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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 31st of January 0314 | EVENT | Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades. |
| 31st of January 1504 | EVENT | France cedes Naples to Aragon. |
| 31st of January 1606 | EVENT | Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England. |
| 31st of January 1747 | EVENT | The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. |
| 31st of January 1814 | EVENT | Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina. |
| 31st of January 1846 | EVENT | After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| 31st of January 1848 | EVENT | John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders. |
| 31st of January 1849 | EVENT | Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846). |
| 31st of January 1862 | EVENT | Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch telescope now located at Northwestern University. |
| 31st of January 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief. |
| 31st of January 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification. |
| 31st of January 1867 | EVENT | Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria |
| 31st of January 1876 | EVENT | The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations. |
| 31st of January 1891 | EVENT | The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto. |
| 31st of January 1900 | EVENT | Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion |
| 31st of January 1915 | EVENT | World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia |
| 31st of January 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus. |
| 31st of January 1918 | EVENT | A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. |
| 31st of January 1919 | EVENT | The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| 31st of January 1929 | EVENT | The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky. |
| 31st of January 1930 | EVENT | 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape. |
| 31st of January 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore. |
| 31st of January 1943 | EVENT | German Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles. |
| 31st of January 1944 | EVENT | World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. |
| 31st of January 1944 | EVENT | World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy. |
| 31st of January 1945 | EVENT | World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. |
| 31st of January 1945 | EVENT | US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. |
| 31st of January 1946 | EVENT | Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). |
| 31st of January 1950 | EVENT | President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb. |
| 31st of January 1953 | EVENT | A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands. |
| 31st of January 1957 | EVENT | Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet. |
| 31st of January 1958 | EVENT | Explorer program: Explorer 1 : The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit. |
| 31st of January 1958 | EVENT | James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt. |
| 31st of January 1961 | EVENT | Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 : Ham the Chimp travels into outer space. |
| 31st of January 1966 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. |
| 31st of January 1968 | EVENT | Nauru gains independence from Australia. |
| 31st of January 1968 | EVENT | Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive. |
| 31st of January 1971 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 14 : Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. |
| 31st of January 1971 | EVENT | The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 31st of January 1990 | EVENT | The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. |
| 31st of January 1995 | EVENT | President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy. |
| 31st of January 1996 | EVENT | Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake. |
| 31st of January 1996 | EVENT | An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400. |
| 31st of January 2000 | EVENT | Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. |
| 31st of January 2001 | EVENT | In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. |
| 31st of January 2003 | EVENT | The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia. |
| 31st of January 2007 | EVENT | Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq. |
| 31st of January 2009 | EVENT | In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people. |
| 31st of January 0877 | BIRTHDAY | Taejo of Goryeo of Korea (d. 943) |
| 31st of January 1512 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580) |
| 31st of January 1543 | BIRTHDAY | Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616) |
| 31st of January 1550 | BIRTHDAY | Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588) |
| 31st of January 1597 | BIRTHDAY | John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640) |
| 31st of January 1624 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669) |
| 31st of January 1673 | BIRTHDAY | Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716) |
| 31st of January 1686 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758) |
| 31st of January 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816) |
| 31st of January 1759 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Devienne, French composer (d. 1803) |
| 31st of January 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828) |
| 31st of January 1820 | BIRTHDAY | William B. Washburn, American politician and 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887) |
| 31st of January 1835 | BIRTHDAY | King William Charles Lunalilo of Hawai?i (d. 1874) |
| 31st of January 1857 | BIRTHDAY | George Jackson Churchward, British railroad engineer. (d. 1933) |
| 31st of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Desgrange, French sports figure and journalist (d. 1940) |
| 31st of January 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951) |
| 31st of January 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1928) |
| 31st of January 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Zane Grey, American novelist (d. 1939) |
| 31st of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957) |
| 31st of January 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Theodor Heuss, German statesman (d. 1963) |
| 31st of January 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Foster, English cricketer (d. 1958) |
| 31st of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Cantor, American actor and singer (d. 1964) |
| 31st of January 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956) |
| 31st of January 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966) |
| 31st of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968) |
| 31st of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1986) |
| 31st of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Nat Bailey, Canadian restaurateur (d. 1978) |
| 31st of January 1905 | BIRTHDAY | John O'Hara, American writer (d. 1970) |
| 31st of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981) |
| 31st of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Don Hutson, American football player (d. 1997) |
| 31st of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Faye Wright, American spiritual figure (d. 2010) |
| 31st of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997) |
| 31st of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994) |
| 31st of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Garry Moore, American comedian (d. 1993) |
| 31st of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Merton, American author and monk (d. 1968) |
| 31st of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002) |
| 31st of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (d. 1972) |
| 31st of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart Udall, American politician and 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 2010) |
| 31st of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Williams, English footballer |
| 31st of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | John Agar, American actor (d. 2002) |
| 31st of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Lanza, American singer (d. 1959) |
| 31st of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Channing, American actress and singer |
| 31st of January 1921 | BIRTHDAY | E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004) |
| 31st of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 31st of January 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007) |
| 31st of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Hooks, American civil rights activist (d. 2010) |
| 31st of January 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993) |
| 31st of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Prescott, American animation producer (d. 2005) |
| 31st of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (d. 1958) |
| 31st of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Mossbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 31st of January 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Simmons, English American actress (d. 2010) |
| 31st of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Carlin, American actress |
| 31st of January 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver (d. 1972) |
| 31st of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Chataway, English athlete, newscaster and politician |
| 31st of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Banks, American baseball player |
| 31st of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997) |
| 31st of January 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bernardo Provenzano, Sicilian organized crime figure |
| 31st of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | James Franciscus, American actor (d. 1991) |
| 31st of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005) |
| 31st of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate |
| 31st of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor |
| 31st of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Glass, American composer |
| 31st of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Andree Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007) |
| 31st of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008) |
| 31st of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands |
| 31st of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | James G. Watt, American politician and 43rd United States Secretary of the Interior |
| 31st of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 31st of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Kitch Christie, South African rugby union coach (d. 1998) |
| 31st of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Richard A. Gephardt, American politician |
| 31st of January 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Walter, American actress |
| 31st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress |
| 31st of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Jarman, British director and writer (d. 1994) |
| 31st of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Booth, American writer and actress |
| 31st of January 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Musselwhite, American musician |
| 31st of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Kosuth, American conceptual artist |
| 31st of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (d. 1978) |
| 31st of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Glynn Turman, American actor |
| 31st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Banks, American actor |
| 31st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Nolan Ryan, American baseball player |
| 31st of January 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Nathanael, Greek actress (d. 2008) |
| 31st of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician |
| 31st of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Wilber, American author |
| 31st of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Norris Church Mailer, American model and widow of Norman Mailer (d. 2010) |
| 31st of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist |
| 31st of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Korzhakov, Soviet bodyguard for Boris Yeltsin |
| 31st of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Manzanera, English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801) |
| 31st of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Wayne Casey, American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band) |
| 31st of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Benton, Aruban singer |
| 31st of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969) |
| 31st of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch musician (Whitesnake) |
| 31st of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Lydon, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.) |
| 31st of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer |
| 31st of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Lynch, American actress |
| 31st of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor |
| 31st of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Moore, American stock car driver |
| 31st of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Morrison, British comic author |
| 31st of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Cole, British singer |
| 31st of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Muller, British music video director |
| 31st of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvie Bernier, French-Canadian diver |
| 31st of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer) |
| 31st of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer |
| 31st of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dr Umar Alisha, Indian Sufi master |
| 31st of January 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dexter Fletcher, English actor |
| 31st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress |
| 31st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Channing, American musician |
| 31st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Fat Mike, American musician |
| 31st of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress |
| 31st of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Matt King, British actor and comedian |
| 31st of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Stevens, Belgian athlete |
| 31st of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Minnie Driver, British actress |
| 31st of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Michel, Canadian Musician |
| 31st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress |
| 31st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian |
| 31st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer |
| 31st of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Velasquez, Venezuelan actress and model |
| 31st of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Portia de Rossi, Australian actress |
| 31st of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player |
| 31st of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Wil Anderson, Australian comedian |
| 31st of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Othella Harrington, American basketball player |
| 31st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Coleman, American football player |
| 31st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie O, Australian radio host |
| 31st of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Preity Zinta, Indian actress |
| 31st of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer |
| 31st of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Rice, American race car driver |
| 31st of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Scheer, American comedian and actor |
| 31st of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tyrone Nesby, American basketball player |
| 31st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Dutiaume, Canadian hockey player |
| 31st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Moynihan, American comedian (Saturday Night Live) |
| 31st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Shindle, American actress |
| 31st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP) |
| 31st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Washington, American actress |
| 31st of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Kleinsasser, American football player |
| 31st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Caballero, Argentine footballer |
| 31st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Rutter, American game show contestant |
| 31st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Shah, Irish radio presenter |
| 31st of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, English noble |
| 31st of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant |
| 31st of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany Limos, American actress |
| 31st of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | James Adomian, American actor |
| 31st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Arca, Argentinian football player |
| 31st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Timberlake, American singer |
| 31st of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Amrita Arora, Indian actress |
| 31st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Yuniesky Betancourt, Cuban baseball player |
| 31st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host |
| 31st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Gorlitz, German football player |
| 31st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Paparizou, Greek singer |
| 31st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Allan McGregor, Scottish football player |
| 31st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Janis Sprukts, Latvian hockey player |
| 31st of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Thompson, American baseball player |
| 31st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | James Sutton, British actor |
| 31st of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer |
| 31st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Davis, American football player |
| 31st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Wariner, American track and field athlete |
| 31st of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Zanni, Italian rugby player |
| 31st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kalomira, Greek singer |
| 31st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Williams, American football player |
| 31st of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Federici, Australian footballer |
| 31st of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian footballer |
| 31st of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sargon Duran, Austrian footballer |
| 31st of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny McKinley, American football player (d. 2010) |
| 31st of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Richter, German actor |
| 31st of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Justine Ozga, German tennis player |
| 31st of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolo De Cesare, Italian footballer |
| 31st of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Kota Yabu, Japanese actor and singer |
| 31st of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer |
| 31st of January 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Seguin, Canadian hockey player |
| 31st of January 1398 | DEATH | Emperor Suko (Born 1334) |
| 31st of January 1435 | DEATH | Emperor Xuande of China (Born 1398) |
| 31st of January 1561 | DEATH | Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (Born 1496) |
| 31st of January 1561 | DEATH | Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar |
| 31st of January 1580 | DEATH | King Henry of Portugal (Born 1512) |
| 31st of January 1606 | DEATH | Guy Fawkes : Gunpowder Plot conspirators (Born 1570) |
| 31st of January 1606 | DEATH | Ambrose Rokewood : Gunpowder Plot conspirators (Born c.1578) |
| 31st of January 1606 | DEATH | Thomas Wintour : Gunpowder Plot conspirators (Born 1571) |
| 31st of January 1615 | DEATH | Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (Born 1543) |
| 31st of January 1632 | DEATH | Joost Burgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (Born 1552) |
| 31st of January 1665 | DEATH | Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (Born 1622) |
| 31st of January 1686 | DEATH | Jean Mairet, French dramatist (Born 1604) |
| 31st of January 1720 | DEATH | Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (Born c. 1654) |
| 31st of January 1729 | DEATH | Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (Born 1659) |
| 31st of January 1736 | DEATH | Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (Born 1678) |
| 31st of January 1788 | DEATH | Charles Edward Stuart, the exiled Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Born 1720) |
| 31st of January 1790 | DEATH | Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (Born 1718) |
| 31st of January 1794 | DEATH | Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (Born 1711) |
| 31st of January 1811 | DEATH | Manuel Alberti, Argentine priest and head of state (Born 1763) |
| 31st of January 1815 | DEATH | Jose Felix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (Born 1775) |
| 31st of January 1828 | DEATH | Alexander Ypsilantis, Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence (Born 1792) |
| 31st of January 1836 | DEATH | John Cheyne (physician), British physician, surgeon and author (Born 1777) |
| 31st of January 1844 | DEATH | Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (Born 1773) |
| 31st of January 1856 | DEATH | Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama (Born 1838) |
| 31st of January 1888 | DEATH | John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (Born 1815) |
| 31st of January 1892 | DEATH | Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (Born 1834) |
| 31st of January 1907 | DEATH | Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (Born 1834) |
| 31st of January 1923 | DEATH | Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (Born 1869) |
| 31st of January 1933 | DEATH | John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1867) |
| 31st of January 1942 | DEATH | Henry Larkin, American baseball player (Born 1860) |
| 31st of January 1942 | DEATH | Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (Born 1917) |
| 31st of January 1944 | DEATH | Jean Giraudoux, French writer (Born 1882) |
| 31st of January 1945 | DEATH | Eddie Slovik, American soldier (Born 1920) |
| 31st of January 1954 | DEATH | Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio (Born 1890) |
| 31st of January 1955 | DEATH | John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1865) |
| 31st of January 1956 | DEATH | A. A. Milne, English author (Born 1882) |
| 31st of January 1966 | DEATH | General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer (Born 1887) |
| 31st of January 1967 | DEATH | Eddie Tolan, American athlete (Born 1908) |
| 31st of January 1969 | DEATH | Meher Baba, Indian guru (Born 1894) |
| 31st of January 1970 | DEATH | Slim Harpo, American singer (Born 1924) |
| 31st of January 1971 | DEATH | Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (Born 1891) |
| 31st of January 1973 | DEATH | Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (Born 1895) |
| 31st of January 1974 | DEATH | Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (Born 1882) |
| 31st of January 1976 | DEATH | Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (Born 1941) |
| 31st of January 1976 | DEATH | Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (Born 1890) |
| 31st of January 1981 | DEATH | Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (Born 1909) |
| 31st of January 1987 | DEATH | Yves Allegret, French film director (Born 1907) |
| 31st of January 1989 | DEATH | Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (Born 1896) |
| 31st of January 1990 | DEATH | Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (Born 1935) |
| 31st of January 1995 | DEATH | George Abbott, American stage director and producer (Born 1887) |
| 31st of January 1997 | DEATH | John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (Born 1930) |
| 31st of January 1999 | DEATH | Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (Born 1929) |
| 31st of January 1999 | DEATH | Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (Born 1938) |
| 31st of January 1999 | DEATH | Bar?s Manco, Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (Born 1943) |
| 31st of January 2000 | DEATH | Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (Born 1926) |
| 31st of January 2001 | DEATH | Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (Born 1923) |
| 31st of January 2002 | DEATH | Francis Gabreski, American, fighter pilot ace (Born 1919) |
| 31st of January 2004 | DEATH | Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (Born 1913) |
| 31st of January 2006 | DEATH | Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (Born 1926) |
| 31st of January 2007 | DEATH | Lee Bergere, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 31st of January 2007 | DEATH | Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (Born 1944) |
| 31st of January 2007 | DEATH | Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (Born 1950) |
| 31st of January 2007 | DEATH | Adelaide Tambo, South African activist, widow of Oliver Tambo (Born 1929) |
| 31st of January 2008 | DEATH | Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug dog (Born 1997) |
| 31st of January 2009 | DEATH | Nagesh, Indian comedian actor in Kollywood (Born 1933) |