Famous Deaths on 2 Jan

Famous Deaths on 2 Jan

1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)
1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
1861 - King Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)
1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
1915 - Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
1920 - Paul Adam, French novelist (b. 1862)
1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
1936 - Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (b. 1862)
1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
1941 - Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist (b. 1898)
1945 - Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)
1946 - Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
1950 - James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (b. 1884)
1951 - Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1959 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (b. 1880)
1960 - Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
1963 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
1963 - Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
1971 - Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (b. 1906)
1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
1983 - Dick Emery, English comedian (b. 1915)
1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
1986 - Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914)
1986 - Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (b. 1920)
1990 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
1994 - Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (b. 1915)
1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (b. 1914)
1995 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
1995 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
1997 - Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit) (b. 1951)
1998 - Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
1999 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
2001 - William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913)
2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
2003 - Eric Jupp, British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger (b. 1922)
2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
2005 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
2006 - Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
2007 - Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)
2007 - Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
2007 - Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
2007 - Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
2007 - Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
2007 - Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
2007 - Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
2007 - Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
2007 - David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2008 - Gerry Staley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2008 - Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krommaluang Narathiwat Rajanagarindra, elder sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (b. 1923)
2008 - George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925)
2008 - Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician (b. 1926)