January 7 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1285 – King Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
  • 1325 – King Dinis of Portugal (b. 1261)
  • 1400 – Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (b. 1374)
  • 1451 – Count Amadeus VIII of Svoy (b. 1383)
  • 1536 – Catherine of Aragon, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1485)
  • 1566 – Louis de Blois, Flemish mystic (b. 1506)
  • 1619 – Nicholas Hilliard, English painter (b. c.1547)
  • 1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer (b. c.1560)
  • 1655 – Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
  • 1658 – Theophilus Eaton, American colonist (b. 1590)
  • 1694 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (b. c.1618)
  • 1700 – Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
  • 1715 – François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
  • 1758 – Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (b. 1686)
  • 1767 – Thomas Clap, 1st president of Yale University (b. 1703)
  • 1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician (b. 1695)
  • 1783 – William Tans'ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
  • 1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
  • 1812 – Joseph Dennie, American writer (b. 1768)
  • 1830 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (b. 1769)
  • 1830 – John Campbell, Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
  • 1864 – Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
  • 1876 – Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
  • 1878 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)
  • 1892 – Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (b. 1852)
  • 1893 – Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
  • 1904 – Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer and journalist (b. 1836)
  • 1913 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player (b. 1866)
  • 1919 – Henry Ware Eliot American industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1843)
  • 1920 – Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
  • 1927 – Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician (b. 1851)
  • 1932 – André Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line (b. 1877)
  • 1936 – Guy d'Hardelot, French composer, best known for Because (b. 1858)
  • 1943 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
  • 1944 – Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady (b. 1874)
  • 1944 – Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet (b. 1888)
  • 1946 – Adamo Didur, Polish tenor (b. 1874)
  • 1951 – René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
  • 1953 – Osa Johnson, American explorer (b. 1894)
  • 1960 – Dorothea Douglass Chambers (aka Katharine Lambert Chambers), UK tennis player (b. 1878)
  • 1963 – Arthur Moore, Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
  • 1964 – Cyril Davies, English musician (b. 1932)
  • 1966 – Allan Chapman, Scottish politician (b. 1897)
  • 1967 – David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
  • 1967 – Carl Schuricht, German conductor (b. 1880)
  • 1968 – Prof. James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
  • 1968 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930)
  • 1972 – John Berryman, American poet (b. 1914)
  • 1972 – Eftichia Papagianopoulos, Greek lyricist (b. 1893)
  • 1980 – Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (b. 1935)
  • 1981 – Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
  • 1981 – Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
  • 1984 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
  • 1985 – Mary Hardy, Australian radio and television presenter (b. 1931)
  • 1986 – P. D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)
  • 1986 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (b. 1917)
  • 1988 – Michel Auclair, French actor (b. 1922)
  • 1988 – Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
  • 1989 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
  • 1990 – Bronko Nagurski, American football player (b. 1908)
  • 1990 – Horace Stoneham, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
  • 1992 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (The Muppets) (b. 1951)
  • 1995 – Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
  • 1996 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician (b. 1930)
  • 1996 – Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
  • 1998 – Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
  • 1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
  • 2000 – Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963)
  • 2001 – James Carr, American Rhythm & Blues and soul musician (b. 1942)
  • 2002 – Jon Lee, Welsh musician (Feeder) (b. 1968)
  • 2002 – Avery Schreiber, American actor (b. 1935)
  • 2004 – Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
  • 2005 – Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
  • 2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
  • 2006 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1912)
  • 2007 – Bobby Hamilton, NASCAR team owner (b. 1957)
  • 2007 – Magnús Magnússon, Icelandic-born television presenter (b. 1929)
  • 2008 – Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
  • 2009 – Maria Dimitriadi, Greek singer (b. 1950)
  • 2010 – Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)
  • 2011 – Derek Gardner, British Formula 1 car designer (b. 1931)

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    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.
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    On almost the incendiary eve
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