What Happened In January 2012 In History

Historical Events for January, 2012

• 1st » A Moldovan civilian is 2012 Moldova security zone incident or fatally wounded by a Russian peacekeeper in the Transnistrian security zone, leading to demonstrations against Russia.
• 7th » A hot air balloon 2012 Carterton hot air balloon crash e.g crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
• 10th » A 2012 Khyber Agency bombing called bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
• 13th » The passenger cruise ship 'Costa Concordia' Costa Concordia disaster named sinks off the coast of Italy. There are 31 confirmed deaths with one still missing, Russel Rebello, amongst the 4232 passengers and crew.
• 14th » The Pirate Party of Greece is founded, on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party (Sweden) named Pirate Party.
• 19th » The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
• 23rd » A group of Muammar Gaddafi Gaddafi loyalists take control of part of the town of Bani Walid and fly the Flag of Libya green flag after a 2012 Bani Walid uprising battle with NTC forces left 5 dead and 20 injured.

Famous Birthdays on January in 2012

• 24th » Princess Athena of Denmark

Famous Deaths for January 2012

• 1st » Gary Ablett (English footballer) known as Gary Ablett, English footballer and manager (b. 1965)
• 1st » Bob Anderson (fencer) named Bob Anderson, British fencer, stuntman, and choreographer (b. 1922)
• 1st » Kiro Gligorov, Bulgarian-Macedonian politician, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1917)
• 1st » Alessandro Liberati, Italian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1954)
• 1st » Nay Win Maung, Burmese physician, businessman, and activist (b. 1962)
• 1st » Fred Milano, American singer (The Belmonts and Dion and the Belmonts) (b. 1939)
• 1st » Tommy Mont, American football player and coach (b. 1922)
• 1st » Carlos Soria, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
• 1st » Yafa Yarkoni, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1925)
• 2nd » Ian Bargh, Scottish-Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1935)
• 2nd » William P. Carey, American businessman and philanthropist, founded W. P. Carey (b. 1930)
• 2nd » Vivi Friedman, Finnish-American director and screenwriter (b. 1967)
• 2nd » Silvana Gallardo, American actress (b. 1953)
• 2nd » Yoshiro Hayashi, Japanese golfer (b. 1922)
• 2nd » Gordon Hirabayashi, American-Canadian sociologist and academic (b. 1918)
• 2nd » Larry Reinhardt, American guitarist (Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond) (b. 1948)
• 2nd » Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1986)
• 3rd » Vicar (comics) or Vicar, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1934)
• 3rd » Charles W. Bailey, American journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 3rd » Gene Bartow, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
• 3rd » Robert L. Carter, American lawyer and judge (b. 1917)
• 3rd » Selorm Kuadey, Ukrainian-English rugby player (b. 1987)
• 3rd » Winifred Milius Lubell, American author and illustrator (b. 1914)
• 3rd » Joaquín Martínez, Mexican-American actor (b. 1930)
• 3rd » Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (b. 1924)
• 3rd » Jenny Tomasin, English actress (b. 1938)
• 3rd » Bob Weston (guitarist) named Bob Weston, English guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) (b. 1947)
• 3rd » Harold Zirin, American astronomer and academic (b. 1929)
• 4th » Eve Arnold, American-English photographer and journalist (b. 1912)
• 4th » Ruben Ayala (American politician) named Ruben Ayala, American politician (b. 1922)
• 4th » Harry Fowler, English actor (b. 1926)
• 4th » Gatewood Galbraith, American lawyer, author, and politician (b. 1947)
• 4th » Kerry McGregor, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1974)
• 4th » Carmen Naranjo, Costa Rican author and poet (b. 1928)
• 4th » Rod Robbie, English-Canadian architect, designed the Canadian Pavilion and Rogers Centre (b. 1928)
• 4th » David Wheeler (stage director) known as David Wheeler, American director and producer (b. 1925)
• 5th » Richard Alf, American businessman, co-founded San Diego Comic-Con International (b. 1952)
• 5th » Gordon W. Bowie, American trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1945)
• 5th » Don Carter (bowler) called Don Carter, American bowler (b. 1926)
• 5th » Samson H. Chowdhury, Bangladeshi businessman (b. 1926)
• 5th » Thelma Forbes, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
• 5th » Frederica Sagor Maas, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 5th » Isaac Díaz Pardo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
• 5th » Amit Saigal, Indian publisher, founded the 'Rock Street Journal' (b. 1965)
