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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 24th of January 0041 | EVENT | Gaius Caesar (Caligula), known for his eccentricity and cruel despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. Claudius succeeds his nephew. |
| 24th of January 1438 | EVENT | The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa. |
| 24th of January 1679 | EVENT | King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament. |
| 24th of January 1742 | EVENT | Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 24th of January 1848 | EVENT | California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento. |
| 24th of January 1857 | EVENT | The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully-fledged university in south Asia. |
| 24th of January 1859 | EVENT | Political union of Moldavia and Wallachia; Alexandru Ioan Cuza is elected as ruler. |
| 24th of January 1862 | EVENT | Bucharest is proclaimed capital of Romania. |
| 24th of January 1878 | EVENT | The revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, the Governor of Saint Petersburg. |
| 24th of January 1916 | EVENT | In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional. |
| 24th of January 1918 | EVENT | The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14(NS) |
| 24th of January 1939 | EVENT | The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillan. |
| 24th of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom . |
| 24th of January 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca. |
| 24th of January 1947 | EVENT | Greek banker Dimitrios Maximos becomes Prime Minister of Greece. |
| 24th of January 1960 | EVENT | Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police. |
| 24th of January 1961 | EVENT | 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost. |
| 24th of January 1966 | EVENT | An Air India Boeing 707 jet crashes on Mont Blanc, on the border between France and Italy, killing 117. |
| 24th of January 1972 | EVENT | Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. |
| 24th of January 1977 | EVENT | Massacre of Atocha in Madrid, during the Spanish transition to democracy. |
| 24th of January 1978 | EVENT | Soviet satellite Cosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor onboard, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered. |
| 24th of January 1984 | EVENT | The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale. |
| 24th of January 1986 | EVENT | Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 kilometres (50,600 mi) of Uranus. |
| 24th of January 1990 | EVENT | Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States. |
| 24th of January 1993 | EVENT | Turkish journalist and writer Ugur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara. |
| 24th of January 1996 | EVENT | Polish Premier Jozef Oleksy resigns amid charges that he spied for Moscow. |
| 24th of January 2003 | EVENT | The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation. |
| 24th of January 2009 | EVENT | The storm Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France. It subsequently would cause 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies. |
| 24th of January 2011 | EVENT | At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. |
| 24th of January 0076 | BIRTHDAY | Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138) |
| 24th of January 1287 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345) |
| 24th of January 1444 | BIRTHDAY | Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476) |
| 24th of January 1540 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581) |
| 24th of January 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706) |
| 24th of January 1670 | BIRTHDAY | William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729) |
| 24th of January 1674 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Tanner, English bishop (d. 1735) |
| 24th of January 1679 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754) |
| 24th of January 1705 | BIRTHDAY | Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782) |
| 24th of January 1712 | BIRTHDAY | King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786) |
| 24th of January 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789) |
| 24th of January 1732 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799) |
| 24th of January 1742 | BIRTHDAY | Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (d. 1808) |
| 24th of January 1746 | BIRTHDAY | King Gustav III of Sweden (d. 1792) |
| 24th of January 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (d. 1832) |
| 24th of January 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820) |
| 24th of January 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (d. 1831) |
| 24th of January 1776 | BIRTHDAY | E.T.A. Hoffmann, German writer (d. 1822) |
| 24th of January 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Tsarina Elizabeth Alexeievna (d. 1826) |
| 24th of January 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916) |
| 24th of January 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937) |
| 24th of January 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Durand, French suffragette (d. 1936) |
| 24th of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943) |
| 24th of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958) |
| 24th of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Henry King, American film director (d. 1982) |
| 24th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer (d. 1958) |
| 24th of January 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Vicki Baum, Austrian writer (d. 1960) |
| 24th of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Model, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
| 24th of January 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Eugen Roth, German writer (d. 1976) |
| 24th of January 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (d. 1939) |
