Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Famous Deaths on 31 Jan

Famous Deaths on 31 Jan

1398 - Emperor Sukō (b. 1334)
1435 - Xuande, Emperor of China (b. 1398)
1561 - Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
1561 - Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (b. 1496)
1580 - Henry of Portugal (b. 1512)
1606 - Ambrose Rokewood - Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. c. 1578)
1606 - Thomas Wintour - Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1571)
1606 - Guy Fawkes - Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1570)
1615 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
1632 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
1665 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
1686 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
1720 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)
1729 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
1736 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678)
1788 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (b. 1720)
1790 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)
1794 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
1815 - José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
1828 - Alexander Ypsilantis, Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence (b.1792
1844 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
1888 - John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
1892 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
1907 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
1923 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (b. 1869)
1933 - John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1942 - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1942 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
1944 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
1945 - Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
1954 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio (b. 1890)
1955 - John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
1956 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
1966 - General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer (b. 1887)
1967 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
1969 - Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
1970 - Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)
1971 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (b. 1891)
1973 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1974 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1882)
1976 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)
1981 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
1987 - Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907)
1990 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
1995 - George Abbott, American stage director and producer (b. 1887)
1997 - John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
1999 - Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2000 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
2001 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
2002 - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)
2004 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
2006 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
2007 - Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944)
2007 - Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
2007 - Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929)
2007 - Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
2008 - Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)
743 - Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam (b. 676)

Monday, January 30, 2012

Famous Deaths on 30 Jan

Famous Deaths on 30 Jan

1030 - William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
1181 - Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
1384 - Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
1574 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
1606 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
1649 - King Charles I of England (executed) (b. 1600)
1730 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
1836 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
1858 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
1867 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
1869 - William Carleton, Irish novelist (b. 1794)
1889 - Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria (b. 1858)
1926 - Barbara La Marr, American actress (b. 1896)
1928 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1929 - La Goulue, French Cancan dancer (b. 1866)
1934 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (b. 1862)
1948 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1871)
1948 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1869)
1951 - Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (b. 1875)
1958 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (b. 1878)
1958 - Ernst Heinkel, German aviation engineer (b. 1888)
1962 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (b. 1894)
1963 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899)
1969 - Georges Pire, Belgian monk, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1980 - Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
1982 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (b. 1912)
1991 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1908)
1991 - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (b. 1907)
1991 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907)
1994 - Pierre Boulle, French author (b. 1912)
1995 - Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter (b. 1925)
1998 - Richard Cassilly, American tenor (b. 1927)
1999 - Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
1999 - Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster (b. 1909)
2001 - Joseph Ransohoff, the father of modern neurosurgery (b. 1915)
2001 - Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (b. 1915)
2001 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
2005 - Martyn Bennet, Canadian musician (b. 1971)
2005 - Wes Wehmiller, American musician (b. 1971)
2006 - Coretta Scott King, American activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1927)
2007 - Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor and artistic director (b. 1934)
2007 - Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
2008 - Jeremy Beadle, British television host, (b. 1948)
2008 - Roland Selmeczi, Hungarian actor (b. 1969)
2008 - Marcial Maciel, Mexican religious leader (b. 1920)

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Famous Deaths on 29 Jan

Famous Deaths on 29 Jan

1119 - Pope Gelasius II
1240 - Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. va. 1165)
1342 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
1597 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
1608 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
1647 - Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
1676 - Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
1678 - Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1696 - Ivan V, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
1706 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
1737 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
1743 - André-Hercule de Fleury, chief minister under Louis XV of France (b. 1653)
1763 - Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1820 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1829 - Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
1870 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
1871 - Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
1899 - Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
1901 - Milan I, King of Serbia (b. 1855)
1906 - King Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
1918 - Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
1928 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (b. 1861)
1933 - Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
1934 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1868)
1941 - Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (b. 1871)
1946 - Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)
1948 - Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
1950 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
1951 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
1956 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
1962 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
1963 - Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
1964 - Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
1966 - Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
1969 - Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
1970 - Basil Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)
1977 - Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
1977 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
1980 - Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
1986 - Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
1989 - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
1991 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
1992 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915)
1993 - Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940)
1994 - Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (b. 1967)
1998 - Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
1999 - Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
2002 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
2002 - Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
2003 - Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)
2004 - Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
2004 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
2005 - Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
2005 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirst (b. 1924)
2007 - Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
2007 - Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
2008 - Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
2008 - Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Famous Deaths on 28 Jan

Famous Deaths on 28 Jan

1061 - Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
1271 - Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
1443 - Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
1547 - King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
1596 - Sir Francis Drake, English explorer and soldier
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1613 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
1621 - Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
1672 - Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
1681 - Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
1697 - John Fenwick, English conspirator
1754 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)
1832 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
1859 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
1864 - Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
1903 - Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
1912 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
1918 - John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
1935 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
1937 - Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
1938 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)
1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)
1947 - Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (b. 1875)
1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
1950 - Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
1951 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867)
1953 - James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1953 - Derek Bentley (b. 1933) (executed)
1959 - Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1960 - Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
1963 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1965 - Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
1965 - Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
1971 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1973 - John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
1975 - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
1979 - Eileen Shanahan, Irish Poet (b. 1901)
1983 - Billy Fury, British singer (b. 1940)
1983 - Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
1986 - Michael J. Smith - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1945)
1986 - Francis R. Scobee - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1939)
1986 - Judith Resnik - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1949)
1986 - Ellison Onizuka - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1946)
1986 - Ronald McNair - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1950)
1986 - Christa McAuliffe - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1948)
1986 - Greg Jarvis - Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1944)
1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)
1994 - Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
1996 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (b. 1940)
1996 - Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
1996 - Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 - Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
1999 - Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)
2001 - Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
2004 - Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
2004 - Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)
2004 - Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)
2004 - Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)
2004 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
2005 - Karen Lancaume, French actress (suicide) (b. 1973)
2005 - Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2005 - Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
2006 - Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
2006 - Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi (b. around 1900)
2007 - Carlo Clerici, Swiss professional road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
2007 - Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic Priest and American politician (b. 1920)
2007 - Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
2007 - Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
2007 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
2007 - Emma Tillman, the world's oldest living person from January 24-28, 2007 (b. 1892)
2008 - Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
2008 - Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist (b. 1925)
814 - Charlemagne (b. 742)

Friday, January 27, 2012

Famous Deaths on 27 Jan

Famous Deaths on 27 Jan

1490 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
1595 - Sir Francis Drake, European explorer (b. c.1540)
1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
1638 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
1731 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian musical instrument maker (b. 1655)
1740 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
1851 - John James Audubon, French-born naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1789)
1857 - Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (b. 1785)
1860 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802)
1880 - Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
1910 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
1919 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b. 1877)
1921 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
1927 - Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army
1927 - Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop
1940 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
1942 - Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
1956 - Erich Kleiber, Argentine conductor (b. 1890)
1967 - Roger Chaffee - Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1935)
1967 - Virgil "Gus" Grissom - Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1926)
1967 - Edward White - Crew of Apollo 1 (b. 1930)
1967 - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
1970 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
1971 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
1972 - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
1973 - William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
1975 - Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
1979 - Qalander Ba Ba Auliya, Sufi master (b. 1898)
1983 - Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914)
1986 - Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b. 1914)
1988 - Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938)
1989 - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
1989 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
1993 - André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
1994 - Claude Akins, American actor (b. 1918)
1996 - Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
1997 - Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (b. 1900)
2000 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
2001 - Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)
2003 - Henryk Jabłoński, President of Poland (b. 1909)
2003 - Louis Archambault, Quebec sculptor (b. 1915)
2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
2004 - Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
2006 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
2006 - Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
2007 - Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 - Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
2008 - Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)
2008 - Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
2008 - Gordon B. Hinckley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
98 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Famous Deaths on 26 Jan

Famous Deaths on 26 Jan

1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)
1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)
1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
1869 - Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general (b. 1833)
1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)
1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)
1893 - Abner Doubleday, credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)
1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
1926 - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
1932 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (b. 1861)
1933 - Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (b. 1887)
1946 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano (b. 1898)
1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, (b. 1906)
1952 - Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
1953 - Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)
1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)
1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
1973 - Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
1976 - João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)
1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)
1990 - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912)
1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905)
1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)
1993 - Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (b. 1912)
1996 - Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)
1996 - Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (b. 1932)
1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
1996 - Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)
1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898)
2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)
2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic athlete (b. 1942)
2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
2006 - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
2006 - Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
2007 - Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
2008 - Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando (b 1958)
946 - Eadgyth, German Queen

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Famous Deaths on 25 Jan

Famous Deaths on 25 Jan

1067 - Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)
1366 - Henry Suso, German mystic
1431 - Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1494 - King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
1559 - King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (b. 1481)
1573 - Hirate Hirohide, Japanese samurai (b. 1553)
1586 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
1640 - Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
1670 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
1726 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
1733 - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
1751 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)
1852 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian explorer (b. 1778)
1881 - Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)
1907 - René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
1908 - Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
1908 - Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
1912 - Dmitry Milyutin, Russian Field Marshal (b. 1816)
1925 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
1940 - Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
1947 - Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
1949 - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman (b. 1861)
1957 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
1957 - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1963 - Wilson Kettle, Guinness World Record holder for most living descendants (b. 1860)
1969 - Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
1970 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
1970 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (Ultraman) (b. 1901)
1972 - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1975 - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
1976 - Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (b. 1929)
1980 - Queenie Watts, English actress (b. 1926)
1981 - Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)
1982 - Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
1990 - Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
1994 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
1995 - Cal Jammer, American actor (b. 1960)
1996 - Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
1999 - Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
1999 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
1999 - Sarah "Sadie" Delany, American author (b. 1889)
2003 - Samuel Weems, Arkansas judge (b. 1936)
2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
2005 - Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2005 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 - William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
2005 - Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
2005 - Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
2005 - Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
2006 - Anna Malle, adult film star (b. 1967)
2008 - Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
2008 - Evelyn Barbirolli,English musician (b. 1911)
389 - Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
477 - Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans
844 - Pope Gregory IV

