Author William Kennedy is 80.

Opera singer Marilyn Horne is 74.

Country singer Ronnie Milsap (inset) is 65.

Dancer-choreographer Debbie Allen is 58.

Singer Sade is 49.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Maxine Jones (En Vogue) is 42.

Actor David Chokachi is 40.

Actor Richard T. Jones is 36.

Model Kate Moss is 34.

Rock musician Nick Valensi (The Strokes) is 27.

Actress Yvonne Zima is 19.

On Jan. 16, 1547, Ivan IV of Russia (popularly known as "Ivan the Terrible") was crowned Czar.

In 1920, Prohibition began in the United States as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect, one year to the day after its ratification. (It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.)

In 1944, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took command of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in London.

In 1978, NASA named 35 candidates to fly on the space shuttle, including Sally K. Ride, who became America's first woman in space, and Guion Bluford Jr., who became America's first black astronaut in space.