Died on Monday, 19th January – Famous Deaths

19/01/2026

Valentino, Italian fashion designer, founder of Valentino (born 1932)

Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani, known mononymously as Valentino, was an Italian fashion designer who founded Valentino S.p.A., a luxury fashion house, in 1960 and served as its creative director until 2007. A flamboyant designer noted for his retro pieces and celebrity collaborations, he is regarded as one of the preeminent figures in haute couture.

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19/01/2025

Jeff Torborg, American baseball player and manager (born 1941)

Jeffrey Allen Torborg was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels from 1964 to 1973. He managed the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Montreal Expos, and Florida Marlins.

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19/01/2017

Miguel Ferrer, American actor (born 1955)

Miguel José Ferrer was an American actor. His breakthrough role was as Bob Morton in the 1987 film RoboCop. Other film roles include Harbinger in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), Quigley in Blank Check, Eduardo Ruiz in Traffic (2000) and Vice President Rodriguez in Iron Man 3 (2013). Ferrer's notable television roles include FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield on Twin Peaks, Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan (2001–2007) and NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles (2012–2017).

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19/01/2016

Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (born 1930)

Richard Levins was a Marxist biologist, population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who researched diversity in human populations. Until his death, he was a university professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a long-time political activist. He was best known for his work on evolution and complexity in changing environments and on metapopulations.

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Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1931)

Ettore Scola was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Sheila Sim (Lady Attenborough), English actress (born 1922)

Sheila Beryl Grant Sim, Baroness Attenborough was an English film and theatre actress. She was the wife of Richard Attenborough.

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19/01/2015

Justin Capră, Romanian engineer and academic (born 1933)

Virgilius Justin Capră was a Romanian engineer and inventor.

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Michel Guimond, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1953)

Michel Guimond was a Canadian politician. From 1987 to 1993 he served as a city councillor in Boischatel, Quebec. After this, he ran in the 1993 federal election for the Bloc Québécois. He was elected into the House of Commons of Canada as the member from Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans. He was re-elected in the 1997 and 2000 federal elections and in the 2004 federal election. In the 2004 and 2008 elections, he won in Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord before being defeated in the 2011 federal election. A lawyer, he has served as the Bloc critic of Parliamentary Affairs, Transport and to the Auditor General. He then served as whip and deputy whip of the Bloc Québécois, and was also the vice-chair of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.

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Ward Swingle, American-French singer-songwriter and conductor (born 1927)

Ward Lamar Swingle was an American vocalist and jazz musician who founded The Swingle Singers in France in 1962.

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19/01/2014

Azaria Alon, Ukrainian-Israeli environmentalist, co-founded the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (born 1918)

Azaria Alon was an Israel Prize-winning environmentalist, and a co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.

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Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (born 1931)

Sir Christopher John Chataway was a British middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster and Conservative politician.

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19/01/2013

Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (born 1940)

Taihō Kōki was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He became the 48th yokozuna in 1961 at the age of 21, the youngest ever at the time.

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Stan Musial, American baseball player and manager (born 1920)

Stanley Frank Musial, nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American professional baseball player. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial spent 22 seasons as an outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB), playing for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1963. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969 in his first year of eligibility.

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Frank Pooler, American conductor and composer (born 1926)

Frank Mairich Pooler was an American choirmaster and the director of choral studies at California State University, Long Beach. He also collaborated with pop music group The Carpenters.

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Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (born 1930)

Earl Sidney Weaver was an American professional baseball manager, author, and television color commentator. Weaver played in minor league baseball as a second baseman from 1948 to 1960. In 1956, he began his managerial career, serving as a player–manager for five seasons before he stopped playing to concentrate on managing, without ever having played in Major League Baseball (MLB). He progressed through the minor league system before going on to become a manager in the Major Leagues with the Baltimore Orioles, winning a World Series championship in 1970. He was a three-time Manager of the Year. In 1996, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Toktamış Ateş, Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer (born 1944)

Toktamış Ateş was a Turkish academic, political commentator, columnist and writer. He was professor of political sciences at Istanbul University.

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19/01/2012

Peter Åslin, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1962)

Peter Karl Åslin was a Swedish national team ice hockey goaltender.

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Sarah Burke, Canadian skier (born 1982)

Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012.

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Winston Riley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1943)

Winston Riley was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and record producer. The Jamaica Gleaner notes he was one of the most successful reggae producers.