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Famous Deaths on 24 Jan

Famous Deaths on 24 Jan

1002 - Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
1125 - David IV of Georgia (b. 1073)
1366 - Alfonso IV of Aragon (b. 1299)
1376 - Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader
1473 - Conrad Paumann, German composer
1595 - Ferdinand II of Austria (b. 1529)
1626 - Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (b. 1580)
1639 - Georg Jenatsch, Swiss politician (b. 1596)
1666 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (b. 1588)
1709 - George Rooke, English admiral (b. 1650)
1769 - François de Chevert, French general (b. 1695)
1856 - Rabbi Yechezkel of Kuzmir, Polish Hasidic leader (b. 1775)
1877 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
1882 - Levi Boone, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1808)
1883 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (b. 1812)
1895 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
1911 - David Graham Phillips, American journalist and novelist (b. 1867)
1918 - George Arthur Crump, Founder of the Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon NJ (b. 1871)
1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1884)
1924 - Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1894)
1932 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
1943 - John Burns, English politician (b. 1858)
1948 - Maria Mandel, Camp Leader at Auschwitz (b. 1912)
1948 - Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
1955 - Ira Hayes, American World War II hero (b. 1923)
1960 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (b. 1886)
1961 - Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
1962 - Stanley Lord, captain of the SS Californian the night of the Titanic disaster (b. 1877)
1962 - André Lhote, french painter.
1965 - Winston Churchill, soldier, politician, historian, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1966 - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist (b. 1909)
1970 - Caresse Crosby, American poet (b. 1891)
1971 - Bill W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)
1973 - Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (b. 1949)
1973 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
1975 - Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
1978 - Herta Oberheuser, German doctor (b. 1911)
1980 - Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress, (b. 1887)
1982 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president and dictator (b. 1918)
1983 - George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
1986 - Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)
1986 - Flo Hyman, American volleyball player (b. 1954)
1988 - Werner Fenchel, German mathematician (b. 1905)
1989 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
1989 - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
1990 - Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
1991 - John M. Kelly, Irish politician and academic (b. 1931)
1992 - Ken Darby, American composer, arranger and conductor (b. 1909)
1992 - Ricky Ray Rector, American murderer (b. 1950)
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1908)
1993 - UÄŸur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942)
1994 - Yves Navarre, French writer (b. 1940)
41 - Caligula, Emperor of Rome (b. 12)
772 - Pope Stephen III (b. 720)

Monday, January 23, 2012

Famous Deaths on 23 Jan

Famous Deaths on 23 Jan

1199 - Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
1548 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
1549 - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
1567 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)
1570 - James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated)
1622 - William Baffin, English explorer (b. 1584)
1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
1785 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
1789 - John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
1789 - Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
1800 - Edward Rutledge, American statesman (b. 1749)
1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
1805 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1812 - Robert Craufurd, British general (b. 1764)
1820 - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
1833 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
1837 - John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
1866 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
1875 - Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819)
1883 - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
1922 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
1923 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
1937 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
1939 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
1943 - Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
1944 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
1956 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (b. 1893)
1958 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
1973 - Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1973 - Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
1976 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
1976 - Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (b. 1898)
1977 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (b. 1903)
1978 - Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
1978 - Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
1978 - Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
1981 - Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
1983 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1984 - Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
1986 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (b. 1921)
1988 - Charles Glen King, American biochemist (b. 1896)
1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
1990 - Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
1991 - Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b. 1924)
1993 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer (b. 1899)
1994 - Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (b. 1917)
1997 - Richard Berry, American composer and musician (b. 1935)
1999 - Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
2002 - Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
2002 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
2003 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
2004 - Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
2004 - Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
2005 - Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
2006 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
2007 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
2007 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
2007 - Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (b. 1928)

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Famous Deaths on 22 Jan

Famous Deaths on 22 Jan

1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
1900 - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
1922 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
1922 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1949 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
1950 - Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
1951 - Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
1966 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
1967 - Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
1982 - Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
1985 - Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
1987 - Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
1988 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
1991 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
1993 - Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
1994 - Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
1994 - Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family (b. 1890)
1995 - Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
1997 - Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
1997 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
1997 - Wally Whyton, English musician (b. 1929)
1999 - Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
2000 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
2001 - Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
2001 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2002 - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
2005 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
2007 - Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
2007 - Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
2007 - Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
2008 - Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
2008 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
2008 - Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Famous Deaths on 21 Jan

