Notable Deaths on January 4

Q: Who died on January 4?

Notable people who died on January 4 include: Æthelwulf, Hasan al-Askari, Sancho II of Portugal (born 1209), Robert de Lisle, Nicholas Eymerich.

Q: What is Hasan al-Askari known for?

Hasan al-Askari, eleventh of the Twelve Imams (probable; b. 846)

99 people 871 – 2026

January 4 has seen 99 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 871 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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874 — Hasan al-Askari

eleventh of the Twelve Imams (probable; b. 846)

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After the death of al-Hadi in 868, the majority of his following acknowledged his son, al-Askari, as their next Imam

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He died in Samarra in 873–874 at the age of about twenty-eight and was buried in the family home next to his father, which later developed into al-Askari shrine, a major center for Shia pilgrimage

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Hasan al-Askari was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

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Al-Askari's contact with the Shia population was restricted by the caliphs and instead, he communicated with his followers through a network of representatives

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Shia sources commonly hold the Abbasids responsible for the death of al-Askari and his father

Æthelwulf

Saxon ealdorman

Æthelwulf of Berkshire was a Saxon ealdorman. In 860 he and other men of Berkshire fought off a band of pirates near Winchester, Hampshire. Later he mustered a force of 1400 men against an army of Danes, won the 31…

871

Sancho II of Portugal (born 1209)

Sancho II, nicknamed Sancho the Cowled or Sancho the Capuched, alternatively, Sancho the Pious, was King of Portugal from 1223 to 1248.

1248

Robert de Lisle

1st Baron Lisle, English peer (born 1288)

Robert de Lisle, 1st Baron Lisle was an English peer. He saw military service in Scotland, and fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge. After his wife's death, he joined the Franciscan order. He was the owner of the Lisle…

1344

Nicholas Eymerich

Catalan theologian and inquisitor

Nicholas Eymerich was a Roman Catholic theologian in Medieval Catalonia and Inquisitor General of the Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon in the later half of the 14th century. He is best known for authoring the…

1399

Muzio Sforza

Italian condottiero (born 1369)

Muzio Attendolo Sforza was an Italian condottiero. Founder of the Sforza dynasty, he led a Bolognese-Florentine army at the Battle of Casalecchio. In his later years, he served Queen Joanna II of Naples and was…

1424

Frederick I

Elector of Saxony (born 1370)

Frederick I, the Belligerent or the Warlike, a member of the House of Wettin, ruled as Margrave of Meissen from 1407 and as Elector of Saxony from 1423 until his death. He secured the Saxon electorship for the House of…

1428

Tobias Stimmer

Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1539)

Tobias Stimmer was a Swiss painter and illustrator. His most famous work is the paintings on the Strasbourg astronomical clock.

1584

Ferenc Nádasdy

Hungarian noble (born 1555)

Count Ferenc II Nádasdy de Nádasd et Fogarasföld was a Hungarian nobleman and a distinguished soldier. His family, the Nádasdy family, was one of the wealthiest and most influential of the era in Hungary. In 1571, when…

1604

François-Henri de Montmorency

duc de Luxembourg, French general (born 1628)

François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Piney-Luxembourg, commonly known as Luxembourg, and nicknamed "The Upholsterer of Notre-Dame", was a French general and Marshal of France. A comrade and successor of the…

1695

Stephen Hales

English clergyman and physiologist (born 1677)

Stephen Hales was an English clergyman who made major contributions to a range of scientific fields including botany, pneumatic chemistry and physiology. He was the first person to measure blood pressure. He also…

1761

Ange-Jacques Gabriel

French architect, designed École Militaire (born 1698)

Ange-Jacques Gabriel was the principal architect of King Louis XV. His major works included the Place de la Concorde, the École Militaire, and the Petit Trianon and opera theater at the Palace of Versailles. His style…

1782

Moses Mendelssohn

German philosopher and theologian (born 1729)

Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the Haskalah, or 'Jewish Enlightenment'…

1786

Charlotte Lennox

English author and poet (born 1730)

Charlotte Lennox, née Ramsay, was a Scottish writer and a literary and cultural critic, whose publishing career flourished in London. Best known for her novel The Female Quixote (1752), she was frequently praised for…

1804

Elizabeth Ann Seton

American nun and saint (born 1774)

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was an American Catholic educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five children with her…

1821

Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (born 1751)

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1825

Roger Hanson

American general (born 1827)

Roger Weightman Hanson was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The commander of the famed "Orphan Brigade," he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Stones River. He was…

1863

Thomas Gregson

English-Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Tasmania (born 1798)

Thomas George Gregson was the second Premier of Tasmania, serving from 26 February 1857 until 25 April 1857.

1874

Cornelius Vanderbilt

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1794)

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1877

Anselm Feuerbach

German painter and educator (born 1829)

Anselm Feuerbach was a German painter. He was the leading neoclassical painter of the German 19th-century school.