| 24th of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-born American geneticist and biologist (d. 1975) |
| 24th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Turner, English motorcycle designer (d. 1973) |
| 24th of January 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Calder, South African cricketer (d. 1995) |
| 24th of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | E. A. Speiser, American biblical scholar (d. 1965) |
| 24th of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | J. Howard Marshall, American billionaire (d. 1995) |
| 24th of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician (d. 1999) |
| 24th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar (d. 2005) |
| 24th of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Todd, English actress (d. 1993) |
| 24th of January 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Haddock, American political activist (d. 2010) |
| 24th of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Dello Joio, American composer (d. 2008) |
| 24th of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Motherwell, American painter (d. 1991) |
| 24th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998) |
| 24th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Arnoldo Foa, Italian actor |
| 24th of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Caldera, President of Venezuela (d. 2009) |
| 24th of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Borgnine, American actor |
| 24th of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Oral Roberts, American evangelist (d. 2009) |
| 24th of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Coleman Francis, American film director (d. 1973) |
| 24th of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Maren, American actor |
| 24th of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005) |
| 24th of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Tallchief, American ballerina |
| 24th of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter |
| 24th of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, British aristocrat (d. 2007) |
| 24th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Serrault, French actor (d. 2007) |
| 24th of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Desmond Morris, British anthropologist |
| 24th of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Matthews, British poultry industry figure (d. 2010) |
| 24th of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Grochowiak, Polish poet (d. 1976) |
| 24th of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008) |
| 24th of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Kershaw, American musician |
| 24th of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Stevens, American musician |
| 24th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Diamond, American singer |
| 24th of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Neville, American singer |
| 24th of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Hart, American professional wrestling figure (d. 2008) |
| 24th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Subhash Ghai, Indian film director |
| 24th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969) |
| 24th of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Struck, German politician |
| 24th of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983) |
| 24th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | D. Todd Christofferson, American religious figure |
| 24th of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Garamendi, American politician |
| 24th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Haji, Canadian actress |
| 24th of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ontkean, Canadian actor |
| 24th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer |
| 24th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Michio Kaku, Japanese-born American theoretical physicist |
| 24th of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Zevon, American musician (d. 2003) |
| 24th of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Des Barres, British actor and rock singer |
| 24th of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 24th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gennifer Flowers, American actress, political figure |
| 24th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Auteuil, French actor |
| 24th of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Urrutia, Ecuadorian-born American writer |
| 24th of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-born American comedian |
| 24th of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1986) |
| 24th of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Montgomery, American swimmer |
| 24th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Hanne Krogh, Norwegian singer (Bobbysocks) |
| 24th of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Lounes Matoub, Algerian Berber Kabyle singer (d. 1998) |
| 24th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Eaton, American basketball player |
| 24th of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Edmondson, English comedian |
| 24th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Allen, American baseball player |
| 24th of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jools Holland, English musician |
| 24th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | David Mills, American author |
| 24th of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Reeves, English comedian |
| 24th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Leventhal, American television news correspondent |
| 24th of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Neo, Singaporean filmmaker & actor |
| 24th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Guido Buchwald, German football player |
| 24th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress |
| 24th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Russo, American writer |
| 24th of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | William Van Dijck, Belgian athlete |
