canada (d. 2013)
- Jan 12 Martin Agronsky, American journalist (1952 Peabody, 1961 DuPont-Columbia), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1999)
- Jan 12 Paul Jarrico, American writer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1997)
- Jan 12 Roy Ralston, British pilot (WWII bomber pilot), born in Moss Side, Manchester (d. 1996)
- Jan 14 Andre Frossard, Catholic columnist, born in Saint-Maurice-Colombier, France (d. 1995)
- Jan 14 Mark Goodson, American radio and TV game show producer, with Bill Todman ("I've Got A Secret"; "The Price Is Right"; "Password"), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1992)
- Jan 18 Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer, rebetiko and laïkó songwriter, and bouzouki player, born in Trikala, Greece (d. 1984)
- Jan 19 Alvy West, American orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)
- Jan 20 C. W. Ceram, German/ journalist and author (March of Archaeology), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1972)
- Jan 20 Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan, born in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (d. 2006)
- Jan 21 Alan Hewitt, American actor (Det Brennan-My Favorite Martian), born in New York City (d. 1986)
- Jan 22 Tom Burtt, New Zealand cricketer (slow left-arm bowler, took 33 wickets for NZ), born in Christchurch, New Zealand (d. 1988)
- Jan 23 Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower (Olympic gold 1948), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2003)
- Jan 23 Potter Stewart, United States Supreme Court justice (1958-81), born in Jackson, Michigan (d. 1985)
- Jan 23 William Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist (1979 Nobel Prize in Economics for economic development research), born in Castries, Saint Lucia (d. 1991) [1]
- Jan 24 Robert Motherwell, American painter (Elegies to the Spanish Republic), born in Aberdeen, Washington (d. 1991)
- Jan 24 Vitezslava Kapralova, Czech composer, born in Brno, Czechia (d. 1940)
- Jan 25 Ewan MacColl [James Miller], Scottish folk singer-songwriter ("The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"), born in Broughton, England (d. 1989) [1]
- Jan 25 Michael Duane, British progressive educationalist and author, born in Galway, Ireland (d. 1997)
- Jan 26 William Hopper, American actor (Perry Mason, The Bad Seed, Rebel Without a Cause), born in New York City (d. 1970)
- Jan 27 Jack Brymer, British classical clarinetist (Royal Philharmonic; BBC Symphony; London Symphony), and teacher, born in South Shields, England (d. 2003)
- Jan 29 Fred Ramsey, American jazz writer, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
- Jan 29 Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet (wrote about social issues and nonsense verse for children), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2002)
- Jan 29 John Serry, Sr., American classical, jazz, and bolero accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator, born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 2003)
- Jan 30 Dorothy Dell [Goff], American child actress (Little Miss Marker, Wharf Angel), born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (d. 1934)
- Jan 30 Joachim Peiper, German SS officer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1976)
- Jan 30 John Profumo, British cabinet minister (Profumo scandal), born in London, England (d. 2006)
- Jan 31 Alan Lomax, American ethnomusicologist, and folklorist (Library of Congress Archive of American Folk Song), born in Austin, Texas (d. 2002)
- Jan 31 Bobby Hackett, American jazz cornetist, trumpeter (Glenn Miller; Benny Goodman; Jackie Gleason), and orchestra leader (Air Time '57), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1976)
- Jan 31 Garry Moore [Thomas Garrison Morfit], American radio and TV variety and game show host (I've Got a Secret), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1993)
Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Jan 31 French-American Catholic writer and Trappist monk (7 Story Mountain), born in Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
- Jan 31 William Crosbie, Scottish artist, born in Hankow, China (d. 1999)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 2 (Károly) "Karl" Goldmark, Hungarian-Viennese violinist and composer (Rustic Wedding Symphony; The Queen of Sheba; Sakuhtala), dies at 84
- Jan 3 James Elroy Flecker, English poet and dramatist (Hassan), dies at 30
- Jan 6 Reginald Wood, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1886), dies
- Jan 13 Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)
- Jan 14 Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
- Jan 15 Fannie Farmer, American culinary pioneer who revolutionised modern cooking through the introduction of precise measurements (Boston Cooking-School Cook Book), dies of complications of a stroke at 57
- Jan 15 Guillaume Couture, Canadian choir conductor, composer, and teacher, dies at 63
- Jan 28 Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist and mathematician known for discovering the Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect, dies at 68
