Birthdays Date 1913 January | History by KabAstro

Loretta Young (1913-2000)

Jan 6 American actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger), born in Salt Lake City, Utah

Jan 6 Tom Brown, American actor (Buck Privates Come Home, In Old Chicago), born in New York City (d. 1990)
Jan 7 Francis De Wolff, British character actor (A Christmas Carol, From Russia With Love), born in Essex, England (d. 1984)
Jan 7 Johnny Mize, American Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman (10 x MLB All Star; 5 × World Series champion; NL batting champion 1939; 4 × NL HR leader; St. Louis Cardinals, NY Giants, NY Yankees), born in Demorest, Georgia (d. 1993)
Jan 7 Shirley Ross [Bernice Maude Gaunt], American actress (Cafe Society, Prison Farm, Waikiki Wedding), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1975)
Jan 8 Dennis Smith, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (1 Test; lone wicket off first ball; Otago, Canterbury), born in Toowoomba, Australia (d. 1986)
Jan 9 Dr. Hepcat [Albert Lavada Durst], American blues pianist, born in Austin, Texas (d. 1995)
Jan 9 Peter John Norton, British navy officer, born in Germiston, South Africa (d. 2004)

Richard Nixon (1913-1994)

Jan 9 American politician (37th US President (Republican 1969-74; Vice-President, 1953-61; US Senator from California, 1950-53) and navy veteran, born in Yorba Linda, California

Jan 10 Gustav Husak, Slovak politician and president of Czechoslavakia (1975-89), born in Bratislava, Slovakia (d. 1991)
Jan 10 Haywood Frank Henry, American jazz baritone saxophonist, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1994)
Jan 10 Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician, born in Çorrush, Albania (d. 1981)
Jan 14 Tillie Olsen, American writer (Tell Me a Riddle), born in Wahoo, Nebraska (d. 2007)
Jan 15 Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff (d. 1963)
Jan 15 Lloyd Bridges, American actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane!), born in San Leandro, California (d. 1998)
Jan 15 Miriam Hyde, Australian composer, born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 2005)
Jan 17 Werenfried van Straaten, Dutch anti-communist priest (founder of Oostpriesterhulp), born in Mijdrecht, Netherlands (d. 2003)
Jan 17 Yadavendra Singh [Yuvraj of Patiala], Indian 9th and last ruling Maharaja of Patiala and cricketer (scored 24 & 60 in only Test India v England), born in Patiala City, British Raj (d. 1974)
Jan 18 Giannis "Yannis" Papaioannou, Greek musician and composer, born in Kios, Ottoman Empire (now Gemlik, Turkey) (d. 1972)
Jan 19 Anthony Dexter [Walter Fleischmann], Canadian actor (The Phantom Planet, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas), born in Talmage, Nebraska (d. 2001)
Jan 19 Minnesota Fats [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], American billiard player and entertainer, born in New York City (d. 1996)
Jan 19 Phyllis Flowerdew, English school reading text author (Wide Range Reader series that sold over 7 million copies), born in Halifax, England (d. 1994)
Jan 19 Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (d. 1955)
Jan 22 Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
Jan 22 Verdina Shlonsky, Israeli pianist and avant-garde composer, born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1990)
Jan 22 William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)

Adrian Quist (1913-1991)

Jan 23 Australian tennis player, analyst (Australian C'ship 1936, 40, 48), born in Medindie, South Australia

Jan 24 Norman Dello Joio [Nicodemo DeGioio], American classical composer (Choreography: Three Dances for Strings), born in New York City (d. 2008)
Jan 25 Luis Marden, American photojournalist, born in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 2003)
Jan 25 Witold Lutosławski, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor (Musique funèbre; Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1994)

Jimmy Van Heusen (1913-1990)

Jan 26 American Acadeny and Emmy Award-winning composer and songwriter ("All The Way"; "Love & Marriage"; "Come Fly With Me"), born in Syracuse, New York [1]

Jan 26 William Prince, American actor (Spies Like Us, The Stepford Wives, City in Fear), born in Nichols, New York, (d. 1996)
Jan 27 Milton Adolphus, American pianist and composer, born in the Bronx, New York (d. 1988)
Jan 27 Valery Zhelobinsky, Russian pianist and composer, born in Tambov, Russia (d. 1946)
Jan 28 Jan Masseus, Dutch composer, born in Rotterdam (d. 1999)
Jan 28 Oliver Chesterton, British businessman (Chestertons Estate Agency) (d. 2007)
Jan 29 Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
Jan 29 Peter von Zahn, German journalist, writer, and film maker, born in Chemnitz, Germany (d. 2001)
Jan 29 Victor Mature, American actor (I Wake Up Screaming, Samson and Delilah), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1999)
Jan 30 Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter described as the "Indian Frida Kahlo" and "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century", born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1941)
Jan 30 Dicky Fuller, West Indian cricketer (one Test WI v England 1935, 1, 0-12), born in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica (d. 1987)
Jan 30 Percy Thrower, English radio host, born in England, United Kingdom (d. 1988)

Don Hutson (1913-1997)

Jan 31 American College-Pro Football HOF end (Uni of Alabama; NFL MVP 1941, 42; 8 × First-team All-Pro, 4 × NFL All-Star; Green Bay Packers), born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Jan 31 Héctor Iglesias Villoud, Argentine composer, born in San Nicolás, Argentina (d. 1988)
Jan 31 Wayne Millner, American NFL Hall of Fame football end, 1936-45 (Boston/Washington Redskins), and US Navy WWII veteran, born in Roxbury Massachusetts (d. 1976)