* January 20 – Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1950 )

Vilhelm Ludwig Peter Thomsen ( January 25, 1842 – May 12, 1927 ) was a Danish linguist and Turkologist.

Anders Erik Vilhelm Jarvik ( 30 November 1907 – January 11, 1998 ) was a Swedish palaeozoologist who worked extensively on the sarcopterygian ( or lobe-finned ) fish Eusthenopteron.

In January 1971 the Sverdrup Medal of the American Meteorological Society ; in May 1997 he was awarded the Symons Memorial Medal of the Royal Meteorological Society ; in April 2002 he was awarded the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal of the European Geophysical Society.

* January 12 – Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer and music teacher ( d. 1879 )

* Chris Jensen ( January 2006 – April 2007 )

These events influenced the company to renew its efforts: the car was presented to the public for the first time at the Brussels Motor Show in January 1960 and Volvo turned to Jensen Motors, whose production lines were under-utilised, and they agreed a contract for 10, 000 cars.

* Sarah Minnie Ephramina Jensen ( 10 October 1856-2 January 1908 ).

On 12 January 2009, Jensen started as manager of Danish Superliga side Randers FC.

Jensen announced his retirement from baseball in January 1960, primarily because of an intense fear of flying but also due to the long separations from his family.

Jørgen Christian Jensen VC ( 15 January 1891 31 May 1922 ) was a Danish-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Hayley Jensen ( born 7 January 1983 ) is an Australian singer and songwriter who became well known after appearing on the second series ( 2004 ) of Australian Idol.

Jensen's attitude to traditional Anglican styles of cathedral worship has drawn criticism, especially from defenders of classical sacred music such as the Tallis Scholars ' director, Peter Phillips, who accused him of " vandalising " Anglican culture .< ref > ABC PM, 30 January 2008 < cite > Archbishop of Sydney ' vandalising ' Anglican culture </ cite > Go to external link Jensen has defended his changes in the cathedral's style of worship on the grounds of attempting to broaden the demographic of the congregation.

When the club signed a loan deal with English international defender Wayne Bridge in January 2006, Jensen was dropped from the Fulham first team after the 14 January 2006 Premiership game against Newcastle United.

With only one competitive game for Fulham in almost a year, Jensen looked to leave Fulham in January 2007.

By waiting to move back to Denmark until January 2007, Jensen was eligible for preferential taxation rules.

In January 2007, having only played few games for his club team Fulham, Jensen received an ultimatum from national manager Morten Olsen to either find himself a new club or be dropped from the Danish national team.

In January 2008, Jensen signed an extension to his contract with Werder Bremen, that would keep him at the club until 2011.

In January 2012, Jensen signed a contract with Novara that will keep him at the club until 2013.

Walther P38 AC44 pistol, photograph 5th January 2004, by Lasse Jensen.

Søren Gade Jensen ( born 27 January 1963 ) is a Danish politician who served as Defence Minister representing the Liberal party, Venstre from 2004 to 2010, when he replaced Svend Aage Jensby.

Frank Jensen ( born 28 May 1961 ) is a Danish politician, member of the Danish Social Democrats, and has been Lord Mayor of Copenhagen since 1 January 2010.

* Ole Vig Jensen ( b. 1936 ) 25 January 1993 – 23 March 1998

Gold's David " Kid " Jensen was signed in November to front an afternoon show from 2011, later confirmed to begin from April, while Pat Sharp was appointed as Tony Blackburn's replacement in January 2012.

In January 2009, Jensen starred in No Holds Bard, a BBC Scotland one-off special comedy shown on Burns Night as part of a line-up of special programming to mark the 250th Birthday of Robert Burns.

After six years together, Jensen married English actor Terence Beesley in a ceremony in the woods of Big Sur, California on 29 January 2007.

Agner Krarup Erlang ( January 1, 1878 – February 3, 1929 ) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering and queueing theory.

Bjørn Lomborg (; born 6 January 1965 ) is a Danish author, academic, and environmental writer.

On 28 January 2006, the Afghan president Hamid Karzai visited Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Marienborg, the summer residence of the Danish Prime Minister.

Kaj Harald Leininger Munk ( commonly called Kaj Munk ) ( 13 January 1898 – 4 January 1944 ) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II.

* January 9 – Mogens Lykketoft, Danish politician

* January 29 – Michael Andersen, Danish basketball player

* January 14 – Mike Tramp, Danish rock singer ( White Lion )

* January 30 – Danish passenger / cargo ship, returning to Copenhagen after its maiden voyage to Greenland, strikes an iceberg and sinks off the Greenland coast with the loss of all 95 on board.

* January 28 – Simone ( singer ), Danish singer

* January 10 – Aksel Larsen, Danish politician ( b. 1897 )

* January 30 – Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1867 )

* January 6 – Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Danish mathematician ( b. 1839 )

* January 16 – Denmark rejects a Prussian-Austrian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark.

* January 6 – Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman ( d. 1673 )

* January 16 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist ( b. c. 1480 )

* January 20 – Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, Danish poet and playwright ( b. 1779 )

* January 6 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist ( d. 1656 )

* January 27 – Christen Aagaard, Danish poet ( d. 1664 )

* January 21 – Anders Bording, Danish poet ( d. 1677 )

* January 26 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician ( b. 1640 )

Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger ( 14 November 1779 – 20 January 1850 ) was a Danish poet and playwright.

The best-known examples of the questionable advice given by the English witenagemot are when on January 5, 1066 it approved the succession to the kingship of Harold Godwinson ( Harold Godwin ) following the death of Edward the Confessor, and 50 years earlier, in 1016, it had approved the splitting of the kingdom between the Saxon Edmund II and the Danish king Canute.

Dutch merchants in Copenhagen petitioned King Christian IV for permission to establish a West Indian trading company in 1622 but, by the time an eight-year monopoly on trade with the West Indies, Virginia, Brazil, and Guinea was granted on 25 January 1625, the failure of the Danish East India and Iceland Companies and the beginning of Danish involvement in the Thirty Years ' War dried up any interested capital.