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| January 15th, 2005 (January 15 2005) | Event | An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system. | |
| January 15th, 2005 (January 15 2005) | Event | ESA s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon. | |
| January 15th, 2005 (January 15 2005) | Death | Elizabeth Janeway, American author (born in 1913) | |
| January 15th, 2005 (January 15 2005) | Death | Ruth Warrick, American actress (born in 1915) | |
| January 15th, 2005 (January 15 2005) | Death | Walter Ernsting, German author (born in 1920) | |
| January 15th, 2005 (January 15 2005) | Death | Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (born in 1923) | |
| January 15th, 2005 (January 15 2005) | Death | Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (born in 1947) | |
| January 15th, 2005 (January 15 2005) | Death | Dan Lee, Canadian animator (born in 1969) | |
| January 15th, 1995 (January 15 1995) | Death | Vera Maxwell, American fashion designer (born in 1901) | |
| January 15th, 1985 (January 15 1985) | Birth | Kenneth Emil Petersen, Danish footballer | |
| January 15th, 1975 (January 15 1975) | Birth | Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter | |
| January 15th, 1975 (January 15 1975) | Birth | Mary Pierce, French tennis player | |
| January 15th, 1965 (January 15 1965) | Birth | Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist | |
| January 15th, 1965 (January 15 1965) | Birth | Bernard Hopkins, American boxer | |
| January 15th, 1965 (January 15 1965) | Birth | Adam Jones, American musician (Tool) | |
| January 15th, 1965 (January 15 1965) | Birth | James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor | |
| January 15th, 1955 (January 15 1955) | Birth | Nigel Benson, English author | |
| January 15th, 1955 (January 15 1955) | Death | Yves Tanguy, French painter (born in 1900) | |
| January 15th, 1945 (January 15 1945) | Birth | Vince Foster, American lawyer (died in 1993) | |
| January 15th, 1945 (January 15 1945) | Birth | William R. Higgins, USMC colonel (died in 1990) | |
| January 15th, 1945 (January 15 1945) | Birth | Princess Michael of Kent, British royal | |
| January 15th, 1945 (January 15 1945) | Death | Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (born in 1865) | |
| January 15th, 1925 (January 15 1925) | Birth | Ruth Slenczynska, U.S. pianist | |
| January 15th, 1905 (January 15 1905) | Birth | Torin Thatcher, English actor (died in 1981) | |
| January 15th, 1895 (January 15 1895) | Birth | Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1973) | |
| January 15th, 1885 (January 15 1885) | Birth | Lorenz Bohler, Austrian physician (died in 1973) | |
| January 15th, 1885 (January 15 1885) | Birth | Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (died in 1915) | |
| January 15th, 1885 (January 15 1885) | Birth | Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (died in 1968) | |
| January 15th, 1885 (January 15 1885) | Death | Leopold Damrosch, German-American orchestral conductor (born in 1832) | |
| January 15th, 1875 (January 15 1875) | Birth | Tom Burke, American runner (died in 1929) | |
| January 15th, 1865 (January 15 1865) | Event | American Civil WarFort Fisher North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy. | |
| January 15th, 1855 (January 15 1855) | Birth | Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (died in 1889) | |
| January 15th, 1815 (January 15 1815) | Death | Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (born in 1761 | |
| January 15th, 1795 (January 15 1795) | Birth | Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (died in 1829) | |
| January 15th, 1775 (January 15 1775) | Death | Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian composer (born in 1700 or 1701) | |
| January 15th, 1595 (January 15 1595) | Death | Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (born in 1546) | |
| January 15th, 1345 (January 15 1345) | Death | Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler | |
