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| January 21st, 2008 | Event | Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%. |
| January 21st, 2008 | Event | The Eyak language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies. |
| January 21st, 2008 | Death | Pam Barrett, Canadian politician (born in 1953) |
| January 21st, 2008 | Death | Marie Smith Jones, last native speaker of the Eyak language (born in 1918) |
| January 21st, 2007 | Event | Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark. |
| January 21st, 2007 | Death | Maria Cioncan, Romanian athlete (born in 1977) |
| January 21st, 2007 | Death | U;Nee, Korean pop artist (born in 1981) |
| January 21st, 2006 | Death | Ibrahim Rugova, President of Kosovo (born in 1944) |
| January 21st, 2005 | Event | In Belmopan, Belize, the unrest over the government s new taxes erupts into riots. |
| January 21st, 2005 | Death | Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (born in 1907) |
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