January 6 - Deaths

Deaths

• 664 – Amr ibn al-A'as, Arab general (b. c.583)
• 1088 – Berengar of Tours, French theologian (b. c.999)
• 1275 – St Raymond of Peñafort (b. c.1175)
• 1448 – Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (b. 1418)
• 1481 – Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Golden Horde
• 1537 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (b. 1481)
• 1537 – Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (b. 1510)
• 1592 – Johann Casimir of Simmern, Elector Palatine (b. 1543)
• 1616 – Philip Henslowe, English theatrical entrepreneur (b. c.1550)
• 1646 – Elias Holl, German Architect (b. 1573)
• 1666 – Shah Jehan, Mughal King (b. 1592)
• 1689 – Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1617)
• 1693 – Mehmed IV, ex-Ottoman Sultan (b. 1642)
• 1711 – Philipp van Almonde, Dutch admiral (b. 1646)
• 1718 – Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)
• 1718 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (b. 1664)
• 1725 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
• 1731 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
• 1734 – John Dennis, English dramatist (b. 1657)
• 1813 – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (b. 1764)
• 1829 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech philologist (b. 1753)
• 1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1766)
• 1840 – Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (b. 1752)
• 1847 – Tyāgarāja, Carnatic Classic Music Composer,Indian(b. 1767)
• 1852 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (b. 1809)
• 1855 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
• 1882 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., U.S. author (Two Years Before the Mast) (b. 1815)
• 1884 – Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (b. 1822)
• 1885 – Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian writer and scientist (b. 1812)
• 1896 – Thomas W. Knox, American writer and journalist (b. 1835)
• 1913 – Frederick Hitch, English Victoria Cross Winner (b. 1856)
• 1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1845)
• 1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
• 1919 – Max Heindel, Danish astrologer and mystic (b. 1865)
• 1922 – Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (b. 1842)
• 1928 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1933 – Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian-German pianist (b. 1848)
• 1934 – Herbert Chapman , English football player and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 – André Besette, Canadian religious figure (b. 1845)
• 1941 – Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• 1942 – Emma Calvé, French soprano (b. 1858)
• 1942 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian International Olympic Committee president (b. 1876)
• 1944 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (b. 1857)
• 1945 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
• 1945 – Edith Frank, mother of Anne Frank (b. 1900)
• 1949 – Victor Fleming, American director (b. 1883)
• 1966 – Jean Lurçat, French painter and tapestry designer (b. 1892)
• 1972 – Chen Yi, Chinese military commander and politician (b. 1901)
• 1974 – David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (b. 1896)
• 1984 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-U.S. cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Ian Charleson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
• 1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, acclaimed jazz trumpet player (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (b. 1938)
• 1994 – Virginia Dell Cassidy, Bill Clinton's mother (b. 1923)
• 1995 – Joe Slovo, South African politician (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist (b. 1962)
• 2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
• 2003 – Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand musician and composer (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Charles Dumas, American athlete (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Pierre Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1954)
• 2005 – Louis Robichaud, Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Lois Hole, Lt. Governor of Alberta (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Lou Rawls, American singer (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Hugh Thompson, Jr., decorated Vietnam War helicopter pilot (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Roberta Wohlstetter, military historian and strategist (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American musician and special-effects artist (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
• 2009 – Ron Asheton, American guitarist (The Stooges) (b. 1948)
• 2009 – John Scott Martin, English actor (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Uche Okafor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1967)