According to Hans Egede, the Inuits, when they killed a woman accused of witchcraft, ate a portion of her heart.

* 1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary ( b. 1686 )

* The city of Godthåb is founded in Greenland by the Danish-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede.

* November 5 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary ( b. 1686 )

* January 31 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary ( d. 1758 )

Sea serpent reported by Hans Egede, Bishop of Greenland, in 1734.

The " Great Sea Serpent " according to Hans Egede.

Hans Egede, the national saint of Greenland, gives an 18th century descriptions of a sea serpent.

In 1721, Lutheran minister Hans Egede and his Bergen Greenland Company received a royal charter from King Frederick IV granting them broad authority over Greenland and commissioning them to seek out the old Norse colony and spread the Reformation among its inhabitants, who were presumed to still be Catholic or to have reverted to paganism.

The Statue of Hans Egede | statue of Hans Egede in Nuuk.

Hans Egede went back to Denmark in 1736 after 15 years in Greenland, leaving his son Poul to continue his work.

Nuuk's main road Aqqusinersuaq with Hotel Hans Egede on the right

The main street in Nuuk is Aqqusinersuaq, with a number of shops and the 140-room Hotel Hans Egede.

Other landmarks include the Hans Egede Church and the Statue of Hans Egede.

This funded and directed Lutheran missionaries such as Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg in Tranquebar, India, and Hans Egede in Greenland.

In 1732, while on a visit in 1732 to Copenhagen for the coronation of his cousin King Christian VI, the Moravian Church's patron Nicolas Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf, was very struck by its effects, particularly two visiting Inuit children converted by Hans Egede.

Hans Egede goes to Greenland under the dual auspices of the Royal Mission College and the Bergen Company.

* Hans Egede ( 1686-1758 ), Lutheran missionary

Also, a colonisation of Greenland was started by the missionary Hans Egede.

Hans Hugo Bruno Selye, CC () ( January 26, 1907 — October 16, 1982 ) was a pioneering Hungarian endocrinologist.

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

* January 2 – Hans Leussink, German politician ( d. 2008 )

* January 27 – Hans Modrow, East German Premier

* January 30 – Hans Tutschku, German composer

* January 4 – Hans Lammers, German Nazi minister ( b. 1879 )

* January 29 – Hans Hedtoft, Prime Minister of Denmark ( b. 1903 )

* January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician ( b. 1660 )

* January 19 – Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger ( b. 1494 )

* January – Hans Folz, author ( b. c. 1437 )

In January 1681, as a precaution against an outbreak of plague then affecting Magdeburg, he and his second wife Dorothea moved to the home of his son Hans Otto in Hamburg.

Hans Göran Persson () ( born 20 January 1949 ) was the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1996 to 2006 and the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1996 to 2007.

Better uniforms and escape route ( they made a quick exit from a theatrical production using the trap door beneath the stage ) got them out of the prison and by train and on foot they travelled via Leipzig, Ulm, and then into Switzerland via Hans Larive's Singen route by 9 January 1942.

Douglas Sirk ( born Hans Detlef Sierck ; April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987 ) was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS ( 16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753 ) was an Irish physician and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the United Kingdom which became the foundation of the British Museum.

They were married in January 1902 and their only child, Hans Gerd von Rundstedt, was born in January 1903.

Hans Gerd died on 12 January 1948: " a blow from which he never really recovered.

* January 22 – Hans Erich Apostel, composer ( d. 1972 )

* January 17: Hans Enoksen of the Siumut party forms a new Greenland government with the Atassut party.

They had two children: Hans Ragnar ( born 26 January 1963 ) and Ann Lise-Lotte ( 25 February 1967-13 January 1998 ). They separated early in 1969 and were officially divorced on 19 May 1970.

* Hans A. von Spakovsky – January 2006 – December 31, 2007.

In January 2012, having seen a performance by Dutch illusionist Hans Klok on the BBC's The One Show, Moss called fashion designer Stella McCartney and recommended that she book him as one of the attractions at her London Fashion Week show the following month.