Famous Deaths for 4th January 2026

1707 – Louis Willem I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, dies at 51
1874 – Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
1953 – Arthur Hoyt, American actor and director (Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along), dies at 79
1955 – (Jan Derk) Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch vicar, writer, and political activist (Young Flanders), dies at 84
1981 – Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (“I’ll Never Smile Again”), dies at 66
1995 – Robert Clifford Latham, English Pepys scholar, dies at 82
2001 – Les Brown, American big band bandleader (His Band of Renown – “Sentimental Journey”), dies at 88
2004 – John Toland, American political writer (Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971), dies at 91
2005 – Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
2008 – Mort Garson, Canadian-American composer (“Our Day Will Come”) and Moog synthesizer pioneer, dies of renal failure at 83

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