Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01
Sunday, 16 February 2025
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 January - 01.
0962 Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies on this day in history.
1204 Death of King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170) on January - 01.
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 On this day in history hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies
1554 On January - 01 death of pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 on January - 01.
1559 Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies on January - 01.
1560 Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies on January - 01.
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 Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies on January - 01.
1631 On this day in history 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 January - 01.
1697 Death of Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624) on January - 01.
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 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 this day in history.
1753 On this day in history louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55
1758 On this day in history 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 On January - 01 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 Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 on January - 01.
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 Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44 on January - 01.
1789 Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.