January 1st Deaths |
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| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonnano (born in 1932) | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (born in 1949) | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (born in 1919) | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Harold Corsini, American photographer (born in 1919) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (born in 1908) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Ernie Koy, American baseball player (born in 1909) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Tillie Olsen, American writer (born in 1912) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (born in 1922) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Julius Hegyi, American conductor (born in 1923) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Del Reeves, American country singer (born in 1932) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (born in 1943) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (born in 1951) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (born in 1952) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Darrent Williams, American football player (born in 1982) | |
| January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (born in 1913) | |
| January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (born in 1918) | |
| January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (born in 1927) | |
| January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (born in 1956) | |
| January 1st, 2005 (January 01 2005) | Death | Shirley Chisholm, American politician (born in 1924) | |
| January 1st, 2005 (January 01 2005) | Death | Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (born in 1931) | |
| January 1st, 2005 (January 01 2005) | Death | Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (born in 1938) | Eugene J. Martin Quotes |
| January 1st, 2005 (January 01 2005) | Death | Bob Matsui, American politician (born in 1941) | |
| January 1st, 2003 (January 01 2003) | Death | Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot and AFL Commissioner (born in 1915) | |
| January 1st, 2003 (January 01 2003) | Death | F. William Free, American advertising executive (born in 1928) | |
| January 1st, 2003 (January 01 2003) | Death | Cyril Shaps, English actor (born in 1923) | |
| January 1st, 2002 (January 01 2002) | Death | Julia Phillips, American film producer (born in 1944) | |
| January 1st, 2001 (January 01 2001) | Death | Ray Walston, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| January 1st, 2000 (January 01 2000) | Death | Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (born in 1931) | |
| January 1st, 1998 (January 01 1998) | Death | Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (born in 1905) | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Death | Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (born in 1937) | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Death | Townes Van Zandt, American musician (born in 1944) | |
| January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Death | Arleigh Burke, American admiral (born in 1901) | |
| January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Death | Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (born in 1906) | |
| January 1st, 1995 (January 01 1995) | Death | Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1902) | |
| January 1st, 1995 (January 01 1995) | Death | Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (born in 1941) | |
| January 1st, 1994 (January 01 1994) | Death | Lord Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (born in 1900) | |
| January 1st, 1994 (January 01 1994) | Death | Cesar Romero, American actor (born in 1907) | |
| January 1st, 1992 (January 01 1992) | Death | Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (born in 1906) | Grace Hopper Quotes |
| January 1st, 1991 (January 01 1991) | Death | Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters) (born in 1907) | |
| January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Death | Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (born in 1902) | |
| January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Death | Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (born in 1924) | |
| January 1st, 1985 (January 01 1985) | Death | Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (born in 1905) | |
| January 1st, 1984 (January 01 1984) | Death | Alexis Korner, British blues musician (born in 1928) | |
| January 1st, 1982 (January 01 1982) | Death | Victor Buono, American actor (born in 1938) | |
| January 1st, 1981 (January 01 1981) | Death | Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (born in 1920) | |
| January 1st, 1980 (January 01 1980) | Death | Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist politician (born in 1891) | |
| January 1st, 1980 (January 01 1980) | Death | Adolph Deutsch, American composer and arranger (born in 1897) | |
| January 1st, 1972 (January 01 1972) | Death | Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (born in 1888) | Maurice Chevalier Quotes |
| January 1st, 1971 (January 01 1971) | Death | Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (born in 1894) | Philo Quotes |
| January 1st, 1969 (January 01 1969) | Death | Bruno Soderstrom, Swedish athlete (born in 1888) | |
| January 1st, 1969 (January 01 1969) | Death | Barton MacLane, American actor (born in 1902) | |
| January 1st, 1966 (January 01 1966) | Death | Vincent Auriol, French politician (born in 1884) | |
