January 20 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 250 – Pope Fabian
  • 1156 – Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
  • 1191 – Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
  • 1479 – King John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
  • 1568 – Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator
  • 1612 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
  • 1663 – Isaac Ambrose, English Puritan divine (b. 1604)
  • 1666 – Anna of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France and regent (b. 1601)
  • 1707 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
  • 1709 – François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)
  • 1739 – Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (b. 1659)
  • 1751 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
  • 1770 – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
  • 1779 – David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)
  • 1810 – Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)
  • 1819 – King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
  • 1837 – Sir John Soane, English neo-classical architect (b. 1753)
  • 1841 – Minh Mang, the second emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam (b. 1791)
  • 1848 – Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
  • 1850 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)
  • 1852 – Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 6th Yokozuna (b. 1794)
  • 1873 – The Blessed Father Basil Anthony Marie Patrice Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
  • 1875 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
  • 1877 – Dato Maharajalela Lela, Malay nationalist.
  • 1891 – King Kalākaua, of Hawaiʻi (b. 1836)
  • 1900 – John Ruskin, English art critic (b. 1819)
  • 1901 – Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
  • 1908 – John Ordronaux, American Civil War army surgeon, a professor of medical jurisprudence, and pioneering mental health commissioner (b. 1830)
  • 1913 – José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852).
  • 1920 – Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)
  • 1924 – Ivor Crapp, Australian rules football umpire (b. 1872)
  • 1936 – King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
  • 1940 – Omar Bundy, American army general (b. 1861)
  • 1941 – John Bissinger, American gymnast (b. 1879)
  • 1944 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
  • 1947 – Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)
  • 1954 – Fred Root, English cricketer (b. 1890)
  • 1962 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887)
  • 1965 – Alan Freed, American disk jockey (b. 1922)
  • 1971 – Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880)
  • 1971 – Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903)
  • 1973 – Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
  • 1973 – Amilcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan and Cape Verdian politician (b. 1924)
  • 1979 – Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)
  • 1980 – William Roberts, British painter (b. 1895)
  • 1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
  • 1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
  • 1988 – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun Nationalist & non-violent freedom fighter (b. 1890)
  • 1988 – Dora Stratou, Greek choreographer and folklorist (b. 1903)
  • 1989 – Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (b. 1938)
  • 1990 – Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)
  • 1990 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)
  • 1993 – Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (b. 1929)
  • 1994 – Sir Matt Busby, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1909)
  • 1996 – Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)
  • 1997 – Curt Flood, American baseball player (b. 1938)
  • 1998 – Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
  • 2002 – Carrie Hamilton, actress and singer, daughter of comedienne/actress Carol Burnett (b. 1963).
  • 2003 – Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903)
  • 2003 – Craig Kelly, American snowboarder (b. 1966)
  • 2003 – Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)
  • 2003 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
  • 2004 – Guinn Smith, American athlete (b. 1920)
  • 2005 – Parveen Babi, Indian Actress and Model (b. 1949)
  • 2005 – Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
  • 2005 – Roland Frye, American literary critic and theologian (b. 1921)
  • 2005 – Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist, writer, and politician (b. 1913)
  • 2005 – Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
  • 2006 – Dave Lepard, Swedish rock singer and guitarist (Crashdïet) (b. 1980)
  • 2009 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholic Church (b. 1920)
  • 2009 – Stan Hagen, Canadian politician (b. 1940)
  • 2009 – David Newman, American jazz musician, nicknamed "Fathead" (b. 1933)
  • 2009 – Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton), English romance writer (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Etta James (aka Jamesetta Hawkins), American singer (b.1938)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
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