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)