Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 1

Births

 * 1735 - Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818) (pictured)
 * 1752 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
 * 1860 - George Washington Carver, American educator (d. 1943)
 * 1879 - E. M. Forster, English novelist (d. 1970)
 * 1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist (d. 2010)

Deaths

 * 1515 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
 * 1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
 * 1953 - Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)