15 notable people died on January 20, including Al-Shafi'i, Nikolaus Gerbel, Famiano Michelini.
21st Century
2 deaths
Marie Bashir
engineerphysician
Australian governor, educator and psychiatrist (1930–2026)
Choe Thae-bok
chemistpolitician
North Korean politician
20th Century
6 deaths
George Augustine Taylor
inventorjournalist
Australian journalist (1872–1928)
Carlos Albán
astronomerchemist
Colombian inventor who specialized in mathematics, chemistry, medicine, and surgery.
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Josefine Winter
composernon-fiction writer
Austrian Jewish painter and non-fiction writer murdered in the Holocaust (1873-1943)
Dimitrie C. Ollănescu-Ascanio
diplomatjudge
Wallachian-born Romanian poet, prose writer and playwright (1849-1908)
Milovan Glišić
journalistlinguist
Serbian writer (1847–1908)
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
freedom fighterpolitician
Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India
19th Century
2 deaths
Minh Mạng
monarch
Vietnamese emperor (1791–1841)
John Linnell
artistengraver
British artist (1792–1882)
18th Century
1 death
Francesco Galli Bibiena
architectprintmaker
Italian scenographer and architect (1659–1739)
17th Century
2 deaths
Famiano Michelini
engineermathematician
Italian mathematician
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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
9th Century
1 death
Al-Shafi'i
Islamic juristmuhaddith
Arab Muslim theologian, writer and scholar (767–820)
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