20 notable people died on February 1, including George H. Whipple, Werner Heisenberg, Clinton Davisson.
21st Century
1 deathÓscar Humberto Mejía Víctores
politician
Guatemalan President (1930-2016)
20th Century
4 deaths
George H. Whipple
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1934)
Werner Heisenberg
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1932)
Clinton Davisson
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1937)
Nikola Mikhov
military officermilitary personnel
Regent of Bulgaria (1891-1945)
19th Century
2 deaths
Mary Shelley
biographeressayist
English writer (1797–1851)
George Thompson
civil engineerengineer
British engineer active in Paraguay
16th Century
1 death
Bernardo Accolti
playwrightpoet
Italian poet
15th Century
2 deaths
13th Century
2 deaths
Clemence of Austria
queen regnant
Titular Queen of Hungary
Odo of Châteauroux
Catholic bishopCatholic priest
Catholic cardinal
12th Century
1 death
Anacletus II
Catholic bishopCatholic priest
Antipope 1130 to 1138
11th Century
2 deaths
Amadeus II, Count of Savoy
monarch
Count of Maurienne
Peter Damian
Catholic bishopCatholic priest
Eleventh-century Benedictine monk
8th Century
2 deaths
Abu Muslim al Khorasani
da'imilitary leader
Abbasid general
Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra
military commanderwali
General and Umayyad governor
7th Century
2 deaths
4th Century BC
1 death
Artaxerxes II
king
The 10th Achaemenid Emperor (404–358 BC)
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