1880

Edward William Cooke

English painter and illustrator (born 1811)

Edward William Cooke was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener.

1880

John William Draper

English-American physician, chemist, and photographer (born 1811)

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1882

Antoine Chanzy

French general (born 1823)

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1883

Antoine Labelle

Canadian priest (born 1833)

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1891

Joseph Hubert Reinkens

German bishop and academic (born 1821)

Joseph Hubert Reinkens was the first German Old Catholic bishop.

1896

Stanisław Mieroszewski

Polish-born politician, writer, historian and member of the Imperial Council of Austria (born 1827)

Count Stanisław Mieroszewski (Mieroszowski) (1827–1900) was a Polish-born politician, writer, historian and member of the Imperial Council of Austria.

1900

Anna Winlock

American astronomer and academic (born 1857)

Anna Winlock (1857–1904) was an American astronomer and human computer, one of the first members of female computer group known as "the Harvard Computers." She made the most complete catalog of stars near the north and…

1904

Léon Delagrange

French pilot and sculptor (born 1873)

Ferdinand Marie Léon Delagrange was a French sculptor and pioneering aviator.

1910

Clarence Dutton

American geologist and soldier (born 1841)

Clarence Edward Dutton was an American geologist and US Army officer.

1912

Georg von Hertling

German academic and politician, 7th Chancellor of the German Empire (born 1843)

Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party. He was foreign minister and minister president of Bavaria, then imperial chancellor of the…

1919

Benito Pérez Galdós

Spanish author and playwright (born 1843)

Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist and politician. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in…

1920

Alfred Grünfeld

Austrian pianist and composer (born 1852)

Alfred Grünfeld was an Austrian pianist and composer.

1924

Nellie Cashman

American nurse, restaurateur, entrepreneur, and gold prospector (born 1845)

Ellen Cashman was an Irish gold prospector, nurse, restaurateur, businesswoman and philanthropist in Arizona, Alaska, British Columbia and Yukon.

1925

Margherita of Savoy

Queen of Italy (born 1851)

Margherita of Savoy was Queen of Italy by marriage to her first cousin King Umberto I of Italy. She was the daughter of Prince Ferdinando of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, and Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, and the mother of King…

1926

Süleyman Nazif

Turkish poet and civil servant (born 1870)

Süleyman Nazif was a Turkish poet and a prominent member of the CUP. He mastered Arabic, Persian, and French languages and worked as a civil servant during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. He contributed to the…

1927

Art Acord

American actor and stuntman (born 1890)

Arthemus Ward "Art" Acord was an American silent film actor and rodeo champion. After his film career ended in 1929, Acord worked in rodeo road shows and as a miner in Mexico.

1931

Louise

Princess Royal of the United Kingdom (born 1867)

Louise, Princess Royal was the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom. She was a younger sister of King George V. Louise was granted the title of Princess Royal in…

1931

Mohammad Ali Jauhar

Indian Muslim activist (born 1878)

Muhammad Ali Jawhar was an Indian politician and activist of the Indian independence movement. He was a co-founder of the All-India Muslim League and Jamia Millia Islamia.

1931

Henri Bergson

French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)

Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War, but…

1941

Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz

Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (born 1911)

Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz was a Polish athlete who was active as a secret agent in Greece and was collaborating with the Greek Resistance during World War II before his execution by the Germans.

1943

Marina Raskova

Russian pilot and navigator (born 1912)

Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator. Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to a military…

1943

Kaj Munk

Danish playwright and pastor (born 1898)

Kaj Harald Leininger Munk was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the occupation of Denmark of World War II. He is commemorated as a martyr in the Calendar…

1944

Albert Camus

French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest…

1960

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian–Irish theoretical physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory. In particular, he is recognized for devising the Schrödinger equation, an…

1961

T. S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he reinvigorated the art through his use of language, writing style, and verse…

1965

Donald Campbell

English racing driver and world speed record holder (born 1921)

Donald Malcolm Campbell was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed…

1967

Paul Chambers

American bassist and composer (born 1935)

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1969

Carlo Levi

Italian painter, author, and activist (born 1902)

Carlo Levi was an Italian painter, writer, activist, independent leftist politician, and doctor.

1975

Brian Horrocks

Indian-English general (born 1895)

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1985

Christopher Isherwood

English-American author and academic (born 1904)

Christopher Isherwood was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which was the basis…

1986

Phil Lynott

Irish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (born 1949)

Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish musician who was the co-founder, lead vocalist, bassist, and primary songwriter of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy. He was noted for his distinctive pick-based style on the bass and for…

1986

Lily Laskine

French harp player (born 1893)

Lily Laskine was one of the most prominent harpists of the twentieth century who was born and died in Paris. Born Lily Aimée Laskine to Jewish parents in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Alphonse…

1988

Harold Eugene Edgerton

American engineer and academic (born 1903)

Harold Eugene Edgerton, also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming…

1990

Henry Bolte

Australian politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (born 1908)

Sir Henry Edward Bolte was an Australian politician who served as the 38th premier of Victoria from 1955 to 1972. He held office as the leader of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) and was a…

1990

R. D. Burman

Indian film composer and music director (born 1939)

Rahul Dev Burman was an Indian music director and singer, who is considered to be one of the greatest and most successful music directors of the Hindi film music industry. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Burman composed…

1994

Eduardo Mata

Mexican conductor and composer (born 1942)

Eduardo Mata was a Mexican conductor and composer.

