Notable Deaths on January 14

Q: Who died on January 14?

Notable people who died on January 14 include: Chak Tok Ichʼaak I, Cui Huan, Wang Yanhan, Zhang Yanlang, Ekkehard I.

Q: What is Joel Robert known for?

Joel Robert, Belgian motorcycle racer (born 1943)

118 people 378 – 2025

January 14 has seen 118 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 378 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2021 — Joel Robert

Belgian motorcycle racer (born 1943)

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A six-time world champion, Robert dominated the 250cc class for almost a decade when, he placed either first or second every year between 1964 and 1972 including, five consecutive world championships

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He won a total of 50 Grand Prix races over his career, a record which stood for nearly 30 years.

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He competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1962 to 1976 when the sport experienced a surge in popularity worldwide

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In 1964, he was named the recipient of the Belgian National Sports Merit Award

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Joël Robert was a Belgian professional motocross racer

Chak Tok Ichʼaak I

ajaw of the Maya city of Tikal

Chak Tok Ichʼaak I also known as Great Paw, Great Jaguar Paw, and Toh Chak Ichʼak was an ajaw of the Maya city of Tikal. He took the throne on 7 August 360 and reigned until his death in 378, apparently at the hands of…

378

Cui Huan

chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

Cui Huan (崔渙) was a Chinese politician during the Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor briefly during the reign of Emperor Suzong—although he was commissioned by Emperor Suzong's father Emperor Xuanzong, not Emperor…

769

Wang Yanhan

king of Min (Ten Kingdoms)

Wang Yanhan, courtesy name Ziyi (子逸), also known by his posthumous name as the King Si of Min (閩嗣王), was a ruler of Min during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of China. He ruled briefly after the death of his…

927

Zhang Yanlang

Chinese official

Zhang Yanlang was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period states Later Liang and Later Tang. He had his most powerful positions during the reign of Later Tang's last emperor Li Congke, as both…

937

Ekkehard I

Frankish monk and poet

Ekkehard I, called Major or Senex, was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall. He was of noble birth, of the Jonschwyl family in Toggenburg, and was educated in the monastery of St. Gall. After joining the Benedictine Order,…

973

Vratislaus II of Bohemia

Vratislaus II, the son of Bretislaus I and Judith of Schweinfurt, was the first King of Bohemia as of 15 June 1085, his royal title granted as a lifetime honorific from Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV that did not establish…

1092

Ladislaus II of Hungary (born 1131)

Ladislaus II or Ladislas II was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1162 and 1163, having usurped the crown from his nephew, Stephen III.

1163

Saint Sava

Serbian archbishop and saint (born 1175)

Saint Sava, known as the Enlightener or the Illuminator, was a Serbian prince and Orthodox monk who became the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church. He was also a writer, diplomat, and the founder of…

1236

Andrew III of Hungary (born 1265)

Andrew III the Venetian was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1290 and 1301. His father, Stephen the Posthumous, was the posthumous son of Andrew II of Hungary although Stephen's older half brothers considered him a…

1301

Odoric of Pordenone

Italian priest and explorer (born 1286)

Odoric of Pordenone was a Franciscan friar and missionary explorer from Friuli in northeast Italy. He journeyed through India, Sumatra, Java, and China, where he spent three years in the imperial capital of Khanbaliq.…

1331

Thomas Beckington

English statesman and prelate

Thomas Beckington was the Bishop of Bath and Wells and King's Secretary in medieval England under Henry VI.

1465

John de Mowbray

4th Duke of Norfolk (born 1444)

John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk, KG, known as 1st Earl of Surrey between 1451 and 1461, was the only son of John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Eleanor Bourchier. His maternal grandparents were William…

1476

Jacques Dubois

French anatomist (born 1478)

Jacques Dubois was a French anatomist who was professor of surgery at Collège Royal. He was the first to describe venous valves, although their function was later discovered by William Harvey.

