Famous Deaths for 25th January 2022

1139 – Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies
1855 – Dorothy Wordsworth, English poet, diarist and sister of William Wordsworth, dies at 83
1906 – Joseph Wheeler, American Major General (Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee), dies at 70
1907 – RenĂ© Pottier, French racing cyclist (Tour de France 1906), dies at 27
1910 – Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75
1940 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish clergyman and politician (b. 1899)
1973 – Masao Ohba, Japanese boxer (WBA flyweight champion), dies in a car accident at 23
1975 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, Mayor of Ottawa (1951-56), dies at 78
2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
2020 – Gene Corrigan, American lacrosse player, coach and college athletics administrator (President of the NCAA 1995-97), dies at 91

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