Birthdays Date 1938 January | History by KabAstro

Juan Carlos I (86 years old)

Jan 5 King of Spain (1975-2014), born in Rome, Italy

Jan 5 Leo Avery, Abbot of Quarr Abbey, born in Wakefield, United Kingdom (d. 1996)
Jan 5 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer, born in Kamirithu, British Kenya
Jan 5 Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer star, born in Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands (d. 1989)
Jan 6 Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor, born in Greco
Jan 6 Mario Rodríguez Cobos (aka Silo), Argentine writer and spiritual leader, born in Mendoza, Argentina (d. 2010)
Jan 6 Prof Adrienne Clarke, Australian botanist, born in Melbourne, Australia
Jan 7 Jasperina de Jong, Dutch cabaret performer and actress (Jan Rap en z'n Maat), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jan 7 Lou Graham, American golfer (US Open 1975), born in Nashville, Tennessee
Jan 7 Paul Revere [Dick], American rock organ player and pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders - "Kicks": "Indian Reservation"), born in Harvard, Nebraska (d. 2014)
Jan 7 Roland Topor, French surrealist illustrator, novelist (The Tenant), playwright, and filmmaker, born in Paris, France (d. 1997)
Jan 7 Rory Storm [Alan Caldwell], British rock singer (Rory Storm & the Hurricanes), born in Stoneycroft, Liverpool, England (d. 1972)
Jan 8 Bob Eubanks, American DJ and television personality (Newlywed Game), born in Flint, Michigan
Jan 8 Jørn Elniff, Danish bebop jazz drummer (Music for Mice and Men; Bud Powell), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1991)
Jan 9 Aad Kosto, Dutch Labour Party politician who had his house blown up in a failed assassination attempt, born in Oegstgeest, Netherlands
Jan 9 Fred Goodall, New Zealand cricket umpire (24 Tests, 15 one-day internationals 1965-88), born in Greymouth, New Zealand (d. 2021)
Jan 10 Donald Knuth, American mathematician & computer scientist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Frank Mahovlich (86 years old)

Jan 10 Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame left wing, politician (6-time Stanley Cup winner, born in Timmins, Ontario

Willie McCovey (1938-2018)

Jan 10 American Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman (6 x MLB All Star; NL MVP 1969; NL home run leader 1963, 68, 69; SF Giants), born in Mobile, Alabama

Jan 11 Arthur Scargill, British Marxist and trade unionist (President of National Union of Mineworkers. 1982-2002), born in Barnsley, United Kingdom
Jan 11 Fischer Black, American economist and one of the authors of the Black–Scholes equation, born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1995)
Jan 11 Micky Fenn, British dock worker, trade unionist, anti-fascist, and anti-racist activist, born in England (d. 1996)
Jan 12 Lewis Fiander, Australian actor, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2016)
Jan 13 Billy Gray, American actor (Father Knows Best - "Bud"), born in Los Angeles, California
Jan 13 Daevid Allen [Christopher David], Australian musician and performance artist (Soft Machine, Gong), born in Melbourne, Victoria (d. 2015)
Jan 13 Jean Cabut [Cabu], French caricaturist (Charlie Hebdo), born in Châlons-en-Champagne, France (d. 2015)
Jan 13 Paavo Heininen, Finnish pianist, contemporary classical composer (Tritopos; Veitsi - The Knife), and pedagogue, born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 2022)
Jan 13 Richard Anthony [Btesh], Syrian-French pop singer, and songwriter ("Aranjuez mon amour"; "Amoureux de ma femme"), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2015)
Jan 13 Shiv Kumar Sharma, Indian santoor (100-string dulcimer-like instrument) master, and composer, born in Jammu, British India (d. 2022)
Jan 13 Tord Grip, Swedish football manager
Jan 13 William B. Davis, Canadian actor (The X Files - "Smoking Man"), director, and teacher, born in Toronto, Ontario

Allen Toussaint (1938-2015)

Jan 14 American pianist, songwriter and producer ("Mother-In-Law"; "Working In A Coal Mine"; "Southern Nights"), born in Gert Town, Louisiana

Jan 14 Jack Jones, American singer (Love Boat Theme), born in Los Angeles, California
Jan 15 Chuni Goswami, Indian soccer striker and captain (30 caps; Mohun Bagan) and cricket all-rounder (captain Bengal), born in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh (d. 2020)
Jan 16 Jô Soares, Brazilian comedian, late night television talk show host, author (O Xangô de Baker Street - A Samba for Sherlock), and jazz musician, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (d. 2022)
Jan 16 Lou Angotti, Canadian ice hockey right wing (Chicago Black Hawks) and coach (St. Louis Blues, Pittsburgh Penguins), born in Toronto, Canada (d. 2021)
Jan 16 Michael Pataki, American actor (Get Christie Love), born in Youngstown, Ohio
Jan 17 John Bellairs, American sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom), born in Marshall, Michigan (d. 1991)
Jan 18 Anthony Giddens, English sociologist (theory of structuration), and prolific author, born in Edmonton, London

Curt Flood (1938-1997)

Jan 18 American baseball player (St Louis Cards), born in Houston, Texas

Jan 18 Hargus “Pig” Robbins, American Nashville session piano player (Patsy Cline; Charlie Rich; Roger Miller; Bob Dylan; Ween), born in Spring City, Tennessee (d. 2022) [1]
Jan 19 Denny Smith, American politician (Rep-R-OR, 1981-91), born in Ontario, Oregon
Jan 19 Eskil Hemberg, Swedish composer, conductor (Stockholm University Chorus, 1959-84), and artistic director (Royal Swedish Opera, 1987-96), born in Stockholm (d. 2004)
Jan 21 John Savident, British actor
Jan 21 Romano Fogli, Italian soccer midfielder (13 caps; Torino FC, Bologna FC 1909, A.C. Milan, Calcio Catania) and manager (Bologna FC), born in Santa Maria a Monte, Italy (d. 2021)
Jan 21 Wolfman Jack [Robert Weston Smith], American disc jockey (The Midnight Special), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1995)
Jan 22 Altair, Brazilian footballer
Jan 22 Corra Dirksen, South African rugby union winger (10 caps; Northern Transvaal), born in Vereeniging, South Africa (d. 2020)
Jan 22 Joe Esposito, American author and friend of Elvis, born in Chicago (d. 2016)
Jan 23 Anatoly Marchenko, Soviet dissident, born in Barabinsk, Russia (d. 1986)
Jan 23 Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler, born in iigata Prefecture, Japan (d. 1999)
Jan 24 Gyula Torok, Hungarian boxer (Oly Gold 1960), born in Kispest, Hungary (d. 2014)
Jan 24 Julius Hemphill, American jazz saxophonist, and composer, born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1995)
Jan 25 Betico Croes, Arubian politician (Status Aparte), born in Aruba (d. 1986)

Etta James (1938-2012)

Jan 25 American singer ("Roll With Me"; "At Last"), born in Los Angeles, California

Jan 25 Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese creator of anime, born in Kurume, Japan
Jan 25 Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author, born in Tome, Japan (d. 1998)
Jan 26 Bill Wurtzel, American jazz and classical guitarist (Count Basie), born in Forestburgh, New York
Jan 26 Margaret Daly, British MEP
Jan 27 Timothy Elworthy, Captain of The Queen's Flight
Jan 28 Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR +90 kg 1964, 68: World C'ships gold 1964, 65, 66, 68), born in Uspenka, Ukraine (d. 2016)
Jan 29 Bill Christian, American ice hockey center (Olympic gold 1960, captain), born in Warroad, Minnesota
Jan 30 Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (1991-2016), born in Samarkand (d. 2016)
Jan 30 Marcel van Dam, Dutch politician/CEO (VARA Radio/TV)
Jan 30 Marlies van Alcmaer [Smal], Dutch actress and director (Bridge too Far)
Jan 31 Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta)
Jan 31 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, former Queen of the Netherlands (1980-2013), born in Soestdijk Palace, Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jan 31 James G. Watt, American lawyer and US Secretary of the Interior (1981-83), born in Lusk, Wyoming (d. 2023)
Jan 31 Lynn Carlin [Mary Lynn Reynolds], American actress (James at 15 - "Joan Hunter"; Faces), born in Los Angeles, California