1555

Thomas Coventry

1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (born 1578)

Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry was a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge during the early 17th century.

1640

Caspar Barlaeus

Dutch historian, poet, and theologian (born 1584)

Caspar Barlaeus was a Flemish polymath and Renaissance humanist, a theologian, poet, and historian.

1648

Francesco Cavalli

Italian organist and composer (born 1602)

Francesco Cavalli was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverdi as the dominant and leading opera composer of the mid 17th-century. A central…

1676

Jacques de Billy

French mathematician and academic (born 1602)

Jacques de Billy was a French Jesuit mathematician. Born in Compiègne, he subsequently entered the Society of Jesus. From 1629 to 1630, Billy taught mathematics at the Jesuit College at Pont-à-Mousson. He was still…

1679

Tokugawa Mitsukuni

Japanese daimyō (born 1628)

Tokugawa Mitsukuni , also known as Mito Kōmon , was a Japanese daimyo who was known for his influence in the politics of the early Edo period. He was the third son of Tokugawa Yorifusa and succeeded him, becoming the…

1701

George Berkeley

Anglo-Irish philosopher and author (born 1685)

George Berkeley, known as Bishop Berkeley, was an Anglo-Irish philosopher, writer, and clergyman who is regarded as the founder of immaterialism, a philosophical theory he developed which later came to be known as…

1753

Frederick V of Denmark (born 1723)

Frederick V was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein from 6 August 1746 until his death in 1766. A member of the House of Oldenburg, he was the son of Christian VI of Denmark and Sophie Magdalene of…

1766

Edward Cornwallis

English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (born 1713)

Lieutenant-General Edward Cornwallis was a British Army officer and member of the aristocratic Cornwallis family. After Cornwallis fought in Scotland, putting down the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he was appointed Groom…

1776

Michael Arne

English organist and composer (born 1741)

Michael Arne was an English composer, harpsichordist, organist, singer, and actor. He was the son of the composer Thomas Arne and the soprano Cecilia Young, a member of the famous Young family of musicians of the…

1786

Meshech Weare

American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of New Hampshire (born 1713)

Meshech Weare was an American farmer, lawyer, and statesman from Seabrook and Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He served as the first president of New Hampshire. Before 1784 the position of governor was referred to as…

1786

Athanasios Kanakaris

Greek politician (born 1760)

Athanasios Kanakaris was a Greek politician. He fought in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.

1823

George Dance the Younger

English architect and surveyor (born 1741)

George Dance the Younger RA was an English architect, surveyor and painter who specialised in portrait painting. The fifth and youngest son of the architect George Dance the Elder, he came from a family of architects,…

1825

Seraphim of Sarov

Russian monk and saint (born 1759)

Seraphim of Sarov, born Prókhor Isídorovich Moshnín (Mashnín) [Про́хор Иси́дорович Мошни́н (Машни́н)], is one of the most renowned Russian saints and is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican…

1833

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

French painter and illustrator (born 1780)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic…

1867

Johann Philipp Reis

German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (born 1834)

Johann Philipp Reis was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. It was the first device to transmit a voice via…

1874

Napoléon Coste

French guitarist and composer (born 1806)

Claude Antoine Jean Georges Napoléon Coste was a French classical guitarist and composer.

1883

Stephen Heller

Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1813)

Stephen Heller was a Hungarian pianist, teacher, and composer whose career spanned the period from Schumann to Bizet. Heller was an influence for later Romantic composers. He outlived his reputation, and was a…

1888

Ema Pukšec

Croatian soprano (born 1834)

Ema Pukšec, also known as Ilma de Murska, as well as Ilma di Murska, was a 19th-century operatic coloratura soprano with a voice with nearly three octaves compass from Croatia.

1889

Prince Albert Victor

Duke of Clarence and Avondale (born 1864)

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, was the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales. From birth, he was second in the line of succession to the British throne, but did not become king or Prince…

1892

Alexander J. Davis

American architect (born 1803)

Alexander Jackson Davis was an American architect known particularly for his association with the Gothic Revival style.

