What happened on January 2 ?

1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)

1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman

1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)

1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)

1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)

1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)

1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)

1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)

1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)

1913 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)

1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)

1924 - Sabine Baring-Gould, English composer and novelist (b. 1834)

1939 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)

1960 - Fausto Coppi, Italian cyclist (b. 1919)

1963 - Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904)

1974 - Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (b. 1905)

1977 - Errol Garner, American musician (b. 1921)

1986 - Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)

1986 - Bill Veeck, baseball executive (b. 1914)

1990 - Alan Hale Jr., American actor (b. 1918)

1995 - Siad Barre, President of Somalia

1996 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915)

2000 - Nat Adderley, American musician and composer (b. 1931)

2000 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)

2000 - Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., U.S. admiral, 19th Chief of Naval Operations (b. 1920)

2001 - Teri Diver, American actress (b. 1971)

2004 - Lynn Cartwright, American actress (b. 1927)

2004 - Jess Collins, American artist (b. 1923)

2005 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (b. 1913)

2005 - Frank Kelly Freas, American artist (b. 1922)

2005 - Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, U.S. Congressman from Georgia (b. 1934)

2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist (b. 1911)

2005 - Edo Murti?, Croatian painter (b. 1921)