Famous Deaths on January 7

Deaths 1 - 200 of 206

• 312 Lucian of Antioch, theologist and martyr, dies of torture and starvation
• 1130 Baldri de Bourgueil, French abbot, poet and historian, dies at about 83
• 1285 Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, brother of King Louis IX, dies at 58

• 1325 Denis of Portugal, King of Portugal (1279-1325), dies at 63
• 1355 Inês de Castro, Galician noblewoman, lover and posthumously-recognized wife of King Peter I of Portugal, is murdered on the orders of King Afonso IV at 29 or 30
• 1400 Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
• 1451 Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoye and last antipope (Felix V, 1439-48), dies at 67
• 1529 Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies

• 1537 Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Italian ruler of Florence (1532-37), assassinated by his friend and cousin at 26
• 1566 Louis de Blois "Dacrianus", French Benedictine writer and poet, dies at about 60
• 1590 Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
• 1591 Jacobus de Kerle, French Flemish composer, dies at about 59
• 1598 Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Tsar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
• 1619 Nicholas Hilliard, English painter of miniature portraits, dies at about 71
• 1625 Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer, dies at about 64

• 1658 Theophilus Eaton, American colonist and Puritan (co-founder of New Haven and Massachusetts Bay colonies) (b. 1590)
• 1678 Johannes Flittner, German composer, dies at 59
• 1694 Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
• 1695 Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, wife of William III, dies of smallpox at 32 [OS=Dec 28 1694]
• 1700 Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
• 1715 François Fénelon, French Roman Catholic theologian and writer (Playing for Time), dies at 63
• 1721 Rochus Aerts, Flemish sculptor, dies [or 1739]
• 1722 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, dies at 60
• 1730 Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts (Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection), dies at 66
• 1736 Česlav Vaňura, Czech composer, dies at 41
• 1743 Anne Sophie Reventlow, Queen of Denmark and Norway (1721-30), dies at 49
• 1755 Gallus Zeiler, German composer, dies at 49
• 1758 Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
• 1767 Thomas Clap, American academic, 1st president of Yale University, dies at 63
• 1770 Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician, dies at 74
• 1783 William Tans'ur, English hymnist, dies at 76
• 1786 Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
• 1790 Antonio Corbisiero, Italian Baroque composer, dies at 69
• 1810 Joseph Lipavsky, Bohemian composer and pianist, dies at 37
• 1830 Infanta Carlota Joaquina, daughter of Charles IV of Spain and wife of John VI of Portugal, dies at 53
• 1830 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter, dies at 60
• 1833 Ramón Cuéllar y Altarriba, Spanish composer, dies at 55
• 1843 Franz Schoberlechner, Austrian composer, dies at 45
• 1858 Willem Broes, Dutch vicar and theologist (Textenrol), dies at 91
• 1864 Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, dies at 55
• 1868 William Batchelder Bradbury, American composer, dies at 51
• 1870 Carl Schwencke, German pianist and composer, dies at 72
• 1872 James Fisk, American financier “Barnum of Wall Street”, dies at 38
• 1876 Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
• 1878 François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)

• 1882 Jim Fisk, American financier and "robber baron" of the Gilded Age known as Big Jim, dies of an abdominal wound a day after being shot twice by business associate Edward Stiles Stokes at 36
• 1887 Abraham van Lier, Dutch theater director (Grand Théâtre des Variétés), dies at 73
• 1890 Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, wife of German Emperor William I, dies at 78
• 1890 Hans Matthison-Hansen, Danish composer and organist, dies at 82
• 1891 (Carl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert, German pianist, conductor, and composer, dies at 79
• 1892 Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist, dies at 72
• 1892 Muḥammad Tawfīq Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (1879-92), dies at 39
• 1893 Josef Stefan, Slovenian-Austrian physicist and mathematician (Stefan-Boltzmann law), dies at 57
• 1901 James Dunwoody Bulloch, Confederacy's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War, dies at 77
• 1907 Anton Urspruch, German composer, dies at 56
• 1912 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, English physician and feminist who was one of the first female medical students at a British university, dies at 71
• 1918 Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (analysis of the structure and dating of the Pentateuch), dies at 73
• 1919 Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot, dies at 75

• 1921 Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
• 1922 Antonio Scontrino, Italian composer, dies at 71
• 1922 Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii, dies at 50
• 1929 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
• 1932 Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (A Chique Little Boy, Bright Paradise), dies at 60
• 1933 Herbert "Bert" Hinkler, Australian aviator who made first solo flight from England to Australia (1928), dies in a plane crash at 40
• 1935 Alfred Ewing, Scottish Physicist (magnetic properties of metals, hysteresis), dies at 79
• 1936 Guy d'Hardelot [Helen Rhodes], French composer (Because), dies at 78
• 1936 Howard Francis, South African cricketer (2 Tests S Af v Eng 1898-99, 39 runs), dies at 67
• 1942 Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian aristocrat (3rd President International Olympic Committee 1925-42), dies at 63
• 1943 George Washington Crile, American surgeon (conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock), dies at 78

