January 5

January 5 is the 5th (fifth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 days left to end the year and 361 in leap years.

Events

• 951: in Spain abdica Ramiro II de León.
• 1477: In the battle of Nancy, Carlos the Temerario and the ducat and county of Artois, Burgundy, Flanders and Picardy die in France.
• 1500: Milan is reconquered by Ludovico Sforza.
• 1527: In Zurich Felix Manz, leader of the anabaptist congregation, is executed.
• 1543: in the port of San Francisco de Campeche (Mexico) the Spanish friar Bartolomé de las Casas is disembarked, who will be distinguished as a historian and defender of the Natives of New Spain.
• 1554: In Eindhoven (Netherlands) there is a great fire.
• 1675: in the battle of Colmar, the French army defeats the hosts of Brandenburg.
• 1757: Louis XV de France survives an attempted murder of Robert François Damiens, who was the last person executed in France with the traditional capital punishment used for regicides.
• 1759: In the United States, George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
• 1781: The village of Richmond (Virginia) is set on fire by the bombing of the British Navy led by Benedict Arnold (in the framework of the U.S. War of Independence).
• 1822: the provinces of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua are spontaneously annexed to Mexico.
• 1875: The Opera building, designed by Charles Garnier, is inaugurated in Paris.
• 1895: In France, Officer Alfred Dreyfus is degraded and sentenced to life imprisonment on the Devil Island.
• 1909: Colombia recognizes the separation and independence of Panama.
• 1914: In the United States, the Ford Motor Company announces the eight-hour working hours and the minimum wage of $5 per worker per day.
• 1919: Germany founded the German Workers Party, which would later become the Nazi Party.
• 1925: In the United States, Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to govern a state.
• 1933: in San Francisco (California) the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins.
• 1940: In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission for the first time demonstrates FM broadcasting.
• 1944: British newspaper Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic journal.
• 1945: The Soviet Union recognizes the new prophetic regime of Poland.
• 1953: in Paris it is serene Waiting for Godot (Work of the theatre of the absurdity of Samuel Beckett).
• 1955: the European Champions Cup is officially created.
• 1956: the National University of the South is established in Argentina.
• 1964: in Jerusalem, Pope Paul VI meets the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I. This is the first meeting of Catholics and Orthodox since 1439.
• 1968: In Czechoslovakia it comes to power Alexander Dubček, beginning the Spring of Prague.
• 1969: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 5 space probe towards Venus, coming to transmit data from the atmosphere of the planet.
• 1976: in Cambodia, the Red Jemers renombrand the nation as Democratic Kampuchea.
• 1977: In Spain the Court of Public Order is abolished, the National Court is established and the decree on terrorism is repealed.
• 1978: in Spain the pre-autonomy of the Basque Country is approved.
• 1979: In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Teatro Laboratorio was founded, a delegation of Polish theatrical researcher Jerzy Grotowski.
• 1985: in a hospital in Paris, France, the first European triplets were born through in vitro fertilization.
• 1992: The variety programme Saturday Giant, led and created by Mario Kreutzberger "Don Francisco", starts its stage on Mexican television through Las Estrellas (before The Star Channel) Televisa.
• 1993: The Shetland Islands spread the 84 700 litres of cargo oil Braer.
• 1996: members of the Israeli secret service murder Yahya Ayyash, a Hamas terrorist.
• 1997: The Russians announce their withdrawal from Chechnya.
• 2000: Televisa gathers a team of communication professionals and the television production of spectacles at the facilities of San Angel and Televisa Espectáculos, led by the performance journalist Mara Patricia Castañeda and television producer Luis Mario Santoscoy
• 2002: in Japan, scientists announce the creation of the first artificial eye.
• 2003: in Tel Aviv 23 people die in two explosions caused by the Islamic Jihad.
• 2005: in Monte Palomar (United States), astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Lincoln Rabinowitz discover the dwarf planet Eris, the farthest in the solar system.
• 2009: it is carried out in the Tibidabo Attractions Park in Barcelona, Spain, the last trip in the old roller coaster, built in 1961 that, after its dismantling, will be replaced by the new Russa Muntanya.
• 2016: in Caracas, the opposition takes the National Assembly of Venezuela.
• 2023: Funeral of the former Pope Benedict XVI. He was chaired by the current Pontifice Francisco
• 2023: The narcotraficánte Ovidio Guzmán López, son of the narco-trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, in Culiacán, Sinaloa, is recaptured, causing a wave of widespread violence and uncertainty in Culiacán, generating the suspension of all activities throughout the state and leaving a balance of 29 dead and 35 wounded.

