Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01
Thursday, 18 September 2025
0379 Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies on January - 01.
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 On this day in history boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies
1204 Death of King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170) on January - 01.
1387 On this day in history karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies
1502 Gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies on this day in history.
1515 Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 on this day in history.
1517 On this day in history hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies
1554 On this day in history death of pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)
1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 on January - 01.
1559 On this day in history christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies
1560 Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies on January - 01.
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 Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies on this day in history.
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 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 Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82 on January - 01.
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 January - 01.
1753 Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 on January - 01.
1758 On January - 01 johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26
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 On January - 01 jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73
1777 On January - 01 emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58
1782 Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 on this day in history.
1784 Patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1787 On January - 01 arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44
1789 On this day in history christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65