• 5th » Alexander Sizonenko, Russian basketball player (b. 1959)
• 6th » Tom Ardolino, American drummer (NRBQ) (b. 1955)
• 6th » Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (b. 1938)
• 6th » John Celardo, American illustrator (b. 1918)
• 6th » Bob Holness, English radio and television host (b. 1928)
• 6th » W. Francis McBeth, American composer (b. 1933)
• 6th » Ellen Pence, American sociologist and activist (b. 1948)
• 6th » Sybil Plumlee, American police officer and educator (b. 1911)
• 6th » Spike Pola, Australian footballer (b. 1914)
• 6th » Clive Shell, Welsh rugby player and coach (b. 1947)
• 7th » Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian journalist and author (b. 1935)
• 7th » Tony Blankley, English-American journalist and actor (b. 1948)
• 7th » Milburn E. Calhoun, American physician, philanthropist, and publisher (b. 1930)
• 7th » George Livingston, American politician (b. 1933)
• 7th » Hideaki Nitani, Japanese actor (b. 1930)
• 7th » Herbert Wilf, American mathematician and academic (b. 1931)
• 8th » Edarem, American television host (b. 1932)
• 8th » Dave Alexander (blues musician) or Dave Alexander, American singer and pianist (b. 1938)
• 8th » Herb Clarke (weatherman) e.g Herb Clarke, American journalist (b. 1927)
• 8th » T. J. Hamblin, English haematologist and academic (b. 1943)
• 8th » John Madin, English architect, designed the Birmingham Central Library (b. 1924)
• 8th » Bernhard Schrader, German chemist and academic (b. 1931)
• 8th » Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-French pianist and educator (b. 1929)
• 9th » Brian Curvis, Welsh boxer (b. 1937)
• 9th » Alex DeCroce, American politician (b. 1936)
• 9th » Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican singer and politician (b. 1919)
• 9th » Bridie Gallagher, Irish singer (b. 1924)
• 9th » Augusto Gansser-Biaggi, Swiss geologist and academic (b. 1910)
• 9th » Mae Laborde, American actress (b. 1909)
• 9th » Salvador A. Rodolfo, Sr., Filipino soldier (b. 1919)
• 9th » William G. Roll, German-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1926)
• 9th » Malam Bacai Sanhá, Guinea-Bissau politician, List of heads of state of Guinea-Bissau called President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1947)
• 9th » László Szekeres, Hungarian physician and academic (b. 1921)
• 10th » Vince Gibson, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
• 10th » Kyra T. Inachin, German-American historian and author (b. 1968)
• 10th » Lila Kaye, English actress (b. 1929)
• 10th » Jean Pigott, Canadian businesswoman and politician (b. 1924)
• 10th » Cliff Portwood, English footballer and singer (b. 1937)
• 10th » Mary Raftery, Irish journalist (b. 1957)
• 10th » Gevork Vartanian, Russian intelligence agent (b. 1924)
• 12th » MS-1 (wrestler) named MS-1, Mexican wrestler (b. 1956)
• 12th » Bjørn G. Andersen, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1924)
• 12th » Glenda Dickerson, American director, choreographer, and educator (b. 1945)
• 12th » Reginald Hill, English author (b. 1936)
• 12th » Bill Janklow, American lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1939)
• 12th » Shiv Kumari of Kotah (b. 1916)
• 12th » Charles H. Price II, American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1931)
• 12th » Rosalind Runcie, English pianist (b. 1932)
• 12th » Jim Stanley (football) e.g Jim Stanley, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
• 13th » Rauf Denktaş, Turkish-Cypriot lawyer and politician, 1st President of Northern Cyprus (b. 1924)
• 13th » Guido Dessauer, German physicist and engineer (b. 1915)
• 13th » Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Welsh composer and academic (b. 1918)
• 13th » Morgan Jones (actor) e.g Morgan Jones, American actor (b. 1928)
• 13th » Lefter Küçükandonyadis, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 13th » Artie Levine, American boxer (b. 1925)
• 13th » Billie Love, English actress and photographer (b. 1923)
• 13th » Miljan Miljanić, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• 13th » Richard Threlkeld, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
• 14th » Txillardegi, Spanish linguist and politician (b. 1929)
• 14th » Mircea Ciumara, Romanian politician (b. 1943)
• 14th » Dan Evins, American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (b. 1935)
• 14th » Arfa Karim, Pakistani student and computer programmer (b. 1995)
• 14th » Lasse Kolstad, Norwegian actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 15th » Mika Ahola, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1974)
• 15th » Ed Derwinski, American soldier and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (b. 1926)
• 15th » Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (b. 1922)
• 15th » Robert Freer, Indian-English air marshal (b. 1923)
• 15th » Carlo Fruttero, Italian journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 15th » Samuel Jaskilka, American general (b. 1919)
• 15th » Ib Spang Olsen, Danish author and illustrator (b. 1921)
• 15th » Hulett C. Smith, American lieutenant and politician, 27th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1918)
• 16th » Joe Bygraves, Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931)
• 16th » Jimmy Castor, American saxophonist (b. 1940)
• 16th » Mike Current, American football player (b. 1945)
• 16th » Sigursteinn Gíslason, Icelandic footballer and manager (b. 1968)
• 16th » Lorna Kesterson, American journalist and politician (b. 1925)
• 16th » Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch pianist, conductor, and musicologist (b. 1928)
• 17th » Ernie Alexander, American educator and politician (b. 1933)
• 17th » Aengus Fanning, Irish journalist (b. 1942)
• 17th » Carlos Guirao, Spanish guitarist, keyboard player, and composer (Neuronium) (b. 1954)
• 17th » Julius Meimberg, German soldier and pilot (b. 1917)
• 17th » Johnny Otis, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1921)
• 17th » Piet Römer, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1928)
• 17th » Marty Springstead, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)
• 18th » Karen Brazell, American author and academic (b. 1938)
• 18th » Tom Cowie, English businessman (b. 1922)
• 18th » Ray Finch, English potter (b. 1914)
• 18th » Mel Goldstein, American meteorologist (b. 1945)
• 18th » Anthony Gonsalves, Indian composer (b. 1927)
• 18th » Georg Lassen, German captain (b. 1915)
• 18th » Yuri Rasovsky, American playwright and producer, founded The National Radio Theater of Chicago (b. 1944)
• 19th » Peter Åslin, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1962)
• 19th » Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (b. 1982)
• 19th » Peter de Francia, French-English painter and illustrator (b. 1921)
• 19th » Gene Methvin, American pilot and journalist (b. 1934)
• 19th » Winston Riley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (The Techniques) (b. 1943)
• 19th » On Sarig, Israeli author (b. 1926)
• 19th » Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1933)
• 20th » John F. Baker, Jr., American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1945)
• 20th » Larry Butler (producer) known as Larry Butler, American songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 20th » Lucy Faulkner, Irish journalist (b. 1925)
• 20th » Etta James, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 20th » John Levy (musician) named John Levy, American bassist and maanger (b. 1912)
• 20th » Ioannis Kefalogiannis, Greek politician, Ministry of the Interior (Greece) called Greek Minister of the Interior (b. 1933)
• 20th » Alejandro Rodriguez (psychiatrist) named Alejandro Rodriguez, Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist (b. 1918)
• 20th » Robert Fortune Sanchez, American archbishop (b. 1934)
• 20th » Michael Welsh (Labour politician) e.g Michael Welsh, English miner and politician (b. 1926)
• 21st » J. R. Boone, American football player (b. 1925)
• 21st » Roy John Britten, American biologist and geneticist (b. 1919)
• 21st » Cliff Chambers, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 21st » Ernie Gregory, English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1921)
• 21st » Gerre Hancock, American organist and composer (b. 1934)
• 21st » Jonathan Idema, American soldier (b. 1956)
• 21st » Irena Jarocka, Polish singer (b. 1946)
• 21st » Jeffrey Ntuka, South African footballer (b. 1985)
• 21st » Jodie-Anne White, Australian dancer and choreographer (b. 1967)
• 22nd » Sarah Cullen, English journalist (b. 1949)
• 22nd » Rita Gorr, Belgian soprano (b. 1926)
• 22nd » André Green, French psychoanalyst and author (b. 1927)
• 22nd » Moisés Kaiman, Polish-Mexican rabbi (b. 1913)
• 22nd » Simon Marsden, English photographer and author (b. 1948)
• 22nd » Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 22nd » Pierre Sudreau, French politician, List of Education Ministers of France e.g French Minister of National Education (b. 1919)
• 22nd » Clarence Tillenius, Canadian painter and environmentalist (b. 1913)
• 22nd » Dick Tufeld, American voice actor (b. 1926)
• 23rd » Wesley E. Brown, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1907)
• 23rd » Anthony Capo, American mobster (b. 1959)
• 23rd » Marcel De Boodt, Belgian agriculturalist and academic (b. 1926)
• 23rd » Maurice Meisner, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1931)
• 23rd » Bingham Ray, American businessman, co-founded October Films (b. 1954)
• 23rd » Stig Vig, Swedish singer and bass player (Dag Vag) (b. 1948)
