Born in January
1 January 1819:
Arthur Hugh Clough (UK)
Poet, educationalist, and the devoted assistant to Florence Nightingale
1 January 1872:
Sir Haji Abdullah Haroon Memon (Pakistan)
British Indian politician who contributed a lot towards developing and defining the role of Muslims in economic, educational, social and political fields in the Indian subcontinent
1 January 1901:
Abdul Karim Gaddai (Pakistan)
Sindhi poet
1 January 1904:
Fazal Elahi Chaudhry (Pakistan)
5th President of Pakistan from 14 August 1973 to 16 September 1978
1 January 1924:
Dr. Begum Ashraf Abbasi (Pakistan)
1st female Deputy Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan
1 January 1928:
Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan)
Philanthropist, ascetic and humanitarian who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance network
1 January 1934:
Syed Ghous Ali Shah (Pakistan)
Chief Minister of Sindh
1 January 1942:
Syed Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi (Pakistan)
Politician from Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
1 January 1944:
Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali (Pakistan)
15th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 23 November 2002 to 26 June 2004
4 January 1809:
Louis Braille (France)
Educator and inventor of Braille writing and reading system
4 January 1813:
Sir Isaac Pitman (UK)
Founder of Shorthand writing (Stenography)
5 January 1592:
Shahabuddin Shahjahan (India)
5th Mughal Emperor of Indian subcontinent from 19 January 1628 to 31 July 1658
5 January 1928:
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Pakistan)
4th President of Pakistan from 20 December 1971 to 13 August 1973 and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 14 August 1973 to 5 July 1977, founder of Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
5 January 1941:
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (India)
Nicknamed Tiger Pataudi, Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team, husband of Indian actress Sharmila Tagore and father of Indian actor Saif Ali Khan
5 January 1948:
Liaquat Ali Jatoi (Pakistan)
25th Chief Minister of Sindh province from 22 February 1997 to 30 October 1998
6 January 1883:
Gibran Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese-American)
Writer, poet, visual artist and Lebanese nationalist
7 January 1886:
Jamshed Nasarwanji Mehta (Pakistan)
1st Mayor of Karachi, Maker of Modern Karachi
9 January 1913:
Richard Nixon (US)
37th President of US from 20 January 1969 to 9 August 1974
9 January 1920:
Hakeem Muhammad Saeed (Pakistan)
Medical researcher, scholar, philanthropist, and 20th Governor of Sindh from 19 July 1993 to 23 January 1994
10 January 1976:
Sassui Palijo (Pakistan)
Columnist and politician from Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
11 January 1954:
Kailash Satyarthi (India)
Indian children's rights activist and Nobel laureate in 2014
12 January 1863:
Swami Vivekanand (India)
Hindu monk who introduced Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world
12 January 1931:
Ahmed Faraz (Pakistan)
Urdu poet
12 January 1938:
Qazi Hussain Ahmed (Pakistan)
Islamic scholar, clergyman, democracy activist, and 3rd Emir of Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP)
12 January 1954:
Dr. Zulfikar Mirza (Pakistan)
Politician from Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
12 January 1972:
Priyanka Gandhi (India)
Politician, daughter of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi
13 January 1982:
Kamran Akmal (Pakistan)
Pakistani cricketer
14 January 1900:
Abul Asar Abdul Hafeez Jalandhri (Pakistan)
Urdu poet, writer of National Anthem of Pakistan
15 January 1902:
King Saud (Saudi Arabia)
King of Saudi Arabia from 9 November 1953 to 2 November 1964
15 January 1918:
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)
2nd President of Egypt from 23 June 1956 to 28 September 1970
15 January 1934:
Ibrahim Munshi (Pakistan)
Eminent Sindhi poet
16 January 1930:
Ustad Bukhari (Pakistan)
Sindhi poet
17 January 1706:
Benjamin Franklin (US)
American polymath and one of the founding father of US
17 January 1904:
GM Syed real name Ghulam Murtaza Shah Syed (Pakistan)
Sindhi nationalist
17 January 1921:
Asghar Khan (Pakistan)
1st native Commander-in-chief (C-in-C) of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) from 23 July 1957 to 22 July 1965
17 January 1925:
Abdul Hafeez Kardar (Pakistan)
1st Captain of Pakistan Cricket Team
17 January 1942:
Muhammad Ali Clay (US)
American professional boxer, activist and philanthropist
18 January 1954:
Justice Mian Saqib Nisar (Pakistan)
25th Chief Justice of Pakistan
19 January 1963:
Captain Retd Safdar Awan (Pakistan)
Husband of Maryam Nawaz, son-in-law of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
20 January 1029:
Alp Arsalan (Iran)
2nd Sultan of Seljuk Empire
20 January 1536:
Shah Abdul Karim of Bulri (Pakistan)
Sindhi poet and great-grandfather of another Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
20 January 1915:
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (Pakistan)
7th President of Pakistan from 17 August 1988 to 18 July 1993
20 January 1926:
Jamiluddin Aali (Pakistan)
Poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist and scholar, writer of Jeeve Pakistan song
20 January 1927:
Qurratulain Hyder (India)
Influential Urdu novelist and short story writer, academic and journalist
23 January 1897:
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (India)
Indian nationalist during Indian Independence Movement
23 January 1947:
Megawati Sukarnoputri (Indonesia)
5th President of Indonesia from 23 July 2001 to 20 October 2004, daughter of Indonesia's founder Sukarno
25 January 1627:
Robert Boyle (Ireland)
Natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor, founder of modern Chemistry
25 January 1990:
Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari (Pakistan)
Daughter of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
27 January 1782:
Titumir (India)
Islamic preacher who led a peasant uprising against the Zamindars in British India
27 January 1946:
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (Pakistan)
16th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 30 June 2004 to 28 August 2004
27 January 1952:
Asma Jahangir (Pakistan)
Human rights activist and lawyer
28 January 1957:
Sanam Bhutto (Pakistan)
Daughter of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
28 January 1986:
Asad Shafiq (Pakistan)
Pakistani cricketer
29 January 1926:
Dr. Abdus Salam (Pakistan)
Theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in 1979
31 January 1859:
Muhammad Mohsin Bekas (Pakistan)
Sindhi poet, son of another Sindhi poet Qadir Bux Bedil
Arthur Hugh Clough (UK)
Poet, educationalist, and the devoted assistant to Florence Nightingale
1 January 1872:
Sir Haji Abdullah Haroon Memon (Pakistan)
British Indian politician who contributed a lot towards developing and defining the role of Muslims in economic, educational, social and political fields in the Indian subcontinent
1 January 1901:
Abdul Karim Gaddai (Pakistan)
Sindhi poet
1 January 1904:
Fazal Elahi Chaudhry (Pakistan)
5th President of Pakistan from 14 August 1973 to 16 September 1978
1 January 1924:
Dr. Begum Ashraf Abbasi (Pakistan)
1st female Deputy Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan
1 January 1928:
Abdul Sattar Edhi (Pakistan)
Philanthropist, ascetic and humanitarian who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance network
1 January 1934:
Syed Ghous Ali Shah (Pakistan)
Chief Minister of Sindh
1 January 1942:
Syed Ali Nawaz Shah Rizvi (Pakistan)
Politician from Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
1 January 1944:
Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali (Pakistan)
15th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 23 November 2002 to 26 June 2004
4 January 1809:
Louis Braille (France)
Educator and inventor of Braille writing and reading system
4 January 1813:
Sir Isaac Pitman (UK)
Founder of Shorthand writing (Stenography)
5 January 1592:
Shahabuddin Shahjahan (India)
5th Mughal Emperor of Indian subcontinent from 19 January 1628 to 31 July 1658
5 January 1928:
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Pakistan)
4th President of Pakistan from 20 December 1971 to 13 August 1973 and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 14 August 1973 to 5 July 1977, founder of Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
5 January 1941:
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (India)
Nicknamed Tiger Pataudi, Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team, husband of Indian actress Sharmila Tagore and father of Indian actor Saif Ali Khan
5 January 1948:
Liaquat Ali Jatoi (Pakistan)
25th Chief Minister of Sindh province from 22 February 1997 to 30 October 1998
6 January 1883:
Gibran Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese-American)
