Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01

0379  Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies on this day in history.   

0404  Death of Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered on this day in history.   

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

0962  On January - 01 boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies   

1204  On January - 01 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 this day in history 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 this day in history christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies   

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

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

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

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  Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 on January - 01.   

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

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

1716  William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 on this day in history.   

1730  On this day in history 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 this day in history louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55   

1758  On January - 01 johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26   

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  On this day in history jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73   

1777  On this day in history emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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0766  On this day in history 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  Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492) was born on January - 01.   

1467  Sigismund I, the old, king of Poland was born on this day in history.   

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

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