Famous Deaths on 4 Jan

Famous Deaths on 4 Jan

1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207)
1428 - Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 'The Warlike' (b. 1370)
1564 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
1584 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
1695 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (b. 1628)
1752 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704)
1761 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist (b. 1677)
1773 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737)
1782 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (b. 1698)
1804 - Charlotte Lennox, English author and poet (bc. 1730)
1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774)
1825 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751)
1863 - Roger Hanson, Confederate general (b.1827)
1874 - Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
1882 - John William Draper, English scientist, photographer (b. 1811)
1883 - Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
1891 - Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
1896 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
1903 - Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
1903 - Topsy the elephant (b. circa 1875)
1919 - Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
1920 - Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
1924 - Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist, composer (b. 1852)
1931 - Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890)
1941 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1944 - Kai Munk, Danish playwright, Lutheran pastor (b. 1898)
1960 - Albert Camus, Algerian-born French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
1961 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1962 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)
1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1967 - Donald Campbell, English motorboat racer (b. 1921)
1969 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
1970 - Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
1971 - Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
1975 - Carlo Levi, Italian anti-fascist painter, writer and activist (b. 1902)
1981 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (b. 1914)
1985 - Lovro von Matacic, Croatian conductor (b. 1899)
1985 - Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
1986 - Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)
1986 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949)
1988 - Lily Laskine, French harpist (b. 1893)
1990 - Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
1990 - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
1993 - Charles Bridgford, Australian politician
1994 - RD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1939)
1995 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
1995 - Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (b. 1942)
1996 - Ramón Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor (b. 1911)
1997 - Harry Helmsley, American real estate mogul (b. 1909)
1998 - Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
1998 - John Gary, U.S. popular singer (b. 1932)
1999 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
2000 - Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
2001 - Les Brown, American bandleader (b. 1912)
2003 - Sabine Ulibarri, Mexican American writer (b. 1919)
2003 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
2003 - Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
2004 - Brian Gibson (director), English film director (b. 1944)
2004 - Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933)
2004 - Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927)
2004 - Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
2004 - John Toland, American historian (b. 1912)
2005 - Ali al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad (assassinated)
2005 - Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
2005 - Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
2005 - Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
2005 - Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
2005 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919)
2005 - Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
2006 - Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
2006 - Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
2006 - Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
2007 - Helen Hill, American independent film-maker (b. 1970)
2007 - Ben Gannon, Australian theatre film and television producer (b. 1952)
2007 - Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
2007 - Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
2007 - Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
2007 - Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
2007 - Osman Waqialla, Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925)
2007 - Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat) (b. 1923)
2007 - Sir Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
2007 - Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
2008 - Joyce Carlson, American artist (b. 1923)
2008 - Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan print editor (b. 1932)
2008 - Jimmy Nah, Singapore celebrity (b. 1968)