Did you know
Larry King was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s.
Notable Deaths on January 23
2021 — Larry King
American journalist and talk show host (born 1933)
January 23 has 94 recorded notable deaths across history, from 667 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
94 source records
667 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on January 23
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- 1899 The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first president. Source
- 1846 Slavery in Tunisia is abolished. Source
- 1789 Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) when Bishop John Carroll, Rev. Robert Molyneux, and Rev. John Ashton purchase land for the proposed academy for the education of youth. Source
- 1656 Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. Source
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Hal Holbrook first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show, titled Mark Twain Tonight!
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William Pitt was a British statesman who served as the last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and the first official prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801.
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Ferdinand II was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516.
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Samuel Osmond Barber II was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century.
More major people who died on January 23
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2021
Hal Holbrook
American actor and director (born 1925)
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. was an American actor. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show, titled Mark Twain Tonight!, that he developed while studying at Denison University.
1806
William Pitt the Younger
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1759)
William Pitt was a British statesman who served as the last prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 until the Acts of Union 1800, and the first official prime minister of the United Kingdom from January 1801.
1516
Ferdinand II of Aragon (born 1452)
Ferdinand II was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516. As the husband and co-ruler of Queen Isabella I of Castile, he was also King of Castile from 1475 to 1504.
1981
Samuel Barber
American pianist and composer (born 1910)
Samuel Osmond Barber II was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century.
2002
Robert Nozick
American philosopher, author, and academic (born 1938)
Robert Nozick was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association.
1947
Pierre Bonnard
French painter (born 1867)
Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.
1986
Joseph Beuys
German sculptor and painter (born 1921)
Joseph Heinrich Beuys was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology.
1992
Freddie Bartholomew
American actor (born 1924)
Frederick Cecil Bartholomew, known for his acting work as Freddie Bartholomew, was an English-American child actor who was very popular in 1930s Hollywood films.
1805
Claude Chappe
French engineer (born 1763)
Claude Chappe was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France.
1812
Robert Craufurd
Scottish general and politician (born 1764)
Major-General Robert Craufurd was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
2014
Elmira Nazirova
Azerbaijani composer (born 1928)
Elmira Mirza Rza-kyzy Nazirova was an Azerbaijani composer. Born to a Georgian Jewish family, she was a child prodigy who excelled at music and trained at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory for several years.
1985
James Beard
American chef and cookbook author for whom the James Beard Foundation Awards are named (born 1905)
James Andrews Beard was an American chef, cookbook author, teacher and television personality.
1978
Terry Kath
American guitarist and songwriter (born 1946)
Terry Alan Kath was an American guitarist and singer who is best known as a founding member of the rock band Chicago.
1883
Gustave Doré
French engraver and illustrator (born 1832)
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor.
1937
Orso Mario Corbino
Italian physicist and politician (born 1876)
Orso Mario Corbino was an Italian physicist and politician. He is noted for his studies of the influence of external magnetic fields on the motion of electrons in metals and he discovered the Corbino effect.
1994
Nikolai Ogarkov
Russian field marshal (born 1917)
Nikolai Vasilyevich Ogarkov was a prominent Soviet military personality. He was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1977. Between 1977 and 1984, he was Chief of the General Staff of the USSR.
1744
Giambattista Vico
Italian historian and philosopher (born 1668)
Giambattista Vico was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, historian, and jurist during the Italian Enlightenment.
1973
Alexander Onassis
American-Greek businessman (born 1948)
Alexander Socrates Onassis was an American-born Greek businessman. He was the son of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and his first wife Tina Livanos.
2018
Hugh Masekela
South African trumpeter, composer and singer (born 1939)
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz".