1540 – Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies
1851 – John James Audubon, American ornithologist and painter (The Birds Of America), dies at 65
1851 – Karl Moser, German composer, dies at 77
1857 – Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72
1942 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
1978 – Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87
1994 – Claude Akins, American character actor (B. J. and the Bear, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Movin’ On), dies of cancer at 67
2004 – Jack Paar, American comedian and TV host of the Jack Paar Show and The Tonight Show (1957-62), dies at 85
2010 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933)
2015 – Charles Hard Townes, American Physicist and inventor (Nobel Prize 1964 for mazer-lazer principle), dies at 99
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 26th January 2021
1706 – Guillaume Poitevin, composer, dies at 59
1795 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 5th son of Johann Sebastian Bach, dies at 62
1885 – Charles George Gordon, British Governor-General of Sudan, executed at 51
1967 – Kenneth Thomson, American character actor (Broadway Melody, Little Giant), dies of emphysema at 68
1977 – Margaret Hayes, American actress (Blackboard Jungle, Robert Montgomery Presents), dies from cancer and hepatitis at 60
1992 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80
1997 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
1997 – Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/the Rhine, dies at 83
1997 – Sarah Lucas, theatre administrator, dies at 53
2012 – Dimitra Arliss [Arlys], American actress (Rich Man Poor Man II, The Sting), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 25th January 2021
1139 – Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies
1366 – Henry Suso, German mystic
1907 – René Pottier, French racing cyclist (Tour de France 1906), dies at 27
1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1990 – Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies
1992 – Vernon William Reed Sr, singer, dies after a long illness at 73
1992 – Mahmoud Riad, Secretary-General of Arab League (1972-79), dies
1995 – John Smith, American actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men), dies at 63
1997 – Seldon Powell, American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist, dies at 68
2005 – Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean writer and poet (b. 1907)
Famous Deaths for 24th January 2021
817 – Stefanus IV, Pope (816-17), dies
1473 – Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies
1805 – Giacomo Conti, Italian composer, dies at 50
1864 – Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer, dies at 54
1924 – Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, dies at 29
1980 – Lil Dagover, Dutch-born German actress (Spiders), dies at 92
1995 – Ian Prestt, English ornithologist, dies at 65
1997 – Callum Alexander MacDonald, Scottish historian, dies of cancer at 49
2007 – Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
2011 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director, dies at 61
Famous Deaths for 23rd January 2021
1812 – Robert Craufurd, British general, dies at 47
1875 – Charles Kingsley [Parson Lot], English vicar and historian (Westward Ho!), dies at 55
1944 – Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
1957 – Willie Edwards, US African American, murdered by KKK at 25
1994 – Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow), dies of cancer at 44
1994 – Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76
1997 – Laura “Dinky” Patterson, dies bungee jumping at Super Bowl rehearsal at 43
1997 – Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer, dies at 68
1997 – Charles Craig, English opera singer, dies at 77
2019 – Diana Athill, English writer and editor (Stet), dies at 101
Famous Deaths for 22nd January 2021
1581 – Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman, soldier and politician, dies at 52
1700 – Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, dies at 39
1798 – Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66
1942 – Xiao Hong, Chinese writer (The Field of Life and Death). dies at 30
1945 – Alfred Wolfenstein, German writer, dies at 61
1980 – Iris Meredith [Shunn], American actress (Son of Davy Crockett, The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen), dies at 64
1994 – Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71
1997 – Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
2008 – Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)
2017 – Jaki Liebesit, German rocker (Can), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 21st January 2021
1731 – Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
1774 – Mustafa III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1717). Reigns 1757 to 1774. Dies at 56
1959 – Cecil B. DeMille, American filmmaker (The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah), dies of heart failure at 77
1981 – Allyn Joslyn, American actor (They Won’t Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79
1996 – René Marc Jalbert, sergeant-at-Arms at the National Assembly of Quebec (b. 1921)
2011 – Dennis Oppenheim, American conceptual artist (b.1938)
2012 – Roy John Britten, American molecular biologist, dies at 92
2012 – Jonathan Idema, American torturer, kidnapper and con-artist, dies from Aids complications at 55
2013 – Michael Winner, English film director and producer (Death Wish), dies at 77
2017 – Maggie Roche, Irish-American singer-songwriter (Roches), dies of cancer at 65
Famous Deaths for 20th January 2021
250 – Fabianus, Pope (236-50)/saint, dies
1837 – John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs, Soane Museum), dies at 84
1973 – Amilcar Cabral, Bissau-Guinean nationalist leader, fought for Guinea Bissau independence, murdered at 51
1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer, dies at 49
1993 – Audrey Hepburn, British actress (Roman Holiday), dies of colon cancer at 63
1996 – Ellis Hillman, politician, dies at 68
1998 – Zevulun Hammer, Israeli politician, minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (1996-98), dies at 61
2009 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholic Church (b. 1920)
2009 – David Newman, American jazz musician, nicknamed “Fathead” (b. 1933)
2019 – Muriel Pavlow, British actress (Murder, She Said, Reach for the Sky), dies at 97
Famous Deaths for 19th January 2021
1669 – Leo Allatios, Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about 82
1747 – Johann Bode, “discoverer” of Bode’s Law, dies
1757 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1674)
1865 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
1874 – August Heinrich Hoffmann, German writer, dies at 75
1989 – Norma Varden, actress (Loose in London), dies
1991 – Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87
2007 – Scott “Bam Bam” Bigelow, American professional wrestler, dies of a drug overdose at 45
2009 – José Torres, Puerto Rican boxer (world light-heavyweight champion), dies of a heart attack at 72
2014 – Bert Williams, English footballer (Wolverhampton, 30 caps), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 18th January 2021
474 – Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 401)
1769 – Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan
1919 – Prince John of the United Kingdom, youngest son of English king George V, dies at 13
1967 – Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84
1967 – Albert Conti, Austrian actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion), dies at 79
1978 – Walter H. Thompson, English Scotland Yard detective, bodyguard of Winston Churchill (b. 1890)
1985 – Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Muslim leader, hanged at 76
1992 – Tom Elios, entertainer, dies
1993 – Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906)
2016 – Michel Tournier, French writer (Friday, or, The Other Island), dies at 91