1922 – Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
1935 – Charlie McGahey, Australian cricketer (MCC tour of Aus 1901-02 cured his TB), dies
1935 – Edwin Flack, Australian athlete, (Olympic gold 800m, 1500m 1896), dies at 61
1941 – Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian and antifascist, murdered at 67
1972 – Georg Rendl, Austriam miner/beekeeper (Satan on Earth), dies at 68
1990 – Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan’s Reef), dies
1995 – Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74
1997 – George Young, Scottish soccer defender (54 caps; Rangers 293 games), dies at 74
2011 – Liana Alexandra, Romanian pianist and composer, dies from a cerebral hemorrhage at 63
2017 – Buddy Greco, American jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House), dies at 90
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 9th January 2023
1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, United States physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education for the blind, dies at 74
1907 – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Queen of Hanover, dies at 88
1941 – Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1962 – Leroy Shield [Shields], American pianist, composer (Laurel and Hardy; Our Gang; Union Pacific Suite), and orchestra leader, dies of cancer at 68
1986 – Lucia Chase, American ballerina and co-founder of American Ballet Theater, dies at 88
2009 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915)
2010 – Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)
2011 – Peter Yates, English film director (Breaking Away, Bullitt), dies at 81
2012 – Ruth Fernandez, Puerto Rican singer and politician, dies from septic shock and pneumonia at 92
2017 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-born sociologist (Modernity and the Holocaust), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 8th January 2023
1696 – Michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75
1711 – Philips van Almonde, Dutch admiral (battle at La Hougue), dies at 66
1964 – Arnoldus JC Krafft, theologist (Atlas of Netherlands Antilles), dies at 71
1975 – Richard Tucker [Reuben Ticker], American tenor (La Gioconda), dies at 61
1981 – Matthew Beard, American actor (Our Gang shorts – “Stymie”). dies of pneumonia after a stroke and fall, at 56
1982 – Reta Shaw, American actress (Ghost and Mrs Muir, Mary Poppins, Picnic), dies of emphysema at 69
1994 – Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswathi, guru of Kanchi, dies at 99
2017 – Buddy Bregman, American orchestra leader and arranger (Eddie Fisher Show; Ella Fitzgerald’s Cole Porter Songbook), dies of Alzheimer’s disease complications at 86
2020 – Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist ‘European father of the internet’ (Internet Protocol), dies at 86
2022 – Viktor Mazin, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold USSR 60kg [5 x WR] 1980), dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 7th January 2023
1598 – Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Tsar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1767 – Thomas Clap, American academic, 1st president of Yale University, dies at 63
1887 – Abraham van Lier, Dutch theater director (Grand Théâtre des Variétés), dies at 73
1891 – (Carl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert, German pianist, conductor, and composer, dies at 79
1953 – Osa Johnson, American adventurer and filmmaker, dies at 58
1982 – Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in a race crash at 41
1994 – Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Cafe Express, Octopus), dies of heart failure at 52
1996 – Robley D. Evans, American nuclear physicist (one of the founders nuclear Medicine), dies at 88
1998 – Richard Hamming, American Mathematician and Computer Scientist (Hamming code), dies of a heat attack at 82
2001 – Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., American librarian and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 6th January 2023
1790 – Johann Trier, German composer, dies at 73
1855 – Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
1950 – Isaiah Bowman, American geographer (co-founder of the Geographical Review), dies at 71
1961 – Regina Ullmann, Swiss poet and writer, dies at 76
1977 – Niall MacGinnis, Irish character actor (Curse of the Demon, Helen of Troy), dies from cancer at 63
1994 – Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies
2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
2005 – Tarquinio Provini, Italian motorcycle road racer (2-time world champion 1957-58), dies at 71
2012 – John Celardo, American comic strip artist (Tarzan), dies at 93
2012 – Louise Annand-MacFarquhar, Scottish painter and filmmaker, dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 5th January 2023
1592 – Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75
1933 – Calvin Coolidge [Silent Cal], 30th US President (Republican: 1923-29), dies of coronary thrombosis at 60
1946 – George “Slim” Summerville, American actor (All Quiet on the Western Front, Keystone Cops), dies of a stroke at 53
1970 – Max Born, German physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954), dies at 87
1970 – Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer and author, dies at 73
2003 – Roy Jenkins, British MP (Labour, Liberal Democrats) and President of the European Commission (1977-81), dies at 82
2012 – Don Carter, American pro bowler (6 x Bowler of the Year; first athlete to earn $1m in single endorsement deal [Ebonite International]), dies from pneumonia and emphysema at 85
2013 – Sybil Michelow, South-African contralto and composer, dies at 87
2014 – Carmen Zapata, American actress (Hagen, Viva Valdez, Man and the City), dies at 86
2022 – Olga Szabó-Orbán, Romanian fencer (World C’ship gold women’s foil individual 1962, team 1969; Olympic silver individual 1956, bronze team 1968, 72), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 4th January 2023
1428 – Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, ‘The Warlike’ (b. 1370)
1612 – Henry L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62
1831 – Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37
1910 – Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies
1920 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (Episodios Nacionales), dies at 76
1990 – Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies
1994 – Michiel P “Michael” Gorsira, Gov of Curacao (1951-67), dies at 80
1996 – Ramon Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor, dies at 83
1999 – Iron Eyes Cody [Espera Oscar de Corti], Italian-American actor (Keep America Beautiful, Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp), dies at 91
2007 – Helen Hill, American independent filmmaker (b. 1970)
Famous Deaths for 3rd January 2023
1437 – Catherine of Valois, Queen of Henry V of England, dies at 35
1907 – Josef Foerster, Czech composer, and music teacher, dies at 73
1914 – Stephane Raoul Pugno, composer, dies at 62
1920 – Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician, dies at 31
1980 – Amos Milburn, American RandB singer and pianist, dies at 52
1986 – Jens Bjerre, Danish composer, dies at 82
1994 – Heather Sears, British actress (b. 1935)
2004 – Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
2008 – Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
2010 – Professor Sir Ian Brownlie, International law specialist
Famous Deaths for 2nd January 2023
1801 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, philosopher, founder of physiognomics, dies at 59
1913 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (discovered the stratosphere), dies at 57
1963 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce), dies at 52
1987 – Jean de Gribaldy, French road cyclist and team director (Frimatic – Viva, Miko, Sem – France Loire), dies at 64
1988 – E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist, dies at 86
1996 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, dies at 80
2013 – Margaret A. Brewer, American soldier and first female general officer in US Marine Corps, dies at 82
2013 – Ned Wertimer, American actor (The Jeffersons), dies from complications from a fall at 89
2019 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain and Tennille – “Love Will Keep Us Together”), dies of kidney failure at 76
2019 – Julia Grant [prev George Roberts], transgender activist featured in “A Change of Sex”, dies at 64
Famous Deaths for 1st January 2023
1748 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 80
1753 – Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, French composer, dies at 55
1881 – Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist, dies at 75
1940 – Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist, dies at 74
2003 – Cyril Shaps, British actor, producer and voice artist (The Pianist), dies at 79
2003 – Joe Foss, American fighter ace, football executive (Medal of Honor-1943; first commissioner American Football League) and politician, dies at 87
2005 – Eugene J. Martin, American painter and artist, dies at 66
2006 – Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne, dies at 78
2013 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, British cricket journalist and broadcaster (President MCC; BBC Radio), dies of cancer at 67
2018 – Robert Mann, American composer and violinist (String Quartet 1952), dies at 97