* 1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

* 1978 – Karl Wallenda, German acrobat ( b. 1905 )

* March 22 – Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

* March 22 – Karl Wallenda, American circus performer ( b. 1905 )

Karl Wallenda had the idea since 1938 but it took until 1946, when he and his brother Hermann developed it and had the right acrobats for it.

The Great Wallendas, a 1978 made-for-TV movie starring Karl Wallenda, depicts the act's comeback after a fatal accident involving several family members during a performance.

Nik Wallenda, a direct descendant of Karl Wallenda, continues the family tradition of performing stunts on highwire without a safety net.

On June 4, 2011, he completed the high-wire crossing that killed his great-grandfather, citing Karl Wallenda as his " biggest hero in life.

* Karl Wallenda is mentioned in Tom Robbins book Villa Incognito

* Karl Wallenda at Find A Grave

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* Karl Wallenda, founder of the Flying Wallendas, died after falling from a wire on March 22, 1978 at age 73 while attempting to cross between the two towers of the Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico

* Nik Wallenda, great-grandson of Karl, second person to walk from the USA to Canada over the Horseshoe Falls at the Niagara Falls on June 15, 2012 ; with his mother Delilah ( Karl's granddaughter ), completed his great-grandfather's final attempt between the two towers of the Condado Plaza Hotel on June 4, 2011

* Rick Wallenda, American highwire walker, performed a record-breaking skywalk of at Kings Island on July 4, 2008, breaking Karl Wallenda's record walk

On July 18, 1970, Karl Wallenda became the second man to walk across the gorge on a tightrope.

* On July 18, 1970, a 65-year-old Karl Wallenda performed a high-wire walk across the Tallulah Gorge.

Tino Wallenda, son of legendary tight-rope walker Karl Wallenda, walked across a steel cable, above the ground.

They received considerable support from Minister of Defense Gustav Noske, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who used them to crush the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 and the Marxist Spartacist League and arrest Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, who were killed on 15 January 1919.

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm ( also Karl ; 4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863 ) was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist.

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters ( 20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948 ) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.

On January 7, 1982, brothers Karl and Walter Bernhard LaGrand bungled an armed bank robbery in Marana, Arizona, United States, killing a man and severely injuring a woman in the process.

They received considerable support from Gustav Noske, the German Defence Minister who used them to crush the Spartakist League with enormous violence, including the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg on January 15, 1919.

Time magazine ran an article ' Rethinking Marx ' and put Karl Marx on the cover of its European edition in a special for the 28 January 2009 Davos meeting.

* January 2 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor ( b. 1915 )

* January 26 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor ( d. 1967 )

* January 11 – Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen ( Károly ), Archduke, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary

* January 29 – The minority government of Karl Buresch in Austria ends the governmental crisis.

January 29 – Karl Benz patent.

* January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent Motorwagen ( built in 1885 ).

* January 10 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal ( b. 1775 )

Charles XIV & III John, also Carl John, Swedish and Norwegian: Karl Johan ( 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844 ) was King of Sweden ( as Charles XIV John ) and King of Norway ( as Charles III John ) from 1818 until his death.

* Vilhelmina of Denmark ( born 18 January 1808 ), daughter of Frederick VI of Denmark and Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel ( ultimately she married firstly Frederick VII of Denmark and secondly Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg )

Freddie James Prinze ( Frederick Karl Pruetzel ; June 22, 1954 – January 29, 1977 ) was an American actor and stand-up comedian.

President Karl Carstens to dissolve the Bundestag in January 1983.

Karl Brandt ( January 8, 1904 – June 2, 1948 ) was a German Nazi war criminal.

A series of failed operations after that point, particularly the Battle of the Barents Sea — combined with the outstanding success of the U-boat fleet under the command of Karl Dönitz — led to his eventual demotion to the rank of Admiral Inspector of the Kriegsmarine in January 1943.

Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering ( August 5, 1834 – January 26, 1918 ) was a German physiologist who did much research into color vision and spatial perception.

Karl Frederik Lukas Moodysson () ( born 17 January 1969 ) is a Swedish author and film director.

On 5 January 1919 Anton Drexler, who had developed links between the Thule Society and various extreme right workers ' organizations in Munich, together with the Thule Society's Karl Harrer, established the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( DAP ), or German Workers ' Party.

* The Advocate ; " Pedro Zamora-AIDS Educator " by Karl Soehnlein ; January 14, 1992, Page 62

* The second trial in January 1937 involved 17 lesser figures known as the " anti-Soviet Trotskyite-centre " which included Karl Radek, Yuri Piatakov and Grigory Sokolnikov, and were accused of plotting with Trotsky, who was said to be conspiring with Nazi Germany.

* Karl Josef, Archduke of Austria ( 7 August 1649 27 January 1664 ).