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Emperor Shōwa was Emperor of Japan from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989.
Notable Deaths on January 7
1989 — Hirohito
Japanese emperor (born 1901)
January 7 has 92 recorded notable deaths across history, from 312 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
92 source records
312 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on January 7
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- 1993 The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president. Source
- 1738 A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal. Source
- 1927 The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London. Source
- 1922 Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote. Source
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Peart earned numerous awards for his musical performances, including an induction into the Modern Drummer Readers Poll Hall of Fame in 1983 at the age of 30, making him the youngest person ever so honoured.
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Heinrich Harrer was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps, in July 1938.
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In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the tenth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Poupée de cire, poupée de son", representing Luxembourg.
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Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir twice from November 2002 to November 2005 and from March 2015 until his death on January 7, 2016.
More major people who died on January 7
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2020
Neil Peart
Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (born 1952)
Neil Ellwood Peart was a Canadian musician and author, who was the drummer, percussionist, and primary lyricist of the progressive rock band Rush.
2006
Heinrich Harrer
Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and author (born 1912)
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and an SS sergeant.
2018
France Gall
French singer (born 1947)
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall, known professionally as France Gall, was a French yé-yé and pop singer.
2016
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (born 1936)
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir twice from November 2002 to November 2005 and from March 2015 until his death on January 7, 2016.
1285
Charles I of Naples (born 1226)
Charles I, commonly called Charles of Anjou or Charles d'Anjou, was King of Sicily from 1266 to 1285. He was a member of the Capetian dynasty and the founder of the House of Anjou-Sicily.
838
Babak Khorramdin
Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate
Bābak Khorramdin was one of the main Iranian revolutionary leaders of the Iranian Khorram-Dinān, which was a local freedom movement fighting the Abbasid Caliphate.
2026
Glenn Hall
Canadian ice hockey goaltender (born 1931)
Glenn Henry Hall was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. During his National Hockey League career, which lasted from 1952 to 1971 with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, and St.
1619
Nicholas Hilliard
English painter and goldsmith (born 1547)
Nicholas Hilliard was an English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.
1694
Charles Gerard
1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (born 1618)
Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, PC was an English aristocrat, soldier and courtier. He fought as a Royalist during the English Civil War, before spending a period in exile under the Commonwealth.
1566
Louis de Blois
Flemish monk and author (born 1506)
Louis de Blois, also known by the Latinized name Ludovicus Blosius, was a Flemish Benedictine abbot, mystical theologian, and spiritual writer associated with the transmission of late medieval Christian mysticism into…
1812
Joseph Dennie
American journalist and author (born 1768)
Joseph Dennie was an American author and journalist who was one of the foremost men of letters of the Federalist Era.
1892
Tewfik Pasha
Egyptian ruler (born 1852)
Mohamed Tewfik Pasha, also known as Tawfiq of Egypt, was khedive of Egypt and the Sudan between 1879 and 1892 and the sixth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty.
1912
Sophia Jex-Blake
English physician and feminist (born 1840)
Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. She led the campaign to secure women access to a university education, when she began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869.
1963
Arthur Edward Moore
New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (born 1876)
Arthur Edward Moore was an Australian politician. He was the Country and Progressive National Party Premier of Queensland, from 1929 to 1932.
2016
Bill Foster
American basketball player and coach (born 1929)
William Edwin Foster was the head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University, University of Utah, Duke University, University of South Carolina, and Northwestern University.
1355
Inês de Castro
Castilian noblewoman (born 1325)
Inês de Castro was a Galician noblewoman and courtier, best known as the lover and posthumously recognized wife of King Pedro I of Portugal.
1920
Edmund Barton
Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (born 1849)
Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton was an Australian politician, barrister and jurist who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903.
2020
Elizabeth Wurtzel
author and feminist (born 1967)
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel was an American writer, journalist, and lawyer known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation, which she published at the age of 27.
2004
Ingrid Thulin
Swedish actress (born 1926)
Ingrid Lilian Thulin was a Swedish actress and director who collaborated with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.