January 16 - Deaths

Deaths

• 378 – Great Jaguar Paw, King of Tikal
• 960 – Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1327 – Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine scholar and statesman (b. 1250/55)
• 1387 – Elizabeth of Bosnia, Hungarian queen and regent (b. 1340)
• 1400 – John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (b. 1352)
• 1545 – George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
• 1547 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
• 1554 – Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
• 1585 – Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
• 1659 – Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
• 1710 – Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
• 1711 – Blessed Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
• 1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
• 1748 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
• 1750 – Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667)
• 1752 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
• 1794 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
• 1809 – John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
• 1817 – Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman (b. 1759)
• 1826 – Lindley Murray, grammarian (b. 1745)
• 1834 – Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
• 1856 – Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
• 1864 – Anton Schindler, Austrian biographer of Beethoven (b. 1795)
• 1865 – Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
• 1879 – Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
• 1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian opera composer (b. 1834)
• 1891 – Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 – Charles Pelham Villiers, British Member of Parliament (b. 1802)
• 1901 – Jules Barbier, French opera librettist (b. 1825)
• 1901 – Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
• 1901 – Hiram Revels, first African-American to serve in the U. S. Senate (b. 1822)
• 1906 – Marshall Field, American entrepreneur (b. 1834)
• 1917 – George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
• 1917 – Herbert von Petersdorff, German swimmer (b. 1882)
• 1919 – Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
• 1920 – Reginald De Koven, American music critic and operetta composer (b. 1859)
• 1924 – Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, Scottish philanthropist (b. 1859)
• 1935 – Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
• 1936 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
• 1938 – Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian Writer (b.1876)
• 1939 – William O'Connor, American fencer (b. 1864)
• 1942 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria (b. 1850)
• 1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1942 – Ernst Scheller, German Nazi politician (b. 1899)
• 1957 – 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, brother of Queen Mary (b. 1874)
• 1957 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
• 1959 – Phan Khoi, Vietnamese intellectual (b. 1887)
• 1960 – Arthur Darby, British rugby player (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Max Schöne, German swimmer (b. 1880)
• 1962 – Frank Hurley, Australian photographer (b. 1885)
• 1962 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
• 1963 – Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player (b. 1918)
• 1967 – Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
• 1968 – Bob Jones, Sr, American evangelist (b. 1883)
• 1968 – Panagiotis Poulitsas, Greek judge, head of an interim government (b. 1881)
• 1969 – Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (b. 1903)
• 1971 – Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890)
• 1972 – Teller Ammons, American politician (b. 1895)
• 1972 – Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. (David Seville), American actor (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Israel Abramofsky, Russian-born American artist (b. 1888)
• 1979 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1982 – Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
• 1985 – Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (b. 1910)
• 1986 – Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
• 1987 – Bertram Wainer, Australian abortion rights campaigner (b. 1928)
• 1988 – Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
• 1988 – Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Prem Nazir, Malayalam actor (b. 1926)
• 1993 – Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
• 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (b. 1969)
• 1997 – Markus Hoffmann, German actor (b. 1971)
• 1998 – Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor and politician (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1928)
• 2000 – John Morris Rankin, Canadian musical entertainer (b. 1959)
• 2001 – Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
• 2001 – Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
• 2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, British astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
• 2002 – Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2003 – Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)
• 2006 – Stanley Biber, American surgeon (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Benny Parsons, American racecar driver and commentator (b. 1941)
• 2009 – Joe Erskine, American boxer and long distance runner (b. 1930)
• 2009 – John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author. (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Glen Bell, American businessman, founder of Taco Bell. (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch keyboardist, conductor and musicologist. (b. 1928)