1892

Lewis Carroll

English novelist, poet, and mathematician (born 1832)

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglican deacon. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland…

1898

Mandell Creighton

English bishop and historian (born 1843)

Mandell Creighton was a British historian, Anglican priest and bishop. The son of a successful cabinet-maker in north-west England, Creighton studied at the University of Oxford, focusing his scholarship on the…

1901

Charles Hermite

French mathematician and theorist (born 1822)

Charles Hermite FRS FRSE MIAS was a French mathematician who studied analysis, number theory, and algebra. One of his most remarkable achievements was the proof of the transcendence of the number e.

1901

Ernst Abbe

German physicist and engineer (born 1840)

Ernst Karl Abbe, was a German businessman, optical engineer, physicist, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG,…

1905

Sir James Fergusson

6th Baronet, Scottish soldier and politician, 6th Governor of New Zealand (born 1832)

Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet was a British soldier, Conservative politician and colonial administrator who was the sixth governor of New Zealand from 1873 to 1874.

1907

Holger Drachmann

Danish poet and playwright (born 1846)

Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann was a Danish poet, dramatist and painter. He was a member of the Skagen artistic colony and became a figure of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough Movement.

1908

Richard Meux Benson

English priest and saint, founded the Society of St. John the Evangelist (born 1824)

Richard Meux Benson was a priest in the Church of England and founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, the first religious order of monks in the Anglican Communion since the Reformation. He is commemorated in…

1915

Platon

Estonian bishop and saint (born 1869)

Platon, born Paul Kulbusch, was an Estonian bishop and the first Orthodox saint of Estonian ethnicity.

1919

John Francis Dodge

American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Automobile Company (born 1864)

John Francis Dodge was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.

1920

August Sedláček

Czech historian and author (born 1843)

August Sedláček was a Czech historian and archivist.

1926

Ioan Cantacuzino

Romanian physician and bacteriologist (born 1863)

Ioan I. Cantacuzino was a renowned Romanian physician and bacteriologist, a professor at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Bucharest, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. He established…

1934

Jaishankar Prasad

Indian poet, author, and playwright (born 1889)

Jaishankar Prasad was a prominent figure in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre. Prasad was his pen name. He was also known as Chhayavadi kavi.

1937

Jaakko Mäki

Finnish politician (born 1878)

Jaakko Mäki was a Finnish coppersmith, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Vaasa Province South between August…

1938

Porfirio Barba-Jacob

Colombian poet and author (born 1883)

Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez, better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer.

1942

Laura E. Richards

American author and poet (born 1850)

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards was an American writer. She wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children. One well-known children's poem is her literary nonsense verse Eletelephony.

1943

Mehmet Emin Yurdakul

Turkish author and politician (born 1869)

Mehmet Emin Yurdakul was a Turkish nationalist writer, poet and politician. Being an ideologue of Pan-Turkism, his writings and poems had a major impact on defining the term vatan (Fatherland).

1944

Gustave Mathieu

French illegalist anarchist, suspected of being one of Ravachol's main accomplices (born 1866)

Gustave Mathieu,, was a French worker and illegalist anarchist. A very militant anarchist and central to the birth of illegalism, he notably associated with Placide Schouppe, one of the first illegalists. Mathieu was…

1947

Harry Stack Sullivan

American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (born 1892)

Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan was an American neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that "personality can never be isolated from the complex interpersonal relationships in which [a] person lives" and…

1949

Gregorios Xenopoulos

Greek author, journalist, and playwright (born 1867)

Gregorios Xenopoulos was a novelist, journalist and playwright from Zakynthos.

1951

Artur Kapp

Estonian composer and conductor (born 1878)

Artur Kapp was an Estonian composer.

