History Deaths on February 01

Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)

#Georgios_Kondylis

Ramiro I, king of Asturias

#Ramiro_I_of_Asturias

Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English field marshal and politician (b. 1685)

#Sir_Robert_Rich,_4th_Baronet

Udo Lattek, German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1935)

#Udo_Lattek

Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French priest and historian (b. 1682)

#Pierre_François_Xavier_de_Charlevoix

Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French pianist (b. 1925)

#Aldo_Ciccolini

Barys Kit, Belarusian rocket scientist (b. 1910)

#Barys_Kit

Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1797)

#Mary_Shelley

Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (b. 1872)

#Piet_Mondrian

Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)

#Pope_Alexander_VIII

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (b. 1657)

#Giuseppe_Ottavio_Pitoni

Beto Carrero, Brazilian actor and businessman (b. 1937)

#Beto_Carrero

Herb Caen, American journalist and author (b. 1916)

#Herb_Caen

Paul Mellon, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1907)

#Paul_Mellon

Alexander Serov, Russian composer and critic (b. 1820)

#Alexander_Serov

William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1717)

#William_Barrington,_2nd_Viscount_Barrington

John Floyer, English physician and author (b. 1649)

#John_Floyer_(physician)

Ed Koch, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (b. 1924)

#Ed_Koch

Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858)

#Maurice_Prendergast

Aykut Barka, Turkish geologist and academic (b. 1951)

#Aykut_Barka

Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1900)

#Alessandro_Blasetti

Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)

#Carlos_I_of_Portugal

Mongo Santamaría, Cuban-American drummer and bandleader (b. 1922)

#Mongo_Santamaría

Charles IV of France (b. 1294)

#Charles_IV_of_France

Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1660)

#Charles_Talbot,_1st_Duke_of_Shrewsbury

William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872)

#William_Desmond_Taylor

Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist and critic (b. 1877)

#Zacharias_Papantoniou

Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

#Death_of_Echol_Cole_and_Robert_Walker

Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938)

#Luis_Aragonés

Monty Oum, American animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1981)

#Monty_Oum

George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)

#George_Whipple

Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1908)

#Geirr_Tveitt

Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

#Werner_Heisenberg

Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

#Clinton_Davisson

Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (b. 1480)

#Girolamo_Aleandro

Space Shuttle Columbia crew Michael P. Anderson, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1959) David M. Brown, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1956) Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American engineer and astronaut (b. 1961) Laurel Clark, American captain, surgeon, and astronaut (b. 1961) Rick Husband, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1957) William C. McCool, American commander, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1961) Ilan Ramon, Israeli colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1954)

#Space_Shuttle_Columbia

Augustus II the Strong, Polish king (b. 1670)

#Augustus_II_the_Strong

Jeremy Hardy, English comedian, radio host and panelist (b. 1961)

#Jeremy_Hardy

Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)

#Friedrich_Paulus

Léon Serpollet, French businessman (b. 1858)

#Léon_Serpollet

Sir George Stokes, Anglo-Irish physicist, mathematician, and politician (b. 1819)

#Sir_George_Stokes,_1st_Baronet

Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

#Alva_Myrdal

Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (b. 1936)

#Don_Cornelius

Abdi ?pekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)

#Abdi_?pekçi

Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)

#Madame_Sul-Te-Wan

Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)

#Buster_Keaton

Suha Ar?n, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)

#Suha_Ar?n

Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)

#Hughie_Jennings

Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)

#Maximilian_Schell

Lawrence Humphrey, English theologian and academic (b. 1527)

#Lawrence_Humphrey

Desmond Carrington, British actor and broadcaster (b. 1926)

#Desmond_Carrington

Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)

#Hedda_Hopper

Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)

#Philip_Francis_Nowlan

Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American playwright and composer (b. 1911)

#Gian_Carlo_Menotti

Hildegard Knef, German actress and singer (b. 1925)

#Hildegard_Knef

Wis?awa Szymborska, Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)

#Wis?awa_Szymborska

Wade Wilson, American football player and coach (b. 1959)

Clive Swift, English actor (b. 1936)

Mowzey Radio, Ugandan singer and songwriter (b. 1985)

Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, Guatemalan general and politician, 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930)

Rene Ricard, American poet, painter, and critic (b. 1946)

Vasily Petrov, Russian marshal (b. 1917)

Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)

Shanu Lahiri, Indian painter and educator (b. 1928)

John Vernon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1932)

André D'Allemagne, Canadian political scientist and academic (b. 1929)

Ray Crawford, American race car driver, pilot, and businessman (b. 1915)

Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (b. 1909)

Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (b. 1918)

Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American engineer and businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (b. 1892)

Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)

Herbert Stothart, American conductor and composer (b. 1885)

Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1880)

Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (b. 1826)

George Henry Sanderson, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)

Archibald Murphey, American judge and politician (b. 1777)

Bakar of Georgia (b. 1699)

Menas of Ethiopia

Sigismund of Bavaria (b. 1439)

Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207)

Alexios Megas Komnenos, first Emperor of Trebizond

Jawhar as-Siqilli, Fatimid statesman

Pope Stephen III (b. 720)

Kan B'alam I, ruler of Palenque (b. 524)