Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01

1793  On January - 01 francesco Guardi, Italian painter, dies at 80   

1796  Death of Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735) on January - 01.   

1800  On January - 01 louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83   

1816  Francois Alexander Sallantin, composer, dies at 60 on January - 01.   

1817  Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73 on January - 01.   

1818  On this day in history fedele Fenaroli, composer, dies at 87   

1850  Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist, dies at 76 on January - 01.   

1853  Death of Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (b. 1778) on January - 01.   

1862  On this day in history death of mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)   

1869  On January - 01 death of martin W. Bates, American politician (b. 1786)   

1881  Death of Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805) on this day in history.   

1887  Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66 on January - 01.   

1892  On this day in history death of roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)   

1894  Death of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857) on January - 01.   

1896  Death of Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (b. 1826) on this day in history.   

1901  On this day in history ignatius Donnelly, US attorney/lt-governor (Minnesota), dies at 69   

1906  Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1907  Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58 on January - 01.   

1919  William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60 on January - 01.   

1920  Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1931  On January - 01 death of martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)   

1932  Death of C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846) on this day in history.   

1934  Jakob Wassermann, writer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1940  On January - 01 death of panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (b. 1865)   

1942  On January - 01 jaroslav Jezek, composer, dies at 35   

1943  Death of Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (b. 1857) on this day in history.   

1944  C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies on January - 01.   

1945  Vit Nejedly, composer, dies at 33 on this day in history.   

1948  Hermann K J Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1949  On this day in history malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63   

1953  Hank Williams, country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29 on January - 01.   

1954  Death of Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890) on this day in history.   

1957  Ruth Draper, US elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72 on January - 01.   

1958  David Broekman, musican (Think Fast), dies at 55 on this day in history.   

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0766  On this day in history birth of ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)   

1387  Charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra (1349-87) was born on January - 01.   

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  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 January - 01.   

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