27 notable people died on January 20, including Al-Shafi'i, Nikolaus Gerbel, Famiano Michelini.
21st Century
3 deaths
Choe Thae-bok
chemistpolitician
North Korean politician
Marie Bashir
engineerphysician
Australian governor, educator and psychiatrist (1930–2026)
Jumber Lominadze
physicist
Soviet and Georgian astrophysicist (1930–2014)
20th Century
13 deaths
George Augustine Taylor
inventorjournalist
Australian journalist (1872–1928)
Carlos Albán
astronomerchemist
Colombian inventor who specialized in mathematics, chemistry, medicine, and surgery.
Sigurd Nergaard
authorfolklorist
Norwegian folklorist, writer, school principal, and teacher
Dimitrie C. Ollănescu-Ascanio
diplomatjudge
Wallachian-born Romanian poet, prose writer and playwright (1849-1908)
Milovan Glišić
journalistlinguist
Serbian writer (1847–1908)
Nakane Kōtei
biographerliterary critic
Japanese sinologist
Josefine Winter
composernon-fiction writer
Austrian Jewish painter and non-fiction writer murdered in the Holocaust (1873-1943)
Alexander Chuhaldin
composerconductor
Violinist, Conductor, and Composer (1892–1951)
Ronetti Roman
poet
Romanian poet (1847–1908)
MC
Maie Casey, Baroness Casey
aircraft pilotbiographer
Australian poet, librettist, writer and aviator
HB
Haridas Bhattacharya
Indologistphilosopher
Indian philosopher
JB
Jutta Bornemann
actorfilm actor
Austrian actor, screenwriter and author (1920–1999)
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
freedom fighterpolitician
Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India
19th Century
4 deaths
Minh Mạng
monarch
Vietnamese emperor (1791–1841)
Benjamin Winslow Dudley
medical writersurgeon
(1785-1870)
John Linnell
artistengraver
British artist (1792–1882)
Johan Gustaf Ruckman
artistengraver
Swedish artist (1780–1862)
18th Century
2 deaths
Miyagawa Issho
painterukiyo-e artist
Japanese painter (1682-1752)
Francesco Galli Bibiena
architectprintmaker
Italian scenographer and architect (1659–1739)
17th Century
2 deaths
Famiano Michelini
engineermathematician
Italian mathematician
Anne of Austria
queen regnant
Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, lived (1601-1666)
16th Century
1 death
Nikolaus Gerbel
humanistjurist
German writer
10th Century
1 death
Japanese poet
9th Century
1 death
Al-Shafi'i
Islamic juristmuhaddith
Arab Muslim theologian, writer and scholar (767–820)
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