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January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 335 days remain until the end of the year(336 in leap years).

Events

Pre-1600

• 1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. ^[1]
• 1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. ^[2]

1601–1900

• 1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths. ^[3]
• 1648 – Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster and Osnabrück is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain. ^[4]
• 1649 – Charles I of England is executed in Whitehall, London. ^[5]
• 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed. ^[6]
• 1667 – The Truce of Andrusovo is signed, ending the Russian-Polish War of 1654-1667 ^{[7] [8]}
• 1789 – Tây Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
• 1806 – The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
• 1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
• 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
• 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
• 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California. ^[9]
• 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. ^[10]
• 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling. ^{[11] [12]}

1901–present

• 1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
• 1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
• 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy 16 kilometres (10 miles) from Havana, Cuba.
• 1920 – Japanese carmaker Mazda is founded, initially as a cork-producing company. ^[13]
• 1925 – The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
• 1930 – The Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union orders the confiscation of lands belonging to the Kulaks in a campaign of Dekulakization, resulting in the executions and forced deportations of millions. ^[14]
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler's rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.
• 1939 – During a speech in the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler makes a prediction about the end of the Jewish race in Europe if another world war were to occur. ^[15]
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are killed after the surrender. One-quarter of the remaining POWs remain alive at the end of the war.
• 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
• 1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff , overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people.
• 1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred and twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp. ^[16]
• 1948 – British South American Airways' Tudor IV Star Tiger disappears over the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1948 – Following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in his home compound, India's prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, broadcasts to the nation, saying "The light has gone out of our lives". ^{[17] [18]} The date of the assassination becomes observed as "Martyrs' Day" in India.
• 1956 – In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.
• 1959 – The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman. ^[19]
• 1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, specifically designed to operate in icebound seas, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
• 1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
• 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. ^[20]
• 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. ^[20]
• 1972 – The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained. ^[21]
• 1972 – Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
• 1974 – Pan Am Flight 806 crashes near Pago Pago International Airport in American Samoa, killing 97. ^[22]
• 1975 – The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
• 1975 – Turkish Airlines Flight 345 crashes into the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport, killing 42. ^[23]
• 1979 – A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• 1982 – Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
• 1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
• 1995 – Hydroxycarbamide becomes the first approved preventive treatment for sickle cell disease.
• 2000 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
• 2006 – The Goleta postal facility shootings occur, killing seven people before the perpetrator took her own life. ^[24]
• 2007 – Microsoft Corporation releases Windows Vista, a major release of the operating system Microsoft Windows and the NT based kernel. ^[25]
• 2013 – Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
• 2020 – The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. ^[26]

Births

Pre-1600

• 58 BC – Livia, Roman wife of Augustus (d. 29) ^[27]
• 1410 – William Calthorpe, English knight (d. 1494) ^[28]
• 1520 – William More, English courtier (d. 1600) ^[29]
• 1563 – Franciscus Gomarus, Dutch theologian and academic (d. 1641) ^[30]
• 1573 – Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (d. 1638)
• 1580 – Gundakar, Prince of Liechtenstein, court official in Vienna (d. 1658)
• 1590 – Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford (d. 1676) ^[31]

1601–1900

• 1628 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687) ^[32]
• 1661 – Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (d. 1741) ^[33]
• 1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flute player and composer (d. 1773) ^[34]
• 1703 – François Bigot, French politician (d. 1778)
• 1720 – Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (d. 1778)
• 1754 – John Lansing Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1829)
• 1775 – Walter Savage Landor, English poet and author (d. 1864)
• 1781 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (d. 1838)
• 1816 – Nathaniel P. Banks, American general and politician, 24th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1894)
• 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and curator (d. 1899)
• 1841 – Félix Faure, French politician, 7th President of France (d. 1899)
• 1844 – Richard Theodore Greener, American lawyer, academic, and diplomat (d. 1922)
• 1846 – Angela of the Cross, Spanish nun and saint (d. 1932)
• 1861 – Charles Martin Loeffler, German-American violinist and composer (d. 1935)
• 1862 – Walter Damrosch, German-American conductor and composer (d. 1950)
• 1866 – Gelett Burgess, American author, poet, and critic (d. 1951) ^[35]
• 1878 – A. H. Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940) ^[36]
• 1882 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and statesman, 32nd President of the United States (d. 1945) ^[37]
• 1889 – Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and playwright (d. 1937) ^[38]
• 1899 – Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972) ^[39]
• 1900 – Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress (d. 1969)

1901–present

• 1901 – Rudolf Caracciola, German racing driver (d. 1959)
• 1902 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (d. 1983)
• 1910 – Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1989)
• 1912 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Francis Schaeffer, American pastor and theologian (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (d. 1989) ^[40]
• 1913 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter (d. 1941) ^[41]
• 1914 – Luc-Marie Bayle, French commander and painter (d. 2000)
• 1914 – John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1992)
• 1914 – David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995) ^[42]
• 1915 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976)
• 1915 – John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and journalist (d. 2008)
• 1918 – David Opatoshu, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1919 – Fred Korematsu, American activist (d. 2005) ^[43]
• 1920 – Michael Anderson, English director and producer (d. 2018)
• 1920 – Patrick Heron, British painter (d. 1999) ^[44]
• 1920 – Delbert Mann, American director and producer (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Dick Martin, American comedian, actor, and director (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Marianne Ferber, Czech-American economist and author (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Ernie Calverley, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003) ^[45]
• 1924 – S. N. Goenka, Burmese-Indian author and educator (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist, invented the computer mouse (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Olof Palme, Swedish statesman, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1986) ^[46]
• 1928 – Harold Prince, American director and producer (d. 2019)
• 1928 – Paul Seymour, American basketball player and coach (d. 1998) ^[47]
• 1929 – Lois Hole, Canadian businesswoman and politician, 15th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Hugh Tayfield, South African cricketer (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian-Italian physician and humanitarian (d. 1996) ^[48]
• 1930 – Gene Hackman, American actor and author ^[20]
• 1930 – Magnus Malan, South African general and politician, South African Minister of Defence (d. 2011)
• 1931 – John Crosbie, Canadian lawyer and politician, 34th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 2020)
• 1931 – Shirley Hazzard, Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2016)
• 1932 – Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Tammy Grimes, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
• 1935 – Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (d. 1984) ^[49]
• 1935 – Tubby Hayes, English saxophonist and composer (d. 1973)
• 1936 – Horst Jankowski, German pianist and composer (d. 1998)
• 1937 – Vanessa Redgrave, English actress ^[20]
• 1937 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player ^[20]
• 1938 – Islam Karimov, Uzbek politician, 1st President of Uzbekistan (d. 2016)
• 1941 – Gregory Benford, American astrophysicist and author ^[50]
• 1941 – Dick Cheney, American businessman and politician, 46th Vice President of the United States ^[20]
• 1941 – Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
• 1942 – Marty Balin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2018) ^[50]
• 1943 – Davey Johnson, American baseball player and manager ^[20]
• 1944 – Lynn Harrell, American cellist and academic (d. 2020)
• 1944 – Colin Rimer, English lawyer and judge
• 1945 – Meir Dagan, Israeli military officer and intelligence official, Director of Mossad (2002–11) (d. 2016)
• 1945 – Michael Dorris, American author and scholar (d. 1997)
• 1946 – John Bird, Baron Bird, English publisher, founded The Big Issue
• 1947 – Les Barker, English poet and author (d. 2023)
• 1947 – Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991) ^[50]
• 1949 – Peter Agre, American physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 – Jack Newton, Australian golfer (d. 2022)
• 1951 – Phil Collins, English drummer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ^[20]
• 1951 – Charles S. Dutton, American actor and director ^[20]
• 1951 – Bobby Stokes, English footballer (d. 1995)
