People born on January 1

J. D. Salinger

American author (1919–2010)

Pierre de Coubertin

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

Omar al-Bashir

7th President of Sudan

Christine Lagarde

President of the European Central Bank

E. M. Forster

English novelist (1879-1970)

Satyendra Nath Bose

Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)

Stepan Bandera

Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)

Alassane Ouattara

President of Ivory Coast (2010–present)

Lilian Thuram

French association football player

Abdul Hamid

President of Bangladesh since 2013

Aphra Behn

British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)

James George Frazer

Scottish social anthropologist

J. Edgar Hoover

American law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)

Rivelino

Brazilian association football player and manager

Davor Šuker

Croatian footballer