January 14 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1092 – Vratislaus II of Bohemia (b. 1032/5)
• 1163 – Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
• 1235 – Saint Sava, Serbian saint (b. 1175)
• 1301 – King Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1265)
• 1331 – Odoric, Italian explorer (b. 1286)
• 1640 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
• 1648 – Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch polymath and Renaissance humanist, a theologian, poet, and historian. (b. 1584)
• 1676 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)
• 1679 – Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (b. 1602)
• 1701 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
• 1742 – Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
• 1753 – George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)
• 1776 – Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (b. 1713)
• 1786 – Michael Arne, English composer (b. 1741)
• 1786 – Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
• 1788 – François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)
• 1819 – Peter Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
• 1824 – Athanasios Kanakaris, Greek politician (b. 1760)
• 1825 – George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)
• 1833 – Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
• 1867 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
• 1872 – Greyfriars Bobby, Famous dog (b. 1856)
• 1887 – Peter Donders, Dutch Roman Catholic Missionary (b. 1807)
• 1888 – Stephen Heller, Hungarian composer (b. 1813)
• 1889 – Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
• 1892 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
• 1898 – Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
• 1901 – Bishop Mandell Creighton, English historian and ecclesiastic (b. 1843)
• 1901 – Charles Hermite, French mathematician (b. 1822)
• 1905 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)
• 1907 – Sir James Fergusson, British politician (b. 1832)
• 1908 – Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and dramatist (b. 1846)
• 1915 – Richard Meux Benson, founder of Anglican religious order (b. 1824)
• 1920 – John Francis Dodge, American automobile pioneer (b. 1864)
• 1923 – Zübeyde Hanım, Mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (b. 1857)
• 1923 – Louis Richardet, Swiss sports shooter (b. 1864)
• 1937 – Jaishankar Prasad, Hindi poet, dramatist and novelist (b. 1889)
• 1942 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)
• 1945 – Heinrich Schroth, German actor (b. 1871)
• 1949 – Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)
• 1951 – Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek novelist, journalist and playwright (b. 1867)
• 1952 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (b. 1878)
• 1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1961 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
• 1965 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
• 1966 – Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)
• 1966 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906)
• 1968 – Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet (My Country) (b. 1885)
• 1970 – William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1972 – Horst Assmy, German footballer (b. 1933)
• 1972 – King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Tun Abdul Razak, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
• 1977 – Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
• 1977 – Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)
• 1977 – Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
• 1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1978 – Robert Heger, German conductor and composer (b. 1886)
• 1978 – Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1979 – Thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950)
• 1980 – Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)
• 1981 – John O'Grady, Australian writer (They're a Weird Mob) (b. 1907)
• 1984 – Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)
• 1986 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1987 – Douglas Sirk, German-U.S. film director (b. 1900)
• 1988 – Georgy Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
• 1990 – Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
• 1991 – Gordon Bryant, Australian politician (b. 1914)
• 1991 – Jerry Nolan, American rock drummer (The New York Dolls) (b. 1946)
• 1995 – Sir Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor (b. 1926)
• 1997 – Dollard Ménard, French Canadian general (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
• 1999 – Muslimgauze, British musician (b. 1961)
• 2001 – Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Kostas Rigopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
• 2004 – Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir) (b. 1978)
• 2005 – Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Henri Colpi, French film editor and director (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Jim Gary, American sculptor (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)
• 2006 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Barbara Kelly, Canadian-born actress (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Robert Noortman, Dutch art-dealer (b. 1946)
• 2007 – Vassilis Photopoulos, Greek painter, film director, art director and set designer (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Judah Folkman, American medical scientist (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Petra Schürmann, German model and TV announcer, Miss World 1956 (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Antonio Fontan, Spanish journalist and politician (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Peter Post, Dutch cyclist and cyclist team manager (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Txillardegi, Basque writer and politician (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Dan Evins, American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Lasse Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1922)