January 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 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 (b. c.1547)
• 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. c.1560)
• 1655 – Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
• 1658 – Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
• 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. c.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)
• 1812 – Joseph Dennie, American writer (b. 1768)
• 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, English musician (b. 1932)
• 1966 – Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897)
• 1967 – Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
• 1967 – David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
• 1968 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930)
• 1968 – Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
• 1972 – John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
• 1972 – Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist (b. 1893)
• 1980 – Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1981 – Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
• 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 – Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
• 1990 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
• 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)
• 2001 – James Carr, American Rhythm & Blues and soul musicians (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
• 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)
• 2009 – Maria Dimitriadi, Greek singer (b. 1950)
• 2010 – Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)
• 2010 – John A. Thorburn, American war hero (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)