Jaroslav Hašek (; April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923 ) was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty languages.

Words primarily used in Austria are Jänner ( January ) rather than Januar, heuer ( this year ) rather than dieses Jahr, Stiege ( stairs ) instead of Treppe, Rauchfang ( chimney ) instead of Schornstein, many administrative, legal and political terms – and a whole series of foods and vegetables such as: Erdäpfel ( potatoes ) German Kartoffeln ( but Dutch Aardappel ), Schlagobers ( whipped cream ) German Schlagsahne, Faschiertes ( ground beef ) German Hackfleisch, Fisolen ( green beans ) German Gartenbohne ( but Czech fazole and Italian fagioli ), Karfiol ( cauliflower ) German Blumenkohl ( but Italian cavolfiore ), Kohlsprossen ( Brussels sprouts ) German Rosenkohl, Marillen ( apricots ) German Aprikosen but Slovak marhuľa, Paradeiser ( tomatoes ) German Tomaten, Palatschinken ( pancakes ) German Pfannkuchen ( but Czech palačinky ), Topfen ( a semi-sweet cottage cheese ) German Quark and Kren ( horseradish ) German Meerrettich ( but Czech křen ).

The Army of the Czech Republic was formed after the Czechoslovak Armed Forces split after the 1 January 1993 dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

* 1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.

In many countries, such as the Czech Republic, Italy and the UK, 1 January is a national holiday.

Počasíčko ( diminutive of " weather ") was Czech TV Nova's past-10PM featurette launched in January 1998 where a nude woman ( or occasionally, a man ) got dressed in clothing appropriate for the next day's weather forecast.

* January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.

* January 19 – Jan Palach, Czech student protester ( suicide ) ( b. 1948 )

** The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, starting on January 1, 1993.

* January 10 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1901 )

* January 4 – Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist ( d. 1935 )

* January 6 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist ( b. 1822 )

* January 3 – Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer ( b. 1883 )

* January 30 – Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, Czech composer ( b. 1704 )

In January 2006 it moved its headquarters from Prague, Czech Republic to Athens, Greece and now focuses on organizing regional federations of unions in the Third World, campaigning against imperialism, racism, poverty, environmental degradation and exploitation of workers under capitalism and in defense of full employment, social security, health protection, and trade union rights.

Karel Čapek () ( January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938 ) was a Czech writer of the 20th century.

In the Czech Republic, the Green Party was part of the governing coalition, together with the Civic Democrats ( ODS ) and the Christian Democrats ( KDU – ČSL ) from January 2007 until the government collapsed in March 2009.

Jaroslav Foglar ( 6 July 1907 in Prague-23 January 1999 ) was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about youths ( partly also about Boy Scouts movement ) and their adventures in nature and dark city streets.

1 January 1993 meant " velvet divorce " of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The style was influenced strongly by Czech artist Alphonse Mucha, when Mucha produced a lithographed poster, which appeared on 1 January 1895 in the streets of Paris as an advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou, featuring Sarah Bernhardt.

Mečiar led Slovakia to disengagement from the Czech Republic in January 1993 and was one of the leading presidential candidates in Slovakia in 1999 and 2004.

He met the Czech President Václav Havel, the American President Bill Clinton and the US ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright at U zlatého tygra on 11 January 1994.

" In January 2011, the licensing agreement with Piper was abruptly ended with Piper CEO Geoffrey Berger saying " the company has a different business perspective and approach to the market than Czech Sport Aircraft ".

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist.

Gilbert Cesbron ( 13 January 1913, Paris – 13 August 1979, Paris ) was a French novelist.

Eugene Allen " Gene " Hackman ( born January 30, 1930 ) is a retired American actor and novelist.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould () ( 28 January 1834-2 January 1924 ) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar.

* January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist ( b. 1923 )

* January 21 – Yuriko Miyamoto, Japanese novelist ( b. 1899 )

* January 18 – José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist ( d. 1969 )

* January 14 – Gustav Regler, German Socialist novelist ( b. 1898 )

* January 3 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, novelist and translator ( b. 1887 )

* January 9 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's novelist ( b. 1880 )

* January 1 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist ( The Catcher in the Rye ) ( d. 2010 )

* January 6 – L. P. Davies, English novelist ( b. 1914 )

* January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish novelist and screenwriter ( b. 1867 )

* January 4 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist ( b. 1843 )

* January 6 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet, painter, and novelist ( d. 1931 )

* January 6 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist ( b. 1896 )

* January 30 – William Carleton, Irish novelist ( b. 1794 )

* January 20 – Eugène Sue, French novelist ( d. 1857 )

* January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( b. 1787 )

* January 27 – Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist ( b. c. 1585 )