Jan 24 - Vital Statistics (The Most Miserable Day redux)

January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 341 days remaining until the end of the year (342 in leap years).
Earliest day on which Saturday of Souls can fall, while February 27 (or 28 during Leap Year) is the latest; observed 57 days before Easter. (Eastern Orthodox)
Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances:

Births

• 3 BC – Galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
• 76 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
• 1287 – Richard Aungerville, English bishop (d. 1345)
• 1444 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1476)
• 1540 – Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (d. 1581)
• 1679 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher (d. 1754)
• 1705 – Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
• 1712 – King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
• 1746 – King Gustav III of Sweden (d. 1792)
• 1848 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
• 1862 – Edith Wharton, American writer (d. 1937)
• 1916 – Rafael Caldera, President of Venezuela (d. 2009)
• 1917 – Ernest Borgnine, American actor
• 1918 – Oral Roberts, American evangelist (d. 2009)
• 1939 – Ray Stevens, American musician
• 1941 – Neil Diamond, American singer
• 1941 – Aaron Neville, American singer
• 1943 – Sharon Tate, American actress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
• 1945 – D. Todd Christofferson, American religious figure
• 1947 – Warren Zevon, American musician (d. 2003)
• 1949 – John Belushi, American actor (d. 1982)
• 1950 – Gennifer Flowers, American actress, political figure
• 1951 – Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-born American comedian
• 1957 – Mark Eaton, American basketball player
• 1961 – Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
• 1965 – Carlos Saldanha, Brazilian film director
• 1968 – Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast
• 1974 – Ed Helms, American actor
• 1979 – Tatyana Ali, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 41 – Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12)
• 1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
• 1125 – David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
• 1366 – Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
• 1376 – Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
• 1595 – Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
• 1895 – Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
• 1962 – Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
• 1965 – Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
• 1971 – William Griffith "Bill" Wilson, American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)
• 1983 – George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
• 1986 – L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
• 1992 – Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
• 1993 – Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
• 2006 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
• 2010 – Pernell Roberts, American actor & singer, last surviving star of Bonanza (b. 1928)