Famous Deaths In January - 01

0379  On this day in history basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies  

0404  On January - 01 death of telemachus, Roman monk, murdered  

0898  Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies  

1515  Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 on this day in history.  

1517  Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies on January - 01.  

1554  Death of Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500) on this day in history.  

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1557  On January - 01 jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65  

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  Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68 on January - 01.  

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 this day in history.  

1661  On this day in history pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64  

1697  On this day in history death of filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)  

1701  On this day in history pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64  

1716  On January - 01 william Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75  

1730  Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82 on January - 01.  

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  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 January - 01 frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies  

1768  On this day in history jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73  

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 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 January - 01.  

1387  On January - 01 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  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 this day in history birth of sigismund I, the old, king of Poland  

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

1484  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531) was born on this day in history.