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.

Paul Leroy Robeson ( April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976 ) was an American singer and actor who was a political activist for the Civil Rights Movement.

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein ( 23 January 1898 – 11 February 1948 ), né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the " Father of Montage ".

* A half-page strip which eventually adopted the title Ryan ’ s Arcade ( 28 September 1897 – 23 January 1898 ).

The Yellow Kid's last appearance is most often noted as 23 January 1898 in a strip about hair tonic.

William Seward Burroughs I ( January 28, 1857 – September 14, 1898 ) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.

He gave an interview for The Daily Telegraph ( published on 5 January 1898 as ' Personal Recollections of Arthur H. Hallam ').

Zachris Topelius (; 14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.

* January 6 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer ( b. 1898 )

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

* January 27 – Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel ( b. 1898 )

* January 10 – Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, Former Prime Minister of South Africa, and elected President of South Africa ( b. 1898 )

* January 8 – Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China ( b. 1898 )

* January 23 – Paul Robeson, African-American actor, singer, writer, and activist ( b. 1898 )

* January 25 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, model, and common-law wife of Amedeo Modigliani ( suicide ) ( b. 1898 )

* January 23 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress ( b. 1898 )

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* January 27 – Oskar Homolka, Austrian actor ( b. 1898 )

* January 8 – Sara Carter, American bluegrass and country singer ( b. 1898 )

* January 19 – Norma Varden, English actress ( b. 1898 )

* January 3 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British politician ( d. 1898 )

* January 19 – Sir Henry Bessemer, English inventor ( d. 1898 )

* January 28 – William Seward Burroughs, American bank clerk and inventor ( d. 1898 )

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

Armenian exports to EU countries have skyrocketed by 65. 9 percent, making up more than half of all 2010 January to September exports.

A January 15, 1941 story in the Des Moines Register announced the ABC as " an electrical computing machine " with more than 300 vacuum tubes that would " compute complicated algebraic equations " ( but gave no precise technical description of the computer ).

In January 2009 Aon was fined £ 5. 25 million in the UK after it made more than $ 7 million worth of " suspicious " payments to overseas firms and individuals.

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.

Botswana is one of the 15 focus countries for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, and has received more than $ 230 million since the program began in January 2004 through September 2007.

In January 2001, the Inprise name was abandoned and the company became " Borland " once more.

Some 9, 000 people from the armed services and civilians were working at Bletchley Park at the height of the codebreaking efforts in January 1945, and over 12, 000 ( of whom more than 80 % were women ) worked there at some point during the war.

Compared to the lower elevations of the Carolinas, winters are long and cold, with frequent sleet and snowfall, with the January high at, being more similar to the climate of the New England states rather than the humid subtropical climate that is pervasive in the Southeastern US.

In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs.

In January 2007, China signed a series of economic agreements with Cameroon, giving more than $ 54 million in loans.

During the period January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996, spending a total time of three months or more in the Channel Islands, England, the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales precludes individuals from donating.

Moreover, spending a total time of five years or more after January 1, 1980 ( to present ), in the above-mentioned countries and / or any country in Europe ( except the former USSR ), also precludes donation.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.

Similar regulations are in place in Germany, where anyone who has spent six months or more living in the UK between January 1980 and December 1996 is permanently banned from donating blood.

As of 1999, Health Canada announced a policy to defer individuals from donating blood if they have lived within the United Kingdom for one month or more from January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996.

Canada will not accept blood from a person who has spent more than six months in a Western European country since January 1, 1980.

He returned a third time in January 1859 under the patronage of Czar Alexander II of Russia to find more of the Codex Frederico-Augustanus or similar ancient Biblical texts.

The company's business suffered notably during the late-2000s recession, laying off more than half its workforce between January 2009 and September 2010.

:: In January – June 1918: 22 ; in July – December 1918: more than 6, 000 ; in 1918-20: 12, 733.

The conflict was reignited in January 2002 by ethnic clashes in the northeast and both Uganda and Rwanda then halted their withdrawal and sent in more troops.

Faced with continued currency depreciation, the government resorted to more drastic measures and in January 1999 banned the widespread use of U. S. dollars for all domestic commercial transactions, a position it later adjusted.

On January 1576 Oxford wrote to Lord Burghley from Siena about complaints that had reached him about his creditors ' demands, which included the Queen and his sister, and directing that more of his land be sold to pay them.

Sony's last reported subscription numbers were given as " more than 430, 000 players " on 14 January 2004.

Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.