• 1944 George Mullin, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers; no-hitter 1912), dies at 63
• 1944 J. Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
• 1944 Lou Henry Hoover, US First Lady (1929-33) and wife of the 31st President, Herbert Hoover, dies at 69
• 1944 Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet, dies at 56
• 1946 Adamo Didur, Polish operatic bass singer (New York Metropolitan Opera, 1908-32), dies at 71
• 1948 Raoul Auernheimer, Austrian American writer, dies at 71
• 1951 Johanna "Nelly" Bodenheim, Dutch illustrator and painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76
• 1951 René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
• 1953 Osa Johnson, American adventurer and filmmaker, dies at 58
• 1955 Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist (human evolution), dies at 88
• 1955 Gerald Hartigan, South African cricketer (batsman in 5 Tests 1911-14), dies at 70
• 1958 Petru Groza, Austro-Hungarian born Romanian communist and President of Romania (1945-58), dies at 74
• 1960 Dorothea Lambert Chambers, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1903-04, 06, 10-11, 13-14), dies at 81
• 1960 Luiz Costa, Portuguese pianist, and composer, dies at 80
• 1961 Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74
• 1963 Arthur Edward Moore, Australian politician (Premier of Queensland 1929-32), dies at 86
• 1964 Colin McPhee, Canadian-American pianist, composer (Tabuh-Tabuhan; H2O; Mechanical Principles), and ethnomusicologist (Bali), dies at 63
• 1964 Cyril Davies, American musician (b. 1932)
• 1967 Carl Schuricht, German conductor and composer, dies at 86
• 1967 David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
• 1967 Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW & Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies
• 1968 James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
• 1970 Robert [Harriot] Barrat, American actor (Bad Lands, Go West, Distant Drums), dies at 80
• 1971 Madame Spivy [Bertha Levine], American actress (All Fall Down) and nightclub owner, dies of cancer at 64
• 1971 Richard "Dick" Kollmar, American actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What), dies from complications from a blood clotting disorder at 60
• 1972 Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (487 for 6th wkt for Jamaica), dies at 70
• 1972 Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist (b. 1893)
• 1972 John Berryman, American poet (The Dream Songs), dies at 57
• 1974 Charles Alfred Coulson, British chemist (theoretical), dies at 63
• 1979 Zbigniew Turski, Polish composer, dies at 70
• 1980 Carl White, American vocalist, dies at 47
• 1980 Larry Williams, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Dizzy, Miss Lizzie"; "Slow Down"), dies of a gunshot wound to the head at 44
• 1980 Sarah Selby, American actress (Tower of London), dies at 74
• 1980 Simonne Mathieu, French tennis player (French C'ships 1938-39; 11 Grand Slam doubles titles), dies at 71
• 1981 Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
• 1981 Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
• 1981 Jose Ardevol, Cuban composer, dies at 69
• 1982 Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in a race crash at 41
• 1982 Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse), dies at 85
• 1984 Alfred Kastler, French physicist (Nobel 1966 - Hertzian resonances within atoms), dies at 81
• 1985 Johnny Guarnieri, American stride and jazz stride pianist, and harpsichordist (The Gramercy Five; The Morey Amsterdam Show), dies of a heart attack at 67
• 1985 Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
• 1986 Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro Páramo), dies at 68
• 1986 Philip D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1987 Larry Carr, American pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
• 1988 Michel Auclair [Vladimir Vujović], German actor (Funny Face, Day of the Jackal), dies at 65

