Deaths on 22 January
2000s
Hifumi Katō
2026
Japanese shogi player (1940–2026)
Lin Brehmer
2023
American radio host (1954–2023)
Thích Nhất Hạnh
2022
Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist (1926–2022)
Hank Aaron
2021
American baseball player (1934–2021)
Ursula K. Le Guin
2018
American author (1929–2018)
William B. Jordan
2018
American art historian (1940–2018)
Masaya Nakamura (businessman)
2017
Japanese businessman (1925–2017)
Yordano Ventura
2017
Dominican baseball player (1991–2017)
Homayoun Behzadi
2016
Iranian footballer (1942–2016)
Cecil Parkinson
2016
British politician (1931–2016)
Lois Ramsey
2016
Australian actress
Kamer Genç
2016
Turkish politician (1940–2016)
Fabrizio de Miranda
2015
Italian engineer
Wendell Ford
2015
American politician (1924–2015)
Margaret Bloy Graham
2015
Canadian children's book author and illustrator
Maziar Partow
2014
Robert Bonnaud
2013
French historian (1929–2013)
Hinton Mitchem
2013
American politician
Simon Marsden
2012
English photographer and author
Joe Paterno
2012
American football player and coach (1926–2012)
Clarence Tillenius
2012
Canadian artist (1913–2012)
Dick Tufeld
2012
American announcer and actor (1926–2012)
Louis R. Harlan
2010
American historian (1922–2010)
Jean Simmons
2010
British actress (1929–2010)
Billy Werber
2009
American baseball player (1908–2009)
Heath Ledger
2008
Australian actor (1979–2008)
Miles Lerman
2008
American activist (1920–2008)
Ngô Quang Trưởng
2007
South Vietnamese Army officer
Abbé Pierre
2007
French Roman Catholic priest (1912–2007)
Liz Renay
2007
American actress and dancer (1926–2007)
Aydın Güven Gürkan
2006
Turkish politician
César Gutiérrez
2005
Venezuelan baseball player (1943–2005)
Carlo Orelli
2005
Italian soldier (1894–2005)
Consuelo Velázquez
2005
Mexican concert pianist and composer
Billy May
2004
American composer, arranger and trumpeter (1916–2004)
Tom Mead
2004
Australian politician and journalist
Ann Miller
2004
American actress and dancer (1923–2004)
Bill Mauldin
2003
American editorial cartoonist (1921–2003)
Tommie Agee
2001
American baseball player (1942–2001)
Roy Brown (clown)
2001
American TV personality, puppeteer and clown (1932–2001)
Craig Claiborne
2000
American critic, journalist and author
Anne Hébert
2000
Canadian author and poet (1916–2000)
1900s
Graham Staines
1999
Australian missionary killed in India (1941–1999)
Billy Mackenzie
1997
Scottish singer (1957–1997)
Israel Eldad
1996
Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher (1910–1996)
Jean-Louis Barrault
1994
French actor and theatre director (1910–1994)
Telly Savalas
1994
American actor (1922–1994)
Kōbō Abe
1993
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
Robert Choquette
1991
Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat
S. Vithiananthan
1989
Sri Lankan academic
R. Budd Dwyer
1987
American politician (1939–1987)
Arthur Bryant
1985
English historian and columnist (1899–1985)
Eduardo Frei Montalva
1982
President of Chile From 1964 to 1970
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi
1981
Pakistani historian, scholar, and academic
Yitzhak Baer
1980
German-Israeli historian (1888–1980)
Ali Hassan Salameh
1979
Militant Palestinian nationalist (1941–1979)
Oliver Leese
1978
British Army general (1894–1978)
Herbert Sutcliffe
1978
English cricketer
Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al-Suweil
1977
Saudi Arabian government official and major general
Lyndon B. Johnson
1973
President of the United States from 1963 to 1969
Harry F. Guggenheim
1971
American politician and businessman (1890–1971)
Duke Kahanamoku
1968
Hawaiian surfer (1890–1968)
Herbert Marshall
1966
English actor (1890–1966)
Marc Blitzstein
1964
American composer (1905–1964(
Mike Hawthorn
1959
British racing driver (1929–1959)
Ralph Barton Perry
1957
American philosopher (1876–1957)
Jonni Myyrä
1955
Finnish athletics competitor (1892–1955)
Harald Bohr
1951
Danish mathematician and footballer (1887–1951)
Lawson Robertson
1951
American athlete and coach (1883–1951)
Alan Hale Sr.
1950
American actor (1892–1950)
William Thomas Walsh
1949
American historian and author (1891–1949)
Else Lasker-Schüler
1945
German poet and playwright (1869–1945)
László Batthyány-Strattmann
1931
Hungarian aristocrat and physician
Stephen Mather
1930
American businessman and conservationist (1867–1930)
R. C. Lehmann
1929
English writer and politician (1856–1929)
James Ford Rhodes
1927
American industrialist and historian (1848–1927)
Fanny Bullock Workman
1925
American mountaineer (1859–1925)
Fredrik Bajer
1922
Danish politician (1837–1922)
Pope Benedict XV
1922
Head of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922
Camille Jordan
1922
French mathematician (1838–1922)
George Streeter
1921
American criminal (c. 1837–1921)
Emil Erlenmeyer
1909
German chemist (1825–1909)
George Holyoake
1906
English secularist writer (1817–1906)
Queen Victoria
1901
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901
David Edward Hughes
1900
British-American inventor and music professor (1830–1900)
1800s
Joseph P. Bradley
1892
US Supreme Court justice from 1870 to 1892
Anthony Durnford
1879
British Army officer (1830–1879)
Henry Pulleine
1879
Commander in the British Army (1838–1879)
Vincent Pallotti
1850
Italian Roman Catholic saint
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
1840
German physiologist and anthropologist (1752-1840)
Before 1800
Lewis Morris
1798
American Founding Father and developer
Jeremiah Dixon
1779
English surveyor and astronomer (1733–1779)
Claudius Smith
1779
American Revolutionary War Loyalist (1736–1779)
Johann Gottlob Lehmann
1767
German and Russian mineralogist (1719–1767)
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville
1763
British statesman (1690–1763)
Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl
1750
Bavarian statesman
Shah Jahan
1666
Mughal emperor from 1628 to 1658
Cristofano Malvezzi
1599
Italian composer
James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault
1575
Regent of Scotland from 1543 to 1554
Wang Zhi (pirate)
1560
Chinese pirate (died 1560)
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
1552
Lord Protector of England from 1547 to 1549
Bernhard Knipperdolling
1536
German leader of the Münster Anabaptists
John of Leiden
1536
Dutch Anabaptist leader (1509–1536)
Hadım Sinan Pasha
1517
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 to 1517
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon
1341
French prince (1279–1341)
Ferdinand II of León
1188
King of León and Galicia from 1157 to 1188
Wang Chongyang
1170
Founder of Quanzhen Taoism
Ælfric Puttoc
1051
Archbishop of York from 1023 to 1051
Al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab
1001
Emir of Mosul
Empress Ma (Southern Han)
935
Empress He (Tang dynasty)
906
Empress of China (898–900, 901–904)
Anastasius of Persia
628
Christian martyr (died 628)
Cao Rui
239
Emperor of Cao Wei from 226 to 239