January 1st famous birthdays

Vidya Balan (40)

Indian model and actress

J. Edgar Hoover (1895 - 1972)

American 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Pope Alexander VI (1431 - 1503)

Pope

Sonali Bendre (43)

Indian model and actress

Gene Hackman (88)

American actor and author

Elin Nordegren (38)

Swedish-American model

Jack Wilshere (26)

English footballer

J. D. Salinger (1919 - 2010)

American author

Nana Patekar (67)

Indian actor

Colin Morgan (32)

Irish actor

Frank Langella (80)

American actor

Jeremy Irvine (28)

British actor

Morris Chestnut (49)

American actor

Katrina Law (33)

American actress

Bob Menendez (64)

American politician, 29th Governor of New Mexico

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (66)

Qatari ruler

Duane Martin (48)

American actor

Barry Goldwater (1909 - 1998)

American army officer and politician

Verne Troyer (49)

American actor and stuntman

Sophie Okonedo (50)

Actress, singer

Lorenzo de' Medici (1449 - 1492)

Italian politician

Grandmaster Flash (60)

Barbadian rapper and DJ

Eiichiro Oda (43)

Japanese illustrator

E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

English author

Brody Dalle (39)

Australian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Kim Philby (1912 - 1988)

British spy, Soviet double agent

Tim Dog (1967 - 2013)

American rapper

Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946)

American photographer

Danny Lloyd (45)

American actor

Betsy Ross (1752 - 1836)

American seamstress, designed the Flag of the United States

Deepa Mehta (68)

Indian-Canadian director and screenwriter

Gary Johnson (65)

American politician

Manuel Roxas (1892 - 1948)

Filipino politician

Ken Carter (59)

American basketball player-coach

Jimmy Hart (74)

American wrestling manager and singer

Omar al-Bashir (74)

Sudanese politician

Dana Andrews (1909 - 1992)

American actor

Chiune Sugihara (1900 - 1986)

Japanese diplomat

Jerry Yan (41)

Taiwanese actor and singer

Lee Sungmin (1986 - 2012)

South Korean singer and actor

Satyendra Nath Bose (1894 - 1974)

Indian mathematician

Lilian Thuram (46)

French footballer

Bobby Roode (41)

Canadian wrestler

Jon Corzine (71)

American politician, 54th Governor of New Jersey

Davor Šuker (50)

Croatian footballer

Tiago Splitter (33)

Brazilian basketball player

Charlie Munger (94)

American businessman and philanthropist

Jonas Armstrong (37)

Irish-English actor

Ronald Perelman (75)

American businessman, founded MacAndrews & Forbes

Huldrych Zwingli (1484 - 1531)

Swiss pastor and theologian

Jason Gann (47)

Australian film director

Don Novello (75)

Actor, director, writer, producer, singer, comedian