January 15 - Deaths

Deaths

• 69 – Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
• 570 – Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
• 936 – King Rudolph of France
• 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
• 1781 – Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain, 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, German 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)
• 1926 – August Sedláček, Czech historian (b. 1843)
• 1936 – Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1944 – Robert J. Kirby, Warden of New York's Sing Sing Prison (b. 1890)
• 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 – Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
• 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 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)
• 1994 – Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati-Indian Author, Poet, Astrologist (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Vera Maxwell, American fashion designer (b. 1901)
• 1996 – Minnesota Fats, American billiards player (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)
• 1996 – Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)
• 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)
• 2001 – Leo Marks, English cryptographer, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
• 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 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed)
• 2007 – David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
• 2007 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
• 2008 – Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)