January 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 842 – Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794)
• 1066 – Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004)
• 1387 – King Peter IV of Aragon (b. 1319)
• 1400 – John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. c. 1350)
• 1448 – Christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416)
• 1465 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)
• 1477 – Charles, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1433)
• 1524 – Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (b. 1450)
• 1527 – Felix Manz, Swiss leader (executed) (b. 1498)
• 1588 – Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
• 1589 – Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519)
• 1713 – Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
• 1740 – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667)
• 1762 – Empress Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)
• 1771 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
• 1796 – Samuel Huntington,(statesman) (b. 1731)
• 1823 – Major George Johnston, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764)
• 1846 – Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)
• 1858 – Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)
• 1860 – Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first American bishop to be canonized (b. 1811)
• 1883 – Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (b. 1806)
• 1888 – Henri Herz, Austrian pianist (b. 1803)
• 1891 – Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
• 1904 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)
• 1910 – Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)
• 1919 – Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress and singer (b. 1886)
• 1922 – Sir Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
• 1933 – Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1937 – Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)
• 1939 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937 (b. 1897)
• 1940 – Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
• 1941 – Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
• 1942 – Tina Modotti, Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist (b. 1896)
• 1943 – George Washington Carver, American educator (b. 1864)
• 1946 – Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
• 1947 – Charles Schlee, Danish-born American racing cyclist (b. 1873)
• 1951 – Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (b. 1899)
• 1952 – Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India (b. 1887)
• 1952 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1869)
• 1954 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• 1956 – Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875)
• 1957 – Jerome Steever, American water polo player (b. 1880)
• 1963 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
• 1970 – Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899)
• 1974 – Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907)
• 1976 – John A. Costello, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
• 1976 – Mal Evans, Beatles' "roadie" (b. 1935)
• 1978 – Wyatt Cooper, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 1979 – Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
• 1979 – Billy Bletcher, American actor, comedian and voice actor (b. 1894)
• 1981 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
• 1982 – Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1982 – Sir Edmund Herring, Australian military commander, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (b. 1892)
• 1982 – Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1985 – Robert L. Surtees, American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (b. 1875)
• 1987 – Margaret Laurence, Canadian author (b. 1926)
• 1988 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
• 1990 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1991 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Brian Johnston, English cricket commentator (b. 1912)
• 1994 – Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian Hamas member (b. 1966)
• 1996 – Lincoln Kirstein, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur (b. 1907)
• 1997 – André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
• 1998 – Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician (b. 1935)
• 1998 – Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
• 2001 – Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Doreen Carwithen, British composer, widow of William Alwyn (b. 1922)
• 2003 – Massimo Girotti, Italian film actor (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Norman Heatley, member of the team of Oxford University scientists who developed penicillin (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw (b. 1944)
• 2005 – Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
• 2006 – Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (b. 1910)
• 2007 – Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (b. 1975)
• 2009 – Griffin Bell, American lawyer (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Ned Tanen, American movie executive (b. 1931)
• 2010 – Murray Saltzman, Reform Jewish rabbi and civil rights leader (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Malangatana Ngwenya, a Mozambican painter and poet(b. 1936)
• 2012 – Frederica Sagor Maas, American silent film screenwriter), playwright, memoirist and author (b. 1900)
• 2012 – Alexander Sizonenko, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person (b. 1959)