Posted 0:10pm CT Jan 19, 2008 in Minneapolis

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

2006: Death of Wilson Pickett (b. 1941), a U.S. singer and writer of soul, gospel, R&B, and Rock and Roll music. – Wilson grew up in Alabama, singing in Baptist church choirs. In his early career, he sang with the gospel group The Violinaires and the soul music group The Falcons. His breakthrough was with the #1 R&B hit “In the midnight hour” in 1965. He released other successful R&B hits in the 60s.

1946: The U.S. Pentecostal singer, songwriter, composer and film actress Dolly Parton was born. – She was born in a poor Pentecostal family of 12 children in Tennessee and grew up in an Assemblies of God church. She started her music career in country music, but branched out into pop in the 70s and 80s. In 1987, she returned to country music and bluegrass. Dolly Parton has written and recorded Christian songs in the Southern gospel and country style.

1902: Birth of Georg Ostrogorsky, one of the world’s most prominent historians of the Byzantine empire. – He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but lived in Finland, Prague and Belgrade. In 1948, he founded the Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences.

1865: Birth of Patriarch Tikhon, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. – In 1917, during the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, he was elected by the Russian Orthodox Church as the first Patriarch since the Czar Peter the Great in the 17th century. In 1922, the Soviet Communist regime arrested Patriarch Tikhon and interned him in a monastery. He died in 1925. After the collapse of the Soviet Communism, he was declared a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1991.

1736; Death of Alexander Mack, a German who was one of the founders of German Baptist Brethren, the forerunner of the Church of the Brethren. – The Brethren, an Anabaptist group, emigrated from Germany because of persecution and settled in Germantown in Pennsylvania, U.S.A., where Alexander Mack died January 19, 1736. After his death, his son took over the leadership of the local Brethren.

1565: Death of Diego Lainez, a Spanish Jesuit and disciple of Ignatius Loyola – After Loyola’s death, Diego Lainez succeeded him as the leader of the Jesuits. Diego Lainez participated in the Council of Trent and was almost elected Pope in the Conclave of 1559.

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