Famous people died in 1 February

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton was a comedian and actor famous for his stoic and deadpan expression in his silent films

AmericanOctober 4, 1895178 views

Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla was American astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle ‘Columbia’ disaster

AmericanMarch 17, 1962238 views

Clinton Davisson

Clinton Davisson was a Nobel Prize winning American physicist, known for his discovery of electron diffraction

AmericanOctober 22, 1881118 views

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell was an Austrian and Swiss actor director, producer and writer of several of his own films

SwissDecember 8, 193097 views

Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist and translator who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature

PolishJuly 2, 1923112 views

Shah Jahan

Shah Jahan was the fifth Mughal Emperor of India

IndianJanuary 5, 1592163 views

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Sir George Stokes was an Irish mathematician and physicist, well known for his investigations in fluid dynamics

BritishAugust 13, 1819176 views

William Desmond Taylor

William Desmond Taylor was an Ireland-born American director and actor who directed more than 50 silent films

IrishApril 26, 1872122 views

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg was a Nobel Prize winning German scientist who propounded the Uncertainty Principle

GermanDecember 5, 1901173 views

Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian was a famous Dutch painter

DutchMarch 7, 1872147 views