Alp Arslan (Persian: آلپ ارسلان; full name: Muhammad Alp Arslan bin Dawud Chaghri) was the second sultan of the Seljuk Empire and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty and the empire. He reigned from 1063 until his assassination in 1072.

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MilitaryDied aged 43

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1554 · 472 yrs

Sebastian of Portugal

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RoyaltyDied aged 24

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1716 · 310 yrs

Charles III of Spain

Charles III (Spanish: Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain from 1759 until his death in 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza as Charles I (1731–1735), King of Naples as Charles VII and King of Sicily as Charles III (or V) (1735–1759).

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RoyaltyDied aged 72

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1775 · 251 yrs

André-Marie Ampère

André-Marie Ampère (20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as electrodynamics. He made also important contributions in chemistry and philosophy.

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ScienceDied aged 61

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1804 · 222 yrs

Eugène Sue

Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue (French pronunciation:; 26 January 1804 – 3 August 1857) was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated The Mysteries of Paris, which was published in a newspaper from 1842 to 1843.

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LiteratureDied aged 53

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1857 · 169 yrs

Vladimir Bekhterev

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Бе́хтерев, IPA:; 20 January 1857 – 24 December 1927) was a Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology. He is best known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev's disease.

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ScienceDied aged 70

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1873 · 153 yrs

Johannes V. Jensen

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Danish pronunciation:; 20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century.

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1884 · 142 yrs

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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1896 · 130 yrs100 Club

George Burns

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1920 · 106 yrs

Federico Fellini

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1926 · 100 yrs

Patricia Neal

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AD 820 · 1206 yrs

Al-Shafi'i

Al-Shafi'i (Arabic: الشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-Shāfiʿī; IPA:; 767–820 CE; d. AH 204) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, muhaddith, traditionist, theologian, and ascetic, and the founder and eponym of the Shāfiʿī school of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence.

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ReligionDied aged 52

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1479 · 547 yrs

John II of Aragon

John II (Spanish: Juan II, Catalan: Joan II, Aragonese: Chuan II and Basque: Joanes II; 29 June 1398 – 20 January 1479), called the Great (el Gran) or the Faithless (el Sense Fe), was King of Aragon from 1458 until his death in 1479.

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RoyaltyDied aged 80

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1612 · 414 yrs

Emperor Rudolf II

Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the House of Habsburg.

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RoyaltyDied aged 59

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1639 · 387 yrs

Mustafa I

Mustafa I (Ottoman Turkish: مصطفى اول‎; Turkish: I. Mustafa; 1601 or 1602 – 20 January 1639) was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 22 November 1617 to 26 February 1618, and from 20 May 1622 to 10 September 1623. He was the son of sultan Mehmed III and Halime Sultan.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 47

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1666 · 360 yrs

Anne of Austria

Anne of Austria (French: Anne d'Autriche; Spanish: Ana de Austria; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She was also Queen of Navarre until the kingdom's annexation into the French crown in 1620.

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RoyaltyDied aged 64

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1745 · 281 yrs

Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VII (6 August 1697 – 20 January 1745) was elector of Bavaria from 26 February 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 to his death on 20 January 1745. He was also King of Bohemia (as Charles Albert) from 1741 to 1743.

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RoyaltyDied aged 47

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1813 · 213 yrs

Christoph Martin Wieland

Christoph Martin Wieland (German:; 5 September 1733 – 20 January 1813) was a German poet and writer, representative of literary Rococo.

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LiteratureDied aged 79

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1819 · 207 yrs

Charles IV of Spain

Charles IV (Spanish: Carlos Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Januario Serafín Diego de Borbón y Sajonia; 11 November 1748 – 20 January 1819) was King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish Empire from 1788 to 1808.

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RoyaltyDied aged 70

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1848 · 178 yrs

Christian VIII of Denmark

Christian VIII (18 September 1786 – 20 January 1848) was King of Denmark from 1839 to 1848 and, as Christian Frederick, King of Norway in 1814. Christian Frederick was the eldest son of Hereditary Prince Frederick, a younger son of King Frederick V of Denmark and Norway.

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RoyaltyDied aged 61

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1859 · 167 yrs

Bettina von Arnim

Bettina von Arnim (born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano; 4 April 1785 – 20 January 1859) was a German writer, composer, and novelist. Bettina (or Bettine) Brentano was a writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual artist, illustrator, patron of young talent, and a social activist.

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LiteratureDied aged 73

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1875 · 151 yrs

Jean-François Millet

Jean-François Millet (French pronunciation:; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement.

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ArtDied aged 60

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1900 · 126 yrs

John Ruskin

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era.

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LiteratureDied aged 80

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1942 · 84 yrs

Wannsee Conference

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1990 · 36 yrs

Black January

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