• 1952 – Doug Falconer, Canadian football player and producer (d. 2021)
• 1953 – Fred Hembeck, American author and illustrator
• 1955 – John Baldacci, American politician, 73rd Governor of Maine
• 1955 – Curtis Strange, American golfer ^[20]
• 1955 – Mychal Thompson, Bahamian-American basketball player and sportscaster ^[51]
• 1956 – Ann Dowd, American actress ^[52]
• 1957 – Chris Jansing, American television reporter ^[53]
• 1957 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999) ^[50]
• 1958 – Brett Butler, American actress ^[52]
• 1959 – Jody Watley, American entertainer ^[20]
• 1962 – Abdullah II of Jordan ^[20]
• 1962 – Mary Kay Letourneau, American sex offender (d. 2020) ^[54]
• 1964 – Otis Smith, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1965 – Kevin Moore, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1966 – Danielle Goyette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1968 – Felipe VI of Spain ^[20]
• 1969 – Justin Skinner, English footballer and manager ^[55]
• 1970 – Kimiya Yui, Japanese astronaut ^[56]
• 1972 – Mike Johnson, American politician, 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ^[57]
• 1972 – Chris Simon, Canadian ice hockey player ^[58]
• 1973 – Jalen Rose, American basketball player and sportscaster ^[20]
• 1974 – Christian Bale, British actor ^[59]
• 1974 – Olivia Colman, English actress ^[60]
• 1975 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer ^[61]
• 1976 – Andy Milonakis, American entertainer ^[62]
• 1978 – Carmen Küng, Swiss curler ^[63]
• 1978 – John Patterson, American baseball player
• 1979 – Trevor Gillies, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Lena Hall, American actress and singer ^[52]
• 1980 – Josh Kelley, American singer-songwriter and musician ^[52]
• 1980 – Georgios Vakouftsis, Greek footballer
• 1980 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor and producer ^[52]
• 1980 – Lee Zeldin, American politician and 17th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. ^[64]
• 1981 – Jonathan Bender, American basketball player ^[65]
• 1981 – Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer ^[66]
• 1981 – Peter Crouch, English footballer
• 1981 – Mathias Lauda, Austrian racing driver ^[67]
• 1982 – Jorge Cantú, American-Mexican baseball player
• 1982 – DeSagana Diop, Senegalese basketball player and coach ^[68]
• 1982 – Cameron Wake, American football player ^[69]
• 1983 – Drake Maverick, English wrestler ^[70]
• 1983 – Slavko Vraneš, Montenegrin basketball player ^[71]
• 1984 – Kid Cudi, American entertainer ^[72]
• 1984 – Junior dos Santos, Brazilian mixed martial artist ^[73]
• 1984 – Kotoshōgiku Kazuhiro, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1985 – Gisela Dulko, Argentinian tennis player
• 1987 – Becky Lynch, Irish wrestler
• 1987 – Renato Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
• 1989 – Jahvid Best, American football player and athlete ^[74]
• 1989 – Yoon Bo-ra, South Korean singer ^[75]
• 1989 – Kylie Bunbury, Canadian-American actress ^[52]
• 1989 – Misha Zilberman, Israeli Olympic badminton player ^[76]
• 1990 – Melissa Duncan, Australian track and field athlete ^[77]
• 1990 – Eiza González, Mexican actress and singer ^[50]
• 1990 – Luca Sbisa, Italian-Swiss ice hockey player and coach ^[78]
• 1990 – Mitchell Starc, Australian cricketer ^[79]
• 1990 – Jake Thomas, American actor ^[52]
• 1991 – Stefan Elliott, Canadian ice hockey player ^[80]
• 1991 – Jason Gastrow, American YouTuber ^[81]
• 1993 – Katy Marchant, English track cyclist ^[82]
• 1993 – Kodai Senga, Japanese baseball player ^[83]
• 1993 – Thitipoom Techaapaikhun, Thai actor ^[84]
• 1995 – Danielle Campbell, American actress ^[52]
• 1995 – Jack Laugher, English diver ^[85]
• 1996 – Dafne Navarro, Mexican trampoline gymnast ^[86]
• 1997 – Thomas Chabot, Canadian ice hockey player ^[87]
• 1997 – Colin White, American ice hockey player ^[88]
• 2000 – Markella Kavenagh, Australian actress ^[50]
• 2000 – Bryan Woo, American baseball player ^[89]
• 2001 – Curtis Jones, English footballer ^[90]
• 2002 – Tyla, South African singer and songwriter. ^[91]
• 2002 – Bijan Robinson, American football player ^[92]
• 2003 – Amen Thompson, American basketball player ^[93]
• 2003 – Ausar Thompson, American basketball player ^[94]
• 2005 – Prince Hashem, second son of King Abdullah II of Jordan ^[95]

