1869 - Henri Matisse born
1880 - George C. Marshall born
1908 - Simon Wiesenthal born
1930 - Odetta born
1937 - Anthony Hopkins born
1941 - Sarah Miles born
1943 - Ben Kingsley and John Denver born
1945 - Barbara Carrera born
1948 - Donna Summer born
1951 - The British Prime Minister sets off on his trip to America aboard the Queen Mary after more than 24 hours delay.
1959 - Val Kilmer born
1964 - Donald Campbell breaks the world water speed record, the only man to break both land and water speed records in the same year.
1972 - Joe McIntyre born
1987 - People who displayed heroism during the Zeebrugge ferry disaster are recognised in the New Year's Honours List.
1999 - Boris Yeltsin has resigned as Russian president and says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will take over immediately. Also Britain gears up to join a global party with a spectacular array of revelries to welcome in the third millennium.
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