Famous Deaths In January - 01

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

0404  Death of Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered on January - 01.  

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  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  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  Death of Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500) on January - 01.  

1557  Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1559  Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68  

1630  On January - 01 tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies  

1631  On January - 01 death of thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)  

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 January - 01.  

1716  William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 on this day in history.  

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 January - 01.  

1748  On this day in history death of johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)  

1753  Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.  

1758  Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26 on January - 01.  

1759  On this day in history death of jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)  

1766  Frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies on January - 01.  

1768  Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

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

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

1789  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503)  

1449  Lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence was born on January - 01.  

1449  Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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