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Rudi van Dantzig, Dutch ballet dancer and choreographer (born 1933)

Rudi van Dantzig was a Dutch choreographer, company director, and writer. He was a pivotal figure in the rise to world renown of Dutch ballet in the latter half of the twentieth century. He was co-director and then artistic director of the Dutch National Ballet from 1968 and 1991, and later did choreography for major companies such as Ballet Rambert, The Royal Ballet, the Royal Danish Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and the Paris Opera Ballet.

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19/01/2010

Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (born 1923)

William Pollock McLaren was a Scottish rugby union commentator, teacher, journalist and one time rugby player. Known as "the voice of rugby", he retired from commentating in 2002. Renowned throughout the sport, his enthusiasm and memorable turn of phrase endeared him to many.

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19/01/2008

Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (born 1937)

Suzanne Pleshette was an American actress known for her roles in theatre, film, and television. She was nominated for three Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. For her role as Emily Hartley on the CBS sitcom The Bob Newhart Show (1972–1978), she received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

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John Stewart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)

John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with the Kingston Trio (1961–1967) and as a popular music songwriter of the Monkees' No. 1 hit "Daydream Believer" and his own No. 5 hit "Gold" during a solo career spanning 40 years that included almost four dozen albums and more than 600 recorded songs.

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Don Wittman, Canadian sportscaster (born 1936)

Donald Rae Wittman was a Canadian sportscaster.

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19/01/2007

Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist and activist (born 1954)

Hrant Dink was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of Agos, journalist, and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey best known for advocating Turkish–Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in Turkey. He was often critical of both Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for its international recognition. Dink was prosecuted three times for "insulting Turkishness", while receiving numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists.

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Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1940)

Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer, songwriter and musician. A tenor, he was a founding member of the 1960s musical group the Mamas & the Papas for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

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Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (born 1969)

Murat Ismailovich Nasyrov was a Soviet, Kazakhstani, and Russian singer and songwriter of Uyghur ethnicity.

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19/01/2006

Anthony Franciosa, American actor (born 1928)

Anthony George Franciosa was an American actor most often billed as Tony Franciosa at the height of his career. He began his career on stage and made a breakthrough portraying the brother of the drug addict in the play A Hatful of Rain, which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in its subsequent film adaptation, for which he won the 1957 Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

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Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

Wilson Pickett was an American singer and songwriter.

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19/01/2005

K. Sello Duiker, South African author and screenwriter (born 1974)

Kabelo Sello Duiker was a South African novelist. His debut novel, Thirteen Cents, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region. His second novel, The Quiet Violence of Dreams, won the 2002 Herman Charles Bosman Prize. He also worked in advertising and as a screenwriter.

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19/01/2004

Harry E. Claiborne, American lawyer and judge (born 1917)

Harry Eugene Claiborne was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada from 1978 until his impeachment and removal in 1986. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, Claiborne was only the fifth person in United States history to be removed from office through impeachment by the United States Congress and the first since Halsted Ritter in 1936.

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David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1955)

David William Hookes was an Australian cricket player and coach. He played for the Australia national cricket team and domestic cricket for South Australia, later coaching Victoria. An aggressive left-handed batsman, Hookes usually batted in the middle order. His international career got off to a sensational start in the Centenary Test at Melbourne in 1977 when he hit England captain Tony Greig for five consecutive boundaries, but a combination of circumstances ensured that he never became a regular in the Australian team. He wrote in his autobiography, "I suspect history will judge me harshly as a batsman because of my modest record in 23 Tests and I can't complain about that".

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19/01/2003

Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (born 1974)

Milton Javier Flores Miranda was a Honduran football player.

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Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician, French Minister of Culture (born 1916)

Françoise Giroud was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician.

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19/01/2002

Vavá, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1934)

Edvaldo Izidio Neto, commonly known as Vavá, was a Brazilian professional footballer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest strikers of his generation. Nicknamed "Peito de Aço", he most notably played for Vasco da Gama, Atlético Madrid, Palmeiras and the Brazil national team.

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19/01/2000

Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum, a Baháʼí Faith Hand of the Cause of God and wife of Shoghi Effendi (born 1910)

Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum was an American-born Canadian Hand of the Cause of the Baháʼí Faith. She was the wife of the Ottoman-born Iranian religious figure Shoghi Effendi, who succeeded his grandfather ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to become the Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith between 1921 and 1957. Appointed as a Hand of the Cause in 1952, her primary responsibility was to expand and protect the global Baháʼí community. In this capacity, she was among the leading Hands of the Cause who, following Effendi's death in 1957, took on the role of ensuring the transfer of the religion's supreme legal authority to the Universal House of Justice, which has governed out of Haifa, Israel, since 1963.

