January 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 814 – Charlemagne (b. 742)
• 1061 – Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
• 1271 – Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
• 1443 – Robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France
• 1547 – King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
• 1613 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
• 1621 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
• 1672 – Pierre Séguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
• 1681 – Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
• 1687 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
• 1697 – John Fenwick, English conspirator
• 1754 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (b. 1684)
• 1832 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
• 1859 – Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
• 1864 – Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist (b. 1799)
• 1903 – Augusta Holmès, French composer (b. 1847)
• 1912 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
• 1915 – Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (b. 1846)
• 1918 – John McCrae, Canadian poet (b. 1872)
• 1930 – Ema Destinnová, Czech opera singer (b. 1878)
• 1935 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
• 1937 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and shooter (b. 1862)
• 1938 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (b. 1909)
• 1939 – William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1865)
• 1942 – Edward Siegler, American gymnast (b. 1881)
• 1947 – Reynaldo Hahn, French composer (b. 1875)
• 1948 – Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
• 1948 – Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
• 1948 – Arthur Liebehenschel, Commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1901)
• 1949 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
• 1950 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Marshal and President of Finland (b. 1867)
• 1953 – Derek Bentley, British criminal (b. 1933)
• 1953 – James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
• 1960 – Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891)
• 1963 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
• 1965 – Maxime Weygand, French soldier (b. 1867)
• 1967 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
• 1973 – John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
• 1975 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
• 1976 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter (b. 1924)
• 1979 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (b. 1901)
• 1983 – Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
• 1983 – Billy Fury, British singer (b. 1940)
• 1986 – Gregory Jarvis – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1944)
• 1986 – Christa McAuliffe – American teacher, member of the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1948)
• 1986 – Ronald McNair – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1950)
• 1986 – Ellison Onizuka – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1946)
• 1986 – Judith Resnik – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1949)
• 1986 – Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee – commander of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1939)
• 1986 – Michael J. Smith – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (b. 1945)
• 1988 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist (b. 1911)
• 1989 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Tibetan religious figure (b. 1938)
• 1990 – Puma Jones, American singer (Black Uhuru) (b. 1953)
• 1994 – Hal Smith, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Laureate (b. 1940)
• 1996 – Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
• 1996 – Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Torgny Torgnysson Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 2001 – Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 2002 – Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)
• 2002 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (b. 1946)
• 2003 – Mieke Pullen, Dutch long-distance runner (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy officer (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Don Cholito, Puerto Rican radio host (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Elroy Hirsch, American football player (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Mel Pritchard, British Musician (Barclay James Harvest) (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Don Stansauk, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
• 2004 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Jim Capaldi, English singer and songwriter (Traffic) (b. 1944)
• 2005 – Karen Lancaume, French actress (b. 1973)
• 2005 – Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Ronnie Paris, child abuse victim (b. 2001)
• 2006 – Yitzchak Kaduri, rabbi
• 2006 – Henry McGee, English comedian (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss road racing cyclist (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Father Robert Drinan, Roman Catholic priest and American politician (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
• 2007 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer of popular music (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
• 2008 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Ginty Vrede, Dutch kickboxer (b. 1985)
• 2009 – Billy Powell, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)