Saturday, January 14, 2012

Famous Deaths on 14 Jan

Famous Deaths on 14 Jan

1163 - Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
1235 - Saint Sava, Serbian saint (b. 1175)
1301 - King Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1265)
1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
1676 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
1679 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
1742 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
1753 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)
1786 - Michael Arne, English composer (b. 1740 or 1741)
1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
1788 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
1819 - Peter Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
1825 - George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
1833 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1888 - Stephen Heller, Hungarian composer (b. 1813)
1889 - Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
1892 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
1901 - Bishop Mandell Creighton, English historian and ecclesiastic (b. 1843)
1901 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician (b. 1822)
1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
1907 - Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
1908 - Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (b. 1846)
1915 - Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
1920 - John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
1923 - Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
1937 - Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
1952 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
1961 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
1966 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906)
1968 - Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885)
1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
1976 - Tun Abdul Razak, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
1977 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)
1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
1978 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
1978 - Robert Heger, German conductor and composer (b. 1886)
1978 - Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895)
1979 - Thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950)
1980 - Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
1981 - John O'Grady, Australian writer (Nino Culotta) (b. 1907)
1984 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)
1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
1987 - Douglas Sirk, German-U.S. film director (b. 1900)
1988 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar, [Koodiyattam]] artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
1991 - Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1995 - Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor (b. 1926)
1997 - Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)
1999 - Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
2001 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
2003 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
2004 - Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)
2004 - Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937)
2004 - Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir) (b. 1978)
2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)
2006 - Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
2006 - Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
2006 - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 - Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
2007 - Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (b. 1924)
2008 - Judah Folkman, Surgeon that developed Angiogenesis (b. 1933)

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