• 24th » Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greek director and producer (b. 1935)
• 24th » Sukumar Azhikode, Indian author and critic (b. 1926)
• 24th » James Farentino, American actor (b. 1938)
• 24th » J. Joseph Garrahy, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1930)
• 24th » Vadim Glowna, German actor and director (b. 1941)
• 24th » Delma Kollar, American super-centenarian (b. 1897)
• 24th » Patricia Neway, American soprano and actress (b. 1919)
• 24th » Stig Sæterbakken, Norwegian author (b. 1966)
• 24th » Althea Wynne, English sculptor and educator (b. 1936)
• 25th » Alfred Ball, English air marshal (b. 1921)
• 25th » Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929)
• 25th » Veronica Carstens, German wife of Karl Carstens (b. 1923)
• 25th » Jacques Maisonrouge, French businessman (b. 1924)
• 25th » Len McIntyre, English rugby player (b. 1933)
• 25th » Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939)
• 25th » Mark Reale, American guitarist and songwriter (Riot (band) known as Riot and Westworld (American band) known as Westworld) (b. 1955)
• 25th » Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, American philanthropist (b. 1920)
• 25th » Robert Sheran, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
• 25th » Alexander Zhitinsky, Russian journalist and author (b. 1941)
• 26th » Ian Abercrombie, English-American actor (b. 1934)
• 26th » Dimitra Arliss, American actress (b. 1932)
• 26th » Iggy Arroyo, Filipino politician (b. 1950)
• 26th » Kartar Singh Duggal, Indian author and playwright (b. 1917)
• 26th » Clare Fischer, American keyboard player and composer (b. 1928)
• 26th » Robert Hegyes, American actor (b. 1951)
• 26th » Roberto Mieres, Argentinian-Uruguayan race car driver (b. 1924)
• 26th » Colin Tarrant, English actor (b. 1952)
• 27th » Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi, Iraqi politician (b. 1933)
• 27th » Greg Cook, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1946)
• 27th » Ted Dicks, English composer and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 27th » Jeannette Hamby, American nurse and politician (b. 1933)
• 27th » Todd Lynn, American comedian and actor (b. 1964)
• 27th » Hermano Pablo, Puerto Rican-American evangelist (b. 1921)
• 27th » István Rózsavölgyi, Hungarian runner (b. 1929)
• 27th » Kevin White (mayor) named Kevin White, American politician, 51st Mayor of Boston (b. 1929)
• 28th » Diana Bliss, Australian director and producer (b. 1954)
• 28th » Joseph Curran (basketball) called Joseph Curran, American basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 28th » Don Fullmer, American boxer (b. 1939)
• 28th » Keriman Halis Ece, Turkish pianist and model, Miss Universe known as Miss Universe 1932 (b. 1913)
• 28th » Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)
• 28th » Don Starkell, Canadian adventurer and author (b. 1932)
• 29th » Damien Bona, American historian and journalist (b. 1955)
• 29th » Ranjit Singh Dyal, Indian general (b. 1928)
• 29th » Hellen Huisman, Dutch voice actress (b. 1937)
• 29th » François Migault, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 29th » Kell Osborne, American singer (b. 1939)
• 29th » John Rich (director) named John Rich, American director and producer (b. 1925)
• 29th » Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian lawyer and politician, 9th President of Italy (b. 1918)
• 29th » Gabriel Lawrence Sengol, Indian bishop (b. 1928)
• 29th » Camilla Williams, American soprano (b. 1919)
• 30th » Don Blenkarn, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 30th » Helmi Höhle, German fencer (b. 1924)
• 30th » Abdelhamid Mehri, Algerian soldier and politician (b. 1926)
• 30th » Doeschka Meijsing, Dutch author (b. 1947)
• 30th » Al Rio, Brazilian illustrator (b. 1962)
• 30th » Frederick Treves (actor) called Frederick Treves, English actor (b. 1925)
• 30th » Bill Wallace (author) known as Bill Wallace, American author and educator (b. 1947)
• 31st » Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, Dutch-South African bishop (b. 1921)
• 31st » Mani Ram Bagri, Indian politician (b. 1920)
• 31st » Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal (b. 1923)
• 31st » Leslie Carter, American singer-songwriter (b. 1986)
• 31st » Tristram Potter Coffin, American author, scholar, and academic (b. 1922)
• 31st » Ayelet Galena, American child born with Dyskeratosis congenita (b. 2009)
• 31st » Siddika Kabir, Bangladeshi nutritionist, academic, and author (b. 1931)
• 31st » Sid Ottewell, English footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 31st » Antonio Segura, Spanish author (b. 1947)
• 31st » King Stitt, Jamaican DJ and producer (b. 1940)
• 31st » Dorothea Tanning, American painter and sculptor (b. 1910)

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