• 1990 Gail Lucas, American entertainer, dies at 37
• 1990 Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (owner New York / San Francisco Giants 1936-76), dies at 86
• 1990 Joseph Robbie, American lawyer and NFL owner and founder of the Miami Dolphins, dies at 73
• 1991 Charlotte Wynters, American stage and screen actress, dies at 91
• 1991 Joe Hicks, American baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
• 1992 Jhean Burton, American entertainer, dies at 63
• 1992 Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and actor (Muppet Movie), dies of AIDS at 40
• 1993 Richard Branda, American actor (You Are There, Two-Minute Warning), dies of colon cancer at 57
• 1993 Robert Cowan, Scottish CEO (Highlands & Islands Enterprises), dies at 60
• 1994 Bobby Pratt, American jazz trombone and piano player, dies at 67
• 1994 Lewis Boddington, Welsh aerospace Engineer (RAE), dies at 85
• 1994 Llewellyn Rees, British theatre actor (A Fish Called Wanda, Invisible Creature), dies at 92
• 1994 Lynn Blessing, American vibes player, dies at 65
• 1994 Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies at 84
• 1994 Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Cafe Express, Octopus), dies of heart failure at 52
• 1995 Arthur Leavins, British violinist, dies at 77
• 1995 Harry Golombek, British chess grandmaster, author (3-time British champion), dies at 83
• 1995 Larry Grayson, British comedian (Generation Game), dies at 71
• 1995 Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
• 1995 Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle during war in Chechnya
• 1996 James Holland, English artist and exhibition organiser, dies at 90
• 1996 Károly Grósz, Hungarian communist politician, dies at 65
• 1996 Robley D. Evans, American nuclear physicist (one of the founders nuclear Medicine), dies at 88
• 1996 Seton Lloyd, English Archaeologist (Arzawa civilization, Turkey), dies at 93
• 1996 Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
• 1997 Desmond Flower, English publisher, dies at 89
• 1997 Sándor Végh, Hungarian-French violinist teacher and conductor, dies at 84
• 1998 Owen Bradley, American pop country music record producer (Patsy Cline; Loretta Lynn; Conway Twitty), dies at 82
• 1998 Richard Hamming, American Mathematician and Computer Scientist (Hamming code), dies of a heat attack at 82
• 1998 Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1975), dies at 91
• 2000 Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2001 Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., American librarian and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, dies at 90
• 2001 James Carr, American soul singer ("To Love Somebody"; "Dark End of the Street"), dies of lung cancer at 58
• 2002 Avery Schreiber, American comedian (Burns and Schreiber), and character actor (My Mother the Car; Doritos commercials), dies of a heart attack at 66
• 2002 Jon Lee, Welsh drummer (Feeder) takes his own life at 33
• 2002 René Étiemble, French scholar, novelist and translator (work on Rimbaud), dies at 93
• 2003 David Harries, Welsh composer (Epithalamium), dies at 69
• 2004 Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned), dies at 77
• 2004 Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., American Engineer (electronics) who invented the over-the-horizon radar that could detect objects thousands of miles away and peer around the Earth's curvature, dies of pneumonia at 87
• 2005 Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
• 2005 Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
• 2005 Rosemary Kennedy, American sister of President John F. Kennedy who underwent a frontal lobotomy, dies at 86
• 2006 Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and author (Seven Years in Tibet), dies at 93
• 2007 Bobby Hamilton, American NASCAR driver and team owner, dies of cancer at 49
• 2007 Lou Brown, American orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show), dies at 94
• 2007 Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic television presenter, dies at 77
• 2008 Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
• 2011 Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)
• 2012 Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian author, dies from heart failure at 77
• 2013 Fred L. Turner, American businessman (CEO of McDonalds, 1977-2004), dies from complications of pneumonia at 80
• 2015 Jean Cabut [Cabu], French caricaturist (Charlie Hebdo), killed in terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris at 76

• 2015 Tadeusz Konwicki, Polish writer (Bohin Manor) and film director, dies at 88
• 2016 (Catherine) "Kitty" Kallen, American big band (Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden) and pop singer ("Little Things Mean A Lot"; "My Coloring Book"), dies at 94 [1]
• 2016 (John) "JJ" Johnson, American NBA basketball player, 1970-82 (Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle SuperSonics, and 2 other teams), dies at 68
• 2016 André Courrèges, French fashion designer, dies at 92
• 2016 Francis Kennedy, British diplomat, and administrator (Chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire, 1995-2001), dies at 89
• 2016 Troy Shondell, American singer (This Time (We’re Really Breaking Up)), dies from complications of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease at 76

• 2017 Nat Hentoff, American columnist and novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society), dies at 91
• 2018 Anna Mae Hays [McCabe], American military officer and US military's 1st female General, dies from a heart attack at 97
• 2018 Isabelle "France" Gall, French pop singer (Donner Pour Donner, Sacré Charlemagne), dies from cancer at 70
• 2018 Peter Sutherland, Irish businessman (Allied Irish Banks) and politician (Fine Gael), dies at 71
• 2018 Tom Netherton, American pop and Christian music singer (Lawrence Welk Show), dies from pneumonia at 70
• 2019 Clydie Mae King, American session and touring vocalist (Ray Charles; Bob Dylan; Humble Pie; Lynyrd Skynrd), dies of a blood infection at 75
• 2019 John Joubert, British South African composer (The Raising of Lazarus; An English Requiem), and educator, dies at 91
• 2019 Paul Gutama Soegijo, Indonesian composer working in Germany, dies at 84
• 2020 André Abadie, French rugby union front rower (7 caps; SC Rieumois, SC Graulhetois, SC Albi), dies at 85
• 2020 Edward Applebaum, American jazz pianist and contemporary classical music composer (The Princess In The Garden), dies at 85
• 2020 Elizabeth Wurtzel, American author (Prozac Nation), dies of metastatic breast cancer at 52
• 2020 George Perles, American football coach (Michigan State University 1983-94; Pittsburgh Steelers), dies from Parkinson's disease at 85
• 2020 Khamis Al-Owairan, Saudi Arabian soccer midfielder (105 caps; Al-Hilal, Al Ittihad), dies from cancer at 46
• 2020 Neil Peart, Canadian rock drummer and lyricist (Rush - "Limelight"; "Peaceable Kingdom"), dies from glioblastoma (brain cancer) at 67
• 2021 Michael Apted, English director and producer (7 Up, The World is Not Enough), dies at 79 [1]

• 2021 Vladimir Kiselyov, Ukranian-Soviet athlete (Olympic gold, 1980- shot put), dies at 64

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