| 287 | January 1 | Birth | 1930 – Jean-Pierre Duprey, French poet and sculptor (d. 1959) |
| 288 | January 1 | Birth | 1930 – Ty Hardin, American actor |
| 289 | January 1 | Birth | 1930 – Gaafar Nimeiry, Sudanese politician, 4th President of the Sudan (d. 2009) |
| 290 | January 1 | Birth | 1930 – Frederick Wiseman, American director and producer |
| 291 | January 1 | Birth | 1931 – Jimmy Smyth, Irish hurler (d. 2013) |
| 292 | January 1 | Birth | 1932 – Leman Çıdamlı, Turkish actress (d. 2012) |
| 293 | January 1 | Birth | 1932 – Jackie Parker, American football player and coach (d. 2006) |
| 294 | January 1 | Birth | 1932 – Giuseppe Patanè, Italian conductor (d. 1989) |
| 295 | January 1 | Birth | 1933 – James Hormel, American philanthropist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Luxembourg |
| 296 | January 1 | Birth | 1933 – Joseph Koo, Chinese composer |
| 297 | January 1 | Birth | 1933 – Frederick Lowy, Canadian psychiatrist and academic |
| 298 | January 1 | Birth | 1933 – Joe Orton, English author and playwright (d. 1967) |
| 299 | January 1 | Birth | 1934 – Alan Berg, American television personality, talk show presenter (d. 1984) |
| 300 | January 1 | Birth | 1934 – Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian politician, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| 271 | January 1 | Birth | 1924 – Francisco Macías Nguema, Equatorial Guinean politician, 1st President of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (d. 1979) |
| 272 | January 1 | Birth | 1925 – Matthew Beard, American actor and singer (d. 1981) |
| 273 | January 1 | Birth | 1925 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, 1st Tanzanian Minister of Finance (d. 2005) |
| 274 | January 1 | Birth | 1925 – Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (d. 2007) |
| 275 | January 1 | Birth | 1926 – Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (d. 2008) |
| 276 | January 1 | Birth | 1926 – Richard Verreau, Canadian tenor (d. 2005) |
| 277 | January 1 | Birth | 1927 – Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 2007) |
| 278 | January 1 | Birth | 1927 – Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2001) |
| 279 | January 1 | Birth | 1927 – Vernon L. Smith, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 280 | January 1 | Birth | 1927 – Doak Walker, American football player (d. 1998) |
| 281 | January 1 | Birth | 1928 – Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1984) |
| 282 | January 1 | Birth | 1928 – Gerhard Weinberg, German-American historian, author, and academic |
| 283 | January 1 | Birth | 1929 – Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer, co-founded Orange Sky Golden Harvest |
| 284 | January 1 | Birth | 1929 – Larry L. King, American journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2012) |
| 285 | January 1 | Birth | 1929 – Joseph Lombardo, American mob boss |
| 286 | January 1 | Birth | 1929 – Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor, stuntman, and choreographer |