Famous Deaths for 7th January 2025

1721 – Rochus Aerts, Flemish sculptor, dies [or 1739]
1730 – Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts (Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection), dies at 66
1770 – Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician, dies at 74
1872 – James Fisk, American financier “Barnum of Wall Street”, dies at 38
1882 – Jim Fisk, American financier and “robber baron” of the Gilded Age known as Big Jim, dies of an abdominal wound a day after being shot twice by business associate Edward Stiles Stokes at 36
1948 – Raoul Auernheimer, Austrian American writer, dies at 71
1972 – John Berryman, American poet (The Dream Songs), dies at 57
1987 – Larry Carr, American pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
1991 – Charlotte Wynters, American stage and screen actress, dies at 91
2005 – Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)

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