October 31 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1147 – Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English son of Henry I of England (b. 1090)
  • 1214 – Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (b. 1162)
  • 1448 – John VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1390)
  • 1641 – Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral (b. 1597)
  • 1659 – John Bradshaw, English judge (b. 1602)
  • 1723 – Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
  • 1732 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b. 1666)
  • 1733 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
  • 1744 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
  • 1765 – Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (b. 1721)
  • 1768 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
  • 1860 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish admiral (b. 1775)
  • 1879 – Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
  • 1879 – Joseph Hooker, American general (b. 1814)
  • 1884 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
  • 1913 – William Evans-Gordon, English politician (b. 1857)
  • 1916 – Charles Taze Russell, American minister (b. 1852)
  • 1918 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
  • 1920 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist (b. 1854)
  • 1925 – Max Linder, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
  • 1926 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician (b. 1874)
  • 1926 – Philip Schuster, American gymnast (b. 1883)
  • 1929 – Ilm-ud-din, Islamic murderer (b. 1908)
  • 1929 – António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician, 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
  • 1929 – Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (b. 1877)
  • 1939 – Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (b. 1884)
  • 1946 – Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (b. 1887)
  • 1952 – Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
  • 1959 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
  • 1972 – Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
  • 1973 – Malek Bennabi, Algerian philosopher (b. 1905)
  • 1975 –, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1906)
  • 1980 – Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (b. 1905)
  • 1983 – George Halas, American football player and coach (b. 1895)
  • 1984 – Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (b. 1900)
  • 1984 – Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
  • 1985 – Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1918)
  • 1985 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
  • 1985 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
  • 1986 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
  • 1988 – John Houseman, Romanian-American actor and director (b. 1902)
  • 1988 – Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter (b. 1906)
  • 1991 – Gene Anderson, American wrestler (b. 1933)
  • 1991 – Joseph Papp, American director and producer (b. 1921)
  • 1992 – Gary Rippingale, English ice hockey player (b.1974)
  • 1993 – Federico Fellini, Italian director (b. 1920)
  • 1993 – River Phoenix, American actor and singer (b. 1970)
  • 1995 – Rosalind Cash, American actress and singer (b. 1938)
  • 1996 – Marcel Carné, French director (b. 1906)
  • 1998 – Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
  • 1999 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
  • 2000 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
  • 2001 – Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970)
  • 2002 – Lionel Poilâne, French businessman (b. 1945)
  • 2002 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician (b. 1903)
  • 2002 – Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
  • 2003 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908)
  • 2003 – Richard Neustadt, American historian (b. 1919)
  • 2005 – Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)
  • 2005 – Mary Wimbush, English actress (b. 1924)
  • 2006 – P. W. Botha, South African politician, State President of South Africa (b. 1916)
  • 2006 – Peter Fryer, English journalist (b. 1927)
  • 2007 – Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player (b. 1951)
  • 2008 – Studs Terkel, American author and actor (b. 1912)
  • 2009 – Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman, founded the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition (b. 1922)
  • 2009 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese scientist (b. 1911)
  • 2010 – Maurice Lucas, American basketball player (b. 1952)
  • 2010 – Theodore Sorensen, American lawyer (b. 1928)
  • 2011 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)
  • 2012 – June Blundell, New Zealand wife of Denis Blundell (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Brian Cobby, English actor (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Alfons Demming, German bishop (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – John Fitch, American race car driver (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Alexander Kibrik, Russian linguist (b. 1939)
  • 2012 – John H. Reed, American politician, 67th Governor of Maine (b. 1921)
  • 2012 – Teri Shields, American actress and producer (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Konstantin Vyrupayev, Soviet wrestler (b. 1930)

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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)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)