| January 1st, 1964 (January 01 1964) | Death | Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (born in 1890) | |
| January 1st, 1963 (January 01 1963) | Death | Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler, Australian victims of an unsolved murder or possibly accidental death | |
| January 1st, 1960 (January 01 1960) | Death | Margaret Sullavan, American actress (born in 1909) | |
| January 1st, 1958 (January 01 1958) | Death | Edward Weston, American photographer (born in 1886) | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Death | Sean South and Fergal O Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid. | |
| January 1st, 1954 (January 01 1954) | Death | Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (born in 1890) | |
| January 1st, 1953 (January 01 1953) | Death | Hank Williams, American singer (born in 1923) | |
| January 1st, 1944 (January 01 1944) | Death | Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (born in 1869) | |
| January 1st, 1944 (January 01 1944) | Death | Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (born in 1862) | |
| January 1st, 1943 (January 01 1943) | Death | Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (born in 1857) | |
| January 1st, 1940 (January 01 1940) | Death | Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (born in 1865) | |
| January 1st, 1932 (January 01 1932) | Death | C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (born in 1846) | |
| January 1st, 1931 (January 01 1931) | Death | Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (born in 1851) | |
| January 1st, 1921 (January 01 1921) | Death | Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (born in 1856) | |
| January 1st, 1919 (January 01 1919) | Death | Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (born in 1881) | |
| January 1st, 1906 (January 01 1906) | Death | Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (born in 1835) | |
| January 1st, 1896 (January 01 1896) | Death | Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (born in 1826) | |
| January 1st, 1894 (January 01 1894) | Death | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (born in 1857) | |
| January 1st, 1892 (January 01 1892) | Death | Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (born in 1805) | |
| January 1st, 1881 (January 01 1881) | Death | Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (born in 1805) | |
| January 1st, 1869 (January 01 1869) | Death | Martin W. Bates, American politician (born in 1786) | |
| January 1st, 1862 (January 01 1862) | Death | Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (born in 1801) | |
| January 1st, 1853 (January 01 1853) | Death | Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (born in 1778) | |
| January 1st, 1817 (January 01 1817) | Death | Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (born in 1743) | |
| January 1st, 1800 (January 01 1800) | Death | Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (born in 1716) | |
| January 1st, 1796 (January 01 1796) | Death | Alexandre-Theophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (born in 1735) | |
| January 1st, 1793 (January 01 1793) | Death | Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (born in 1712) | |
| January 1st, 1789 (January 01 1789) | Death | Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (born in 1716) | |
| January 1st, 1782 (January 01 1782) | Death | Johann Christian Bach, German composer (born in 1735) | |
| January 1st, 1766 (January 01 1766) | Death | James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (born in 1688) | |
| January 1st, 1759 (January 01 1759) | Death | Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chetardie, French adventurer (born in 1705) | |
| January 1st, 1748 (January 01 1748) | Death | Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born in 1667) | |
| January 1st, 1742 (January 01 1742) | Death | Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (born in 1686) | |
| January 1st, 1730 (January 01 1730) | Death | Samuel Sewall, English judge (born in 1652) | |
| January 1st, 1716 (January 01 1716) | Death | William Wycherley, English dramatist (born in 1640) | William Wycherley Quotes |
| January 1st, 1697 (January 01 1697) | Death | Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (born in 1624) | |
| January 1st, 1631 (January 01 1631) | Death | Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson s Choice (born in 1544) | |
| January 1st, 1617 (January 01 1617) | Death | Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (born in 1558) | |
| January 1st, 1560 (January 01 1560) | Death | Joachim du Bellay, French poet (born in 1522) | |
| January 1st, 1559 (January 01 1559) | Death | Christian III of Denmark and Norway (born in 1503) | |
| January 1st, 1554 (January 01 1554) | Death | Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (born in 1500) | |
| January 1st, 1515 (January 01 1515) | Death | King Louis XII of France (born in 1462) | |
| January 1st, 1387 (January 01 1387) | Death | King Charles II of Navarre (born in 1332) | |
| January 1st, 1204 (January 01 1204) | Death | King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170) | |
| January 1st, 0962 (January 01 0962) | Death | Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (c. 940) | |
| January 1st, 0898 (January 01 0898) | Death | Odo, Count of Paris (born in 860) | |
| January 1st, 0874 (January 01 0874) | Death | Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (born in 846) | |
| January 1st, 0404 (January 01 0404) | Death | Saint Telemachus | |
| January 1st, 0379 (January 01 0379) | Death | Saint Basil of Caesarea (born in 330) | |
