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  On this day in history odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39  

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

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

1387  On January - 01 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 this day in history.  

1554  On this day in history 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  On January - 01 christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies  

1560  Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies on this day in history.  

1617  On this day in history hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies  

1626  On January - 01 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  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  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  Death of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686) on January - 01.  

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 January - 01.  

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 this day in history.  

1768  Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 on January - 01.  

1777  Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

1782  On this day in history johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46  

1784  On this day in history patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67  

1787  Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44 on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history birth of charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra (1349-87)  

1431  On this day in history birth of alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503)  

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

1481  On this day in history birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer  

1484  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531) was born on January - 01.