Dot Jones04 January 1964, American
Actress
Eric Liddell16 January 1902, Scottish
Ben Johnson30 December 1961, Canadian
Sprinter
Eddie Hall15 January 1988, British
Athlete
Caster Semenya07 January 1991, South African
Olympic Athlete
Doug McDermott03 January 1992, American
Basketball player
Clarence Clemons11 January 1942, American
Musicians
Francois Pienaar02 January 1967, South African
Rugby union player
Yohan Blake26 December 1989, French, Jamaican
Sprinter, Athletics competitor
Jeff Carter01 January 1985, Canadian
Ice hockey player
Sadako Sasaki07 January 1943, Japanese
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce27 December 1986, Jamaican
Sprinter, Athletics competitor
Patrick Sharp27 December 1981, Canadian
Ice hockey player
Kathrine Switzer05 January 1947, American
Journalist, Athletics competitor, Non-fiction
Katarina Johnson-Thompson09 January 1993, British
Athletics competitor
Torah Bright27 December 1986, Australian
Snowboarder
Claude Giroux12 January 1988, Canadian
Ice hockey player
Danny Care02 January 1987, British
Rugby union player
Remy Bonjasky10 January 1976, Surinamese
Sportsperson, Kickboxer
Alex Pietrangelo18 January 1990, Canadian
Ice hockey player
Tony Halme06 January 1963, Finnish
Politician
Iwan Thomas05 January 1974, British
Athletics competitor
Brian Moore11 January 1962, British
journalist, rugby union player, screenwriter
Sifan Hassan01 January 1993, Ethiopian, Dutch
Long-distance runner
Ato Boldon30 December 1973, Trinidadian
Sprinter, Politician, Athletics competitor
Martin Offiah29 December 1966, British
Rugby league player, Rugby union player
Andrea Stramaccioni09 January 1976, Italian
Association football player, Association football
Rhys Priestland09 January 1987, British
Rugby union player
Kōhei Uchimura03 January 1989, Japanese
Artistic gymnast
Mariya Lasitskene14 January 1993, Russian
Athlete
Sean Day09 January 1998, Canadian
Ice hockey player
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Spiridon Louis12 January 1873, Greek
Athlete
Alex Schwazer26 December 1984, Italian
Athlete
Darya Klishina15 January 1991, Russian
Long jumper
Zemgus Girgensons05 January 1994, Latvian
Ice hockey player
Jeremy Jones14 January 1975, American
sportsperson
He Kexin01 January 1992, Chinese
Artistic gymnast
William Fox-Pitt02 January 1969, British
Event rider
Kipchoge Keino17 January 1940, Kenyan
Athlete
Saeid Mollaei05 January 1992, Iranian, Mongolian
Judoka
Craig Wing26 December 1979, Australian
Rugby league player, Rugby union player
Henry Shefflin11 January 1979, Irish
Hurler
Kaisa Makarainen11 January 1983, Finnish
Biathlete
Mark Cueto26 December 1979, British
Rugby union player
Wang Junxia19 January 1973, Chinese
Long-Distance Runner
Amel Tuka09 January 1991, Bosnian
Middle-distance runner
Sean Lamont15 January 1981, British
Rugby union player
Dzinara Alimbekava05 January 1996, Belarusian, Kazakh
Olympic athlete
Jack Lovelock05 January 1910, New Zealander
Athlete
Mikhail Litvin05 January 1996, Kazakh
Sprinter
Angelo Taylor29 December 1978, American
Track and field athlete
Karine Ruby04 January 1978, French
Snowboarder
Alain Mimoun01 January 1921, Algerian
Distance runner
Muktar Edris14 January 1994, Ethiopian
Long-distance runner
Sofia Bekatorou26 December 1977, Greek
Athlete
Ville Ritola18 January 1896, Finnish
Athlete
Gunder Hägg31 December 1918, Swedish
Athlete
Kim Ha-na27 December 1989, South Korean
Badminton player
Myriam Bédard22 December 1969, Canadian
Athlete
Soufiane El Bakkali07 January 1996, Moroccan
Athlete
Jack Beresford01 January 1899, British
Athlete
Dmitry Bilozerchev22 December 1966, Russian
Olympic athlete
Cian Lynch03 January 1996, Irish
Hurler
Abdoul Razak Issoufou26 December 1994, Nigerien, Nigerian
Athlete
John Flanagan09 January 1873, Irish, American
Olympic athlete
Lisa Dobriskey23 December 1983, British
Track and field Athlete
Olga Shishigina23 December 1968, Kazakh
Athlete
Elvira Herman09 January 1997, Belarusian
Sprint hurdles
Micheline Ostermeyer23 December 1922, French
Athlete
Nicole Ross15 January 1989, American
Fencer
Volmari Iso-Hollo05 January 1907, Finnish
Runner
Olga Kaniskina19 January 1985, Russian
Athlete
Meyer Prinstein22 December 1878, Polish, American
Olympic athlete
Yukio Endo18 January 1937, Japanese
Olympic athlete
Erinn Smart12 January 1980, American
Olympic athlete
Robert Beck30 December 1936, American
Pentathlete
Anna Alminova17 January 1985, Russian
Runner
Toini Gustafsson17 January 1938, Swedish
Athlete
Dima Hattab31 December 1980, Jordanian
Ultramarathon Runners
Lama Hattab31 December 1980, Jordanian
Ultramarathon runners
Racheal Nachula14 January 1986, Zambian
footballer
Paul Kipkoech06 January 1963, Kenyan
Long-distance Runner
Diego Ferreira athlete22 December 1975, Paraguayan
Athlete
Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya26 December 1976, Belarusian
Athlete
William Aguirre27 December 1962, Nicaraguan
Athlete
Hawanatu Bangura02 January 1988, Sierra Leonean
Sprinter
Larisa Korotkevich03 January 1967, Belarusian
Discus thrower
Alpha B. Kamara01 January 1978, Sierra Leonean
Athletics competitor
Ros Evans17 January 1950, British
Athlete
Ousseini Djibo Idrissa28 December 1998, Nigerien
Sprinter
Ryta Turava28 December 1980, Belarusian
Athlete
Fița Lovin14 January 1951, Romanian
Athletics competitor
Ismael Yacouba26 December 1993, Nigerien
Taekwondo Athlete
Eugenia Osho-Williams19 January 1961, Sierra Leonean
Athlete