Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01
Saturday, 28 March 2026
0379 Basilius the great: Of caesarea, saint (moralia), 

0404 Telemachus: Roman monk, murdered 

0898 Odo: Earl of paris/king of france (888-98), 

0962 Boudouin iii: Count of flanders, 

1204 King haakon iii of norway: King haakon iii of norway (c. 1170) 

1387 Karel de boze: King of navarra (1349-87), 

1502 Gregorius xiii: [ugo buoncampagni], italy, pope (1572-85), 

1515 Louis xii: "the justified" king of france (1498-1515), 

1517 Hermann vischer: The younger, german bronze merchant, 

1554 Pedro de valdivia: Spanish conquistador (b. 1500) 

1557 Jacques cartier: French explorer (canada), 

1559 Christian iii: King of denmark/norway (1534-59), 

1560 Guillaume du bellay: Sieur de langey, french soldier, 

1617 Hendrick goltzius: Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, 

1626 Cornelis pieterse hoft: Amsterdam merchant/regent, 

1630 Tetsugen: Zen teacher (jodo sect converted to obaku zen), 

1631 Thomas hobson: The "cambridge carrier", eponym of hobson's choice (b. 1544) 

1661 Pieter claesz: Dutch still life painter, 

1697 Filippo baldinucci: Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624) 

1701 Pietro sanmartini: Composer, 

1716 William wycherley: Dramatist (the country wife), 

1730 Daniel finch: 2nd earl of nottingham, 

1742 Peregrine bertie: 2nd duke of ancaster and kesteven, english statesman (b. 1686) 

1748 Johann bernoulli: Swiss mathematician (b. 1667) 

1753 Louis-maurice de la pierre: Composer, 

1758 Johann f von cronegk: German playwright (codrus), 

1759 Jacques-joachim trotti: Marquis de la chétardie, french adventurer (b. 1705) 

1766 Frans e jacobus iii: Old pretender, king of gt britain/ireland, 

1768 Jean-laurent krafft: Composer, 

1777 Emanuele barbella: Composer, 

1782 Johann christian bach: German composer/mozarts tutor, 

1784 Patrice f earl de neney: South neth secret council chairman, 

1787 Arthur middleton: Us farmer (signed decl of independence), 

1789 Christleib siegmund binder: Composer, 

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