Famous Deaths for 16th January 2023

1934 – Annie Patterson, Irish organist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 65
1942 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (1911-16), dies at 91
1945 – Dennis Donnini, British rifleman (Victoria Cross), dies in battle at 19
1962 – Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect, dies at 78
1963 – Ike Quebec, American tenor-saxophone player, dies of cancer at 44
1996 – Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903)
1997 – Jim Kensil, NFL president (NY Jets), dies of heart failure at 66
2001 – Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
2002 – Robert Hanbury Brown, British-Australian astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
2022 – Charles McGee, American US Air Force officer and fighter pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen (WWII, Korean War, Vietnam), dies at 102

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