28 notable people died on January 21, including Camillo Golgi, Jan Hasištejnský of Lobkowicz, Baron d'Holbach.
21st Century
3 deaths
Micheál Mac Gréil
historiansociologist
Irish priest and academic
Veljo Tormis
composerfilm score composer
Estonian composer (1930–2017)
JO
Joseph O'Conor
actorplaywright
Anglo-Irish actor and playwright
20th Century
11 deaths
Camillo Golgi
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906)
Charles Warren
anthropologistarchaeologist
British army officer, archaeologist, and photographer (1840-1927)
Alexander William Bickerton
chemistphysicist
British scientist
Henry Kistemaeckers
journalistnovelist
Author and playwright (1872–1938)
Jerzy Zaruba
caricaturistgraphic artist
Graphic artist, stage scenographer, caricaturist, satirist (1891-1971)
Giorgio Prosperi
directorfilm director
Screenwriter (1911–1997)
Petar Dobrović
art criticpainter
Artist and politician (1890-1942)
Roman Cieślewicz
designergraphic artist
Polish artist (1930-1996)
George Sellery
historian
Dean of University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science
Kazimierz Porębski
military officer
Officer of the Polish Army, Russian admiral (1872-1933)
PS
Peter Stadlen
composerconductor
British pianist (1910–1996)
19th Century
6 deaths
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
botanistgeographical engineer (military cartographer)
Writer and botanist from France (1737-1814)
Eliza Henderson Boardman Otis
journalistnovelist
American philanthropist, novelist, and social leader (1796-1873)
Phan Dinh Phung
poetrevolutionary
Vietnamese revolutionary
Lyuben Karavelov
encyclopédistesjournalist
Bulgarian writer (1834–1879)
Calixa Lavallée
composerconductor
Canadian composer (1842-1891)
Guillaume Lekeu
composer
Belgian composer (1870-1894)
18th Century
7 deaths
Baron d'Holbach
chemistencyclopédistes
German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)
Caspar Neumann
Lutheran pastornaturalist
Silesian pastor (1648-1715)
Jean Baptiste Le Roy
chemistencyclopédistes
French physicist and chemist (1720-1800)
Miguel de Portilla y Esquivel
canonhistorian
Spanish writer
Christian Braunmann Tullin
businesspersonpoet
Norwegian poet (1728-1765)
Coenraet Roepel
botanical illustratorpainter
Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1678-1748)
Hans Jacob Scheel
military officer
Norwegian general
16th Century
1 death
Jan Hasištejnský of Lobkowicz
diplomattraveler
Czech traveller, humanist, politician, writer and nobleman
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