| 6931 | January 16 | Birth | 1894 – Irving Mills, American publisher (d. 1985) |
| 6932 | January 16 | Birth | 1895 – Evripidis Bakirtzis, Greek soldier and politician (d. 1947) |
| 6933 | January 16 | Birth | 1895 – T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1966) |
| 6934 | January 16 | Birth | 1895 – Nat Schachner, American lawyer, chemist, and author (d. 1955) |
| 6935 | January 16 | Birth | 1896 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978) |
| 6936 | January 16 | Birth | 1897 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet and academic (d. 1977) |
| 6937 | January 16 | Birth | 1898 – Margaret Booth, American producer and editor (d. 2002) |
| 6938 | January 16 | Birth | 1898 – Bedia Muvahhit, Turkish actress (d. 1994) |
| 6939 | January 16 | Birth | 1898 – Irving Rapper, English-American director and producer (d. 1999) |
| 6940 | January 16 | Birth | 1900 – Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945) |
| 6941 | January 16 | Birth | 1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (d. 1973) |
| 6942 | January 16 | Birth | 1901 – Frank Zamboni, American businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (d. 1988) |
| 6943 | January 16 | Birth | 1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner, rugby player, and missionary (d. 1945) |
| 6944 | January 16 | Birth | 1903 – William Grover-Williams, English-French race car driver (d. 1945) |
| 6945 | January 16 | Birth | 1905 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989) |
| 6946 | January 16 | Birth | 1906 – Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer and pilot (d. 1975) |
| 6947 | January 16 | Birth | 1906 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (d. 1964) |
| 6948 | January 16 | Birth | 1907 – Alexander Knox, Canadian-English actor and screenwriter (d. 1995) |
| 6949 | January 16 | Birth | 1907 – Paul Nitze, American banker and politician, 10th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2004) |
| 6950 | January 16 | Birth | 1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984) |
| 6951 | January 16 | Birth | 1908 – Günther Prien, German captain (d. 1941) |
| 6952 | January 16 | Birth | 1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1974) |
| 6953 | January 16 | Birth | 1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (d. 1982) |
| 6954 | January 16 | Birth | 1911 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996) |
| 6955 | January 16 | Birth | 1914 – Roger Wagner, French-American conductor and educator (d. 1992) |
| 6956 | January 16 | Birth | 1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, American director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 6957 | January 16 | Birth | 1916 – Philip Lucock, English-Australian minister and politician (d. 1996) |
| 6958 | January 16 | Birth | 1917 – Carl Karcher, American businessman, founded Carl's Jr. (d. 2008) |
| 6959 | January 16 | Birth | 1918 – Nel Benschop, Dutch poet and educator (d. 2005) |
| 6960 | January 16 | Birth | 1918 – Allan Ekelund, Swedish director, producer, and production manager (d. 2009) |