Deaths February 1 | History by KabAstro

1761 Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French Jesuit prince and historian, dies at 78
1768 Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer, dies at 82
1793 William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman, dies at 76
1795 Giacomo Insanguine, Italian organist and composer, dies at 66
1818 Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer, dies at 74
1824 Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian blind pianist, singer, organist, and composer, dies at 64
1832 Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician, dies at 55
1832 Ecco Epkema, Dutch classic linguist (Frisian, Old Frisian), dies at 71
1839 Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect & archaeologist, dies at 76
1850 Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, dies at 3

Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

English novelist (Frankenstein), dies of a brain tumor at 53

1864 Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, dies at 44
1869 Frederick Willem Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer and railway pioneer (Katwyk), dies at 68
1871 Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, Russian composer, dies at 51
1873 Matthew Maury, American oceanographer, dies at 67
1875 William Sterndale Bennett, English composer, dies at 58
1877 Joseph-Leon Gatayes, French harpist, dies at 71
1878 George Cruikshank, English caricaturist & illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85
1883 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian and author (In the Forests) [NS=Feb 13], dies at 64
1889 Joseph Gungl, Austro-Hungarian bandmaster and composer of dances and marches, dies at 78
1893 George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco, dies at 70
1897 Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist, dies at 70
1902 Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist and composer, dies at 70

George Stokes (1819-1903)

Irish physicist and mathematician (Navier-Stokes equations, Stokes' theorem), dies at 83

1904 Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian and writer, dies at 76
1905 Oswald Aschenbach, German landscape painter, dies at 77
1908 Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by Republican sympathisers at 44
1910 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
1916 Anton Simon, Russian composer, dies at 65
1922 William Desmond Taylor [Deane-Tanner], Irish director and actor (The Awakening, Broken Coin), murdered at 49
1922 Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese soldier and statesman (Prime Minister of Japan 1889–91,1898–1900), dies at 83
1928 Hughie Jennings, American Baseball Hall of Fame infielder (Baltimore Orioles) and manager (Detroit Tigers 1907-20), dies of meningitis at 58
1929 Alexander Ogston, British surgeon (discovered Staphylococcus), educator, and military doctor, dies at 84
1929 August Halm, German composer, dies at 59
1936 Georgios Kondylis, Prime Minister of Greece and general of the Greek army, dies at 56
1937 Marguerite Audoux, French novelist, dies at 73
1940 Philip Francis Nowlan, American sci-fi writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
1943 Foy Draper, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m relay 1936 WR 39.8s), dies in action as a USAF pilot at 31
1944 Martin Lunssens, Belgian composer, dies at 72

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow) and art theoretician, dies of pneumonia at 71

1945 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
1946 Hans Bethge, German poet, dies at 70
1949 Herbert Stothart, American theater (Rose-Marie) and film score composer (The Wizard of Oz; Mutiny on the Bounty; A Night at the Opera), dies at 63
1954 Henry Leveson-Gower, English cricket batsman and captain (3 Tests; Surrey CCC, Oxford University CC), dies at 80
1954 Julius P. Hoste, Belgian journalist, daily newspaper publisher (Last News), and politician (Minister of Education, 1936-38; Senator 1949-54), dies at 69

Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957)

German field marshal who commanded the 6th Army at Stalingrad and highest-ranking German officer to surrender, dies at 66

1958 Clinton Davisson, American physicist (Nobel 1937- discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson-Germer experiment), dies at 76
1959 Madame Sul-Te-Wan [Nellie Crawford], American actress (The Birth of a Nation, Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies of a stroke at 85
1959 William Hoppe, American carom billiards player (51 world titles 1906-52), dies at 71
1963 Fleetwood Lindley, American man & last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face, dies at 75

Buster Keaton (1895-1966)

American actor and comedian (Navigator, Steamboat Bill Jr, The General), dies at 70

