Deaths on 1 January
2000s
David Lodge (author)
2025
English writer (1935β2025)
Chad Morgan
2025
Australian musician (1933β2025)
Wayne Osmond
2025
American musician (1951β2025)
Lynja
2024
American online celebrity chef (1956β2024)
Earth, Wind & Fire
2023
American musical group
Gary Burgess
2022
British broadcaster and journalist (1975β2022)
Dan Reeves
2022
American football player and coach (1944β2022)
Carlos do Carmo
2021
Portuguese fado singer (1939β2021)
Mark Eden
2021
English actor (1928β2021)
Elmira Minita Gordon
2021
Governor-General of Belize from 1981 to 1993
Floyd Little
2021
American football player (1942β2021)
Lexii Alijai
2020
American rapper (1998β2020)
Alexander Frater
2020
British-Australian journalist and travel writer (1937β2020)
Don Larsen
2020
American baseball player (1929β2020)
Barry McDonald (rugby union)
2020
Australian rugby union player (1940β2020)
David Stern
2020
American businessman, lawyer, and NBA commissioner (1942β2020)
Paul Neville (politician)
2019
Australian politician (1940β2019)
Pegi Young
2019
American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, philanthropist
George (snail)
2019
Last of the species Achatinella apexfulva
Robert Mann
2018
American musician, composer and conductor (1920β2018)
Jon Paul Steuer
2018
American actor (1984β2018)
Tony Atkinson
2017
British economist (1944β2017)
Yvon Dupuis
2017
Canadian politician (1926β2017)
Fazu Aliyeva
2016
Russian poet (born 1932)
Dale Bumpers
2016
American politician (1925β2016)
Vilmos Zsigmond
2016
Hungarian-American cinematographer
Ulrich Beck
2015
German sociologist (1944β2015)
Mario Cuomo
2015
Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994
Donna Douglas
2015
American actress and singer (1932β2015)
Omar Karami
2015
Former Prime Minister of Lebanon
Boris Morukov
2015
Russian cosmonaut (1950β2015)
William Lloyd Standish
2015
American judge (1930β2015)
Higashifushimi Kunihide
2014
Uncle of Emperor Akihito
William Mgimwa
2014
Tanzanian politician
Juanita Moore
2014
American film, TV, and stage actress (1914β2014)
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
2013
English cricketer, broadcaster and journalist
Patti Page
2013
American country-pop singer (1927β2013)
Bob Anderson (fencer)
2012
English actor and fencer (1922β2012)
Kiro Gligorov
2012
1st president of Macedonia
Nay Win Maung
2012
Burmese democracy activist
Tommy Mont
2012
American football coach (1922β2012)
Lhasa de Sela
2010
North American singer-songwriter
Claiborne Pell
2009
American politician (1918β2009)
Helen Suzman
2009
South African anti-apartheid activist and Member of the House of Assembly
Pratap Chandra Chunder
2008
Indian politician (1919β2008)
Roland Levinsky
2007
Tillie Olsen
2007
American writer (1912β2007)
Darrent Williams
2007
American football player (1982β2007)
Harry Magdoff
2006
American economist (1913β2006)
Shirley Chisholm
2005
American politician (1924β2005)
Ngo Van
2005
Vietnamese revolutionary
Joe Foss
2003
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient and American politician
Julia Phillips
2002
American film producer
Ray Walston
2001
American actor (1914β2001)
1900s
Helen Wills
1998
American tennis player (1905β1998)
Townes Van Zandt
1997
American singer-songwriter (1944β1997)
Arleigh Burke
1996
US Navy admiral (1901β1996)
Arthur Rudolph
1996
German rocket engineer (1906β1996)
Eugene Wigner
1995
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902β1995)
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt
1994
New Zealand physician
Cesar Romero
1994
American actor (1907β1994)
E. A. Thompson
1994
Irish-born British historian (1914β1994)
Grace Hopper
1992
U.S. naval officer and computer scientist (1906β1992)
Clementine Hunter
1988
American painter
Alexis Korner
1984
British blues musician and radio broadcaster (1928β1984)
JoaquΓn RodrΓguez Ortega
1984
Spanish bullfighter (1903β1984)
Victor Buono
1982
American actor and comic (1938β1982)
Hephzibah Menuhin
1981
American-Australian pianist and writer
Pietro Nenni
1980
Italian politician (1891β1980)
Carle Hessay
1978
German-Canadian painter (1911β1978)
Roland Hayes
1977
African American lyric tenor and composer
Maurice Chevalier
1972
French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888β1972)
Amphilochius of Pochayiv
1971
Ukrainian Orthodox saint
Barton MacLane
1969
Actor, playwright, screenwriter (1902β1969)
Vincent Auriol
1966
President of France from 1947 to 1954
Alastair Denniston
1961
Scottish cryptographer (1881β1961)
Margaret Sullavan
1960
American actress (1909β1960)
Edward Weston
1958
American photographer (1886β1958)
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
1955
Indian chemist
Arthur C. Parker
1955
Native American museum director, archaeologist, and historian
Duff Cooper
1954
British Conservative politician (1890β1954)
Leonard Bacon (poet)
1954
American poet
Hank Williams
1953
American singer, songwriter, and musician (1923β1953)
Edwin Lutyens
1944
English architect (1869β1944)
Charles Turner (Australian cricketer)
1944
Australian cricketer
JenΕ RejtΕ
1943
Hungarian writer (1905β1943)
Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao
1940
Indian writer
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
1937
GaudΔ«ya Vaisnava ΔcΔrya (1874β1937)
Martinus Beijerinck
1931
Dutch microbiologist (1851β1931)
Mustafa Necati
1929
Turkish statesman
Loie Fuller
1928
American dancer (1862β1928)
Willie Keeler
1923
American baseball player (1872β1923)
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
1921
Chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917
William Wilfred Campbell
1918
Canadian poet (1850β1918)
Hugh Nelson (Australian politician)
1906
Australian politician (1833β1906)
Ignatius L. Donnelly
1901
American politician and fringe theorist (1831β1901)
1800s
Alfred Ely Beach
1896
American inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer (1826β1896)
Heinrich Hertz
1894
German physicist (1857β1894)
Roswell B. Mason
1892
Mayor of Chicago (1805β1892)
Louis-Auguste Blanqui
1881
French socialist revolutionary (1805β1881)
Mikhail Ostrogradsky
1862
Ukrainian-Russian mathematician
Gregory Blaxland
1853
18/19th-century English-Australian farmer and explorer
John Torrington
1846
British explorer (1825β1846)
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
1817
German chemist (1743β1817)
Before 1800
Francesco Guardi
1793
Italian painter (1712β1793)
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
1789
English lawyer and politician (1716β1789)
Johann Christian Bach
1782
German composer (1735β1782)
Johann Ludwig Krebs
1780
German Baroque musician and composer (1713β1780)
James Francis Edward Stuart
1766
Jacobite pretender (1688β1766)
Johann Bernoulli
1748
Swiss mathematician (1667β1748)
William Wycherley
1716
English playwright (1641β1716)
Filippo Baldinucci
1697
Italian art historian and biographer (1625β1696)
Hendrick Goltzius
1617
German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter (1558β1617)
Joachim du Bellay
1560
French poet and critic (died 1560)
Christian III of Denmark
1559
King of Denmark from 1534 to 1559
Louis XII
1515
King of France from 1498 to 1515
Charles, Count of AngoulΓͺme
1496
Count of AngoulΓͺme from 1467 to 1496
Charles II of Navarre
1387
King of Navarre from 1349 to 1387
Haakon III
1204
King of Norway from 1202 to 1204
Henry of Marcy
1189
Catholic cardinal bishop and abbot
William of Volpiano
1031
Ramiro II of LeΓ³n
951
King of LeΓ³n from 931 to 951
Odo of France
898
King of West Francia from 888 to 898
AD 404
404
Calendar year
AD 138
138
Calendar year