January 17 - Deaths

Deaths

• 395 – Theodosius I, Roman Emperor (b. 347)
• 1229 – Albert of Buxhoeveden, German soldier
• 1369 – King Peter I of Cyprus (murdered) (b. 1328)
• 1468 – George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, Albanian leader (b. 1405)
• 1598 – Feodor I of Russia (b. 1557)
• 1617 – Faust Vrančić, Croatian inventor (b. 1551)
• 1654 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
• 1705 – John Ray, English naturalist (b. 1627)
• 1718 – Captain Benjamin Church, Plymouth Colony settler and military leader
• 1737 – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
• 1738 – Jean-François Dandrieu, French composer (b. 1682)
• 1751 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
• 1826 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (b. 1806)
• 1834 – Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
• 1861 – Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
• 1863 – Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
• 1869 – Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813)
• 1874 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Siamese twins (b. 1811)
• 1878 – Sir Edward Creasy, English historian (b. 1812)
• 1884 – Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804)
• 1887 – William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
• 1891 – George Bancroft, U.S. historian (b. 1800)
• 1893 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
• 1903 – Ignaz Wechselmann, Hungarian architect and philanthropist (b. 1828)
• 1908 – Ferdinand IV Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
• 1909 – Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)
• 1911 – Sir Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist (b. 1822)
• 1927 – Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
• 1931 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (b. 1864)
• 1932 – Albert Jacka, VC, Australian soldier (b. 1893)
• 1933 – Ruurd Leegstra, Dutch rower (b. 1877)
• 1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
• 1936 – Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
• 1942 – Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (b. 1884)
• 1947 – Pyotr Krasnov, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1869)
• 1947 – Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, French Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Assamese poet, playwright, film maker (b. 1903)
• 1952 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Blind Alfred Reed, American folk, country, and old-time musician (b. 1880)
• 1960 – Andrew Kennaway Henderson, New Zealand illustrator, cartoonist, and pacifist (b. 1879)
• 1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
• 1963 – Henri Masson, French fencer (b. 1872)
• 1964 – T.H. White, English author (b. 1906)
• 1967 – Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (b. 1884)
• 1970 – Simon Kovar, Russian-American bassoonist (b. 1890)
• 1970 – Billy Stewart, American singer (b. 1937)
• 1972 – Betty Smith, American writer and singer (b. 1896)
• 1973 – Takis Hristoforidis, Greek actor (b. 1914)
• 1977 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
• 1977 – Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 1981 – Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer (b. 1899)
• 1983 – Doodles Weaver, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1984 – George Rigaud, Argentinian actor (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist (b. 1938)
• 1991 – King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Frank Pullen, English businessman and racehorse owner (b. 1915)
• 1993 – Albert Hourani, English historian (b. 1915)
• 1994 – Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918)
• 1994 – Yevgeni Ivanov, Soviet spy involved in the Profumo affair (b. 1926)
• 1996 – Amber Hagerman, American namesake of the Amber Alert system (b. 1986)
• 1996 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
• 1997 – Bert Kelly, Australian politician (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Robert Eads, American transsexual (b. 1945)
• 1999 – Samantha Reid, American girl killed by GHB overdose (b. 1984)
• 2000 – Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
• 2002 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Bishop Karas, Sudanese-born American religious leader (b. 1955)
• 2002 – Queenie Leonard, American actress (b. 1905)
• 2003 – Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Czesław Niemen, Polish musician (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Ray Stark, American stage and film producer (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Noble Willingham, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Charlie Bell, Australian fast food executive (b. 1960)
• 2005 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Albert Schatz, American microbiologist (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Zhao Ziyang, Former Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Bobby Fischer, American chess grandmaster and author (b. 1943)
• 2008 – Ernie Holmes, American football player (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Allan Melvin, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Daisuke Gouri, Japanese voice actor (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Michalis Papakonstantinou, Greek politician and author (b. 1919)
• 2010 – Gaines Adams, American football player (b. 1983)
• 2011 – Don Kirshner, American composer (b. 1934)