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Deaths on January 22

1336 : Louis III, last Earl of Loon, dies
1531 : Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter, dies at 44
1552 : Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason
1581 : Joost de Damhoudere, Flemish lawyer, dies
1581 : Seerp Galama, Dutch nobleman/military/politician, dies at 52
1599 : Cristofano Malvezzi, composer, dies at 51
1640 : Erasmus Quellinus I, Flemish wood carver, dies at about 55
1700 : Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, dies at 39
1781 : Johann Siebenkas, composer, dies at 66
1796 : Bernhard Hupfeld, composer, dies at 78
1798 : Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 71
1798 : Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66
1799 : Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist/alpinist, dies at 58
1847 : Georges-Julien Sieber, composer, dies at 71
1850 : Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint, dies at 54
1852 : George Rodwell, composer, dies at 51
1868 : Moritz Ganz, composer, dies at 61
1879 : Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle
1879 : George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle
1893 : Vincenz Lachner, composer, dies at 81
1895 : Edward Solomon, composer, dies at 39
1901 : Victoria, [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901), dies at 81
1909 : Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83
1913 : Ferdinand van der Haeghen, Flemish librarian/bibliographer, dies at 82
1914 : Frederik Rung, composer, dies at 60
1916 : Iwan Knorr, composer, dies at 63
1922 : Benedictus XV, [Giacomo Markies D Chiesa], pope (1914-22), dies at 67
1923 : Max Nordau, [Sdfeld], German physician/zionists leader, dies at 73
1924 : Maurice du Plessys, French poet (Le Feu Sacr‚), dies at 59
1936 : Louis Glass, composer, dies at 71
1942 : Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch Natl Front, dies at 81
1942 : Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), dies at 81
1945 : A Wolfenstein, writer, dies at 61
1945 : Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday
1945 : Else Lasker-Schler, writer, dies at 48
1945 : Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), dies at 52
1950 : Alan Hale, actor (Little John-Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 57
1951 : Eastwood Lane, composer, dies at 71
1952 : Roger Vitrac, French poet/dramatist (Mysteries of Love), dies at 52
1956 : P A M Speet, Dutch broadcast CEO (KRO), dies
1959 : A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Hamlet, Nora), dies at 73
1964 : Marc Blitzstein, US composer (Cradle Will Rock), dies at 58
1966 : Herbert Marshall, actor (Dark Angel, Duel in the Sun), dies at 75
1967 : Jobyna Ralston, actress (Wings, Girl Shy, Freshman), dies at 66
1968 : Duke Kahanamoku, 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-12, 20, 24), dies at 77
1969 : Judy Garland, singer/actress (Wizard of Oz), dies at 48 of an overdose
1973 : Lyndon B Johnson, president (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64
1974 : Leon Lontoc, actor (Henry-Burke's Law), dies at 64
1975 : Klaas Voskuil, Dutch journalist, dies at 79
1978 : Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer (54 Tests for England 4555 runs), dies
1979 : Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to
1979 : have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
1980 : Iris Meredith, actress (Lawless Land, Gambling Terror), dies at 64
1981 : Fannie Thomas, US, dies at 113
1982 : Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile (1964-70), dies at 71
1983 : Fred Bakewell, cricketer (dashing England bat of 30s, 6 Tests), dies
1987 : R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy
1987 : & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
1988 : Georgi M Malenkov, Russian premier (1953-55), dies at 86
1988 : Parker Fennelly, actor (Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm), dies at 96
1992 : A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), dies at 47
1992 : Ali Amini, PM of Iran (1961-62), dies
1993 : Alexander Bodon, Hung-Dutch architect (RAI, Dollywood), dies at 86
1993 : Charlie Gehringer, baseball player, dies at 89
1993 : Kobo Abe, Japanese writer (Wife in the Sand), dies at 68
1993 : Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author, dies at 75
1994 : Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71
1994 : Irving B Kahn, inventer (teleprompter), dies at 76
1994 : Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor (La Ronde), dies at 83
1994 : Telly Savalas, actor (Kojak), dies of prostate cancer at 70
1995 : Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48
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, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37
1995 : Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of pres John F Kennedy, dies at 104
1996 : Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert, dies at 77
1996 : Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer, dies at 71
1996 : Mabel Leigh, potter, dies at 80
1996 : Yisrael Eldad, extremist politician, dies at 85
1997 : Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist, dies at 73
1997 : Irwin Levine, composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), dies at 58
1997 : Mollie Panter-Downes, writer , dies at 90
1997 : Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster, dies at 66

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