Famous Deaths on 3 Jan

Famous Deaths on 3 Jan

1098 - Walkelin, first Norman bishop of Winchester (b. unknown)
1322 - King Philip V of France (b. 1293)
1437 - Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
1543 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (b. 1499)
1571 - Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1505)
1641 - Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618)
1656 - Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584)
1670 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b. 1608)
1690 - Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1615)
1701 - Prince Louis I of Monaco (b. 1642)
1743 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and designer (b. 1657)
1779 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (b. 1712)
1785 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706)
1795 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (b. 1730)
1813 - Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764)
1826 - Louis Gabriel Suchet, French marshal (b. 1770)
1875 - Pierre Larousse, French editor (b. 1817)
1882 - William Harrison Ainsworth, English novelist (b. 1805)
1895 - James Merritt Ives, American lithographer with Nathaniel Currier (b. 1824)
1903 - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (b. 1837)
1911 - Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851)
1915 - James Elroy Flecker, English author (b. 1884)
1916 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
1923 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech novelist (b. 1883)
1927 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (b. 1856)
1931 - Joseph Joffre, French general (b. 1852)
1933 - Wilhelm Cuno, 6th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
1933 - Jack Pickford, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
1943 - Sir Walter James, Premier of Western Australia (b. 1863)
1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
1945 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
1945 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish writer (b. 1879)
1946 - William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (executed) (b. 1906)
1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
1956 - Joseph Wirth, 5th Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Germany) (b. 1876)
1956 - Alexander Gretchaninov, Russian composer (b. 1864)
1967 - Mary Garden, Scottish singer (b. 1874)
1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
1969 - Howard McNear, American actor (b. 1905)
1969 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer (b. 1909)
1970 - Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)
1974 - Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
1979 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
1980 - Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist (b. 1910)
1980 - Lucien Buysse, Belgian cyclist (b. 1892)
1981 - Princess Alice of Albany (b. 1883)
1988 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
1988 - Joie Chitwood, American racedriver & Daredevil (b. 1912)
1989 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1990 - Arthur Gold, American pianist, half of Gold and Fizdale duo (b. 1917)
1992 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897)
1993 - Johnny Most, American sports announcer (b. 1923)
1994 - Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
2002 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch beer executive (b. 1923)
2002 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach (b. 1911)
2004 - Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2005 - JN Dixit, Indian government official (b. 1936)
2005 - Koo Chen-fu, Chinese negotiator (b. 1917)
2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
2006 - Bill Skate, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1954)
2006 - Steve Rogers, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1954)
2007 - Janos Furst, Hungarian orchestral conductor (b. 1935)
2007 - William Verity Jr., United States Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989 (b. 1917)
2007 - Michael Yeats, Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961-1981 and son of W.B. Yeats (b. 1921)
2007 - Sir Cecil Walker, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast 1983-2001 (b. 1924)
2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)
2008 - Natasha Collins, British actress and television presenter (b. 1976)
2008 - Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
2008 - Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
2008 - Yo-Sam Choi, South Korean boxer/former WBC light flyweight champion (b. 1972)
235 - Pope St Anterus (b. unknown)

Famous Deaths on 2 Jan

Famous Deaths on 2 Jan

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