Died on This Day (23-Jan)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Aloysius Pang | Aloysius Pang was a Singaporean actor managed under NoonTalk Media, best known for his involvement in multiple Mediacorp dramas. | Singaporean actor | 28 | 1 | |
Gordon Kaye | Gordon Irving Kaye, known professionally as Gorden Kaye, was an English actor, best known for playing womanising café owner René Artois in the television comedy series 'Allo 'Allo!. | English actor and singer | 75 | 3 | |
King Abdullah | Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 1 August 2005 until his death in 2015. | King of Saudi Arabia | 90 | 5 | |
Ed Bouchee | Edward Francis Bouchee was an American professional baseball first baseman. | American baseball player | 79 | 7 | |
Jack LaLanne | Francois Henri LaLanne was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. | Body builder | 96 | 9 | |
Johnny Carson | John William Carson was an American television host, comedian, writer and producer. | Talk show host | 79 | 15 | |
Saul Rogovin | Saul Walter Rogovin was an American professional baseball player. | American baseball player | 71 | 25 | |
Ferenc Marschall | Ferenc Marschall was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture for two months in 1938. | Hungarian politician | 82 | 50 | |
Mao Yichang | Mao Yichang or Mao Rensheng was a Chinese farmer and grain merchant who achieved notability as the father of Mao Zedong. | Chinese farmer and grain merchant | 49 | 100 | |
Alexander Veltman | Alexander Fomich Veltman was one of the most successful Russian prose writers of the 1830s and 1840s, "popular for various modes of Romantic fiction — historical, Gothic, fantastic, and folkloristic". | Russian writer | 69 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Hugh Masekela | Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". | South African trumpeter | 78 | 2 | |
Jack Bannister | John David Bannister was an English cricket commentator and former first-class cricketer who played for Warwickshire County Cricket Club. | English cricket commentator and former cricketer | 85 | 4 | |
Jan Pesman | Jan Sijbrand Pesman was a Dutch speed skater who specialized in long distances. | Speed skater | 82 | 6 | |
Maurice Meisner | Maurice Jerome Meisner was an historian of 20th century China and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. | Historian of modern China | 80 | 8 | |
Kermit Tyler | Kermit Arthur Tyler was an American Air Force officer. | Recipient of the Legion of Merit | 96 | 10 | |
Bill Sutton | William Alexander Sutton CBE was a New Zealand portrait and landscape artist. | New Zealand artist | 82 | 20 | |
Allen Collins | Larkin Allen Collins Jr. was a legendary American guitarist. | American rock musician | 37 | 30 | |
Eugen Bolz | Eugen Anton Bolz was a German politician and a member of the resistance to the Nazi régime. | German politician | 63 | 75 | |
Edward Graham Paley | Edward Graham Paley, usually known as E. G. Paley , was an English architect who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, in the second half of the 19th century. | English architect | 71 | 125 | |
Prince Edward | Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC was the fourth son and fifth child of King George III. | Prince of Great Britain | 52 | 200 |