Famous Deaths In January - 01

0379  Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies on this day in history.  

0404  On this day in history 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  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 January - 01.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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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  On January - 01 guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies  

1617  On January - 01 hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies  

1626  On January - 01 cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68  

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 January - 01.  

1661  On January - 01 pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64  

1697  Death of Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624) on this day in history.  

1701  Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

1716  William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 on January - 01.  

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 this day in history.  

1748  Death of Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667) on this day in history.  

1753  On January - 01 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 January - 01.  

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

1768  On January - 01 jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73  

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

1782  Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 on January - 01.  

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

1787  On January - 01 arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44  

1789  On January - 01 christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65  

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0766  Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818) was born on this day in history.  

1387  Charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra (1349-87) was born on this day in history.  

1431  On January - 01 birth of alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503)  

1449  Lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence was born on this day in history.  

1449  On this day in history birth of lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)  

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

1481  On January - 01 birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer  

1484  On January - 01 birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)