January 23 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1002 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
  • 1199 – Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
  • 1516 – Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
  • 1548 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
  • 1549 – Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
  • 1567 – Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)
  • 1570 – James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated)
  • 1612 – Edward Fenner, English judge, famous for involvement in prosecution of witchcraft
  • 1622 – William Baffin, English explorer
  • 1744 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
  • 1785 – Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
  • 1789 – Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
  • 1789 – John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
  • 1800 – Edward Rutledge, American statesman (b. 1749)
  • 1803 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
  • 1805 – Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
  • 1806 – William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
  • 1810 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
  • 1812 – Robert Craufurd, British general (b. 1764)
  • 1820 – Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
  • 1833 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
  • 1837 – John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
  • 1866 – Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
  • 1875 – Charles Kingsley English writer (b. 1819)
  • 1883 – Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
  • 1893 – Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
  • 1921 – Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer (b. 1877)
  • 1922 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
  • 1923 – Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
  • 1931 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
  • 1937 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
  • 1938 – Albertson Van Zo Post, American fencer (b. 1866)
  • 1939 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
  • 1943 – Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant (b. 1887)
  • 1944 – Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
  • 1944 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
  • 1956 – Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (b. 1893)
  • 1957 – Willie Edwards, Murder victim/killed by KKK members (b. 1932)
  • 1963 – Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (b. 1908)
  • 1971 – Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
  • 1973 – Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
  • 1973 – Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
  • 1976 – Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
  • 1976 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (b. 1898)
  • 1977 – Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (b. 1903)
  • 1978 – Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
  • 1978 – Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (b. 1946)
  • 1978 – Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
  • 1981 – Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)
  • 1983 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
  • 1984 – Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
  • 1986 – Joseph Beuys, German artist (b. 1921)
  • 1988 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist (b. 1896)
  • 1989 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (b. 1904)
  • 1990 – Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
  • 1991 – Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
  • 1992 – Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b. 1924)
  • 1993 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer (b. 1899)
  • 1994 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (b. 1917)
  • 1994 – Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
  • 1997 – Richard Berry, American composer and musician (b. 1935)
  • 1999 – Joe D'Amato, Italian director (b. 1936)
  • 1999 – Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
  • 1999 – Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
  • 2002 – Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
  • 2002 – Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
  • 2002 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
  • 2003 – Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
  • 2004 – Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
  • 2004 – Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
  • 2005 – Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
  • 2005 – Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
  • 2006 – Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
  • 2007 – Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (b. 1928)
  • 2007 – E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
  • 2007 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
  • 2007 – Tatiana Mamaki, Greek dancer and choreographer (b. 1921)
  • 2009 – Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (b. 1929)
  • 2010 – Kermit Tyler, American air force officer (b. 1913)
  • 2011 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert (b. 1914)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)