Deaths January 14 | History by KabAstro

Edmond Halley (1656-1742)

English mathematician and astronomer (Halley's comet), dies at 85 [NS=Jan 25]

1766 Frederick V, King of Denmark-Norway (1746-66), dies at 42
1772 Princess Mary of Great Britain, dies at 48
1786 Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
1786 Michael Arne, English composer (b. 1740 or 1741)
1802 Marie Allard, French ballerina (Auguste Vestris), dies at 59
1817 Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer, dies at 87
1819 John Wolcot, English satirist (Peter Pindar), dies at 80
1822 Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72
1825 George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
1830 Johann Georg Repsold, German scientific instrument maker, astronomer, and fireman, dies fighting a fire at 59
1833 Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint, dies at 73
1850 Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch merchant and ship owner, dies at 93
1867 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather), dies at 86
1872 Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye-Terrier who spent 14 years guarding the grave of his owner John Gray, dies at 16
1874 Johann Philipp Reis, German Physicist and Inventor, dies of lung disease at 40
1887 Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83
1887 Peter Donders, Dutch Roman Catholic missionary to Suriname, dies at 77
1888 Stephen Heller, Hungarian composer and pianist, dies at 74
1889 Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
1890 Francesco D'Arcais, Italian composer, dies at 59
1892 Henry Edward Manning, English Roman Catholic Cardinal (Archbishop of Westminster 1865-92), dies at 83
1892 Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

English author (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 65

1901 Charles Hermite, French mathematician (proof that e is transcendental), dies at 78
1901 Mandell Creighton, British historian and a bishop of the Church of England, dies at 57
1901 Victor Balaguer, Catalan Spanish historian, politician, author, dies at 76
1902 Cato M. Guldberg, Norwegian mathematician and chemist (law of mass action), dies at 65
1905 Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64
1907 Karl von Perfall, German composer, dies at 82
1907 Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
1908 Holger Drachmann, Danish writer (Modern Breakthrough Movement), dies at 61
1909 Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Russian Imperial Navy Vice-Admiral (Battle of Tsushima - loss to Japan devastates fleet, ends Russo-Japanese War), dies of a heart attack at 60
1912 Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Kant & Epigones), dies at 71
1915 Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
1916 Otto Ammon, German anthropologist and sociologist (schedelmetingen), dies at 73
1920 John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (Co-Founder of Dodge Brothers Company), dies at 55
1923 Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
1924 Arne Garborg, Norwegian playwright (Mannfolk), dies at 72
1929 Cornelis Lely, Dutch civil engineer (Zuiderzee dam and dyke works), and politician (Governor of Suriname, 1902-05; Senator, 1910-13), dies at 74
1931 William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician (exchangability), dies at 72
1935 Heinrich Schenker, Austrian musicologist (Urlinie) know for his Schenkerian analysis of music, dies at 66
1937 Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist, dies at 47
1942 Porfirio Barba-Jacob [Miguel Ángel Osorio], Colombian poet and writer (Poemas intemporales), dies of tuberculosis at 58
1943 Adolf Sandberger, German composer and musicologist, dies at 78
1944 Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74
1945 Sándor Vándor, Hungarian Jewish composer, murdered in the Holocaust at 43 [1]
1947 Bill Hewitt, American Pro Football HOF end (4 × First-team All-Pro; Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles; one last players to not wear a helmet), dies in a car crash at 37
1948 Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42
1949 Joaquín Turina, Spanish pianist and composer (Rima), dies at 66
1952 Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (Peace Symphony; Paradise and Peri), and educator, dies at 73
1956 Siegfried Frederick Nadel, Austrian-British anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)

American actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies of cancer of the esophagus at 57

1959 G. D. H. Cole, English political theorist and socialist, dies at 69
1961 Ernest Thesiger, English actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81
1961 Henry Geehl, English composer, dies at 79
1963 Gustav Regler, German writer, dies at 64
1965 Jeanette MacDonald, American soprano (When I'm Calling You), dies at 63
1966 Bill Carr, American athlete (Olympic gold 400m, 4 x 400m 1932), dies at 56

