1892 - J.R.R. Tolkien born
1897 - Marion Davies born
1898 - U.S. Silent Movie star ZaSu Pitts born
1905 - Ray Milland born
1909 - Victor Borge born
1918 - Maxene Andrews born
1926 - George Martin born
1932 - Dabney Coleman born
1939 - US Ice Hockey star Bobby Hull born
1945 - Stephen Stills born
1946 - Led Zeppelin guitarist John Paul Jones born
1950 - Victoria Principal born
1956 - Mel Gibson born
1960 - Joan Chen born
1969 - Michael Schumacher born
1975 - Danica McKellar born
1977 - Former Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces he is leaving Westminster politics to become Britain's first President of the European Commission
1980 - The new president of Afghanistan, Babrak Karmal, makes his first public appearance since the Soviet-backed coup the previous week
1989 - Alex D. Linz born
1991 - The Foreign Office is expels eight Iraqi embassy officials from the UK following threats of attacks on Western targets
1993 - US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Start II arms reduction treaty in Moscow.
2000 - Police say the Cezanne painting taken from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford on New Year's Eve was probably stolen to order
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