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 January - 01.   

0898  On January - 01 odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39   

0962  Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies on this day in history.   

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

1387  Karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies on this day in history.   

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

1515  On this day in history 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  On January - 01 death of pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500)   

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  Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64   

1697  Death of Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624) on January - 01.   

1701  On January - 01 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  On this day in history death of peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)   

1748  On this day in history death of johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)   

1753  On this day in history louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55   

1758  On January - 01 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  On January - 01 jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73   

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

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 this day in history.   

1787  Arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1789  Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

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0766  Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818) was born on January - 01.   

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

1431  Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503) was born on January - 01.   

1449  On this day in history birth of lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence   

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 this day in history birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer   

1484  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531) was born on January - 01.