69 Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70
570 Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
936 King Rudolph of France (923-936), dies at 45 or 46
1208 Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered
1345 Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
1595 Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
1672 John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
1683 Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
1684 Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
1705 Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies
1744 Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72
1755 Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83
1765 Carlmann Kolb, German composer and priest, dies at 61
1775 Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies
1781 Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)
1783 William Alexander, Lord Stirling, American general (American Revolutionary War leader), dies at 57
1788 Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
1790 John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)
1804 Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)
1812 Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76
1815 Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761
1816 Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88
1833 Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (Waxhaws Massacre), dies at 78
1844 Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
1864 Isaac Nathan, UK-Australian composer (b. 1792)
1866 M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies


1876 Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1893 Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, British Shakespearian actress (Juliet) and author, dies at 83
1896 Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
1904 Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
1909 Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
1909 Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
1909 Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
1911 Wilhelm Berger, German composer, pianist and conductor, dies at 49
1915 Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
1915 Fannie Farmer, American culinary figure and author dies aged 57
1916 Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
1919 Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
1919 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Spartacus League, murdered by the Freikorps at 47
1922 John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
1924 Geza Zichy, Hungarian composer and one-armed pianist, dies at 74
1926 Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
1932 Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
1934 Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
1934 Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
1936 Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
1942 Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic gold 08, 12), dies at 58
1949 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron, diplomat and senator, dies at 63
1950 Gen Henry "Hap" Arnold, U.S. General of the Air Force (b. 1886)
1952 Ned Hanlon, Premier of Queensland (b. 1887)



1953 Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76
1955 Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
1961 Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49
1962 Kenneth MacKenna, American actor and director (Judgment at Nuremberg, Those We Love), dies of cancer at 62
1964 Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
1965 Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
1967 Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86
1967 David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1968 Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during a game (Jan 13), dies
1968 John Davidson, American actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc, Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat), dies at 80
1968 Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
1968 Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
1969 Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82
1971 John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
1972 Daisy Ashford, English child writer (The Young Visiters) (b. 1881)
1973 Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
1973 Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1973 Coleman Francis, American film director (b. 1919)
1974 Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76
1978 Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
1981 Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
1982 Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
1983 Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
1987 Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
1987 Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
1987 Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (The Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
1989 Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
1990 Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
1992 Dee Murray, British bassist (Elton John's Band), dies of skin cancer at 45
1993 Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88
1993 Huub Jacobse [Hendrik Hubert Jacobse], Dutch politician (VVD), dies at 68
1993 Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51
1993 Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1994 Gyorgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
1994 Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
1994 Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
1995 Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
1996 Les Baxter, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
1996 Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51
1996 Richard Cobb, British historian, dies at 78
1997 Jose Ignacio Domecq, Spanish wine maker, dies at 82
1997 Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92
1998 Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist. temporary Prime Minster of India (1964, 1966), dies at 99
1998 Junior Wells, American blues musician, dies at 63
1999 Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
2000 Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903)
2000 Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
2001 Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2002 Steve Gromek, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2003 Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)
2005 Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)
2005 Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005 Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)
2005 Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)
2005 Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)
2005 Ruth Warrick, American actress and singer (Citizen Kane, All My Children), dies of complications from pneumonia at 88
2006 Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2007 Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (b. 1908)
2007 James Hillier, Canadian-American inventor (co-created the electron microscope), dies at 91
2007 David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
2007 Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (b. 1905)
2007 Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2008 Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, Game Designer (b. 1964)
2008 Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
2011 Nat Lofthouse, English Footballer (b. 1925)
2012 Edward Derwinski, Chicago congressman 1959-83 and first Secretary of Veteran Affairs, dies of cancer at 85
2013 Chucho Castillo, Mexican bantamweight boxer (WBA, WBC, 1970), dies from a heart attack at 68
2013 Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director and screen writer, dies at 80
2015 Kim Fowley, US record producer (the Runaways), dies at 75
2016 Dan Haggerty, American actor (Grizzly Adams), dies of cancer at 73
2016 Noreen Corcoran, American actress (Bachelor Father), dies at 72