February 1 - Deaths

Deaths

• 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) (b. 1559)
• 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 (b. 1846)
• 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)
• 1922 – William Desmond Taylor, American silent film actor and director; his murder remains unsolved. (b. 1872)
• 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)
• 1945 – Prince Kiril of Bulgaria, prince of Bulgaria (b. 1895)
• 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 film actress and gossip columnist (b. 1885)
• 1966 – Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinary scientist (b. 1891)
• 1970 – Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1921)
• 1976 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)
• 1976 – George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1878)
• 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 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• 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 – Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Phil Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
• 1997 – Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1916)
• 1999 – Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
• 2001 – André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster):
  • Michael P. Anderson (b. 1959)
  • David Brown (b. 1956)
  • Kalpana Chawla (b. 1961)
  • Laurel Clark (b. 1961)
  • Rick D. Husband (b. 1957)
  • Willie McCool (b. 1961)
  • Ilan Ramon (b. 1954)
• 2003 – Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922)
• 2004 – May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
• 2005 – John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
• 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)
• 2008 – Beto Carrero, Brazilian theme park owner and entertainer (b. 1937)