January 31 in History
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January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 334 days remaining until the end of the year (335 in leap years).
Events
314 – Pope Sylvester I succeeds Pope Miltiades.
1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon.
1578 – The Battle of Gembloux takes place.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
1814 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
1846 – After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee.
1848 – John C. Frémont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1849 – Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 – American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1867 – Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Bey Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
1897 – Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
1891 – History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1900 – Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1917 – World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1918 – A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 – The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1929 – The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 – 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
1943 – World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
1944 – World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 – World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1945 – World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1945 – World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1946 – The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
1949 – These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
1950 – United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 – A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 – The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1968 – Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
1990 – The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 – Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
2010 – Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
2011 – A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
2013 – An explosion at the Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.
Births
36 BC – Antonia Minor, Greek daughter of Mark Antony (d. 38 AD)
877 – Taejo of Goryeo (d. 943)
1512 – Henry, King of Portugal (d. 1580)
1543 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (d. 1616)
1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588)
1597 – John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (d. 1640)
1624 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher and academic (d. 1669)
1673 – Louis de Montfort, French priest and saint (d. 1716)
1686 – Hans Egede, Norwegian missionary and explorer (d. 1758)
1752 – Gouverneur Morris, American politician (d. 1816)
1759 – François Devienne, French flute player and composer (d. 1803)
1797 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1828)
1820 – William B. Washburn, American politician, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
1825 – Miska Magyarics, Hungarian-Slovenian poet (d. 1883)
1835 – Lunalilo of Hawaii (d. 1874)
1854 – David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
1857 – George Jackson Churchward, English engineer (d. 1933)
1865 – Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist (d. 1940)
1865 – Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader, founded BAPS (d. 1951)
1868 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
1872 – Zane Grey, American dentist and author (d. 1939)
1881 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
1884 – Theodor Heuss, German journalist and politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1963)
1884 – Nathaniel Moore, American golfer (d. 1910)
1884 – Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician, 1st President of The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (d. 1955)
1889 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1892 – Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer (d. 1964)
1894 – Isham Jones, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1956)
1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1966)
1902 – Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman; founded White Spot (d. 1978)
1902 – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
1902 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1905 – Diana Napier, English actress (d. 1982)
1905 – John O'Hara, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1970)
1906 – Roosevelt Sykes, American singer and pianist (d. 1983)
1909 – Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist (d. 1995)
1911 – Eddie Byrne, Irish actor (d. 1981)
1913 – Don Hutson, American football player and coach (d. 1997)
1914 – Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997)
1914 – Daya Mata, American religious leader (d. 2010)
1914 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer and police officer (d. 1994)
1915 – Bobby Hackett, American trumpet player and cornet player (d. 1976)
1915 – Alan Lomax, American historian, author, and scholar (d. 2002)
1915 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (d. 1968)
1915 – Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host (d. 1993)
1917 – Fred Bassetti, American architect, founded Bassetti Architects (d. 2013)
1919 – Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1972)
1920 – Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2010)
1921 – John Agar, American actor (d. 2002)
1921 – Carol Channing, American actress, singer, and dancer
1921 – E. Fay Jones, American architect, designed the Thorncrown Chapel (d. 2004)
1921 – Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (d. 1959)
