Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01
Friday, 17 January 2025
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 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 On January - 01 death of king Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170)
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 On January - 01 louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52
1517 Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies on January - 01.
1554 Death of Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500) on January - 01.
1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1631 Death of Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544) on this day in history.
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 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 Death of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686) on this day in history.
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 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 Frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies on this day in history.
1768 Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.
1777 Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 on January - 01.
1782 On January - 01 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 January - 01.
1789 Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 on January - 01.