31 October Deaths

Published : 31 Oct 2017, 10:39

Jagoroniya Desk

October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 61 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

Deaths

932 – Al-Muqtadir, Arab caliph (b. 895)
994 – Wolfgang of Regensburg, German bishop and saint (b. 934)
1147 – Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, son of Henry I of England (b. 1100)
1214 – Eleanor of England, queen of Castile (b. 1163)
1320 – Ricold of Monte Croce, Italian Dominican missionary (b. 1242)
1448 – John VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1390)
1335 – Marie of Évreux, French noblewoman (b. 1303)
1517 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
1641 – Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral (b. 1597)
1659 – John Bradshaw, English lawyer and judge, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1602)
1661 – Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman politician, 109th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1575)
1723 – Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)
1732 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b. 1666)
1733 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)
1744 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
1768 – Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1690)
1806 – Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese artist and printmaker (b. ca. 1753)
1860 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish-English admiral and politician (b. 1775)
1869 – Charles A. Wickliffe, American politician, 14th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1788)
1879 – Jacob Abbott, American author and academic (b. 1803)
1879 – Joseph Hooker, American general (b. 1814)
1884 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1858)
1905 – Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (b. 1828)
1913 – William Evans-Gordon, English soldier and politician (b. 1857)
1916 – Charles Taze Russell, American minister (b. 1852)
1916 – Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary leader and statesman (b. 1874)
1918 – Egon Schiele, Austrian painter (b. 1890)
1920 – Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian businessman (b. 1854)
1925 – Max Linder, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
1925 – Mikhail Frunze, Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 (b. 1885)
1926 – Harry Houdini, American magician and stuntman (b. 1874)
1929 – António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
1929 – Norman Pritchard, Indian-English hurdler and actor (b. 1877)
1931 – Octave Uzanne, French journalist and author (b. 1851)
1939 – Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist, author, and educator (b. 1884)
1952 – Chit Hlaing, Burmese lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
1959 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (b. 1885)
1960 – H. L. Davis, American author and poet (b. 1894)
1962 – Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1877)
1963 – Mesut Cemil, Turkish cellist and composer (b. 1902)
1972 – Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1916)
1973 – Malek Bennabi, Algerian philosopher and author (b. 1905)
1977 – C. B. Colby, American author and illustrator (b. 1904)
1980 – Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (b. 1905)
1983 – George Halas, American football player and coach (b. 1895)
1983 – Sharof Rashidov, Uzbek politician, CPSU Politburo candidate member (b. 1917)
1984 – Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1984 – Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (b. 1917)
1985 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
1985 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor and singer (b. 1913)
1986 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1988 – John Houseman, Romanian-born American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
1988 – Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter and academic (b. 1906)
1991 – Joseph Papp, American stage director and producer (b. 1921)
1992 – Gary Rippingale, English ice hockey player (b. 1974)
1993 – Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
1993 – River Phoenix, American actor and singer (b. 1970)
1995 – Rosalind Cash, American actress and singer (b. 1938)
1996 – Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1998 – Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1935)
1998 – María de la Purísima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun and saint (Roman Catholic Church) (b. 1926)
1999 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
2000 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1915)
2000 – Kazuki Watanabe, Japanese songwriter and guitarist (b. 1981)
2001 – Régine Cavagnoud, French skier (b. 1970)
2002 – Lionel Poilâne, French banker and businessman (b. 1945)
2002 – Michail Stasinopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, President of Greece (b. 1903)
2002 – Raf Vallone, Italian footballer and actor (b. 1916)
2003 – Richard Neustadt, American political scientist and historian (b. 1919)
2005 – Hal Anger, American biophysicist and engineer (b. 1920)
2006 – P. W. Botha, South African soldier and politician, State President of South Africa (b. 1916)
2006 – Peter Fryer, English journalist and author (b. 1927)
2006 – Amrita Pritam, Pakistani-Indian author and poet (b. 1919)
2007 – Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player, sportscaster, and actor (b. 1951)
2007 – Erdal İnönü, Turkish physicist and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)
2008 – Studs Terkel, American historian and author (b. 1912)
2009 – Mustafa Mahmud, Egyptian physician and author (b. 1921)
2009 – Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman, founded the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition (b. 1922)
2009 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (b. 1911)
2010 – Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel (b. 1928)
2011 – Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1941)
2011 – Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver (d. 1926)
2012 – Gae Aulenti, Italian architect and designer (b. 1927)
2012 – John Fitch, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1917)
2012 – John H. Reed, American soldier and politician, 67th Governor of Maine (b. 1921)
2013 – Chris Chase, American actress and author (b. 1924)
2013 – Gérard de Villiers, French journalist and author (b. 1929)
2013 – Trevor Kletz, English chemist and author (b. 1922)
2013 – Johnny Kucks, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2013 – Andres Narvasa, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (b. 1928)
2013 – Bobby Parker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
2014 – David Manker Abshire, American commander and diplomat, United States Permanent Representative to NATO (b. 1926)
2014 – Michael Alsbury, American engineer and pilot (b. 1975)
2014 – John Forzani, Canadian football player and businessman (b. 1947)
2014 – Brad Halsey, American baseball player (b. 1981)
2014 – Hitoshi Motoshima, Japanese educator and politician (b. 1922)
2015 – Gus Savage, American businessman and politician (b. 1925)

Source: wikipedia

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