On This Day — January 31
4192 noted people were born and 2086 died on January 31 in our archive, including Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov, Guido van Rossum and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 31
Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov
1903 – 1994
Guido van Rossum
b. 1956
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
1929 – 2011
Alexey Miller
b. 1962
Alva Myrdal
1902 – 1986
Bernard Altum
1824 – 1900
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
b. 1945
Camilo Ponce Enríquez
1912 – 1976
Charles William Lyons
1868 – 1939
Derek Quigley
b. 1932
Dick Gephardt
b. 1941
Douglas McCauley
b. 1979
Edwin Vedejs
1941 – 2017
Emil Gabrielian
1931 – 2010
Fatou Bensouda
b. 1961
Färit Möxämmätşin
b. 1947
Gerrit van Poelje
1884 – 1976
Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns
1835 – 1902
Gustavo Baz Prada
1894 – 1987
Henri Desgrange
1865 – 1940
Igal Talmi
1925 – 2026
Ilse Lehiste
1922 – 2010
Irving Langmuir
1881 – 1957
J. J. Sakurai
1933 – 1982
Jean Leclercq
1911 – 1993
Jean-Clément Martin
b. 1948
Joaquim Nadal i Farreras
b. 1948
Josef van Schaik
1882 – 1962
Kurt Blome
1894 – 1969
Ludwig von Pastor
1854 – 1928
Mikhail Zygar
b. 1981
Mubarak Ahmad Khan
b. 1958
Niels-Henrik Kolderup 1
1898 – 1971
Persi Diaconis
b. 1945
Pierre Pringuet
b. 1950
Sergey Baburin
b. 1959
Stewart L. Udall
1920 – 2010
Theodor Heuss
1884 – 1963
Theodore William Richards
1868 – 1928
Vasily Kuznetsov
1901 – 1990
Vitalik Buterin
b. 1994
Willem van Eysinga
1878 – 1961
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
1921 – 1987
Adolphe Messimy
1869 – 1935
Alain Frachon
b. 1950
Alejandro Rojas Wainer
1945 – 2018
Alexander Korzhakov
b. 1950
Alexander Stanier
1899 – 1995
Anatoly Karatsuba
1937 – 2008
Andrew Ramsay
1814 – 1891
Andrii Parubii
1971 – 2025
Asqar Beisenbaev
b. 1961
Babacar Gaye
b. 1951
Barry Morgan
b. 1947
Beatrix of the Netherlands
b. 1938
Brian Mikkelsen
b. 1966
Carl Gustaf Estlander
1834 – 1910
Christopher Chataway
1931 – 2014
Clarissa Ward
b. 1980
Czeslaw Walek
b. 1975
Daniel Bar-Tal
b. 1946
Daniel Gilbert Nessim
b. 1966
Darcy McKeough
1933 – 2023
David Emmanuel
1854 – 1941
David Lloyd Jones
b. 1952
David P. Reed
b. 1952
Deborah Bronnert
b. 1967
Denise P. Barlow
1950 – 2017
Drummond Rennie
1936 – 2025
Dyann Wirth
b. 1951
Edward Bramwell Clarke
1874 – 1934
Ella Cara Deloria
1889 – 1971
Eric Burhop
1911 – 1980
Filiz Kerestecioğlu
b. 1961
Frank Gill
1917 – 1982
Frederick Williamson
1891 – 1935
Gabriel Salazar
b. 1936
Garo H. Armen
b. 1953
Garry Moore
1915 – 1993
George Benjamin
b. 1960
Georges Weill
1934 – 2022
Glynn Turman
b. 1947
Gouverneur Morris
1752 – 1816
Grant Morrison
b. 1960
Guido Barbujani
b. 1955
Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh
1910 – 1948
Guy Ullens
1935 – 2025
Heinz Bauer
1928 – 2002
Helke Sander
b. 1937
Henri Carton de Wiart
1869 – 1951
Henri Fazy
1842 – 1920
Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster
1866 – 1936
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle
1785 – 1851
Hermann Höpker-Aschoff
1883 – 1954
Hugh Joseph Addonizio
1914 – 1981
Hugh Segar
1868 – 1954
Håkan Syrén
b. 1952
Igor Puzanov
1947 – 2023
Imtiaz Dharker
b. 1954
Ivan Klajn
1937 – 2021
Jacek Chmielnik
1953 – 2007
Jean-Michel Fauvergue
b. 1957
Job Getcha
b. 1974
Johannes Sobotta
1869 – 1945
Johannes Virolainen
1914 – 2000
John Hugh McNary
1867 – 1936
Joseph
b. 1954
Karoly Hokky
1883 – 1971
Kenzaburō Ōe
1935 – 2023
Kohei Saito
b. 1987
Lachlan Macquarie
1762 – 1824
Lee Young-ae
b. 1971
Leonid Babashov
b. 1966
Lord Richard Cavendish
1871 – 1946
Lucas Richman
b. 1964
Lydia Smirnova
1915 – 2007
Marek Surmacz
b. 1955
Maria Rauch-Kallat
b. 1949
Marwan Kassab-Bachi
1934 – 2016
Melanie Stansbury
b. 1979
Mike Carlton
b. 1946
Mike Waltz
b. 1974
Mikko Niskanen
1929 – 1990
Morteza Motahhari
1919 – 1979
Natalia Duco
b. 1989
Nick Ferrari
b. 1959
Nikita Petrov
b. 1957
Nikolay Shatilov
1849 – 1919
Nils Ericson
1802 – 1870
Onyeka Onwenu
1952 – 2024
Paul Baccaglini
1984 – 2025
Paul Housberg
b. 1953
Paul Joan George Kapteyn
b. 1928
Penelope Umbrico
b. 1957
Pierre Hassner
1933 – 2018
Quassim Cassam
b. 1961
Regimantas Adomaitis
1937 – 2022
Richard Collins, Baron Collins
1842 – 1911
Rima Horton
b. 1947
Robert John Tillyard
1881 – 1937
Robin Murray
b. 1944
Rodolphe Töpffer
1799 – 1846
Romualdas Ozolas
1939 – 2015
Rudolf Schieffer
1947 – 2018
Rudraprasad Sengupta
b. 1935
Ruslan Skvortsov
b. 1980
Salim Sayegh
b. 1961
Santi Romano
1875 – 1947
Sergei Ivanov
1953 – 2026
Stefan Tytus Dąbrowski
1877 – 1947
Sven Gavelin
1909 – 1991
Tatyana Mantatova
b. 1975
Theobald Fischer
1846 – 1910
Tikhon of Moscow
1865 – 1925
Timothy Naftali
b. 1962
Trevor Manuel
b. 1956
Vasili Tsereteli
b. 1978
Vasily Chuikov
1900 – 1982
William Wallace Atterbury
1866 – 1935
Willy Spühler
1902 – 1990
Adeniran Ogunsanya
1918 – 1996
Adrien Tixier
1893 – 1946
Agostino Depretis
1813 – 1887
Akbar Ganji
b. 1960
Alan Lomax
1915 – 2002
Aldo Schiappacasse
b. 1961
Alec Marantz
b. 1959
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
1939 – 2012
Aleksey Verbov
b. 1982
Alex Agius Saliba
b. 1988
Alexander W. Gregg
1855 – 1919
Alexandr Loginov
b. 1992
Alexis Bonabes, Marquess of Rougé
1778 – 1839
Alfonso López Pumarejo
1886 – 1959
Alfred Kossmann
1922 – 1998
Alice Tai
b. 1999
Anastasia Afanasieva
b. 1982
Andreas Cappelen
1915 – 2008
Andrzej Kraśnicki
1949 – 2025
André Antoine
1858 – 1943
André Balazs
b. 1957
Andrée Boucher
1937 – 2007
Anna Silk
b. 1974
Anna Yesipova
1851 – 1914
Anthony LaPaglia
b. 1959
Anthony Winkler Prins
1817 – 1908
Arnold Geulincx
1624 – 1669
Arthur H. Greenwood
1880 – 1963
Artur Mas
b. 1956
Attila Henrik Szabó
b. 1970
Baciro Djá
b. 1973
Barney White-Spunner
b. 1957
Barry M. Costello
b. 1951
Beatrice Brignone
b. 1978
Bella Kocharyan
b. 1954
Bence Tuzson
b. 1972
Benjamin Caldwell
1739 – 1820
Benjamin Hooks
1925 – 2010
Bernd Baumann
b. 1958
Bert Mizusawa
b. 1957
… and 3,992 more
Died on January 31
Kanysh Satpayev
1899 – 1964
Norman Macleod Ferrers
1829 – 1903
Pierre Nanterme
1959 – 2019
August Michaelis
1847 – 1916
Benedykt Dybowski
1833 – 1930
Carl von Voit
1831 – 1908
Charles S. Hastings
1848 – 1932
Charles William Lyons
1868 – 1939
David Durenberger
1934 – 2023
Duncan Sommerville
1879 – 1934
Emanuel Sperner
1905 – 1980