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Bettino Craxi, Italian lawyer and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1934)

Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI member to become prime minister and the second from a socialist party to hold the office. He led the fourth-longest government in the Italian Republic and he is considered one of the most influential politicians of the First Italian Republic.

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Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, singer, and mathematician (born 1914)

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American actress and inventor. Regarded as a successful film star, she also co-invented a radio guidance system during World War II.

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19/01/1999

Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (born 1967)

Ivan Francescato was an Italian rugby union player.

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Robert Eugene Brashers, American serial killer and rapist (born 1958)

Robert Eugene Brashers was an American serial killer, mass murderer and serial rapist who committed at least eight murders in Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Texas between 1990 and 1998. During his lifetime, Brashers was convicted of attempted murder for shooting a woman in 1985, as well as for various other offenses stemming from a 1992 case in which he stole a vehicle, but was not identified as a suspect in any of his murders and remained in relative obscurity. He died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1999 to avoid arrest for an unrelated crime after a standoff with police.

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19/01/1998

Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1932)

Carl Lee Perkins was an American country, rockabilly, and rock and roll guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rockabilly great and pioneer of rock and roll, he began his recording career at the Sun Studio in Memphis in 1954. Among his best known songs are "Blue Suede Shoes", "Honey Don't", "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby".

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19/01/1997

James Dickey, American poet and novelist (born 1923)

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet, novelist, critic, and lecturer. He was appointed the 18th United States Poet Laureate in 1966. His other accolades included the National Book Award for Poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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19/01/1996

Don Simpson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1943)

Donald Clarence Simpson was an American film producer, screenwriter, and actor, known for his work on blockbuster films of the 1980s and 1990s. Simpson entered the film industry in the 1970s and worked at Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures. He eventually began a professional partnership with Jerry Bruckheimer, and together, they produced hit films such as Flashdance (1983), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Top Gun (1986), and The Rock (1996), the latter released posthumously. As his stature in Hollywood grew, Simpson became notorious for his debauched lifestyle, which included severe and longstanding substance abuse, and he ultimately died from heart failure caused by an overdose of cocaine and prescription drugs. By the time of his death, his and Bruckheimer's films had grossed over $3 billion worldwide.

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19/01/1995

Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1938)

Gene MacLellan was a Canadian singer-songwriter from Prince Edward Island. Among his compositions were "Snowbird", made famous by Anne Murray, "Put Your Hand in the Hand", "The Call", "Pages of Time", and "Thorn in My Shoe". Elvis Presley, Lynn Anderson, Loretta Lynn, Joan Baez, and Bing Crosby were among the many artists who recorded MacLellan's songs.

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19/01/1991

Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist and journalist (born 1918)

Marcel Chaput was a scientist and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada. Along with some 20 other people including André D'Allemagne and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN).

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19/01/1990

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian guru and mystic (born 1931)

Rajneesh, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and commonly known as Osho, was an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma. As a guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he encouraged his followers to embrace life fully while remaining unattached to worldly desires.

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Alberto Semprini, English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1908)

Alberto Fernando Riccardo Semprini, known as Alberto Semprini, or by his stage name Semprini, was an English pianist, composer and conductor, known for his appearances on the BBC, mainly on radio.

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Herbert Wehner, German politician, sixth Minister of Intra-German Relations (born 1906)

Richard Herbert Wehner was a German politician. A former member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) after World War II. He served as Federal Minister of Intra-German Relations from 1966 to 1969 and thereafter as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag until 1983.

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19/01/1984

Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1920)

Maxwell Herbert Lloyd Bentley was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) as part of a professional and senior career that spanned 20 years. He was the NHL's leading scorer twice in a row, and in 1946 won the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player. He played in four All-Star Games and was twice named to a post-season All-Star team.

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19/01/1983

Ham, chimpanzee and animal astronaut, first hominid in space (born 1957)

Ham, a chimpanzee also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was the first great ape launched into space. On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury.

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19/01/1982

Elis Regina, Brazilian soprano (born 1945)

Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known professionally as Elis Regina, was a Brazilian singer of Bossa nova, MPB and jazz music. She is also the mother of the singers Maria Rita and Pedro Mariano.

