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MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_1
- 1889 - Bert Allerton, who worked as a successful close-up magician in top nightclubs and hotels across the United States, was born Bert Allen Gustafson.
- 1919 - The first issue of Wayne Wizard, the official publication of the Wayne Wizards Association of Lyons, New York with Gene Gordon was its editor, was published.
- 1961 - Hen Fetsch died at the age of 48 in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1973 - Clarence T. Hubbard, a writer and magician in the Hartford area, dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_2
- 1928 - Len Cooper, who became a magic dealer and owner of the Browser's Den of Magic in Toronto, was born.
- 1950 - Clayton Jacobsen (aka Rudy Roxo) bought the Thayer Magic Company from William W. Larsen, Sr.
- 1953 - Thomas Chew Worthington III, one of the founders of the Demons Club and Society of Osiris Magicians, dies.
- 1963 - Magic Castle opened its doors for the first time in Hollywood, California.
- 1966 - Al "King" Stevenson, well-known for his handling of the Stripper Deck, dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_3
- 1793 - Bartolomeo Bosco was born in Turin, Italy.
- 1955 - Steve Spill was born in San Francisco.
- 1990 - Tom Auburn passes away in Montreal.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_4
- 1901 - Frank Chapman was born Franklin Montgomery Chapman in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1960 - Gus Fowler died.
- 1963 - Jay Sankey was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_5
- 1960 - Dr. Jaks passes away.
- 1981 - Cardman, magic dealer and creator of the Biddle Move, Elmer Biddle, dies.
- 2021 - George Goebel passed away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_6
- 1905 - George Boston was born.
- 1906 - Houdini escape from a United States Jail cell in Washington, D.C..
- 1971 - Indian magician P. C. Sorcar dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_7
- 1884 - Lester A. Grimes, known as Grimes the Wizard, is born.
- 1918 - Houdini first performs Charles Morritt's Vanishing Elephant at the Hippodrome
- 1947 - Dr. E. G. Ervin, a dentist and amateur magician, passes away.
- 1991 - Shigeo Takagi, who worked at Japan's version of the Library of Congress and translated many Western magic books into Japanese, passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_8
- 1944 - Joseph Jastrow, a Polish-American psychologist, known for his optical illusion, the Boomerang Illusion provided in most magic sets, died.
- 1945 - John Fisher was born.
- 2004 - British close-up magician and inventor Jack Avis passed away.
- 2006 - Creator of the Ghost Count, Alex Elmsley died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_9
- 1920 - Pioneer of mental magic Chan Canasta was born Chananel Mifelew in Kraków, Poland.
- 1945 - French Canadian television producer and magician Gary Ouellet was born.
- 1971 - Founding member of the Scottish Conjurers Association, De Vega died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_10
- 1884 - Tom Jack was born.
- 1915 - Marshall P. Wilder (1859-1915), a famous actor, amateur magician, humorist and sketch artist, died.
- 1935 - Reinhard Müller was born in Münstermaifeld, Germany.
- 1951 - Charles Nagle (c.1873-1951), a professional magician in New York City for over fifty years, died.
- 1965 - Shari Lewis (1934–1998) performed on the Ed Sullivan Show
- 1972 - Jim Sherman (1888-1972), who ran the National Magic Shop in Chicago for many years, died.
- 1982 - Raymond Toole Stott (1910-1982), British author known for his bibliographies English-language conjuring books including A Bibliography of English Conjuring(1976) , died
- 2004 - Renowned close-up English magician Derek Dingle (1937-2004) died of a stroke.
- 2006 - Dennis Marks (1932-2006), an American screen writer, producer, amateur magician, and voice actor, mainly for children's animations, died.
- 2007 - Amateur magician and illustrator, Joseph K. Schmidt (1920-2007) died.
- 2010 - During the annual Awards Banquet of the Magic City Conjurers / Society of American Magicians Assembly 280, the title of Dean was bestowed on Fantasio.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_11
- 1821 - Anton Kratky-Baschik, whom performed before Queen Victoria and toured the United States with the P. T. Barnum's Show, was born.
- 1901 - Litzka Raymond Gibson was born.
- 1956 - Michael Rubinstein, expert coin magician, was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_12
- 1901 - U.F. Grant, prolific inventor, is born.
- 1935 - George Joseph Kresge, better known as The Amazing Kreskin, is born.
- 1942 - Theodore Annemann, great mentalist, editor of The Jinx, passes away.
- 1978 - Robert Harbin, inventor of the Zig Zag Girl illusion, died.
- 2003 - The 26th World Magic Seminar starts at Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_13
- 1939 - Siegfried Fischbacher was born.
- 1965 - Etienne Pradier, award winning French magician, was born.
- 1992 - Adrian Smith (1908-1992), author, collector and SAM Past National President (1940), died.
- 2002 - World Magic Seminar celebrated its 25th Anniversary at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_14
- 1885 - Carl Rosini was born Jakob (Johan) Rosenzweig in Poland.
- 1929 - British magician Gustave Fasola passed away.
- 2021 - David Roth passed away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_15
- 1907 - Jack Chanin was born.
- 1907 - Australian Society of Magicians, one of the oldest magical society in the world, was founded.
- 1965 - Roger Barkann will send absolutly free, a regular $1.00 Diamon King nail file to any Genii subscriber writing him resquesting one. This offer expires January 15, so hurry...
- 1991 - World renowned magician Slydini passes away.
- 1992 - Caesar's Palace house magician Jimmy Grippo dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_16
- 1749 - The Bottle Conjuror was scheduled to perform.
- 1888 - Alexander Herrmann started a run at the National Theatre (Washington, D.C.).
- 1962 - Scottish close-up magician John Ramsay died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_17
- 1852 - Saram Ellison, co-founder of The Society of American Magicians, was born.
- 1881 - Harry Price, psychic researcher and author, was born.
- 1914 - Edward Emerson Ford McQuaid, known as Roy Benson, was born in Courbevoie, France.
- 1921 - P. T. Selbit performs his illusion of sawing a woman in half at the Finsbury Park Empire.
- 1933 - Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz, better known as Shari Lewis, was born.
- 1942 - Champion boxer and amateur magician, Mohamed Ali, was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_18
- 1906 - "Hanco the Handcuff King" dies.
- 1904 - Cary Grant was born.
- 1962 - George Davenport, son of Lewis Davenport, dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_19
- 1897 - Adelaide Herrmann, a month after her husband's death, stood in his place in front of a firing squad at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City and performed the Bullet Catch.
- 1955 - Marcelo Contento was born.
- 1974 - Canadian magician John Giordmaine dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_20
- 1885 - Joseph Ovette was born Giuseppe (Joseph) Olivo in South Italy
- 1924 - Al Mann was born Gilbert S. Aleman in San Antonio, Texas.
- 1930 - Ray Goulet was born.
- 1978 - Les Levante died
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_21
- 1848 - Samri Baldwin was born.
- 1945 - The live magic shows, "Mystery Time" was brought to Broadway by the Magician's Guild.
- 1928 - Bill Woodfield, an Emmy-nominated movie and television producer and amateur magician, was born.
- 1974 - Wilfrid Jonson, who wrote the " London Notes" column in Sphinx for over twenty-five years died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_22
- 1902 - Harry Houdini was in Paris, France.
- 1922 - Mark Raffles was born.
- 1940 - Jon Racherbaumer was born in Oak Park, Illinois.
- 1988 - Murray, The Escapologist, passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_23
- 1816 - Compars Herrmann, also know as Carl was born in Hanover, Germany, the first of sixteen children which included his brother Alexander Herrmann.
- 1876 - Bess Houdini was born.
- 1903 - Kalanag was born Helmut Ewald Schreiber in Germany.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_24
- 1893 - Al Munroe was born.
- 1961 - A. C. Gilbert, an American inventor, athlete , toy-maker and businessman, died in Boston. Best known to magicians for his Mysto Magic Sets.
- 2016 - James Patton died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_25
- 1898 - Jimmy Grippo, long time house magician at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, was born.
- 1931 - Theodore DeLand, creator of packet tricks phenomenon between 1906 and 1915, died.
- 1987 - Rodolfo, one of the best known Hungarian magicians, died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_26
- 1899 - Gerald Heaney was born.
- 1933 - Ken Klosterman was born.
- 2005 - Ron MacMillan, who traveled the world as the "Man with the Golden Hands", died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_27
- 1908 - Giant Milk Can Escape, created by Harry Houdini, was introduced in St. Louis at the Columbia Theater.
- 1948- Maurice F. Raymond, who toured the world as The Great Raymond, died
- 1993 - Leon Mandrake, a Canadian-born magician died.
- 1999 - Schulien's closes, shortly after the death of Matt Schulien's son Charlie.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_28
- 1902 - McDonald Birch was born.
- 1917 - Universal Society of Magicians was formed.
- 1918 - Jerry Andrus was born in Sheridan, Wyoming.
- 1920 - Dr. James William Elliott, a physician from Rumford Maine who went on to become an accomplished magician, died.
- 1958 - Charles W. Fricke, an amateur magician and judge died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_29
- 1871 - Augustus Rapp was born.
- 1955 - Bernard Bilis was born.
- 1969 - Chef Anton was born.
- 1999 - Ricki Dunn, a successful entertainer best known for his pickpocket act, died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_30
- 1983 - After six years and with a reported budget of $4 million, Doug Henning's show Merlin unofficially opens at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
- 1928 - Karrell Fox was born in East Rainelle, West Virginia
- 1995 - Francis Haxton, a building engineer by trade and an amateur card magician, died.
- 1994 - Tony Kardyro, originator of the Dove Bag, died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/January_31
- 1888 - St. John Bosco, the Catholic Patron Saint of Magicians, died.
- 1945 - Persi Diaconis, an American mathematician who left home at 14 to travel with Dai Vernon, was born.
- 1995 - Tony Anverdi died.