| 1171 | January 3 | Birth | 1910 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager (d. 2000) |
| 1172 | January 3 | Birth | 1911 – John Sturges, American director and producer (d. 1982) |
| 1173 | January 3 | Birth | 1912 – Federico Borrell García, Spanish soldier (d. 1936) |
| 1174 | January 3 | Birth | 1912 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2002) |
| 1175 | January 3 | Birth | 1912 – Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2005) |
| 1176 | January 3 | Birth | 1915 – Jack Levine, American painter and soldier (d. 2010) |
| 1177 | January 3 | Birth | 1915 – Mady Rahl, German actress and singer (d. 2009) |
| 1178 | January 3 | Birth | 1916 – Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995) |
| 1179 | January 3 | Birth | 1916 – Betty Furness, American actress and journalist (d. 1994) |
| 1180 | January 3 | Birth | 1916 – Warren King, American cartoonist (d. 1978) |
| 1181 | January 3 | Birth | 1917 – Albert Mol, Dutch author and actor (d. 2002) |
| 1182 | January 3 | Birth | 1917 – Vernon A. Walters, American general and diplomat 17th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2002) |
| 1183 | January 3 | Birth | 1917 – Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux (d. 2004) |
| 1184 | January 3 | Birth | 1919 – Dorothy Morrison, American actress |
| 1185 | January 3 | Birth | 1919 – Herbie Nichols, American pianist and composer (d. 1963) |
| 1186 | January 3 | Birth | 1920 – Siegfried Buback, German lawyer and politician Attorney General of Germany (d. 1977) |
| 1187 | January 3 | Birth | 1920 – Renato Carosone, Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2001) |
| 1188 | January 3 | Birth | 1921 – Chetan Anand, Indian director and screenwriter (d. 1997) |
| 1189 | January 3 | Birth | 1922 – Bill Travers, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994) |
| 1190 | January 3 | Birth | 1923 – Bud Adams, American businessman (d. 2013) |
| 1191 | January 3 | Birth | 1923 – Hank Stram, American football player and coach (d. 2005) |
| 1192 | January 3 | Birth | 1923 – Bud Tingwell, Australian actor, director, and producer (d. 2009) |
| 1193 | January 3 | Birth | 1924 – Otto Beisheim, German businessman, founded Metro AG (d. 2013) |
| 1194 | January 3 | Birth | 1924 – André Franquin, Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1997) |
| 1195 | January 3 | Birth | 1924 – Nell Rankin, American soprano (d. 2005) |
| 1196 | January 3 | Birth | 1925 – Jill Balcon, English actress (d. 2009) |
| 1197 | January 3 | Birth | 1926 – W. Michael Blumenthal, American businessman and politician 64th United States Secretary of the Treasury |
| 1198 | January 3 | Birth | 1926 – Felicitas Kuhn, Austrian illustrator |
| 1199 | January 3 | Birth | 1926 – George Martin, English composer, conductor, and producer |
| 1200 | January 3 | Birth | 1928 – Michael Barratt, English television host |