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Fun Birthday Facts - January

Birthstone, Flowers and Famous Birthdays

By Robin Elise Weiss, LCCE, About.com

Birthstone: Garnet

Birth flower: Carnation

Famous Birthdays

  1. Betsy Ross, Paul Revere, Barry Goldwater, J. Edgar Hoover
  2. Roger Miller, David Cone
  3. Cheryl Miller, Bobby Hull, Mel Gibson, Cicero
  4. Louis Braille, Don Shula, Tom Thumb, Grimm Brothers
  5. Dick Endberg, Diane Keaton, Chuck Berry
  6. Nancy Lopez, Sherlock Holmes, Joan of Arc
  7. Katie Couric, Nicholas Cage, Kenny Loggins
  8. David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Soupy Sales
  9. Richard Nixon, Bart Starr, Crystal Gayle
  10. George Foreman, Pat Benatar, Jim Croce
  11. Tracy Caulkins, Ben Crenshaw, Alexander Hamilton
  12. Jack London, Howard Stern, Russ Limbaugh, Kristie Alley
  13. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robert Stack, Horatio Alger
  14. Benedict Arnold, Andy Rooney
  15. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Moliere
  16. A.J. Foyt, Ethel Merman
  17. Benjamin Franklin, Muhammad Ali, Jim Carey, Joe Frazier
  18. Mark Messier, Kevin Costner, A. A. Milne
  19. Robert E. Lee, Janis Joplin, Edgar Allen Poe
  20. Buzz Aldrin, DeForest Kelly, Federico Fellini
  21. Hakeem Olajuwon, Placido Domingo, Wolfman Jack
  22. Linda Blair, Joseph Wambaugh, Mike Bossy
  23. Princess Caroline of Monaco, Humphrey Bogart, John Hancock
  24. Mary Lou Retton, John Belushi, Neil Diamond
  25. Virginia Wolf, Robert Burns
  26. Douglas MacArthur, Wayne Gretzky, Eddie Van Halen, Gene Siskel
  27. Wolfgang Mozart, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Lewis Carroll
  28. Alan Alda, Jackson Pollack, Elijah Wood
  29. Greg Louganis, William McKinley, Tom Selleck
  30. Franklin Roosevelt, Phil Collins, Brett Butler
  31. Franz Schubert, Nolan Ryan, Jackie Robinson, Norman Mailer

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