Deaths on 1 January
2000s
David Lodge (author)
2025
English writer (1935–2025)
Chad Morgan
2025
Australian musician (1933–2025)
Wayne Osmond
2025
American musician (1951–2025)
Lynja
2024
American online celebrity chef (1956–2024)
Earth, Wind & Fire
2023
American musical group
Gary Burgess
2022
British broadcaster and journalist (1975–2022)
Dan Reeves
2022
American football player and coach (1944–2022)
Carlos do Carmo
2021
Portuguese fado singer (1939–2021)
Mark Eden
2021
English actor (1928–2021)
Elmira Minita Gordon
2021
Governor-General of Belize from 1981 to 1993
Floyd Little
2021
American football player (1942–2021)
Lexii Alijai
2020
American rapper (1998–2020)
Alexander Frater
2020
British-Australian journalist and travel writer (1937–2020)
Don Larsen
2020
American baseball player (1929–2020)
Barry McDonald (rugby union)
2020
Australian rugby union player (1940–2020)
David Stern
2020
American businessman, lawyer, and NBA commissioner (1942–2020)
Paul Neville (politician)
2019
Australian politician (1940–2019)
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 (1920–2018)
Jon Paul Steuer
2018
American actor (1984–2018)
Tony Atkinson
2017
British economist (1944–2017)
Yvon Dupuis
2017
Canadian politician (1926–2017)
Fazu Aliyeva
2016
Russian poet (born 1932)
Dale Bumpers
2016
American politician (1925–2016)
Vilmos Zsigmond
2016
Hungarian-American cinematographer
Ulrich Beck
2015
German sociologist (1944–2015)
Mario Cuomo
2015
Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994
Donna Douglas
2015
American actress and singer (1932–2015)
Omar Karami
2015
Former Prime Minister of Lebanon
Boris Morukov
2015
Russian cosmonaut (1950–2015)
William Lloyd Standish
2015
American judge (1930–2015)
Higashifushimi Kunihide
2014
Uncle of Emperor Akihito
William Mgimwa
2014
Tanzanian politician
Juanita Moore
2014
American film, TV, and stage actress (1914–2014)
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
2013
English cricketer, broadcaster and journalist
Patti Page
2013
American country-pop singer (1927–2013)
Bob Anderson (fencer)
2012
English actor and fencer (1922–2012)
Kiro Gligorov
2012
1st president of Macedonia
Nay Win Maung
2012
Burmese democracy activist
Tommy Mont
2012
American football coach (1922–2012)
Lhasa de Sela
2010
North American singer-songwriter
Claiborne Pell
2009
American politician (1918–2009)
Helen Suzman
2009
South African anti-apartheid activist and Member of the House of Assembly
Pratap Chandra Chunder
2008
Indian politician (1919–2008)
Roland Levinsky
2007
Tillie Olsen
2007
American writer (1912–2007)
Darrent Williams
2007
American football player (1982–2007)
Harry Magdoff
2006
American economist (1913–2006)
Shirley Chisholm
2005
American politician (1924–2005)
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 (1914–2001)
1900s
Helen Wills
1998
American tennis player (1905–1998)
Townes Van Zandt
1997
American singer-songwriter (1944–1997)
Arleigh Burke
1996
US Navy admiral (1901–1996)
Arthur Rudolph
1996
German rocket engineer (1906–1996)
Eugene Wigner
1995
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt
1994
New Zealand physician
Cesar Romero
1994
American actor (1907–1994)
E. A. Thompson
1994
Irish-born British historian (1914–1994)
Grace Hopper
1992
U.S. naval officer and computer scientist (1906–1992)
Clementine Hunter
1988
American painter
Alexis Korner
1984
British blues musician and radio broadcaster (1928–1984)
Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega
1984
Spanish bullfighter (1903–1984)
Victor Buono
1982
American actor and comic (1938–1982)
Hephzibah Menuhin
1981
American-Australian pianist and writer
Pietro Nenni
1980
Italian politician (1891–1980)
Carle Hessay
1978
German-Canadian painter (1911–1978)
Roland Hayes
1977
African American lyric tenor and composer
Maurice Chevalier
1972
French singer, actor, and entertainer (1888–1972)
Amphilochius of Pochayiv
1971
Ukrainian Orthodox saint
Barton MacLane
1969
Actor, playwright, screenwriter (1902–1969)
Vincent Auriol
1966
President of France from 1947 to 1954
Alastair Denniston
1961
Scottish cryptographer (1881–1961)
Margaret Sullavan
1960
American actress (1909–1960)
Edward Weston
1958
American photographer (1886–1958)
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
1955
Indian chemist
Arthur C. Parker
1955
Native American museum director, archaeologist, and historian
Duff Cooper
1954
British Conservative politician (1890–1954)
Leonard Bacon (poet)
1954
American poet
Hank Williams
1953
American singer, songwriter, and musician (1923–1953)
Edwin Lutyens
1944
English architect (1869–1944)
Charles Turner (Australian cricketer)
1944
Australian cricketer
Jenő Rejtő
1943
Hungarian writer (1905–1943)
Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao
1940
Indian writer
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
1937
Gaudīya Vaisnava Ācārya (1874–1937)
Martinus Beijerinck
1931
Dutch microbiologist (1851–1931)
Mustafa Necati
1929
Turkish statesman
Loie Fuller
1928
American dancer (1862–1928)
Willie Keeler
1923
American baseball player (1872–1923)
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
1921
Chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917
William Wilfred Campbell
1918
Canadian poet (1850–1918)
Hugh Nelson (Australian politician)
1906
Australian politician (1833–1906)
Ignatius L. Donnelly
1901
American politician and fringe theorist (1831–1901)
1800s
Alfred Ely Beach
1896
American inventor, publisher, and patent lawyer (1826–1896)
Heinrich Hertz
1894
German physicist (1857–1894)
Roswell B. Mason
1892
Mayor of Chicago (1805–1892)
Louis-Auguste Blanqui
1881
French socialist revolutionary (1805–1881)
Mikhail Ostrogradsky
1862
Ukrainian-Russian mathematician
Gregory Blaxland
1853
18/19th-century English-Australian farmer and explorer
John Torrington
1846
British explorer (1825–1846)
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
1817
German chemist (1743–1817)
Before 1800
Francesco Guardi
1793
Italian painter (1712–1793)
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
1789
English lawyer and politician (1716–1789)
Johann Christian Bach
1782
German composer (1735–1782)
Johann Ludwig Krebs
1780
German Baroque musician and composer (1713–1780)
James Francis Edward Stuart
1766
Jacobite pretender (1688–1766)
Johann Bernoulli
1748
Swiss mathematician (1667–1748)
William Wycherley
1716
English playwright (1641–1716)
Filippo Baldinucci
1697
Italian art historian and biographer (1625–1696)
Hendrick Goltzius
1617
German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter (1558–1617)
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 Angoulême
1496
Count of Angoulême 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 León
951
King of León 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