My Body is Producing 380 Watts!
This is 52% MORE wattage than the average person
* I could light up 4 light bulbs
* I could power 95 iPods
* I could power 2 Xbox 360s
* 3 of me would be needed to keep a refrigerator running
People who died on January 01, 1992 (the exact day I was born)
* Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer
People who died on January 01 (various years)
* 2007 - A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter
* 2007 - Julius Hegyi, American conductor
* 2007 - Tad Jones, American jazz music historian
* 2007 - Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist
* 2007 - Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs
* 2007 - Darrent Williams, American football player
* 2007 - Del Reeves, American country singer
* 2007 - Tillie Olsen, American writer
* 2007 - Ernie Koy, American baseball player
* 2007 - Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer
* 2006 - Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks)
* 2006 - Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor
* 2006 - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor
* 2005 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist
* 2005 - Bob Matsui, American politician
* 2005 - Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman
* 2005 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician
* 2003 - F. William Free, American advertising executive
* 2003 - Joe Foss, American politician and fighter pilot
* 2002 - Julia Phillips, American film producer
* 2001 - Ray Walston, American actor
* 2000 - Colin Vaughan, Australian-born political journalist
* 1998 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player
* 1997 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician
* 1997 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician
* 1996 - Arthur Rudolph, German engineer
* 1996 - Arleigh Burke, American admiral
* 1995 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate
* 1995 - Fred West, British serial killer (suicide)
* 1994 - Cesar Romero, American actor
* 1994 - Lord Arthur Espie Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand
* 1991 - Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters)
* 1986 - Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings)
* 1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist
* 1985 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor
* 1984 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician
* 1982 - Victor Buono, American actor
* 1972 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer
* 1971 - Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint
* 1969 - Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete
* 1969 - Barton MacLane, American actor
* 1966 - Vincent Auriol, French politician
* 1964 - Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon
* 1960 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress
* 1958 - Edward Weston, American photographer
* 1953 - Hank Williams, American singer
* 1944 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer
* 1940 - Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist
* 1933 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist
* 1931 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist
* 1921 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany
* 1919 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general
* 1894 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist
* 1892 - Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago
* 1869 - Martin W. Bates, American politician
* 1862 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist
* 1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist
* 1800 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist
* 1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician
* 1793 - Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter
* 1789 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician
* 1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer
* 1766 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender"
* 1759 - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer
* 1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
* 1742 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman
* 1730 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge
* 1716 - William Wycherley, English dramatist (bc. 1640)
* 1697 - Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/ historian
* 1679 - Jan Steen, Dutch painter
* 1617 - Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter
* 1560 - Joachim du Bellay, French poet (bc. 1522)
* 1559 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway
* 1554 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador
* 1515 - King Louis XII of France
* 1387 - King Charles II of Navarre
* 1204 - King Haakon III of Norway
* 962 - Baldwin III, Count of Flanders
* 898 - Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
* 874 - Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
* 404 - Saint Telemachus
* 379 - Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330)