Famous people born in January - page 11

Karl Brandt was a German physician who served as Adolf Hitler’s personal physician

A former leader of the Communist Party USA, Angela Davis is an American social and political activist, Scholar and writer

Albert Jacka was an Australian military man hailed for his gallantry during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I

Brian Josephson is a Welsh theoretical physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson Effect

Lev Landau was a well-known Soviet theoretical physicist

Andy Rooney is an award winning journalist best known for his work with the CBS News program 60 Minutes

Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American radio astronomer and physicist who won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics

Hideki Yukawa was a renowned Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese to be awarded the Nobel Prize

U Thant was a Burmese diplomat who served as the Secretary-General of the United Nations

Robert Motherwell was a prominent painter and writer from America