Famous Deaths on 1 Feb

Famous Deaths on 1 Feb

1248 - Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207)
1328 - King Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
1542 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1480)
1563 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (died of fever)
1590 - Lawrence Humphrey,English clergyman and educator
1691 - Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
1718 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660)
1733 - King Augustus II of Poland (b. 1670)
1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
1761 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682)
1768 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685)
1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717)
1832 - Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician (b. 1777)
1850 - Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
1851 - Mary Shelley, English author (b. 1797)
1893 - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (b. 1826)
1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819)
1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
1928 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
1936 - Georgios Kondylis, general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
1940 - Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
1944 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
1957 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
1958 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)
1959 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
1963 - Fleetwood Lindley, the last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face (b. 1888)
1966 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)
1966 - Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
1970 - Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1921)
1976 - George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1878)
1976 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)
1980 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
1981 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1892)
1981 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908)
1986 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
1986 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1902)
1987 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (b. 1900)
1988 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
1989 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1918)
1991 - Phil Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
1991 - Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901)
1997 - Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1916)
1999 - Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
1999 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (b. 1943)
2001 - André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (b. 1929)
2002 - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (b. 1925)
2003 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922)
2003 - Ilan Ramon - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1954)
2003 - Willie McCool - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Rick D. Husband - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1957)
2003 - Laurel Clark - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Kalpana Chawla - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - David Brown - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1956)
2003 - Michael P. Anderson - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1959)
2004 - May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
2005 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)
2006 - Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
2006 - Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
2007 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)
2007 - Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)
2007 - Ray Berres, American baseball player (b. 1907)
2007 - Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)