Famous Deaths In January - 01

0379  Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies on January - 01.   

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 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 January - 01.   

1387  On January - 01 karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies   

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 this day in history.   

1517  On January - 01 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 this day in history.   

1559  On this day in history christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies   

1560  Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies on January - 01.   

1617  Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies on this day in history.   

1626  Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68 on January - 01.   

1630  On January - 01 tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies   

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  On this day in history death of filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)   

1701  Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 on January - 01.   

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 January - 01 death of peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)   

1748  Death of Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667) on January - 01.   

1753  On January - 01 louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55   

1758  On this day in history 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  On this day in history jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73   

1777  Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 on January - 01.   

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

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  On January - 01 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  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 January - 01.   

1449  Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492) was born on January - 01.   

1467  Sigismund I, the old, king of Poland was born on January - 01.   

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

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