Famous Deaths on January 22

1781 Johann Siebenkas, composer, dies at 66
1796 Bernhard Hupfeld, German composer, dies at 78
1798 Lewis Morris, American landowner and farmer (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 71
1798 Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66
1799 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist, geologist and alpinist, dies at 58
1840 Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1847 Georges-Julien Sieber, French music publisher and composer, dies at 71
1850 Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint (founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate), dies at 54
1852 George Rodwell, English composer, dies at 51
1861 Giovanni Battista Velluti, Italian castrato singer 'the last great castrato', dies at 80
1868 Moritz Ganz, German composer and cellist, dies at 61
1875 Charles Sprague, American banker and poet (Curiosity), dies at 83
1879 Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in Battle of Isandlwana
1879 George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle
1892 Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
1893 Vincenz Lachner, German composer, dies at 81
1895 Edward Solomon, English pianist and composer, chiefly of operettas, dies of typhoid fever at 39

David Edward Hughes (1831-1900)

British-American inventor (microphone, teleprinter), dies at 68

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland (1837-1901), dies at 81

1909 Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenmeyer flask), dies at 83
1913 Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Belgian librarian and bibliographer, dies at 82
1913 Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, dies at 75
1914 Frederik Rung, Danish composer, dies at 60
1916 Iwan Knorr, German composer, dies at 63
1919 Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (Midwinter Sacrifice - Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts), dies at 65
1921 Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)

Benedict XV (1854-1922)

Italian 258th pope (1914-22), dies at 67

1922 Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, feminist and pacifist politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 84
1922 James, Bryce, Irish-British historian and politician (ambassador to the United States, 1907–13), dies at 83
1927 John McCausland, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 90
1930 Stephen Mather, American industrialist and conservationist (organized US National Park Service), dies at 62
1931 Alma Rubens, American actress (Humoresque), dies of Lobar pneumonia and bronchitis at 33
1935 Horace Rawlins, English golfer (US Open 1895), dies at 60
1936 Louis Glass, Danish pianist and composer, dies at 71
1942 Louis Santop, American Baseball HOF catcher (5 x NgL East All-Star; Hilldale Athletic Club), dies at 52
1942 Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch National Front, dies at 81
1942 Walter Sickert, Danish-English painter (Free House!), dies at 81
1942 Xiao Hong, Chinese writer (The Field of Life and Death). dies at 30
1945 Alfred Wolfenstein, German writer, dies at 61
1945 Arthur Symons, Welsh poet and critic (co-founder Savoy magazine), dies at 79
1945 Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday
1945 Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
1945 Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), dies at 52
1949 Henry Slocum, American tennis player (US Nationals 1888-89), dies at 86
1949 William Thomas Walsh, American author (Isabella of Spain), dies at 57
1950 Alan Hale Sr., American actor (Little John-The Adventures of Robin Hood), dies of a liver ailment and viral infection at 57
1950 Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
1951 Eastwood Lane, American composer, dies at 71
1951 Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
1952 Roger Vitrac, French poet and dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52
1954 Princess Margaret of Prussia, Queen consort-elect of Finland, dies at 81
1956 P A M Speet, Dutch broadcast CEO (KRO), dies
1957 Paul Walden, Latvian chemist (Walden inversion, room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate), dies at 93
1959 A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Hamlet, Nora), dies at 73
1959 Elizabeth Moore, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1896, 1901, 03, 05), dies from congestive heart failure at 82
1959 Mike Hawthorn, English auto racer (F1 world champion 1958), dies in road accident at 29
1964 Marc Blitzstein, American opera and theater composer, librettist (The Cradle Will Rock), and translator (Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill works), killed by a sailor at 58
1966 Herbert Marshall, English actor (Trouble in Paradise; The Little Foxes), dies at 75
1967 Jobyna Ralston, actress (Wings, Girl Shy, Freshman), dies at 66
1967 Robert Henriques, English writer (100 Hours to Suez), dies at 61
1968 Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, surfer (Olympic gold 100m freestyle 1912, 20; 4x200m freestyle relay 1920), dies of a heart attack at 77

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)

36th US President (Democrat: 1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64

