January 1 - Deaths

Deaths

• 379 – Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330)
• 404 – Saint Telemachus
• 874 – Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
• 898 – Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
• 962 – Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (b. c. 940)
• 1204 – King Haakon III of Norway (b. c. 1170)
• 1387 – King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
• 1515 – King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
• 1554 – Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
• 1559 – Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503)
• 1560 – Joachim du Bellay, French poet (b. 1522)
• 1617 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
• 1631 – Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)
• 1697 – Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)
• 1716 – William Wycherley, English dramatist (b. 1640)
• 1730 – Samuel Sewall, English judge (b. 1652)
• 1742 – Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
• 1748 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
• 1759 – Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
• 1766 – James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688)
• 1782 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
• 1789 – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
• 1793 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712)
• 1796 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
• 1800 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716)
• 1817 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
• 1835 – Mátyás Godina, writer, teacher and pastor (b. 1768)
• 1852 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist (b. 1777)
• 1853 – Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (b. 1778)
• 1862 – Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
• 1869 – Martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)
• 1881 – Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)
• 1892 – Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1894 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
• 1896 – Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826)
• 1906 – Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (b. 1835)
• 1918 – Wilfred Campbell, Canadian poet (b. 1858)
• 1919 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
• 1921 – Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• 1931 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
• 1932 – C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)
• 1940 – Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)
• 1943 – Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857)
• 1944 – Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
• 1953 – Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
• 1954 – Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)
• 1955 – Arthur C. Parker, American archaeologist, folklorist, and historian (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid
• 1958 – Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
• 1960 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress, screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1964 – Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
• 1966 – Vincent Auriol, French politician (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1969 – Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (b. 1888)
• 1971 – Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
• 1972 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888)
• 1973 – Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent (b. 1951)
• 1980 – Adolph Deutsch, American composer and arranger (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist politician (b. 1891)
• 1981 – Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (b. 1920)
• 1982 – Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1984 – Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928)
• 1985 – Sigerson Clifford, Irish poet and writer (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Aleka Stratigou, Greek actress (b. 1926)
• 1991 – Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters) (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (b. 1906)
• 1994 – Lord Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
• 1994 – Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941)
• 1995 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
• 1996 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
• 1996 – Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Ivan Graziani, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (b. 1937)
• 1997 – Townes Van Zandt, American musician (b. 1944)
• 1998 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (b. 1931)
• 2001 – Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot and AFL Commissioner (b. 1915)
• 2003 – F. William Free, American advertising executive (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Cyril Shaps, English actor (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2006 – Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (b. 1956)
• 2006 – Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (b. 1918)
• 2007 – A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Julius Hegyi, American conductor (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (b. 1952)
• 2007 – Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Tillie Olsen, American writer (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Del Reeves, American country singer (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
• 2008 – Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonanno (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Pratap Chandra Chunder, Union minister of India (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Harold Corsini, American photographer (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Claiborne Pell, U.S. senator (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Nizar Rayan, Hamas leader (b. 1962)
• 2009 – Aarne Arvonen, Finnish supercentenerian (b.1897)
• 2010 – Lhasa de Sela, Mexican-American singer (b. 1972)
• 2011 – Marin Constantin, Romanian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Reynaldo Dagsa, Filipino politician