Died On January 1st
Discover the most famous people who died on January 1. The list includes people like Hank Williams, Grace Hopper, Aaron Copland, Townes Van Zandt, Heinrich Hertz. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, composers, mathematicians and chemists and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & France and many more countries.
Lexii AlijaiAmerican
Rapper
Hank WilliamsAmerican
Father of contemporary country music
Fred WestBritish
Serial Killer
Shirley ChisholmAmerican
Townes Van ZandtAmerican
Singer & Songwriter
Donna DouglasAmerican
Actress
Cesar RomeroAmerican
Actor
Grace HopperAmerican
Computer Scientist
Margaret SullavanAmerican
Actress
James Francis Edward StuartBritish
Prince
Ray WalstonAmerican
Actor & Comedian
Louis XII of FranceFrench
King
Maurice ChevalierFrench
Actor, Singer
Heinrich HertzGerman
Physicist
Olivier MessiaenFrench
Composer, organist
Jon Paul SteuerAmerican
Actor
Eugene WignerAmerican
Physicist & Mathematician
Edward WestonAmerican
Photographer
Johann BernoulliSwiss
Mathematician
Ferruccio BusoniGerman, Italian
Composer
Shanti Swaroop BhatnagarIndian
Father of research laboratories
Vincent AuriolFrench
Former President of France
Ernest BlochSwiss
Composer
Igor Fyodorovich StravinskyAmerican
Composer
Aleksandr ScriabinRussian
Russian Symbolist Composer
C.P. ScottBritish
Former Editor of 'The Guardian'
Victor BuonoAmerican
Actor
Patti PageAmerican
Singer
Edwin LutyensBritish
Architect
Feodor I of RussiaRussian
Derek ParfitBritish
Philosopher
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Fusajiro YamauchiJapanese
Entrepreneur
Basil of CaesareaIsraeli
Saint
Salvatore BonannoAmerican
Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer
Juanita MooreAmerican
Actress
Johann Christian BachGerman
Composer
Ron AshetonAmerican
Musician
Shah Abdul Latif BhittaiPakistani
poet
Alexis KornerBritish
Musician, Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter
Arthur RudolphGerman
Aerospace engineer, Engineer
Christian III of DenmarkDanish
King
Loie FullerAmerican
Actor, Lighting designer, Choreographer, Artist,
Abbas I of PersiaAfghan
Politician
Julia PhillipsAmerican
Film producer
Clementine HunterAmerican
Folk Artist
Lhasa de SelaAmerican
Singer-songwriter
Ulrich BeckGerman
sociologist, professor, non-fiction writer,
Martinus BeijerinckBiologist, Microbiologist, University teacher,
Louis Auguste BlanquiFrench
Philosopher, Politician, Journalist, Communard
Vilmos ZsigmondHungarian
Cinematographer
Helen WillsAmerican
Tennis player, Writer, Autobiographer, Poet
Helen SuzmanSouth African
Politician
Ignatius L. DonnellyAmerican
Politician
Alastair DennistonBritish
Field hockey player, Cryptographer, Mathematician
Samuel SewallBritish
Jurist, Judge
Kiro GligorovMacedonian
President
Martin Heinrich KlaprothGerman
Chemist, Pharmacist, University teacher
Lord David CecilBritish
Biographer
Bob MatsuiAmerican
Politician
John Gresham MachenAmerican
Theologian
Christopher Martin-JenkinsBritish
Journalist
Willie KeelerAmerican
Baseball player
Tony AtkinsonWelsh
Economist
Francesco GuardiItalian
Painter
Hans von SalmuthGerman
Military General
Arthur MiddletonBritish, American
Politician
William WycherleyBritish
Playwright
Tillie OlsenAmerican
Writer
Theobald von Bethmann HollwegGerman
President, Chancellor
Joachim du BellayFrench
Poet
Haakon III of NorwayNorwegian
King of Norway
Heinrich Rudolf HertzGerman
German physicist
Pietro NenniItalian
Journalist and politician
Alfred Ely BeachAmerican
Inventor
Francis PlaceBritish
Social Reformer
Johannes Mario SimmelAustrian
Writer
Hendrik GoltziusDutch
painter
Saint BasilTurkish
Theologian
Jan GrooverAmerican
Photographer
Alexandre-Théophile VandermondeFrench
Mathematician
Patrick KellyAmerican
Fashion Designer
Géry LeulietFrench
Theologian, University teacher, Catholic priest
Arleigh Albert BurkeAmerican
Admiral
Mario CuomoAmerican
Politician
Saint Fulgentius of RuspeAncient Roman
Saint