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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[786]] – [[Abo of Tiflis]], Iraqi martyr and saint (b. 756)<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Hastings|author2=Ann Wilson Hastings|author3=Edward Hastings|title=The Expository Times|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_aJ7NAAAAMAAJ|year=1906|publisher=T. & T. Clark|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_aJ7NAAAAMAAJ/page/n297 286]}}</ref> *[[1088]] – [[Berengar of Tours]], French scholar and theologian (b. 999)<ref>{{cite book|title=Ecclesiastical History: In a Course of Lectures, Delivered at Founders' Hall, Lothbury, London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xvdMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA205|year=1834|publisher=Holdsworth and Ball|pages=205}}</ref> *[[1148]] – [[Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke]] (b. 1100)<ref>{{cite book|author=William Heard Thomas|title=Tinterne and Its Vicinity ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA31|year=1839|publisher=Hamilton|pages=31}}</ref> *[[1233]] – [[Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon]], Anglo-Norman noblewoman (b. 1171)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weir |first1=Alison |title=Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy |date=2011 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4464-4911-0 |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7nZ90l1_IzAC&pg=PA194 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1275]] – [[Raymond of Penyafort]], Catalan archbishop and saint (b. 1175)<ref>{{cite book|author=A. J. M. & J. K. Mousolfe|title=Saint Companions for Each Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dnSDWuSTKrEC&pg=PA22|year=1986|publisher=St Pauls BYB|isbn=978-81-7109-092-1|pages=22}}</ref> *[[1350]] – [[Giovanni I di Murta]], second doge of the Republic of Genoa *[[1358]] – [[Gertrude van der Oosten]], Beguine mystic *[[1406]] – [[Roger Walden]], English bishop<ref>{{cite book|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIZpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA294|year=1854|pages=294}}</ref> *[[1448]] – [[Christopher of Bavaria]], [[King of Denmark]], Norway and Sweden (b. 1418)<ref>{{cite book|author=William Beckett|title=A Universal Biography: Including Scriptural, Classical and Mythological Memoirs, Together with Accounts of Many Eminent Living Characters|url=https://archive.org/details/auniversalbiogr00beckgoog|year=1834|publisher=Mayhew, Isaac and Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/auniversalbiogr00beckgoog/page/n799 798]}}</ref> *[[1477]] – [[Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme]] (b. 1425) *[[1478]] – [[Uzun Hasan]], 9th Shahanshah of the Turkoman [[Aq Qoyunlu]] dynasty (b. 1423) *[[1481]] – [[Ahmed Khan bin Küchük]], Mongolian ruler *[[1537]] – [[Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence]] (b. 1510) * 1537 – [[Baldassare Peruzzi]], Italian architect and painter, designed the [[Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne]] (b. 1481)<ref>{{cite book|title=Transactions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=48GgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA111|year=1870|pages=111}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1616]] – [[Philip Henslowe]], English impresario (b. 1550)<ref>{{cite book|author=Daniel Vitkus|title=Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor of the Turks; A Christian Turned Turk; and The Renegado|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231110280|url-access=registration|date=5 February 2000|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-50528-4|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780231110280/page/50 50]}}</ref> *[[1646]] – [[Elias Holl]], German architect, designed the [[Augsburg Town Hall]] (b. 1573) *[[1689]] – [[Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury)|Seth Ward]], English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617) *[[1693]] – [[Mehmed IV]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1642)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Freely|title=Inside the Seraglio: private lives of the sultans in Istanbul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Za0TAQAAIAAJ|date=1 July 2001|publisher=Penguin|page=179|isbn=9780140270563}}</ref> *[[1711]] – [[Philips van Almonde]], Dutch admiral (b. 1646) *[[1718]] – [[Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina]], Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1664) *[[1725]] – [[Chikamatsu Monzaemon]], Japanese actor and playwright (b. 1653) *[[1731]] – [[Étienne François Geoffroy]], French physician and chemist (b. 1672)<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Geoffroy, Étienne François|volume=11|page=618 |quote= He died in Paris on the 6th of January 1731}}</ref> *[[1734]] – [[John Dennis (dramatist)|John Dennis]], English playwright and critic (b. 1657)<ref>{{cite book|title=Le Pour et contre: Nos 1-60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VwoAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Institut et musée Voltaire|page=783}}</ref> *[[1813]] – [[Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers]], French general (b. 1764) *[[1829]] – [[Josef Dobrovský]], Czech philologist and historian (b. 1753)<ref>{{cite book|author=Milka Hipmanová|title=The Lands of the Bohemian Crown: Their History and Glory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcTUAAAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=M. Hipmanová|page=95}}</ref> *[[1831]] – [[Rodolphe Kreutzer]], French violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1766)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Thomas Byerly|author2=John Timbs|title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nG9PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA308|year=1833|publisher=J. Limbird|pages=308}}</ref> *[[1840]] – [[Frances Burney]], English author and playwright (b. 1752)<ref>{{cite book|author=Fanny Burney|title=The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Frances Burney): 1792-1840|url=https://archive.org/details/diaryandletters25burngoog|year=1891|publisher=Vizetelly|page=[https://archive.org/details/diaryandletters25burngoog/page/n219 214]}}</ref> *[[1852]] – [[Louis Braille]], French educator, invented [[Braille]] (b. 1809)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Education Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vywiAQAAIAAJ|year=1952|publisher=Ministry of Education & Social Welfare|page=219}}</ref> *[[1855]] – [[Giacomo Beltrami]], Italian jurist, explorer, and author (b. 1779) *[[1882]] – [[Richard Henry Dana Jr.]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1815)<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard Henry Dana {{!}} Two Years Before the Mast, sailor, lawyer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Henry-Dana |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=13 May 2025 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1884]] – [[Gregor Mendel]], Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jagdish Mehra|author-link1=Jagdish Mehra |author2=Helmut Rechenberg |author-link2=Helmut Rechenberg |title=The Historical Development of Quantum Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwmQTGB8LwMC&pg=PA37|date=28 December 2000|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95179-9|pages=37}}</ref> *[[1885]] – [[Bharatendu Harishchandra]], Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1850)<ref>{{cite book|author=Manohar Bandopadhyay|title=Lives And Works Of Great Hindi Poets|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OZjAAAAMAAJ|date=1 September 1994|publisher=B. R. Publ.|isbn=978-81-7018-786-8|page=79}}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1902]] – [[Lars Hertervig]], Norwegian painter (b. 1830)<ref>{{cite book|title=Scandinavian Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zk0dAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=American Scandinavian Foundation|page=68}}</ref> *[[1917]] – [[Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack]], Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |first=J. J. |last=Woltjer |url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/quack |title=Quack, Hendrick Peter Godfried (1834–1917) |encyclopedia=[[Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland]] |publisher=Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis |year=2013 |orig-year=1985}}</ref> *[[1918]] – [[Georg Cantor]], German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)<ref>{{cite book|author=Amir D. Aczel|title=The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQinWBLQG3UC&pg=PA188|date=28 August 2001|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-7434-2299-4|pages=188}}</ref> *[[1919]] – [[Theodore Roosevelt]], American colonel and politician, 26th [[President of the United States]] (b. 1858)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Richard P. Harmond|author2=George A. Cevasco|author3=Richard A. Harmond|title=Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdFuHC3DhwAC&pg=PA682|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-23047-9|pages=682}}</ref> *[[1921]] – [[Devil Anse Hatfield]], American [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]] leader (b. 1839) *[[1922]] – [[Jakob Rosanes]], Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842) *[[1928]] – [[Alvin Kraenzlein]], American hurdler and long jumper (b. 1876)<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Encyclopaedia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SSy4jvY8FNgC|year=1974|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica|isbn=978-0-85229-290-7|page=908}}</ref> * 1928 – [[Wilhelm Ramsay]], Finnish geologist and professor (b. 1865)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blf.fi/artikel.php?id=7118|title=Ramsay, Wilhelm (1865–1928)|website=Biografiskt lexikon för Finland|access-date=January 30, 2022|language=sv|archive-date=May 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503072524/https://blf.fi/artikel.php?id=7118|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1933]] – [[Vladimir de Pachmann]], Ukrainian-German pianist (b. 1848) *[[1934]] – [[Herbert Chapman]], English footballer and manager (b. 1878) *[[1937]] – [[André Bessette]], Canadian saint (b. 1845)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alban Butler|author2=Paul Burns|title=Butler's Lives of the Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XIEAD2MC1YkC&pg=PA48|date=1 January 1995|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-86012-250-0|pages=48}}</ref> *[[1939]] – [[Gustavs Zemgals]], Latvian journalist and politician, 2nd [[President of Latvia]] (b. 1871) *[[1941]] – [[Charley O'Leary]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1882) *[[1942]] – [[Emma Calvé]], French soprano and actress (b. 1858) * 1942 – [[Henri de Baillet-Latour]], Belgian businessman, 3rd [[President of the International Olympic Committee]] (b. 1876) *[[1944]] – [[Jacques Rosenbaum]], Estonian-German architect (b. 1878) * 1944 – [[Ida Tarbell]], American journalist, reformer, and educator (b. 1857)<ref>{{cite book|author=Alice Mulcahey Fleming|title=Ida Tarbell: First of the Muckrakers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVAbAQAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Crowell|isbn=978-0-690-42881-0|page=161}}</ref> *[[1945]] – [[Vladimir Vernadsky]], Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)<ref>{{cite book|title=Impact of Science on Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9403AAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|page=293}}</ref> *[[1949]] – [[Victor Fleming]], American director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1883)<ref>{{cite book|author=George Aachen|title=Popular Films of the Forties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqQHAQAAIAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Rastar Press|isbn=978-0-949149-98-5|page=80}}</ref> *[[1966]] – [[Jean Lurçat]], French painter (b. 1892)<ref>{{cite book|title=Graphis: International Journal for Graphic and Applied Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuJGAQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Amstutz and Herdeg|page=4}}</ref> *[[1972]] – [[Chen Yi (general)|Chen Yi]], Chinese general and politician, 2nd [[Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China]] (b. 1901) *[[1974]] – [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]], Mexican painter (b. 1896) *[[1978]] – [[Burt Munro]], New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)<ref>{{cite book|author=Neill Birss|title=Burt Munro: The Lost Interviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_OcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT225|date=13 June 2016|publisher=Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited|isbn=978-1-74348-720-4|pages=225}}</ref> *[[1981]] – [[A. J. Cronin]], Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)<ref>{{cite book|author=Grolier Incorporated|title=The encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DI4xAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Grolier Inc.|page=240|isbn=9780717201303}}</ref> *[[1984]] – [[Ernest Laszlo]], Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)<ref>{{cite book|author=Sara Pendergast|title=Writers and production artists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKgzAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-453-5|page=506}}</ref> *[[1990]] – [[Ian Charleson]], Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)<ref>{{cite book|title=Fuse Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAgxAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Arton's Cultural Affairs Society and Pub|page=74}}</ref> * 1990 – [[Pavel Cherenkov]], Russian physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1904)<ref>{{cite journal|author=Chudakov, Alexander E.|author-link=Aleksandr Chudakov|title=Obituary: Pavel Alexeyevich Cherenkov|journal=Physics Today|date=December 1992|volume=45|issue=12|pages=106–107|doi=10.1063/1.2809928|bibcode=1992PhT....45l.106C|doi-access=free}}</ref> *[[1991]] – [[Alan Wiggins]], American baseball player (b. 1958)<ref>{{cite news|title=Wiggins had AIDS, report says|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1991/01/15/wiggins-had-aids-report-says/|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=January 15, 1991|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113093217/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-01-15/sports/9101050090_1_wiggins-agent-wiggins-family-alan-wiggins|archive-date=January 13, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1992]] – [[Steve Gilpin]], New Zealand vocalist and songwriter (b. 1949)<ref name="Benefit">{{cite news | url = http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118162727 | title = Benefit Concerts After Rock Band's Lead Singer Dies | newspaper = [[The Canberra Times|The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995)]] | date = 7 January 1992 | accessdate = 27 September 2013 | page = 9 | publisher = [[National Library of Australia]] }}</ref> *[[1993]] – [[Dizzy Gillespie]], American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite book|author=Baháʼí World Centre|title=The Bahá'í World: A Biennial International Record|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVUlAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Committee|page=160|isbn=9780853989950}}</ref> * 1993 – [[Rudolf Nureyev]], Russian-French dancer and choreographer (b. 1938)<ref>{{cite book|author=John Lauritsen|title=The AIDS War: Propaganda, Profiteering and Genocide from the Medical-industrial Complex|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tzkQAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Koen Book Distributors|isbn=978-0-943742-08-3|page=445}}</ref> *[[1995]] – [[Joe Slovo]], Lithuanian-South African lawyer and politician (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite book|author=T. R. H. Davenport|title=The Birth of a New South Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsMJD-8x1k0C&pg=PA82|date=1 January 1998|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8054-7|pages=82}}</ref> *[[1999]] – [[Michel Petrucciani]], French-American pianist (b. 1962)<ref>{{citation|newspaper=The Independent|location=UK|title=Michel Petrucciani|type=obituary|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-michel-petrucciani-1045629.html|first=Steve|last=Voce|date=8 January 1999|access-date=30 May 2020|archive-date=2 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402153231/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-michel-petrucciani-1045629.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2004]] – [[Pierre Charles (Dominican politician)|Pierre Charles]], Dominican educator and politician, 5th [[Prime Minister of Dominica]] (b. 1954)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/world/pierre-charles-49-leader-of-dominica.html|title=Pierre Charles, 49, Leader of Dominica|agency=[[The Associated Press]]|date=January 8, 2004|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=6 January 2021|archive-date=4 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204172859/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/world/pierre-charles-49-leader-of-dominica.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2005]] – [[Eileen Desmond]], Irish civil servant and politician, 12th [[Minister for Health (Ireland)|Irish Minister for Health]] (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite book|first=Nicola|last=Depuis|title=Mná Na HÉireann: Women who Shaped Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=heeon5xC5KwC&pg=PA54|year=2009|publisher=Mercier Press Ltd|isbn=978-1-85635-645-9|pages=54}}</ref> * 2005 – [[Lois Hole]], Canadian academic and politician, 15th [[Lieutenant Governor of Alberta]] (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lois-hole/article1112602/|title=Lois Hole|date=7 January 2005|website=The Globe and Mail|access-date=10 January 2019|archive-date=23 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923230428/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/lois-hole/article1112602/|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2005 – [[Tarquinio Provini]], Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1933)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gazzetta.it/primi_piani/motori/2005/pp_1.0.625687789.shtml|title=Addio a Provini, due volte iridato|website=Gazzetta dello Sport|language=it|access-date=2 March 2020|archive-date=4 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204173236/https://www.gazzetta.it/primi_piani/motori/2005/pp_1.0.625687789.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2006]] – [[Lou Rawls]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/arts/music/06cnd-rawls.html?_r=0|title=Lou Rawls, Suave Singer and Actor, Is Dead at 72|first=Ben|last=Ratliff|author-link=Ben Ratliff|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 6, 2006|access-date=March 2, 2020|archive-date=February 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218121746/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/arts/music/06cnd-rawls.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2007]] – [[Roberta Wohlstetter]], American political scientist, historian, and academic (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--obit-wohlstetter0109jan09,0,4714187.