Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01
Wednesday, 02 July 2025
0379 Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies on this day in history.
0404 Death of Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered on January - 01.
0898 Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 on this day in history.
0962 On January - 01 boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies
1204 Death of King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170) on this day in history.
1387 On January - 01 karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies
1502 On January - 01 gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies
1515 Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 on January - 01.
1517 Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies on this day in history.
1554 Death of Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500) on January - 01.
1557 On January - 01 jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65
1559 Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies on January - 01.
1560 On this day in history guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies
1617 Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies on this day in history.
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 Death of Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544) on this day in history.
1661 On January - 01 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 Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.
1716 On January - 01 william Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75
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 Death of Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667) on January - 01.
1753 On this day in history louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55
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 this day in history.
1766 Frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies on this day in history.
1768 On January - 01 jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73
1777 Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 on January - 01.
1782 On January - 01 johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46
1784 On January - 01 patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67
1787 On this day in history arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44
1789 Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 on January - 01.