Famous Deaths In January - 01

0379  Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies on January - 01.   

0404  On this day in history death of telemachus, Roman monk, murdered   

0898  Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 on this day in history.   

0962  Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies on this day in history.   

1204  On this day in history death of king Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170)   

1387  On this day in history karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies   

1502  On January - 01 gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies   

1515  On January - 01 louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52   

1517  Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies on January - 01.   

1554  Death of Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500) on January - 01.   

1557  Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1559  Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies on January - 01.   

1560  On January - 01 guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies   

1617  Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies on this day in history.   

1626  On January - 01 cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68   

1630  On this day in history tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies   

1631  On January - 01 death of thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)   

1661  Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 on this day in history.   

1697  On January - 01 death of filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)   

1701  On January - 01 pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64   

1716  On this day in history william Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75   

1730  Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1742  On January - 01 death of peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)   

1748  Death of Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667) on January - 01.   

1753  On January - 01 louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55   

1758  Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26 on January - 01.   

1759  Death of Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705) on January - 01.   

1766  On January - 01 frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies   

1768  On January - 01 jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73   

1777  Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1782  On January - 01 johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46   

1784  Patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 on January - 01.   

1787  Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44 on January - 01.   

1789  Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 on January - 01.   

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0766  On January - 01 birth of ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)   

1387  On this day in history birth of charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra (1349-87)   

1431  Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503) was born on January - 01.   

1449  On this day in history birth of lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence   

1449  On this day in history birth of lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)   

1467  Sigismund I, the old, king of Poland was born on January - 01.   

1481  On January - 01 birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer   

1484  On January - 01 birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)