1943 – Agustín Pedro Justo, President of Argentina (1932-38) during the Infamous Decade, dies at 66
1979 – Jack Soo [Goro Suzuki], Japanese-American actor (Flower Drum Song, Barney Miller), dies of esophageal cancer at 61
1991 – Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate, dies at 85
1993 – Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50
1996 – Ike Isaacs, Burmese-English jazz guitarist, dies at 76
1997 – Helen Foster Snow, American journalist (reported from China in the 1930s), dies at 89
1997 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor, producer and director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie), dies at 89
2000 – Phil Carrick, English cricketer (Yorkshire County Cricket Club), dies at 47
2010 – Miep Gies, Dutch Humanitarian, discoverer of Anne Frank’s diary (b. 1909)
2011 – David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), dies at 74
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 10th January 2022
314 – Pope St. Miltiades, Bishop of Rome (311-314)
1777 – Spranger Barry, Irish Shakespearean actor, dies at 57
1780 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82
1939 – Jameson Thomas, British actor (Piccadilly, Farmer’s Wife), dies from tuberculosis at 50
1954 – Fred Raymond, Austrian composer, dies at 53
1966 – Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom), dies at 69
1986 – Joseph Kraft, American columnist, dies at 61
1989 – Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
2008 – Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (b. 1967)
2017 – Clare Hollingworth, British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII, dies at 105
Famous Deaths for 9th January 2022
1283 – Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China and scholar-general in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, executed at 46
1653 – John Haynes, 5th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 58
1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
1828 – Pieter ‘t Hoen, Dutch journalist and patriot (Neder-Rhijn), dies at 83
1879 – Don Joaquin BF Espartero, fieldmarshall/viceroy of Navarra, dies at 86
1958 – Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes), dies at 77
1966 – Haro Levoni Step’anian, Armenian composer, dies at 68
1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent, Grand Illusion), dies at 77
1994 – Silas Hogan, American blues singer and guitarist, dies at 82
2006 – Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
Famous Deaths for 8th January 2022
1100 – Antipope Clement III, Italian archbishop, dies at about 71
1891 – Fredrik Pacius, composer, dies at 81
1950 – Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66
1952 – Antonia Maury, discoverer (supergiant, giant and dwarf stars), dies
1989 – Kenneth McMillan, American actor (Malone, Concrete Beat), dies of liver disease at 56
1992 – Johnny Meijer, Dutch accordionist known as the King of Accordions (Body and Soul), dies at 79
1995 – Carlos Monzon [El Macho], Argentine medium weight boxing champ (1970-77), dies at 52
2000 – Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
2015 – Virginia “Patsy” Garrett, American singer and actress (Nanny and the Professor, Fred Waring’s Pleasure Time), dies at 93
2020 – Edd Byrnes, American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 7th January 2022
1285 – Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples, brother of King Louis IX, dies at 58
1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer, dies at about 64
1783 – William Tans’ur, English hymnist (b. 1700)
1963 – Arthur Edward Moore, Australian politician (Premier of Queensland 1929-32), dies at 86
1968 – James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
1972 – John Berryman, American poet (The Dream Songs), dies at 57
1987 – Larry Carr, American pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
1994 – Lewis Boddington, Welsh aerospace Engineer, dies at 85
2010 – Willie Mitchell, American soul singer (b. 1928)
2020 – Neil Peart, Canadian rock drummer and lyricist (Rush – “Limelight”; “Peaceable Kingdom”) dies from glioblastoma (brain cancer) at 67
Famous Deaths for 6th January 2022
1646 – Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72
1847 – Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music, dies at 79
1852 – Louis Braille, French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for the blind, dies of tuberculosis at 43
1935 – George P Baker, American educator and playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68
1939 – Albert Ward, cricketer (England batsman in 7 Tests 1893-95), dies
1945 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (b. 1863)
1950 – Isaiah Bowman, geographer/co-founder (Geographical Review), dies at 71
1967 – Johnny Keane, American baseball manager (World Series 1964 St. Louis Cardinals; NY Yankees), dies of a heart attack at 55
1985 – Robert W. Welch Jr., American businessman who founded the conservative John Birch Society, dies at 85
1992 – Elaine McKenna, Australian actress (Peg Martin-Cell Block H), dies
Famous Deaths for 5th January 2022
1286 – Zhenjin, Crown Prince of the Mongol Empire, son of Kublai Khan and father of his successor Temür, dies at about 43
1740 – Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
1922 – Ernest Shackleton, British-Irish polar explorer (Endurance, Antarctica), dies of a heart attack at 47
1941 – Amy Johnson, British pilot who was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia, dies during a ferry flight at 37
1972 – Gerald Kelly, British painter, dies at 92
1991 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavia-Serbian poet (Heaven is a Side Issue), dies at 68
1994 – Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist, dies at 39
1994 – Tip O’Neill, American politician and 47th speaker of the house (D-Ma: 1977-86), dies of cancer at 81
1996 – Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician, dies at 86
2018 – Bruce Hood, Canadian National Hockey League referee (1965-84), and author (Calling The Shots), dies of prostate cancer at 81
Famous Deaths for 4th January 2022
1903 – W H M “Dicky” Richards, cricketer (score 4 and 0 in Test for S Af), dies
1924 – Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist, composer (b. 1852)
1926 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen consort of the Kingdom of Italy by marriage to Umberto I (1878-1900), dies at 74
1933 – Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch evangelist (Vredebond), dies at 87
1944 – Henri “Hans” Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder
1974 – Karel Janeček, Czech composer, dies at 70
1991 – Poon Lim, Chinese sailor who survived 133 days adrift at sea, dies at 72
1992 – Earl Colbert, entertainer, dies
2007 – Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
2015 – Barbara Tizard, British educator and author, dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 3rd January 2022
236 – St Anterus, Catholic Pope (235-6) dies in office and buried in Rome
1960 – Victor Sjöström, Swedish director (Wind, Under the Red Robe), dies at 80
1965 – Julius Tannen, comedian, dies at 84
1967 – Mary Garden, opera star, dies at 92
1970 – Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)
1997 – Roger Goeb, American composer, dies at 82
2004 – Des Corcoran, Premier of South Australia (b. 1928)
2009 – Olga San Juan, American actress, dancer and comedian (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus), dies at 81
2012 – Wylie Walker Vale, American endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone, dies at 70
2014 – Saul Zaentz, American record company executive (Fantasy), and film producer (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; Amadeus; The Unbearable Lightness Of Being; The English Patient), dies of Alzheimer’s disease complications at 92
Famous Deaths for 2nd January 2022
17 – Ovid, Roman poet (Metamorphoses), dies at ~59
1789 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer of Schauensee, Swiss composer and organist, dies at 68
1911 – Kanno Sugako, Japanese anarcho-feminist, hanged for her role in the plot to assassinate Emperor Meiji at 29
1936 – Sir Francis Newdegate, English politician (Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia), dies at 73
1950 – James Dooley, Irish-Australian Premier of New South Wales, dies at 72
1955 – Jose Antonio Remon, President of Panama (1952-55), assassinated at 46
1971 – Lloyd Hall, African-American chemist and pioneer in food chemistry (science of food preservation), dies at 76
1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (17th Governor of Washington) and chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), dies at 79
2012 – Ivan Calin, Moldavian President and Prime Minister 1980-1990, dies at 76
2019 – “Mean” Gene Okerlund, American pro wrestling interviewer, announcer and television host (WWF, WCW), dies of kidney failure at 76