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 January - 01.  

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 January - 01 karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies  

1502  Gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies on January - 01.  

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

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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  Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies on this day in history.  

1617  On January - 01 hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies  

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 January - 01.  

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  Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

1716  William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 on January - 01.  

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  On this day in history death of johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)  

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 this day in history.  

1766  Frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies on January - 01.  

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

1777  Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 on January - 01.  

1782  Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 on January - 01.  

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

1787  On January - 01 arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44  

1789  Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

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0766  Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818) was born on this day in history.  

1387  Charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra (1349-87) was born on this day in history.  

1431  On January - 01 birth of alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503)  

1449  Lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence was born on this day in history.  

1449  Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492) was born on January - 01.  

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