List of Famous people born on January 1st

Thor Kunkel, a German author, was born in Frankfurt am Main on 2 September 1963. Kunkel claims to have spent his youth associating with drug friends and American soldiers stationed in the then West Germany. In 1981, on a scholarship to the United States, he enrolled in the creative writing programme of the San Francisco Art Institute.

Abdullah Kassim Hanga (1932–1969) was Prime Minister of Zanzibar from 12 January 1964 to 27 April 1964. He was executed without Trial for an alleged 1967 plot to overthrow the Karume regime of the now united new country of Tanzania

Samar Haj Hassan, is a Jordanian politician and activist for women’s rights, a former member of the Jordanian Senate and currently serves as a commissioner in the Independent Election Commission (Jordan). She also currently serves on the Royal Committee to Modernise the Political System and is appointed the President of the Women’s Empowerment sub-committee.

Francesc Gay Puig, better known as Cesc Gay; Barcelona, 1967, is a Spanish film screenwriter and film director. His 2015 film Truman won Goya Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay.

Mohammed Kabbaj was the Wali (governor) of Greater Casablanca, one of the old 16 Regions of Morocco. He was Minister of Economy and Finance from February 1995 to August 1997.

Timur Vermes is a German writer. Previously a ghostwriter, his first novel Look Who's Back, which has sold over a million copies in Germany, is a satire about Adolf Hitler and 21st-century Germany. The English version, Look Who's Back, was translated by Jamie Bulloch and published by MacLehose Press in April 2014. The paperback was released in March 2015.

Dmitri Vladimirovich Kovtun is a Russian businessman and ex-KGB agent who is also suspected to have murdered the ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko in London. Kovtun was also hospitalised with radiation poisoning.

Martin Lee Ka-shing is the co-chairman of Henderson Land Development, one of the largest property developers in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited.

Emily Margarethe Haber is a German diplomat. She served as State Secretary from 2011 to 2018: from 2011 to 2013, at the Federal Foreign Office and from 2014 to 2018, at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. She is currently serving as German Ambassador to the United States.

Tomoe Tamiyasu is a Japanese voice actress and singer, generally performing for adult games, and is from Hiroshima. She debuted in 2005 as a voice actress and started her singing career in 2006. Tomoe has been the host of three Internet radio shows, and has been a guest on a fourth. She is also known under the name Tomoe Tamiya, such as when she voiced Rin Natsume from Key's visual novel Little Busters!. She also sang songs on an image vocal album released for Little Busters! for Rin. She attended Anime Expo in 2012 with the industry guest MangaGamer. She married voice actor Keisuke Nakamura in 2015.