January 22nd
- 1791 – Charles Stewart Todd born.
- 1813 – John Allen died, aged 41.
- 1819 – Thomas Laurens Jones born.
- 1824 – Reuben T. Durrett born.
- 1842 – Lot D. Young born.
- 1843 – Albert Shelby Willis born.
- 1870 – George D. Prentice died, aged 67.
- 1875 – D. W. Griffith born.
- 1877 – Charles Wickliffe Roark born.
- 1890 – Frederick Moore Vinson, Sr. born.
- 1896 – Oscar Turner, Sr. died, aged 70.
- 1897 – Benjamin Franklin Bradley died, aged 71.
- 1906 – Willa Brown born.
- 1913 – Woodridge Spears born.
- 1924 – Charles Lisanby born.
- 1929 – Jack Littrell born.
- 1948 – Anne Northup born.
- 1957 – Terry Meiners born.
- 1968 – Olive Tilford Dargan died, aged 99.
- 1973 – Larry Birkhead born.