Births

• 1209: Ricardo de Cornwall, king of the Romans (f. 1272).
• 1425: Henry IV of Castile, king of Castile between 1454 and 1474 (f. 1474).
• 1548: Francisco Suárez, theologian and Spanish philosopher (f. 1617).
• 1589: Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet and writer (f. 1669).
• 1592: Sha Yaján, the Mogol Emperor of India between 1628 and 1658 (f. 1666).
• 1614: Leopoldo Guillermo de Habsburg, Archduke of Austria (f. 1662).
• 1620: Miklós Zrínyi, Croatian military commander (f. 1664).
• 1713: Jorge Juan, humanist, naval engineer and Spanish scientist (f. 1773).

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

• 1744: Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, politician and Spanish writer (f. 1811).
• 1762: Constanze Weber, wife of Mozart (f. 1842).
• 1779: Stephen Decatur, American commander (f. 1820).
• 1779: Zebulon Pike, American explorer (f. 1813).
• 1781: Gaspar Marcano Boadas, officer of the Venezuelan army in the war of independence, lawyer, politician, congressman and poet (f. 1821).
• 1790: Melchor Múzquiz, Mexican president (f. 1844).
• 1814: Melchor Ocampo, Mexican politician (f. 1861).
• 1818: Telesforo Montejo Robledo, a Spanish politician (f. 1896).
• 1823: José María Iglesias, Mexican politician (f. 1891).
• 1824: Emilio Mitre, Argentine military (f. 1893).
• 1834: William John Wills, British topographer and explorer (f. 1861).
• 1838: Camille Jordan, French mathematician (f. 1922).
• 1839: Nicolás de Piérola, a Peruvian politician, president of Peru between 1895 and 1899 (f. 1913).
• 1844: Manuel González Prada, a Peruvian writer and essayist (f. 1918).
• 1846: Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German philosopher, Nobel Literature Prize in 1908 (f. 1926).
• 1855: King Camp Gillette, inventor of the razor blade (f. 1932).
• 1864: George Washington Carver, American educator (f. 1943).
• 1865: Julio Garavito Armero, astronomer and Colombian economist (f. 1920).
• 1873: Max Adler, jurist, politician and Austrian philosopher (f. 1937).
• 1874: Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1944 (f. 1965).

