28 notable people died on January 3, including Hanibal Lucić, Ermenegildo Pini, Marie Le Masson Le Golft.
21st Century
6 deaths
Sergiu Nicolaescu
directorfilm actor
Romanian film director, actor and politician (1930-2014)
Mónica Echeverría
actorbiographer
Chilean writer and feminist (1920-2020)
Egle Becchi
pedagogueuniversity teacher
Italian pedagogist, historian and academic
Satish Dhawan
military flight engineer
Former ISRO Chairman
AS
Anatoliy Skorokhod
mathematicianuniversity teacher
Ukrainian American mathematician (1930–2011)
SY
Saksri Yamnadda
linguistuniversity teacher
Thai scholar (1930-2002)
20th Century
13 deaths
Joy Adamson
autobiographerbotanical collector
Austrian-British naturalist, painter, writer, collector and illustrator (1910–1980)
A. Garland Mears
novelistwriter
Irish novelist (circa 1842-1920) active in the 1890s
Knut Olai Thornæs
editing staffjournalist
Norwegian politician
Hans Holten
agronomistjournalist
Norwegian politician (1892–1973)
Jurgis Baltrušaitis
actordiplomat
Lithuanian poet and translator (1873–1944)
Arne Hestenes
film criticfood critic
Norwegian journalist
Ernesto Palacio
historianjournalist
Argentine politician and academic
Mohamed Jamoussi
actorcomposer
Tunisian singer, composer, actor and poet (1910-1982)
Antoni Kozakiewicz
painter
Polish painter (1841-1929)
WC
Walter Cruz
chess playerphysician
Brazilian chess player (1910-1967)
EP
Ensio Partanen
journalistpolitician
Finnish politician
MS
Marta Skulme
artistsculptor
Latvian sculptor (1890–1962)
RH
Roman Haavamägi
painterprintmaker
Estonian sculptor, painter and graphic artist (1891-1964)
19th Century
5 deaths
Ermenegildo Pini
architectCatholic priest
Italian mathematician, naturalist and architect (1739-1825)
Marie Le Masson Le Golft
literary scholarnaturalist
French naturalist
Nicolas Ozanne
draftspersonengineer
French naval engineer (1728–1811)
William Mein Smith
artistfarmer
Artist, surveyor, and New Zealand politician (1798-1869)
Jean-Baptiste-René Hertel de Rouville
politiciansoldier
Canadian politician
18th Century
2 deaths
Reinhold Angerstein
artistbusinessperson
Swedish metallurgist/civil servant/entrepreneur
Paul Jacques Malouin
chemistencyclopédistes
French physician and chemist
17th Century
1 death
Matsunaga Teitoku
poetwriter
Japanese poet
16th Century
1 death
Hanibal Lucić
playwrightpoet
Croatian Renaissance poet and playwright
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