24 notable people died on February 1, including Werner Heisenberg, Clinton Davisson, George H. Whipple.
21st Century
1 deathÓV
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores
politician
Guatemalan President (1930-2016)
20th Century
6 deaths
Werner Heisenberg
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1932)
Clinton Davisson
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1937)
George H. Whipple
scientist
Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1934)
Nikola Mikhov
military officermilitary personnel
Regent of Bulgaria (1891-1945)
Władysław Gliński
chess playerinventor
Wladyslaw Glinski (1920 - February 1990) was a Polish game designer and businessman from London who invented Hexagonal Chess in 1936.
Bolesław Limanowski
historianpolitician
Polish historian and politician
19th Century
4 deaths
Anders Chydenius
economistphilosopher
Swedish priest and politician (1729–1803)
Friedrich Rühs
historianuniversity teacher
German historian and academic
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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