Konrad Adenauer

• 1876: Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor (f. 1967).
• 1881: Pablo Gargallo, Spanish sculptor (f. 1934).
• 1883: Marie-Louise Bouglé, French archer and feminist (f. 1936).
• 1893: Florentino Bustos Estupiñán, a Colombian poet and journalist (f. 1971).
• 1893: Paramahansa Yogananda, Hindu guru (f. 1952).
• 1895: Elizabeth Cotten, American music and guitarist (f. 1987).
• 1900: Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter (f. 1955).
• 1902: Maruja Mallo, a Spanish painter (f. 1995).
• 1906: Kathleen Kenyon, British archaeologist (f. 1978).
• 1906: Manuel Medel, Mexican actor and comic (f. 1997).
• 1909: Stephen Kleene, American mathematician (f. 1994).
• 1911: Alfonso García-Gallo, historian of law, and Spanish jurist (f. 1992).
• 1914: George Reeves, an American actor (f. 1959).
• 1914: Germán Gómez Gómez, Spanish footballer (f. 2004).
• 1914: Nicolas de Staël, Franco-Russian painter (f. 1955).
• 1917: Jane Wyman, American actress (f. 2007).
• 1917: Wieland Wagner, German stage director (f. 1966).
• 1919: Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (f. 1992).
• 1920: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (f. 1995).
• 1920: Eduardo San Román, Peruvian sports journalist (f. 1998).
• 1921: Amado Sapag, an Argentine businessman and politician (f. 2002).
• 1921: Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (f. 1990).
• 1921: Juan de Luxemburg, great Duke between 1964 and 2000 (f. 2019).
• 1923: Norberto Tucho Méndez, Argentine footballer (f. 1998).
• 1923: Sam Phillips, announcer, radio technician and musical producer of Sun Records (f. 2003).
• 1926: William Snodgrass, American poet (f. 2009).
• 1928: Sultan bin Abdelaziz, Saudi Arabian Sultan (f. 2011).
• 1928: Walter Mondale, American politician (f. 2021).
• 1928: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani politician (f. 1979).
• 1929: Wilbert Harrison, American singer (f. 1994).

Robert Duvall

• 1931: Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist.
• 1931: Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (f. 1989).
• 1931: Juan Goytisolo, Spanish writer (f. 2017).
• 1931: Robert Duvall, American actor.
• 1932: Chuck Noll, American football coach (f. 2014).
• 1932: Javier Valle Riestra, Peruvian lawyer and politician.
• 1932: Raísa Gorbachova, Soviet politics, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (f. 1999).
• 1932: Umberto Eco, Italian writer and philosopher (f. 2016).
• 1934: Jorge R. Camacho Lazo, Cuban painter (f. 2011).
• 1935: Juan Carlos Puppo, Argentine actor (f. 2016).
• 1936: Santiago Bal, Argentine actor (f. 2019).
• 1938: Juan Carlos I, king of Spain.
• 1938: Monna Bell, Chilean singer (f. 2008).
• 1940: Enrique Rocha, Mexican actor of telenovelas (f. 2021).
• 1941: Federico García Vigil, orchestral director and Uruguayan composer (f. 2020).
• 1941: Chuck McKinley, American tennis player (f. 1986).
• 1941: Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese filmmaker.
• 1942: Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist.
• 1942: Terenci Moix, a Spanish writer (f. 2003).
• 1944: José Hernández, Spanish painter (f. 2013).

Diane Keaton

• 1946: Ada Itúrrez de Cappellini, Argentinian politics.
• 1946: Diane Keaton, American actress.
• 1948: Teófila Martínez, Spanish politics.
• 1950: Krzysztof Wielicki, Polish alpinist.
• 1953: Pamela Sue Martin, American actress.
• 1953: Willy Iturri, Argentinean musician and drummer
• 1954: Alex English, American basketball player.
• 1954: Manolo Montoliu, Spanish banderillero (f. 1992).
• 1955: Virulo (Alejandro García), Cuban singer and humorist.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

• 1956: Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German politician, President of Germany since 2017.
• 1957: Marina Lezcano, Argentine jockey.
• 1958: Jordi Botella Miró Valencian writer.
• 1959: Clancy Brown, American actor.
• 1960: Phil Thornalley, British bassist, The Cure band.
• 1961: Isabel Gemio, Spanish journalist.
• 1964: Armando Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer (f. 2004).
• 1965: Eleonora Cassano, classical Argentine dancer.
• 1965: Jill Stuart, American fashion designer.
• 1965: Rei Sakuma, Japanese seiyū.
• 1965: Vinnie Jones, footballer and British actor.
• 1966: Héctor Baldassi, Argentinian football and political referee.
• 1966: Yuri Amano, Japanese seiyū.
• 1967: Joe Flanigan, American actor.
• 1968: DJ BoBo, Swiss singer.
• 1969: Adriana Salonia, an Argentine actress.
• 1969: Marilyn Manson, American singer and artist.
• 1970: Jeffrey Jey, Italian singer and artist.
• 1970: Troy Van Leeuwen, American band guitarist A Perfect Circle and Queens of the Stone Age.
• 1970: Vladimir Chaguin, Russian truck driver off road.
• 1971: Fernando Fernández Urosa, Spanish basketball player.
• 1972: Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer.
• 1974: Rafa Gómez, Spanish footballer.
• 1975: Bradley Cooper, American actor and filmmaker.
• 1976: Diego Tristan, Spanish footballer.
• 1976: Shintarō Asanuma, voice actor, screenwriter and Japanese director.

January Jones

• 1978: Assisi G. Yesterdaybe, Spanish photographer.
• 1978: Franck Montagny, French Formula 1 pilot.
• 1978: January Jones, American actress.
• 1979: Alexis Dubus, English actor.
• 1979: Blanca Soto, Mexican actress.
• 1979: Claudia Bahamón, Colombian model and presenter.
• 1979: Giuseppe Gibilisco, Italian athlete.
• 1979: Kim Fanlo, Spanish musician.
• 1979: Klimenti Tsitaishvili, Georgian footballer.
• 1979: Liesbet de Vocht, Belgian cyclist.
• 1979: David Kopp, German cyclist.
• 1979: Alberto Loddo, Italian cyclist.
• 1980: Sebastian Deisler, German footballer.
• 1980: Santiago Ventura, Spanish tennis player.
• 1981: Anderson Daronco, Brazilian football referee.
• 1982: Jaroslav Plašil, Czech footballer.
• 1983: Ferrán Corominas, Spanish footballer.
• 1983: Júlia Almeida, Brazilian actress.
• 1983: Jon Moya Martín, Spanish footballer.
• 1983: José Aguirre, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1984: Amanda Hearst, American model.
• 1984: Roberto Castillo Guerrero, Chilean footballer.
• 1984: Roberto Pampín, Spanish footballer.
• 1985: Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1985: Jorge Alonso Martín, Spanish footballer.
• 1985: Hamdi Harbaoui, Tunisian footballer.
• 1985: Matías Prats Chacón, a Spanish journalist.
• 1985: Sergio Rodríguez Budes, Spanish footballer.
• 1986: Deepika Padukone, Indian actress.
• 1987: Kristin Cavallari, American actress.
• 1987: Fabiola Guajardo, Mexican actress and model.
• 1987: César Díaz Martínez, Spanish footballer.
• 1988: Luke Daniels, English footballer.
• 1988: Nikola Kalinić, Croatian footballer.
• 1989: Kim Kuk-jin, North Korean footballer.
• 1989: Mirko Tedeschi, Italian cyclist.
• 1990: Ismael Marín Marín, Spanish footballer.
• 1991: Daniel Pacheco, Spanish footballer.
• 1991: Soner Aydoğdu, Turkish footballer.
• 1992: Suki Waterhouse, English model.
• 1992: Trent Sainsbury, Australian footballer.
• 1992: Luis Alfonso Espino García, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1993: Franz Drameh, an Afro-British actor.
• 1996: Iosefo Verevou, a Fijian footballer.
• 1996: Ignacio Abeledo, Spanish footballer.
• 1997: Agehan Arna, Turkish basketball player.
• 1997: Jesús Vallejo, Spanish footballer.
• 1997: Nicola Conci, Italian cyclist.
• 1997: Zhang Yuning, Chinese footballer.
• 1997: Jordan Blount, Irish basketball player.
• 1998: Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer.
• 1998: Niklas Dorsch, German footballer.
• 1998: Tsubasa Yoshihira, Japanese footballer.
• 1998: Kervin Arriaga, Honduran footballer.
• 1998: Vilma Bobeck, Swedish sailor.
• 1999: Gian-Luca Itter, German footballer.
• 1999: Mattias Svanberg, Swedish footballer.
• 1999: Vicente Rodríguez, Venezuelan footballer.
• 1999: Diogo Queirós, Portuguese footballer.
• 1999: Luís Maximiano, Portuguese footballer.
• 1999: Inès Ibbou, Algerian tennis player.
• 1999: Juri Zanotti, Italian cyclist.
• 1999: Miguelito, Puerto Rican singer.
• 1999: Katherine Nye, American halterophile.
• 1999: Simone Barontini, Italian athlete.
• 1999: Alessandro Sibilio, Italian athlete.
• 1999: Agustín Dávila, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1999: Lakeisha Patterson, Australian swimmer.
• 1999: Margaret Cremen, a Dutch shirt.
• 2000: Roxen, Romanian singer.
• 2000: Eva Říhová, Czech canoe.
• 2000: Mauricio Matzuda, Peruvian footballer.
• 2000: Diego Eduardo Campos García, Venezuelan footballer.
• 2000: Irene Ogiza, Spanish footballer.
• 2000: Justin Dowell, American cyclist.
• 2000: Sam Hickey, British boxer.
• 2003: Szymon Włodarczyk, Polish footballer.
• 2003: Gilmar Napa, Ecuadorian footballer.