Sergei Korolev (1907-1966)

Soviet Russian rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (Sputnik; Voskhod), dies during surgery at 59

1967 Renato Lunelli, Italian organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 71
1968 Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885)
1970 John J "Johnny" Murphy, American baseball pitcher (NY Yankees), dies at 61
1970 William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician known for probability theory, dies at 63
1971 Ethel Glenn Hier, American composer, dies at 82
1972 Frederik IX, King of Denmark (1947-72), dies at 72
1974 Josef Smrkovský, Czechoslovak communist politician, dies at 62
1976 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, Malaysian politician, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1970-77), dies at 53
1977 Anaïs Nin, French author (Henry and June), dies of cervical cancer at 73

Anthony Eden (1897-1977)

British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1955-57) and Foreign Secretary, dies of liver cancer at 79

Peter Finch (1916-1977)

British-Australian radio, stage, and BAFTA and Academy Award-winning screen actor (Network; The Nun's Story; Raid on Entebbe), dies of a heart attack at 60

1978 Blossom Rock [Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald], American actress (Grandmamma-The Addams Family), dies at 81
1978 Harold Abrahams, British athlete (Olympic gold 100m, silver 4x100m 1924; depicted in film "Chariots of Fire"), dies at 78
1978 Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician (Gödel's incompleteness theorems), dies at 71
1978 Robert Heger, German conductor and composer, dies at 91
1979 Thomas DeSimone, American gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family, missing thought murdered (b. 1950)
1980 Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
1981 John O'Grady, Australian writer (Nino Culotta) (b. 1907)

Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984)

American drama critic (The New York Times), dies at 89

1984 Mary Zeldenrust-Noordanus, Dutch sexuologist (NVSH), dies at 55
1984 Paul Ben Haim [Frankenburger], Israeli composer, dies at 86

Ray Kroc (1902-1984)

American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's) and owner of baseball's San Diego Padres, dies of heart failure at 81

1985 Jetta Goudal, French actress (White Gold), dies at 86
1986 Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter, dies in a helicopter crash at 33
1986 Donna Reed, American actress (From Here to Eternity; It's a Wonderful Life; The Donna Reed Show), dies of cancer at 64
1986 Walter Leblanc, Belgian avant-garde painter and visual artist, dies in a car accident at 53
1987 Alton Purnell, American Dixieland jazz pianist, and singer, dies at 75
1987 Douglas Sirk, German American film director (All That Heaven Allows), dies at 86

Georgy Malenkov (1902-1988)

Soviet leader who was briefly leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death (1953-55), dies in obscurity at 86

1989 George Kilpatrick, Canadian-British bible scholar (University of Oxford), dies at 78
1990 David Arkin, American actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), takes his own life at 49
1990 Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
1991 Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1991 Sallah Kharaf [Abu Iyad], Palestine deputy head of the PLO under Arafat, assassinated at 57 or 58
1993 Elisabeth Antoinette de Vreugd, chambermaid for Dutch Queen, dies at 98
1993 Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (Intl Court of Justice), dies
1994 Esther Ralston, American actress (Tin Pan Alley, San Francisco Docks), dies at 91
1994 Federica Montseny, Spanish anarchist and government Minister of Health (1936), dies at 80
1994 Zino Davidoff, Ukrainian--Swiss tobacco entrepreneur (cigars; desktop humidors), dies at 87
1995 Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera, dies at 68
1995 Mark Finch, English LGBT film festival organizer, commits suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge at 33
1995 Ruby Starr [Constance Henrietta Mierzwiak], American rock singer (Black Oak Arkansas), dies of a brain tumor at 44
1995 Stafford William Somerfield, British newspaper editor, dies at 84
1996 Eric Briault, British educationalist, dies at 84
1996 Jacques LeBrun, French yachtsman (Olympic gold Snowbird class 1932), dies at 85
1996 Pamelo Mounk'a, Congolese musician, dies at 50
1997 Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)
1997 King Hu, Chinese film director, (wuxia films), dies at 64
1999 Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall), dies at 80
1999 Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
1999 Robin Bailey, British actor (See No Evil, I Didn't Know You Cared), dies of respiratory failure at 79
2000 Charles Pick, British publisher (William Heinemann), dies at 82
2001 Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
2003 Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter, dies at 100
2004 Ron O'Neal, American actor (Super Fly), dies of cancer at 66
2004 Uta Hagen, German-American actress and theatre practitioner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), dies at 84
2004 Valfar, Norwegian heavy metal musician (Windir), dies in a snowstorm at 25
2005 Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)
2005 Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
2005 Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
2005 Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2006 Henri Colpi, French New Wave film editor and director, dies at 84
2006 Jim Gary, American sculptor known for whimsical monumental art and sculptors of large, colorful dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts, dies of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage at 66
2006 Mark Philo, English footballer, dies in a car crash at 21

