January 2
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Births
- 1896 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
- 1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
- 1938 - Ian Brady, British serial killer
- 1961 - Todd Haynes, American film director
Deaths
- 1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
- 1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)
- 1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
- 1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
- 1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
- 1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
- 1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)
- 1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
- 1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
- 1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
- 1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
- 1920 - Paul Adam, French novelist (b. 1862)
- 1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)
- 1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
- 1946 - Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (b. 1870)
- 1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (b. 1884)
- 1959 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (b. 1880)
- 1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)
- 1960 - Paul Sauvé, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
- 1963 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)
- 1963 - Jack Carson, American actor (b. 1910)
- 1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
- 1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
- 1986 - Bill Veeck, baseball executive (b. 1914)
- 1986 - Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (b. 1920)
- 1990 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
- 1994 - Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (b. 1914)
- 1995 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919)
- 1995 - Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
- 1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (b. 1915)
- 1997 - Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit) (b. 1951)
- 1999 - Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
- 2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)
- 2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
- 2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (b. 1920)
- 2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)
- 2002 - Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (b. 1958)
- 2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)
- 2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)
- 2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)
- 2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, American politician (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)
- 2005 - Edo Murtić, Croatian painter (b. 1921)
- 2007 - Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
- 2007 - Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (b. 1942)
- 2007 - Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. 1950)
- 2007 - David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (b. 1919)
- 2007 - Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. 1929)
- 2007 - Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. 1951)
- 2007 - Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (b. 1937)
- 2007 - Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (b. 1924)
- 2007 - Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
- 2007 - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
- 2007 - Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (b. 1957)
Notes
Robert Smithson
Dziga Vertov
Pontormo
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Charles Beaumont
Ian Brady
Willard Maas
David Bailey (photographer)
Todd Haynes
Isaac Asimov
Al-Andalus
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Edward Burnett Tylor
Dirk Bikkembergs
Charles Willeford
Rutebeuf
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