Famous Birthdays on January 1

3rd century Libyan theologian who espoused modalistic monarchianism

3rd century Sri Lankan philosopher and writer

Christian ascetic saint

9th-century king of Cambodia

Emperor of Angkor

King of Denmark and Norway

Syrian scientist, mathematician, and astronomer, astrolabe maker

Japanese author and court lady

Japanese novelist and poet (c.973–c.1014)

11th-century King of Denmark, Norway, and England

Cambodian king

King of England from 1040 to 1042, King of Denmark from 1035 à 1042

King of Georgia (1073-1125)

Khan of the Khamag Mongol

Mother of Genghis Khan

ruler of Ghurid Sultanate from 1173 to 1206

Danish historian

Mongol Khan

Icelandic historian, poet and politician (AD 1179–1241)

Mongol general

king of Lithuania

13th-century Keraite princess and consort to Ilkhanate Khan, Hulagu

was the king of Chughtai Khanate

Khan of the Chagatai Khanate (r. 1266–1271)

the fourth Ilkhan of Mongol Ilkhanate (1284–1291)

the sixth Ilkhan of Mongol Ilkhanate (1295)

Swedish nun, mystic, and saint (c.1303–1373)

Japanese aesthetician and playwright

King of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Kalmar Union

Spanish conquistador

Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)

16th-century Hindu mystic poet, saint and devotee of the god Krishna

French mathematician and lawyer

Danish-German organist and composer (1637–1707)

Japanese poet (1644–1694)

Founder of the Emirate of Diriyah and the Al Saud dynasty (1687–1765)

Vietnamese emperor

Emir of Afghanistan1793 to 1801

Emir of Afghanistan (1839-1842) and ruler of the Durrani Empire (1803-1809)

Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1797–1858)

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary (1823–1849)

Political activist and Islamic ideologist (1838–1897)

Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901

Emir of Afghanistan (1879-1880)

Last king of Burma (1859–1916)

Ugandan catechist and martyr (1865–1886)

founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian (1863-1937)

Sudanese saint and former slave

founding father of the Republic of Turkey (1881–1938)

Ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1921 to 1950.

Korean linguist and politician (1886–1958?)

Iraqi politician and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Iraq (1892-1965)

Mongolian politician (1892-1937)

President of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948

Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)

Ruler of Sheikhdom of Kuwait from 1950 to 1965

Vietnamese monk who self-immolated in 1963

South African politician (1898–1967)

Palestinian politician (1908-1980)

Former President of Uganda from 29th July 1985 to 26th January 1986.

Bangladeshi politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 15 August to 6 November 1975

politician, former Afghanistan head of state from 1986 to 1987 (1919–2012)

Chinese-born American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter

King of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005

Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author (1923–2007)

Mexican writer (1925-1974)

Bangladeshi politician (1925–1975)

Cambodian military officer (1924–2006)

President of Uganda (1971-1979)

Syrian major general

4th President of the Syrian Arab Republic (1929–1992)

Ugandan President born in 1929 and died in 1990

Syrian poet, writer and translator (born 1930)

Sudanese President (1931-2009)

Sudanese religious and political leader (1932–2016)

Syrian archeologist

Saudi Arabian former crown prince

President of Sudan (1934-2018)

Libyan politician

7th President of the Republic of Iraq

Afghan leader of the Haqqani network (1939–2018)

Libyan politician

Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and Salafi jihadist (1941–1989)

Iraqi politician

president of Bangladesh in 2013-2023

Libyan militarry officer (1944-2011)

President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019

Afghan politician

De facto leader of Libya from 2011 to 2012

second wife of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi

Mozambican politician (1953-2018)

68th Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic

Japanese scientist

Patriarch of Antioch

Kuwaiti royal and politician

Sudanese public administrator and former prime minister

Sudanese military officer

Afghan politician (1957-2014)

Sudanese politician

Haitian politician

Afghan cleric who founded the Taliban (1960–2013)

Ethiopian scientist and activist

Jordanian writer

Vice President of the State Affairs of North Korea since 2021

Ugandan Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army

Guatemalan human rights activist

Vietnamese American astronomer

Sudanese writer and playwright

2nd leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Croatian footballer

Canadian educator (born 1968)

Cambodian writer and activist

Afghan politician

Afghan politician and women's rights activist

Sri Lankan writer

Sudanese general

Emirati politician and businessman

Bosnian football player and executive

Zimbabwean actress

Argentine tennis player

Singaporean businessman, CEO of TikTok

Syrian engineer and former prime minister of Syria (b.1983)

Peruvian association football player

Emirati scientist and minister

Costa Rican footballer

Egypt association football player

Afghan aviator

Ethiopian-born Dutch middle- and long-distance runner

mayor of Maidan Shar, Afghanistan, since March 2019

Afghani activist

Jordanian biologist, and academic

Ugandan environmental activist