Famous Deaths In January - 01

0379  On January - 01 basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies  

0404  On January - 01 death of telemachus, Roman monk, murdered  

0898  Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 on January - 01.  

0962  On this day in history 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  Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 on January - 01.  

1517  Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies on this day in history.  

1554  On January - 01 death of pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)  

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1557  On this day in history jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65  

1559  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1626  On this day in history cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68  

1630  Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies on January - 01.  

1631  Death of Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544) on this day in history.  

1661  On this day in history pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64  

1697  Death of Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624) on this day in history.  

1701  On this day in history pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64  

1716  On January - 01 william Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75  

1730  On this day in history daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82  

1742  Death of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686) on January - 01.  

1748  On January - 01 death of johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)  

1753  Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 on January - 01.  

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

1759  On this day in history death of jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)  

1766  On this day in history frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies  

1768  Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1777  On January - 01 emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58  

1782  On this day in history 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  On this day in history arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44  

1789  On January - 01 christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65  

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

1387  On January - 01 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 January - 01 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  On this day in history birth of sigismund I, the old, king of Poland  

1481  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer was born on January - 01.  

1484  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531) was born on this day in history.