January 31 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1216 – Theodore II Eirenikos, Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1398 – Emperor Sukō (b. 1334)
• 1435 – Emperor Xuande of China (b. 1398)
• 1561 – Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
• 1561 – Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (b. 1496)
• 1580 – King Henry of Portugal (b. 1512)
• 1606 – Guy Fawkes – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1570)
• 1606 – Ambrose Rokewood – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. c.1578)
• 1606 – Thomas Wintour – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1571)
• 1615 – Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
• 1632 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
• 1665 – Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
• 1686 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
• 1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (b. c. 1654)
• 1729 – Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
• 1736 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (b. 1678)
• 1788 – Charles Edward Stuart, the exiled Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1720)
• 1790 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)
• 1794 – Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
• 1811 – Manuel Alberti, Argentine priest and head of state (b. 1763)
• 1815 – José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
• 1828 – Alexander Ypsilantis, Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence (b. 1792)
• 1836 – John Cheyne (physician), British physician, surgeon and author (b. 1777)
• 1844 – Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
• 1856 – Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (b. 1838)
• 1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
• 1892 – Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
• 1907 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
• 1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (b. 1869)
• 1933 – John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 – Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1942 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
• 1944 – Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
• 1945 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
• 1954 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1955 – John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
• 1956 – A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
• 1966 – General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer (b. 1887)
• 1967 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
• 1970 – Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)
• 1971 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (b. 1891)
• 1973 – Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1882)
• 1976 – Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)
• 1976 – Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)
• 1987 – Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907)
• 1989 – Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (b. 1896)
• 1990 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
• 1991 – Kostas Mountakis, Greek musician (b. 1926)
• 1995 – George Abbott, American stage director and producer (b. 1887)
• 1997 – John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1938)
• 1999 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2000 – Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Francis Gabreski, American, fighter pilot ace (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and ballerina (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Kirill "Kirka" Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Adelaide Tambo, South African activist, widow of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug dog (b. 1997)
• 2009 – Nagesh, Indian comedian and actor (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Mark Ryan, British musician (Adam and the Ants) (b. 1959)
• 2011 – Eunice Sanborn, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person at time of her death (b. 1896)
• 2012 – Leslie Carter, American reality star, sister of Nick and Aaron Carter (b. 1986)
• 2012 – Dorothea Tanning, American visual artist (b. 1910)