1974 Leon Lontoc, Filipino-American character actor (The Ugly American; Burke's Law - "Henry"), and restaurateur, dies at 64
1975 Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
1975 Klaas Voskuil, Dutch journalist, dies at 79
1978 Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555 runs), dies at 83
1978 Oliver Leese, British World War II general, dies at 83
1979 Ali Hassan Salameh [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
1980 Iris Meredith [Shunn], American actress (Son of Davy Crockett; The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen), dies at 64
1981 Fannie Thomas, American who became the oldest known American at her death, dies at 113 years and 273 days
1981 Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist, dies at 77
1982 Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70), dies at 71
1982 Tommy Tucker [Robert Higginbotham], American R&B singer-songwriter, and piano player ("Hi-Heel Sneakers"), dies due to a poorly ventilated home improvement project at 48
1984 Mikiel Gonzi, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Malta (1944-76), dies at 98
1985 Arthur Bryant, English historian (biography of Samuel Pepys), dies at 85
1987 R. Budd Dwyer, American Pennsylvania State Treasurer who shot himself at a televised news conference while facing prison for conspiracy and perjury, shoots himself to death, at 47
1988 Parker Fennelly, actor (Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm), dies at 96
1989 Willie Wells, American Baseball HOF shortstop (10 NgL All Star; 2 × Cuban League MVP; Chicago American Giants, Newark Eagles), dies at 82
1991 Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat, dies at 85
1992 A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), dies at 47
1992 Ali Amini, Iranian politician and government official (Prime Minister, 1961-62; Ambassador to US, 1956-58; Member of Parliament, 1947-49), dies at 87
1993 Alexander Bodon, Hungarian-Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), dies at 86
1993 Kobo Abe, Japanese writer (Wife in the Sand), dies at 68
1994 (Aristotelis) "Telly" Savalas, American actor (Kojak; On Her Majesty's Secret Service), and singer ("If"), dies of prostate cancer at 72
1994 Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71
1994 Irving B. Kahn, American inventor of the teleprompter, dies at 76
1994 Jean-Louis Barrault, French stage actor, director and producer (Les Enfants du Paradis), dies at 83
1994 Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
1995 Christopher Francis Palmer, British composer, orchestrator, and musicologist, dies of AIDS complications 48
1995 Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler, dies at 45
1995 Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29
1995 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88
1995 Nico Adriaans, Dutch AIDS activist, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37
1995 Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner, dies at 81

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995)

American matriarch, mother of JFK, RFK & Ted, dies at 104

1996 Edward Thomas, British historian and intelligence expert (Bletchley park), dies at 77
1996 Efua Sutherland, Ghanaian writer (Nyamekye), dies at 71
1996 Israel Eldad, Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher and member of the pre-state underground group Lehi, dies at 85
1996 Mabel Leigh, potter, dies at 80
1997 Billy MacKenzie, Scottish rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch), committed suicide at 39
1997 Ian Munro, British medical journalist, humanitarian and cricketer, dies at 73
1997 Irwin Levine, composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), dies at 58
1997 Mollie Panter-Downes, British writer and columnist (The Shoreless Sea), dies at 90
1997 Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian and political activist, dies at 98
1997 Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
1997 Wally Whyton, English musician and broadcaster (BBC 2), dies at 66
1999 Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
1999 William M. Batten, American businessman and CEO (NY Stock Exchange 1976-84), dies at 89
2000 Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska), dies at 83
2000 Craig Claiborne, American food columnist (NY Times Cookbook), dies at 79
2000 E. W. Swanton, English author and sports commentator (cricket - BBC Radio), dies at 92
2001 Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
2001 Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2002 John Shea, American 500m/1500m speed skater (Olympic gold 1932), dies at 91
2002 Kenneth Armitage, English sculptor, dies at 85
2002 Peter Bardens, English musician (Camel), dies of cancer at 56
2002 Sheldon Allman, American-Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter (Nevada Smith, Harris Against the World), dies at 77
2002 Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
2003 Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers (Pulitzer-1945, 59), dies of Alzheimer's disease and a bathtub scalding at 81
2004 Ann Miller [Johnnie Lucille Collier], American actress, dancer, and singer (On the Town), dies at 80
2004 Billy May, American orchestra leader and composer (The Green Hornet, Mod Squad, Batman), dies at 87
2004 Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist, dies at 85
2005 Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
2005 César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball shortstop (hit 7-for-7 in single game without making an out 1970, Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
2005 Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter, dies at 88
2005 Rose Mary Woods, American secretary to Richard Nixon (claimed to have erased part of Watergate tapes by accident), dies at 87
2006 Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboardist (Ekseption), and composer, dies from complications of a stroke at 59
2007 Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
2007 Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
2007 Liz Renay [Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins], American actress (Desperate Living), dies at 80
2007 Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)

