32 notable people died on January 20, including Al-Shafi'i, Nikolaus Gerbel, Famiano Michelini.
21st Century
4 deaths
Marie Bashir
engineerphysician
Australian governor, educator and psychiatrist (1930–2026)
Choe Thae-bok
chemistpolitician
North Korean politician
Jumber Lominadze
physicist
Soviet and Georgian astrophysicist (1930–2014)
RN
Ronnie Nasralla
composerrecord producer
Jamaican businessman
20th Century
15 deaths
Jacob W. Davis
entrepreneurinventor
American tailor (1831–1908)
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)
HB
Haridas Bhattacharya
Indologistphilosopher
Indian philosopher
MC
Maie Casey, Baroness Casey
aircraft pilotbiographer
Australian poet, librettist, writer and aviator
JB
Jutta Bornemann
actorfilm actor
Austrian actor, screenwriter and author (1920–1999)
JQ
Juan Roberto Diago Querol
artistdraftsperson
Cuban artist (1920-1955)
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
freedom fighterpolitician
Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India
19th Century
5 deaths
Minh Mạng
monarch
Vietnamese emperor (1791–1841)
John Linnell
artistengraver
British artist (1792–1882)
Benjamin Winslow Dudley
medical writersurgeon
(1785-1870)
Johan Gustaf Ruckman
artistengraver
Swedish artist (1780–1862)
José Francisco Gana López
diplomatpolitician
Chilean politician
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
2 deaths
Nikolaus Gerbel
humanistjurist
German writer
Juan Díaz de Solís
explorernavigator
16th Century navigator and explorer
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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