Famous Deaths In January - 01

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

0404  On this day in history death of telemachus, Roman monk, murdered   

0898  On this day in history odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39   

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  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  Death of Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500) on January - 01.   

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

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 January - 01.   

1630  On this day in history 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  On this day in history pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64   

1716  On this day in history william Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75   

1730  On this day in history daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82   

1742  Death of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686) on this day in history.   

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

1753  Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1758  On this day in history johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26   

1759  On January - 01 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 January - 01.   

1768  On January - 01 jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73   

1777  On this day in history emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58   

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 January - 01.   

1787  On January - 01 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 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 this day in history.   

1431  On this day in history 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  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  Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer was born on January - 01.   

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