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19/01/1981

Francesca Woodman, American photographer (born 1958)

Francesca Stern Woodman was an American photographer best known for her black-and-white pictures featuring either herself or female models.

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19/01/1980

William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist, US Supreme Court associate justice (born 1898)

William Orville Douglas was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975. Douglas was known for his strong progressive and civil libertarian views and is often cited as the most liberal justice in the U.S. Supreme Court’s history. Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, Douglas was confirmed at the age of 40, becoming one of the youngest justices appointed to the court. He is the longest-serving justice in history, having served for 36 years and 209 days.

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19/01/1979

Moritz Jahn, German novelist and poet (born 1884)

Moritz Jahn was a Lower German novelist and an educator. He was also a poet, best known for writing poetry as well, such as ballad, lyric, and narratives. Jahn was born in Lilienthal, a suburb in Lower Saxony to a Low German family. He was the member for Nazi Party. He has written notable books with narration such as Frangula and Lucifer. John was active from the 1920s to 1950s.

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19/01/1976

Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (born 1886)

Hidetsugu Yagi was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka, Japan. When working at Tohoku Imperial University, he wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his assistant Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world.

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19/01/1975

Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator (born 1889)

Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.

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19/01/1973

Max Adrian, Irish-English actor (born 1903)

Max Adrian was an Irish actor and singer. He was a founding member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

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19/01/1972

Michael Rabin, American violinist (born 1936)

Michael Rabin was an American violinist. He has been described as "one of the most talented and tragic violin virtuosi of his generation".

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19/01/1968

Ray Harroun, American race car driver and engineer (born 1879)

Ray Wade Harroun was an American racing driver and pioneering race car constructor. He is most famous for winning the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911.

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19/01/1965

Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (born 1905)

Arnold Luhaäär was an Estonian heavyweight weightlifter. He competed in the 1928 and 1936 Olympic Games and won a silver and a bronze medal, respectively. He missed the 1932 games because Estonia could not afford sending a full team to Los Angeles during the Great Depression.

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19/01/1964

Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (born 1886)

Firmin Lambot was a Belgian bicycle racer who twice won the Tour de France.

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19/01/1963

Clement Smoot, American golfer (born 1884)

Clement Eyer Smoot was an American golfer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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19/01/1957

József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (born 1912)

József Dudás, was a Hungarian politician and resistance fighter.

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19/01/1954

Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (born 1885)

Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza was a German mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza–Klein theory, involving field equations in five-dimensional space-time. His idea that fundamental forces can be unified by introducing additional dimensions was reused much later for string theory.

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19/01/1948

Tony Garnier, French architect and urban planner, designed the Stade de Gerland (born 1869)

Tony Garnier was a noted French architect and city planner. He was most active in his home city of Lyon, where he notably designed the Halle Tony Garnier and Stade de Gerland. Garnier is considered one of the forerunners of 20th-century French architects.

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19/01/1945

Gustave Mesny, French general (born 1886)

Gustave Marie Maurice Mesny was a French Army general in command of the 5th North African Infantry Division who was captured during the Second World War. He was victim of a war crime, controversially killed in retribution for the death of German General Fritz von Brodowski while in French custody.

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19/01/1938

Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (born 1864)

Branislav Nušić was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist. Nušić was the founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servant.

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19/01/1930

Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (born 1903)

Frank Plumpton Ramsey was a British philosopher, mathematician, and economist who made major contributions to all three fields before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein and, as an undergraduate, translated Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into English. He was also influential in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and Cambridge. Like Wittgenstein, he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the secret intellectual society, from 1921.

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19/01/1929

Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (born 1873)

Liang Qichao was a Chinese politician, social and political activist, journalist, and intellectual. His thought had a significant influence on the political reformation of modern China. He inspired Chinese scholars and activists with his writings and reform movements. His translations of Western and Japanese books into Chinese further introduced new theories and ideas and inspired young activists. Liang was of Taishanese descent.

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19/01/1915

Ernest de Munck, Belgian cellist and composer (born 1840)

Ernest de Munck was a Belgian cellist and composer. Born in Brussels, de Munck learned the cello from his professional cellist father François de Munck as well as Adrien-François Servais. He later became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music in London.

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19/01/1906

Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian historian and politician, sixth President of Argentina (born 1821)

Bartolomé Mitre was an Argentine general, statesman and author. He was President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868 and the first president of unified Argentina.

