2 January Deaths

January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year (364 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

Deaths

951 – Liu Chengyou, Emperor Yin of the Later Han
951 – Su Fengji, Chinese official and chancellor
1096 – William de St-Calais, Bishop of Durham and chief counsellor of William II of England
1169 – Bertrand de Blanchefort, sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1109)
1184 – Theodora Komnene, Duchess of Austria, daughter of Andronikos Komnenos
1470 – Heinrich Reuß von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
1512 – Svante Nilsson, Sweden politician (b. 1460)
1514 – William Smyth, English bishop and academic (b. 1460)
1543 – Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (b. 1497)
1557 – Pontormo, Italian painter and educator (b. 1494)
1613 – Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire (b. 1539)
1726 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1688)
1849 – Micanopy, American tribal chief (b. 1780)
1861 – Frederick William IV of Prussia (b. 1795)
1892 – George Biddell Airy, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1801)
1904 – James Longstreet, American general and diplomat (b. 1821)
1913 – Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
1915 – Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
1917 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
1920 – Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
1939 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
1941 – Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
1946 – Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician (b. 1870)
1950 – James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1883)
1951 – William Campion, English colonel and politician, 21st Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)
1953 – Guccio Gucci, Italian businessman and fashion designer, founded Gucci (b. 1881)
1959 – Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American author (b. 1880)
1960 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (b. 1907)
1963 – Dick Powell, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1904)
1963 – Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor (b. 1910)
1968 – Nikolai Stepulov, Russian-Estonian boxer (b. 1913)
1974 – Tex Ritter, American actor (b. 1905)
1977 – Erroll Garner, American pianist and composer (b. 1921)
1983 – Dick Emery, English comedian and actor (b. 1915)
1986 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)
1987 – Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Odisha (b. 1899)
1989 – Safdar Hashmi, Indian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1954)
1990 – Alan Hale Jr., American film and television actor (b. 1921)
1990 – Evangelos Averoff, Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister for National Defence (b. 1910)
1994 – Dixy Lee Ray, American biologist and politician; 17th Governor of Washington (b. 1914)
1994 – Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French lawyer and businessman (b. 1915)
1995 – Siad Barre, Somalian general and politician; 3rd President of Somalia (b. 1919)
1995 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921)
1996 – Karl Targownik, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and author (b. 1915)
1999 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager (b. 1910)
1999 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907)
2000 – Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920)
2000 – Patrick O'Brian, English author and translator (b. 1914)
2001 – William P. Rogers, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)
2005 – Frank Kelly Freas, American illustrator and painter (b. 1922)
2005 – Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist and physician (b. 1911)
2006 – Osa Massen, Danish-American actress (b. 1914)
2006 – Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1913)
2007 – A. Richard Newton, Australian-American engineer and academic (b. 1951)
2007 – Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian and author (b. 1941)
2007 – Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (b. 1911)
2007 – David Perkins, American geneticist and academic (b. 1919)
2007 – Robert C. Solomon, American philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1942)
2008 – George MacDonald Fraser, Scottish journalist and author (b. 1925)
2008 – Lee S. Dreyfus, American sailor, academic, and politician, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1926)
2009 – Inger Christensen, Danish poet and author (b. 1935)
2010 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and author (b. 1958)
2011 – Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930)
2011 – Bali Ram Bhagat, Indian politician; 16th Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1922)
2011 – Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946)
2012 – Gordon Hirabayashi, American-Canadian sociologist and academic (b. 1918)
2012 – Larry Reinhardt, American guitarist (b. 1948)
2012 – Silvana Gallardo, American actress and producer (b. 1953)
2012 – William P. Carey, American businessman and philanthropist, founded W. P. Carey (b. 1930)
2012 – Yoshiro Hayashi, Japanese golfer (b. 1922)
2013 – Gerda Lerner, Austrian-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Teresa Torańska, Polish journalist and author (b. 1944)
2014 – Bernard Glasser, American director and producer (b. 1924)
2014 – Elizabeth Jane Howard, English author and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2014 – Michael J. Matthews, American lawyer and politician; 34th Mayor of Atlantic City (b. 1934)
2014 – Jay Traynor, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
2015 – Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (b. 1932)
2015 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (b. 1929)
2016 – Nimr al-Nimr, Saudi Arabian religious leader (b. 1959)
2016 – Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
2016 – Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1935)
2017 – John Berger, English art critic and painter (b. 1926)
2017 – Albert Brewer, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1968–1971) (b. 1928)
2017 – Jean Vuarnet, French ski racer (b. 1933)

Source: wikipedia