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork|title=Intelligence Expert who Analyzed Pearl Harbor Dies in NYC at 94|last=Pyle|first=Richard|date=January 9, 2007|agency=[[Associated Press]]|newspaper=[[Newsday]]|access-date=March 2, 2020|archive-date=November 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126092150/https://www.newsday.com/?coll=ny-region-apnewyork|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2008]] – [[Shmuel Berenbaum]], Rabbi of [[Mir Yeshiva (Brooklyn)]] (b. 1920)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/13593/BORUCH+DAYAN+EMMES:+MARAN+HAGON+RAV+SHMUEL+BERENBAUM+ZATZAL.html |title=Boruch Dayan Emmes: Maran Hagon Rav Shmuel Berenbaum Zatzal |work=[[Yeshiva World News]] |date=January 6, 2008 |access-date=September 4, 2010 |archive-date=March 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323063442/http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/13593/BORUCH+DAYAN+EMMES:+MARAN+HAGON+RAV+SHMUEL+BERENBAUM+ZATZAL.html |url-status=live }}</ref> *[[2009]] – [[Ron Asheton]], American guitarist, songwriter, and actor (probable;<ref>{{cite web |first=Art |last=Aisner |url=http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/01/stooges_guitarist_ron_asheton.html |title=Stooges' guitarist Ron Asheton found dead in his Ann Arbor home |website=[[MLive]].com |date=January 6, 2009 |access-date=February 27, 2012 |archive-date=November 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118202200/http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/01/stooges_guitarist_ron_asheton.html |url-status=live }}</ref> b. 1948) *[[2011]] – [[Uche Okafor]], Nigerian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1967)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/nigerian-soccer-star-buried-in-africa-as-family-challenges-little-elm-pds-suicide-ruling-7140153|title=Nigerian Soccer Star Buried in Africa, As Family Challenges Little Elm PD's Suicide Ruling|website=Dallas Observer|date=March 11, 2011|author=Alex Copeland|access-date=13 February 2020|archive-date=24 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624142154/https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/nigerian-soccer-star-buried-in-africa-as-family-challenges-little-elm-pds-suicide-ruling-7140153|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2012]] – [[Bob Holness]], South African-English radio and television host (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16443263|title=BBC News – Bob Holness, former Blockbusters host, dies aged 83|work=BBC|date=6 January 2012|access-date=13 June 2012|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925154702/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16443263|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Spike Pola]], Australian footballer and soldier (b. 1914) *[[2013]] – [[Ruth Carter Stevenson]], American art collector, founded the [[Amon Carter Museum of American Art]] (b. 1923)<ref>{{cite news | title=Region loses one of its guiding spirits | work=Star-Telegram | date=8 Jan 2013 | author=Madigan, Tim | pages=1}}</ref> *[[2014]] – [[Marina Ginestà]], French Resistance soldier and photographer (b. 1919)<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.publico.es/493189/muere-marina-ginesta-la-sonrisa-que-planto-cara-al-fascismo |title= Muere Marina Ginestà, la sonrisa que plantó cara al fascismo |newspaper= Público |date= 6 January 2014 |language= es |access-date= 7 January 2014 |archive-date= 6 January 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140106181534/http://www.publico.es/493189/muere-marina-ginesta-la-sonrisa-que-planto-cara-al-fascismo |url-status= live }}</ref> * 2014 – [[Nelson Ned]], Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1947)<ref>{{cite web|title=Morre aos 66 anos Nelson Ned, o 'pequeno gigante da canção' (Nelson Ned, the 'little giant of song', dies at 66)|website=Folha de S. Paulo|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2014/01/1393539-morre-aos-66-anos-nelson-ned-o-pequeno-gigante-da-cancao.shtml|date=5 January 2014|access-date=10 January 2020|archive-date=1 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701165203/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2014/01/1393539-morre-aos-66-anos-nelson-ned-o-pequeno-gigante-da-cancao.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2014 – [[Julian Rotter]], American psychologist and academic (b. 1916)<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Emeritus of Psychology Julian Rotter dies|date=10 January 2014|url=http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/01/professor-emeritus-of-psychology-julian-rotter-dies/|publisher=[[University of Connecticut]]|access-date=January 13, 2014|archive-date=13 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113090027/http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/01/professor-emeritus-of-psychology-julian-rotter-dies/|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2015]] – [[Arthur Jackson (sport shooter)|Arthur Jackson]], American lieutenant and target shooter (b. 1918) * 2015 – [[Basil John Mason]], English meteorologist and academic (b. 1923)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rmets.org/death-sir-john-mason |title=Death of Sir John Mason |publisher=[[Royal Meteorological Society]] |date=7 January 2015 |access-date=7 January 