January 2 Deaths |
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| January 2nd, 2008 (January 02 2008) | Death | Gerry Staley, American baseball player (born in 1920) | |
| January 2nd, 2008 (January 02 2008) | Death | Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krommaluang Narathiwat Rajanagarindra, elder sister of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (born in 1923) | |
| January 2nd, 2008 (January 02 2008) | Death | George MacDonald Fraser, British author (born in 1925) | George MacDonald Quotes |
| January 2nd, 2008 (January 02 2008) | Death | Lee S. Dreyfus, American politician (born in 1926) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Teddy Kollek, Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (born in 1911) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | David Perkins, Stanford University geneticist (born in 1919) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Mauno Jokipii, Finnish professor and World War II researcher (born in 1924) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Paek Nam-sun, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (born in 1929) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Sergio Jimenez, Mexican actor (born in 1937) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Don Massengale, American PGA Tour golf player (born in 1937) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (born in 1941) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Robert C. Solomon, American scholar of continental philosophy (born in 1942) | Solomon Quotes |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Dan Shaver, NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (born in 1950) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Richard Newton, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (born in 1951) | |
| January 2nd, 2007 (January 02 2007) | Death | Garry Betty, American CEO of Earthlink (born in 1957) | |
| January 2nd, 2006 (January 02 2006) | Death | Cecilia Munoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (born in 1913) | |
| January 2nd, 2005 (January 02 2005) | Death | Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (born in 1911) | |
| January 2nd, 2005 (January 02 2005) | Death | Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (born in 1913) | |
| January 2nd, 2005 (January 02 2005) | Death | Edo Murtic, Croatian painter (born in 1921) | |
| January 2nd, 2005 (January 02 2005) | Death | Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (born in 1922) | |
| January 2nd, 2005 (January 02 2005) | Death | Ronald Bo Ginn, American politician (born in 1934) | |
| January 2nd, 2004 (January 02 2004) | Death | Jess Collins, American artist (born in 1923) | |
| January 2nd, 2004 (January 02 2004) | Death | Lynn Cartwright, American actress (born in 1927) | |
| January 2nd, 2003 (January 02 2003) | Death | Eric Jupp, British-Australian pianist, composer, arranger (born in 1922) | |
| January 2nd, 2002 (January 02 2002) | Death | Armi Aavikko, Finnish singer (born in 1958) | |
| January 2nd, 2001 (January 02 2001) | Death | William P. Rogers, American politician (born in 1913) | Will Rogers Quotes |
| January 2nd, 2001 (January 02 2001) | Death | Teri Diver, American actress (born in 1971) | |
| January 2nd, 2000 (January 02 2000) | Death | Patrick O Brian, British novelist (born in 1914) | |
| January 2nd, 2000 (January 02 2000) | Death | Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral (born in 1920) | |
| January 2nd, 2000 (January 02 2000) | Death | Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (born in 1931) | |
| January 2nd, 1999 (January 02 1999) | Death | Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (born in 1907) | |
| January 2nd, 1998 (January 02 1998) | Death | Frank Muir, English writer, raconteur (born in 1920) | |
| January 2nd, 1997 (January 02 1997) | Death | Randy California, American guitarist & songwriter (Spirit) (born in 1951) | |
| January 2nd, 1996 (January 02 1996) | Death | Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist (born in 1915) | |
| January 2nd, 1995 (January 02 1995) | Death | Siad Barre, President of Somalia (born in 1919) | |
| January 2nd, 1995 (January 02 1995) | Death | Nancy Kelly, American actress (born in 1921) | |
| January 2nd, 1994 (January 02 1994) | Death | Dixy Lee Ray, American politician (born in 1914) | |
| January 2nd, 1994 (January 02 1994) | Death | Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (born in 1915) | |
| January 2nd, 1990 (January 02 1990) | Death | Alan Hale Jr., American actor (born in 1918) | |
| January 2nd, 1986 (January 02 1986) | Death | Una Merkel, American actress (born in 1903) | |
| January 2nd, 1986 (January 02 1986) | Death | Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (born in 1914) | |
| January 2nd, 1986 (January 02 1986) | Death | Dick James, English music publisher (Northern Songs) (born in 1920) | |
| January 2nd, 1983 (January 02 1983) | Death | Dick Emery, English comedian (born in 1915) | |
| January 2nd, 1977 (January 02 1977) | Death | Errol Garner, American musician (born in 1921) | |
| January 2nd, 1974 (January 02 1974) | Death | Tex Ritter, American actor (born in 1905) | |
| January 2nd, 1971 (January 02 1971) | Death | Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (born in 1906) | |
| January 2nd, 1963 (January 02 1963) | Death | Dick Powell, American actor (born in 1904) | |
| January 2nd, 1963 (January 02 1963) | Death | Jack Carson, American actor (born in 1910) | |
| January 2nd, 1960 (January 02 1960) | Death | Paul Sauve, Canadian politician (born in 1907) | |
| January 2nd, 1960 (January 02 1960) | Death | Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (born in 1919) | |
| January 2nd, 1959 (January 02 1959) | Death | Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (born in 1880) | |
| January 2nd, 1951 (January 02 1951) | Death | Sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (born in 1870) | |
| January 2nd, 1950 (January 02 1950) | Death | James Dooley, Premier of New South Wales (born in 1877) | |
| January 2nd, 1950 (January 02 1950) | Death | Emil Jannings, Swiss actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (born in 1884) | |
| January 2nd, 1946 (January 02 1946) | Death | Joe Darling, Australian cricketer (born in 1870) | |
| January 2nd, 1945 (January 02 1945) | Death | Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, British naval commander (born in 1883) | |
| January 2nd, 1941 (January 02 1941) | Death | Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist (born in 1898) | |
| January 2nd, 1939 (January 02 1939) | Death | Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (born in 1864) | |
| January 2nd, 1936 (January 02 1936) | Death | Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia (born in 1862) | |
| January 2nd, 1924 (January 02 1924) | Death | Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (born in 1834) | |
| January 2nd, 1920 (January 02 1920) | Death | Paul Adam, French novelist (born in 1862) | |
| January 2nd, 1917 (January 02 1917) | Death | Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (born in 1832) | |
| January 2nd, 1915 (January 02 1915) | Death | Carl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (born in 1830) | |
| January 2nd, 1913 (January 02 1913) | Death | Leon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (born in 1855) | |
| January 2nd, 1904 (January 02 1904) | Death | James Longstreet, American Confederate general (born in 1821) | |
| January 2nd, 1893 (January 02 1893) | Death | John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (born in 1805) | |
| January 2nd, 1892 (January 02 1892) | Death | George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (born in 1801) | |
| January 2nd, 1861 (January 02 1861) | Death | King Frederick William IV of Prussia (born in 1795) | William King Quotes |
| January 2nd, 1726 (January 02 1726) | Death | Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (born in 1688) | |
| January 2nd, 1694 (January 02 1694) | Death | Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (born in 1651) | |
| January 2nd, 1685 (January 02 1685) | Death | Harbottle Grimston, English politician (born in 1603) | |
| January 2nd, 1557 (January 02 1557) | Death | Pontormo, Italian painter (born in 1494) | |
| January 2nd, 1514 (January 02 1514) | Death | William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460) | |
| January 2nd, 1512 (January 02 1512) | Death | Svante, Regent of Sweden (born in 1460) | |
