Famous Deaths In January - 01

0379  On January - 01 basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies  

0404  On this day in history death of telemachus, Roman monk, murdered  

0898  On January - 01 odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39  

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  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 this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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  Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies on January - 01.  

1626  Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1630  On this day in history 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 January - 01.  

1661  On January - 01 pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64  

1697  Death of Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624) on this day in history.  

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

1716  William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 on January - 01.  

1730  On January - 01 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 January - 01.  

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 January - 01.  

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 January - 01.  

1777  On January - 01 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 this day in history arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44  

1789  On January - 01 christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65  

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0766  On this day in history birth of ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)  

1387  On this day in history 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  Lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence was born on January - 01.  

1449  On January - 01 birth of lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)  

1467  Sigismund I, the old, king of Poland was born on January - 01.  

1481  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer was born on this day in history.  

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