Famous People Born on January 1
Famous people born on January 1 include J. D. Salinger (1919), Pierre de Coubertin (1863) and Pope Alexander VI (1431).
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
J. D. Salinger
American writer (1919–2010)
Pierre de Coubertin
French educator and historian (1863–1937)
Pope Alexander VI
Head of the Catholic Church from 1492 to 1503
Sándor Petőfi
Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
Huldrych Zwingli
Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484–1531)
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank since 2019
E. M. Forster
English novelist and writer (1879–1970)
Lorenzo de' Medici
Ruler of Florence from 1469 to 1492
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian theoretical physicist (1894–1974)
Stepan Bandera
Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
Alassane Ouattara
President of Ivory Coast since 2010
Lilian Thuram
French footballer (born 1972)
Davor Šuker
Croatian footballer (born 1968)
James George Frazer
Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist (1854–1941)
J. Edgar Hoover
American law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Heinrich Hertz
German physicist (1857–1894)
Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
Grace Hopper
U.S. naval officer and computer scientist (1906–1992)
Louis XII
King of France from 1498 to 1515
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1667–1748)
Hank Williams
American singer, songwriter, and musician (1923–1953)
Maurice Chevalier
French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888–1972)
Johann Christian Bach
German composer (1735–1782)
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917
Vincent Auriol
President of France from 1947 to 1954