Writer, poet, visual artist and Lebanese nationalist
7 January 1886:
Jamshed Nasarwanji Mehta (Pakistan)
1st Mayor of Karachi, Maker of Modern Karachi
9 January 1913:
Richard Nixon (US)
37th President of US from 20 January 1969 to 9 August 1974
9 January 1920:
Hakeem Muhammad Saeed (Pakistan)
Medical researcher, scholar, philanthropist, and 20th Governor of Sindh from 19 July 1993 to 23 January 1994
10 January 1976:
Sassui Palijo (Pakistan)
Columnist and politician from Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
11 January 1954:
Kailash Satyarthi (India)
Indian children's rights activist and Nobel laureate in 2014
12 January 1863:
Swami Vivekanand (India)
Hindu monk who introduced Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world
12 January 1931:
Ahmed Faraz (Pakistan)
Urdu poet
12 January 1938:
Qazi Hussain Ahmed (Pakistan)
Islamic scholar, clergyman, democracy activist, and 3rd Emir of Jamat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP)
12 January 1954:
Dr. Zulfikar Mirza (Pakistan)
Politician from Pakistan People's Party (PPP)
12 January 1972:
Priyanka Gandhi (India)
Politician, daughter of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi
13 January 1982:
Kamran Akmal (Pakistan)
Pakistani cricketer
14 January 1900:
Abul Asar Abdul Hafeez Jalandhri (Pakistan)
Urdu poet, writer of National Anthem of Pakistan
15 January 1902:
King Saud (Saudi Arabia)
King of Saudi Arabia from 9 November 1953 to 2 November 1964
15 January 1918:
Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)
2nd President of Egypt from 23 June 1956 to 28 September 1970
15 January 1934:
Ibrahim Munshi (Pakistan)
Eminent Sindhi poet
16 January 1930:
Ustad Bukhari (Pakistan)
Sindhi poet
17 January 1706:
Benjamin Franklin (US)
American polymath and one of the founding father of US
17 January 1904:
GM Syed real name Ghulam Murtaza Shah Syed (Pakistan)
Sindhi nationalist
17 January 1921:
Asghar Khan (Pakistan)
1st native Commander-in-chief (C-in-C) of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) from 23 July 1957 to 22 July 1965
17 January 1925:
Abdul Hafeez Kardar (Pakistan)
1st Captain of Pakistan Cricket Team
17 January 1942:
Muhammad Ali Clay (US)
American professional boxer, activist and philanthropist
18 January 1954:
Justice Mian Saqib Nisar (Pakistan)
25th Chief Justice of Pakistan
19 January 1963:
Captain Retd Safdar Awan (Pakistan)
Husband of Maryam Nawaz, son-in-law of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
20 January 1029:
Alp Arsalan (Iran)
2nd Sultan of Seljuk Empire
20 January 1536:
Shah Abdul Karim of Bulri (Pakistan)
Sindhi poet and great-grandfather of another Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
20 January 1915:
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (Pakistan)
7th President of Pakistan from 17 August 1988 to 18 July 1993
20 January 1926:
Jamiluddin Aali (Pakistan)
Poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist and scholar, writer of Jeeve Pakistan song
20 January 1927:
Qurratulain Hyder (India)
Influential Urdu novelist and short story writer, academic and journalist
23 January 1897:
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (India)
Indian nationalist during Indian Independence Movement
23 January 1947:
Megawati Sukarnoputri (Indonesia)
5th President of Indonesia from 23 July 2001 to 20 October 2004, daughter of Indonesia's founder Sukarno
25 January 1627:
Robert Boyle (Ireland)
Natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor, founder of modern Chemistry
25 January 1990:
Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari (Pakistan)
Daughter of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
27 January 1782:
Titumir (India)
Islamic preacher who led a peasant uprising against the Zamindars in British India
27 January 1946:
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (Pakistan)
16th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 30 June 2004 to 28 August 2004
27 January 1952:
Asma Jahangir (Pakistan)
Human rights activist and lawyer
28 January 1957:
Sanam Bhutto (Pakistan)
Daughter of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
28 January 1986:
Asad Shafiq (Pakistan)
Pakistani cricketer
29 January 1926:
Dr. Abdus Salam (Pakistan)
Theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in 1979
31 January 1859:
Muhammad Mohsin Bekas (Pakistan)
Sindhi poet, son of another Sindhi poet Qadir Bux Bedil
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