| 2851 | January 7 | Birth | 1899 – Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (d. 1941) |
| 2852 | January 7 | Birth | 1899 – Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (d. 1963) |
| 2853 | January 7 | Birth | 1900 – John Brownlee, Australian actor and singer (d. 1969) |
| 2854 | January 7 | Birth | 1900 – Robert Le Vigan, French-Argentinian actor (d. 1972) |
| 2855 | January 7 | Birth | 1903 – Ioannis Despotopoulos, Greek architect and academic (d. 1992) |
| 2856 | January 7 | Birth | 1903 – Alan Napier, English-American actor (d. 1988) |
| 2857 | January 7 | Birth | 1905 – James Simpson, Jr., American politician and racing driver (d. 1960) |
| 2858 | January 7 | Birth | 1906 – Bobbi Trout, American pilot (d. 2003) |
| 2859 | January 7 | Birth | 1907 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harp player (d. 1993) |
| 2860 | January 7 | Birth | 1908 – Red Allen, American trumpet player (d. 1967) |
| 2861 | January 7 | Birth | 1910 – Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician 36th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994) |
| 2862 | January 7 | Birth | 1911 – Butterfly McQueen, American actress and dancer (d. 1995) |
| 2863 | January 7 | Birth | 1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist created The Addams Family (d. 1988) |
| 2864 | January 7 | Birth | 1912 – Günter Wand, German conductor and composer (d. 2002) |
| 2865 | January 7 | Birth | 1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1993) |
| 2866 | January 7 | Birth | 1916 – W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (d. 1989) |
| 2867 | January 7 | Birth | 1916 – Paul Keres, Estonian-Finnish chess player and theoretician (d. 1975) |
| 2868 | January 7 | Birth | 1917 – Ulysses Kay, American composer (d. 1995) |
| 2869 | January 7 | Birth | 1917 – Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (d. 2004) |
| 2870 | January 7 | Birth | 1920 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor and singer (d. 1992) |
| 2871 | January 7 | Birth | 1921 – Chester Kallman, American poet and translator (d. 1975) |
| 2872 | January 7 | Birth | 1922 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014) |
| 2873 | January 7 | Birth | 1922 – Eric Jupp, English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2003) |
| 2874 | January 7 | Birth | 1922 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (d. 2000) |
| 2875 | January 7 | Birth | 1923 – Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003) |
| 2876 | January 7 | Birth | 1924 – Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor |
| 2877 | January 7 | Birth | 1924 – Pablo Birger, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1966) |
| 2878 | January 7 | Birth | 1924 – Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1973) |
| 2879 | January 7 | Birth | 1925 – Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist and author founded Durrell Wildlife Park (d. 1995) |
| 2880 | January 7 | Birth | 1926 – Kim Jong-pil, South Korean politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea |