Famous birthdays on January 1
Famous people born on January 1, from every year, and what happened on this day in history.
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
💎 Birthstone
Garnet
👶 How common
No. 364 of 366
Born on January 1

Alexander VI
born 1431 · pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)

Lorenzo de' Medici
born 1449 · Italian politician, literary man and humanist

Huldrych Zwingli
born 1484 · Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)

Hong Xiuquan
born 1814 · Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion (1814–1864)

Sándor Petőfi
born 1823 · Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary (1823–1849)

Pierre de Coubertin
born 1863 · founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian (1863-1937)

George Washington Carver
born 1864 · African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)

Satyendra Nath Bose
born 1894 · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)

Ousmane Sembène
born 1923 · Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author (1923–2007)

Christine Lagarde
born 1956 · President of the European Central Bank

Banksy
born 1973 · English graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Kendrick Lamar
born 1987 · American rapper and songwriter (born 1987)

Lilian Thuram
born 1972 · French footballer (born 1972)
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Hailee Steinfeld
born 1996 · American actress and singer (born 1996)
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Jack Wilshere
born 1992 · English association football player

Martin Evans
born 1941 · English developmental biologist
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Julia Garner
born 1994 · American actress (born 1994)

Katarina Witt
born 1964 · German figure skater

Michel Onfray
born 1959 · French philosopher
Daniel Jarque
born 1983 · Spanish footballer (1983–2009)
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Saif al-Adel
born 1963 · Current de-facto Emir of Al-Qaeda
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Mahmoud Dahoud
born 1996 · German-Syrian association football player (born 1996)
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Devlet Bahçeli
born 1948 · Leader of the Nationalist Action Party
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Essam Sharaf
born 1952 · Egyptian politician and engineer; Prime Minister of Egypt
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Abdul Ahad Mohmand
born 1959 · Afghan astronaut

Sarah Hegazi
born 1989 · Egyptian LGBT activist

Yusuf Dikeç
born 1973 · Turkish sport shooter (born 1973)

Egidio Arévalo Rios
born 1982 · Uruguayan footballer

Pavel Grachev
born 1948 · Russian general
İbrahim Tatlıses
born 1952 · Turkish musician (born 1952)
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Abu Ayyub al-Masri
born 1968 · Egyptian al-Qaeda member (1967–2010)

Vladimir Titov
born 1947 · Soviet and Russian cosmonaut

Sergey Avdeyev
born 1956 · Soviet and Russian cosmonaut

Hans-Joachim Stuck
born 1951 · German racing driver

Ghada Amer
born 1963 · Egyptian American artist (born 1963)

Berat Albayrak
born 1978 · Turkish businessperson (born 1978)
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Onur Kıvrak
born 1988 · Turkish association football player (born 1988)
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Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya
born 2000 · Russian-born Australian pair skater

Samia al-Amoudi
born 1957 · Saudi Arabian physician
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Zehra Doğan
born 1989 · Turkish journalist of Kurdish ancestry (born 1989)
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Questions about January 1 birthdays
- Who are famous people born on January 1?
- Famous people born on January 1 include Alexander VI (1431), Lorenzo de' Medici (1449), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Hong Xiuquan (1814), Sándor Petőfi (1823).
- What star sign is someone born on January 1?
- Someone born on January 1 is a Capricorn.
- What is the birthstone for January 1?
- The birthstone for January is garnet.
- How common is a birthday on January 1?
- In the US, January 1 is the No. 364 most common birthday of the 366, with about 7,735 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).