Historical Deaths for Tomorrow

🏥 Famous Historical Deaths - January 30, 2026

1890 Karl Merz, composer, dies at 53

1986 Ticker Freeman, pianist (Dinah Shore Show), dies at 74

1967 Lee Morgan, actor (Dungeons of Harrow, Last Rebel), dies

1827 Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer, dies at 53

1927 Friedrich Ernst Koch, composer, dies at 64

1975 Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72

1928 Douglas Haig, Brit fieldmarshal (Sudan/Boer war/WW I), dies at 66

1957 Grigore Gafencu, Romanian min of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at 65

1644 William Chillingworth, Engl theologian, Cambridge Platonist, dies

1953 Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68

1942 Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer, dies at 72

1994 Jan L N Schaefer, Dutch undersecretary of Housing (PvdA), dies at 53

1982 Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91

1996 Bob Thiele, record producer, dies at 73

1948 Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies at 76

1969 Allan Welsh Dulles, US diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75

1797 Johann Abraham Sixt, composer, dies at 40

1987 Ken Drake, actor (Crime & Punishment USA), dies

1969 Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58

1985 Ken Mayers, actor (Robbie Robertson-Space Patrol), dies at 67

1584 Pieter Jansz Pourbus, Flemish painter, dies

1925 Jakab Gyula Major, composer, dies at 66

1994 Bahjat Talhouni, PM of Jordan (1960-62, 64-65, 67-69, 69-70), dies

1983 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65

1994 Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter, dies at 86

1816 Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74

1965 Vic Jackson, cricketer (NSW/Leicerstershire off-spinner), dies in car

1947 Frederick F Blackman, English botanist, dies at 80

1976 Mance Lipscomb, rocker, dies at 80

1156 Herman van Horn, bishop of Utrecht (1151/52-56), dies

1384 Louis van Male, count of Flanders/Nevers/R‚thel, dies

1998 Ricky Sanderson, stabbed 16-year old girl in NC, executed at 38

1982 Lightning Hopkins, rocker, dies of cancer at 69

1994 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64

1995 George H Poyser, English soccer player (Manchester City), dies at 84

1838 Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail

1980 Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music, dies at 61

1987 Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32

1972 Karel Boleslav Jirak, composer, dies at 81

1881 Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58

1948 Herb Pennock, pitcher (NY Yankees)/GM (Phillies), dies

1976 Percy Tyson "Plum" Lewis, cricketer (pair in only Test for S Af), dies

1925 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79

1980 Lil Dagover, actress (Destiny, Spiders), dies at 82

1945 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarian/German botanist, dies at 90

1956 Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher, dies at 88

1948 Mahatma Ghandi, murdered by Hindu extremists in India

1974 Bill Whitty, cricketer (37 wkts v South Africa 1910-11 series), dies

1958 Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70

1956 Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 56

1982 F‚lix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes), dies at 76

1945 William Busch, composer, dies at 43

1982 Riccardo Nielsen, composer, dies at 73

1860 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer, dies at 44

1888 Asa Gray, US botanist (Flora of North America), dies at 77

1970 Malcolm Keen, English actor (Uncle Chris-Mama), dies at 82

1897 John Cottam, cricket (Test for Aust 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies

1968 Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81

1988 Cornelia D "Corry" Spark, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 85

1393 Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball

1774 Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer, dies at 71

1393 Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball

1730 Peter II Alekseyevitch, emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14

1900 Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71

1964 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80

1995 Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70

1951 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75

1649 Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason

1963 Fran‡ois Poulenc, Fren composer (Litanies … Vierge noire), dies at 74

1991 John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83

1584 Jonker Wigbold van Ewsum, mister of Nienoord, dies in battle

1995 George Richard James, saxophonist, dies at 88

1993 Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88

1973 Jack McGowan, actor (On Our Selection), dies at 54

1983 Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia

1963 P F "Plum" Warner, cricketer (England mgr during Bodyline tour), dies

1774 Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer, dies at 69

1996 Guy Doleman, actor (Deadly Bees, Idol, Thunderball), dies at 72

1976 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, SF Blues Great, dies at 80

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