Portal:New York (state)/Selected anniversaries/January
- John Thomas Wilder (January 31, 1830 in Greene County, New York – October 20, 1917) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
- Harold John Ellison (17 January 1917 in Buffalo, New York - 5 June 1942), was a naval aviator and member of Torpedo Squadron 8, the whole of which was lost during the Battle of Midway.