Deaths on January 31
Category: Deaths
Published Date
- 1398 – Emperor Suko (b. 1334)
- 1435 – Emperor Xuande of China (b. 1398)
- 1561 – Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
- 1561 – Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (b. 1496)
- 1580 – King Henry of Portugal (b. 1512)
- 1606 – Guy Fawkes – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1570)
- 1606 – Ambrose Rokewood – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. c.1578)
- 1606 – Thomas Wintour – Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1571)
- 1615 – Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
- 1632 – Joost Burgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
Deaths on January 30
Category: Deaths
Published Date
- 1030 – William V, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 969)
- 1181 – Emperor Takakura of Japan (b. 1161)
- 1384 – Louis II of Flanders (b. 1330)
- 1574 – Damiao de Gois, Portuguese philosopher (b. 1502)
- 1606 – Everard Digby, English conspirator (b. 1578)
- 1649 – King Charles I of England (b. 1600)
- 1730 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
- 1836 – Betsy Ross, American seamstress (b. 1752)
- 1849 – Jonathan Alder, American settler (b. 1773)
- 1858 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (b. 1778)
Deaths on January 28
Category: Deaths
Published Date
- 814 – Charlemagne (b. 742)
- 1061 – Duke Spytihnev II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
- 1271 – Isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)
- 1443 – Robert le Macon, Chancellor of France
- 1547 – King Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
- 1613 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (b. 1545)
- 1621 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
- 1672 – Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
- 1681 – Richard Allestree, English royalist churchman (b. 1619)
- 1687 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
- 1697 – John Fenwick, English conspirator
Deaths on January 29
Category: Deaths
Published Date
- 1119 – Pope Gelasius II
- 1240 – Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. c. 1165)
- 1342 – Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
- 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
- 1608 – Frederick I, Duke of Wurttemberg (b. 1557)
- 1647 – Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
- 1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
- 1678 – Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- 1696 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (b. 1666)
- 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
Deaths on January 27
Category: Deaths
Published Date
- 98 – Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
- 457 – Marcian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 392)
- 661 – Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam
- 1490 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
- 1540 – Saint Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (b. 1474)
- 1595 – Sir Francis Drake, English explorer (b. c.1540)
- 1629 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
- 1638 – Gonzalo de Cespedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (b. 1585?)
- 1651 – Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and engraving (b. 1566)
- 1689 – Robert Aske, merchant whose charitable foundation operates Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School and Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls (b. 1619)
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