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Within five years, two more albums came out: I Was / I Am (2021) and Stick Season (2022), the latter became his mainstream commercial breakthrough.
Famous Birthdays on January 1
1997 — Noah Kahan
American singer-songwriter
January 1 has 269 recorded notable births across history, from 766 to 2007. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on January 1
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- 1806 The French Republican Calendar is abolished. Source
- 2004 In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, is "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. Source
- 1863 American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory. Source
- 1847 The world's first "Mercy" Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, United States, by a group of Sisters of Mercy from Ireland; the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world. Source
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During his career, he won 11 singles titles, including the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005 and two Masters 1000 tournaments.
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Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia is an Indian politician who is serving as the 43rd Minister of Communications and 10th Minister of Development of North Eastern Region since 2024.
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senator and the second-oldest living former American governor.
More major people born on January 1
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1982
David Nalbandian
Argentine tennis player
David Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He reached his highest ranking in singles of world No. 3 in March 2006, during a career that spanned from 2000 to 2013.
1449
Lorenzo de' Medici
Italian politician (died 1492)
Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
1971
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Indian politician
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia is an Indian politician who is serving as the 43rd Minister of Communications and 10th Minister of Development of North Eastern Region since 2024.
1922
Ernest Hollings
American soldier and politician, 106th Governor of South Carolina (died 2019)
Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings was an American politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina.
766
Ali al-Ridha
8th Imam of Twelver Shia Islam (died 818)
Ali ibn Musa al-Rida, also known as Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī, was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and the eighth Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, succeeding his father, Musa al-Kazim, in 799 CE.
1900
Xavier Cugat
Spanish-American singer-songwriter and actor (died 1990)
Xavier Cugat was an American musician and bandleader who was a leading figure in the spread of Latin music in the United States.
1768
Maria Edgeworth
Anglo-Irish author (died 1849)
Maria Edgeworth was an Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe.
1952
Shaji N. Karun
Indian director and cinematographer (died 2025)
Shaji Neelakantan Karunakaran ISC, better known by his stage name Shaji N. Karun, was an Indian film director and cinematographer.
1959
Panagiotis Giannakis
Greek basketball player and coach
Panagiotis "Notis" Giannakis, alternatively spelled Panayiotis Yiannakis or Yannakis, is a former Greek professional basketball player and coach. He is considered to be one of the greatest sportspeople of Greece.
1892
Artur Rodziński
Polish-American conductor (died 1958)
Artur Rodziński was a Polish and American conductor of orchestral music and opera.
1974
Christian Paradis
Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Industry
Christian Paradis is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mégantic—L'Érable from 2006 to 2015.
1484
Huldrych Zwingli
Swiss pastor and theologian (died 1531)
Huldrych Zwingli was a Swiss Christian theologian, musician, and leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.
1976
Tank
American singer, songwriter, producer, and actor
Durrell Artaze Babbs, better known by his stage name Tank, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and podcaster.
1934
Alan Berg
American lawyer and radio host (died 1984)
Alan Harrison Berg was a Jewish American talk radio show host in Denver, Colorado. He had outspoken atheistic and liberal views and a confrontational interview style.
1467
Sigismund I the Old
Polish king (died 1548)
Sigismund I the Old was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548.
1895
J. Edgar Hoover
American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 1972)
John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
1927
Vernon L. Smith
American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Vernon Lomax Smith is an American economist who is currently a professor of economics and law at Chapman University.
1879
E. M. Forster
English author and playwright (died 1970)
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).
1865
Harry Coulby
American businessman (died 1929)
Harry Coulby was an American businessman known as the "Czar of the Great Lakes" for his expertise in managing the Great Lakes shipping fleet of Pickands Mather & Company and the Pittsburgh Steamship Company.