1952

Humphrey Bogart

American actor (born 1899)

Humphrey DeForest Bogart, nicknamed Bogie, was an American actor. His performances in classic Hollywood cinema made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest…

1957

Eivind Berggrav

Norwegian bishop and translator (born 1884)

Eivind Josef Berggrav was a Norwegian Lutheran bishop. As primate of the Church of Norway, Berggrav became known for his central role in the Church of Norway's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Norway during…

1959

Barry Fitzgerald

Irish actor (born 1888)

William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938),…

1961

Jeanette MacDonald

American actress and singer (born 1903)

Jeanette Anna MacDonald was an American soprano and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy. During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four…

1965

Sergei Korolev

Ukrainian-Russian engineer and academic (born 1906)

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1,…

1966

Dorothea Mackellar

Australian poet and author (born 1885)

Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping…

1968

William Feller

Croatian-American mathematician and academic (born 1906)

William "Vilim" Feller, born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian–American mathematician specializing in probability theory.

1970

Asım Gündüz

Turkish general (born 1880)

Âsım Gündüz was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army.

1970

Horst Assmy

German footballer (born 1933)

Horst Assmy was a German footballer who played as a forward. Assmy played in East Germany for Einheit Pankow, Motor Oberschöneweide and Vorwärts Berlin, and won 12 caps for the national team, scoring 4 goals. He…

1972

Frederik IX of Denmark (born 1899)

Frederik IX was King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972.

1972

Abdul Razak Hussein

Malaysian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1922)

Abdul Razak bin Hussein was a Malaysian lawyer and politician who served as the second prime minister of Malaysia from 1970 until his death in 1976. He also served as the first deputy prime minister of Malaysia from…

1976

Anthony Eden

English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1897)

Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, was a British politician and military officer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 until his resignation in 1957.

1977

Peter Finch

English-Australian actor (born 1916)

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch was an English and Australian actor.

1977

Anaïs Nin

French-American essayist and memoirist (born 1903)

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of the…

1977

Harold Abrahams

English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist (born 1899)

Harold Maurice Abrahams was an English track and field athlete. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

1978

Kurt Gödel

Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher (born 1906)

Kurt Friedrich Gödel was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel profoundly influenced scientific and…

1978

Robert Heger

German conductor and composer (born 1886)

Robert Heger was a German conductor and composer from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine.

1978

Blossom Rock

American actress (born 1895)

Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald, also known as Blossom Rock, was an American actress of vaudeville, stage, film and television. During her career she was also billed as Marie Blake or Blossom MacDonald. Her younger sister…

1978

Robert Ardrey

American-South African author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1908)

Robert Ardrey was an American playwright, screenwriter and science writer perhaps best known for The Territorial Imperative (1966). After a Broadway and Hollywood career, he returned to his academic training in…

1980

G. Lloyd Spencer

American lieutenant and politician (born 1893)

George Lloyd Spencer was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state in the United States Senate from 1941 to 1943.

1981

Ray Kroc

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1902)

Raymond Albert Kroc was an American businessman who was instrumental in turning McDonald's into the most successful global fast food corporation by revenue. He purchased it from the McDonald Brothers in 1961, after…

1984

Donna Reed

American actress (born 1921)

Donna Reed was an American actress. Her career spanned more than 40 years and included appearances in over 40 films. She is best known for playing Mary Hatch Bailey in Frank Capra's Christmas classic It's a Wonderful…

1986

Turgut Demirağ

Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Turgut Demirağ was a Turkish film producer, director, and screenwriter. He directed 16 films between 1947 and 1973. His 1964 film Love and Grudge was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.

