1st February Deaths

February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining until the end of the year (334 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Deaths

583 – Kan B'alam I, ruler of Palenque (b. 524)
772 – Pope Stephen III (b. 720)
850 – Ramiro I, king of Asturias
992 – Jawhar as-Siqilli, Fatimid statesman
1222 – Alexios Megas Komnenos, first Emperor of Trebizond
1248 – Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207)
1328 – Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
1501 – Sigismund of Bavaria (b. 1439)
1542 – Girolamo Aleandro, Italian cardinal (b. 1480)
1563 – Menas of Ethiopia (b. 1559)
1590 – Lawrence Humphrey, English theologian and academic (b. 1527)
1691 – Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
1718 – Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1660)
1733 – Augustus II the Strong, Polish king (b. 1670)
1734 – John Floyer, English physician and author (b. 1649)
1743 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (b. 1657)
1750 – Bakar of Georgia (b. 1699)
1761 – Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French priest and historian (b. 1682)
1768 – Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, English field marshal and politician (b. 1685)
1793 – William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1717)
1832 – Archibald Murphey, American judge and politician (b. 1777)
1851 – Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1797)
1871 – Alexander Serov, Russian composer and critic (b. 1820)
1893 – George Henry Sanderson, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
1897 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (b. 1826)
1903 – Sir George Stokes, Anglo-Irish physicist, mathematician, and politician (b. 1819)
1907 – Léon Serpollet, French businessman (b. 1858)
1908 – Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
1922 – William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872)
1924 – Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858)
1928 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
1936 – Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
1940 – Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)
1940 – Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist and critic (b. 1877)
1944 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (b. 1872)
1949 – Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1880)
1949 – Herbert Stothart, American conductor and composer (b. 1885)
1957 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
1958 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1959 – Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
1966 – Hedda Hopper, American actress and journalist (b. 1885)
1966 – Buster Keaton, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
1968 – Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
1970 – Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)
1976 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1976 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
1979 – Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)
1981 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American engineer and businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (b. 1892)
1981 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1908)
1986 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1987 – Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1989 – Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (b. 1918)
1992 – Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (b. 1909)
1996 – Ray Crawford, American race car driver, pilot, and businessman (b. 1915)
1997 – Herb Caen, American journalist and author (b. 1916)
1999 – Paul Mellon, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1907)
2001 – André D'Allemagne, Canadian political scientist and academic (b. 1929)
2002 – Aykut Barka, Turkish geologist and academic (b. 1951)
2002 – Hildegard Knef, German actress and singer (b. 1925)
2003 – crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia
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)
2003 – Mongo Santamaría, Cuban-American drummer and bandleader (b. 1922)
2004 – Suha Arın, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
2005 – John Vernon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1932)
2007 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American playwright and composer (b. 1911)
2008 – Beto Carrero, Brazilian actor and businessman (b. 1937)
2012 – Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (b. 1936)
2012 – Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
2013 – Ed Koch, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (b. 1924)
2013 – Shanu Lahiri, Indian painter and educator (b. 1928)
2013 – Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
2014 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2014 – Vasily Petrov, Russian marshal (b. 1917)
2014 – Rene Ricard, American poet, painter, and critic (b. 1946)
2014 – Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2015 – Aldo Ciccolini, Italian-French pianist (b. 1925)
2015 – Udo Lattek, German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1935)
2015 – Monty Oum, American animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1981)
2016 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, Guatemalan general and politician, 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930)
2017 – Desmond Carrington, British actor and broadcaster (b. 1926)

Source: wikipedia