Famous Deaths In January - 01

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

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  Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies on January - 01.  

1204  On this day in history death of king Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170)  

1387  Karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies on January - 01.  

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  On January - 01 hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies  

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  Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies on this day in history.  

1560  Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies on January - 01.  

1617  Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies on this day in history.  

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  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 this day in history death of filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)  

1701  Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1748  Death of Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1759  Death of Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705) on this day in history.  

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

1768  On January - 01 jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73  

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

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 January - 01.  

1787  On this day in history arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44  

1789  On this day in history christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65  

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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 this day in history birth of alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503)  

1449  On this day in history birth of lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence  

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

1467  On January - 01 birth of sigismund I, the old, king of Poland  

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

1484  On this day in history birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)