Famous Deaths on 1 Jan

Famous Deaths on 1 Jan

1204 - King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170)
1387 - King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
1515 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
1554 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
1559 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503)
1560 - Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. 1522)
1617 - Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
1631 - Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)
1697 - Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)
1716 - William Wycherley, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1730 - Samuel Sewall, English judge (b. 1652)
1742 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
1759 - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
1766 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688)
1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
1789 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
1793 - Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712)
1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
1800 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716)
1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
1853 - Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (b. 1778)
1862 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
1869 - Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)
1881 - Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)
1892 - Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1894 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
1896 - Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
1906 - Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
1919 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
1921 - Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
1931 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
1932 - C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
1940 - Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)
1943 - Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857)
1944 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
1944 - Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
1953 - Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
1954 - Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)
1957 - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid.
1958 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
1960 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1909)
1964 - Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
1966 - Vincent Auriol, French politician (b. 1884)
1969 - Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (b. 1888)
1969 - Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
1971 - Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
1972 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888)
1980 - Adolph Deutsch, American composer and arranger (b. 1897)
1980 - Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist politician (b. 1891)
1981 - Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (b. 1920)
1982 - Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
1984 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928)
1985 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
1986 - Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (b. 1924)
1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1991 - Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters) (b. 1907)
1992 - Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (b. 1906)
1994 - Lord Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
1994 - Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
1995 - Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941)
1995 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1996 - Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
1996 - Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (b. 1906)
1997 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician (b. 1944)
1997 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (b. 1937)
1998 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
2000 - Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
2001 - Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
2002 - Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
2003 - Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot and AFL Commissioner (b. 1915)
2003 - Cyril Shaps, English actor (b. 1923)
2003 - F. William Free, American advertising executive (b. 1928)
2005 - Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
2005 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
2005 - Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941)
2005 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938)
2006 - Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
2006 - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
2006 - Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
2006 - Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
2007 - Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)
2007 - Del Reeves, American country singer (b. 1932)
2007 - Julius Hegyi, American conductor (b. 1923)
2007 - Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)
2007 - Tillie Olsen, American writer (b. 1912)
2007 - Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
2007 - A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
2007 - Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (b. 1952)
2007 - Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
2008 - Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (b. 1919)
2008 - Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
2008 - Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonnano (b. 1932)
2008 - Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)
379 - Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330)
404 - Saint Telemachus
874 - Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
898 - Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
962 - Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (c. 940)