1987

Douglas Sirk

German-Swiss director and screenwriter (born 1900)

Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films. Sirk started his career in Germany as a stage and screen…

1987

Georgy Malenkov

Russian engineer and politician, 5th Premier of the Soviet Union (born 1902)

Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov was a Soviet politician who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier and the overall leader of the Soviet Union in March 1953. Shortly thereafter, Malenkov entered into a power struggle with…

1988

Gordon Bryant

Australian educator and politician (born 1914)

Gordon Munro Bryant was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and represented the Division of Wills in Victoria from 1955 to 1980. During this time, he took an active interest in…

1991

Alexander Gibson

Scottish conductor (born 1926)

Sir Alexander Drummond Gibson was a Scottish conductor and opera intendant. He was also well known for his service to the BBC and his achievements during his reign as the longest serving principal conductor of the…

1995

Onno Tunç

Armenian-Turkish composer (born 1948)

Ohannes Tunçboyacıyan, better known as Onno Tunç, was a leading Turkish musician of Armenian descent, working mainly as a composer, arranger and a music producer. Tunç also played bass guitar and occasionally double…

1996

Dollard Ménard

Canadian general (born 1913)

Brigadier Dollard Ménard was a senior officer in the Canadian Army. As a lieutenant colonel, he was wounded five times during the Dieppe Raid in 1942 while leading Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal. His story inspired a famous…

1997

Leonard Weisgard

American author and illustrator (born 1916)

Leonard Joseph Weisgard was an American writer and illustrator of more than 200 children's books. He is known best for his collaborations with writer Margaret Wise Brown.

2000

Uta Hagen

German-American actress (born 1919)

Uta Thyra Hagen was a German and American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, who called her "a…

2004

Ron O'Neal

American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1937)

Ron O'Neal was an American actor, director and screenwriter, who rose to fame in his role as Youngblood Priest, a New York City cocaine dealer, in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972) and its sequel Super Fly T.N.T.…

2004

Charlotte MacLeod

Canadian-American author (born 1922)

Charlotte MacLeod was a Canadian-American mystery fiction writer.

2005

Conroy Maddox

English painter and educator (born 1912)

Conroy Maddox was an English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer; and a key figure in the Birmingham Surrealist movement.

2005

Rudolph Moshammer

German fashion designer (born 1940)

Rudolph Moshammer was a German fashion designer. He built a reputation for the extravagant clothes he designed and wore, and was well known in Germany's celebrity circuit.

2005

Jesús Rafael Soto

Venezuelan sculptor and painter (born 1923)

Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan kinetic and op artist, a sculptor and a painter.

2005

Henri Colpi

French director and screenwriter (born 1921)

Henri Colpi was a French film editor and film director.

2006

Jim Gary

American sculptor (born 1939)

Jim Gary was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts. These sculptures were typically finished with automobile paint although some were…

2006

Shelley Winters

American actress (born 1920)

Shelley Winters was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun…

2006

Vassilis Photopoulos

Greek painter, director, and set designer (born 1934)

Vassilis Photopoulos was an influential Greek painter, film director, art director and set designer.

2007

Judah Folkman

American physician, biologist, and academic (born 1933)

Moses Judah Folkman was an American biologist and pediatric surgeon best known for his research on tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence. He…

2008

Jan Kaplický

Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (born 1937)

Jan Kaplický was a Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. He was best known for…

2009

Ricardo Montalbán

Mexican actor (born 1920)

Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino was a Mexican and American film and television actor. Montalbán's career spanned seven decades, during which he became widely known for performances in genres from crime and…

2009

Antonio Fontán

Spanish journalist and academic (born 1923)

Antonio Fontán Pérez, 1st Marquess of Guadalcanal was a Spanish journalist recognized for his work in promoting press freedom in his country. He was also a well-known Catholic and a member of Opus Dei.

2010

Georgia Carroll

American singer, model and actress (born 1919)

Georgia Carroll was an American singer, model and actress, best known for her work with Kay Kyser's big band orchestra in the mid-1940s. She and Kyser were married in 1944 until he died in 1985.

2011

Txillardegi

Spanish linguist and politician (born 1929)

José Luis Álvarez Enparantza, better known by his pseudonym Txillardegi, was a Basque linguist, politician, and writer. He was born and raised in the Basque Country, and although he did not learn the Basque language…

2012

Dan Evins

American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (born 1935)

Danny Wood Evins was an American entrepreneur and founder of Cracker Barrel, a Southern-themed restaurant chain.