Deaths

• 842: Al-Mutasim, abbasida caliph (n. 796).
• 1066: Edward the Confessor, English king (n. 1004).
• 1173: Boleslaus IV the Rising, noble Polish (n. 1120).

Christopher of Bavaria.

• 1448: Christopher of Bavaria, king of Bavaria (n. 1416).
• 1465: Charles I of Orleans, poet, aristocrat and French military (n. 1394).
• 1477: Carlos el Temerario, aristocrat français (n. 1433).
• 1524: Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (n. 1450).
• 1527: Felix Manz, Swiss leader (n. 1498).
• 1588: Qi Jiguang, Chinese General (n. 1528).
• 1589: Catherine of Medici, wife of King Henry II of France (n. 1519).
• 1592: Guillermo V de Cléveris, Duke of Jülich-Cléveris-Berg (n. 1516).
• 1740: Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (n. 1667).
• 1762: Isabel I of Russia, Russian empress (n. 1709).
• 1796: Anna Barbara Reinhart, Swiss mathematics (n. 1730).
• 1846: Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (n. 1812).
• 1857: Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid, a unitary and military leader in Argentina (n. 1795).
• 1858: Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian general (n. 1766).
• 1860: John Neumann, Czech bishop in the United States (n. 1811).
• 1877: Giuseppe Fanelli, Italian revolutionary and anarchist (n. 1827).
• 1878: Alfonso La Marmora, Italian military and political (n. 1804).
• 1886: Hugo Pieter Vogel, Dutch architect (n. 1833).
• 1888: Henri Herz, Austrian composer and pianist (n. 1803).
• 1890: Rafael Berenguer and Condé, a Spanish painter (n. 1822).
• 1891: Emma Abbott, American soprano (n. 1849).
• 1903: Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Spanish statesman.
• 1904: Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist (n. 1839).
• 1910: Léon Walras, a French economist (n. 1834).
• 1915: Nagakura Shinpachi, Japanese Samurai. Captain of the second troop of Shinsengumi.
• 1916: Ulpiano Czech, painter, sculptor, posterist and Spanish illustrator (n. 1860).
• 1922: Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (n. 1874).
• 1929: Nicholas Nikolayevich Romanov, Russian general (n. 1856).
• 1933: Calvin Coolidge, 30th American President (n. 1872).
• 1936: Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, a Spanish writer (n. 1866).
• 1938: Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel, Spanish poet and translator in Catalan (n. 1913).
• 1939: Lisandro de la Torre, an Argentine politician (n. 1868).
• 1941: Amy Johnson, British Aircraft.
• 1942: Tina Modotti, Italian photographer (n. 1896).
• 1943: George Washington Carver, American educator (n. 1864).
• 1951: Andréi Platónov, Russian writer.
• 1956: Mistinguett, French singer (n. 1875).
• 1956: Genoveva Torres Morales, religious and holy Spanish (n. 1870).
• 1959: Adolpho Ducke, Italian biologist and ethnologist (n. 1876).
• 1960: Francesc Sabaté, Spanish anarchist (n. 1915).
• 1970: Max Born, German physicist, nobel physics award in 1954 (n. 1882).
• 1970: Roberto Gerhard, Spanish composer (n. 1896).
• 1976: Mal Evans, British band assistant The Beatles.
• 1979: Charles Mingus, American musician.
