| 0 | | Royal Armed Forces Day in Thailand |
| 0 | | Feast of St Cyril of Alexandria, Patriarch, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church, Patron of Alexandria |
| 336 | | Accession of Pope Marcus (18 Jan-7 Oct 336), later canonized |
| 350 | | Deposition of Western Roman Emperor Constans I (337-350) in favor of Flavius Magnentius (350-353) |
| 474 | | Leo II, c. 6 years old, succeeds Leo I, his maternal grandfather, as Byzantine Emperor (Jan 18-Nov 17, 474) |
| 532 | | Suppression of the Nika Riots in Constaninople: In five days 30,000 have died |
| 1486 | | King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV |
| 1503 | | Last meeting between Niccolo Machiavelli & Cesare Borgia, who have been in daily contact since October 7, 1502 |
| 1520 | | The Battle of Lake Asunde: Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats the Swedes |
| 1567 | | Battle of Watrelots: Dutch Revolt against Spain begins |
| 1591 | | King Naresuan of Siam kills Crown Prince Minchit Sra of Burma in single combat |
| 1671 | | English pirate Henry Morgan sacks Panama |
| 1701 | | Elector Frederick I is proclaimed "King in Prussia" (1701-1713). |
| 1795 | | French Army enters Amsterdam unopposed |
| 1817 | | Jose de San Martin's revolutionary army begins an epic crossing of the Andes from Argentina to Chile |
| 1826 | | The British capture the Mahratta city of Bhurtope after a two month siege -- Learn More |
| 1850 | | British blockade Piraeus, Greece, to enforce mercantile claims |
| 1857 | | Battle of Bushire, Persia: British Indian cavalry breaks Persian squares |
| 1871 | | King Wilhelm I of Prussia is proclaimed German Emperor (1871-1888), at Versailles [see 1919] |
| 1911 | | First airplane landing on a ship: Eugene Ely in a Curtiss Flyer on USS 'Pennsylvania' (ACR-4) |
| 1913 | | First Balkan War - Battle of Lemnos: The Greek fleet defeats an Ottoman squadron attempting to break the blockade of the Dardanelles [Jan 5, OS] |
| 1915 | | The U.S. Revenue Marine is renamed the U.S. Coast Guard |
| 1919 | | Versailles Peace Conference begins [see 1871] |
| 1942 | | British troops in Malaya heavily engaged on the Muar River Line. |
| 1943 | | Aleutians: U.S. surface force bombards Japanese held Attu. |
| 1943 | | Papua: Sanananda falls to Allies, who press the Japanese westwards. |
| 1943 | | US bans sale of sliced bread, to save metal parts in slicing machines |
| 1943 | | Warsaw Ghetto uprising begins |
| 1944 | | New Guinea: US reinforces the Saidor beachhead |
| 1945 | | Peleliu: Japanese stragglers raid U.S. ammo dumps and airbase |
| 1957 | | Three B-52s complete round-the-world flight in 45 hrs & 19 mins; one man did it backwards |
| 1960 | | US & Japan sign joint defense treaty |
| 1991 | | Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel |
| 1641 | | François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, Louis XIV's great war minister, d. 1691 |
| 1657 | | Heinrich Casimir II of Nassau-Diez, Dutch general, d. 1697 |
| 1726 | | Prince Frederick Henry Louis of Prussia, general who never lost a battle, unlike his brother Frederick the Great, d. 1802 |
| 1752 | | Prince Francesco Maria Caracciolo, Neapolitan admiral, executed by Nelson, 1799 -- Learn More |
| 1809 | | Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1896 |
| 1813 | | Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor of barbed wire, d. 1906 |
| 1815 | | James Chesnut Jr, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1885 |
| 1820 | | Abraham Buford, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1884 |
| 1831 | | Edward Ferrero, cowardly Brig. Gen., U.S., d. 1899 |
| 1835 | | Cesar Antonovich Cui, Russian composer, fortification engineer, d. 1918 -- Learn More |
| 1857 | | General der Infanterie Otto Ernst Vinzent Leo von Below, Victor of Caporetto, d. 1944 -- Learn More |
| 52 | BC | Publius Clodius Pulcher, c. 40, in a brawl with Titus Annius Milo on the Appian Way |
| 474 | | Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I (457-474), at c. 74 |
| 1169 | | Vizier Shawar of Egypt (1162-1169), beheaded by order of Saladin |
| 1213 | | Queen Regnant Tamar of Georgia (1184-1213), c. 53 |
| 1367 | | King Pedro I "the Just" of Portugal (1357-1367), 46 |
| 1479 | | Duke Louis IX "the Rich" of Bavaria-Landshut (1450-1479), 61 |
| 1586 | | Margaret of Austria, 63, illegitimate daughter of Charles V, Duchess-Consort of Parma (1522-1586), Governor-General of the Netherlands (1559-1567, 1578-1582), mother of Alexander Farnese, half-sister to John of Austria |
| 1862 | | John Tyler, militiaman, first American vice-president to succeed to the presidency (1841-1845), at 71 - Learn More |
| 1870 | | King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho (1822-1870), founder of the Basutho nation |
| 1890 | | Amadeo I of Savoy, sometime king of Spain (1870-73), 44 |
| 1936 | | Rudyard Kipling, author & poet ("Gunga Din"), 70 |
| 1984 | | Panteleimon Kondrat'evich Ponomarenko, 81, Soviet appartchik, partisan leader, diplomat, |
| 1991 | | Hamilton Fish III, veteran, congressman, isolationist, at 102 -- Learn More |
| 2001 | | President Laurent-Désiré Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (1997-2001), 61, assassinated by a bodyguard |
| 2011 | | Sargent Shriver, 95, sometime gunnery officer USS 'South Dakota' (BB-57), Santa Cruz & Guadalcanal, first head of the Peace Corps -- Learn More |