1966 Hedda Hopper [Elda Furry], American gossip columnist, dies at 75
1966 William Harrigan, American actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71
1967 Ernie Bromley, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests; first Western Australian to play Test cricket for Australia), dies at 54
1968 Lawson Little, American golfer (US Open 1940), dies at 57
1970 Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 48
1970 Blaž Arnič, Slovenian composer (Ples čarovnic (The Dance of the Witches)), and pedagogue, dies in a car crash at 69
1971 Jim Christy, South African cricket batsman (10 Tests; top score 103 1932; Transvaal, Queensland), dies at 66
1974 Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle at 22
1975 Richard Wattis, British actor (Hobson's Choice, Prince & Showgirl, The Man Who Knew Too Much), dies from a heart attack at 62
1976 Edgar Pangborn, American sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
1976 George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 97

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)

German physicist who discovered the uncertainty principle (Nobel 1932), dies of kidney cancer at 74

1976 William Lawther, English union leader (National Union of Mine Workers 1939-54), dies at 86
1977 Edmond Hamilton, American sci-fi author ("City at World's End"; "The Star Kings"), dies at 72
1979 Mort Marshall [Mortimer Haig Lichtenstein], American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Dumplings), dies of coronary arrest at 60
1980 Gastone Nencini, Italian road cyclist (Giro d'Italia 1957, Tour de France 1960), dies at 49
1980 Jack Bailey, American actor and TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
1980 Romolo Valli, Italian actor (Boom, La Viaccia), dies at 54

Donald Wills Douglas (1892-1981)

American aircraft industrialist (McDonnell Douglas) and aviation pioneer (Douglas DC-3), dies at 88

