On This Day
Sunday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
January 14 1968
Born on This Day
Aarno Ruusuvuori🇫🇮
deceasedFinnish architect (1925-1992) · 1925–1992
Days lived
24,510
Adorno Corradini🇮🇹
athlete · b. 1954
Days alive
5,113
Albert Schweitzer🇫🇷
deceasedphilosopher · 1875–1965
Days lived
33,105
Alfred Lichtwark🇩🇪
deceasedGerman art historian (1852–1914) · 1852–1914
Days lived
22,644
Andrea Fischer🇩🇪
German politician (Bündnis 90/Greens) (1960-) · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Bev Perdue🇺🇸
politician · b. 1947
Days alive
7,670
Brandon Meriweather🇺🇸
American football player (born 1984) · b. 1984
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Carl Weathers🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor and football player (1948–2024) · 1948–2024
Days lived
27,778
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Christoph Reuter🇩🇪
German journalist, war reporter · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Dave Grohl
guitarist · b. 1969
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Declan Rice
association football player · b. 1999
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Denzil Douglas
Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis · b. 1953
Days alive
5,478
Ernst Hartwig🇩🇪
deceasedGerman astronomer (1851-1923) · 1851–1923
Days lived
26,406
Eugenio Lucas Villaamil🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish painter (1858-1918) · 1858–1918
Days lived
21,923
Fița Lovin🇷🇴
athletics competitor · b. 1951
Days alive
6,209
Franz Josef Popp
deceasedActor · 1886–1954
Days lived
25,032
Fritz Bayerlein🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1899–1970) · 1899–1970
Days lived
25,948
Gaby Berger🇩🇪
musician · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Gene Snitsky🇺🇸
American professional wrestler · b. 1970
Georgina Cates🇬🇧
deceasedActor · 1975–2026
Days lived
18,740
Giulio Andreotti🇮🇹
deceasedItalian politician and statesman (1919–2013) · 1919–2013
Days lived
34,446
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Hal Roach🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican filmmaker (1892–1992) · 1892–1992
Days lived
36,817
Hank Biasatti🇨🇦
deceasedfilm director · 1922–1996
Days lived
27,125
Harold Shipman
deceasedNotable Trials · 1946–2004
Days lived
21,183
Hasso von Manteuffel🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1897–1978
Days lived
29,837
Heinz Brücher🇦🇷
deceasedGerman SS officer and botanist (1915-1991) · 1915–1991
Days lived
28,096
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Howard Carpendale🇩🇪
actor · b. 1946
Days alive
8,035
J. Bernlef
deceasedwriter · 1937–2012
Days lived
27,682
Jason Bateman🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1969
Joseph L. Green🇺🇸
journalist · b. 1931
Days alive
13,514
Kai (Kim Jong-in)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (EXO) · b. 1994
Karl von Eberstein🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1894-1979) · 1894–1979
Days lived
31,072
Leo Ortolani🇮🇹
Italian comics author (1967-) · b. 1967
Days alive
365
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LL Cool J🇺🇸
singer · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Marc Keller🇫🇷
French footballer (born 1968) · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Michael Skasa🇩🇪
journalist · b. 1942
Days alive
9,496
Mike Pelfrey🇺🇸
film director · b. 1984
Morris Simmonds🇩🇪
deceasedGerman pathologist (1855-1925) · 1855–1925
Days lived
25,800
Nick Romeo Reimann🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1998
Osip Mandelstam🇵🇱
deceasedRussian poet and essayist (1891-1938) · 1891–1938
Days lived
17,513
Rainer Ludwig Claisen🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1851–1930
Days lived
28,845
Rambhadracharya🇮🇳
philosopher · b. 1950
Days alive
6,574
Robbie Brady🇮🇪
Irish footballer · b. 1992
Rudolf Hagelstange🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer (1912–1984) · 1912–1984
Days lived
26,502
Rudolf Olden
deceasedJournalist, author, lawyer and human rights activist (1885–1940) · 1885–1940
Days lived
20,334
Shlomo Carlebach🇺🇸
deceasedJewish musician (1925–1994) · 1925–1994
Days lived
25,481
Steven Soderbergh🇺🇸
American filmmaker (born 1963) · b. 1963
Days alive
1,826
Thomas Watson
deceasedTech CEOs · 1914–1993
Days lived
29,206
Vasif Talibov
Azerbaijani politician · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
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Víctor Valdés🇪🇸
Spanish association football player · b. 1982
Yohan Cabaye🇫🇷
football player · b. 1986
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Yukio Mishima🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese author (1925–1970) · 1925–1970
Days lived
16,751
Zakk Wylde🇺🇸
singer · b. 1967
Days alive
365
Died on This Day
Aenne Biermann🇩🇪
deceasedartist · 1898–1933
Days lived
12,735
Alan Rickman🇬🇧
deceasedActor, director · 1946–2016
Days lived
25,529
Aleksandras Machtas🇱🇹
deceasedLithuanian chess player · 1892–1973
Days lived
29,319
Anagarika Govinda🇸🇪
deceasedfounder of a Buddhist order (1898–1985) · 1898–1985
Days lived
31,653
Anaïs Nin🇨🇺
deceasedWriter · 1903–1977
Days lived
26,991
Bill Hewitt🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1909-1947) · 1909–1947
Days lived
13,612
Carl Hahn🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1926–2023
Days lived
35,261
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Carl Möhner🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1921–2005
Days lived
30,472
Ceslas Spicq🇫🇷
deceasedFrench Dominican and biblical scholar (1901–1992) · 1901–1992
Days lived
33,132
Curt Backeberg🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1894–1966
Days lived
26,097
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Daniel Balavoine🇫🇷
deceasedsinger · 1952–1986
Days lived
12,397
Elisabeth Trissenaar🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian actress (1944–2024) · 1944–2024
Days lived
29,130
Ermenegildo Pistelli
deceasedItalian philologist and writer (1862-1927) · 1862–1927
Days lived
23,708
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Ernest Thesiger🇬🇧
deceasedactor (1879-1961) · 1879–1961
Days lived
29,949
Günther Möhring🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player (1936–2006) · 1936–2006
Days lived
25,252
Gustav Regler🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1898–1963
Days lived
23,609
Hardy Richardson🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1855–1931
Days lived
27,661
Humphrey Bogart🇺🇸
deceasedOscar Winners · 1899–1957
Days lived
20,839
John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover🇬🇧
deceasedBritish businessman (born 1927) · 1927–2022
Days lived
34,407
Katharina Rutschky🇩🇪
deceasedGerman author and educator (1941–2010) · 1941–2010
Days lived
25,191
Kim Min-jae🇰🇷
deceasedfilm director · 1973–2026
Days lived
19,369
Kurt Gödel🇺🇸
deceasedphilosopher · 1906–1978
Days lived
26,194
Lotte Hass🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian underwater diver and model; wife of Hans Hass (1928-2015) · 1928–2015
Days lived
31,480
Miro Allione🇮🇹
deceasedItalian executive, professor and writer · 1932–2006
Days lived
26,688
Peter Finch
deceasedOscar Winners · 1916–1977
Days lived
22,023
Petra Schürmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress and model (1933–2010) · 1933–2010
Days lived
27,880
Rachel Fuller Brown🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican chemist (1898–1980) · 1898–1980
Days lived
29,636
Rainer Stadelmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman egyptologist (1933-2019) · 1933–2019
Days lived
31,128
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Robert Lembke🇩🇪
deceasedGerman television presenter (1913-1989) · 1913–1989
Days lived
27,513
Robert Odeman🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor and musician (1904–1985) · 1904–1985
Days lived
29,265
Robert Trösch🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss actor (1911-1986) · 1911–1986
Days lived
27,079
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Sergei Korolev
deceasedscientist · 1907–1966
Days lived
21,552
Shalva Chikhladze🇬🇪
deceasedathlete · 1912–1997
Days lived
30,867
Siegfried Frederick Nadel🇦🇹
deceasedBritish anthropologist (1903–1956) · 1903–1956
Days lived
19,258
Victor Papanek🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican designer and educator (1923–1998) · 1923–1998
Days lived
27,082
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,015
Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,686
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,859
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,556
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,129
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,571
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,537
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,171
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,615
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,267
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,066
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,580
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,598
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,267
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,619
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,162
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,072
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,049
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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