Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 21

Births

 * 1824 - Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, American Confederate Army general (d. 1863) (pictured)
 * 1905 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
 * 1922 - Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
 * 1924 - Benny Hill, British actor, comedian, and singer (d. 1992)
 * 1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
 * 1941 - Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor
 * 1956 - Geena Davis, American actress

Deaths

 * 1793 - King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754)
 * 1901 - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
 * 1924 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)
 * 1926 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1843)
 * 1950 - George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)
 * 1959 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)