Deaths in History on January 7

Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536)

1st wife of England's King Henry VIII (mother of Mary I), dies at 50

1537 Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Italian ruler of Florence (1532-37), assassinated by his friend and cousin at 26
1566 Louis de Blois "Dacrianus", French Benedictine writer and poet, dies at about 60
1590 Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1598 Feodor I (Fyodor/Theodore Ivanovich), Tsar of Russia (1584-98), dies at 40
1619 Nicholas Hilliard, English painter of miniature portraits, dies at about 71

Innocent X (1574-1655)

236th Pope (1644-55), dies at 80

1658 Theophilus Eaton, American colonist and Puritan (co-founder of New Haven and Massachusetts Bay colonies) (b. 1590)
1694 Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)
1695 Mary II, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, wife of William III, dies of smallpox at 32 [OS=Dec 28 1694]
1700 Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
1715 François Fénelon, French Roman Catholic theologian and writer (Playing for Time), dies at 63
1721 Rochus Aerts, Flemish sculptor, dies [or 1739]
1722 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet, dies at 60
1730 Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts (Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection), dies at 66
1743 Anne Sophie Reventlow, Queen of Denmark and Norway (1721-30), dies at 49
1758 Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), dies at 71
1767 Thomas Clap, American academic, 1st president of Yale University, dies at 63
1770 Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician, dies at 74
1786 Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and scientist (b. 1715)
1830 Infanta Carlota Joaquina, daughter of Charles IV of Spain and wife of John VI of Portugal, dies at 53
1830 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter, dies at 60
1858 Willem Broes, Dutch vicar and theologist (Textenrol), dies at 91
1864 Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior, dies at 55
1872 James Fisk, American financier “Barnum of Wall Street”, dies at 38
1876 Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (b. 1807)
1878 François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist (b. 1794)

Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822-1882)

Polish engineer, businessman and inventor who built the 1st modern oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp, dies at 59

1887 Abraham van Lier, Dutch theater director (Grand Théâtre des Variétés), dies at 73
1890 Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, wife of German Emperor William I, dies at 78
1892 Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German physician and physiologist, dies at 72
1892 Muḥammad Tawfīq Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (1879-92), dies at 39
1893 Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
1901 James Dunwoody Bulloch, Confederacy's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War, dies at 77
1912 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, English physician and feminist who was one of the first female medical students at a British university, dies at 71
1918 Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (analysis of the structure and dating of the Pentateuch), dies at 73
1919 Henry Ware Eliot, American industrialist, philanthropist and the father of T. S. Eliot, dies at 75
1920 Edmund Barton, Australian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (1901-03), dies at 70
1921 Benno Erdmann, German philosopher (Logik I), dies at 69
1922 Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii, dies at 50
1929 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright (Silver King), dies at 77
1933 Herbert "Bert" Hinkler, Australian aviator who made first solo flight from England to Australia (1928), dies in a plane crash at 40
1935 Alfred Ewing, Scottish Physicist (magnetic properties of metals, hysteresis), dies at 79
1943 George Washington Crile, American surgeon (conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock), dies at 78

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)

Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor who developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil, dies at 86

1944 J. Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1944 Lou Henry Hoover, US First Lady (1929-33) and wife of the 31st President, Herbert Hoover, dies at 69
1944 Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek poet, dies at 56
1948 Raoul Auernheimer, Austrian American writer, dies at 71
1951 Johanna "Nelly" Bodenheim, Dutch illustrator and painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76
1951 René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886)
1955 Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist (human evolution), dies at 88
1958 Petru Groza, Austro-Hungarian born Romanian communist and President of Romania (1945-58), dies at 74
1961 Clarice Baright, 1st woman admitted to American Bar Association, dies at 74
1963 Arthur Edward Moore, Australian politician (Premier of Queensland 1929-32), dies at 86
1967 David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
1968 James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897)
1972 John Berryman, American poet (The Dream Songs), dies at 57
1974 Charles Alfred Coulson, British chemist (theoretical), dies at 63
1981 Alvar Lidell, UK radio broadcaster (b. 1908)
1981 Eric Robinson, Australian politician (b. 1926)
1982 Eugene Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura plisse), dies at 85
1983 August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79
1984 Alfred Kastler, French physicist (Nobel 1966 - Hertzian resonances within atoms), dies at 81
1986 Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro Páramo), dies at 68
1986 Philip D. Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1909)

Hirohito (1901-1989)

124th Emperor of Japan (1926-89), dies at 87 after a 62-year reign

1990 Gail Lucas, American entertainer, dies at 37
1992 Jhean Burton, American entertainer, dies at 63
1993 Robert Cowan, Scottish CEO (Highlands & Islands Enterprises), dies at 60
1994 Lewis Boddington, Welsh aerospace Engineer (RAE), dies at 85
1994 Lynn Blessing, American vibes player, dies at 65
1994 Phoumi Vongvichit, President of Laos (1986-91), dies at 84
1995 Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926)
1995 Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle during war in Chechnya
1996 James Holland, English artist and exhibition organiser, dies at 90
1996 Károly Grósz, Hungarian communist politician, dies at 65
1996 Robley D. Evans, American nuclear physicist (one of the founders nuclear Medicine), dies at 88
1996 Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, English Archaeologist, dies at 93
1996 Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
1997 Desmond Flower, English publisher, dies at 89
1998 Richard Hamming, American Mathematician and Computer Scientist (Hamming code), dies of a heat attack at 82
1998 Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1975), dies at 91
2001 Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., American librarian and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, dies at 90
2002 René Étiemble, French scholar, novelist and translator (work on Rimbaud), dies at 93
2004 Oswald Garrison Villard Jr., American Engineer (over-the-horizon radar), dies of pneumonia at 87
2005 Eileen Desmond, Irish politician (b. 1932)
2005 Pierre Daninos, French novelist (b. 1913)
2006 Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and author (Seven Years in Tibet), dies at 93
2008 Alwyn Schlebusch, South African vice state president (b. 1917)
2012 Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian author, dies from heart failure at 77
2013 Fred L. Turner, American businessman (CEO of McDonalds, 1977-2004), dies from complications of pneumonia at 80
2015 Jean Cabut [Cabu], French caricaturist (Charlie Hebdo), killed in terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris at 76

Stéphane Charbonnier (1967-2015)

French cartoonist and editor of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, dies in a terrorist attack at 47

2016 André Courrèges, French fashion designer, dies at 92

Mário Soares (1924-2017)

17th President of Portugal (1986-96) and Prime Minister (1976-78 and 1983-85), dies after falling into a coma at 92

2017 Nat Hentoff, American columnist and novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society), dies at 91
2018 Anna Mae Hays [McCabe], American military officer and US military's 1st female General, dies from a heart attack at 97
2018 Peter Sutherland, Irish businessman (Allied Irish Banks) and politician (Fine Gael), dies at 71
2020 Elizabeth Wurtzel, American author (Prozac Nation), dies of metastatic breast cancer at 52