Famous People Who Died in January 1919

Jan 6 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (R: 1901-09; Nobel 1906), dies in NY at 60

Jan 6 Max Heindel, Danish-American Christian occultist, astrologer and mystic, dies at 54
Jan 7 Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot, dies at 75
Jan 8 Peter Altenberg, writer, dies at 59
Jan 15 Karl Liebknecht, German Marxist revolutionary (Sparta Party), murdered at 47
Jan 15 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Spartacus League, murdered by the Freikorps at 47
Jan 16 Jaroslav Jeremiáš, Czech pianist and composer, dies at 19
Jan 16 Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
Jan 18 Prince John of the United Kingdom, youngest son of English king George V, dies at 13
Jan 21 Gojong, Emperor Gwangmu of Korea (1897-1907), dies at 66
Jan 22 Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (Midwinter Sacrifice - Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts), dies at 65
Jan 27 Endre Ady, Hungarian lyric poet (Még egyzer, Uj versek), dies from complications related to alcoholism at 41
Jan 30 Sam Steele, Canadian soldier, dies from influenza at 71
Jan 31 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79