January 22 - Deaths

Deaths

• 239 – Cao Rui (Wei Ming Di), emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 205)
• 1536 – Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
• 1575 – James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault, regent of Scotland (b. 1516)
• 1599 – Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
• 1666 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
• 1750 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
• 1763 – John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
• 1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
• 1779 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
• 1779 – Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
• 1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
• 1879 – Anthony Durnford, British army officer (KIA at Isandlwana; b. 1830)
• 1879 – Henry Pulleine, British army officer (KIA at Isandlwana; b. 1838)
• 1892 – Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
• 1900 – David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
• 1901 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1921 – Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
• 1922 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
• 1922 – Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
• 1922 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
• 1929 – Emma Cooke, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1929 – R.C. Lehmann, English writer (b. 1856)
• 1930 – Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist (b. 1867)
• 1931 – Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1945 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
• 1949 – William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
• 1950 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
• 1950 – Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
• 1951 – Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
• 1951 – Lawson Robertson, Scottish-born athlete (b. 1883)
• 1954 – Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (b. 1872)
• 1957 – Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (b. 1876)
• 1959 – Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
• 1966 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
• 1968 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (b. 1890)
• 1973 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
• 1975 – Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
• 1977 – Johannes Terwogt, Dutch rower (b. 1878)
• 1978 – Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1979 – Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1940)
• 1980 – Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (b. 1888)
• 1981 – Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
• 1982 – Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
• 1982 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)
• 1985 – Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
• 1987 – Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
• 1988 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
• 1991 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
• 1993 – Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
• 1994 – Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1995 – Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family (b. 1890)
• 1997 – Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
• 1997 – Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
• 1997 – Wally Whyton, English musician (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
• 2000 – Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2001 – Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
• 2003 – Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
• 2005 – César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
• 2005 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
• 2008 – Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
• 2008 – Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 2010 – Jean Simmons, English-American actress (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Sultan Iskandar of Johor, also the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Joe Paterno, American football coach (b. 1926)