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Unusual Deaths in 1977
Tom pryce, a formula one driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal jansen van vuuren both died at the 1977 south african grand prix after van vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by pryce's car at approximately 170mph. pryce was struck in the face by the marshal's fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.

Natural disasters in 1977
1977 Bucharest earthquake
Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977
Independence Day Derecho of 1977
1977 San Juan earthquake

People who died on January 15 (various years)
2007 - James Hillier, Canadian inventor of electron microscope
2007 - David Vanole, American soccer player
2007 - Bo Yibo, Chinese politician
2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945) (executed)
2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951) (executed)
2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait
2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress
2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator
2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author
2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author
2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano
2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor
2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter
2002 - Steve Gromek, American baseball player
2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter
2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, French Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist
2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress
2000 - Željko Ražnatović, aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader
1998 - Junior Wells, American musician
1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
1996 - Minnesota Fats, American Billiards player
1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer
1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician
1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter
1992 - Dee Murray, English bassist
1990 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor
1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer
1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster
1973 - Coleman Francis, American film director
1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician
1968 - Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist
1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician
1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter
1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia
1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician
1919 - Karl Liebknecht, German politician
1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary
1909 - Arnold Janssen SVD missionary
1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist
1790 - John Landen, English mathematician
1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal
1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician
1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman
1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan
1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
936 - King Rudolph of France
570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
69 - Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)