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January 1^st ? 155^th anniversary of the birth of Todor Kableshkov (1851-1876), BG revolutionary, author of the so-called ?Bloody Letter?, marking the start of the April Uprising

January 4^th ? 125^th anniversary from the death of Neofit Rilski (1793-1881), BG man of letters, eminent teacher and enlightener, author of the first BG grammar book.

January 6^th ? 150^th anniversary of the birth of Rayna Knyaginya (1856-1917), BG teacher, the woman who sewed the flag of the April Uprising

January 7^th ? 150^th anniversary of the birth of Stoyan Mikhaylovski (1856-1927), BG poet, satire master, fable writer.

January 8^th  ? 70^th anniversary of the birth of Georgi Danailov (b.1936), BG playwright, writer and film scriptwriter.

January 8^th  ? 110^th anniversary from the death of Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), French poet, one of the founders of Symbolism in France.  

January 12^th  ? 130^th anniversary of the birth of Jack London (1876-1916), American writer.

January 12^th   ? 260^th anniversary of the birth of Johann H. Pestalozzi (1746-1827), Swiss educational expert, he laid the foundations of the Didactics in elementary-school education.

January 15^th  ? 180^th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889), Russian satirist writer.

January 17^th  ? 300^th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US statesman, publicist and a scientist.

January 18^th   ? 70^th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British writer and poet, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, 1907.

January 15^th  ? 180^th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman (1776-1822), German writer, composer and artist.

January 24^th  ? 180^th anniversary of the birth of Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836-1861), Russian revolutionary democrat, critic, publicist.

January 27^th  ? 105^th anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian composer.

January 27^th  ? 120^th anniversary of the death of Ivan Aksakov (1823-1886), Russian publicist, Slavophil.

January 27^th  ? 250^th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer.

January 29^th  ? 140^th anniversary of the birth of Romen Rolan (1866-1944), French writer, musicologist, public figure.

January 30^th  ? 105^th anniversary of the birth of Todor Borov (1901-1993), BG bibliographer and library scientist.