January 19

Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj who shaped its monotheistic reform movement, died in 1905.

Dainin Katagiri, Sōtō Zen priest and founding abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, was born in Japan.

Sayagyi U Ba Khin, the Burmese lay teacher whose lineage of Vipassanā meditation later spread worldwide, died in Yangon.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a nine-year voyage to Pluto, which it flew past in 2015 to return the first close images of that distant world.