Famous Deaths on 21 Jan

1118 - Pope Paschal II
1519 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1527 - Juan de Grijalva, Spanish conquistador (c. 1489)
1546 - Azai Sukemasa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1491)
1609 - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French Protestant scholar (b. 1540)
1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)
1683 - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, British politician (b. 1621)
1699 - Obadiah Walker, English writer (b. 1616)
1706 - Adrien Baillet, French scholar and critic (b. 1649)
1710 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638)
1722 - Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, English supporter of William III of England (b. 1661)
1731 - Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
1766 - James Quin, English actor (b. 1693)
1773 - Alexis Piron, French writer (b. 1689)
1774 - Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717)
1775 - Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel (b. 1740 or 1742)
1793 - King Louis XVI of France (executed) (b. 1754)
1795 - Samuel Wallis, English navigator (b. 1728)
1809 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (b. 1729)
1814 - Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, French writer and botanist (b. 1737)
1823 - Cayetano José Rodríguez, Argentine cleric, journalist and poet (b. 1761)
1831 - Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (b. 1781)
1851 - Albert Lortzing, German composer (b. 1801)
1870 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (b. 1812)
1872 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
1881 - Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
1891 - Calixa Lavallée, Canadian composer (b. 1842)
1901 - Elisha Gray, American inventor (b. 1835)
1914 - Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian artist (b. 1857)
1919 - Gojong of Joseon, Emperor of Korea (b. 1852)
1924 - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary (b. 1870)
1926 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, recipient of the Nobel laureate (b. 1843)
1928 - George Goethals, American army engineer (b. 1858)
1931 - Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer (b. 1863)
1932 - Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)
1933 - George A. Moore, Irish novelist (b. 1852)
1937 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1898)
1948 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer (b. 1876)
1950 - George Orwell, British writer (b. 1903)
1955 - Archie Hahn, American athlete (b. 1880)
1956 - Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (b. 1883)
1959 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (b. 1881)
1959 - Carl Switzer, American actor (b. 1927)
1961 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)
1967 - Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
1968 - Will Lang Jr., American magazine executive (b. 1914)
304 - Saint Agnes (martyred) (b. 291)
917 - Erchanger, Duke of Swabia (c. 880)

Friday, January 20, 2012

Famous Deaths on 20 Jan

Famous Deaths on 20 Jan

1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
1191 - Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
1479 - King John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
1568 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator
1612 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
1666 - Anna of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France and regent (b. 1601)
1707 - Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
1709 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)
1739 - Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (b. 1659)
1751 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
1770 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
1779 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
1810 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)
1819 - King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
1850 - Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)
1873 - The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
1875 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
1891 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii (b. 1836)
1900 - John Ruskin, art critic (b. 1819)
1901 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
1920 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)
1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
1940 - Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (b. 1861)
1944 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
1947 - Josh Gibson, African-American baseball player (b. 1911)
1954 - Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
1962 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887)
1965 - Alan Freed, American disk jockey (b. 1922)
1971 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880)
1973 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)
1983 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
1988 - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun Nationalist & non-violent freedom fighter (b. 1890)
1988 - Dora Stratou, Greek choreographer and folklorist (b. 1903)
1989 - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (b. 1938)
1990 - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)
1990 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
1993 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (b. 1929)

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Famous Deaths on 19 Jan

Famous Deaths on 19 Jan

1526 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (b. 1517)
1576 - Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
1661 - Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed) (b. 1799)
1729 - William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
1757 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674)
1766 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born French architect and painter (b. 1695)
1785 - Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic (b. 1713)
1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer (b. 1791)
1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated)
1851 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer (b. 1805)
1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
1869 - Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (b. 1798)
1878 - Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (b. 1810)
1905 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (b. 1817)
1927 - Empress Carlotta of Mexico (b. 1840)
1929 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (b. 1873)
1939 - Cliff Heathcote, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1948 - Tony Garnier, French architect (b. 1869)
1954 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (b. 1885)
1957 - József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
1964 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
1968 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver (b. 1879)
1969 - Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) (b. 1948)
1971 - Harry Shields, American musician (b. 1899)
1972 - Michael Rabin, American violinist (b. 1936)
1973 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
1980 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
1982 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1983 - Ham the Chimp, First hominid launched into outer space (b. 1956)
1984 - Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
1990 - Rajneesh, Indian religious leader (b. 1931)
1990 - Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (b. 1906)
1991 - Marcel Chaput, Quebec politician (b. 1918)
1991 - John Russell, American actor (b. 1921)
1995 - Gene MacLellan, Canadian composer and singer (b. 1938)
1996 - Don Simpson, American film producer (b. 1943)
1997 - James Dickey, American writer (b. 1923)
1997 - Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b 1916)
1998 - Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
1999 - Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby union footballer (b. 1967)
2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
2000 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b. 1913)
2001 - Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist (b. 1916)
2004 - Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) (b. 1917)
2004 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (b. 1955)
2005 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
2005 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist (b. 1974)
2006 - Geoff Rabone, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1921)
2006 - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar (b. 1933)
2006 - Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
2006 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928)
2007 - Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2007 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor (b. 1954)
2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1940)
2007 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
2008 - John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1939)
2008 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
2008 - Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster for CBC (b. 1936)
639 - Dagobert I, King of the Franks (c. 603)

