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.
Hank Williams17 September 1923, American
Father of contemporary country music
Townes Van Zandt07 March 1944, American
Singer & Songwriter
Fred West29 September 1941, British
Serial Killer
Donna Douglas26 September 1932, American
Actress
Grace Hopper09 December 1906, American
Computer Scientist
Cesar Romero15 February 1907, American
Actor
Ray Walston02 November 1914, American
Actor & Comedian
Shirley Chisholm30 November 1924, American
Margaret Sullavan16 May 1909, American
Actress
Heinrich Hertz22 February 1857, German
Physicist
Olivier Messiaen10 December 1908, French
Composer, organist
Maurice Chevalier12 September 1888, French
Actor, Singer
Eugene Wigner17 November 1902, American
Physicist & Mathematician
Edward Weston24 March 1886, American
Photographer
Johann Bernoulli06 August 1667, Swiss
Mathematician
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar21 February 1894, Indian
Father of research laboratories
Ferruccio Busoni01 April 1866, German, Italian
Composer
Vincent Auriol27 August 1884, French
Former President of France
Ernest Bloch24 July 1880, Swiss
Composer
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky17 June 1882, American
Composer
Aleksandr Scriabin06 January 1872, Russian
Russian Symbolist Composer
C.P. Scott26 October 1846, British
Former Editor of 'The Guardian'
Jon Paul Steuer27 March 1984, American
Actor
James Francis Edward Stuart10 June 1688, British
Prince
Louis XII of France27 June 1462, French
King
Victor Buono03 February 1938, American
Actor
Patti Page08 November 1927, American
Singer
Edwin Lutyens29 March 1869, British
Architect
Feodor I of Russia31 May 1557, Russian
Fusajiro Yamauchi22 November 1859, Japanese
Entrepreneur
Basil of Caesarea0330 AD, Israeli
Saint
Arthur Rudolph09 November 1906, German
Aerospace engineer, Engineer
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Alexis Korner19 April 1928, British
Musician, Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter
Johann Christian Bach05 September 1735, German
Composer
Derek Parfit11 December 1942, British
Philosopher
Christian III of Denmark12 August 1503, Danish
King
Loie Fuller15 January 1862, American
Actor, Lighting designer, Choreographer, Artist,
Salvatore Bonanno05 November 1932, American
Screenwriter, Film producer, Writer
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai18 November 1690, Pakistani
poet
Abbas I of Persia27 January 1571, Afghan
Politician
Helen Suzman07 November 1917, South African
Politician
Lhasa de Sela27 September 1972, American
Singer-songwriter
Helen Wills06 October 1905, American
Tennis player, Writer, Autobiographer, Poet
Alastair Denniston01 December 1881, British
Field hockey player, Cryptographer, Mathematician
Ulrich Beck15 May 1944, German
sociologist, professor, non-fiction writer,
Vilmos Zsigmond16 June 1930, Hungarian
Cinematographer
Louis Auguste Blanqui08 February 1805, French
Philosopher, Politician, Journalist, Communard
Martinus Beijerinck16 March 1851
Biologist, Microbiologist, University teacher,
Kiro Gligorov03 May 1917, Macedonian
President
Samuel Sewall28 March 1652, British
Jurist, Judge
Martin Heinrich Klaproth01 December 1743, German
Chemist, Pharmacist, University teacher
Arthur Middleton26 June 1742, British, American
Politician
Francesco Guardi05 October 1712, Italian
Painter
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg29 November 1856, German
President, Chancellor
Joachim du Bellay01 May 1522, French
Poet
Hendrik Goltzius31 January 1558, Dutch
painter
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz22 February 1857, German
German physicist
Géry Leuliet12 January 1910, French
Theologian, University teacher, Catholic priest