| 2191 | January 5 | Birth | 1991 – Soner Aydoğdu, Turkish footballer |
| 2192 | January 5 | Birth | 1991 – Eric Fisher, American football player |
| 2193 | January 5 | Birth | 1991 – Daniel Pacheco, Spanish footballer |
| 2194 | January 5 | Birth | 1992 – Julian Derstroff, German footballer |
| 2195 | January 5 | Birth | 1993 – De'Anthony Thomas, American football player |
| 2196 | January 5 | Birth | 1995 – Joyce Ching, Filipino actress and singer |
| 2197 | January 5 | Birth | 1998 – Marie Iitoyo, Japanese model and actress |
| 2198 | January 5 | Birth | 1999 – Marc Yu, American pianist and cellist |
| 2199 | January 5 | Death | 842 – Al-Mu'tasim, Iraqi 8th Abbasid caliph (b. 794) |
| 2200 | January 5 | Death | 1066 – Edward the Confessor, English king (b. 1004) |
| 2201 | January 5 | Death | 1400 – John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. 1350) |
| 2202 | January 5 | Death | 1448 – Christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416) |
| 2203 | January 5 | Death | 1465 – Charles, Duke of Orléans (b. 1394) |
| 2204 | January 5 | Death | 1477 – Charles the Bold, French son of Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1433) |
| 2205 | January 5 | Death | 1524 – Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (b. 1450) |
| 2206 | January 5 | Death | 1527 – Felix Manz, Swiss martyr (b. 1498) |
| 2207 | January 5 | Death | 1589 – Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (b. 1519) |
| 2208 | January 5 | Death | 1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer and author (b. 1643) |
| 2209 | January 5 | Death | 1740 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1667) |
| 2210 | January 5 | Death | 1762 – Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709) |
| 2211 | January 5 | Death | 1771 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1710) |
| 2212 | January 5 | Death | 1796 – Samuel Huntington, American jurist and politician, 18th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1731) |
| 2213 | January 5 | Death | 1823 – George Johnston, Scottish-Australian colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764) |
| 2214 | January 5 | Death | 1846 – Alfred Thomas Agate, American painter and illustrator (b. 1812) |
| 2215 | January 5 | Death | 1858 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766) |
| 2216 | January 5 | Death | 1860 – John Neumann, Czech-American bishop and saint (b. 1811) |
| 2217 | January 5 | Death | 1883 – Charles Tompson, Australian poet (b. 1806) |
| 2218 | January 5 | Death | 1888 – Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1803) |
| 2219 | January 5 | Death | 1891 – Emma Abbott, American soprano and actress (b. 1849) |
| 2220 | January 5 | Death | 1904 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German paleontologist and geologist (b. 1839) |