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Famous Deaths on 18 Jan

Famous Deaths on 18 Jan

1367 - King Peter I of Portugal (b. 1320)
1425 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)
1471 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (b. 1419)
1586 - Margaret of Austria, regent of The Netherlands (b. 1522)
1664 - Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
1677 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch merchant (b. 1619)
1803 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1862 - John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (b. 1790)
1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
1878 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1886 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
1892 - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
1896 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (b. 1828)
1923 - Wallace Reid, Actor (b. 1891)
1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
1940 - Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish writer (b. 1865)
1952 - Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1903)
1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, English actor (b. 1879)
1963 - Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party (b. 1906)
1966 - Kathleen Norris, American writer (b. 1880)
1967 - Goose Tatum, American basketball player (b. 1921)
1969 - Hans Freyer, German sociologist (b. 1887)
1970 - David O. McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
1975 - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
1978 - Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
1978 - Hasan Askari, Pakistani philosopher, critic and writer (b. 1919)
1978 - Carl Betz, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
1984 - Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor (b. 1912)
1989 - Bruce Chatwin, English novelist (b. 1940)
1990 - Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
1993 - Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
1995 - Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire (b. 1937)
1995 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1996 - Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, Indian actor (b. 1923)
1997 - Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1941)
2000 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (b. 1897)
2001 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
2003 - Edward "The Sheik" Farhat, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2005 - Lamont Bentley, American actor (b. 1973)
2006 - Jan Twardowski, Polish poet (b. 1915)
2007 - Brent Liles, American musician (Agent Orange/Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
2008 - Frank Lewin, American composer and music theorist (b. 1925)
2008 - Georgia Frontiere, American football team owner (b. 1927)
2008 - John Stroger, first African-American Cook County Board President (b. 1929)
474 - Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
52 BC - Publius Clodius Pulcher (murdered)

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Famous Deaths on 17 Jan

Famous Deaths on 17 Jan

1229 - Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
1369 - King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
1468 - Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
1598 - Fyodor I Tsar of Russia (b. 1557)
1617 - Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
1654 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
1705 - John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
1718 - Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
1737 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
1738 - Jean-François Dandrieu, French composer (b. 1682)
1751 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
1826 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
1834 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
1861 - Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1863 - Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
1869 - Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
1874 - Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (b. 1811)
1884 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
1887 - William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
1891 - George Bancroft, U.S. historian (b. 1800)
1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1903 - Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
1908 - Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
1909 - Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819
1911 - Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (b. 1822)
1927 - Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
1931 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864)
1932 - Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
1933 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
1936 - Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
1942 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
1947 - Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
1947 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
1952 - Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (b. 1877)
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
1964 - T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
1970 - Billy Stewart, American singer (b. 1937)
1970 - Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
1972 - Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
1977 - Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
1981 - Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
1983 - Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911)
1987 - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
1991 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
1992 - Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
1993 - Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
1994 - Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
1994 - Yevgeny Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
1996 - Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
1996 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
1996 - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
1997 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
1997 - Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
1998 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930)
1999 - Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
2000 - Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
2001 - Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
2002 - Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
2002 - Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
2003 - Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
2003 - Balint Vazsonyi, Hingarian pianist (b. 1936)
2004 - Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
2004 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2004 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
2004 - Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
2005 - Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
2005 - Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
2005 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
2005 - Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
2006 - Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
2006 - Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
2007 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
2007 - Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
2008 - Bobby Fischer, American chess player (b. 1943)
2008 - Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
395 - Theodosius I, Roman Emperor

Monday, January 16, 2012

Famous Deaths on 16 Jan

Famous Deaths on 16 Jan

1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352)
1545 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1711 - Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)
1752 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
1794 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
1809 - John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
1864 - Anton Schindler, Austrian biographer of Beethoven (b. 1795)
1865 - Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
1879 - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (b. 1834)
1891 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
1901 - Hiram Revels, U.S. Senator, first African-American to serve in the United States Congress (b. 1822)
1901 - Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
1901 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
1906 - Marshall Field, founder of Marshall Field and Company (b. 1834)
1917 - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
1920 - Reginald De Koven, American music critic and composer of operettas (b. 1859)
1924 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (b. 1859)
1935 - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
1942 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria, Governor General of Canada (b. 1850)
1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
1957 - 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, Governor-General of South Africa and Canada (b. 1874)
1962 - Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (b. 1885)
1962 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
1963 - Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (b. 1918)
1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
1969 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
1969 - Jan Palach, Czech protester against the Soviet led invasion.(b. 1948)
1971 - Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
1972 - Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895)
1972 - Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American actor and creator of The Chipmunks (b. 1919)
1979 - August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1979 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
1982 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
1985 - Robert Fitzgerald, U.S. poet and translator (b. 1910)
1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
1987 - Bertram Wainer, Australian pro-abortion campaigner (b. 1928)
1988 - Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
1988 - Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
1993 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
1995 - Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
1996 - Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
1997 - Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (b. 1969)
1998 - Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
1999 - Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor, politician, Minister, Royal Commissioner, judge (b. 1915)
2000 - John Morris Rankin, musical entertainer (b. 1959)
2000 - Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
2001 - Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
2002 - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
2002 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
2002 - Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
2003 - Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
2006 - Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery, (b. 1923)
2007 - Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
2007 - Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (b. 1941)
960 - Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Famous Deaths on 15 Jan

Famous Deaths on 15 Jan

1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1623 - Fra Paolo Sarpi, Italian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer (b. 1552)
1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1775 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian composer (b. 1700 or 1701)
1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761
1864 - Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
1876 - Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1885 - Leopold Damrosch, German-American orchestral conductor (b. 1832)
1893 - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
1896 - Mathew Brady, U.S. photographer (b. 1822)
1909 - Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
1916 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)
1919 - Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
1926 - Enrico Toselli, Italian composer (b. 1883)
1936 - Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)
1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
1950 - Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
1952 - Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)
1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905)
1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1968 - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
1970 - William T. Piper, American aircraft designer (b. 1881)
1972 - Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881)
1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)
1983 - Shepperd Strudwick, American actor (b. 1907)
1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
1990 - Dame Peggy van Praagh, British ballet dancer, choreographer, director (b. 1910)
1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist (b. 1946)
1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
1994 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (b. 1921
1995 - Vera Maxwell, American fashion designer (b. 1901)
1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
1996 - Minnesota Fats, American billiards player (b. 1913)
1998 - Junior Wells, American musician (b. 1934)
1999 - Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2007 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007 - James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2007 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2007 - David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed)
2008 - Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008 - Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
69 - Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
936 - King Rudolph of France

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)

Friday, January 13, 2012

Famous Deaths on 13 Jan

Famous Deaths on 13 Jan

86 BC - Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Famous Deaths on 12 Jan

Famous Deaths on 12 Jan

1321 - Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
1700 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (b. 1620)
1705 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
1732 - John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. 1685)
1735 - John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
1759 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
1765 - Johann Melchior Molter, German composer (b. 1696)
1777 - Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
1781 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
1817 - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
1829 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
1833 - Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1856 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
1897 - Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
1899 - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
1909 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
1921 - Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
1926 - Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
1934 - Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)
1938 - Gösta Ekman (senior), Swedish actor (b. 1890)
1940 - Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1899)
1943 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
1944 - Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
1956 - Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
1958 - Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
1960 - Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
1962 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
1965 - Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1936)
1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1983 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (b. 1944)
1983 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
1988 - Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
1990 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator et writer (b. 1919)
1991 - Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (b. 1904)
1996 - Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
1997 - Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
1997 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
1999 - Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
1999 - Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
2000 - Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
2000 - Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2001 - William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
2001 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
2001 - Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
2002 - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
2002 - Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
2003 - Allan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911)
2003 - Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
2003 - Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
2003 - Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
2003 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
2004 - Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2005 - Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
2005 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2005 - Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
2007 - Sir James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Famous Deaths on 12 Jan

Famous Deaths on 12 Jan

1321 - Maria of Brabant, wife of Philip III of France (b. 1256)
1519 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1459)
1665 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician and lawyer (b. 1601)
1674 - Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer (b. 1605)
1700 - Marguerite Bourgeoys, saint (b. 1620)
1705 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (b. 1634)
1732 - John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. 1685)
1735 - John Eccles, English composer (b. 1668)
1759 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1709)
1765 - Johann Melchior Molter, German composer (b. 1696)
1777 - Hugh Mercer, American Revolutionary War officer (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1726)
1781 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (b. 1691)
1817 - Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1740)
1829 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (b. 1772)
1833 - Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
1834 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1856 - Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815)
1897 - Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
1899 - Hiram Walker, American distiller (b. 1816)
1909 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
1921 - Gervase Elwes, English tenor (b. 1866)
1926 - Sir Austin Chapman, Australian politician (b. 1864)
1934 - Pawel Kochanski, Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)
1938 - Gösta Ekman (senior), Swedish actor (b. 1890)
1940 - Edward Smith, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1899)
1943 - Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1902)
1944 - Lance C. Wade, American pilot (b. 1915)
1956 - Norman Kerry, American actor (b. 1894)
1958 - Charles Mallory Hatfield, U.S. rainmaker (b. 1875)
1960 - Nevil Shute, English writer (b. 1899)
1962 - Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian writer and feminist (b. 1869)
1965 - Lorraine Hansberry, American writer (b. 1936)
1976 - Agatha Christie, English writer (b. 1890)
1977 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1983 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (b. 1944)
1983 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the USSR (b. 1903)
1988 - Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
1990 - Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator et writer (b. 1919)
1991 - Keye Luke, Chinese-American actor (b. 1904)
1996 - Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician (b. 1926)
1997 - Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)
1997 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901)
1999 - Betty Lou Gerson, American voice actress (b. 1914)
1999 - Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
2000 - Marc Davis, American animator (b. 1913)
2000 - Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
2001 - William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (b. 1913)
2001 - Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
2001 - Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)
2002 - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911)
2002 - Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
2003 - Allan Nunn May, English physicist and Soviet spy (b. 1911)
2003 - Maurice Gibb, British singer, songwriter, and musician (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
2003 - Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator of Argentina (b. 1926)
2003 - Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
2003 - Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
2004 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
2004 - Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955)
2005 - Alessia di Matteo, first survivor of eight transplants in one operation (b. 2003)
2005 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (b. 1932)
2005 - Edmund S. Valtman, Estonian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
2007 - Sir James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
2007 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Famous Deaths on 11 Jan

Famous Deaths on 11 Jan

1055 - Constantine IX Monomachos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1000)
1083 - Otto of Nordheim, Duke of Bavaria (c. 1020)
1494 - Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian artist (b. 1449)
1495 - Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1428)
1547 - Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470)
1641 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet (b. 1583)
1696 - Charles Albanel, French missionary explorer in Canada (b. 1616)
1703 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)
1713 - Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (b. 1637)
1735 - Danilo I , Vladika of Montenegro (b. c. 1670)
1753 - Sir Hans Sloane, Ulster-Scot physician and collector (b. 1660)
1762 - Louis-François Roubiliac, French sculptor (b. 1695)
1763 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
1771 - Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (b. 1704)
1775 - Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (b. 1723)
1791 - William Williams Pantycelyn, Welsh hymnist (b. 1717)
1801 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (b. 1749)
1836 - John Molson, Canadian brewer (b. 1763)
1843 - Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and writer of the American national anthem (b. 1779)
1867 - Sir Stuart Donaldson, first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales (b. 1812)
1882 - Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810)
1891 - Baron Georges Haussmann, French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris (b. 1809)
1901 - Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (b. 1866)
1902 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (b. 1862)
1905 - Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hasidic rabbi (b. 1847)
1914 - Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts after whom the Carlsberg brewery was named (b. 1842)
1923 - King Constantine I of Greece (b. 1868)
1928 - Thomas Hardy, English writer (b. 1840)
1931 - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (b. 1868)
1944 - Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law (b. 1903)
1947 - Eva Tanguay, Canadian-born singer and entertainer (b. 1879)
1952 - Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (b. 1889)
1952 - Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor (b. 1885)
1954 - Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
1957 - Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
1958 - Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
1958 - Alec Rowley, English composer (b. 1892)
1961 - Elena Gerhardt, German mezzo-soprano singer (b. 1883)
1966 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
1966 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
1966 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, third Prime Minister of independent India (b. 1904)
1968 - Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1969 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
1972 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer and collector of folklore (b. 1881)
1975 - Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
1978 - Ibn-e-Insha, Pakistani humorist and Urdu poet (b. 1927)
1979 - Jack Soo, American actor (b. 1917)
1980 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)
1983 - Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
1985 - Sir William McKell, Premier of New South Wales, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
1986 - Sid Chaplin, UK novelist (b. 1916)
1987 - Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
1988 - Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, American WW II Marine aviator (b. 1912)
1988 - Florence Knapp, American, one-time oldest person in the world (b. 1873)
1991 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1994 - Helmut Poppendick, Nazi physician (b. 1902)
1995 - Josef Gingold, Russian-American violinist (b. 1909)
1998 - Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
1999 - Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet (b. 1897)
1999 - Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
1999 - Fabrizio de André, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2000 - Betty Archdale, Anglo-Australian educationalist and cricketer (b. 1907)
2000 - Bob Lemon, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2000 - Ivan Combe, American inventor (b. 1911)
2001 - Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)
2001 - Michael Williams, British actor, husband of Judi Dench (b. 1935)
2002 - Struan Sutherland, Australian medical researcher (b. 1936)
2002 - Henri Verneuil, French playwright and film director (b. 1920)
2003 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (b. 1925)
2003 - Richard Simmons, American actor (b. 1913)
2003 - Mickey Finn, English drummer (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
2005 - Miriam Hyde, Australian composer (b. 1913)
2005 - Fabrizio Meoni, Italian motorcyclist (b. 1957)
2005 - James Griffin, American musician (Bread) (b. 1943)
2005 - Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1938)
2006 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
2006 - Nixzmary Brown, American child abuse victim (b. 1998)
2007 - Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
2007 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932)
2007 - Puchi Balseiro, Puerto Rican singer & songwriter (b. 1926)
2008 - Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (b. 1917)
2008 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, the 1st person to climb Mt Everest in 1953 (b. 1919)
314 - St. Miltiades
705 - Pope John VI
802 - St. Paulinus II of Aquileia
812 - Staurakios, Byzantine Emperor
844 - Michael I Rhangabes, Byzantine Emperor

Monday, January 9, 2012

Famous Deaths on 10 Jan

Famous Deaths on 10 Jan

1094 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)
1276 - Pope Gregory X (bc. 1210)
1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
1654 - Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
1662 - Prince Honoré II of Monaco (b. 1597)
1698 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
1707 - Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
1754 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)
1761 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
1777 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
1794 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
1811 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
1824 - King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b. 1759)
1828 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
1833 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
1851 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
1863 - Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
1866 - Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)
1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
1895 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
1901 - Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
1904 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
1905 - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
1917 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
1922 - Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
1935 - Edwin Flack, Australian athlete, first Olympic champion (b. 1873)
1941 - Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
1941 - Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
1941 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
1949 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)
1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1951 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
1960 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)
1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 - Basil Sydney, English actor (b. 1894)
1969 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (b. 1900)
1970 - Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
1972 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
1978 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)
1978 - Don Gillis, American composer (b. 1912)
1980 - Bo Rein, American college football coach (b. 1945)
1980 - George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
1980 - Hughie Critz, American baseball player (b. 1900)
1981 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
1981 - Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)
1981 - Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
1982 - Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
1984 - Souvanna Phouma, Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1901)
1985 - Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
1986 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
1987 - Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
1989 - Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
1989 - Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
1992 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
1995 - Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
1997 - Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907)
1997 - Sheldon Leonard, American film producer, actor, and director (b. 1907)
1997 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
1999 - Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)
2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
2002 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2004 - Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
2005 - Jack Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)
2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
2005 - Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
2005 - James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
2005 - Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
2007 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
2007 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)
2008 - Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
2008 - Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (b. 1921)
2008 - Mikhail Minin, Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
681 - Pope Agatho
976 - John I Tzimiskes, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 925)

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Famous Deaths on 9 Jan

Famous Deaths on 9 Jan

1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.
1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
1677 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1805 - Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1843 - William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
1873 - Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
1877 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
1878 - King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
1911 - Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
1927 - Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
1931 - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
1945 - Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
1946 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
1960 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1971 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1979 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
1987 - Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
1989 - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
1990 - Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
1992 - Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919)
1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
1993 - Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
1994 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
1995 - Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
1997 - Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
1998 - Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
2001 - Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
2004 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
2006 - Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
2006 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
2007 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
2008 - Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
2008 - William Quinn, Irish Republican Army soldier (b. 1950)
2008 - Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
2008 - Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b.1924).

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Famous Deaths on 8 Jan

Famous Deaths on 8 Jan

1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
1456 - St Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381)
1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
1557 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
1570 - Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
1598 - John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
1642 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)
1707 - John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
1713 - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
1775 - John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
1789 - Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
1794 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
1815 - Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
1825 - Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1854 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
1865 - Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
1874 - Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
1878 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1880 - Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (b. 1811)
1896 - William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
1896 - Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
1901 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
1916 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
1916 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
1918 - Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
1932 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
1934 - Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
1934 - Serge Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (b. 1886)
1938 - Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
1941 - Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (b. 1857)
1942 - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
1943 - Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
1944 - William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
1945 - Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
1948 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
1948 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
1950 - Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
1953 - Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
1956 - Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
1958 - Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
1963 - Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
1967 - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
1969 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
1970 - Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
1972 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
1975 - John Gregson, English actor (b. 1919)
1975 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
1976 - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
1979 - Sara Carter, American country musician (b. 1898)
1980 - John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
1981 - Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
1982 - Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
1983 - Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
1983 - Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
1983 - Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
1986 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
1990 - Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
1991 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
1994 - Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
1994 - Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
1995 - Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
1996 - John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945)
1996 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
1996 - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
1997 - Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1998 - Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
2000 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
2002 - Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
2003 - Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2004 - John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
2005 - Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
2005 - Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer
2005 - Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
2006 - Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
2007 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
2007 - David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
2007 - Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
2007 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
2007 - Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
2008 - George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
2008 - Clyde Otis, American song writer and music producer (b. c. 1924)
482 - Saint Severinus of Noricum

Friday, January 6, 2012

Famous Deaths on 7 Jan

Famous Deaths on 7 Jan

1285 - King Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
1325 - King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
1400 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
1451 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (b. 1383)
1536 - Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
1566 - Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (b. 1506)
1619 - Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (bc. 1547)
1625 - Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (bc. 1560)
1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
1658 - Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
1694 - Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
1700 - Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
1715 - François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
1758 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
1767 - Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
1770 - Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
1783 - William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
1786 - Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1830 - Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
1864 - Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
1872 - James Fisk, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
1876 - Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
1878 - François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
1892 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852)
1893 - Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
1913 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
1919 - Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
1920 - Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
1932 - André Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line (b. 1877)
1936 - Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
1944 - Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
1944 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
1946 - Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
1951 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
1953 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
1960 - Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
1963 - Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1964 - Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
1967 - Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
1967 - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
1968 - Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
1972 - John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
1972 - Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist
1980 - Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
1981 - Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
1981 - Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
1984 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1985 - Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
1986 - Philip D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
1986 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917)
1988 - Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
1988 - Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
1989 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
1990 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
1990 - Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
1992 - Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (b. 1951)
1995 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
1996 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
1996 - Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
1998 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1998 - Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
2000 - Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
2002 - Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
2002 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
2004 - Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
2005 - Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
2005 - Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
2006 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
2007 - Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
2007 - Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
2008 - Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)