| 10741 | January 26 | Birth | 1933 – Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist |
| 10742 | January 26 | Birth | 1934 – Roger Landry, Canadian businessman and publisher |
| 10743 | January 26 | Birth | 1934 – Charles Marowitz, American director, playwright, and critic |
| 10744 | January 26 | Birth | 1935 – Corrado Augias, Italian journalist and politician |
| 10745 | January 26 | Birth | 1935 – Bob Uecker, American baseball player and sportscaster |
| 10746 | January 26 | Birth | 1936 – Sal Buscema, American illustrator |
| 10747 | January 26 | Birth | 1936 – Theophanis Lamboukas, Greek-French actor and singer (d. 1970) |
| 10748 | January 26 | Birth | 1936 – Huey "Piano" Smith, American pianist |
| 10749 | January 26 | Birth | 1937 – Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leonean soldier and politician, 2nd President of Sierra Leone (d. 2003) |
| 10750 | January 26 | Birth | 1940 – Séamus Hegarty, Irish bishop |
| 10751 | January 26 | Birth | 1941 – Scott Glenn, American actor |
| 10752 | January 26 | Birth | 1941 – Henry Jaglom, English-American director and screenwriter |
| 10753 | January 26 | Birth | 1941 – Joan A. Steitz, molecular biologist and academic |
| 10754 | January 26 | Birth | 1942 – Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress and singer (d. 2001) |
| 10755 | January 26 | Birth | 1943 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2005) |
| 10756 | January 26 | Birth | 1943 – Jean Knight, American singer |
| 10757 | January 26 | Birth | 1943 – Jack Warner, Trinidadian businessman and politician |
| 10758 | January 26 | Birth | 1944 – Angela Davis, American activist, author, and scholar |
| 10759 | January 26 | Birth | 1944 – Jerry Sandusky, American football player and coach |
| 10760 | January 26 | Birth | 1945 – Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987) |
| 10761 | January 26 | Birth | 1945 – David Purley, English race car driver (d. 1985) |
| 10762 | January 26 | Birth | 1946 – Christopher Hampton, Portuguese-English director, screenwriter, and playwright |
| 10763 | January 26 | Birth | 1946 – Gene Siskel, American journalist and critic (d. 1999) |
| 10764 | January 26 | Birth | 1947 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor and composer (d. 1982) |
| 10765 | January 26 | Birth | 1947 – Les Ebdon, English chemist and academic |
| 10766 | January 26 | Birth | 1947 – Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin, Irish peer, director, producer, and production manager |
| 10767 | January 26 | Birth | 1947 – Michel Sardou, French singer-songwriter and actor |
| 10768 | January 26 | Birth | 1949 – Jonathan Carroll, American author |
| 10769 | January 26 | Birth | 1949 – David Strathairn, American actor |
| 10770 | January 26 | Birth | 1950 – Jörg Haider, Austrian lawyer and politician, Governor of Carinthia (d. 2008) |