Birth of environmental activist, essayist and politician Sheila Watt-Cloutier in Kuujjuaq (Nunavik) in 1953.

Publication of the book Traditions Relating to Customary Law in Nunavik

Birth of Arctic anthropologist, essayist and activist  Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk born in Puvirnituq (Nunavik) in 1962.

Publication of the French translation of the collection of short stories Tarningup ilua. Allallu eqqumiitsullu by Kelly Berthelsen.

Publication of Tarningup ilua. Allallu eqqumiitsullu by Kelly Berthelsen.

Birth of Kelly Berthelsen in Ammassivik (Greenland) in 1967.

Death of novelist, pilot and activist Markoosie Patsauq in Inukjuak (Nunavik) in 2020.

Death of historian, linguist, writer and politician Taamusi Qumaq in Puvirnituq (Nunavik) in 1993.

Birth of historian, linguist, writer and politician Taamusi Qumaq in Niqsiturlik (Nunavik) in 1914.

« From what my parents told me, I was born in January 1914. My father noted the time of my birth. So, I know I came into the world that year, on an island just north of Inukjuak. »

(Taamusi Qumaq, Je veux que les Inuit soient libres de nouveau, Québec, Les Presses de l'Université du Québec, coll. « Jardin de givre », 2009, p. 33.)