| 2371 | January 6 | Birth | 1367 – Richard II of England (d. 1400) |
| 2372 | January 6 | Birth | 1384 – Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent, English noblemen (d. 1408) |
| 2373 | January 6 | Birth | 1412 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (d. 1431) |
| 2374 | January 6 | Birth | 1486 – Martin Agricola, German composer and theorist (d. 1556) |
| 2375 | January 6 | Birth | 1488 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (d. 1540) |
| 2376 | January 6 | Birth | 1525 – Caspar Peucer, German physician and scholar (d. 1602) |
| 2377 | January 6 | Birth | 1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656) |
| 2378 | January 6 | Birth | 1587 – Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (d. 1645) |
| 2379 | January 6 | Birth | 1595 – Claude Favre de Vaugelas, French educator and courtier (d. 1650) |
| 2380 | January 6 | Birth | 1617 – Christoffer Gabel, Danish politician (d. 1673) |
| 2381 | January 6 | Birth | 1655 – Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg (d. 1720) |
| 2382 | January 6 | Birth | 1670 – Alexander Gordon, Scottish-Russian general (d. 1752) |
| 2383 | January 6 | Birth | 1673 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (d. 1744) |
| 2384 | January 6 | Birth | 1695 – Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe player and composer (d. 1750) |
| 2385 | January 6 | Birth | 1702 – José de Nebra, Spanish composer (d. 1768) |
| 2386 | January 6 | Birth | 1714 – Percivall Pott, English surgeon (d. 1788) |
| 2387 | January 6 | Birth | 1766 – Mihály Fazekas, Hungarian author (d. 1828) |
| 2388 | January 6 | Birth | 1785 – Andreas Moustoxydis, Greek historian and philologist (d. 1860) |
| 2389 | January 6 | Birth | 1793 – James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (d. 1862) |
| 2390 | January 6 | Birth | 1795 – Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (d. 1871) |
| 2391 | January 6 | Birth | 1799 – Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (d. 1831) |
| 2392 | January 6 | Birth | 1803 – Henri Herz, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1888) |
| 2393 | January 6 | Birth | 1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891) |
| 2394 | January 6 | Birth | 1808 – Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American oncologist and paleontologist (d. 1864) |
| 2395 | January 6 | Birth | 1811 – Charles Sumner, American lawyer and politician (d. 1874) |
| 2396 | January 6 | Birth | 1812 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino activist (d. 1919) |
| 2397 | January 6 | Birth | 1819 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886) |
| 2398 | January 6 | Birth | 1822 – Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist and businessman (d. 1890) |
| 2399 | January 6 | Birth | 1832 – Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883) |
| 2400 | January 6 | Birth | 1836 – Ludwig Schüler, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 1930) |