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19/01/1895

António Luís de Seabra, 1st Viscount of Seabra, Portuguese magistrate and politician (born 1798)

D. António Luís de Seabra e Sousa, 1st Viscount of Seabra was a Portuguese politician, jurist, and magistrate. A notable figure of the Constitutional Monarchy period, he was a government minister, a rector of the University of Coimbra, a judge in the Oporto appellate court, a member of Parliament, a Peer of the Realm, and a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice.

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19/01/1878

Henri Victor Regnault, French physicist and chemist (born 1810)

Henri Victor Regnault was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his lifetime as Victor Regnault.

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19/01/1874

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet and scholar (born 1798)

August Heinrich Hoffmann was a German poet associated with the Young Germany movement. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", whose third stanza is now the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular children's songs.

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19/01/1869

Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (born 1788)

Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Reichenbach, known as Carl Reichenbach, was a German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his discoveries of several chemical products of economic importance, extracted from tar, such as eupione, waxy paraffin, pittacal and phenol. He also dedicated his last years to researching an unproved field of energy combining electricity, magnetism and heat, emanating from all living things, which he called the Odic force.

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19/01/1865

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and politician (born 1809)

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He was the first person to call himself an anarchist, and is widely regarded as one of anarchism's most influential theorists. Proudhon became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, whereafter he referred to himself as a federalist. Proudhon described the liberty he pursued as the synthesis of community and individualism. Some consider his mutualism to be part of individualist anarchism while others regard it to be part of social anarchism.

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19/01/1862

Felix Zollicoffer, American newspaperman, politician, and Confederate general (born 1812)

Felix Kirk Zollicoffer was an American newspaperman, slave owner, politician, and soldier. He was three-term U.S. representative from Tennessee, an officer in the United States Army, and a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War; he led the first Confederate invasion of eastern Kentucky and was killed in action at the Battle of Mill Springs. Zollicoffer was the first Confederate general to die in the Western Theater.

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19/01/1853

Karl Faber, German historian and academic (born 1773)

Karl Peter Andreas Faber was a Prussian archivist and historian.

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19/01/1851

Esteban Echeverría, Argentinian poet and author (born 1805)

José Esteban Antonio Echeverría was an Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and liberal activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only through his own writings but also through his organizational efforts. He was one of Latin America's most important Romantic authors. Echeverría's romantic liberalism was influenced by both the democratic nationalism of Giuseppe Mazzini and the utopian socialist doctrines of Henri de Saint-Simon.

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19/01/1847

Charles Bent, American soldier and politician, first Governor of New Mexico (born 1799)

Charles Bent was an American businessman and politician who served as the first civilian United States governor of the New Mexico Territory, newly invaded and occupied by the United States during the Mexican-American War by the Military Governor, Stephen Watts Kearny, in September 1846 until his death.

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Athanasios Christopoulos, Greek poet (born 1772)

Athanasios Christopoulos was a Greek poet, playwright, a distinguished scholar and jurist. He has been proclaimed a champion of the modern Greek demotic and the forerunner of the national poet Dionysios Solomos. More importantly he is the first modern Greek poet to have his works - the Lyrika - published and read across a broad section of the European continent.

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19/01/1833

Ferdinand Hérold, French pianist and composer (born 1791)

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, better known as Ferdinand Hérold, was a French composer. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his operas, of which he composed more than twenty, but he also wrote ballet music, works for piano and choral pieces. He is best known today for the ballet La Fille mal gardée and the overture to the opera Zampa.

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19/01/1785

Jonathan Toup, English scholar and critic (born 1713)

Jonathan Oannes Toup was an English philologist, classical scholar and critic.

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19/01/1766

Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Italian-French architect and painter (born 1695)

Jean-Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, was an Italian decorator, architect, painter, firework designer and trompe-l'œil specialist.

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19/01/1757

Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish scholar and academic (born 1674)

Thomas Ruddiman was a Scottish classical scholar.

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19/01/1755

Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (born 1683)

Jean-Pierre Christin was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale was widely accepted and is still in use today.

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19/01/1729

William Congreve, English playwright and poet (born 1670)

William Congreve was an English playwright and poet. He played a major role in shaping English comedy, and is regarded by literary critics as one of the greatest playwrights of the Restoration period. The popularity of his plays in the late 17th and early 18th centuries was central to the development of satirical comedy of manners, and he became recognised as a seminal figure of Restoration literature. Although he wrote several commercially successful works, Congreve is best remembered today for his quotes, such as, "O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell", and "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned".