2012

Arfa Karim

Pakistani student and computer prodigy, youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in 2004 (born 1995)

Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa (Urdu: ارفع عبد الکریم رندھاوا‎, Punjabi: ارفع عبد الکریم رندھاوا‎; 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified…

2012

Giampiero Moretti

Italian entrepreneur and race car driver (born 1940)

Gianpiero Moretti was an Italian racing driver and the founder of the MOMO company in the 1960s. He was born in Milan.

2012

Rosy Varte

Armenian-French actress (born 1923)

Rosy Varte was a French actress of Armenian descent. She made more than 100 film and television appearances during her career.

2012

Conrad Bain

Canadian-American actor (born 1923)

Conrad Stafford Bain was a Canadian-American actor. His television credits include a leading role as Phillip Drummond in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986), as Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude (1972–1978), and as…

2013

Jon Bing

Norwegian author, scholar, and academic (born 1944)

Jon Bing was a Norwegian writer and law professor at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Bing was considered a pioneer in international IT and…

2014

Juan Gelman

Argentinian poet and author (born 1930)

Juan Gelman was an Argentine poet. He published more than twenty books of poetry between 1956 and his death in early 2014. He was a naturalized citizen of Mexico, where he arrived as a political exile of the Process,…

2014

Flavio Testi

Italian composer and musicologist (born 1923)

Flavio Testi was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music and musicologist.

2014

Bob Boyd

American basketball player and coach (born 1930)

William Robert Boyd was an American collegiate men's basketball coach who was head coach at Seattle University, the University of Southern California (USC) and Mississippi State University.

2015

Zhang Wannian

Chinese general (born 1928)

Zhang Wannian was a general of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China.

2015

René Angélil

Canadian music producer, talent manager, and singer (born 1942)

René Angélil was a Canadian musical producer, talent manager and singer. He was the husband and manager of singer Celine Dion.

2016

Alan Rickman

English actor (born 1946)

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was an English actor. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he was renowned for his stage and screen roles and for his deep and distinctive voice. He received various accolades,…

2016

Zhou Youguang

Chinese sociologist, (born 1906)

Zhou Youguang, also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, linguist, sinologist, and supercentenarian. He has been credited as the father of pinyin, the most popular romanization system for…

2017

Spanky Manikan

Filipino veteran actor (born 1942)

Manuel S. Manikan, known professionally as Spanky Manikan, was a Filipino theater, film and television actor.

2018

Cyrille Regis

French Guianan-English footballer (born 1958)

Cyrille Regis was a professional footballer who played as a forward. His professional playing career spanned 19 years, where he made 614 league appearances and scored 158 league goals, most prolifically at West Bromwich…

2018

Mukarram Jah

8th Nizam of Hyderabad (born 1933)

Nizam Mir Barkat Ali Khan Siddiqi Mukarram Jah, Asaf Jah VIII, less formally known as Mukarram Jah, was the titular Nizam of Hyderabad between 1967 and 1971. He was the head of the House of Asaf Jah until he died in…

2023

Arthur Blessitt

American Christian preacher (born 1940)

Arthur Owen Blessitt was an American traveling Christian preacher who was known for carrying a cross through every nation of the world.

2025

Tony Slattery

British actor, comedian and television personality (born 1959)

Tony Declan James Slattery was an English actor and comedian. He appeared on British television regularly from the mid-1980s, including as a regular on the Channel 4 improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. His…

2025

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Joel Robert — Belgian motorcycle racer (1943–2021)

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Known forHe competed in the Motocross World Championships from 1962 to 1976 when the sport experienced a surge in popularity worldwide

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2024

Queen Margrethe II abdicates as Queen of Denmark and is succeeded by her son, Frederik X. Wikipedia →

2019

A Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crashes at Fath Air Base near Karaj in Alborz Province, Iran, killing 15 people. Wikipedia →

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