Fabián Estapé
1923 – 2012
Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch
1839 – 1917
James Crichton-Browne
1840 – 1938
Jean Giraudoux
1882 – 1944
Joan Bastardas i Parera
1919 – 2009
Leon Silver
1925 – 2022
Leopold Greville, 6th Earl of Warwick
1882 – 1928
Philip Jessup
1897 – 1986
Pierre de Nolhac
1859 – 1936
Ragnar Frisch
1895 – 1973
Richard von Weizsäcker
1920 – 2015
Samuel Siegmund Rosenstein
1832 – 1906
Stefan Błachowski
1889 – 1962
Terry Wogan
1938 – 2016
Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston
1840 – 1913
Abraham J. Twerski
1930 – 2021
Alasgar Alakbarov
1910 – 1963
Alexander Suvorov
1804 – 1882
Alfred de Rothschild
1842 – 1918
Andrzej Wieckowski
1945 – 2019
André Essel
1918 – 2005
Arne E. Holm
1911 – 2009
Bernard Fitzalan-Howard
1908 – 1975
Bernhard Tollens
1841 – 1918
Carlos Ferrero
1941 – 2025
Charles Mackenzie
1825 – 1862
Charles Négrier
1792 – 1862
Clare Ford
1828 – 1899
Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay
1793 – 1874
Edward Stankiewicz
1920 – 2013
Efrem Osipovich Mukhin
1766 – 1850
Elizabeth Eisenstein
1923 – 2016
Erland von Koch
1910 – 2009
Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds
1751 – 1799
Francisco de Borja Queipo de Llano, 8th Count of Toreno
1840 – 1890
Frank Berrien
1877 – 1951
Franz Josef Ritter von Buß
1803 – 1878
Friedrich Rückert
1788 – 1866
Gabriel Ferrand
1864 – 1935
George Koval
1913 – 2006
Gunnar Jahn
1883 – 1971
Guðbrandur Vigfússon
1827 – 1889
Halvor Solberg
1895 – 1974
Hassan Habibi
1937 – 2013
Henri Gatien Bertrand
1773 – 1844
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
1780 – 1863
Herbert Meredith Marler
1876 – 1940
Hosur Narasimhaiah
1921 – 2005
Hugh Falconer
1808 – 1865
Ibrahim Maygaag Samatar
1942 – 2011
Ivan Puliui
1845 – 1918
Jacques-André Mallet
1740 – 1790
James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
1847 – 1913
Janez Stanovnik
1922 – 2020
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier
1815 – 1891
Jeffrey A. Hutchings
1958 – 2022
John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies
1866 – 1944
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
1844 – 1900
John Galsworthy
1867 – 1933
Josef Charvát
1897 – 1984
Joseph Lyman Silsbee
1848 – 1913
José Manuel Lara Bosch
1946 – 2015
Jürg Baur
1918 – 2010
K. M. Phadke
1936 – 2022
Karl Selter
1898 – 1958
Kerttu Saalasti
1907 – 1995
Lee Segel
1932 – 2005
Leonid Kadeniuk
1951 – 2018
Leslie D. Gottlieb
1936 – 2012
Lilian Lindsay
1871 – 1960
Louis-Charles-Georges-Jules Lafont
1825 – 1908
Luigi Pasinetti
1930 – 2023
Mahendra I of Nepal
1920 – 1972
Manfred Cross
1929 – 2024
Matvei Zakharov
1898 – 1972
Mikhail Lozinsky
1886 – 1955
Mikhail Mil
1909 – 1970
Miklós Jancsó
1921 – 2014
Mirosław Sawicki
1946 – 2016
Nikolaus Nilles
1828 – 1907
Nina Andrycz
1912 – 2014
Olevi Kull
1955 – 2007
Pat Booth
1929 – 2018
Robert Armstrong-Jones
1857 – 1943
Ron Joyce
1930 – 2019
Rubén Bonifaz Nuño
1923 – 2013
Soejima Taneomi
1828 – 1905
Theodor Anton Ippen
1861 – 1935
Timothy Eaton
1834 – 1907
Tomás Eloy Martínez
1934 – 2010
Volodia Teitelboim
1916 – 2008
Wilfred Thesiger
1871 – 1920
Wilhelm Pfeffer
1845 – 1920
William Gopallawa
