Famous Deaths for 15th January 2023

1597 – Juan de Herrera, Spanish Renaissance architect and mathematician (El Escorial, Vallododid Cathedral), dies (b. c. 1530)
1904 – Eduard Lassen, Belgian-Danish composer, dies at 73
1919 – Karl Liebknecht, German Marxist revolutionary (Sparta Party), murdered at 47
1926 – Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 42
1934 – Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
1964 – Harry Sunderland, Australian rugby league administrator (manager 1929–30 Kangaroo tour of GB; Queensland RFL secretary 1913-22; inspired establishment RL in France), dies at 74
1964 – George Duncan, Scottish golfer, course designer (British Open 1920), dies at 80
2001 – Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)
2018 – Cyrille Regis, English former footballer, dies of a heart attack at 59
2022 – Ed Cheff, American College Baseball HOF coach (16 × NAIA World Series; Lewis–Clark State College 1977-2010), dies at 78

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