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 680 – Balthild, Frankish queen (b. 626)
• 970 – Peter I of Bulgaria
• 1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
• 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
• 1240 – Pelagio Galvani, Leonese lawyer and cardinal (b. 1165)
• 1314 – Nicholas III of Saint Omer
• 1344 – William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury (b. 1301)
• 1384 – Louis II, Count of Flanders (b. 1330)
• 1574 – Damião de Góis, Portuguese historian and philosopher (b. 1502)

1601–1900

• 1606 – Everard Digby, English criminal (b. 1578) ^[96]
• 1606 – John Grant, English conspirator (b. 1570)
• 1606 – Robert Wintour, English conspirator (b. 1565)
• 1649 – Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1600) ^[5]
• 1664 – Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor (b. 1599)
• 1730 – Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
• 1770 – Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis, Maltese linguist, historian and cleric (b. 1712)
• 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress, said to have designed the American Flag (b. 1752)
• 1838 – Osceola, American tribal leader (b. 1804) ^[20]
• 1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist (b. 1778)
• 1867 – Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
• 1869 – William Carleton, Irish author (b. 1794)
• 1881 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (b. 1844)
• 1889 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary (b. 1858)

1901–present

• 1923 – Columba Marmion, Benedictine abbot (b. 1858) ^[97]
• 1926 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1928 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1934 – Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher, founded the Doubleday Publishing Company (b. 1862)
• 1947 – Frederick Blackman, English botanist and physiologist (b. 1866)
• 1948 – Arthur Coningham, Australian air marshal (b. 1895)
• 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule (b. 1869)
• 1948 – Orville Wright, American pilot and engineer, co-founded the Wright Company (b. 1871) ^[98]
• 1951 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche (b. 1875)
• 1958 – Jean Crotti, Swiss painter (b. 1878)
• 1958 – Ernst Heinkel, German engineer and businessman; founded the Heinkel Aircraft Company (b. 1888)
• 1962 – Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician and engineer (b. 1894)
• 1963 – Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1966 – Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator (b. 1912)
• 1968 – Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian poet, playwright, and journalist (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1973 – Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic (b. 1885) ^[99]
• 1973 – Titina Silá, Bissau-Guinean revolutionary (b. 1943) ^[100]
• 1974 – Olav Roots, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1977 – Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist (b. 1883)
• 1980 – Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918) ^[101]
• 1982 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912) ^[102]
• 1991 – John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) ^[103]
• 1991 – Clifton C. Edom, American photographer and educator (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Alexandra of Yugoslavia, the last Queen of Yugoslavia (b. 1921) ^[104]
• 1994 – Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Ed Herlihy, American journalist (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, French soldier and actor (b. 1911)
• 2001 – Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (b. 1915) ^[105]
• 2001 – Joseph Ransohoff, American surgeon and educator (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Egon Mayer, Swiss-American sociologist (b. 1944) ^[106]
• 2005 – Martyn Bennett, Canadian-Scottish violinist (b. 1971)
• 2006 – Coretta Scott King, American author and activist (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Wendy Wasserstein, American playwright and academic (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917) ^[107]
• 2008 – Marcial Maciel, Mexican-American priest, founded the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi (b. 1920)
• 2009 – H. Guy Hunt, American soldier, pastor, and politician, 49th Governor of Alabama (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Fadil Ferati, Kosovar accountant and politician (b. 1960)
• 2011 – John Barry, English composer and conductor (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Frank Aschenbrenner, American football player and soldier (b. 1925) ^[108]
• 2012 – Doeschka Meijsing, Dutch author (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Patty Andrews, American singer (b. 1918)
• 2013 – George Witt, American baseball player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Stefan Bałuk, Polish general and photographer (b. 1914)
• 2014 – The Mighty Hannibal, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939)
• 2014 – William Motzing, American composer and conductor (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Arthur Rankin Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924) ^[109]
• 2014 – Greater, oldest known greater flamingo and Feast Festival 2021 mascot (h. c.1919–1933) ^{[110] [111]}
• 2015 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Ülo Kaevats, Estonian academic, philosopher, and politician (b. 1947) ^[112]
• 2015 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (b. 1932) ^[113]
• 2015 – Gerrit Voorting, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of Bulgaria (b. 1935)
• 2016 – Frank Finlay, English actor (b. 1926) ^[114]
• 2016 – Francisco Flores Pérez, Salvadorian politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1959) ^[115]
• 2016 – Georgia Davis Powers, American activist and politician (b. 1923) ^[116]
• 2016 – Gaston Mialaret, French pedagogist and professor (b. 1918) ^{[117] [118]}
• 2018 – Mark Salling, American actor and musician ^[119] (b. 1982)
• 2019 – Dick Miller, American actor (b. 1928) ^[120]
• 2021 – Sophie, Scottish musician (b. 1986) ^[121]
• 2022 – Cheslie Kryst, American television presenter and model (b. 1991) ^[122]
• 2023 – Bobby Beathard, American Pro Football Hall of Fame executive (b. 1937) ^[123]
• 2023 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939) ^[124]
• 2024 – Chita Rivera, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1933) ^[125]
• 2025 – Julius Chan, Papua New Guinean politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1939) ^[126]
• 2025 – Marianne Faithfull, English singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1946) ^[127]
• 2025 – Edcel Lagman, Filipino politician (b. 1942) ^[128]

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Adelelmus of Burgos
  • Aldegonde
  • Anthony the Great (Coptic Church)
  • Armentarius of Pavia
  • Balthild
  • Charles, King and Martyr (various provinces of the Anglican Communion)
  • Hippolytus of Rome
  • Hyacintha Mariscotti
  • Martina
  • Matthias of Jerusalem
  • Mutien-Marie Wiaux
  • Savina
  • Three Holy Hierarchs (Eastern Orthodox), and its related observances:
    • Teacher's Day (Greece)
  • January 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Azerbaijani customs (Azerbaijan)
• Day of Saudade (Brazil)
• Fred Korematsu Day (California, Florida, Hawaii, Virginia)
• Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi, and its related observances:
  • Martyrs' Day (India)
  • School Day of Non-violence and Peace (Spain)
  • Start of the Season for Nonviolence (January 30 – April 4) ^[129]

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