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)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)