1897 – 1981
Yasushi Akutagawa
1925 – 1989
Yitzhak Klinghoffer
1905 – 1990
Ad Hermes
1929 – 2002
Adolf Berzhe
1828 – 1886
Adolf Jossifowitsch Charlemagne
1826 – 1901
Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac
1806 – 1880
Albert Spear
1852 – 1929
Albert Washington McIntire
1853 – 1935
Aleksandr Kochetov
1919 – 1994
Alexander Ivashkin
1948 – 2014
Alexander Tatarenko
1960 – 2024
Alexander Ypsilantis
1792 – 1828
Alfons Zgrzebniok
1891 – 1937
Andrzej Szczepkowski
1923 – 1997
Anthony Horneck
1641 – 1697
Arthur Montagu Gwynn
1908 – 2008
Arthur Percival
1887 – 1966
Arthur Whitfield
1868 – 1947
Benjamin Franklin Hayes
1835 – 1901
Betty Rosenquest Pratt
1925 – 2016
Buck Bounds
1929 – 2020
Carsten Hopstock
1924 – 2014
Charles Dewey Day
1806 – 1884
Charles Edward Stuart
1720 – 1788
Charles F. Willard
1883 – 1977
Charles V. Chapin
1856 – 1941
Charles de Rochefort
1887 – 1952
Claudio Acquaviva
1543 – 1615
Cleonice Berardinelli
1916 – 2023
Clinton W. Davies
1899 – 1989
Cornelis van Nijenrode
1505 – 1633
Cornelius Wendell Wickersham
1885 – 1968
Cyril Edward Gourley
1893 – 1982
Dannie Heineman
1872 – 1962
Daouda Badarou
1929 – 2022
David S. Kaufman
1813 – 1851
Dick Renick
1930 – 2022
Dirk Brouwer
1902 – 1966
Donald Hawley
1921 – 2008
Donald Van Norman Roberts
1928 – 2016
Dora Keen
1871 – 1963
Douglas T. Ross
1929 – 2007
Ebenezer R. Hoar
1816 – 1895
Eduard Selling
1834 – 1920
Eleanor Holm
1913 – 2004
Eligiusz Niewiadomski
1869 – 1923
Emeryk August Hutten-Czapski
1897 – 1979
Emilio Del Giudice
1940 – 2014
Ernst Meyer
1797 – 1861
Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus
1901 – 1990
Evert Taube
1890 – 1976
F. K. Otto Dibelius
1880 – 1967
Ferdinand Rothbart
1823 – 1899
Ferdinand Thomas Unger
1914 – 1999
Fernando Goncalves Namora
1919 – 1989
Francis M. Fesmire
1959 – 2014
Franklin Sumner Earle
1856 – 1929
Fred S. Robillard
1890 – 1971
Frederic Hale Parkhurst
1864 – 1921
Friedrich Pützer
1871 – 1922
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
1895 – 1972
Gabby Gabreski
1919 – 2002
Galina Alekseyeva
1946 – 2024
George A. Anderson
1853 – 1896
George A. Bruce
1839 – 1929
George Abbott
1887 – 1995
George B. Wellington
1856 – 1921
George Swinton Legaré
1869 – 1913
George Turnbull
1698 – 1748
Georgios Kondylis
1879 – 1936
Gerardo Taracena
1970 – 2026
Gil Kane
1926 – 2000
Giovanni Battista Bussi
1755 – 1844
Gordon R. Dickson
1923 – 2001
Greta Arwidsson
1906 – 1998
Gustav Walter
1834 – 1910
Haim Gouri
1923 – 2018
Hamilton C. Horton Jr.
1931 – 2006
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
1798 – 1864
Hans Peter L'orange
1835 – 1907
Harris M. Plaisted
1828 – 1898
Hazel Marguerite Schmoll
1890 – 1990
Henri Bourde de La Rogerie
1873 – 1949
Henry Archer Ekers
1855 – 1937
Henry Huber
1869 – 1933
Henry I of Portugal
1512 – 1580
Horace Walpole Carpentier
1824 – 1918
Hugh Halbert
1910 – 1997
Ilmari Tapiovaara
1914 – 1999
Jacob Tostrup
1806 – 1890
James Addams Beaver
1837 – 1914
James McCulloch
1819 – 1893
Jean Thierry du Mont, comte de Gages
1682 – 1753
Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau
1769 – 1832
Joe J. Manlove
1876 – 1956
… and 1,886 more