Famous Deaths In January - 01

0379  On this day in history basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies   

0404  On January - 01 death of telemachus, Roman monk, murdered   

0898  Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 on January - 01.   

0962  On this day in history boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies   

1204  On this day in history death of king Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170)   

1387  On this day in history karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies   

1502  On January - 01 gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies   

1515  On January - 01 louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52   

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 this day in history.   

1557  Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 on January - 01.   

1559  On January - 01 christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies   

1560  On this day in history guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies   

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 January - 01.   

1631  On this day in history death of thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)   

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

1716  On January - 01 william Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75   

1730  Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1742  On this day in history death of peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)   

1748  On January - 01 death of johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)   

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  On this day in history death of jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)   

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 January - 01 emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58   

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

1784  Patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 on January - 01.   

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   

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0766  On January - 01 birth of ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)   

1387  On this day in history 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 January - 01.   

1484  On this day in history birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)