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January 1, 2005 Shirley Chisholm, American Politician January 1, 2005 Bob Matsui, American Politician January 1, 2002 Jack Haldeman, science fiction writer, Perry's Planet, dies at 60 January 1, 2002 Julia Phillips, producer, The Sting, dies at 57 January 1, 2001 Ray Walston, actor, TV's My Favorite Martian, dies at 86 January 1, 2000 Marc Davis, Disney cartoonist, designed Disney's Pirates of the Carribean ride, dies at 86 January 1, 2000 Victor Serebriakoff, genius, designed IQ tests, dies at 86 January 1, 2000 Steven Runciman, British Historian January 1, 1999 Theodore Hall, American Criminal January 1, 1998 Helen Wills Moody Roark, tennis ace (31 Grand Slams), dies at 92 January 1, 1997 Graham Kersey, cricket wicket keeper, dies in car crash January 1, 1997 Joan Rice, actress, Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up, dies at 66 January 1, 1997 John Burgess, rugby administrator, dies at 71 January 1, 1997 Townes Van Zandt, singer and songwriter, dies at 52 January 1, 1996 Arleigh Albert Burke, British Admiral, dies at 94 January 1, 1996 Arthur Rudolph, rocket Engineer, dies at 89 January 1, 1996 Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic, dies at 55 January 1, 1996 Arleigh Burke, Soldier January 1, 1995 Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92 January 1, 1995 Frederick West, Engl contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53 January 1, 1995 Jess Stacy, U.S. jazz pianist (Great Gatsby), dies at 90 January 1, 1995 Ted Hawkins, U.S. blues singer (Watch Your Step), dies at 58 January 1, 1994 Cesar Romero, U.S. actor (Joker-Batman), dies at 86 January 1, 1994 Werner Schwab, Austrian playwright (Female Presidents), dies at 35 January 1, 1993 June Clayworth, actress (Bodyguard, Criminal Court), dies of lymphoma January 1, 1993 Phyllis Hill, actress (Singing in the Dark), dies of lung cancer at 72 January 1, 1992 Constantin Poustochkine, jazz critic, dies January 1, 1992 Corky Geil, dancer, dies in Long Beach, California at 64Okla January 1, 1992 Ginette Leclerc, actress (Baker's Wife), dies at 79 January 1, 1992 Grace Hopper, computer scientist, dies at 85 January 1, 1992 Hette G Abma, vicar/Dutch MP (SGP), dies January 1, 1992 Mike Frankovich, U.S. producer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner), dies January 1, 1991 Charles B Timmer, Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83 January 1, 1991 Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81 January 1, 1990 Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82 January 1, 1990 Gerhard Schroder, West German minister of Defense, dies at 79 January 1, 1990 Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies January 1, 1990 John S. Bell, Irish Physicist January 1, 1988 Leo Steiner, New York Carnegie Deli's owner, dies January 1, 1987 Gustav Knuth, actor (Heidi, Rats), dies at 85 January 1, 1986 David Cecil, English Writer January 1, 1984 Walt Alston, American Athlete January 1, 1982 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans), dies at 83 January 1, 1982 Victor Buono, actor (Mr Schubert-Man from Atlantis), dies at 43 January 1, 1982 Vladimir K Zworykin, Russ/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies January 1, 1980 Frank Clifford Wykoff, sprinter (Olympic-gold-28, 32, 36), dies at 70 January 1, 1980 Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88 January 1, 1979 Dorothy Arzner, American Director January 1, 1975 Arthur Pierson, actor and director (Hat Check Girl), dies at 73 January 1, 1973 David Ben Gurion, Israeli Statesman January 1, 1972 Jane Morgan, actress (Mrs Margaret Davis-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 91 January 1, 1972 Kenneth Patchen, U.S. poet and writer (Cloth of Tempest), dies at 60 January 1, 1972 Maurice A Chevalier, French actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at 83 January 1, 1972 Maurice Chevalier, French Actor January 1, 1971 Richard L. Evans, American Clergyman January 1, 1969 Barton Maclane, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 68 January 1, 1969 Ian Fleming, writer (James Bond), dies at 80 January 1, 1967 Moon Mullican, rocker, dies at 58 January 1, 1966 Vincent Auriol, President of France (1947-53), dies at 82 January 1, 1965 Gertrude Michael, actress (Caged, Cleopatra), dies at 53 January 1, 1965 Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer, dies at 66 January 1, 1964 Otto Emanuel Olsson, composer, dies at 84 January 1, 1964 Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Comedia, Anastasia), dies at about 86 January 1, 1962 Diego Martinez Barrio, Spanish president (1939), dies at 76 January 1, 1961 Dashiell Hammett, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66 January 1, 1960 Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at 48 January 1, 1958 David Broekman, musican (Think Fast), dies at 55 January 1, 1958 Edward Weston, American Photographer January 1, 1957 Ruth Draper, U.S. elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72 January 1, 1953 Hank Williams, country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29 January 1, 1953 Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer and conductor (Casanova), dies at 68 January 1, 1949 Malcolm Campbell, English cyclist (world speed-record), dies at 63 January 1, 1948 Hermann K J Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Liebesmesse), dies at 66 January 1, 1948 Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer, dies at 73 January 1, 1947 Godfrey Harold Hardy, British Mathematician January 1, 1945 Vit Nejedly, composer, dies at 33 January 1, 1944 C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies January 1, 1942 Jaroslav Jezek, composer, dies at 35 January 1, 1934 Jakob Wassermann, writer, dies at 60 January 1, 1932 C. P. Scott, British Journalist January 1, 1923 Willie Keeler, American Athlete January 1, 1922 Thomas Nelson Page, American Writer January 1, 1920 Paul Adam, French writer (L'enfant d'Austerlitz), dies at 57 January 1, 1919 William W. Campbell, Canadian poet (Ian of the Orcades), dies at 60 January 1, 1907 Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58 January 1, 1906 Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51 January 1, 1901 Ignatius Donnelly, U.S. attorney/lt-governor (Minnesota), dies at 69 January 1, 1887 Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66 January 1, 1876 James Lick, American Celebrity January 1, 1867 John Strachan, Canadian Clergyman January 1, 1850 Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist, dies at 76 January 1, 1818 Fedele Fenaroli, composer, dies at 87 January 1, 1818 Joshua Barney, American Soldier January 1, 1817 Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73 January 1, 1816 Francois Alexander Sallantin, composer, dies at 60 January 1, 1800 Louis J M Daubenton, France, zoologist, dies at 83 January 1, 1793 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter, dies at 80 January 1, 1789 Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer, dies at 65 January 1, 1787 Arthur Middleton, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 44 January 1, 1784 Patrice F earl de Neny, South Netherlands Secret Council chairman, dies at 67 January 1, 1783 Jacobus Enschede, Haarlems printer, dies at 39 January 1, 1782 Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 January 1, 1780 Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer, dies at 66 January 1, 1777 Emanuele Barbella, composer, dies at 58 January 1, 1768 Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer, dies at 73 January 1, 1766 Frans E Jacobus III, Old Pretender, king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies January 1, 1766 James III Edward, Old Pretender/king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies at 77 January 1, 1758 Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26 January 1, 1753 Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55 January 1, 1730 Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82 January 1, 1716 William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75 January 1, 1701 Pietro Sanmartini, composer, dies at 64 January 1, 1661 Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64 January 1, 1630 Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies January 1, 1626 Cornelis Pieterse Hoft, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at 68 January 1, 1617 Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies January 1, 1560 Guillaume du Bellay, Sieur de Langey, French soldier, dies January 1, 1559 Christian III, king of Denmark/Norway (1534-59), dies January 1, 1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (Canada), dies at 65 January 1, 1517 Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies January 1, 1515 Louis XII, "the Justified" king of France (1498-1515), dies at 52 January 1, 1499 Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher January 1, 1387 Karel de Boze, king of Navarra (1349-87), dies January 1, 962 Boudouin III, count of Flanders, dies January 1, 898 Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39 January 1, 404 Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered January 1, 379 Basilius the Great, of Caesarea, saint (Moralia), dies |