| Year | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Iranian politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died. | Death day |
| 2003 | Turkish Airlines Flight 634 aircraft incident at Diyarbakır, Turkey, killed 75 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 2002 | physicist Alexander Prokhorov died. | Death day |
| 2002 | Soviet physicist Alexander Prokhorov died. | Death day |
| 1997 | American chemist Melvin Calvin died. | Death day |
| 1996 | French politician Francois Mitterrand died. | Death day |
| 1996 | Air Africa (RA-26222) aircraft incident at Kinshasa, DR Congo (then Zaire), killed 251 people. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1992 | Chinese badminton player Tang Jinhua was born. | Birthday |
| 1991 | Chess grandmaster from Armenia, Hrair Simonian was born. | Birthday |
| 1990 | Taiwanese badminton player Chou Tien-chen was born. | Birthday |
| 1988 | Chess grandmaster from Canada, Thomas Roussel-Roozmon was born. | Birthday |
| 1982 | Chinese-Australian badminton player Huang Sui was born. | Birthday |
| 1981 | Chess grandmaster from Soviet Union, Alexander Kotov died. | Death day |
| 1981 | Chinese badminton player Xie Xingfang was born. | Birthday |
| 1980 | Chess grandmaster from Croatia, Hrvoje Stević was born. | Birthday |
| 1980 | American physicist John W. Mauchly died. | Death day |
| 1979 | Chess grandmaster from Netherlands, Sipke Ernst was born. | Birthday |
| 1979 | Chess grandmaster from Spain, Renier Vazquez Igarza was born. | Birthday |
| 1978 | Chess grandmaster from Israel, Boris Avrukh was born. | Birthday |
| 1978 | Commonwealth Day of Northern Mariana Islands. | National Holiday |
| 1977 | Australian tennis player Kerry Reid won her first title in 1977 Australian Open (Jan.). | Achievement |
| 1965 | British businessman James Quincey was born. | Birthday |
| 1962 | French fencer Roger Ducret died. | Death day |
| 1962 | 93 people died in Harmelen train disaster. | Man-Made Disaster |
| 1961 | Chess grandmaster from England, Keith Arkell was born. | Birthday |
| 1947 | Chess grandmaster from Canada, Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov was born. | Birthday |
| 1942 | Japanese politician Junichiro Koizumi was born. | Birthday |
| 1942 | Astronaut from Soviet Union, Vyacheslav Zudov was born. | Birthday |
| 1914 | Chess grandmaster from Germany, Herman Pilnik was born. | Birthday |
| 1912 | Puerto Rican actor Jose Ferrer was born. | Birthday |
| 1910 | American engineer and inventor Jacob Rabinow was born. | Birthday |
| 1891 | German physicist Walther Bothe was born. | Birthday |
| 1885 | Australian politician John Curtin was born. | Birthday |
| 1867 | American economist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch was born. | Birthday |
| 1825 | American inventor Eli Whitney died. | Death day |
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