1981 Ernst Pepping, German composer, dies at 79
1981 Nils Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer, dies at 72
1981 Wanda Hendrix, American actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies at 52
1986 Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist, diplomat and leader of the disarmament movement (Nobel Peace Prize 1982), dies at 84
1986 Dick James [Leon Vapnick], British dance band vocalist and Beatles' music publisher (Northern Songs), dies of a heart attack at 65
1987 Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director, dies at 86
1987 Ernest "Ern" Westmore, American 3rd generation make-up artist (Westmore family) and actor, dies from a heart attack at 82
1987 Sala Burton, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1983-87), dies of cancer at 61
1988 Heather O'Rourke, American actress (Happy Days, Poltergeist), dies of intestinal ailment at 12
1988 Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor (The French Connection), dies at 59
1988 Reinder Zwolsman, Dutch businessman, dies at 75
1989 Blaze Foley [Michael Fuller], American outlaw country singer-songwriter (Wanted More Dead Than Alive), shot to death by a family friend at 39
1989 Elaine de Kooning, American artist, dies at 70
1991 Carol Dempster, American film actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
1991 Jimmy MacDonald, Scottish-American voice actor (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
1991 Phil Watson, Canadian NHL right wing (Stanley Cup 1940 [NYR], 1944 [Montreal Canadiens]) and coach (NY Rangers), dies at 76
1992 George Berkeley, American actor (Life Stinks, Capts & Kings), dies at 70
1992 Irving Kaufman, American federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
1993 Sven Thofelt, Swedish athlete (Olympic gold pentathlon 1928; silver team épée 1936, bronze 1948), dies at 88
1994 Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
1994 John Littlejohn [Funchess], American electric blues slide guitarist ("So-Called Friends"), dies of renal failure at 62
1994 Olan Soule, American character radio and screen actor (The First Nighter Program; Captain Midnight; Dragnet; Arnie), dies of lung cancer at 84
1995 Michael Cesar, American man & self-proclaimed 'Pope of Pot', dies of liver cancer at 52
1996 Clive Burton, British neuropathologist, dies at 54
1997 Ed Danowski, American football quarterback & halfback (NFL Championship 1934, 38; New York Giants; Pro Bowl 1938), dies at 85
1997 Herb Caen, American columnist (SF Chronicle), dies of lung cancer, at 80
1997 Marjorie Reynolds [Goodspeed], American actress and dancer (Holiday Inn; Life of Riley), dies from congestive heart disease at 79
1997 Mitchell Goodman, American writer, dies at 71
1997 Peter Morris, British historian of France, dies at 50
1997 Thelma Moss, American actress and psychologist, dies at 78
1998 Sheila Watson, Canadian writer (Double Hook), dies at 88 [1]
1999 Barış Manço, Turkish rock guitarist, singer-songwriter (Kurtalan Ekspres - "Arkadaşım Eşek (My Friend the Donkey"), and television producer (From 7 to 77), dies of a heart attack at 56
1999 Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (Washington National Gallery of Art), dies at 91
1999 Rudolf Kárpáti, Hungarian fencer (Olympic gold sabre team 1948, 52, 56, 60; individual 1956, 60; World C'ship gold x 7), dies at 78
2000 Dick Rathmann, American auto racer (first Indy pole-sitter to complete no laps), dies at 74
2000 Peter Levi, British archeologist, poet (Pancakes for the Queen of Babylon; Shadows and Bones), Jesuit priest, and academic, dies at 68
2000 Roger Landry, Canadian businessman and newspaper publisher (La Presse), dies at 86
2001 André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist, dies at 71
2002 Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (Touch of Class; Mozambique), dies at 76
2002 Irish McCalla, American actress and artist (Sheena Queen of Jungle), dies of a brain tumor and stroke complications at 73
2003 David Brown, American US Navy Captain and NASA astronaut & member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 46
2003 Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut aboard mission STS-107, dies in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster at 48
2003 Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (STS 87) and the first woman of Indian descent to go to space, dies in Space Shuttle Columbia disaster at 40
2003 Laurel Clark, American astronaut and member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 41
2003 Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut & member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 43
2003 Mongo Santamaria, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, dies at 85
2003 Nancy Whiskey [Anne Wilson], Scottish folk singer and guitarist ("Freight Train"), dies at 67
2003 Rick Husband, American astronaut & member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 45
2003 William C. McCool, American astronaut & member of the STS-107 Mission, dies in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster at 41
2004 Ally MacLeod, Scottish soccer manager (Scotland, Ayr United, Aberdeen, Motherwell, Airdrie, Q of the South) and left wing (Blackburn Rovers, Hibernian, Third Lanark), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 72
2004 May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer, dies at 97
2005 Franco Mannino, Italian pianist, conductor, classical concert, opera, and film score composer (Death in Venice; Il diavolo in giardino), dies at 80
2005 George Douglass Milne, British peer, soldier and artist, dies at 95
2005 John Vernon [Adolphus Agopsowicz], Canadian actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry), dies at 72
2006 Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat, dies at 74
2006 Dick Bass, American NFL running back (Pro Bowl 1962, 63, 66; LA Rams), dies at 68
2007 Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader, dies at 60
2007 Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian pianist, librettist, and composer (Amahl & Night Visitors), and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 95
2007 Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer, dies at 70
2007 Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic, dies of cancer at 80
2008 Shell Kepler [Michelle Alaine Kepler], American actress (General Hospital), dies from renal failure at 49
2009 Frankie Ervin, American R&B singer (The Three Blazers -"Dragnet Blues"; The Shields -"You Cheated"), dies at 82
2009 Jay Uzzell, American R&B singer (Corsairs), dies at 66
2009 Lukas Foss [Fuchs], German-American pianist, conductor and composer (Prairie), dies at 86
2010 David Brown, American film producer ("The Sting", "Jaws", "Cocoon"), dies at 93

Jack Brisco (1941-2010)

American pro wrestler (NWA World Heavyweight Champion 1973–75), dies from complications of open heart surgery at 68

