Famous Deaths on 31 Oct

Famous Deaths on 31 Oct

1147 - Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (bc. 1090)
1214 - Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1162)
1448 - John VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1390)
1517 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
1641 - Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral and privateer (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 Savoy (b. 1666)
1733 - Eberhard IV Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
1744 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
1765 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (b. 1721)
1768 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer (b. 1690)
1860 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
1879 - Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803)
1879 - Joseph Hooker, American General (b. 1814)
1883 - Swami Dayananda Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (b. 1858)
1913 - William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
1916 - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
1918 - Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
1920 - Alphonse Desjardins, founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (b. 1854)
1925 - Max Linder, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1883)
1926 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (b. 1874)
1929 - António José de Almeida, Portuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
1939 - Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (b. 1884)
1943 - Max Reinhardt, German film director (b. 1873)
1952 - U Chit Hlaing, Burmese politician (b. 1879)
1959 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (b. 1885)
1972 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
1975 - SD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1906)
1983 - George Halas, American football player, coach, and team owner (b. 1895)
1984 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
1984 - Eduardo de Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1985 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)
1985 - Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
1985 - Anton Christoforidis, Greek boxer (b. 1918)
1986 - Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1896)
1987 - Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology (b. 1904)
1988 - Alfred Pellan, Québécois painter (b. 1906)
1988 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and director (b. 1902)
1991 - Joseph Papp, American theatrical producer (b. 1921)
1991 - Gene Anderson, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1993 - Federico Fellini, Italian director (b. 1920)
1993 - River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)
1995 - Rosalind Cash, American actress (b. 1938)
1996 - Marcel Carné, French film director (b. 1906)
1998 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
1999 - Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
2000 - Watanabe Kazuki Japanese musician (Raphael) (b. 1981)
2000 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
2001 - Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970)
2002 - Lionel Poilâne, French baker and entrepreneur (b. 1945)
2002 - Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek politician, former president of Greece (b. 1903)
2002 - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Richard Neustadt, American political historian (b. 1919)
2003 - Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian singer (b. 1908)
2005 - Mary Wimbush, English actress (b. 1924)
2005 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American drummer (Bayside) (b. 1974)
2005 - Hal Anger, American biophysicist (b. 1920)
2006 - Pieter Willem Botha, President of South Africa (b. 1916)
2007 - Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby union footballer (b. 1951)