1921 – Bill Pritchett, Australian public servant (d. 2014)
1922 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
1923 – Norman Mailer, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
1925 – Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist (d. 2010)
1926 – Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1927 – Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation Studios (d. 2005)
1928 – Eric Ash, German-English engineer and academic
1928 – Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter (d. 1958)
1928 – Irma Wyman, American computer scientist and engineer
1929 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1929 – Jean Simmons, British-American actress (d. 2010)
1930 – Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver (d. 1972)
1930 – Lynn Carlin, American actress
1930 – Al De Lory, American record producer, arranger, conductor and musician (d. 2012)
1931 – Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
1931 – Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician (d. 2014)
1932 – Miron Babiak, Polish captain (d. 2013)
1933 – Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1997)
1933 – Bernardo Provenzano, Italian mobster
1934 – Ernesto Brambilla, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver
1934 – Gene DeWeese, American writer (d. 2012)
1934 – James Franciscus, American actor and producer (d. 1991)
1934 – Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1935 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author and academic; Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
1937 – Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 2007)
1937 – Philip Glass, American composer
1937 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
1938 – Beatrix of the Netherlands
1938 – Lynn Carlin, American actress
1938 – James G. Watt, American lawyer and politician, 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior
1939 – Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
1940 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby player and coach (d. 1998)
1941 – Dick Gephardt, American lawyer and politician
1941 – Gerald McDermott, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
1941 – Jessica Walter, American actress
1942 – Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
1942 – Derek Jarman, English director, stage designer, and author (d. 1994)
1944 – Connie Booth, American-English actress and psychotherapist
1944 – John Inverarity, Australian cricketer
1944 – Charlie Musselwhite, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player
1945 – Rynn Berry, American historian and author (d. 2014)
1945 – Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, English lawyer, judge, and academic
1945 – Joseph Kosuth, American photographer and illustrator
1946 – Sylvia Hitchcock, American model, Miss Universe 1967 (d. 2015)
1946 – Terry Kath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)
1946 – Glynn Turman, American actor, director, and producer
1947 – Jonathan Banks, American actor
1947 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player
1947 – Matt Minglewood, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Volkmar Groß, German footballer
1948 – Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
1949 – Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and journalist
1949 – Norris Church Mailer, American model and educator (d. 2010)
1949 – Ken Wilber, American sociologist, philosopher, and author
1950 – Denise Fleming, American author and illustrator
1950 – Alexander Korzhakov, Russian general and bodyguard
1950 – Janice Rebibo, American-Israeli author and poet (d. 2015)
1951 – Dave Benton, Aruban-Estonian singer and drummer
1951 – Harry Wayne Casey, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1951 – Phil Manzanera, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1951 – Won Sei-hoon, South Korean intelligence officer
1952 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
1953 – Ovidiu Lipan, Romanian drummer
1954 – Faoud Bacchus, Guyanese cricketer
1954 – Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (d. 1972)
1954 – Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch guitarist
1955 – Virginia Ruzici, Romanian tennis player and manager
1956 – John Lydon, English singer-songwriter
1956 – Stefan Majewski, Polish footballer and coach
1957 – Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer
1958 – Armin Reichel, German footballer and manager
1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, Australian footballer, actor, and producer
1959 – Kelly Lynch, American model and actress
1959 – Kelly Moore, American race car driver
1959 – Mickey Simmonds, English keyboard player and songwriter
1960 – George Benjamin, British composer of classical music
1960 – Akbar Ganji, Iranian journalist and author
1960 – Grant Morrison, Scottish author and screenwriter
1960 – Željko Šturanović, Montenegrin politician; 31st Prime Minister of Montenegro (d. 2014)
1961 – Elizabeth Barker, Baroness Barker, English politician
1961 – Fatou Bensouda, Gambian lawyer and judge
1961 – Lloyd Cole, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions)
1961 – Mako Ishino, Japanese singer and actress
1961 – Fatih Kısaparmak, Turkish singer-songwriter
1962 – Bruce McGuire, Australian rugby league player
1963 – John Dye, American actor (d. 2011)
1963 – Madis Eek, Estonian architect
1964 – Sylvie Bernier, Canadian diver
1964 – Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist and songwriter (Slayer) (d. 2013)
1964 – Martha MacCallum, American journalist
1964 – Miki Maya, Japanese actress
1964 – Dawn Prince-Hughes, American anthropologist and ethologist
1964 – Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer-songwriter and actor
1965 – Giorgos Gasparis, Greek basketball player and coach
1965 – Ofra Harnoy, Canadian cellist.
