Deaths on 1 February
2000s
Horst Köhler
2025
President of Germany from 2004 to 2010
Fay Vincent
2025
American baseball commissioner (1938–2025)
Remi De Roo
2022
Canadian Catholic bishop (1924–2022)
Dustin Diamond
2021
American actor and comedian (1977–2021)
Temur Tsiklauri
2021
Musical artist
Jeremy Hardy
2019
English comedian (1961–2019)
Clive Swift
2019
English actor and songwriter (1936–2019)
Wade Wilson (American football)
2019
American football player and coach (1959–2019)
Barys Kit
2018
Belarusian-American rocket scientist
Mowzey Radio
2018
Ugandan musician (1983–2018)
Desmond Carrington
2017
British broadcaster and actor (1926–2017)
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores
2016
Guatemalan military officer and politician
Aldo Ciccolini
2015
Italian pianist (1925–2015)
Udo Lattek
2015
German football player and coach (1935–2015)
Monty Oum
2015
American animator and voice actor (1981–2015)
Luis Aragonés
2014
Spanish football player and manager (1938–2014)
Vasily Petrov (marshal)
2014
Russian military official (1917–2014)
Rene Ricard
2014
American poet (1946–2014)
Maximilian Schell
2014
Swiss actor, filmmaker, and theatre director (1930–2014)
Helene Hale
2013
American politician (1918–2013)
Ed Koch
2013
Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989
Shanu Lahiri
2013
Indian painter (1928–2013)
Cecil Womack
2013
American singer-songwriter (1947–2013)
Don Cornelius
2012
American TV host and producer (1936–2012)
Wisława Szymborska
2012
Polish poet and Nobel laureate (1923–2012)
Jack Brisco
2010
American professional wrestler and amateur wrestler (1941–2010)
Beto Carrero
2008
Brazilian entertainer and businessman (1937–2008)
Gian Carlo Menotti
2007
Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)
John Vernon
2005
Canadian actor (1932–2005)
Suha Arın
2004
Turkish film director, writer, producer and educator
Michael P. Anderson
2003
American astronaut and scientist (1959–2003)
David M. Brown
2003
American astronaut (1956–2003)
Kalpana Chawla
2003
Indian-born American astronaut (1962–2003)
Laurel Clark
2003
American astronaut (1961–2003)
Rick Husband
2003
American astronaut (1957–2003)
William C. McCool
2003
American astronaut (1961–2003)
Ilan Ramon
2003
Israeli fighter pilot and astronaut (1954–2003)
Mongo Santamaría
2003
Afro-Cuban musician (1917–2003)
Aykut Barka
2002
Turkish scientist
Hildegard Knef
2002
German actress (1925–2002)
André D'Allemagne
2001
1900s
Paul Mellon
1999
American philanthropist and horse breeder
Herb Caen
1997
American newspaper columnist (1916–1997)
Ray Crawford (racing driver)
1996
American pilot, race-car driver and businessman
Sven Thofelt
1993
Swedish modern pentathlete and épée fencer
Jean Hamburger
1992
French physician, surgeon and essayist
Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar
1991
Saudi Arabian writer and journalist (1916–1991)
Elaine de Kooning
1989
American expressionist painter (1918–1989)
Eduardo Franco (singer)
1989
Uruguayan singer and composer
Heather O'Rourke
1988
American child actress (1975–1988)
Alessandro Blasetti
1987
Italian film director
Alva Myrdal
1986
Swedish sociologist and politician (1902–1986)
Donald Wills Douglas Sr.
1981
American aircraft industrialist (1892–1981)
Geirr Tveitt
1981
Norwegian composer and pianist
Yolanda González (activist)
1980
Spanish militant (1961–1980)
Abdi İpekçi
1979
Turkish journalist, intellectual and human rights activist (1929–1979)
Werner Heisenberg
1976
German theoretical physicist (1901–1976)
George Whipple
1976
American biomedical researcher (1878–1976)
Alfréd Rényi
1970
Hungarian mathematician (1921–1970)
Death of Echol Cole and Robert Walker
1968
Accidental deaths of two American sanitation workers
Hedda Hopper
1966
American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)
Buster Keaton
1966
American actor and filmmaker (1895–1966)
Johan Scharffenberg
1965
Norwegian activist (1869–1965)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
1959
American actress (1873–1959)
Clinton Davisson
1958
American experimental physicist (1881–1958)
Friedrich Paulus
1957
German field marshal (1890–1957)
N. D. Cocea
1949
20th-century Romanian journalist and activist (1880 - 1949)
Herbert Stothart
1949
American songwriter, arranger, conductor and composer (1885–1949)
Piet Mondrian
1944
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
Philip Francis Nowlan
1940
American novelist (1888–1940)
Zacharias Papantoniou
1940
Greek writer
Georgios Kondylis
1936
Greek politician and general (1879–1936)
Hughie Jennings
1928
American baseball player, coach, and manager (1869–1928)
Maurice Prendergast
1924
American painter
William Desmond Taylor
1922
Irish-American film director, actor, and murder victim (1872–1922)
Georg Andreas Bull
1917
Norwegian architect (1829–1917)
James Boucaut
1916
Australian politician and judge
Carlos I of Portugal
1908
King of Portugal from 1889 to 1908
Léon Serpollet
1907
French engineer
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
1903
British mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
1800s
Constantin von Ettingshausen
1897
Austrian botanist
George Henry Sanderson
1893
22nd Mayor of San Francisco from 1891 to 1893
Alexander Serov
1871
Russian composer and music critic (1820–1871)
Mary Shelley
1851
English writer (1797–1851)
Archibald Murphey
1832
American politician
Anders Chydenius
1803
Swedish-Finnish priest, politician, enlightenment thinker and economist (1729–1803)
Before 1800
William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
1793
British politician (1717–1793)
Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet
1768
British Army officer and politician (1685–1768)
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix
1761
French Jesuit priest, traveller and historian
Prince Bakar of Kartli
1750
Georgian prince
Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni
1743
Italian composer
John Floyer (physician)
1734
English physician and author (1649–1734)
Augustus II the Strong
1733
King of Poland, Elector of Saxony and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1670–1733)
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury
1718
British statesman (1660–1718)
Pope Alexander VIII
1691
Head of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691
Lawrence Humphrey
1590
English theologian (died 1589)
Menas of Ethiopia
1563
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1559 to 1563
Girolamo Aleandro
1542
16th century Venetian and Catholic Cardinal
Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria
1501
Charles IV of France
1328
King of France and Navarre from 1322 to 1328
Henry II, Duke of Brabant
1248
Duke of Brabant and Lothier from 1235
Alexios I of Trebizond
1222
Emperor of Trebizond and Byzantine claimant (1204–1222)
Ramiro I of Asturias
850
King of Asturias (rgn: 842 - 850)
Pope Stephen III
772
Head of the Catholic Church from 768 to 772
Kan Bahlam I
583
Ajaw