Famous people died in January - page 29

Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy’s a fast food restaurant chain

AmericanJuly 2, 1932182 views

Friedrich von Amerling

Friedrich von Amerling was one of the great and renowned Austro-Hungarian portrait painters of the 19th century

AustrianApril 14, 1803148 views

Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor was an Anglo-Saxon king who ruled from 1042 to 1066

British1003135 views

Edmond Aman-Jean

Edmond François Aman-Jean was a French symbolist painter, pastellist, engraver and lithographer, who set up the Salon des Tuileries

FrenchJanuary 13, 1858156 views

Milton Avery

Milton Avery was one of the most distinguished American modern painters of the 20th century

AmericanMarch 7, 1885126 views

Jack Ruby

Jack Ruby was an American nightclub owner who rose to notoriety after shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, the gunman who assassinated the 35th US President, John F

AmericanMarch 25, 1911242 views

Anthony Eden

Anthony Eden was an English politician who served as Foreign Secretary thrice and later also became the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

BritishJune 12, 1897177 views

Sally Hemings

Sally Hemings was a mixed-race enslaved woman who was owned by Thomas Jefferson

American1773345 views

Tarsila do Amaral

Tarsila do Amaral, better known to the world as Tarsila, was a Brazilian artist who gave Latin American art a new direction

Alfred Sisley

An impressionist painter, Alfred Sisley was widely acclaimed for his landscape paintings depicting the rural French life

BritishOctober 30, 1839176 views