January 1 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 1, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#365 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 1 birthdays
Pierre de Coubertin · Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian1863
George Washington Carver · African American botanist and inventor1864
Alfred Stieglitz · American photographer1864
E. M. Forster · English novelist1879
Satyendra Nath Bose · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath1894
J. Edgar Hoover · American law enforcement administrator1895
Stepan Bandera · Ukrainian nationalist leader1909
Dana Andrews · American actor1909
J. D. Salinger · American author1919
Ismail al-Faruqi · Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar1921
Charlie Munger · American businessman1924
Vernon L. Smith · American economist1927
Frank Langella · American actor1938
Alassane Ouattara · President of Ivory Coast since 20101942
Omar al-Bashir · President of Sudan from 1989 to 20191944
Mohammad Abdul Hamid · President of Bangladesh in 2013-20231944
Christine Lagarde · President of the European Central Bank1956
Verne Troyer · American actor1969
Lilian Thuram · French footballer1972
John M. Jumper · American chemist and AI expert1985
On this day in history
1776American Revolutionary War: The town of Norfolk, Virginia, was burned and destroyed by the combined actions of British and Whig forces.
1892The immigration station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor opened, and would process almost 12 million immigrants to the United States over the course of its existence.
1914The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the U.S. state of Florida became the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft.
2019The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, making it the farthest object visited by a spacecraft.
1994The revolutionary leftist Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiated twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
1995The World Trade Organization, the international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade, came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
1998Argentinian physicist Juan Maldacena published a landmark paper initiating the study of AdS/CFT correspondence, which links string theory and quantum gravity.
2005Jeanna Giese, the first known rabies survivor who did not receive the vaccine, was discharged from Children's Wisconsin.
Born on January 1? Add your year.
Get your full results: day of the week, moon phase, #1 song and more.