Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01

0379  Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies on this day in history.   

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 January - 01.   

0962  Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies on January - 01.   

1204  Death of King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170) on this day in history.   

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

1502  Gregorius XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italy, pope (1572-85), dies on January - 01.   

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  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  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 January - 01.   

1630  On this day in history tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies   

1631  On January - 01 death of thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544)   

1661  Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 on this day in history.   

1697  Death of Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (b. 1624) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1742  On January - 01 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  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 this day in history death of jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)   

1766  On this day in history 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  On this day in history emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58   

1782  Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 on this day in history.   

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  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 January - 01 birth of charles, The Angry One, king of Navarra (1349-87)   

1431  Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope (1492-1503) was born on this day in history.   

1449  On January - 01 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 January - 01 birth of huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer   

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