| 24th of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Argiris Kambouris, Greek basketball player |
| 24th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Martyn Grimley, English field hockey player |
| 24th of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Vanderlyde, Dutch boxer |
| 24th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (d. 2007) |
| 24th of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian film director |
| 24th of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jimeoin, Northern Irish comedian |
| 24th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Kozelek, American singer/songwriter (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon) |
| 24th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Myung, American musician (Dream Theater) |
| 24th of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Phil LaMarr, American actor,comedian,and voice actor |
| 24th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast |
| 24th of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Kiske, German musician |
| 24th of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hilmir Snaer Gu?nason, Icelandic actor |
| 24th of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Lillard, American actor |
| 24th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Mackris, American television producer |
| 24th of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Bailey, American baseball player |
| 24th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Naoshi Mizuta, Japanese composer |
| 24th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ulla Werbrouck, Belgian judoka and politician |
| 24th of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Daan Schuurmans, Dutch actor |
| 24th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Dean, American philosopher |
| 24th of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Helms, American actor |
| 24th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Gomez, Costa Rican footballer |
| 24th of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Isobel Cooper, English singer |
| 24th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Shae-Lynn Bourne, Canadian ice dancer |
| 24th of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cindy Pieters, Belgian cyclist |
| 24th of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kensuke Kita, Japanese guitarist (Asian Kung-Fu Generation) |
| 24th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer |
| 24th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Leandro Desabato, Argentine footballer |
| 24th of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Kostopoulos, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 24th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Marie Lenz, American actress |
| 24th of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rocky Boiman, American football player |
| 24th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Hanson, American baseball player |
| 24th of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Wolf, German ice hockey player |
| 24th of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Fiona Xie, Singaporean actress |
| 24th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Birch, American singer/songwriter/pianist |
| 24th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Speed, American race car driver |
| 24th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Maloney, Scottish footballer |
| 24th of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Wyatt Crockett, New Zealand rugby player |
| 24th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Kazmir, American baseball player |
| 24th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Witold Kie?tyka, Polish drummer (Decapitated) (d. 2007) |
| 24th of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Sergio, Portuguese footballer |
| 24th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mischa Barton, English-born American actress |
| 24th of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Raviv Ullman, Israeli-born American actor |
| 24th of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Suarez, Uruguayan footballer |
| 24th of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jade Ewen, English singer |
| 24th of January 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Goldspink, English singer/actor (S Club 8 , S Club Juniors , I Dream) |
| 24th of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Mao Abe, Japanese singer-songwriter |
| 24th of January 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Callan McAuliffe, Australian actor |
| 24th of January 0041 | DEATH | Caligula, Emperor of Rome (Born 12) |
| 24th of January 0772 | DEATH | Pope Stephen III (Born 720) |
| 24th of January 1002 | DEATH | Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 980) |
| 24th of January 1125 | DEATH | David IV of Georgia (Born 1073) |
| 24th of January 1366 | DEATH | Alfonso IV of Aragon (Born 1299) |
| 24th of January 1376 | DEATH | Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader |
| 24th of January 1473 | DEATH | Conrad Paumann, German composer |
| 24th of January 1595 | DEATH | Ferdinand II of Austria (Born 1529) |
| 24th of January 1626 | DEATH | Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (Born 1580) |
| 24th of January 1639 | DEATH | Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (Born 1596) |
| 24th of January 1666 | DEATH | Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (Born 1588) |
| 24th of January 1709 | DEATH | George Rooke, English admiral (Born 1650) |
| 24th of January 1769 | DEATH | Francois de Chevert, French general (Born 1695) |
| 24th of January 1856 | DEATH | Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (Born 1775) |
| 24th of January 1877 | DEATH | Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (Born 1796) |
| 24th of January 1882 | DEATH | Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (Born 1808) |
| 24th of January 1883 | DEATH | Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (Born 1812) |
| 24th of January 1895 | DEATH | Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (Born 1849) |
| 24th of January 1911 | DEATH | David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (Born 1867) |
| 24th of January 1918 | DEATH | George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (Born 1871) |
| 24th of January 1920 | DEATH | Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (Born 1884) |
| 24th of January 1924 | DEATH | Marie-Adelaide, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (Born 1894) |
| 24th of January 1932 | DEATH | Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (Born 1842) |
| 24th of January 1936 | DEATH | Harry T. Morey, American actor (Born 1873) |
| 24th of January 1939 | DEATH | Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (Born 1867) |
| 24th of January 1943 | DEATH | John Burns, English politician (Born 1858) |
| 24th of January 1948 | DEATH | Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (Born 1912) |
| 24th of January 1955 | DEATH | Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (Born 1923) |
| 24th of January 1960 | DEATH | Arthur Murray Chisholm, author of Western fiction (Born 1872) |
| 24th of January 1960 | DEATH | Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (Born 1886) |
| 24th of January 1961 | DEATH | Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and inventor (Born 1884) |
| 24th of January 1962 | DEATH | Andre Lhote, French painter (Born 1885) |
| 24th of January 1962 | DEATH | Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (Born 1877) |
| 24th of January 1965 | DEATH | Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (Born 1874) |
| 24th of January 1966 | DEATH | Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (Born 1909) |
| 24th of January 1970 | DEATH | Caresse Crosby, American poet (Born 1891) |
| 24th of January 1971 | DEATH | Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (Born 1895) |
| 24th of January 1973 | DEATH | J. Carrol Naish, American actor (Born 1897) |
| 24th of January 1973 | DEATH | Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (Born 1949) |
| 24th of January 1975 | DEATH | Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (Born 1902) |
| 24th of January 1978 | DEATH | Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (Born 1911) |
| 24th of January 1980 | DEATH | Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (Born 1887) |
| 24th of January 1982 | DEATH | Alfredo Ovando Candia, Bolivian president and dictator (Born 1918) |
| 24th of January 1983 | DEATH | George Cukor, American film director (Born 1899) |
| 24th of January 1986 | DEATH | L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (Born 1911) |
| 24th of January 1986 | DEATH | Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (Born 1954) |
| 24th of January 1986 | DEATH | Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (Born 1921) |
| 24th of January 1988 | DEATH | Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (Born 1905) |
| 24th of January 1989 | DEATH | Ted Bundy, American serial killer (Born 1946) |
| 24th of January 1989 | DEATH | George Knudson, Canadian golfer (Born 1937) |
| 24th of January 1990 | DEATH | Madge Bellamy, American actress (Born 1899) |
| 24th of January 1991 | DEATH | John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (Born 1931) |
| 24th of January 1992 | DEATH | Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (Born 1950) |
| 24th of January 1992 | DEATH | Ken Darby, American composer, arranger and conductor (Born 1909) |
| 24th of January 1993 | DEATH | Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (Born 1942) |
| 24th of January 1993 | DEATH | Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Born 1908) |
| 24th of January 1994 | DEATH | Yves Navarre, French writer (Born 1940) |
| 24th of January 1998 | DEATH | Walter D. Edmonds, American author (Born 1903) |
| 24th of January 2000 | DEATH | Bobby Duncum, Jr., American professional wrestler (Born 1965) |
| 24th of January 2002 | DEATH | Peter Gzowski, Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter (Born 1934) |
| 24th of January 2002 | DEATH | Elie Hobeika, Lebanese Forces militia commander (Born 1956) |
| 24th of January 2003 | DEATH | Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (Born 1921) |
| 24th of January 2004 | DEATH | Leonidas da Silva, Brazilian footballer (Born 1913) |
| 24th of January 2005 | DEATH | June Bronhill, Australian singer (Born 1929) |
| 24th of January 2005 | DEATH | Chalkie White, English rugby union coach (Born 1929) |
| 24th of January 2005 | DEATH | Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (Born 1933) |
| 24th of January 2006 | DEATH | Fayard Nicholas, American tap dancer, one-half of The Nicholas Brothers (Born 1914) |
| 24th of January 2006 | DEATH | Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (Born 1930) |
| 24th of January 2006 | DEATH | Chris Penn, American actor (Born 1965) |
| 24th of January 2007 | DEATH | Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (Born 1916) |
| 24th of January 2007 | DEATH | Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest military veteran (Born 1891) |
| 24th of January 2007 | DEATH | Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (Born 1956) |
| 24th of January 2008 | DEATH | Randy Salerno, co-anchor of Chicago's CBS 2 News (Born 1963) |
| 24th of January 2009 | DEATH | Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (Born 1942) |
| 24th of January 2009 | DEATH | Gerard Blanc, French singer (Born 1947) |
| 24th of January 2009 | DEATH | Reg Gutteridge, British boxing journalist (Born 1924) |
| 24th of January 2010 | DEATH | Pernell Roberts, American actor & singer, last surviving star of Bonanza (Born 1928) |
| 24th of January 2011 | DEATH | Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director (Born 1949) |
| 24th of January 2011 | DEATH | Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Musician, Bharat Ratna Laureate (Born 1922) |