• 1981: Harold Clayton Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 (n. 1893).
• 1981: Launch of the Vast, Italian philosopher (n. 1901).
• 1982: Hans Conried, American actor (n. 1917).
• 1988: Pete Maravich, American basketball player (n. 1947).
• 1990: Arthur Kennedy, American actor (n. 1914).
• 1991: Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet, from Romania.
• 1993: Juan Benet, a Spanish writer (n. 1927).
• 1996: Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (n. 1966).
• 1997: André Franquin, Belgian artist (Gaston Lagaffe) (n. 1924).
• 1998: Hugo Avendaño, Mexican singer and actor.
• 1998: Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician.
• 1998: Martz Schmidt, Spanish hysterist (n. 1922).
• 2003: Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (n. 1918).
• 2003: Roy Jenkins, British politician (n. 1920).
• 2003: Félix Loustau, Argentine footballer (n. 1922).
• 2003: Daphne Oram, composer and British music (n. 1925).
• 2004: Pepe Carroll, magician and Spanish television presenter (n. 1958).
• 2006: María Fernanda Cartier, actress, singer, animator and Argentine model of Italian origin (n. 1926).
• 2007: Momofuku Andō, Japanese entrepreneur and inventor (n. 1910).
• 2008: Louis Hon, French footballer (n. 1924).
• 2009: Pascal Terry, French bike rider (n. 1959).
• 2009: María Vilanova de Árbenz, feminist and first lady of Guatemala (n.1915).
• 2010: Kenneth Noland, American painter (n. 1924).
• 2010: Santos Pastor, professor, economist and Spanish jurist (n. 1951).
• 2011: Gabriel Cardona, writer, historian and Spanish military (n. 1938).
• 2011: Malangatana Ngwenya, painter, sculptor and Mozambican poet (n. 1936).
• 2012: Isaac Díaz Pardo, artist and businessman Galician.
• 2013: Sol Yurick, American writer (n. 1925).
• 2014: Nelson Ned, Brazilian Bolerist (n. 1947).
• 2015: Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French pilot (n. 1937).
• 2016: Pierre Boulez, French composer and driver (n. 1925).
• 2018: John W. Young, American captain, engineer and astronaut (n. 1930).
• 2018: Jerry Van Dyke, American comedian (n. 1931).
• 2019: Dragoslav Šekularac, footballer and Serbian coach (n. 1937).
• 2020: Daniel Rengifo, Colombian actor (n. 1993).
• 2021: João Cutileiro, Portuguese sculptor (n. 1937).
• 2022: Lawrence Brooks, American war veteran (n. 1909).

Celebrations

• Horse of Kings Magos.
• ColombiaColombia: Fourth Day of Black and White Carnival (or Black Day), Pasto.

Catholic saints list

• Saint Sync of Alexandria, virgin (s. IV).
• St. Goddess of Carthage, Bishop (457/458).
• Saint Emiliana of Rome, virgin (s. VI).
• Saint Convotion of Brittany, Abbot (868).
• San Eduardo el Confesor (1066).
• San Gerlaco de Valkenburg, eremite (1165).
• Blessed Rogerio de Todi, priest (1237).
• Blessed Francisco Peltier, James Ledoyen and Peter Tressier, priests and martyrs (1794).
• Saint John Nepomuceno Neumann, Bishop (1860).
• Blessed Mary Repetto, virgin (1890).
• beato Carlos de San Andrés Houben, priest (1893).
• beata Marcelina Darowska (1911).
• Blessed Pedro Bonilli, priest and founder (1935).
• beata Genoveva Torres Morales, a virgin (1956).