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 this day in history.  

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  Karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies on January - 01.  

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 January - 01.  

1517  On this day in history hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies  

1554  Death of Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500) on January - 01.  

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1557  On this day in history jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65  

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  On this day in history hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies  

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

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  On January - 01 death of johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)  

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

1758  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1777  On this day in history emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58  

1782  On this day in history johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46  

1784  On this day in history patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67  

1787  Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44 on January - 01.  

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 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 this day in history.  

1449  On January - 01 birth of lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence  

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

1467  On January - 01 birth of sigismund I, the old, king of Poland  

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

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