Heath Ledger (1979-2008)

Australian-American Actor (Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight), dies of a drug overdose at 28

2008 Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)
2008 Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
2008 Ștefan Niculescu, Romanian composer, dies at 80
2009 Billy Werber, American baseball third baseman (World Series 1940; AL stolen base leader 1934, 35, 37; Cincinnati Reds), dies at 100
2010 James Mitchell, American dancer and actor (All My Children, Bloomer Girl), dies of pneumonia at 89
2010 Jean Simmons, British actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls), dies at 80
2010 Johnny Seven [Fetto], American actor (Ironside, Amy Prentiss), dies at 83
2012 Joe Paterno, American College Football HOF coach (Penn State 1966-2011; NCAA C'ship 1982, 86; Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of 1986), dies from lung cancer at 85
2012 Richard "Dick" Tufeld, American voice actor (Lost in Space - "Robot"), dies at 85'
2013 Ellen Blazer [Esther Clara Blazer], Dutch TV director (Sonja), dies at 81
2013 Leslie Frankenheimer, American film set designer, dies from leukemia at 64
2014 Luis Ávalos, Cuban-American stage and screen character actor (Condo; E/R; I Had 3 Wives), dies of heart failure at 67
2014 Roy Cicala, American sound engineer (Record Plant Studios (NYC) - Jimi Hendrix; John Lennon; Frank Sinatra), dies at 74
2015 Wendell Ford, American politician (Sen-D-Kentucky, 1974-1999), Governor of Kentucky (1971-74), dies at 90
2016 Anthony Simmons, British writer and film director (The Optimists of Nine Elms), dies at 93
2016 Cecil Parkinson, British politician (C), dies at 84
2017 Jaki Liebesit, German rock drummer (Can), dies at 78
2017 Pete Overend Watts, English bass guitar player (Mott the Hoople - "All Young Dudes"), dies from throat cancer at 69
2017 Yordano Ventura, Dominican MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals), dies in a car crash at 25
2018 James "Jimmy" Armfield, British former-footballer, manager and pundit (BBC Radio Five Live), dies at 82
2018 Ursula K. Le Guin, American sci-fi author (The Left Hand of Darkness, Tombs of Atuan), dies at 88
2019 Charles Vandenhove, Belgian architect (Standard-Omnisporthal, Luik), dies at 91

Hank Aaron (1934-2021)

American Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder (MLB record 755 HRs; NL MVP 1957; 25 × MLB All-Star; Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers), dies at 86 [1]

2021 James Purify, American R&B singer ("I'm Your Puppet"), dies of COVID-19 complications at 76
2021 Luton Shelton, Jamaican soccer striker (75 caps; Vålerenga, Karabükspor, Sheffield United), dies from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 35
2021 Nick Drake-Lee, English rugby union prop (8 caps; Leicester Tigers), dies at 78
2021 Sharon Gans, American stage and screen actress (Slaughterhouse-Five; Artists and Orphans: A True Drama), and playwright, dies at 85
2021 Tony Jones, American NFL tackle (Super Bowl 1997, 98; Second-team All-Pro 1994; Pro Bowl 1998; Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos), dies at 54
2022 Antonio Fernández, Spanish soccer manager (CD Málaga), dies at 79
2022 António Lima Pereira, Portuguese soccer central defender (20 caps; FC Porto), dies at 69
2022 Don Wilson, American rock guitarist (The Ventures - "Hawaii 5-0 Theme"; "Walk, Don't Run"), dies at 88 [1]
2022 Gianni Di Marzio, Italian soccer manager (Napoli, Catania, Genoa, Lecce, Palermo FC), dies at 82
2022 Joe Yukica, American college football coach (University of New Hampshire, Boston College, Dartmouth College), dies at 90
2022 Thích Nhất Hạnh [Nguyen Xuan Bao], Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, teacher, peace activist, and writer (Love Letter to the Earth; The Art of Communicating), dies at 95 [1]
2023 Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor, dies at 88