2015 |archive-date=12 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112072303/http://www.rmets.org/death-sir-john-mason |url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[2016]] – [[Pat Harrington, Jr.]], American actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Adam |date=January 7, 2016 |title=Pat Harrington Jr., 'Schneider' of TV's 'One Day at a Time,' dies at 86 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/pat-harrington-jr-schneider-of-tvs-one-day-at-a-time-dies-at-86/2016/01/07/fb8cf232-b54c-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html |access-date=January 6, 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |archive-date=August 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819214309/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/pat-harrington-jr-schneider-of-tvs-one-day-at-a-time-dies-at-86/2016/01/07/fb8cf232-b54c-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * 2016 – [[Florence King]], American journalist and author (b. 1936)<ref>{{cite news |first=Jack |last=Fowler |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429353/florence-king-obituary |title=Rest in peace, Florence |newspaper=National Review |date=January 6, 2016 |access-date=January 8, 2016 |archive-date=January 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108013843/http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/429353/florence-king-obituary |url-status=live }}</ref> * 2016 – [[Christy O'Connor Jnr]], Irish golfer and architect (b. 1948)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/06/christy-oconnor-jr-dies-ryder-cup-golf |title=Ireland's Ryder Cup hero Christy O'Connor Jr dies aged 67 |date=6 January 2016 |work=The Guardian |access-date=15 January 2016 |agency=[[Press Association]]}}</ref> * 2016 – [[Silvana Pampanini]], Italian model, actress, and director, [[Miss Italia|Miss Italy 1946]] (b. 1925)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12093251/Sylvana-Pampanini-actress-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12093251/Sylvana-Pampanini-actress-obituary.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Sylvana Pampanini, actress - obituary|date=11 January 2016|website=The Telegraph|access-date=2 March 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> *[[2017]] – [[Octavio Lepage]], Venezuelan politician, [[President of Venezuela]] (b. 1923)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://globovision.com/article/fallecio-el-expresidente-interino-de-venezuela-octavio-lepage|title=Falleció el expresidente interino de Venezuela, Octavio Lepage|website=Globovisión|access-date=2020-03-02|archive-date=2020-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302143222/https://globovision.com/article/fallecio-el-expresidente-interino-de-venezuela-octavio-lepage|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2017 – [[Om Puri]], Indian actor (b. 1950)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38527232|title=Indian actor Om Puri dies aged 66|date=2017-01-06|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=2020-01-10|archive-date=2017-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107012442/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38527232|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2019]] – [[José Ramón Fernández]], Cuban revolution leader (b. 1923)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-cuban-figure-bay-pigs-victory-dies-95-191042523.html |title=Key Cuban figure in Bay of Pigs victory dies at 95 |date=6 January 2019 |access-date=2019-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107015741/https://www.yahoo.com/news/key-cuban-figure-bay-pigs-victory-dies-95-191042523.html |archive-date=2019-01-07 |url-status=live }}</ref> * 2019 – [[Lamin Sanneh]], Gambian-born American professor (b. 1942)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://themediaproject.org/news/2019/1/7/dr-lamin-sanneh-legendary-figure-in-religious-thought-and-civil-rights-has-died-at-76 |title=Dr. Lamin Sanneh, legendary figure in religious thought and civil rights, has died at 76 |date=7 January 2019 |access-date=2019-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108100737/https://themediaproject.org/news/2019/1/7/dr-lamin-sanneh-legendary-figure-in-religious-thought-and-civil-rights-has-died-at-76 |archive-date=2019-01-08 |url-status=live }}</ref> * 2019 – [[W. Morgan Sheppard]], British actor (b. 1932)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2019/01/william-morgan-sheppard-dies-star-trek-actor-1202531214/ |title=William Morgan Sheppard Dies: 'Star Trek' Actor Was 86 |access-date=2019-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202215618/https://deadline.com/2019/01/william-morgan-sheppard-dies-star-trek-actor-1202531214/ |archive-date=2019-02-02 |url-status=live |date=2019-01-08 }}</ref> * 2019 – [[Paul Streeten]], Austrian-born British economics professor (b. 1917)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/2019/january/paul-patrick-streeten |title=Paul Patrick Streeten |access-date=2019-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413121829/https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/news/2019/january/paul-patrick-streeten |archive-date=2019-04-13 |url-status=live |date=2019-01-09 }}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Richard Maponya]], South African businessman (b. 1920)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Richard Maponya and the genesis of black business|url=https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/2020-01-09-richard-maponya-and-the-genesis-of-black-business/|access-date=2021-01-02|website=BusinessLIVE|language=en-ZA|archive-date=2020-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624174108/https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/2020-01-09-richard-maponya-and-the-genesis-of-black-business/|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[2021]] – [[Gord Renwick|Gordon Renwick]], Canadian ice hockey administrator and businessman (b. 1935)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gordon Renwick, Order of Hockey in Canada member, dies at 85|url=https://www.nsnews.com/national-sports/gordon-renwick-order-of-hockey-in-canada-member-dies-at-85-3240212|access-date=2021-01-08|website=North Shore News|date=7 January 2021|language=en|archive-date=2021-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926195546/https://www.nsnews.com/national-sports/gordon-renwick-order-of-hockey-in-canada-member-dies-at-85-3240212|url-status=live}}</ref> *2021 – [[James Cross]], British diplomat kidnapped during the 1970 [[October crisis]] in Québec (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite news|title=James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped by Quebec separatists, dies at 99 of covid-19|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-cross-dead/2021/01/21/eb550952-5bed-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html|first=Emily|last=Langer|date=21 January 2021|access-date=22 January 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-date=22 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122222005/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/james-cross-dead/2021/01/21/eb550952-5bed-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Peter Bogdanovich]], American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)<ref>{{cite news|title=Peter Bogdanovich, 82, Director Whose Career Was a Hollywood Drama, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/movies/peter-bogdanovich-dead.html|first=Margalit|last=Fox|date=2022-01-06|access-date=2022-01-06|newspaper=The New York Times|archive-date=2022-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106190013/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/movies/peter-bogdanovich-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *2022 – [[Sidney Poitier]], Bahamian-American actor, director, and diplomat (b. 1927)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sidney Poitier, who helped break down Hollywood's on-screen color barriers and made history as the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor, has died|url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-01-07/sidney-poitier-dead|access-date=January 7, 2022|website=Los Angeles Times|date=7 January 2022|language=en-US|archive-date=2022-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109121536/https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-01-07/sidney-poitier-dead|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2022 – [[F. Sionil José|Francisco Sionil Jose]], Philippine novelist (b. 1924)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-01-08|title=Literary giant F. Sionil Jose dies at 97|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/01/07/news/philippine-literary-giant-f-sionil-jose-dies-at-97/1828505|access-date=2022-01-09|website=The Manila Times|language=en|archive-date=2022-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108223923/https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/01/07/news/philippine-literary-giant-f-sionil-jose-dies-at-97/1828505|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[2023]] – [[Mary Lou Kownacki]], American Roman Catholic nun, peace activist, and writer<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Tom |date=2023-01-09 |title=Sr. Mary Lou Kownacki, Benedictine, peace activist and Joan Chittister's 'muse,' dies |url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/mary-lou-kownacki-benedictine-peace-activist-and-joan-chittisters-muse-dies |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=National Catholic Reporter |language=en |archive-date=2024-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240408060919/https://www.ncronline.org/news/mary-lou-kownacki-benedictine-peace-activist-and-joan-chittisters-muse-dies |url-status=live }}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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