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Famous Deaths In January - 26

Sunday, 19 May 2013

1109 Albericus of Côteaux, French saint, dies on this day in history.

1567 On this day in history death of nicholas Wotton, English diplomat

1630 On this day in history death of henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)

1636 Death of Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552) on this day in history.

1697 Death of Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640) on this day in history.

1706 On this day in history guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59

1744 Death of Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683) on this day in history.

1750 Death of Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686) on this day in history.

1795 On this day in history johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, dies at 62

1798 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.

1799 On this day in history death of gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)

1803 Georg von Pasterwiz, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.

1823 On this day in history death of edward Jenner, English physician (b. 1749)

1824 On this day in history edward Jenner, discoverer (vaccination), dies

1849 Death of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide at 45 on this day in history.

1850 Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic, dies on this day in history.

1855 Death of Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808) on this day in history.

1869 Death of Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846) on this day in history.

1870 Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.

1885 Death of Charles George Gordon, Brit gov-gen (Sudan), executed at 51 on this day in history.

1886 On this day in history death of david Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)

1891 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies on this day in history.

1893 On this day in history abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday

1895 On this day in history arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies

1904 John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64 on this day in history.

1911 Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State, dies at 67 on this day in history.

1920 On this day in history death of matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered

1922 On this day in history luigi Denza, composer, dies at 75

1926 Death of John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University on this day in history.

1932 William K Wrigley, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies on this day in history.

1933 Death of Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853) on this day in history.

1939 Death of Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard on this day in history.

1942 Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips), dies at 83 on this day in history.

1943 On this day in history nikolai Vavilov, geneticist, Saratovv labour camp, dies

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Famous People Born On This Day In History

1497 On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)

1541 On this day in history birth of florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)

1613 Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer was born on this day in history.

1667 On this day in history birth of henricus Zwaardecroon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies

1708 On this day in history birth of william Hayes, composer

1714 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage) was born on this day in history.

1715 Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher was born on this day in history.

1716 On this day in history birth of george Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville