The 1st day of the year

Born on 1 January

Every 1 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Capricorn, in every time zone.

Star sign
CapricornEarth, cardinal, ruled by Saturn.
Birthstone
GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
Most common weekdays
Thursday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 1 January. The marked arc is every position it has held on 1 January, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 1 January in any year.

Which weekday 1 January falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 1 January falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Sunday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Friday 15, Wednesday 15.

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How common a birthday 1 January is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,574 babies were born on 1 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 364th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.

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Born on 1 January

18 people born on 1 January, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
J. D. Salinger1919–2010American author
Pierre de Coubertin1863–1937French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee
Pope Alexander VI1431–1503pope of the Catholic Church from 1492 to 1503, of the Borgia family
Sándor Petőfi1823–1849Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
Huldrych Zwingli1484–1531Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder
Christine Lagarde1956–President of the European Central Bank
Lorenzo de' Medici1449–1492Italian politician, literary man and humanist
E. M. Forster1879–1970English novelist
Satyendra Nath Bose1894–1974Indian Bengali physicist and polymath
Stepan Bandera1909–1959Ukrainian nationalist leader
Alassane Ouattara1942–President of Ivory Coast since 2010
Lilian Thuram1972–French footballer
James George Frazer1854–1941Scottish social anthropologist
Davor Šuker1968–Croatian footballer
J. Edgar Hoover1895–1972American law enforcement administrator
Rivellino1946–Brazilian association football player and manager
Verne Troyer1969–2018American actor
Vidya Balan1979–Indian film actress

Died on 1 January

12 people who died on 1 January, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Heinrich Hertz1857–1894German physicist
Eugene Wigner1902–1995Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician
Grace Hopper1906–1992American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
Louis XII1462–1515King of France from 1498 to 1515
Johann Bernoulli1667–1748Swiss mathematician
Hank Williams1923–1953American singer-songwriter
Maurice Chevalier1888–1972French singer, actor, and entertainer
Johann Christian Bach1735–1782German composer
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg1856–1921German politician
Vincent Auriol1884–196616th President of the French Republic
Cesar Romero1907–1994American actor
Shirley Chisholm1924–2005first black woman elected to the United States Congress

Names are the titles of the English Wikipedia articles; years and the short descriptions are from Wikidata, which publishes under CC0, checked and corrected by hand where they needed it, and nothing is said about anybody beyond that. Ask for a removal.

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