List of Famous people born on January 1st

Félicien Kabuga is a Rwandan businessman who was charged with involvement in the Rwandan genocide.

Henry Nichols Beard is an American humorist, one of the founders of the magazine National Lampoon and the author of several best-selling books.

Chung Mong-hong, also known by his pseudonym, Nagao Nakashima, is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

Osman Öcalan is a Kurdish militant politician and former commander of the PKK, a Kurdish militant organization.

Nina Bott is a German actress.

Benjamin Bradley Bolger is a perpetual student who has earned 14 degrees and claims to be the second-most credentialed person in modern history after Michael W. Nicholson. Like Nicholson, Bolger hails from Michigan.

Oliver Tress is a British businessman, and the founder and head of the UK retail chain Oliver Bonas.

Thích Quảng Đức was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese Roman Catholic government led by Ngô Đình Diệm. Photographs of his self-immolation were circulated widely around the world and brought attention to the policies of the Diệm government. John F. Kennedy said in reference to a photograph of Quảng Đức on fire, "No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one." Malcolm Browne won a Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the monk's death.

Nagraj Popatrao Manjule is an Indian film director, actor, producer, scriptwriter, poet, screenwriter, filmmaker and he works in the Marathi Cinema, best known for his Marathi film Sairat, short-film Pistulya for which he received National Film Award in Non-Feature Film category.

Manoj Bhargava is an Indian American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of Innovations Ventures LLC, the company known for producing the 5-hour Energy drink. By 2012 the brand had grown to do an estimated $1 billion in sales. In 2015, Bhargava pledged 99% of his net worth to improving the well-being of the world's less fortunate.