Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
0379 Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies on January - 01.
0404 Death of Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered on January - 01.
0898 On this day in history odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39
0962 On January - 01 boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies
1204 Death of King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170) on this day in history.
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 this day in history 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 On this day in history death of pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
1557 On this day in history jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65
1559 On January - 01 christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies
1560 On this day in history guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies
1617 Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies on January - 01.
1626 Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68 on January - 01.
1630 On January - 01 tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies
1631 Death of Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544) on this day in history.
1661 On January - 01 pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64
1697 Death of Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624) on January - 01.
1701 Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 on January - 01.
1716 William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 on this day in history.
1730 On January - 01 daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82
1742 On this day in history 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 On January - 01 johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26
1759 Death of Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705) on January - 01.
1766 Frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies on this day in history.
1768 Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 on January - 01.
1777 Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.
1782 Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 on this day in history.
1784 On this day in history patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67
1787 Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44 on this day in history.
1789 On this day in history christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65