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19/01/1661

Thomas Venner, English rebel leader

Thomas Venner was an English cooper and rebel who became the last leader of the Fifth Monarchists, who tried unsuccessfully to overthrow Oliver Cromwell in 1657, and subsequently led a coup in London against the newly restored government of Charles II. This event, known as "Venner's Rising", lasted four days beginning on 6 January 1661 before English authorities defeated and captured the rebels, whose leadership were executed on 19 January.

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19/01/1636

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Flemish painter (born1561)

Marcus Gheeraerts was a Flemish artist working at the Tudor court, described as "the most important artist of quality to work in England in large-scale between Eworth and van Dyck". He was brought to England as a child by his father Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, also a painter. He became a fashionable portraitist in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth I under the patronage of her champion and pageant-master Sir Henry Lee. He introduced a new aesthetic in English court painting that captured the essence of a sitter through close observation. He became a favorite portraitist of James I's queen Anne of Denmark, but fell out of fashion in the late 1610s.

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19/01/1597

Maharana Pratap, Hindu Rajput king of Mewar (born1540)

Pratap Singh I, popularly known as Maharana Pratap, was king of the Kingdom of Mewar, in north-western India in the present-day state of Rajasthan, from 1572 until his death in 1597. He is notable for leading the Rajput resistance against the expansionist policy of the Mughal Emperor Akbar including the battle of Haldighati.

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19/01/1576

Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (born 1494)

Hans Sachs was a German Meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright, and shoemaker.

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19/01/1571

Paris Bordone, Venetian painter (born 1495)

Paris Bordone was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of Mannerist complexity and provincial vigor.

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19/01/1565

Diego Laynez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (born 1512)

Diego Laynez, S.J. was a Spanish Jesuit priest and theologian, a New Christian, and the second Superior General of the Society of Jesus after the founder Ignatius of Loyola. He was born in Almazán and died in Rome.

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19/01/1547

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet (born 1516)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey,, was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person to have been executed at the insistence of King Henry VIII. As a fellow translator and imitator of classical Latin authors, his name is usually associated in literature with that of the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt, about whom he wrote. Owing largely to the powerful position of his father Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Henry took a prominent part in court life, and served as a soldier both in France and in Scotland. He was a man of reckless temper, which involved him in many quarrels, and finally brought upon him the wrath of the ageing Henry VIII. He was arrested, tried for treason and beheaded on Tower Hill.

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19/01/1526

Isabella of Austria, Danish queen (born 1501)

Isabella of Austria, also known as Elizabeth, was born an Archduchess of Austria and Infanta of Castile from the House of Habsburg, and subsequently became Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, under the Kalmar Union, as the wife of King Christian II. She was the daughter of King Philip I and Queen Joanna of Castile and the sister of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. She ruled Denmark as regent in 1520.

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19/01/1302

Al-Hakim I, caliph of Cairo

Al-Hakim I was the second Abbasid caliph whose seat was in Cairo and who was subservient to the Mamluk Sultanate. He reigned between 1262 and 1302.

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19/01/1003

Kilian of Cologne, Irish abbot

Kilian of Cologne, Irish Abbot, died 19 January 1003

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19/01/0914

García I, king of León

García I was the King of León from 910 until his death and eldest of three succeeding sons of Alfonso III of Asturias by his wife Jimena.

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19/01/0639

Dagobert I, Frankish king (born 603)

Dagobert I was King of the Franks. He ruled Austrasia (623–634) and Neustria and Burgundy (629–639). He has been described as the last king of the Merovingian dynasty to wield real royal power, after which the Mayor of the palace rose as the political and war leader. Dagobert was the first Frankish king to be buried in the royal tombs at the Basilica of Saint-Denis.

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19/01/0520

John of Cappadocia, patriarch of Constantinople

John of Cappadocia, surnamed Cappadox or the Cappadocian, was patriarch of Constantinople in 518–520, during the reign of Byzantine emperor Anastasius I Dicorus after an enforced condemnation of the Council of Chalcedon. His short patriarchate is memorable for the celebrated Acclamations of Constantinople, and the reunion of East and West after a schism of 34 years. At the death of Timothy I of Constantinople, John of Cappadocia, whom he had designated his successor, was presbyter and chancellor of the Church of Constantinople.

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