Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01
Thursday, 20 February 2025
0379 On January - 01 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 January - 01.
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 January - 01 hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies
1554 Death of Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (b. 1500) on January - 01.
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 January - 01.
1560 Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies on January - 01.
1617 On this day in history hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies
1626 On this day in history cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68
1630 On January - 01 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 Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 on January - 01.
1697 On January - 01 death of filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624)
1701 On January - 01 pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64
1716 William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 on January - 01.
1730 On this day in history daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82
1742 On this day in history 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 Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.
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 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 this day in history.
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