Deaths in History on January 31

1606 Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator who was convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up the British Parliament, hanged at 35

1615 Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit priest (5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus), dies at 71
1632 Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
1665 Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
1686 Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
1720 Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)
1729 Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
1729 Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch navigator (Easter Island), dies at 69
1736 Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, dies at 57
1788 [Bonnie Prince] Charles Edward Stuart, English pretender to throne (Jacobite rebellion), dies at 67

1790 Thomas Lewis, Irish-American surveyor, lawyer, and a pioneer of early Virginia, dies at 71
1794 Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
1815 José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
1828 Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35
1844 Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general and engineer, dies at 70
1856 Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama of Tibet, dies at 17
1861 Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53
1864 Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
1888 John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society, dies at 72
1891 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75
1892 Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
1907 Timothy Eaton, Irish-born Canadian department store founder (Eatons), dies at 72
1919 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79
1925 George W. Cable, American writer (Northampton Years), dies at 80
1933 John Galsworthy, English author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932), dies at 65
1940 René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56
1944 Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
1945 Eddie Slovik, 1st US executed for desertion since Civil War at 25
1954 Edwin H Armstrong, US radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63
1955 John R Mott, US theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89

1956 A. A. Milne, English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, dies at 74

1967 Otto Dibelius, German theologian/bishop, dies at 86
1969 Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
1971 Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian and linguist, dies at 79
1972 Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, king of Nepal (1955-72), dies at 51

1972 Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag), dies at 76
1973 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77
1974 Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Flandre), dies at 72

1974 Samuel Goldwyn, Polish English American film magnate (MGM), dies of natural causes at 91

1976 Ernesto Miranda, American litigant, conviction on kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery charges, stabbed to death at 34
1990 Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
1994 Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner), dies at 81
1995 James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86
1995 George Stibitz, American mathematician and scientist, dies at 90
1996 Gustave Solomon, mathematician, dies at 65
1997 John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
2000 Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
2001 Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
2002 Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)
2002 Henry Kloss, American audio engineer (acoustic loudspeaker), dies at 73
2003 Michael Ogden, British barrister and judge (Ogden Tables), dies at 76
2007 Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author, dies at 62
2007 Adelaide Tambo, South African anti-apartheid activist, politician and wife of Oliver Tambo, dies at 77
2008 Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)
2012 Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal, dies at 88
2012 Dorothea Tanning, American artist (Nachtmusik, 1943, Night Shadow, 1945), dies at 101
2012 Tristram Coffin, American folklorist, dies from pneumonia at 89
2012 Mike Kelley, American artist, commits suicide at 57
2015 Richard von Weizsacker, German politician and 1st president of reunited Germany (1990-94), dies at 94