1966 – Umar Alisha, Indian journalist and philanthropist
1966 – Dexter Fletcher, English actor and director
1966 – Jorge González, Argentinian basketball player and wrestler (d. 2010)
1966 – Ken Ishiguro, Japanese actor and voice actor
1966 – JJ Lehto, Finnish race car driver
1967 – Chad Channing, American singer and drummer
1967 – Fat Mike, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1967 – Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress
1967 – Michelle Ruff, American voice actress
1967 – Joey Wong, Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress
1968 – Matt King, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Ulrica Messing, Swedish politician; 2nd Swedish Minister for Infrastructure
1968 – Patrick Stevens, Belgian sprinter
1970 – Minnie Driver, English singer-songwriter and actress
1971 – Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian and television host/presenter
1971 – Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan model, actress, and producer
1971 – Lee Young-ae, South Korean actress
1973 – Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress
1974 – Wil Anderson, Australian comedian and radio host
1974 – Othella Harrington, American basketball player and coach
1974 – Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
1975 – Fred Coleman, American football player and coach
1975 – Jackie O, Australian radio and television host
1975 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress
1976 – Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer and manager
1976 – Buddy Rice, American race car driver
1976 – Paul Scheer, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Shingo Katori, Japanese singer and actor
1977 – Jim Kleinsasser, American football player
1977 – Bobby Moynihan, American actor
1977 – Sergei Pareiko, Estonian footballer
1977 – Katherine Shindle, American actress, singer, and dancer
1977 – David Terbrugge, South African cricketer
1977 – Kerry Washington, American actress
1978 – Fabián Caballero, Argentinian footballer and manager
1978 – Brad Rutter, American game show contestant; highest winning champion in Jeopardy! history
1978 – Ellen Stagg, American photographer
1978 – Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Douro
1979 – Daniel Tammet, English author and educator
1979 – Emmett J. Scanlan, Irish actor and producer
1980 – James Adomian, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1980 – Tiffany Limos, American actress
1981 – Julio Arca, Argentinian footballer
1981 – Amrita Arora, Indian actress
1981 – Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1982 – Maret Ani, Estonian tennis player
1982 – Yuniesky Betancourt, Cuban baseball player
1982 – Andreas Görlitz, German footballer
1982 – Salvatore Masiello, Italian footballer
1982 – Allan McGregor, Scottish footballer
1982 – Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese comedian and actor
1982 – Elena Paparizou, Swedish-Greek singer-songwriter (Antique)
1982 – Jānis Sprukts, Latvian ice hockey player
1982 – Yukimi Nagano, Swedish singer-songwriter (Little Dragon)
1982 – Brad Thompson, American baseball player
1983 – James Sutton, English actor
1983 – Fabio Quagliarella, Italian footballer
1984 – Vernon Davis, American football player
1984 – Josh Johnson, Canadian-American baseball player
1984 – Jeremy Wariner, American runner
1984 – Alessandro Zanni, Italian rugby player
1985 – Adam Federici, Australian footballer
1985 – Mario Williams, American football player
1986 – Megan Ellison, American film producer; founded Annapurna Pictures
1986 – George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer
1986 – Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer
1986 – Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player
1987 – Tyler Hubbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Florida Georgia Line)
1987 – Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter
1987 – Raúl Richter, German actor
1988 – Justine Ozga, German tennis player
1988 – Brett Pitman, English footballer
1988 – Taijo Teniste, Estonian footballer
1990 – Kota Yabu, Japanese singer and actor
1992 – Tyler Seguin, Canadian ice hockey player
1994 – Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer
1996 – Joel Courtney, American actor
Deaths
632 – Máedóc of Ferns, Irish bishop and saint (b. 550)
1216 – Theodore II of Constantinople
1398 – Emperor Sukō of Japan (b. 1334)
1418 – Mircea I of Wallachia (b. 1355)
1435 – Xuande Emperor of China (b. 1398)
1561 – Bairam Khan, Mughalan general (b. 1501)
1561 – Menno Simons, Dutch minister and theologian (b. 1496)
1580 – Henry, King of Portugal (b. 1512)
1606 – Guy Fawkes, English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (b. 1570)
1606 – Ambrose Rookwood, English conspirator (b. 1578)
1606 – Thomas Wintour, English conspirator (b. 1571)
1615 – Claudio Acquaviva, Italian priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1543)
1615 – Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent, English peer (b. 1541)
1632 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
1665 – Johannes Clauberg, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1622)
1686 – Jean Mairet, French playwright (b. 1604)
1720 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1654)
1729 – Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
1736 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (b. 1678)
1788 – Charles Edward Stuart, Italian husband of Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (b. 1720)
1790 – Thomas Lewis, Irish-American lawyer and surveyor (b. 1718)
1794 – Mariot Arbuthnot, English admiral and politician, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (b. 1711)
1811 – Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist (b. 1763)
1815 – José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan soldier (b. 1775)
1828 – Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek general (b. 1792)
1836 – John Cheyne, English physician and author (b. 1777)
1844 – Henri Gatien Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
1856 – 11th Dalai Lama (b. 1838)
1870 – Cilibi Moise, Moldavian-Romanian journalist and author (b. 1812)
