Famous people born in 1 January

Paul Revere was an American industrialist and revolutionary

Pierre de Coubertin was a French educator and historian who played a major role in the founding of the International Olympic Committee.

J Edgar Hoover served as first director of Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 until 1972

Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer hailed as "The Father of New France"

Thomas Wolsey was an English cardinal and statesman, who dominated King Henry VIII’s government from 1515 to 1529

Thomas Newcomen was a British inventor who developed the world’s first steam engine

John Colet was an English theologian who was a major promoter of Renaissance humanism during the late 15th and early 16th century

Peyo Yavorov was a Bulgarian romantic poet

Moussa Dadis Camara is a former President of Guinea and also a career military man

Ivica Dacic is currently the First Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia