The first white dwarf discovered was in the triple star system of 40 Eridani, which contains the relatively bright main sequence star 40 Eridani A, orbited at a distance by the closer binary system of the white dwarf 40 Eridani B and the main sequence red dwarf 40 Eridani C. The pair 40 Eridani B / C was discovered by William Herschel on 31 January 1783 ;< sup >, p. 73 </ sup > it was again observed by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve in 1825 and by Otto Wilhelm von Struve in 1851.

* January 11 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, 2 moons of Uranus.

Oberon was discovered by William Herschel on January 11, 1787 ; on the same day he discovered Uranus's largest moon, Titania.

" He delivered a farewell address in the Senate ( January 7, 1861 ) in which he said: “ We want no negro equality, no negro citizenship ; we want no negro race to degrade our own ; and as one man would meet you upon the border with the sword in one hand and the torch in the other .” He returned to Georgia, and with Governor Joseph E. Brown led the fight for secession against Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson ( 1812 – 1880 ).

Caroline Lucretia Herschel ( 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848 ) was a German-British astronomer and the sister of astronomer Sir William Herschel with whom she worked throughout both of their careers.

Caroline Herschel died at Hanover on 9 January 1848.

The pair 40 Eridani B / C was discovered on January 31, 1783, by William Herschel .< sup >, p. 73 </ sup > It was again observed by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve in 1825 and by Otto Wilhelm von Struve in 1851.

* January 11-William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, the first moons of Uranus found.

It reappears in January 1836, and Herschel will be the last person to observe it in May.

The nebula was discovered by William Herschel on January 17, 1787, in Slough, England.

The first two moons to be discovered, Titania and Oberon, were spotted by Sir William Herschel on January 11, 1787, six years after he had discovered the planet itself.

After Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon on January 11, 1787, he subsequently believed that he observed four other moons ; two on January 18 and February 9, 1790, and two more on February 28 and March 26, 1794.

** Herschel Vespasian Johnson ( took his seat on 19 January 1863-Elected to fill vacancy )

Albert Camus (; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 ) was an algerian born author, journalist, and philosopher.

Alfonso Arau ( born January 11, 1932 ) is a Mexican actor and director.

Ampère was born on 20 January 1775 to Jean-Jacques Ampère, a prosperous businessman, and Jeanne Antoinette Desutières-Sarcey Ampère during the height of the French Enlightenment.

Anne, the youngest member of the Brontë children, was born on 17 January 1820, at 74 Market Street in Thornton where her father was curate and she was baptised there on 25 March 1820.

Anaïs Nin (; born Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977 ) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York on January 17, 1899.

He married Swedish TV presenter Mona Nörklit in November 1981, and had a son, Ludvig ( born January 1982 ).

Bal Keshav Thackeray (; born 23 January 1926 ), popularly known as Hindu Hriday Samraat Balasaheb Thackeray is an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu nationalist, and Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

On 18 June 1959, she married actor Jacques Charrier, by whom she had her only child, a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier ( born 11 January 1960 ).

Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706 and baptized at Old South Meeting House.

Babrak Karmal (, born Sultan Hussein ; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996 ) was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War.

Mehmet Barış Manço ( also spelled Boris Mancho in some European album releases ), born Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço, ( January 2, 1943-February 1, 1999 ) was a Turkish rock singer, composer, and television producer.

Baris was born in Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey on January 2, 1943.

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

Kung Te-cheng's grandson, Kung Tsui-chang, the 79th lineal descendant, was born in 1975 ; his great-grandson, Kung Yu-jen, the 80th lineal descendant, was born in Taipei on January 1, 2006.

* William " WAK " King ( trumpet, rhythm guitar, synthesizer ) – born January 30, 1949, Alabama.

Smith was born January 13, 1893 in Long Valley, California, of English and Yankee parentage.

* Johann Wilhelm Ritter, chemist and physicist, born December 16, 1776 in nearby Samitz, died January 23, 1810 in Munich

* Horst Mahler, lawyer, former RAF militant, now Neo-Nazi activist, born January 23, 1936

Kidd was born in Dundee, Scotland January 1654.

Rogers was born on January 8, 1902, in the suburban Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago.

She was born on January 24, 1911 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

David Keith Lynch ( born January 20, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.

Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana on January 20, 1946.

* January 10 – François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure ( b. 1750 )

* January 25 – James Randolph Reid, American Continental Congressman for Connecticut ( b. 1750 )

* January 10 – Bathilde d ' Orléans, French princess ( b. 1750 )

Born the son of Jeffrey Amherst ( d. 1750 ), a Kentish lawyer, and Elizabeth Amherst ( née Kerrill ), Jeffery Amherst was born in Sevenoaks, England, on 29 January 1717.

* Ruth Pontifex ( 13 October 1727-10 January 1811 ; wife of Old Pontifex ; married 1750 ).

On January 22, 1750, portions of the township were taken to form Hardwick Township.

Hardwick Township was created by Royal Charter on January 22, 1750, from Greenwich Township, while the area was part of Morris County.

On January 3, 1750, ( 5 Makaram, 925 Kollavarsham ), Marthanda Varma virtually " dedicated " Travancore to his tutelary deity Padmanabha of Padmanabhaswamy Temple ( the Trippadidaanam ) and from then on the rulers of Travancore ruled as the " servants of Padmanabha " ( the Padmnabha-dasans ).

Albert Schultens ( 1686 – 26 January 1750 ) was a Dutch philologist.

Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (; January 1, 1750 – June 4, 1801 ) was an American minister and politician who was the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

Robert Anderson ( 7 January 1750 – 20 February 1830 ) was a Scottish author and critic.

* Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d ' Orléans ( 9 July 1750 – 10 January 1822 ).

* Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d ' Orléans ( Château de Saint-Cloud, 9 July 1750 – 10 January 1822, Paris ), the last princesse de Condé,

Her maternal grandparents were Joseph Ignace Somis ( c. 1710 – Marseille, 29 April 1750 ), son of Jean Louis Somis and his wife Françoise Bouchard, and wife ( m. in Marseille, 27 May 1736 ) Catherine Rose Soucheiron ( Marseille, 11 January 1696 – Marseille, 18 February 1776 ), daughter of François Soucheiron and his wife Anne Cautier.

Ludovico Antonio Muratori ( October 21, 1672 – January 23, 1750 ) was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine KT PC KC ( 10 January 1750 – 17 November 1823 ) was a British lawyer and politician.

Joseph Bradley Varnum was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, January 29, 1750 or 1751, a farmer with little formal education.

In January, 1750 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Red Jacket ( known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha ( Keeper Awake ) Sa-go-ye-wa-tha after 1780 because of his oratorical skills ) ( c. 1750 – January 20, 1830 ) was a Native American Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan.

As of May 2010, up to 1, 500 buses were circulating on the troncal system and the fare is 1750 Colombian pesos for a single trip ( about EUR 0. 75 or USD 1, as of January 2012 ).

In January 1771, Major Pierce Butler married Mary Middleton ( c. 1750 – 1790 ).

* Treaty of Madrid ( 13 January 1750 ), which settled boundaries between Spain and Portugal's colonies in South America

The Tatler Reviv'd ran for 17 issues from October 1727 to January 1728 ; another publication of the same name had six issues in March 1750.