1888 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator, founded the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
1892 – Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)
1907 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
1923 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
1933 – John Galsworthy, English author and playwright; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1942 – Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
1942 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
1944 – Jean Giraudoux, French novelist and playwright(b. 1882)
1945 – Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
1954 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
1954 – Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
1955 – John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1956 – A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright; wrote Winnie-the-Pooh (b. 1882)
1958 – Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1898)
1960 – Auguste Herbin, French cubist and abstract painter (b. 1882)
1961 – Krishna Singh, Indian politician, 1st Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1887)
1966 – Arthur Percival, English general (b. 1887)
1967 – Eddie Tolan, American sprinter (b. 1908)
1969 – Meher Baba, Indian guru and mystic (b. 1894)
1970 – Slim Harpo, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1924)
1971 – Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian historian and linguist (b. 1891)
1973 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
1974 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film producer; co-founded Goldwyn Pictures (b. 1882)
1974 – Glenn Morris, American decathlete and actor (b. 1912)
1974 – Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, referee, and coach (b. 1885)
1976 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal, inspired the Miranda rights (b. 1941)
1976 – Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)
1985 – Reginald Baker, English film producer (b. 1896)
1985 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1905)
1987 – Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1989 – William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)
1990 – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist (b. 1901)
1990 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)
1991 – Kostas Mountakis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
1995 – George Abbott, American director and producer (b. 1887)
1997 – John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-American bishop (b. 1930)
1998 – Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player (b. 1904)
1999 – Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler; co-founded All Japan Pro Wrestling (b. 1938)
1999 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
1999 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2000 – Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
2000 – Ralph Manza, American actor (b. 1921)
2001 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (b. 1923)
2002 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (b. 1919)
2004 – Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress (b. 1913)
2006 – Paul Regina, American actor (b. 1956)
2006 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and ballerina (b. 1926)
2007 – Kirka, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
2007 – Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 – Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (b. 1944)
2007 – Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1957)
2007 – Olevi Kull, Estonian ecologist and academic (b. 1955)
2007 – Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1929)
2008 – Zeltim Odie Peterson, American dog (b. 1997)
2009 – Nagesh, Indian actor (b. 1933)
2011 – Bartolomeu Anania, Romanian bishop and poet (b. 1921)
2011 – Mark Ryan, English guitarist (b. 1959)
2012 – Mani Ram Bagri, Indian politician (b. 1920)
2012 – Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal (b. 1923)
2012 – Leslie Carter, American singer-songwriter (b. 1986)
2012 – Tristram Potter Coffin, American author, scholar, and academic (b. 1922)
2012 – Mike Kelley (artist), American artist (b. 1954)
2012 – Dorothea Tanning, American painter and sculptor (b. 1910)
2013 – Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Mexican poet and scholar (b. 1923)
2013 – Hassan Habibi, Iranian lawyer and politician; 1st Vice President of Iran (b. 1937)
2013 – Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (b. 1987)
2013 – Tony Pierce, American baseball player (b. 1946)
2013 – Ingo Swann, American psychic and author (b. 1933)
2013 – Shail Upadhya; Nepalese diplomat, United Nations disarmament expert and "one of a kind" fashion designer (b. 1936 0r 1937)
2014 – Francis M. Fesmire, American cardiologist and physician (b. 1959)
2014 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer; co-founded Anna Records (b. 1922)
2014 – Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian politician; 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1924)
2014 – Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2014 – Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1928)
2014 – Christopher Jones, American actor (b. 1941)
2015 – Tomás Bulat, Argentinian economist, journalist, and academic (b. 1964)
2015 – Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
2015 – Vic Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
2015 – William Klinger, Croatian historian and author (b. 1972)
2015 – Udo Lattek, German football coach (b. 1935)
2015 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress (b. 1922)
2015 – Richard von Weizsäcker, German politician; 6th President of Germany (b. 1920)
Holidays and observances
Christian feast day:
Blessed Ludovica
Geminianus
John Bosco
Marcella
Samuel Shoemaker (Episcopal Church (USA))
January 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Amartithi (Meherabad, India, followers of Meher Baba)
Independence Day (Nauru), celebrates independence from Australia in 1968.
Street Children's Day (Austria)
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