January 2 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1512 – Svante Nilsson, regent of Sweden since 1504 (b. 1460)
• 1514 – William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. c. 1460)
• 1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
• 1685 – Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
• 1694 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
• 1726 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
• 1861 – King Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
• 1892 – George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)
• 1893 – John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
• 1904 – James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
• 1913 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 – Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1917 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
• 1920 – Paul Adam, French novelist (b. 1862)
• 1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
• 1934 – Jean de Madre, British polo player (b. 1862)
• 1936 – Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania (b. 1862)
• 1939 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
• 1941 – Mischa Levitzki, Russian-born pianist (b. 1898)
• 1945 – Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (b. 1883)
• 1946 – Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
• 1948 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean poet (b. 1893)
• 1950 – James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
• 1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
• 1959 – Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-born writer and novelist (b. 1880)
• 1960 – Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
• 1960 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 1963 – Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1963 – Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1966 – Edwin Swatek, American backstroke swimmer and water polo player (b. 1885)
• 1971 – E. V. Knox, English poet and satirist (b. 1881)
• 1971 – Willard Maas, American poet and filmmaker (b. 1906)
• 1974 – Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1977 – Erroll Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
• 1983 – Dick Emery, English comedian (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (b. 1920)
• 1986 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1986 – Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (b. 1914)
• 1990 – Evangelos Averoff, Greek politician and author (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician, 17th Governor of Washington (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (b. 1915)
• 1995 – Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1996 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
• 1997 – Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit) (b. 1951)
• 1998 – Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss composer (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
• 2000 – Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., American admiral (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
• 2001 – William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
• 2003 – Eric Jupp, British-born pianist, composer, arranger (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and researcher (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
• 2007 – Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
• 2007 – David Perkins, American geneticist (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Dan Shaver, American racecar driver (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician (b. 1926)
• 2008 – George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Gerry Staley, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Martinus Tels, Dutch physicist and chemical engineer (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Galyani Vadhana, Princess of Thailand (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Inger Christensen, Danish poet (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
• 2010 – David R. Ross, Scottish author and historian (b. 1958)
• 2011 – Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
• 2011 – Szeto Wah, Hong Kong politician and educationalist (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Richard D. Winters, American Army officer (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Ian Bargh, British-born Canadian jazz pianist (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Ioan Drăgan, Romanian footballer (b. 1965)
• 2012 – Anatoly Kolesov, Russian wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Helmut Müller-Brühl, German conductor (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1986)