Shelley Winters (1920-2006)

American Oscar and Emmy Award-winning actress (Lolita; A Place in the Sun; A Patch of Blue; The Poseidon Adventure), dies of heart failure at 85

2007 Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (What's My Line?, United Kingdom), dies at 83
2007 Darlene Conley, American actress (The Bold and the Beautiful), dies at 72
2008 Judah Folkman, American pediatric surgeon and cancer researcher (angiogenesis), dies of a heart attack at 74
2009 Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin, dies at 71
2009 Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun), dies of congestive heart failure at 88
2010 Petra Schürmann, German model and TV announcer, Miss World 1956 (b. 1935)
2011 Ben Wada, Japanese television producer (NHK), dies at 80
2011 Trish Keenan, lead vocalist of English band Broadcast (b. 1968)
2013 Conrad Bain, Canadian actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes), dies from natural causes at 89
2013 Giorgio Alverà, Italian bobsledder (World C'ship gold Two-man 1975), dies at 69
2014 Flavio Testi, Italian composer and musicologist, dies at 91
2014 Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, dies at 84
2014 Mae Young, American professional wrestler and one of the pioneers in women's wrestling (National Wrestling Alliance, WWF), dies at 90

Alan Rickman (1946-2016)

English actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Die Hard, Harry Potter), dies of cancer at 69

2016 Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR +90 kg 1964, 68: World C'ships gold 1964, 65, 66, 68), dies at 77
2016 René Angélil, Canadian music executive, actor and director (Omertà, L'apparition), and husband of Céline Dion, dies of throat cancer at 73

Zhou Youguang (1906-2017)

Chinese economist and linguist known as the "father of pinyin", dies at 111

2018 Daniel "Dan" Gurney, American race-car driver, coach and team owner (All American Racers), dies from complications of pneumonia at 86
2018 François Morel, Canadian pianist, conductor, and composer (Antiphonie; Me duele España), dies at 91
2018 Hugh Wilson, American screenwriter, film director The First Wives Club; Blast from the Past), and TV series creator (WKRP in Cincinnati; Frank's Place), dies of lung cancer and emphysema at 74
2018 Marlene VerPlanck [Pampinella], American jazz and pop vocalist, dies of pancreatic cancer at 84
2021 Peter Mark Richman {Marvin Jack Richman], American character actor (Three's Company - "Rev. Snow"; Dynasty - "Andrew"), dies at 93
2022 Dallas Frazier, American country music songwriter ("Alley Oop"; "Elvira"; "There Goes My Everything"), dies from stroke complications at 82
2022 John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman (Chairman and CEO of Sainsburys), dies at 94
2022 Ron Goulart, American sci-fi author (Deadwalk; Plunder), and pop culture historian, dies of respiratory failure at 89
2023 Carl Hahn, German automotive executive (CEO of Volkswagen Group), dies at 96
2024 Christophe Boesch, French-Swiss primatologist (studied and championed chimpanzees), dies at 72 [1]
2024 Norm Snead, American football quarterback (Pro Bowl 1962, 63, 65, 72; NFL completion % leader 1972 NY Giants; Philadelphia Eagles), dies at 84