Famous Deaths Happened In January - 01
Tuesday, 15 April 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 January - 01.
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 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 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 January - 01.
1560 On this day in history guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies
1617 Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies on this day in history.
1626 On January - 01 cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68
1630 Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies on January - 01.
1631 Death of Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson's Choice (b. 1544) on January - 01.
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 January - 01 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 January - 01.
1748 On January - 01 death of johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
1753 Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 on January - 01.
1758 On this day in history 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 Frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies on January - 01.
1768 Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.
1777 On January - 01 emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58
1782 Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 on this day in history.
1784 On this day in history patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67
1787 On January - 01 arthur Middleton, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 44
1789 Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 on January - 01.