2012 Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer & cornerman (Muhammad Ali 1960–81 & 15 other world boxing champions), dies at 90
2012 Charlie Spoonhour, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis, UNLV), dies at 72
2012 Don Cornelius, American television host, commits suicide by gunshot at 75
2012 Gerlando Alberti, Sicilian Mafioso, dies from cancer at 88
2012 Ton de Kruyf, Dutch composer, dies at 74
2012 Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet, winner of 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 88
2013 Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian musicologist, educator, and composer, dies at 86

Ed Koch (1924-2013)

American congressman and New York City Mayor (1977-89), dies of heart failure at 88

2013 Paul Holmes, New Zealand radio and TV broadcaster, dies from prostate cancer and heart problems at 62
2013 Vladimir Yengibaryan, Armenian boxer (Olympic gold light welterweight 1956), dies from Alzheimer's disease at 80
2014 Luis Aragonés, Spanish soccer forward (11 caps; Atlético Madrid) and manager (Spain 2004-08; Atlético Madrid, Barcelona), dies from leukemia at 75

Maximilian Schell (1930-2014)

Swiss-Austrian actor (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Pedestrian), dies at 83

2015 Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French concert pianist, dies at 89
2015 Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, British engineer, politician and CEO of the Equal Opportunities Commission, dies at 91
2015 Monty Oum, American animator (RWBY), dies of an allergic reaction at 33
2016 Israr Ali, Pakistan cricket all-rounder (4 Tests; member of Pakistan's first Test team that played against India 1952–53), dies of pneumonia at 88
2017 Desmond Carrington, British radio host (The Music Goes Round), dies at 90
2017 Étienne Tshisekedi, Congolese opposition leader, dies at 84
2017 Ken Morrison, English supermarket tycoon (Morrisons), dies at 85
2018 Alan Stout, American composer, dies at 85
2018 Dennis Edwards, American pop and soul singer (The Temptations - "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"), dies following a stroke at 74
2018 Patricia Lindop, British radiobiologist and physician, dies at 87
2019 Clive Swift, British stage, wireless, and screen actor (Frenzy; A Passage to India; Keeping Up Appearances), dies at 82
2019 Wade Wilson, American NFL quarterback, 1981-1998 (Dallas Cowboys - Super Bowl 1995, Minnesota Vikings - Pro Bowl 1988, and 3 other teams), dies of complications from Type 1 diabetes on his 60th birthday
2020 Andy Gill, British guitarist and record producer (Gang of Four - "Damaged Goods"), dies from multiple organ failure and pneumonia at 64
2020 Peter Serkin, American concert pianist (TASHI quartet), and pedagogue (Juilliard; Curtis Institute; Yale; Bard College), dies from pancreatic cancer at 72
2021 Dustin Diamond, American actor (Saved By Bell - "Screech"), dies of cancer at 44
2022 Easton McMorris, West Indian cricket batsman (13 Tests, 1 x 100; Jamaica), dies at 86
2022 Glenn Wheatley, Australian rock bassist (The Masters Apprentices), and talent manager (Little River Band; John Farnham), dies of COVID-19 complications at 74
2022 Maurizio Zamparini, Italian football executive (owner/director Palermo FC 2002–18), dies from complications of peritonitis at 80
2022 Richard L. Tierney, American sci-fi author (Winds of Zarr, Red Sonja), dies at 85
2022 Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo), dies at 89
2023 Joanne Bracker, American college basketball coach (Midland University 1970-2012; Women's Basketball HOF), dies at 77

Carl Weathers (1948-2024)

American football player, actor (Rocky films (I-IV); Street Justice; The Mandalorian), and director, dies at 76

2024 Michel Jazy, French athlete (WR 1 mile 3:53.6 1965; Olympic silver 1500m 1960), dies at 87
2024 Mike Martin, American College Baseball HOF coach (all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I: Florida State Uni 1980-2019; Baseball America Coach of the Year 2012, 19), dies at 79

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