| 2941 | January 7 | Birth | 1951 – Massimo Sigala, Italian race car driver |
| 2942 | January 7 | Birth | 1951 – Helen Worth, English actress |
| 2943 | January 7 | Birth | 1952 – Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist |
| 2944 | January 7 | Birth | 1953 – Robert Longo, American painter |
| 2945 | January 7 | Birth | 1953 – Morris Titanic, Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| 2946 | January 7 | Birth | 1954 – Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach |
| 2947 | January 7 | Birth | 1954 – Jodi Long, American actress |
| 2948 | January 7 | Birth | 1954 – José María Vitier, Cuban pianist and composer |
| 2949 | January 7 | Birth | 1956 – David Caruso, American actor and producer |
| 2950 | January 7 | Birth | 1956 – Mike Liut, Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| 2951 | January 7 | Birth | 1956 – Uwe Ochsenknecht, German actor and singer |
| 2952 | January 7 | Birth | 1956 – Kostas Petropoulos, Greek basketball player and coach |
| 2953 | January 7 | Birth | 1957 – Nicholson Baker, American historian, author, and academic |
| 2954 | January 7 | Birth | 1957 – Katie Couric, American journalist and author |
| 2955 | January 7 | Birth | 1957 – Reena Roy, Indian actress |
| 2956 | January 7 | Birth | 1957 – Julian Solís, Puerto Rican boxer |
| 2957 | January 7 | Birth | 1958 – Donna Rice Hughes, American actress and activist |
| 2958 | January 7 | Birth | 1958 – Linda Kozlowski, American actress |
| 2959 | January 7 | Birth | 1959 – Anne Balsamo, American cultural academic |
| 2960 | January 7 | Birth | 1959 – Jon Larsen, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter (Hot Club de Norvège) |
| 2961 | January 7 | Birth | 1959 – Ross Norman, New Zealand-English squash player |
| 2962 | January 7 | Birth | 1959 – Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician |
| 2963 | January 7 | Birth | 1959 – Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter |
| 2964 | January 7 | Birth | 1960 – David Marciano, American actor |
| 2965 | January 7 | Birth | 1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician |
| 2966 | January 7 | Birth | 1961 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress |
| 2967 | January 7 | Birth | 1961 – Andrew Thomson, Australian lawyer and politician |
| 2968 | January 7 | Birth | 1961 – John Thune, American politician |
| 2969 | January 7 | Birth | 1961 – Nils Økland, Norwegian Hardanger fiddle player |
| 2970 | January 7 | Birth | 1962 – Aleksandr Dugin, Russian sociologist and philosopher |