1995

Sol Tax

American anthropologist and academic (born 1907)

Sol Tax was an American anthropologist. He is best known for creating action anthropology and his studies of the Meskwaki, or Fox Indians, for "action-anthropological" research titled the Fox Project, and for founding…

1995

Harry Helmsley

American businessman (born 1909)

Harry Brakmann Helmsley was an American real estate billionaire whose company, Helmsley-Spear, became one of the country's biggest property holders, owning the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Building, the Graybar…

1997

Mae Questel

American actress (born 1908)

Mae Questel was an American actress. She was best known for providing the voices for the animated characters Betty Boop and Olive Oyl.

1998

Iron Eyes Cody

American actor and stuntman (born 1904)

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1999

Les Brown

American bandleader and composer (born 1912)

Lester Raymond Brown was an American jazz musician who for over six decades (1938–2000) led his big band, later called Les Brown and His Band of Renown.

2001

Brian Gibson

English director and screenwriter (born 1944)

Brian Gibson was an English film and television director.

2004

Joan Aiken

English author (born 1924)

Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering…

2004

John Toland

American historian and author (born 1912)

John Willard Toland was an American writer and historian. He is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler and a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II-era Japan, The Rising Sun.

2004

Bud Poile

Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (born 1924)

Norman Robert "Bud" Poile was a professional ice hockey player, coach, general manager, and league executive. Bud was the brother of Don Poile, and the father of David Poile.

2005

Frank Harary

American mathematician and academic (born 1921)

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2005

Humphrey Carpenter

English radio host and author (born 1946)

Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien and other members of the literary society the Inklings. He won…

2005

Robert Heilbroner

American economist and historian (born 1919)

Robert L. Heilbroner was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some two dozen books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great…

2005

Irving Layton

Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (born 1912)

Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made him enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography (2001), Layton…

2006

Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Emirati politician, 1st Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (born 1946)

Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum was an Emirati royal and politician who served as the second vice president, first and third prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, and ruler of Dubai. He was prime minister…

2006

Milton Himmelfarb

American sociographer, author, and academic (born 1918)

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2006

Helen Hill

American director and producer (born 1970)

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2007

Marais Viljoen

South African politician, 5th State President of South Africa (born 1915)

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2007

Xavier Chamorro Cardenal

Nicaraguan journalist (born 1932)

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2008

Gert Jonke

Austrian poet, playwright, and author (born 1946)

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2009

Johan Ferrier

Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname (born 1910)

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2010

Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Japanese engineer (born 1916)

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2010

Coen Moulijn

Dutch footballer (born 1937)

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2011

Gerry Rafferty

Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1947)

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2011

Salmaan Taseer

Pakistani businessman and politician, 26th Governor of Punjab, Pakistan (born 1944)

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2011

Mohamed Bouazizi

Tunisian street vendor who caused the Tunisian Revolution, which was the first revolution in the Arab Spring. (born 1984)

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2011

Eve Arnold

American photographer and journalist (born 1912)

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2012

Rod Robbie

English-Canadian architect, designed the Canadian Pavilion and Rogers Centre (born 1928)

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2012

Anwar Shamim

Pakistani general (born 1931)

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2013

Zoran Žižić

Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1951)

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2013

Pino Daniele

Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1955)

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2015

S. H. Kapadia

Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 38th Chief Justice of India (born 1947)

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2016

Stephen W. Bosworth

American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Korea (born 1939)

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2016

Milt Schmidt

Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (born 1918)

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2017

Georges Prêtre

French orchestral and opera conductor (born 1924)

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2017

Harold Brown

14th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1927)

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2019

Tom Long

Australian actor (born 1968)

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2020

Tanya Roberts

American actress (born 1949)

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2021

Rosi Mittermaier

German alpine skier and Olympic champion (born 1950)

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2023

Glynis Johns

British actress and singer (born 1923)

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2024

David Soul

American-British actor and singer (born 1943)

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2024

Christian Oliver

German actor (born 1972)

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2024

Ana Gligić

Serbian virologist (born 1934)

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2025

Michael Reagan

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2026

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Hasan al-Askari — Eleventh of the Twelve Shia Imams

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Known forHe is regarded as the eleventh of the Twelve Imams, succeeding his father, Ali al-Hadi

Deaths on this date99 (871 – 2026)

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A fire in an escape room in Koszalin, Poland, kills five teenagers through carbon monoxide poisoning. Wikipedia →

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