What happened on January 21 ?

1804 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)

1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate Army general (d. 1863)

1825 - Imre Madách, Hungarian writer (d. 1864)

1829 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)

1848 - Henri Duparc, French composer (d. 1933)

1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)

1860 - Karl Staaff, Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1915)

1867 - Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921)

1867 - Maxime Weygand, French general (d. 1965)

1883 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (d. 1929)

1884 - Roger Baldwin, American social activist (d. 1981)

1885 - Leadbelly, American blues and folk musician (d. 1949)

1885 - Umberto Nobile, Italian politician and airship designer (d. 1978)

1887 - Georges Vezina, Canadian ice hockey goalie and innovator (d. 1926)

1895 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (d. 1972)

1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)

1905 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978)

1906 - Igor Moiseyev, father of balletic folk dance

1912 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2000)

1918 - Richard D. Winters, War hero

1921 - Howard Unruh, American mass murderer

1922 - Paul Scofield, English actor

1923 - Lola Flores, Spanish singer (d. 1995)

1924 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)

1924 - Benny Hill, British actor, comic and singer (d. 1992)

1926 - Steve Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)

1936 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)

1938 - Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian football player

1939 - Wolfman Jack, disk jockey and actor (d. 1995)

1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American golfer

1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor

1941 - Richie Havens, American musician

1941 - Ivan Putski, Polish professional wrestler

1942 - Mac Davis, American musician

1942 - Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)

1946 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (d. 2004)

1950 - Billy Ocean, West Indian musician

1953 - Paul Allen, American entrepreneur

1955 - Jeff Koons, American artist

1956 - Robby Benson, American actor

1956 - Geena Davis, American actress

1956 - Lewis Berman, American computer scientist, composer, and pianist.

1958 - Michael Wincott, Canadian actor

1962 - Marie Trintignant, French actress (d. 2003)

1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian-born basketball player

1963 - Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player

1965 - Jam Master Jay, American disc jockey (d. 2002)

1968 - Charlotte Ross, American actress

1971 - Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player

1971 - Doug Weight, American ice hockey player

1972 - Chan Marshall, American musician (Cat Power)

1975 - Nicky Butt, English footballer

1976 - Emma Bunton, English singer (Spice Girls)

1977 - Al Baxter, Australian rugby player

1977 - Philip Neville, English footballer

1978 - Andrei Zyuzin, Russian ice hockey player

1979 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player

1979 - Byung-Hyun Kim, Korean baseball player

1981 - Andy Lee, rapper in the korean group Shinhwa

1981 - Jamie Dalrymple, English Cricketer

1981 - Dany Heatley, Canadian hockey player

1981 - Izabella Miko, Polish-born actress and model

2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway